| 18-108 |
David Duncan v. GEICO General Insurance Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation due-process erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins federal-case-law federal-common-law federal-courts judicial-precedent procedural-law substantive-law supreme-court-precedent |
Whether federal courts are wrongfully developing and applying federal case law in derogation of the U.S. Constitution and the established U.S. Supreme… |
| 18-112 |
Vance D. Day, Judge, Circuit Court of Oregon, Third Judicial District v. Oregon Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability |
Oregon |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
14th-amendment constitutional-defenses due-process first-amendment free-exercise free-speech judicial-ethics oregon-supreme-court original-jurisdiction procedural-due-process |
Whether it is a Due Process violation for a court of original jurisdiction to refuse to consider, or to reject without sufficient analysis, substantia… |
| 18-114 |
G. Russell Rollyson, Jr., in His Official and Individual Capacity v. Jeffrey O'Neal, et ux. |
Fourth Circuit |
Dismissed |
|
constitutional-duty due-process notice notice-requirements property-rights qualified-immunity service-of-notice state-auditor statutory-interpretation tax-deed tax-lien tax-lien-purchaser |
Whether a Deputy State Auditor is entitled to qualified immunity because no previous court had interpreted the State's statutory scheme as imposing th… |
| 18-115 |
Kimothy Maurice Wynn v. Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-courts federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements pleadings sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Lack of subject matter and personal jurisdiction |
| 18-116 |
John E. Reardon v. Daniel B. Zonies, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process fraud fraud-allegation heck-v-humphrey jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-procedure ongoing-tort standing statute-of-limitations takings |
Does Heck v Humphrey apply to a case with ongoing constitutional violations, lack of jurisdiction, and fraud over 115 years? |
| 18-118 |
Jeff Schwartz, et ux. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-relief non-discretionary non-discretionary-relief right-to-be-heard standing sworn-statement |
Did the court violate Schwartz's Fifth Amendment right to be heard by refusing to consider his sworn statement in support of his application for manda… |
| 18-128 |
Mohamed Abouelmagd v. Debra Newell |
California |
Denied |
|
business-transaction business-transactions civil-procedure commerce-clause commerce-clause-violation constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection interstate-commerce midwesco-precedent nonresident-tolling out-of-state-residents personal-jurisdiction procedural-defense statute-of-limitations |
Is the California tolling statute that suspends statutes of limitations protection for out-of-state residents unconstitutional and violative of Bendix… |
| 18-129 |
W. S. v. S. T., et al. |
California |
Denied |
|
biological-father child-custody custody-determination due-process equal-protection family-law liberty-interest parental-rights paternity standing vagueness |
Whether California's Family Code § 7611(d) is impermissibly vague, as applied, when the Court of Appeal holds there are no specific factors that a tri… |
| 18-132 |
Jamie Elmhirst v. McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital, dba Northern Michigan Emergency Medicine Center, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
appropriate-medical-screening circuit-split due-process emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act emtala hospital-liability intent-standard legislative-history medical-screening motive-requirement roberts-v-galen-of-virginia statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court should hold that liability under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act attaches independent of the defendant's motiva… |
| 18-136 |
Catherine Rose Dreyer v. County Court of Texas, Coleman County |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process due-process,4th-amendment,1st-amendment,property-r ex-parte-hearing fourth-amendment property-rights religious-freedom supremacy-clause |
Whether the issuance of a court order from an ex-parte probate hearing, granting the petitioning party the power to enter someone else's private home … |
| 18-142 |
Allana Baroni v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-501 bankruptcy bankruptcy-creditor bankruptcy-procedure blank-indorsement 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… |
| 18-147 |
Karen H. Scott v. District Hospital Partners, L.P., et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
|
ada ada-amendments-act breathing circuit-conflict circuit-split disability-discrimination disability-law disability-rights eeoc-procedure judicial-interpretation life-threatening medical-impairment reasonable-accommodation relation-back-doctrine standing |
Whether a severe physical condition that can prevent breathing and be life-threatening is considered a disability under the law, in conflict with othe… |
| 18-148 |
Lothian Cassidy, L.L.C., et al. v. Lothian Exploration & Development II, L.P., Lead II, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 18-151 |
Alfred J. Petit-Clair, et al. v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-procedure,standing,due-process,tort,dismissa civil-procedure,standing,tort-claims,individual-de civil-rights district-court due-process municipal-defendant settlement settlement-enforcement standing third-circuit tort tort-claims |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's dismissal of tort claims against an individual defenda… |
| 18-152 |
Gregory Garmong v. Supreme Court of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-complaint due-process exxon-mobil-precedent exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-jurisdiction judicial-review ninth-circuit rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983-complaint standing stare-decisis state-court-judgments |
Whether the Ninth Circuit may ignore and refuse to follow this Court's precedent in application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which requires that th… |
| 18-156 |
James H. Brady v. John Goldman, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
air-rights attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-transaction constitutional-rights court-injunction court-interference due-process false-statements filing-injunction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction takings |
Was the deprivation of the right to sue for damages against lawyers and law firms who schemed to steal contractual air rights unconstitutional? |
| 18-157 |
James H. Brady v. Barbara Underwood, Attorney General of New York |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
air-rights attorney-general civil-rights contract contract-enforcement contract-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-equal-protection judicial-misconduct standing takings |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law give Petitioner standing for the protection of his contract by the Attorney … |
| 18-158 |
Richard Gebhardt v. Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 18-166 |
John M. Probandt, et al. v. Dennis P. Walker |
Nebraska |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law deprivation-of-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment internal-affairs-doctrine negotiable-instrument preemption state-courts uniform-commercial-code |
Is the State Courts' intentional refusal to apply the provisions of the Nebraska Uniform Commercial Code a violation of the U.S. Constitution, Amend. … |
| 18-169 |
Lance Laber v. Milberg LLP, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1291 appellate-rights circuit-split civil-procedure class-action class-certification intervention microsoft-corp-v-baker precedent standing united-airlines united-airlines-inc-v-mcdonald |
