| 18-182 |
AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Inc. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-controversy article-iii declaratory-judgment drug-exclusivity fda-approval generic-drugs patent-invalidity pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-patents standing |
Whether the 'actual controversy' requirement of the Declaratory Judgment Act requires a party seeking to introduce a generic drug product to file an a… |
| 18-187 |
Keith A. Simpson v. The Bank of New York Mellon |
Florida |
Denied |
|
bank-fraud civil-rights constitutional-rights disqualification due-process due-process-violation foreclosure fraud fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement perjury standing |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protections of the 5th and 14th Amendment… |
| 18-194 |
Craig Robert Nunn v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Tennessee |
Denied |
|
community-supervision-for-life constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto parole-conditions retroactive-application retroactive-punishment sex-offender-directives sex-offender-registration |
Does the retroactive application of the Sex Offender Directives to Mr. Nunn violate the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution? |
| 18-206 |
Craig Cunningham v. General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-agency-authority federal-contractor-liability federal-preemption federal-statutes government-contractor-defense jurisdictional-defense separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation yearsley-defense yearsley-v-w-a-ross |
Whether the Yearsley defense is a jurisdictional defense or an affirmative defense, and whether it applies to violations of federal law or only state … |
| 18-213 |
H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel court-interpretation daubert daubert-standard en-banc-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court homeowners-insurance judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-judgment res-judicata sanctions summary-order |
Whether an initial appellate 'Summary Order' is the definitive source regarding the subject matter contested, or if courts in the same dispute can ado… |
| 18-214 |
Tawoos Bazargani v. Latch's Lane Owners Association, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
|
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutionality court-dismissal due-process judicial-process judicial-review legal-entitlement legal-threat medical-leave obstruction-of-justice respondent-intimidation retaliation standing threat threat-of-harm trial-entitlement |
Whether petitioner is entitled to a trial on the identified claim due to threats from respondent, lower court's dismissal of the claim while petitione… |
| 18-215 |
Lisa M. Aubuchon, et al. v. Maricopa County, Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
9th-circuit 9th-circuit-panel bias civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-contract fact-finder fact-finding government-attorneys judicial-bias judicial-decision legal-precedent notice-of-claim political-bias standing |
Was the 9th Circuit Panel's Decision a Politically Charged Decision that Assumed the Role of a Fact Finder, as Asserted by the Dissent? |
| 18-218 |
Trey Beam v. Robert F. Abercrombie, Jr. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
11th-circuit civil-rights due-process investigation misdemeanor probable-cause qualified-immunity willful-failure |
Whether an officer may lose qualified immunity based upon the allegation of willful' failure to investigate even when the officer has established at l… |
| 18-222 |
EMED Technologies Corporation v. Repro-Med Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure claim-construction constitutional-amendment digital-claim due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-claim-construction patent-law-procedure review-procedure standard-of-review takings |
Whether the PTAB erred in applying the Texas-Digital claim construction standard rather than the Phillips standard |
| 18-228 |
Western Radio Services Company, Inc. v. John Allen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedures-act agency-discrimination bivens-claim class-of-one equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation permitting-actions retaliation |
Does the Administrative Procedures Act preclude a Bivens claim for First Amendment Retaliation and 'Class of One' Equal Protection? |
| 18-230 |
Robert Allen Richards, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bill-of-attainder canon-law child-support civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process paternity-fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's case under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in a civil RICO paternity fraud lawsuit involving f… |
| 18-232 |
W. A. Griffin v. Teamcare, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
assignment assignment-of-rights benefit-assignment circuit-split erisa medical-provider medical-providers participant-rights statutory-penalties welfare-benefit-plan welfare-benefits written-assignment-of-benefits |
Whether ERISA authorizes assignment of statutory penalties |
| 18-235 |
Ventura Content, Ltd. v. Motherless, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
actual-knowledge apparent-knowledge copyright-infringement copyright-liability digital-millennium-copyright-act dmca-safe-harbor knowledge-standard online-service-provider repeat-infringer repeat-infringer-policy repeat-infringers termination-policy volitional-conduct |
Whether an online service provider can be held to have adopted a reasonable termination policy for repeat copyright infringers under the DMCA, where t… |
| 18-241 |
Paminder S. Parmar, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Surinder K. Parmar, et al. v. Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Illinois |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge due-process estate-tax jurisdiction post-deprivation-remedy retroactive-application retroactivity sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tax-refund |
Whether the State of Illinois failed to provide the Petitioner taxpayer with a clear and certain post-deprivation procedure consistent with the Due Pr… |
| 18-242 |
Samuel Gicharu, et al. v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 18-243 |
Anthony Fox v. John Powell, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment checks-and-balances civil-rights constitutional-protection constitutional-rights discovery due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-abrogation judicial-proceedings motion-to-dismiss rule-12b6 standing supervisory-liability supervisory-responsibility |
Is this Court not required to protect the Constitution as envisioned by our founding fathers in the Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution and does no… |
| 18-245 |
Marlon Penn v. New York Methodist Hospital, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception religious-institution title-vii |
Whether the ministerial exception applies to an avowedly secular hospital that employs an ecumenical chaplain |
| 18-248 |
Mohamed Idris Ahmed v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
and whether the government must prove by clear an 8-usc-1451-a citizenship-revocation clear-and-convincing-evidence evidence-requirement evidence-standard Kungys-v-United-States legal-standard legal-test maslenjak-v-united-states naturalization-citizenship naturalization-process procurement procurement-element procurement-standard willful-concealment |
Whether the plurality decision in Kungys v. United States has caused confusion and varied interpretations by lower courts |
| 18-251 |
