Conference: 2018-10-05

197 cases — 0 granted, 197 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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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