Whether an unnamed putative class member may intervene to appeal the denial of class certification after the named plaintiff's individual claims are d… |
| 18-171 |
Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-rights Cruel-and-unusual-punishment Due-process Eighth-amendment First-amendment immunity law-library-access Preliminary-injunction prisoner-rights retaliation section-1983 |
Does a person or entity have immunity from prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when rights secured by the U.S. Constitution have been violated by said … |
| 18-172 |
Alfonso Andrade Hernandez v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 18-173 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Oren L. Zeve |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process ecclesiastical-claim ecclesiastical-dispute first-amendment jurisdictional-challenge legal-notice legal-promise mandamus messenger-claim property-rights religious-communication religious-freedom spiritual-testimony standing |
Whether the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its servant Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam, have standing to challenge the dismissal of … |
| 18-183 |
Advanced Audio Devices, LLC v. HTC Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
5th-amendment aia america-invents-act constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment inter-partes-review patent patent-law patents takings-clause |
Whether inter partes review (IPR) of patents filed before enactment of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act ("AIA") violates the Takings Clause of the … |
| 18-184 |
John Ayanbadejo v. Mark Siegl, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure district-court due-process immigration judicial-proceedings legal-standard mootness procedural-error standing |
Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the U.S. … |
| 18-197 |
E. K. Wade v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights department-of-labor due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act judicial-discretion pre-filing-order preliminary-injunction ripeness standing title-vii |
Whether Petitioner, at the time of his personal injuries, was a private citizen and not an employee subject to exclusive remedy under Title VII |
| 18-2 |
Natural Resources Defense Council v. Mexichem Fluor, Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 18-207 |
George Duggan v. Department of Defense |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defense agency-burden clear-and-convincing-evidence federal-circuit personnel-actions prima-facie prima-facie-retaliation protected-disclosures retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-enhancement-act |
Whether after a prima facie retaliation for whistleblowing has been found under the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012, does the Agency'… |
| 18-210 |
BATS Global Markets, Inc., et al. v. City of Providence, Rhode Island, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aiding-and-abetting independent-choice market-manipulation primary-violator rigged-prices securities-fraud securities-fraud-claim third-party-liability trading-activity wash-sales |
Whether a private plaintiff states a valid securities-fraud claim by pleading that the defendant enabled a third party to commit the acts that caused … |
| 18-211 |
Steven Morris Hurd v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-procedure digital-data fourth-amendment physical-objects riley-v-california robinson-precedent search-incident-to-arrest supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-robinson warrant-requirement |
Whether the search incident to arrest exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement applied to digital data on a cell phone prior to Riley v. … |
| 18-231 |
New West, L.P., et al. v. City of Joliet, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
beacon-theatres civil-rights civil-rights-act collateral-estoppel due-process equitable-claims fair-housing-act jury-trial parklane-hosiery |
When a single district court Judge has control over all legal and equitable claims before it in a single proceeding, even though the proceeding involv… |
| 18-237 |
Gary Thomas and Felix Parrilla v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment civil-procedure conspiracy-venue constitutional constitutional-venue cooperating-witness criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness manufactured-venue prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment venue venue-determination venue-manipulation venue-provisions witness-cooperation |
Whether it is permissible under the venue provisions of the U.S. Constitution Article III, § 2, cl. 3; the Sixth Amendment; and Federal Rules of Crimi… |
| 18-240 |
Kirk Tang Yuk v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
co-conspirator-testimony criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process government-overreach jurisdiction prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment telephone-call-evidence venue venue-manipulation witness-location |
Whether a prosecutor can manufacture venue in a particular district solely by bringing a cooperating witness to a favored district and having the witn… |
| 18-249 |
Madeleine Connor v. Eric Castro, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech government-retaliation lugar-v-edmondson rule-15-supplementation section-1983 standing state-action twombly-iqbal |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's denial of Petitioner's request to supplement her pleading under Fed. R. Civ. P. 1… |
| 18-250 |
Tu Ying Chen v. Suffolk County Community College, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-judgment defendant-actions due-process evidence false-evidence judicial-procedure legal-review legal-standards misconduct plaintiff-claims standing wrongful-probation wrongful-termination |
Was there misconduct by and false evidence submitted by the Defendants? |
| 18-253 |
Michael Felix v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment adequate-notice appellate-review coram-nobis due-process due-process-14th-amendment errors-of-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice notice-and-opportunity notice-of-hearing opportunity-to-be-heard state-constitutional-right-to-appeal unexplained-decision writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Whether the court of original jurisdiction denied petitioner due process under the United States Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment |
| 18-256 |
Robert Bartlett, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cercla-preemption circuit-court-review circuit-court-summary-order civil-rights common-law-tort common-law-tort-claims congressional-intent cts-corp-v-waldburger due-process environmental-law judicial-precedent preemption statutory-interpretation torts toxic-exposure |
Did CERCLA preempt petitioners' common law tort claims? |
| 18-270 |
Damian Phillips v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii article-iii-standing civil-forfeiture civil-procedure due-process evidence lujan-test procedural-standing standing summary-judgment third-party-evidence |
Whether a claimant in a civil forfeiture proceeding has established sufficient Article III standing to withstand summary judgment and proceed to trial |
| 18-291 |
Gul Jaisinghani v. Anil Sharma, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bank-fraud constitutional-rights due-process duplicative-damages fair-trial joint-venture substantive-due-process supremacy-clause witness-exclusion |
Whether a state court's enforcement of an agreement to violate federal banking law violates the Supremacy Clause, whether the state court's exclusion … |
| 18-312 |
David R. Smith v. Tennessee National Guard |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation employment employment-law preemption reemployment-rights state-law statute-of-limitations supremacy-clause time-limitation title-38-usc-4301 uniformed-services-reserve-reemployment-act userra-act |