Sheldon Schwartz v. HRI Hospital, Inc., et al. |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional constitutional-law due-process employment employment-rights equal-protection free-speech retaliation state-law whistleblower |
Whether the Massachusetts courts erred in refusing to consider the Supreme Court's proscription of post-employment retaliation in any profession |
| 18-254 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law biblical-reference civil-procedure civil-rights divine-revelation due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-metaphor legal-parable presidential-names presidential-powers presidential-reference prophetic-message religious-freedom religious-text separation-of-church-and-state standing |
Whether the President of the United States has the authority to disregard the religious beliefs and revelations of the spiritual Adam, Xiu Jian Sun, a… |
| 18-255 |
George Briscoe v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fair-trial indictment indictment-amendment indictment-modification jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-procedure vagueness |
Can a defendant receive a fair trial when the plain language of a statute is ignored to allow the government to change the indictment after a jury has… |
| 18-263 |
Sheryl Faust v. Illinois Workers Compensation Commission, et al. |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure arbitrary-barriers bodily-integrity due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment redress workers-compensation |
Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from using arbitrary barriers to deprive workers of th… |
| 18-284 |
Scott Gessler v. Matt Smith, et al. |
Colorado |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure administrative-state civil-penalty civil-rights due-process government-ethics notice quasi-criminal vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Are civil laws that impose a personal penalty subject to the same void-for-vagueness standards as criminal laws and deportation laws? |
| 18-297 |
Eric White, et al. v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York, et al. |
New York |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
canons-of-construction federal-indian-law indian-law indian-rights indian-treaty-rights native-american-rights new-york-indians seneca-nation sovereign-immunity state-taxation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tax-assessment treaty-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
Does New York's assessment and collection of taxes within the Seneca Nation of Indians violate the treaty rights of the Seneca Nation? |
| 18-298 |
Michael Vernon Beaty, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
Denied |
Response Waived |
chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-law, due-process,criminal-procedure,harmless-error,chap harmless-error judicial-review right-to-respond standard-of-review supreme-court-standard |
Does the South Carolina Supreme Court's standard for determining harmless constitutional error depart from this Court's mandates in Chapman v. Califor… |
| 18-313 |
Albon C. Diamond, III v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence medical-testimony sixth-amendment strategic-decisions strickland strickland-standard |
Whether the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of effective attorney representation requires a finding of ineffective assistance of counsel where the trial a… |
| 18-332 |
Kevin Singson v. Sean Reyes, Attorney General of Utah |
Utah |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedures civil-rights debt-collection due-process extraordinary-writ governmental-power sovereign-immunity standing state-action state-agency state-courts unfair-collection |
Whether the Utah State Supreme Court erred in affirming the Utah Court of Appeals in denying that a specific remedy exists for a citizen to challenge … |
| 18-335 |
Nathaniel Teamer v. Scott Lewis, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-bias jury-instructions south-carolina state-court supreme-court truth-seeking |
Does the South Carolina Supreme Court's acceptance of judges instructing the jury that its 'sole objective is to simply reach the truth of the matter'… |
| 18-341 |
Billie Faye Keyes, et al. v. Philip Gunn, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-disenfranchisement civil-rights due-process election-integrity election-interference equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legislative-misconduct standing voting voting-rights |
If state legislators intentionally discard ballots to swing an election, may the disenfranchised voters bring suit in federal court to enforce the gua… |
| 18-343 |
Raiden J. Andrews v. United States |
Armed Forces |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-error constitutional-provision-involved constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error harmless-error-standard military-justice military-justice-system prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the lower court erred in failing to apply the harmless error standard to the prosecution's improper arguments |
| 18-356 |
Robert Edward Orth v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-regulation all-inclusive-terms citizen-definition citizenship-definition constitutional-claims due-process free-speech impermissible-expansion passport-privileges procedural-due-process statutory-construction tax-law taxpayer-rights |
Whether the statutory definition of 'citizen' in 26 U.S.C. § 1402(b) includes the petitioner, and whether the regulations at 26 C.F.R. 1.1 impermissib… |
| 18-357 |
Dragomir Taskov v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process due-process,ineffective-assistance,innocence,prose habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255 statute-of-limitations timeliness |
Whether Petitioner's substantive claim of innocence and constitutional violations are barred as untimely due to prosecutorial interference, miscarriag… |
| 18-360 |
Ronald Bergrin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
competency-test conflicts-of-interest counsel-conflict criminal-investigation due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,competency,conflict dusky-standard dusky-v-united-states right-to-counsel stand-trial standard-of-review structural-error |
Does the competency test established in Dusky v. United States permit a finding of incompetency based on the accused's unwillingness to assist counsel… |
| 18-381 |
Donald C. Marro v. New York State Teachers' Retirement System |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-settlement class-action class-representation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fees fees-and-expenses frcp-23 notice property-rights public-policy settlement-fairness |
Whether a pro se party can be characterized as vexatious and deprived of equal access to courts, equal protection, and property rights under the Fifth… |
| 18-387 |
Ben Gary Triestman v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody liberty-restraint liberty-restraints order-of-protection restraint-of-liberty risk-of-incarceration standing state-court-orders supreme-court-precedent |
Triestman v. Underwood |
| 18-396 |
Brittan Holland, et al. v. Kelly Rosen, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
bail bail-reform-act criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment monetary-bail new-jersey pretrial-detention pretrial-liberty restrictive-conditions |
Whether New Jersey's law prohibiting courts from considering monetary bail unless no combination of non-monetary conditions will reasonably assure the… |
| 18-397 |
