Conference: 2018-11-02

96 cases — 0 granted, 96 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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18-121 James Rothery, et al. v. Lou Blanas, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry discretionary-licensing discretionary-permit due-process equal-protection law-enforcement-exemption licensing-discretion second-amendment self-defense self-defense-rights standing takings Does California's general prohibition to carry a loaded handgun outside the home, coupled with an arbitrary and capricious licensing scheme for citize…
18-125 Miriam Grussgott v. Milwaukee Jewish Day School, Inc. Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada church-governance civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment grussgott hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception non-discrimination non-discrimination-policy religious-institution waiver waiver-doctrine Does the definition of 'religious institution' in the ministerial exception require a faith-based institution with a hierarchy of ministers?
18-18 Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association, et al. Fourth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (5) civil-rights constitutional-interpretation establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech government-speech monument public-display reasonable-observer religious-symbol standing war-memorial Whether the Establishment Clause requires the removal or destruction of a 93-year-old memorial to American servicemen who died in World War I solely b…
18-259 City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Derrick Wheatt, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-deadline due-process indemnification motion-to-amend qualified-immunity settlement-agreement standing state-actors wrongful-conviction Whether the Court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner City Defendants Qualified Immunity defense
18-262 Xiu Jian Sun v. Stephen Mullkoff Second Circuit Denied civil-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights divine-directive divine-intervention doctrine-and-covenants due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-action legal-standing religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-claim spiritual-messenger standing widow-parable Whether the plaintiff's claims based on divine revelation and instructions from God are cognizable under the U.S. Constitution and federal law
18-275 Patricia Smith, et al. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived benghazi civil-procedure civil-rights dc-circuit defamation federal-court-procedure federal-courts government-immunity hillary-clinton motion-to-dismiss sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction substitution substitution-of-defendant westfall-act Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in affirming the substitution of the United States for Hillary Clinton an…
18-276 Richard J. Baker v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived article-i-section-8-clause-8 compensation constitutional-interpretation contract due-process government-compensation government-obligation invention-security judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings patent-infringement patent-rights property-protection property-rights takings trial Whether under rights given by Congress and contained in U.S. Constitution Article I Section 8 Clause 8 to all U.S. patent holders, courts must forward…
18-278 Leon R. Koziol, Individually, as Natural Parent of Child A and Child B, and on Behalf of Parents Similarly Situated v. Janet DiFiore, Chief Judge, New York State Unified Court System, et al. New York Denied civil-rights custody-tactics domestic-relations due-process family-law judicial-bias men-discrimination parental-rights whistleblower-protection Are men in America becoming a discriminated class?
18-282 Kelly H. Tucker v. Patrick Atwater, Jr., et al. Georgia Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-interests Pickering-balancing-test pickering-test public-employee-speech public-employment public-interest qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether Pickering and its progeny apply to off-duty public employees speaking on matters of public interest unrelated to their employment, and the app…
18-286 Abhijit Prasad v. Will Lightbourne, et al. California Denied administrative-hearing child-abuse-reporting child-welfare due-process employment equal-protection family-privacy fundamental-rights privacy-rights reputation reputation-harm separation-of-powers Does CANRA's post-deprivation hearing scheme violate due process?
18-289 Alfred DeGennaro v. American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure-pleading-standards damages damages-calculation due-process fraud grubbs-v-kanneganti insurance-fraud monetary-value pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9b story-v-parchment supreme-court-precedent Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly stated the law
18-290 Eugene Martin LaVergne, et al., Appellants v. United States House of Representatives, et al. District of Columbia Denied None
18-296 Amado Diaz v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
18-299 Ross Harry Briggs v. Charles E. Rendlen, III, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure claims-allowance creditor-debtor creditor-debtor-relations due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction separation-of-powers Whether a federal claim pending before an Article I bankruptcy judge and intertwined with the bankruptcy but resolvable outside the claims allowance p…
18-314 Capella Photonics, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 35-usc-144 appellate-review due-process federal-circuit judicial-procedure judicial-review mandamus patent-appeals patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of routinely issuing judgments without opinions in appeals from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board violates 35 U…
18-325 Thomas F. Gehrmann, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware material-omissions probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review waiver Whether Franks applies to material omissions and whether probable cause is vitiated and the entire affidavit and search warrant are invalid if omitted…
18-334 Amor Medina Del Rosario, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-protections dismissal due-process fed-r-civ-p-60 federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice notice-requirements pro-se pro-se-litigants public-policy rules-of-procedure service service-of-pleading Whether the failure to serve a pleading upon pro-se litigants warranted a favorable ruling under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60 and removal of a dismissal of an acti…
18-346 Estate of Jason Allen Smallwood v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction implied-contract implied-in-fact-contract jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar scheuer-v-rhodes sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation tucker-act veterans-benefits whether-the-trial-court-properly-determined-the-estate's-complaint-must-fail
18-371 George M. Wang v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 additional-features alice-corp-v-cls-bank inventive-concept mayo-v-prometheus patent-application patent-claims patent-community patent-eligibility patent-protection phonetic-symbol-system useful-invention Whether the claims of the very useful invention contain 'additional features' embodying an inventive concept that makes the invention patent-eligible
18-388 Nigel Parker, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 5-usc-706(2)(e) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-overreach arbitrary-and-capricious patent patent-law patent-office patent-office-rejection publication publication-standard publication-under-35-usc-102(b) record-evidence substantial-evidence Whether the substantial' evidence required to support agency action under 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(E) must be evidence of record?