Does a state law that sets a time limit on when an action may be filed under the Uniformed Services Reserve Reemployment Act, Title 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301,… |
| 18-35 |
Pennsylvania v. Roderick Andre Johnson |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
|
brady-analysis Brady-materiality confessions constitutional-procedure corroborating-evidence criminal-confession criminal-procedure due-process materiality prosecutorial-disclosure witness-impeachment |
Whether the prosecution's nondisclosure of arguably impeaching information relating to a witness who linked the defendant with two murders can be mate… |
| 18-5036 |
Jerome Aristedes Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law general-intent illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether attempted illegal reentry is a specific-intent crime or a general-intent crime |
| 18-5038 |
Neil Sweeney v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law child-pornography circuit-court-split civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence-403 federal-rules-of-evidence-414 standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the differing applications of the Circuit Courts' balancing tests under Federal Rules of Evidence 403 and 414 resulted in a violation of the p… |
| 18-5039 |
Guy Kevin Rowland v. Kevin Chappell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure good-faith habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition local-rules state-court statute-of-limitations |
Does the AEDPA apply where Petitioner's attorneys relied in good faith on the federal district court's local rules |
| 18-5164 |
George Adrien Brooks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2422(b) attempted-inducement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law intent intent-requirement mens-rea minor minor-protection minors sexual-abuse sexual-activity sexual-inducement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the required intent for attempted inducement under § 2422(b) is the intent to cause a minor to engage in sexual activity (as the Eleventh Circ… |
| 18-5217 |
Audy Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-2255-motion successive-habeas vagueness welch-v-united-states |
Are federal courts precluded from granting a federal prisoner's successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate an illegal sentence in light of Johnson w… |
| 18-5285 |
Danavan Singh v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-5352 |
Paul Anthony Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection 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… |
| 18-5359 |
Ernest D. Suggs v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-responsibility jury-instructions jury-recommendation |
Does a Florida death sentence imposed pursuant to the capital sentencing scheme overruled in Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), in a case where … |
| 18-5376 |
Mark Allen Geralds v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection 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… |
| 18-5387 |
John Garrett Smith v. Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violations civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus malicious-prosecution standing |
Can a state constitutionally fail to hear a meritorious claim because state hostility precludes procedural justice? |
| 18-5395 |
Wayne Clyde Mezzles v. John N. Katavich, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure-forfeiture defense-counsel due-process federal-claims forfeiture-bar jury-admonitions jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-proportionality state-procedural-bar trial-court |
Does the state's application of a forfeiture bar for failure to request additional admonitions discriminate against federal claims? |
| 18-5402 |
Thomas Dewey Pope v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of decis… |
| 18-5410 |
Charles Podaras v. City of Menlo Park, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure good-faith good-faith-appeal in-forma-pauperis informal-form-brief ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant statement-of-reasons written-reasons |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in not permitting the petitioner to proceed on appeal in forma pauperis without further authorization |
| 18-5411 |
Subi Mehmeti v. Jofaz Transportation, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employee-rights employment employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act federal-laws fmla-rights health-condition medical-leave retaliation serious-health-condition workplace-retaliation |
Was there a legal obligation for company Jofaz Transportation, Inc. under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to provide leave for an employee wi… |
| 18-5412 |
Robert Eugene Johnson, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can a state's highest court uphold a criminal conviction after being made aware that there was absolutely no evidence presented at trial that the crim… |
| 18-5415 |
Louis B. Gaskin v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity unconventional-rules |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |
| 18-5432 |
Ahmadou Sankara v. Liam O'Hara, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel malicious-prosecution search-and-seizure unlawful-search-and-seizure |
Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an unlawful search and seizure, false arrest, and false imprisonment without consent… |
| 18-5434 |
Troy Victorino v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-punishment criminal-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment jury-sentencing resentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does the automatic-resentencing-to-life provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) violate due-process, double-jeopardy, ex-post-facto |
| 18-5437 |
Gary Richard Whitton v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-jury capital-sentencing capricious due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause jury-trial jury-trial-rights retroactivity |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |
| 18-5440 |
Larenzo Lomax v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
arrest arrest-legality constitutional-rights criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule false-affidavit false-statements fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment |
Whether Lomax was denied the effective assistance of counsel when his trial attorney failed to challenge the legality of Lomax's arrest |
| 18-5441 |
Milford Wade Byrd v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty ex-post-facto hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity |
Whether a death sentence can remain intact when the jury did not unanimously find the elements of capital murder proven beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 18-5443 |
Antoine D. DeGrate v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-action-unlawful civil-procedure-abuse-of-discretion civil-rights due-process fact-finding-clearly-erroneous human-rights judicial-dynamics-human-rights judicial-review legal-precept-plenary-review standing substantial-evidence-record |
Whether the trial court abused its discretion, whether its fact findings are clearly erroneous, whether it erred in formulating or applying a legal pr… |
| 18-5446 |
Allan Latoi Story v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether the state violated the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-5447 |
David V. Rock v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-error due-process enhancement evidence habeas-corpus plea-bargaining plea-validity presumption-of-innocence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Whether the presumption of innocence and burden of proof requirements are unconstitutionally repealed in enhancement cases, requiring the defendant to… |
| 18-5448 |
Ellen Elizabeth Packenham Stanley v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-405(h) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction pro-se pro-se-appellant social-security-administration standing stare-decisis tort tort-claim venue venue-jurisdiction |