William G. Clowdis, Jr. v. Virginia Board of Medicine |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law double-jeopardy due-process full-faith-and-credit medical-licensing modes-of-procedure sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction ultra-vires |
Whether the Virginia Board of Medicine violated the Full Faith and Credit Clause by declaring a physician a convicted felon based on a felony charge t… |
| 18-407 |
Matthew John Stickle v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure curtilage due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,search-and-s ip-address search-and-seizure threshold warrantless-search |
Was the evidence in this case unlawfully obtained as a result of an unlawful search and seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 18-48 |
Minnesota v. Quentin Todd Chute |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk plain-view plain-view-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits police officers from engaging in knock-and-talks to gather evidence, and whether officers can inspect evidence … |
| 18-5004 |
Tremayne Antwane Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment curtilage evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware good-faith-exception police-search probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search |
Whether the police officers unlawfully searched the petitioner's apartment by trespassing on the curtilage and sniffing the window and doorframe |
| 18-5230 |
John Parker Murphy v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error due-process johnson-movant johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states |
Whether a Johnson movant can show sentencing error when he would not be an Armed Career Criminal if sentenced today |
| 18-5263 |
Bobby Ree McGee, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability elements-clause johnson-claim residual-clause samuel-johnson section-2255 statutory-maximum violent-felony |
Whether a § 2255 movant raising a Samuel Johnson claim can satisfy his burden of proof by showing his ACCA sentence may have been based on the residua… |
| 18-5268 |
Jeremiah T. Sailor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca burden-of-proof collateral-review johnson johnson-v-united-states record residual-clause sentencing |
Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson when the sentencing judge never specified - an… |
| 18-5271 |
Roger W. Murray v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
batson batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit racial-discrimination voir-dire |
Whether the Arizona courts unreasonably applied Batson v. Kentucky and unreasonably determined the constitutionally significant facts, thus violating … |
| 18-5298 |
Reuben Stewart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g 18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bii 8th-amendment aggravated-assault criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states means-rea mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Does a prior conviction predicated on a mens rea of recklessness qualify as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. section 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in light of John… |
| 18-5331 |
Ralph Simon Jeremias v. Nevada |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances confrontation-clause constitutional-standard death-penalty due-process hurst-v-florida jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona |
Whether the Constitution requires that the finding that mitigating circumstances do not outweigh aggravating circumstances to impose death be made bey… |
| 18-5391 |
Daniel Sexton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-981 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture-liability criminal-procedure dismissed-charges due-process forfeiture-liability honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does this Court's reasoning in Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1626 (2017), limiting joint and several forfeiture liability to what a defendant… |
| 18-5399 |
Joseph Andrew Perez v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
autopsy-report autopsy-reports confrontation-clause crawford-standard crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure homicide-investigation homicide-investigations sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-evidence |
Whether an autopsy report created as part of a homicide investigation, and asserting that the death was caused by homicide, is 'testimonial' under the… |
| 18-5618 |
Tae H. Chon v. Barack H. Obama, former President of the United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness integrity judicial-proceedings plain-error preservation-of-error remand substantial-rights tenth-circuit |
Whether a plain error affects the petitioner's substantial rights and implicates the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings… |
| 18-5641 |
Pressley Bernard Alston v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment,14th-amendment,capital-punishment,hu capital-defendant capital-punishment Does the partial retroactivity formula designed by Does the partial retroactivity formula employed fo due-process,federal-constitutional-rights,post-con federal-constitutional-violations hurst-v-florida montgomery-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana,retroactivity,sentencing,su post-conviction-review retroactivity state-law-waiver supremacy-clause |
Does a state capital defendant's state-law waiver of state post-conviction review automatically and forever preclude the defendant from seeking relief… |
| 18-5645 |
Eric E. Johnson v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit, knowingly denied a petitioner's final appeal of a constitutional right to appeal his capital criminal… |
| 18-5648 |
Anthony Lamarca v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-case death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 18-5649 |
Charles Richardson v. Jason Kent, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-counsel venue |
Whether the prosecutor's improper arguments resulted in an unfair trial and a guilty verdict of murder instead of a lesser charge thereto? |
| 18-5650 |
Carl Javon Ross v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-rights conviction-reversal criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process innocence standing |
Whether the evidence was sufficient to sustain the petitioner's convictions |
| 18-5652 |
Glen Springer v. Benjamin Dale Caple, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-needs prison-conditions |
Did Phish Suffer An Eighth Amendment Violation? |
| 18-5656 |
Venise Metayer v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-misadvice counsel-role due-process illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing trial-court-denial waiver waiver-of-rights |
Were the petitioner's constitutional rights violated when the trial court denied her motion for illegal sentence based on counsel's misadvice to accep… |
| 18-5660 |
Todd Jesse Garton v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defendant-attire due-process guilt-determination meaningful-defense penalty-phase presumption-of-innocence right-to-fair-trial right-to-present-defense right-to-reliable-verdict right-to-wear-civilian-attire |
Whether refusing to permit an in-custody defendant charged with murdering his wife and unborn child to wear his wedding ring during trial violates his… |
| 18-5662 |
Myrna Diaz v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment unauthorized-practice-of-law |
Did the staff of the 'Project Freedom Fund' who provided faulty legal advice to petitioner, and thus induced her to withdraw a guilty plea for which s… |