18-411 Cindy Omidi v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 31-usc-5317 31-usc-5324 civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture jurisdictional-basis money-judgment personal-money-judgment statutory-interpretation structuring Whether a district court has authority to enter a personal money judgment against a person who violated 31 U.S.C. § 5324(a)(3) (structuring) when the …
18-417 W. Scott Harkonen v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief standard writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a writ of error coram nobis should issue for a petitioner who presents 'compelling' new evidence that establishes his actual innocence of the …
18-421 Jose Luis Cepeda-Cortes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived co-defendant criminal-procedure extraneous-criminal-acts federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure joint-trial jury-reliability prejudice rule-14a severance spill-over-effect zafiro-v-united-states Does a fair and consistent application of Rule 14(a) require this Court to re-examine its decision in Zafiro and clarify the factors to be considered …
18-430 Rashaud Jones v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment automobile-exception curtilage fourth-amendment multi-family-dwelling multi-family-homes privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether dwellers in multi-family homes have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the curtilage of their home that would be regarded as curtilage und…
18-5003 Rolando Mulet v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-protection criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-enforcement-questioning miranda miranda-rights pre-arrest pre-arrest-silence pre-miranda self-incrimination Whether the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause protects a defendant's pre-arrest, pre-Miranda silence from being used as evidence at trial
18-5105 Atnafu Ras Makonnen v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony Whether Makonnen's prior convictions for felony battery and attempted first-degree murder with a deadly weapon qualify as violent felonies under the A…
18-5132 Jonathan Arn Bryant v. Florida Florida Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination-rights sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the State of Florida's use of Bryant's custodial statements against him violated his Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights
18-5182 Carlton Butler v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split count-of-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-authority federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence reallocation reallocation-of-sentences rule-35 scope-of-judicial-power sentencing split-among-circuits Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(a) grants a district court authority to reallocate the illegal portion of a term of imprisonment levied …
18-5303 Maurice Mason v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP capital-sentencing death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-decision jury-recommendation ohio-death-penalty ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Does Ohio's death penalty scheme, classifying a jury's decision as a recommendation, accord with the Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury as articul…
18-5393 Shane McMahan v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act causation-element causation-of-bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law element-of-violent-force kansas-aggravated-battery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-felony Whether a prior Kansas aggravated-battery conviction under KSA § 21-3414(a)(1)(C) qualifies as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s element-…
18-5435 Martin Michael Ybarra v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-2113 armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery elements-clause intimidation physical-force statutory-interpretation supreme-court violent-felony Whether federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause
18-5816 Keith L. Nash v. Richard J. Bishop, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process incarceration jurisdiction medical-care prison standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment requires the government to provide adequate medical care to incarcerated in…
18-5820 Augustus Hebrew Evans, Jr. v. Delaware Delaware Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ' 'civil-rights" ' 'due-process" ' 'freedom-of-information" ' 'public-records" ' 'standing" ' 'state-government' civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the State of Delaware violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by denying his request for public records under the Freedom of Informati…
18-5827 Robert Joseph King v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction-28-usc-1292 sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity statutory-interpretation title-i Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issue an Order that conflicts with 28 U.S.C. § 1292 by denying Petitioner's appeal?
18-5841 Juan David Rodriguez v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied IFP 1981-homicide capital-murder death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactivity substantive-criminal-law Whether the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State apply to a 1981 homicide prosecution
18-5862 Samuel Ross v. Clerk of Courts of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-claims civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation standing Whether a prisoner has a constitutional right of access to the courts to litigate civil claims unrelated to his/her sentence or conviction?