Whether the U.S. Federal District Court of Minnesota is the appropriate venue and jurisdiction to present an appeal for a tort suit against the Social… |
| 18-5451 |
Charles M. Steele v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff judicial-discretion prisoner-rights sua-sponte-dismissal |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in sua sponte dismissing the plaintiff's appeal for non-payment of filing fees when the plaintiff lac… |
| 18-5454 |
In Re Deborah Elizabeth Gouch-Onassis |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted under Rule 12(b)(6… |
| 18-5455 |
In Re Deborah Elizabeth Gouch-Onassis |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
but the text you've provided appears to be incomp fragmented I cannot extract a meaningful question presented I will respond with: 'Question not identified." legible text of a SCOTUS petition for writ of cer or unreadable. Without a clear civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-5457 |
Michael Allyn Kennedy v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indictment jury-trial notice sixth-amendment trial |
Whether the trial court erred in imposing a conviction without a reading of the indictment, thereby depriving the petitioner of due process and notice… |
| 18-5459 |
Zachary David Warnell v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure douglas-v-california due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection evitts-v-lucey ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation right-to-counsel |
Can a state deny a criminal defendant the constitutional right to appeal with the effective assistance of counsel? |
| 18-5460 |
David Hill v. Brent Reinke, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-control-of-facilities baxstrom-v-herold circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process inmate-transfer mental-health mental-health-facility mental-health-facility-transfers prison prison-administration temporary temporary-transfers transfer vitek-v-jones |
Due-process-rights-of-inmates |
| 18-5463 |
Michael Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-procedure due-process filing-of-record notice opportunity-to-be-heard response right-to-be-heard sanction sanctions |
Whether due process requires that a petitioner be provided notice and an opportunity to be heard before a sanction is entered against them |
| 18-5465 |
Edward Jesse Dreyfuse v. Jim Justice, Governor of West Virginia |
West Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
None |
|
| 18-5476 |
Abdul Hakiym Ismaiyl v. Fatimah D. Brown, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-procedure-52 clearly-erroneous due-process fabricated-facts fact-finding judicial-discretion pleadings rule-12b6 rule-52 rule-60 |
Whether the fact-finding process under Fed. R. Civ. P. 52 permits a court to fabricate or use fabricated facts not found in the pleadings, altering th… |
| 18-5477 |
Thomas Ebron v. Karen D. Brown, Chair, Virginia Parole Board, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 appeal appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-procedure legal-access standing statutory-interpretation |
Has the U.S. Court of Appeals abused its discretion and committed reversible error in dismissing Ebron's 42 USC § 1983 appeal, finding no reversable e… |
| 18-5478 |
Ryan Jennings v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. |
Missouri |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy conspiracy criminal-law due-process due-process-violation foreclosure fraud mortgage-assignment obstruction-of-justice real-estate-fraud witness-tampering |
To recover damages for a civil conspiracy claim, a plaintiff must show two or more persons, acting in concert, engaged in conduct that constitutes a t… |
| 18-5479 |
Tadareous Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-performance due-process evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-standard federal-court-review findings-of-fact habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference legal-findings procedural-fairness state-court-findings state-court-proceedings trial-court-duty |
Whether a state court's failure to make findings on controverted and unresolved issues requires a federal court to find counsel ineffective without fi… |
| 18-5481 |
John K. D. Watson v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
' 'colloquy" ' 'due-process" ' 'evidentiary-review' ' 'guilty-plea" ' 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel" ' 'learning-disability" civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process mental-competency plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether a defendant with a learning disability can be accepted a guilty plea without proper allocation, assistance of counsel, and a thorough colloquy… |
| 18-5485 |
William N. Washington v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-case civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-review malicious-prosecution parole qualified-immunity standing washington-v-diamond |
Whether a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right has been made by the petitioner, in light of the recent factual finding by the U… |
| 18-5486 |
Celestino Quintana v. Matthew Hansen, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
coleman-v-thompson due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-counsel procedural-default state-created-right state-created-rights trevino-v-thaler |
Whether violation of Colorado's limited State-created right to postconviction counsel can constitute 'cause' excusing procedural default in a 28 U.S.C… |
| 18-5489 |
Min Ho Kwon v. Hyoun Phil Won, et al. |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
assault civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process employment injury insurance-claim liability personal-injury standing worker's-compensation workers-compensation |
Whether Hyoun, Chan, and Liberty should compensate Kwon for the assault and resulting injuries and lost income |
| 18-5491 |
Glen Hughie Lovin, Jr. v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-evidence sentencing |
Whether the trial court erred in admitting prejudicial evidence of the defendant's prior criminal history, resulting in an unfair trial and requiring … |
| 18-5493 |
Maceo Gant v. Thomas Winn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court district-court-decision due-process federal-jurisdiction final-judgment habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargain plea-conviction sixth-circuit state-court-conviction unresolved-claims |
Whether the Sixth Circuit had jurisdiction to consider the petitioner's unresolved challenges to his state court plea conviction where the district co… |
| 18-5494 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability judicial-review mitigating-evidence procedural-default right-to-counsel |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in not granting a certificate of appealability on the claims presented in violation of the holding in Buck v. Davis |
| 18-5496 |
Alfredo Perez, Jr. v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-findings jury-trial resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment three-strikes-law |
Does the federal constitution, as construed in Apprendi v. New Jersey, permit a court to find a defendant ineligible for resentencing based on judicia… |
| 18-5498 |
Willie Beasley Curtis v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus habitual-offender plea-bargain plea-bargain-standards retroactive-sentencing standing sua-sponte unprecedented-error |
Whether the Supreme Court has a duty to consider unprecedented errors that are important to the public interest |
| 18-5501 |
Donald Jones v. Bank of America, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection florida-law foreclosure jury-trial property-rights state-law viamendment |
Whether the petitioner received the same equality decision from Florida state law 702.1 as he would have from a jury trial under the 7th Amendment |