| 18-5672 |
Charles S. Renchenski v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts |
Has the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision that is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, all other Courts of Appeals, feder… |
| 18-5676 |
Ernest Morris v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-records cell-phone-tower-records constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy duress-defense fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing suppression trial-counsel unqualified-counsel |
Did counsel provide ineffective assistance of counsel? |
| 18-5681 |
Dexter Leemon Johnson v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-error jury-instructions jury-trial jury-verdict reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum trial-error |
Whether the petitioner was denied the right to a jury verdict of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 18-5687 |
Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-default standing state-court-decision state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent time-bar |
Whether rights generated by federal procedural and substantive due-process prohibit the state from concluding direct review |
| 18-5690 |
Darren Taylor v. Thomas Schweitzer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment cell-phone-privacy constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment gps-data search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether Petitioner was denied his constitutional right to a full and fair opportunity to litigate his claim of being denied his constitutional right t… |
| 18-5695 |
Robert Wayne Annabel, II v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada amendment-opportunity civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy deliberate-indifference due-process plra plra-dismissal prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights rehabilitation-act res-judicata retaliation sua-sponte |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's interpretation of the PLRA's dismissal procedures denies a fair and adequate opportunity to object or amend the complaint |
| 18-5697 |
James R. Reece v. L. Ray Whitley, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings critical-stage indigent-prisoner new-trial post-trial pre-appeal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a post-trial pre-appeal motion for new trial is a critical stage of state criminal proceedings protected by right-to-counsel |
| 18-5700 |
Jerry Docaj v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions manslaughter miranda-rights passion-provocation sixth-amendment |
Whether the jury instruction on passion/provocation manslaughter misstated the law |
| 18-5703 |
Joshua D. Blair v. Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction martinez-v-ryan procedural-defect standing |
Did the Foortis Cirecit Coors of Apgeals errored in Peii toner I writ, usinauny Vasiierer Shavoeck cont yi ed 1c an LYYPETrary ISSOL LWHYn Ane YM Circ… |
| 18-5705 |
George Easterly v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness postconviction-relief probable-cause probable-cause-affidavit search-and-seizure search-warrant voluntariness-of-plea |
Whether the Florida Court of Appeals unreasonably applied this Court's precedent |
| 18-5711 |
Edwin C. Coleman v. Carrie M. Ward |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-guidelines government-regulations property-rights standing |
Whether the government's failure to comply with its own guidelines for the provision of funds violates due process and equal protection under the law |
| 18-5712 |
Jerome A. Christmon v. B&B Airparts, Inc. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
7th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process errata-sheets evidence jury-trial procedural-error summary-judgement summary-judgment uncertified-deposition |
whether-summary-judgement-based-on-uncertified-deposition-is-admissible |
| 18-5714 |
Jose A. Rivera-Quinones v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a trial court can possess subject matter jurisdiction on a criminal offense not charged within the indictment/criminal information |
| 18-5716 |
Richard Blake Ray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-circuit buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus reasonable-legal-argument supreme-court-law |
Whether the district court and 5th circuit court of appeals erred in denying Ray a certificate of appealability |
| 18-5723 |
Larry J. Kushner v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
complex-case constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-precedents judicial-review prosecutorial-delay prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial |
Did the State of New Jersey violate the defendant's constitutional right to a speedy trial? |
| 18-5724 |
Juan Concepcion v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
brown-vs-board case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-judgment due-process Equal-protection Gideon-v-wainwright gideon-vs-wainwright ineffective-counsel legal-petition Self-representation speedy-trial statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the state's alleged ineffective counsel resulted in a denial of due process and equal protection |
| 18-5726 |
Ruben Cazares v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice-statements bruton-error bruton-evidence bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause crawford crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility harmless-error prejudice prejudicial-evidence separate-trials special-prejudice trial-procedure |
Whether lower courts correctly evaluate the harmfulness of Bruton error without accounting for the devastating 'special prejudice' to the accused that… |
| 18-5727 |
Andre K. Clarke v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-principles attorney-error buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus limitations-period miller-el-v-cockrell |
Whether Maples v. Thomas requires importation of agency principles into the equitable tolling context |
| 18-5733 |
Steven Pinder v. Alva Green McDowell, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery due-process medical-records patient-privacy patient-privilege privilege standing |
Whether the 'propagated authorization' for release of medical records put forth by the defendants is in fact constitutional? |
| 18-5734 |
Robert Dennis Martin v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,4th-amendment,stand fourth-amendment jury-verdict police-stop reasonable-doubt standing |
Can Oklahoma adopt a rule of law regarding the waiver of a fundamental constitutional right that does not meet the minimum criteria for such waivers s… |
| 18-5735 |
Harry Lonzo-Bolton Ervin v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-alleyne-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing sentencing-range sixth-amendment teague-v-lane |
Whether the Apprendi-Alleyne rule should be applied retroactively |
| 18-5737 |
Richard Delain Kyles v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-principle discretionary-rules due-process ex-post-facto judicial-review legal-standards parole parole-board-policy parole-eligibility parole-suitability retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in applying a 'Fifth Circuit Principle' that discretionary parole rules do not violate ex post facto clause |
| 18-5738 |
Bill Paul Marquardt v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction capital-collateral-regional-counsel collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pro-se-claims self-representation |