18-5864 Benjamin Patrick Lee v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection free-exercise habeas-corpus right-to-counsel state-laws Whether the California state court system completely violates the due process and equal protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution and the rights of …
18-5873 Milorad Teodor Olic v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit Dismissed IFP behavioral-credits civil-rights due-process parole prison-conditions rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing Whether prisoners can earn behavioral credits and why courts deny prisoners the ability to challenge loss of such credits
18-5878 Johnson Christopher Jamerson v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP but no text of a SCOTUS petition for writ of cert I cannot generate a question presented or identif please provide the full text of the petition. civil-rights due-process executive-power legislative-authority prison-conditions prison-operations regulatory-compliance regulatory-oversight standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in deciding the case without applying the law to the facts of the case
18-5897 Arthur Braddy v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court deprivation deprivation-of-rights due-process florida-statutes legal-procedure minimum-mandatory-sentence sentencing trial-court Did the State of Florida violate petitioner's right to due process by failing to correct the trial court's imposition of a minimum mandatory sentence …
18-5932 Ronald Jones v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus medical-evidence section-2254 sixth-amendment state-conviction Whether Petitioner has shown clear and convincing evidence of a credible actual-innocence claim from his State conviction?
18-5961 Vincent Michael Marino v. Barbara Rickard, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-jeopardy supreme-court-precedent Whether the District Court, Appeals Court for the Second Circuit, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals sitting En Banc committed reversible legal e…
18-5962 Theadene Mattis v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech legal-conflict national-importance standing supreme-court-review takings Whether the Florida 4th District Court of Appeal erred in its decisions in this case, which conflict with relevant decisions of the Supreme Court
18-5986 Damon L. Caldwell v. Stanley Payne, Superintendent, Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center Missouri Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing realistic-opportunity resentencing resentencing-proceeding Whether Missouri's parole laws and procedures violate the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide juvenile offenders a meaningful and realistic opportu…
18-6037 Raul S. Zavala v. Hector Rios, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bivens-claim civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions damages-claim due-process federal-courts mail-restrictions prison prison-mail prison-officials prison-regulations standing WHETHER PLAINTIFF IS ENTITLED TO NOTICE WHEN UNOPENED' MAIL HAS BEEN REJECTED AND RETURNED TO THE SENDER BECAUSE IT FAILED TO COMPLY WITH PRISON REGUL…
18-6040 Daniel Lee Thornberry v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing standing Does the petition state a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right cognizable on 28 USC 2254 and under 28 USC 2255(2)?
18-6081 Manuel Enrique Camacho v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-impairment competency criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competency psychiatric-evaluation psychiatric-report Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to determine if Mr. Camacho was competent to enter a guilty plea
18-6088 Joseph Burris v. Eileen Ramey, Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center Missouri Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro…
18-6094 Edgar Leopoldo Garcia-Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland confidential-informant dea discovery drug-conspiracy due-process expert-testimony false-swearing irs prosecutorial-misconduct ssa Is the prosecution required to supply information concerning the failure to report income to the IRS and the SSA by the DEA and its confidential infor…
18-6138 Lance Fox v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-defendant due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness whether due process precludes relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant
18-6139 Julia Monique Frias v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights government-delay judicial-review prejudice pretrial-incarceration reduced-sentence sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-sentence tenth-circuit Whether a defendant's lost opportunity to seek a reduced state sentence under state law can constitute prejudice under Barker?
18-6141 Damian O'Neil Towne v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver criminal-procedure government-objection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review notice-of-appeal sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-miscalculation untimely-notice-of-appeal Whether a gross miscalculation of the sentencing guideline range should be corrected where a defendant's appellate waiver does not preclude an appeal …
18-6149 Christopher Polk v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center Missouri Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro…
18-6155 Christian Lemus Cerna, aka Leopardo, aka Bago, aka Vago, aka Gatito, aka Christian Josue Lemus Alfaro v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-evidence-disclosure brady-violation brady-violations court-of-appeals criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-sentencing evidence-admission false-testimony jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses mandatory-life-sentence severance-of-defendants uncharged-conduct-evidence uncharged-murder-evidence Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's decisions
18-6156 Hector Medina v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP career-offender career-offender-guidelines criminal-classification criminal-law dangerous-instrument first-degree-robbery new-york-penal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Should first degree robbery with use of a dangerous instrument under New York Penal Law § 160.15(3) qualify as a crime of violence for purposes of the…
18-6159 Charlise Williams v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence loss-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment victim-count Was the Petitioners Sixth Amendment right, under the Confrontation Clause violated?