| 18-5502 |
Susan Joy Jacobson v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
IFP |
compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process expert-testimony ptsd ptsd-diagnosis self-defense sixth-amendment |
Whether preclusion of an accused citizen's PTSD diagnosis, proffered to support her self-defense claim, unconstitutionally impinges on her Due Process… |
| 18-5503 |
Brian Preston v. Great Lakes Specialty Finance, Inc., dba Axcess Financial |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada-accommodation americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation disability-rights essential-job-functions interactive-dialogue qualified-employee reasonable-accommodation telecommuting work-from-home |
Whether the employer's view of the essential job elements or the competing views of the employer and employee should be the deciding factor in determi… |
| 18-5506 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection in-rem in-rem-proceeding intervention third-party-plaintiff |
Whether the state court trial judge, in an in rem proceeding, can strip the petitioner of his rights and benefits of equal protection to proceed as an… |
| 18-5507 |
Mark Schwarzman v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure critical-physical-evidence due-process genital-herpes habeas-corpus herpes-simplex-virus medical-evidence procedural-bar schlup schlup-standard standing |
Whether the highly infectious, extremely contagious, incurable sexually transmitted disease Herpes Simplex Virus HSV-2 (genital herpes) is sufficient … |
| 18-5512 |
George Clinton Wilson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment. 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process standing takings civil-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing state-court-proceedings |
Whether the Wisconsin state court erred in denying petitioner's motion for post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-5513 |
My Van Tran v. Ed Sheldon, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial interpreter jury language-access manifest-weight-of-evidence other-acts-evidence |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to vacate the district court's judgment due to the state's failure to timely provide repla… |
| 18-5514 |
Robert Allen Wilkins v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure counsel due-process evidence sanctions standing due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by the court's errors, including failure to strike testimony, failure to … |
| 18-5531 |
Kelly E. Culver v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness cause-and-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether trial counsel's failure to offer a contemporaneous objection during trial compromised the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to competent coun… |
| 18-5540 |
Darnell Rush v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions motion-for-new-trial sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the defendant-appellant was entitled to a new trial where the trial court failed to answer the defendant's request, Did the trial court err in… |
| 18-5544 |
Van Le v. Debbie Aldridge, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection language-access right-to-counsel state-funding translation translation-services |
Should Phys Agurt allow the jhe plectrye Jecrctande of trial deunse/ and 14 tata | Fru r, phe. den! dt164 o f IL _ pnn pcent yoman, for the Sike oft f… |
| 18-5545 |
Carlos David Lopez v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-records plea-bargaining right-to-compulsory-process right-to-confrontation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Does a trial court's refusal to review privileged mental health records of the complaining witness violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment rights? |
| 18-5546 |
Billie Wayne Coble v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-sentencing constitutional-rights daubert daubert-standard due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony future-dangerousness reliability |
Whether the Fifth Circuit and Texas courts improperly applied Barefoot v. Estelle to categorically foreclose claims that unreliable expert testimony o… |
| 18-5551 |
In Re Rafael A. Joseph |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight jurisdiction malfeasance mandamus nonfeasance oversight |
Can the Circuit & Court of Appeals Executive refuse to refer my petition for reconsideration; Clerk Court of Appeals refuse to docket my motions to sh… |
| 18-5553 |
Christopher Williams v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-murder corpus-delicti criminal-procedure due-process extrajudicial-confession fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Did the trial court's failure to submit any instruction to the jury regarding Texas' corpus delicti rule and the subsequent endorsement of that failur… |
| 18-5560 |
Eric C. Beauchamp v. D. J. Doglietto, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies administrative-remedy anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-rights due-process prison-litigation procedural-barriers ross-v-blake standing summary-judgment |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmation of the United States District Court grant of summary judgment to the Defe… |
| 18-5566 |
David Librace v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Deputy Commissioner for Operations, Social Security Administration |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence residency standing witness-protection |
Whether the lower court erred in excluding evidence that was relevant to the petitioner's case |
| 18-5573 |
Tajuan Williams v. Sherman Campbell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law contraband due-process evidence-gathering fourth-amendment prison prison-regulations prisoner-rights regulations |
Should the Court review the case, de novo, to address the importance to the public of the issue in keeping contraband items out of prisons and out of … |
| 18-5575 |
In Re Allah |
|
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-review malicious-prosecution mandamus standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower courts failed to properly dismiss the malicious prosecution against him, i… |
| 18-5583 |
Stephen Brian Turner v. Melody Smith, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity judicial-review parole parole-conditions quasi-judicial-role right-to-marry standing |
Whether parole conditions can prohibit the fundamental right to marry |
| 18-5600 |
Andrew K. Bonner, Jr. v. United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-5609 |
Michael Alexander LaJeunesse v. Iowa |
Iowa |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence medical-records prosecutorial-misconduct shower-curtain |
Whether the lower court erred in its analysis of the issues raised in the petition for writ of certiorari |
| 18-5616 |
Robert Earl Clayborne, Jr. v. Nebraska |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights competency competency-hearing criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disability mental-health prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and effective assistance of counsel when the state court refused to hold a competency hearing despite ev… |
| 18-5623 |
Garland E. Williams v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals appellate-rules circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process harmless-error motion-practice motion-rules notice notice-service panel-assignment standing |
Whether inadvertent failure Circuit Court Panel Assignment and failure notice service of all alleged court contending deficiencies notices conflict di… |
| 18-5633 |
Michael A. Kennedy v. Michigan State Treasurer |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-data civil-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence index list-of-parties privacy question-presented reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear… |
| 18-5639 |