whether-the-three-collateral-order-doctrine-conditions-are-satisfied-and-the-u.s.-court-of-appeals-can-take-jurisdiction-on-my-pro-se-claims,-where-th… |
| 18-5741 |
George O. Riley v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure common-law constitutional-interpretation judicial-rulemaking motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment twombly |
Whether the heightened pleading standard adopted in Tellabs/Twombly/Iqbal violates the Seventh Amendment to The United States Constitution by defying … |
| 18-5746 |
Kenneth Eugene Nix v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-enforcement criminal-law discriminatory-enforcement due-process florida-statute statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is Florida Statute 784.045 impermissibly vague and/or does it encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement? |
| 18-5755 |
Dwight L. Allen v. Superior Court of Georgia, Camden County |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings |
Whether the federal district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 18-5758 |
Annamalai Annamalai v. Parvathi Sivanadiyan |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-68 dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice federal-rule-68 federal-rule-civil-procedure federal-rules frivolous frivolous-complaint judgment-offer mailbox-rule offer-and-acceptance offer-of-judgment prejudice prison-mailbox-rule prisoner-filing |
Whether a district court can dismiss a complaint filed under 9 U.S.C.4 as frivolous and can dismiss with prejudice, after the mailing of an unconditio… |
| 18-5761 |
Kourtney Herman v. Crystal Young, et al. |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
best-interests best-interests-standard custody custody-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-responsibilities parental-rights standing |
Whether a state court's application of a 'best interests' standard in custody/parental responsibilities filed by a person other than a parent, violate… |
| 18-5764 |
Richard Joseph Crane v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus life-sentence parole parole-consideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Supreme Court intended for the opinion of California Department of Corrections v. Morales (1995) and Garner v. Jones (2000) to apply to in… |
| 18-5767 |
Fox Joseph Salerno v. Jo Lynn Gentry, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. |
Arizona |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-attainder constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining retroactive-application retroactivity |
Did the State Trial Court err by unconstitutionally using Federal case laws of Missouri v. Frye/Lafler v. Cooper and applying it retroactively thus vi… |
| 18-5768 |
Ercil K. Rayford v. Blair Leibach, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Whether the court of appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 18-5772 |
Aurelio Fidencio Saldivar v. G. D. Lewis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard tactical-rationales trial-counsel |
Is a habeas corpus petitioner alleging a Sixth Amendment claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel required to address and rebut hypothetical t… |
| 18-5774 |
Rochelle Driessen v. Royal Bank of Scotland |
Second Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review procedural-standard standing summary-order supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-court-of-appeals |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's May 25, 2017, summary order is in direct conflict with a decision of the United States Supr… |
| 18-5777 |
Rodney S. Pederson v. Arctic Slope Regional Corporation |
Alaska |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-decision alaska-supreme-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-due-process standing statute-of-limitations takings |
Whether the Alaska Supreme Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims against Arctic Slope Regional Corp. for lack of standing |
| 18-5779 |
Ray Cobia v. Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2004-conviction 2012-conviction civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Whether the petitioner was afforded due process in the 2004 conviction and 2012 conviction, and why the conduct was prosecuted so harshly |
| 18-5783 |
Robert A. Cotton v. County of San Bernardino, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process issue-preclusion judicial-immunity jury-trial manuel-v-city-of-joliet ninth-circuit preliminary-hearing qualified-immunity self-defense |
Was the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the dismissal based on issue preclusion in violation of Manuel v. City of Joliet? |
| 18-5784 |
Boniface W. Wabuyabo v. Correct Care Solutions |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights claim due-process legal-representation medical-attention pro-se standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the case due to an improper interpretation of the legal requirements for filing a claim, despite the petit… |
| 18-5787 |
Danyale Sharron Tubbs v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
competency competency-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency mental-illness plain-error procedural-default sentencing sentencing-error strickland-standard |
Was Michigan's application of Strickland v. Washington unreasonable? |
| 18-5792 |
Marlon Watford v. Thomas LaFond, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims under 42 U.S.C. §1983 alleging violations of his constitutional rights under the Fi… |
| 18-5801 |
Harvey Eugene Larson v. Doug Moore, Parole Officer, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus legal-standing pleading prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
Did claims state a cause of action? |
| 18-5805 |
George Clifton Cobb v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing |
Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals err in dismissing petitioner's application for Certificate of Appealability as untimely despite petitioner showi… |
| 18-5806 |
Edwin David Corbett v. Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia post-conviction-relief statute-of-limitations sufficiency-of-evidence time-limitation |
Whether the one-year limitations period under Washington's Revised Code §10.73.100(4) bars a petitioner from relitigating a sufficiency of evidence cl… |
| 18-5807 |
Peter R. Rubens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
brady brady-violation cross-examination due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment structural-error witness-intimidation |
Does Webb v. Texas apply when it is the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office who systematically threatens, coerces, intimidates, and actually off… |
| 18-5815 |
Jose Francisco Puentes v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment arizona-statute civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing |
Does the Arizona statute 13-1410 violate the petitioner's 14th Amendment rights? |
| 18-5830 |
A. L., the Father v. Florida Department of Children and Families |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-procedure-due-process civil-rights due-process free-speech parental-rights shaken-baby-syndrome standing |
Whether per curiam affirm decision without reaching merits of the case violated due-process |
| 18-5832 |
William Dixon v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion open-file-discovery procedural-stay state-court-claims stay-and-abeyance |
Whether a Federal Court Can Stay and hold in Abeyance a 28 USC § 2254 Petition for Habeas Corpus to Permit Petitioner to Exhaust Claims in State Court… |
| 18-5836 |