Daniel Castleman, aka Chingachgook v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
best-evidence-rule brady-violation confrontation-clause documentary-evidence due-process evidence evidence-certification federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the government commit prosecutorial misconduct and was counsel ineffective for failing to object or move to exclude GX-DC-2 |
| 18-5657 |
Terence Passmore v. Dan O'Fallon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-fair-trial |
Whether the presence of a juror who has expressed a belief that the petitioner is guilty rendered his trial unfair and in violation of the Sixth Amend… |
| 18-5661 |
Calvin Williams v. Samson Resources Corporation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-dispute docket-interpretation due-process jurisdictional-challenge lease lease-validity oil-and-gas resource-rights standing takings well-ownership |
Does Samson Resources actually hold a valid lease with the petitioner? |
| 18-5669 |
Peter Cruz v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,s fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole massachusetts-law sentencing |
Whether the petitioner can be punished with life without parole when not charged, tried, or convicted of first-degree murder |
| 18-5688 |
Joseph Emanuel v. Department of Justice |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1915 access-to-courts civil-rights consent-to-collection-of-fee-form constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fee-collection in-forma-pauperis proceedings-in-forma-pauperis |
Is a 'consent to collection of fee form' that is not an inmate account form or an inmate trust-fund account statement (or institutional equivalent) co… |
| 18-5698 |
Devonte Brown v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing |
Whether this Court's precedent requires a trial court's record to reflect specific consideration of irreparable corruption before sentencing the child… |
| 18-5713 |
Leonard E. Dunning v. Nancy M. Ware, Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination intentional-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas motion-reconsideration pretext reasonable-jury summary-judgment |
Whether Appellate Court erred in denying Appellant's motion for reconsideration |
| 18-5743 |
Joyce Simmons v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing |
| 18-5747 |
Javier Amador-Flores v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement lay-opinion lay-opinion-testimony lay-testimony specialized-knowledge witness-testimony |
When a law-enforcement agent expressly compares the events in a case to what is typical in other cases he has investigated, is his opinion based on 's… |
| 18-5749 |
Anna Maria Agolli v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law brown-vs-board civil-rights due-process government-immunity pro-se pro-se-plaintiff public-duty-doctrine statute-of-limitations |
When equal but separate was overturned, there was little or no precedent to support this |
| 18-5750 |
Santos Cuevas v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto free-speech sex-offender-registration standing |
Whether the United States Constitution's Ex Post Facto Clause prohibits a state from convicting a defendant for a statutory sexual offense based on pa… |
| 18-5753 |
James Pello v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdicts |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, along with the Indiana State Court of last resort, have entered a decision in conf… |
| 18-5797 |
Carlos Gutierrez-Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether a defendant must re-object to the district court's explanation of its sentencing rationale to preserve the arguments for appeal |
| 18-5800 |
Brent F. Williams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-jurisdiction article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure heckler-v-chaney mootness mootness-doctrine standing standing-article-iii-constitution |
Whether the District Court lacks jurisdiction under Article III of the Constitution, Case or Controversy clause, in light of Heckler v. Chaney |
| 18-5803 |
Matthew James Dury v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction patent standing statutory-provisions takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its ruling on the issues presented |
| 18-5804 |
Abdoulaye Diallo v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fraud indictment-delay insufficient-evidence loss-calculation motion-for-acquittal prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing snap-fraud statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the District Court failed to grant Petitioner's motion for acquittal due to insufficient evidence of knowledge of fraudulent SNAP transactions |
| 18-5809 |
Robert Carl Sharp v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-statute drug-testing knowledge-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea willful-blindness |
Can recklessness or negligence amount to willful blindness? |
| 18-5811 |
Eusebio Escobar De Jesus v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process gall-v-united-states guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states offense-level procedural-error rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Appeals Court erroneously concluded Petitioner failed to state a claim, reasoning for want of a substantial question |
| 18-5814 |
Bobby Cruz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mayle-v-felix section-2255 |
Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying Bobby Cruz a certificate of appealability |
| 18-5817 |
Jermaine Moorer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's claims alleging violations of his constitutional rights |
| 18-5823 |
Alonzo D. Marshall v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing innocence innocence-claim post-conviction-relief section-23-110 trial-court-discretion witness-credibility |
Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the trial court's decision to deny the defendant's Section 23-110 motion following an evidentiary hear… |
| 18-5824 |
James Eugene Larive, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discovery due-process entrapment evidence fair-trial fourth-amendment parallel-construction search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the government's use of 'parallel construction' to conceal the true source of evidence violates the defendant's right to a fair trial |
| 18-5825 |
Eric Lamont Johnson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit international-trade-commission judicial-review patent patent-infringement standing |
Whether the ITC's decision to decline to adjudicate a patent infringement claim was an abuse of discretion |
| 18-5826 |
John C. Carter v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure critical-stage-of-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-criminal-trial-court state-law-limitations |
Whether the right to have assistance of counsel extends to the appeal stage of the trial proceedings, where the petitioner was allegedly denied such a… |
| 18-5828 |
Adolfo Lopez-Garcia v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582(c)(2) 3582c-motion amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing-discretion sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error substantive-reasonableness sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary |
Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w… |
| 18-5831 |
Willie Riley Curry v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 6th-circuit age-of-victim byrd-v-united-states carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gvr plain-error scienter search-and-seizure sixth-circuit-review statutory-interpretation |
Does Carpenter and Byrd require a GVR in this case? |
| 18-5835 |
Juan Fernando Lizarraga-Leyva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking drug-trafficking-crime illicit-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state drug-trafficking conviction with no mens rea element or a mens rea element different than federal law constitutes the 'aggravated felo… |
| 18-5839 |
James Frederick Rebmann v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-classification plain-reading possession-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the plain reading of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines requires that the prior offense be more than simple possession |
| 18-5840 |
George Stoney v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c3a categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Under the categorical approach, does a Hobbs Act conviction qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 18-5842 |
Ricky B. Chhea v. Theresa DelBalso, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but no substantive text was provided in your mess I cannot generate a meaningful question presented please provide the full text of the petition. aedpa civil-rights discovery due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus notes-of-testimony right-to-appeal standing statute-of-limitations |
Is equitable tolling warranted, where a petitioner is denied access to the notes of testimony and discovery, even after properly and timely invoking h… |
| 18-5844 |
Rocco Tinoco v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-875 civil-rights criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation |
Whether a mental state of recklessness absent subjective intent to threaten is sufficient to support a conviction under 18 U.S.C. 875(c) and any other… |
| 18-5845 |
David L. Pierce v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review order procedural-default sixth-circuit standing |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals err when it denied petitoner a Certificate of Appealability based upon their 'ORDER' |
| 18-5846 |
Dustin Xavier Wilkins, aka Dxavier Wilkins, aka Xavier Wilkins, aka Chosen Wilkins v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appeal court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether the petitioner should be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea based on ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-5847 |
Jaime Shakur Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition chavez-meza circuit-split criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review plain-error reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-reasonableness |
Should this Court hold this Petition until the court below renders its forthcoming en banc decision in United States v. Reyes-Contreras? |
| 18-5849 |
Jose Soza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment state-postconviction |
Whether state trial counsel rendered constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-5852 |
In Re Sontay T. Smotherman |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Whether the court below erred in denying petitioners' access to the courts |
| 18-5858 |
Lance Edward Gloor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-prosecution medical-marijuana rohrabacher-farr-amendment separation-of-powers states-rights tenth-amendment |
Were the Tenth Amendment, Due Process Clause, and the separation of powers doctrine violated? |
| 18-5861 |
Danny Lopez Chavez v. Joel Martinez, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Whether appellant's sentence is grossly disproportionate to the crimes of conviction |
| 18-5865 |
Gary L. Pennington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-offense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder fourteenth-amendment state-law substantive-due-process |
Whether petitioner's conviction of first degree murder violated the constitutionally protected state-created liberty interest guaranteed under the Fou… |
| 18-5866 |
Nathan Mosley v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. 1951 qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 18-5871 |
Samuel Posa v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process eleventh-circuit self-representation tharpe-v-sellers |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-5872 |
Miguel Medina-Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a) drug-trafficking federal-criminal-justice-system pre-sentence-report sentencing 3553(a) 3553(a)-factors 3553a-factors abuse-of-discretion amendment-782 criminal-procedure drug-amount drug-quantity-attribution drug-trafficking-conspiracy due-process pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-discretion threshold |
Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated |
| 18-5874 |
Nalenzer Lee Edwards v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest confidential-informant drug-possession eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit error in finding probable cause to justify a vehicle stop and the arrest of petitioner? |
| 18-5875 |
John Vivo, III v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure plain-error plain-error-doctrine state-court-review statement-of-the-case statutory-exception statutory-interpretation |
Whether the state court of last resort erred by declining to review the petitioner's request for review under the plain-error doctrine and the applica… |
| 18-5879 |
Emory Dickson Eneh v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power federal-statute felon-in-possession gun-control police-power second-amendment |
Does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) exceed Congress's authority to regulate under the Commerce … |
| 18-5882 |
Daniel Vela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power felon-in-possession gun-control police-power second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) exceed Congress's authority to regulate under the Commerce … |
| 18-5884 |
Matthew Gary Richardson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split generic-burglary intent-requirement judicial-factfinding mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing mathis mathis-peek mathis-v-united-states reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor |
Whether the 'Mathis peek' used by the court below to guess if a fact is an element or a means of committing an offense violates the Sixth Amendment |
| 18-5890 |
Mark D. Whitfield v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law force hobbs-act property robbery statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force violent-crime |
Whether jurists of reason could debate whether robbery under the Hobbs Act possesses the use, attempted use, or threatened use of force against the pe… |
| 18-5893 |
Dan Wayne Streetman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker-precedent booker-v-united-states child-pornography gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement sentencing-commission sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity separation-of-powers |
Whether a district court can refuse to apply a sentencing guideline on policy grounds where the guideline is not based on the Sentencing Commission's … |
| 18-5894 |
Lawrence Eugene Shaw v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1344 bank-fraud jury jury-instructions legal-interest legal-property-interest mixed-question mixed-question-of-law-and-fact property trial-court |
In Shaw, the Court held that the bank must have a legal interest in the property targeted by a §1344(1) scheme to defraud; is that interest a mixed qu… |
| 18-5895 |
Justin Lyle Izatt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-question gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-for-writ-of-certiorari post-conviction-relief sentencing |
Whether the Court of Appeals committed error by denying the Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2255 petition? |
| 18-5899 |
Rashod Lewis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment probation self-incrimination |
Whether a probationer can be ordered to truthfully answer questions posed by his probation officer without a caveat that he still has the right to inv… |
| 18-5900 |
Juan Carlos Martinez-Barrientos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-5901 |