Ya'shua Amen Shekhem El-Bey v. United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court minute-order rule-60 rule-60-motion service-of-process standing |
Whether the district court denied Petitioner's rights to due process of law |
| 18-5837 |
David Lee Roberts v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty federal-law hurst-v-florida judicial-findings jury-sentencing jury-verdict retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
Did Hurst invalidate Alabama's capital sentencing scheme? |
| 18-5848 |
Darrell Darcell Darby v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional criminal-appeals cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process prison-conditions search-and-seizure sentencing standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth and Eighth Amendments were violated |
| 18-5850 |
In Re Christopher D. Schneider |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appearance-of-impropriety civil-rights courthouse-access discrimination due-process economic-status first-amendment judicial-bias mandamus retaliation self-censorship standing |
Does Mr. Schneider have a right to both the appearance and actuality of neutrality; and does mandamus lie when that fundamental right is going to be m… |
| 18-5851 |
Martin Salinas v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 18-5855 |
Derrick Knight v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure brady-violation constitutional-rights effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial withholding-evidence |
Was Petitioner denied his constitutional right to effective assistance of appellate counsel? |
| 18-5860 |
Faisal Amin v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-5867 |
Harvey Preston v. Willie Smith, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-error criminal-procedure federal-review gateway gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins perkins-v-mcquiggins standard-of-review |
Whether the Petitioner has presented a credible claim of actual innocence to warrant reversal of the offenses of carjacking, home-invasion-first-degre… |
| 18-5869 |
Duane Montgomery v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-liability standing takings trial-by-jury |
Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 18-5870 |
Matthew Prow v. Tom Roy, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment art-censorship civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prison prison-policies prison-restrictions reasonable-relationship-standard standing turner-analysis turner-standard |
Proper methodology for applying Turner standard for constitutional infringements in prison context |
| 18-5883 |
Burdette Lowe v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada-retaliation civil-rights disability due-process eeoc employment employment-discrimination judicial-procedure pleading-standard pleading-standards retaliation |
Whether lower courts can dismiss disability-related occupational injury civil complaints by omitting essential facts and misconstruing allegations, cr… |
| 18-5911 |
Manuel Lampon-Paz v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-redaction child-abuse child-abuse-neglect child-abuse-or-neglect court-of-appeals fair-trial federal-procedure minor-plaintiff minor-protection ongoing-case ongoing-federal-case plaintiff-rights redaction trial-fairness |
Whether a plaintiff can have his case redacted in accordance with laws and regulations about disclosure |
| 18-5918 |
Jose Guerrero Lozano, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure delay due-process florida-court ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-delay prejudice speedy-trial |
Whether the State of Florida Court or the Petitioner is more to blame for the delay. Whether, in due course, and petitioner asserted a claim of ineffe… |
| 18-5942 |
Darren K. Byler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure clean-water-act de-minimis-standard environmental-law refuse-act sewage-discharge statutory-interpretation water-pollution |
Does 33 U.S.C. 407, The Refuse Act, apply to sewage? |
| 18-5943 |
Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Kathy Hung Pham, et al. |
Oregon |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-fees civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence costs-and-fees due-process elder-care guardianship guardianship-petition medical-decision-making mental-health standing trial-court-error |
Did the trial court err in dismissing the guardianship petition with prejudice? |
| 18-5946 |
William A. Parrish, Jr. v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-rights court-of-appeals due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel grand-jury-selection indigent indigent-defendant indigent-litigant judicial-discretion perjured-testimony pro-se right-to-appeal right-to-counsel self-representation speedy-trial transcript trial-transcript |
Did the State Court of Appeals have the authority to deny a pro se indigent litigant a copy of his trial transcript because he choose to represent him… |
| 18-5951 |
David Dwayne Cassady v. Steven D. Hall |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-damages due-process ex-contractu ex-contractu-actions garnishment indemnity indemnity-proceeds jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-liability |
Does the United States District Court have jurisdiction under 42 USC §1983 to enforce its judgement by garnishment of indemnity proceeds of the Georgi… |
| 18-5959 |
John Ingebretsen v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining post-conviction-counsel procedural-default |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a request for a certificate of appealability |
| 18-5974 |
Levon Spaulding v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of their civil rights, due process, and free speech rights |
| 18-5975 |
Jatinder Singh v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-6000 |
Angel Barreiro v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights de-facto-life-sentence due-process equal-protection florida-supreme-court life-sentence parole parole-eligibility parole-process sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-scheme |
Whether all 4,626 pre-1994 parole eligible Inmates in the State of Florida should also benefit from the Florida Supreme Court's ruling in Atwell v. St… |
| 18-6001 |
Demario Carman v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment manifest-necessity mistrial-exception reasonableness trial-court trial-court-discretion |
Whether the protection against Double Jeopardy contained in the Fifth Amendment is an empty promise |
| 18-6015 |
Gustavo Torres-Medel v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cross-examination defense-presentation discovery expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights trial-counsel |
Whether the defendant's Sixth Amendment rights were violated when trial counsel failed to utilize an expert witness, failed to present defense witness… |
| 18-6035 |
Zachary Chambers v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-exposure sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether the lower court abused its discretion in ruling that trial counsel's erroneous advice about petitioner's sentencing exposure if he proceed to … |
| 18-6057 |
Omar Sosa-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule first-circuit fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Four… |
| 18-6066 |
Melvin Noel Vasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure de-novo-review downward-adjustment due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit minimal-role mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's cursory review rather than the proper de novo review resulted in a misapplication of the provision of U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 den… |
| 18-6067 |
Edward Lee Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process overserved-sentence plainly-unreasonable reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard standard-of-review supervised-release |
Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the plainly unreasonable' standard or the … |
| 18-6068 |
Rodney L. Jones v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretion due-process habeas-corpus |
Did the court of appeals abuse its discretion in denying petitioner's application for certificate of appealability? |
| 18-6069 |
Joel Cadena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal case-holding circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-deferral pending-litigation petition-for-writ sentencing statutory-interpretation stay supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition until the resolution of Stokeling v. United States |
| 18-6072 |
Cristian Gamez Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-6073 |
Tramain Deon Price v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress exceeded its authority under the Commerce Clause in enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm statute |
| 18-6076 |
Wilton Eugene Sandifer, Sr. v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-law mandamus standing state-court third-party-guilt trial-rights |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment by the state court's denial of his petition for a writ of … |
| 18-6078 |
Carlton B. Springer v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel outcome-determinative prejudice-prong sixth-amendment standing |
Do Ohio Courts err when they insist that the prejudice prong of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim requires proof that counsel's deficient per… |
| 18-6079 |
Rowan Brooks v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review state-court-proceedings |
Where the state court disposed of Brooks' constitutional claims by relying on 'evidence' that indisputably did not exist and the district court affirm… |
| 18-6080 |
Abraham J. Bonowitz, Douglas A. Pagitt, Lisa S. Harper, Suezann K. Bosler, Arthur J. Laffin, Randy Gardner, Derrick W. Jamison, Thomas W. Muther, Jr., Shane A. Claiborne, Sam R. Sheppard, and John M. Travers v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
40-usc-6135 assembly constitutional-law display first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine public-forum statutory-interpretation |
Is the open-air, public space surrounding the Supreme Court a traditional public forum? |
| 18-6083 |
Jesus Manuel Laureano-Perez v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review uncharged-conduct |
Whether the district court erred in enhancing Laureano's sentence based on uncharged conduct |
| 18-6084 |
Sharon Lee v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice mental-capacity plea-bargaining |
Was the petitioner's constitutional rights violated when the petitioner unknowingly and unintelligently accepted a plea to a second degree murder char… |
| 18-6087 |
Samuel Raphael Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2255-motion 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-default successive-petitions |
Does asking the district court to reopen the habeas proceeding to consider all issues presented constitute a second or successive §2255 motion? |
| 18-6090 |
Eric Williams v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief recantation recantation-evidence witness-recantation |
Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court and Common Pleas Court abuse their discretion by denying Williams an evidentiary hearing to review the merits of h… |
| 18-6095 |
Jose Luis Buenrostro v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus magwood-rule magwood-v-patterson motion-to-vacate new-judgment presidential-commutation sentence-reduction successive-motion |
Whether a prisoner whose sentence has been reduced from life to 30 years imprisonment through a presidential commutation may file a new motion to vaca… |
| 18-6099 |
In Re Terry Margheim |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 due-process judicial-administration judicial-integrity judicial-process stare-decisis supervisory-authority |
When the courts below violate due process by denying a meaningful opportunity to be heard in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding, will the United States Sup… |
| 18-6100 |
Hugo Pliego-Hernandez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 administrative-law attempted-robbery circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit stare-decisis statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states |
Whether the Seventh Circuit contravened Stinson v. United States when it relied on guideline commentary inconsistent with 18 U.S.C. § 16 |
| 18-6102 |
Anthony Mayes, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-proceedings due-process federal-statutes judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-default trial-counsel |
Whether a pro se litigant's failure to address on direct appeal trial counsel's procedural default of client's fundamental due process rights, for app… |
| 18-6103 |
Fernando Valdez-Cejas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining prior-conviction sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-6104 |
Wayne Thomas, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court supreme-court-review use-of-force violent-crime |
Does the Florida Robbery 812.13 meet use of force' as defined in Johnson -v. United States U.S. __ (2010)? |
| 18-6107 |
Jacob Logan Stone v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process notice opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-bar procedural-bars reentry summary-affirmance supervised-release |
Does the 8th Circuit's practice of denying pro se litigants the opportunity to brief their appeal deny the basic requirements of Due Process, notice a… |
| 18-6108 |
Sontay T. Smotherman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claim discovery due-process election-integrity jury-selection records-inspection standing voting-rights |
Whether a defendant has an unqualified right to inspect voter selection records in order to aid in the preparation of a constitutional claim |
| 18-6109 |
Keerut Singh v. United States Postal Service |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process foia foia-request judicial-procedure privacy-act pro-se-litigant standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit failed to comply with its own precedents under 5 U.S.C. §§ 552 and 552a |
| 18-6111 |
Thompson Christopher Kyle Mandrell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-disparity sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal sentencing court failed to properly consider and apply 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) regarding unwarranted sentence disparities |
| 18-6112 |
Opherro G. Jones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness |
Due process-precludes-reliance-on-misinformation-at-sentencing |
| 18-6113 |
Frank J. Ballesteros v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure fairness fairness-doctrine integrity judicial-proceedings judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-applicant public-reputation resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should this Court grant review of the court of appeals' decision based on this Court's subsequent decision in Rosales-Mireles v. United States that re… |
| 18-6116 |