Willis Maxi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine civil-rights due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment illegal-search knock-and-talk law-enforcement-entry motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion to suppress evidence and statement? |
| 18-5904 |
Donavan Cross v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constructive-delivery constructive-possession controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-delivery due-process intent sentencing sentencing-guidelines testimonial-evidence |
Whether a statute that criminalizes a constructive delivery of drugs without bona fide intent to transfer possession is a felony 'controlled substance… |
| 18-5910 |
Curtis Dee Packard v. Barry Goodrich, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment assistance-of-counsel confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation public-defender right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court withdrawal-of-counsel |
Whether both the trial court and the State's Public Defender''s Office invited error and erroneously denied the Petitioner his 6th Amendment rights to… |
| 18-5912 |
Robert Kimmell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-disclosure drug-offense due-process fair-trial informant informant-disclosure jury-instructions lesser-included-offense relevance verdict-form witness-disclosure |
Did Kimmell establish that disclosure of the informant was relevant and helpful to his defense, or essential to a fair determination of his cause? |
| 18-5913 |
Alfonso Escobedo Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-review second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline entitled to a presumption of reasonableness? |
| 18-5914 |
Jeffrey Scott Finney v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing violent-felony |
Whether the District Court erred in denying Jeffrey Finney's post-Johason motion for relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 18-5915 |
Michael Hill v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempt categorical-approach illinois intent statutory-interpretation substantial-step use-of-force violent-felony |
Whether attempt to commit a violent felony is itself a violent felony |
| 18-5916 |
Juan Flores v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility casual-conversation co-conspirator co-conspirator-statement co-conspirator-statements conspiracy conspiracy-evidence criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence furtherance-of-conspiracy hearsay-exception |
Whether the District Court and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in ruling that a statement made during a casual conversation between co-conspirat… |
| 18-5917 |
John Doe v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review connected-conduct criminal-procedure federal-offense nexus obstruction obstructive-act reckless-endangerment relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred by affirming the judgment of the District Court, which incorrectly applied the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 18-5921 |
Jeffrey Allen Stevens v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-unrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-trial law-enforcement-misconduct standing |
Are Predictions of Civil Unrest or Violent Revolt Protected Speech under the First Amendment? |
| 18-5928 |
Ricardo Limon-Urenda v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment ambiguous-answer criminal-procedure hearing impartial-jury impartiality ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality jury-selection prospective-juror right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance under the 6th Amendment |
| 18-5929 |
David T. Odom v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conditional-plea conditional-plea-agreement criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-appeals-court fourth-circuit plea-agreement standard-of-review statute-of-limitations |
Whether a defendant can make a knowing and voluntary decision under a conditional plea agreement when, believing he is preserving his Motion to Dismis… |
| 18-5930 |
Timothy Walker v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process guideline-amendments guideline-range post-sentencing-litigation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g. |
Does it comport with the Due Process Clause and the prohibition against Double Jeopardy to simultaneously impose two sentences for a drug offense and … |
| 18-5934 |
Deborah M. Wagner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process mandatory-victim-restitution-act mvra plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's restitution order was outside the statutory authority of the MVRA |
| 18-5935 |
Julio Cesar Velasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether the knowingly or intentionally' mens rea in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) and 960(a) applies to the drug type and quantity elements in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(… |
| 18-5944 |
Rafael Tanco-Pizarro v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discovery due-process revocation revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release title-18-usc |
Whether the punishment factor of the federal sentencing statute, Title 18 U.S.C §3553(a)(2)(A), is a permissible or prohibited factor in sentencing a … |
| 18-5952 |
In Re Samuel H. Williams |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated |
| 18-5953 |
Antowan Thorne v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court-error due-process evidentiary-hearing franks-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial new-trial search-suppression sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Should the district court's denial of a new trial or evidentiary hearing due to counsel's failure to interview witnesses and call additional witnesses… |
| 18-5976 |
In Re Jaame Amun Re El |
|
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law banking-statutes civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations criminal-statutes due-process federal-habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-role legal-hermeneutics separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-drafting statutory-interpretation statutory-language statutory-meaning textual-analysis |
Is it a judge's/administration's duty to interpret a statute? |
| 18-5984 |
Murad H. Beyah v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus self-representation standing |
Whether HASAN MURAD OSTRES AND BRYAN was unconstitutionally deprived of the right to self-representation |
| 18-6034 |
In Re Gregory Wayne Burwell |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-grand-jury federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment firearm-offenses forged-indictment grand-jury indictment-validity non-existent-crimes non-existent-offenses sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the District Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's had subject matter jurisdiction over the criminal case |
| 18M39 |
Joel D. Strong v. Sherry Burt, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M40 |
Alba T. Pfeffer v. Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M41 |
Antywane Eric Williams v. Jeffrey S. Cox, Judge, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M42 |
John Laschkewitsch v. American National Life Insurance Company |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M43 |
Josh A. Wairi v. United States |
First Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M44 |
Dion Dakota Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M45 |
Raymond E. Adams, II v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M46 |
Justin A. Moss v. William Pollard, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M47 |
Randal Ruiz v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M48 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Sahar Kamkar |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M49 |
Phares Sylince v. Florida |
Florida |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|