Anthony Allen Jean v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment computer-searches exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception law-enforcement search search-and-seizure standing united-states-v-leon void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity |
Can the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to warrants void ab initio? |
| 18-6117 |
Josette Buendia v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arthur-anderson bribery-statute circuit-split corrupt-intent criminal-intent federal-bribery-statute judicial-precedent school-vendor sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rooney |
Whether the Sixth Circuit departed from this Court's decision in Arthur Anderson and conflicted with the Second Circuit's decision in Rooney when it h… |
| 18-6118 |
Martin Jonassen v. J. T. Shartle, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-circuit appeal appeal-procedure appealable-order civil-procedure district-court due-process final-order judicial-review standing |
Does the 4th Circuit Court's order violate due process? |
| 18-6119 |
Gary Long, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment federal-court-split federal-courts life-sentence sentencing-analysis sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent term-of-years |
Whether the district and appellate court failed to conduct the proper analysis of imposing a de facto life sentence on the petitioner? |
| 18-6120 |
Jose Ramon Pulido-Nolazco v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing sex-offender sex-offender-treatment supervised-release |
Whether the age of a prior sex offense conviction is a factor the court must consider when determining whether to impose sex offender treatment as a c… |
| 18-6121 |
Benjamin Vega-Garcia, aka Carlos Moreno Molina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) |
| 18-6122 |
Sheri Lee Pualani Kapahu v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boarding-a-plane consensual-encounter detention drug-possession federal-agent fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search-and-seizure |
Whether a reasonable person would feel free to ignore a federal agent's direct accusation of drug possession and go about her business of boarding a p… |
| 18-6123 |
Ameen Green v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal legal-standing notice-of-appeal procedural-error standing third-circuit |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in dismissing Mr. Green's Notice of Appeal? |
| 18-6127 |
Timothy Warren Vallier v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anonymous-speech civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech jurisdiction online-speech patent standing takings |
Does the First Amendment protect the right to engage in anonymous online speech? |
| 18-6132 |
Marlon Oliver v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2011 plea offer not requiring cooperation and def criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether there is a reasonable probability that the court below would vacate petitioner's conviction, giving the opportunity to consider this Court's d… |
| 18-6133 |
Bernardo Olivares-Cepeda v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-notice notice service-of-process supervisory-power |
Whether failure to serve a denial of a 2255 motion violates due process and invalidates the judgment |
| 18-6143 |
Oscar Rodriguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-retardation ninth-circuit summary-denial |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's summary denial of a certificate of appealability complies with this Court's precedents requiring that a COA be granted if … |
| 18-6145 |
Maurice Nichols v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review standing successive-petitions |
Did the Appellate Court and District Court close their discretion in construing the petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion as a Second and Successive Habeas P… |
| 18-6146 |
Charles Neuman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-custody habeas-corpus mathis savings-clause section-2255 |
Whether a claim of actual innocence of Armed Career Criminal status, based on this Court's decision in Mathis is cognizable under the savings clause |
| 18-6148 |
Atul Nanda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Brady-Doctrine brady-rule brady-v-maryland confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment Giglio-Doctrine giglio-rule giglio-v-united-states new-trial plea-agreement Plea-Agreements plea-bargaining sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Are the defendants' constitutional rights under the sixth and fifth amendments violated when the government fails to fully disclose plea agreement ter… |
| 18-6150 |
Noel Aquino-Florenciani v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-pornography criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process internet-access internet-access-ban sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the court's imposition of a total ban of internet access as a condition of supervised release is an overly broad and restrictive and without a… |
| 18-6151 |
Claude Thelemaque v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof cocaine-distribution conspiracy criminal-law criminal-law-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-admissibility jurisdiction standard-of-proof witness-testimony |
Whether the government failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Thelemaque conspired to distribute cocaine with knowledge that it would be impor… |
| 18-6171 |
Dion Terry Taylor v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review district-court-discretion district-court-proceedings inter-circuit-inconsistency pinney-dock proof-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-standard standard-of-proof standard-of-review u-s-sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§5k2.1 unraised-claims |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's 'Pinney Dock' standard for reviewing unraised claims should be clarified |
| 18-6173 |
Carlos Tiznado-Valenzuela v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split federal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing-guidelines |
Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review in Molina-Martine… |
| 18-67 |
James Thomas Hurst, II v. James Caldwell, et al. |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act deshaney deshaney-doctrine due-process government-liability police-misconduct section-1983 special-relationship special-relationship-rule state-actor-liability state-created-danger |
Does the special relationship rule articulated by this Court in DeShaney apply to shield a state actor from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when the … |
| 18-77 |
Advanced Video Technologies LLC v. HTC Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-procedure federal-circuit involuntary-plaintiff joinder patent patent-law rule-19 standing supreme-court |
Did the Federal Circuit properly create an exception to Rule 19 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in patent law, requiring a dismissal of a case… |
| 18M56 |
Robert E. Cotner v. United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit |
Tenth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M57 |
In Re Sealed Petitioner |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M58 |
Lee Craft v. National Labor Relations Board |
Sixth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M59 |
Phillip T. Thompson v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M60 |
Marsa D. Bullock v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
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