18-6161 Terrance Lombard v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error clear-error-standard criminal-procedure district-court due-process motion-to-suppress standard-of-review suppression-hearing Did the court of appeals misapply the clear error standard by considering facts adduced at trial, but not considered by the district court during the …
18-6163 Randy A. Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 cell-site-simulator electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment pen-register search-and-seizure surveillance-log unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure Did the Eighth Circuit Court Of Appeals fail to preserve the petitioner's Fourth Amendment right?
18-6165 Paul E. Rinehart v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Can a trial court enhance a defendant's sentence(s) to more than the minimum sentence upon judicial fact finding from a judge rather than the findings…
18-6169 Tracy L. Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)-statute conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process firearm-possession informant-testimony law-enforcement-conduct mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a defendant should be subject to a mandatory 25 year consecutive 924(c) sentence for the same drug Conspiracy
18-6178 Joseph A. Clark v. Eileen Ramey, Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center Missouri Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-hearing resentencing Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro…
18-6180 Brian Deronceler v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was insufficient to support the defendant's conviction and the motion for judgment of acquittal should have been granted
18-6184 Robert Demetrius Barnes v. B. Masters, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure federal-appellate-courts federal-sentencing prior-undischarged-term prior-undischarged-term-of-imprisonment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-5g1.3(c) statutory-interpretation Whether the word concurrently' in Section 5G1.3(c) authorizes a sentencing court to run a sentence concurrently from the start of the pre-existing sen…
18-6186 Alvin Gaitan Benitez, aka Pesadilla, aka Lil Pesadilla, aka Lil Tuner, aka Tooner, aka Lil Tunnel v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP antagonistic-defense antagonistic-defenses codefendant criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial interstate-commerce jurisdiction jurisdictional-element motion-for-severance severance Whether the circuit court erred in affirming the denial of a motion for severance
18-6188 Andrew Lucero v. Colorado Department of Corrections Colorado Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue liberty-interest procedural-default statutory-interpretation Whether the original Criminal Trial Court abused its discretion in its Procedural Defaults, ab initio, depriving petitioner of Constitutionally Secure…
18-6190 Simone Swenson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP berger-v-united-states brady-v-maryland brady-violation deference-to-district-court due-process fifth-circuit-review indictment-dismissal judicial-deference judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error supervisory-powers Did the Fifth Circuit err in reinstating the indictment despite the district court's finding that the prosecutor's misconduct destroyed the integrity …
18-6193 Kenneth A. White v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sixth-circuit Did the District Court err in failing to grant Mr. White a Certificate of Appealability on his Fifth Amendment argument?
18-6197 Juan Francisco Medina Ortiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protections due-process exhaustion fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus labeling state-courts Whether a claim made in the habeus corpus petition that is substantially the same and invokes the same constitutional protections, but labeled differe…
18-6198 Carlos Rafael Acosta-Joaquin v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-408(a)(7)(B) criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process false-representation federal-criminal-law identity-theft social-security-fraud social-security-number statutory-interpretation Is a defendant guilty of social-security-fraud under 42-usc-408(a)(7)(B)
18-6201 Nicholas DeAngelis v. Bruce Plumley, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars time-limits whether-federal-prisoners-have-the-same-gateway-for-actual-innocence-as-state-prisoners
18-6204 Jermaine Franklin v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining unconstitutional waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Franklin's Plea Agreement
18-6205 Eliseo Guevara-Guevara v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-punishment immigration-law indictment judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing Whether a prior conviction must be alleged in the indictment before a defendant is subjected to enhanced punishment under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)
18-6206 Jason Randall Howard v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence Is Howard's 457% above-guideline variance sentence procedurally unreasonable because the District Court failed to consider the need to avoid unwarrant…
18-6208 Nicholas Ryan Hemsher v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-split co-conspirators criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparities-18-usc-3553-a-6 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the statutory direction to avoid unwarranted disparities among defendants does not a…
18-6209 Kenneth Edward Werbach v. University of Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Was the conduct of the Deuba government a violation of the Constitution?
18-6213 Victor Garry Baxter v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-6215 Leonard Nathaniel Peragine, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion child-enticement child-pornography congressional-intent criminal-sentencing empirical-evidence guideline-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's utilization of the child pornography guideline in Section 2G2.2 to determine the sentence for a defendant whose primary o…
18-6216 Musonda Mulenga v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-procedure district-of-columbia due-process fourth-amendment harmless-error judicial-precedent legal-conflict second-degree-murder superior-court supreme-court-review Whether the opinion from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is in conflict with opinion of this Court in Carpenter v. United States, 136 S.Ct. …
18-6222 Donte Timothy Bacon v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenges class-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure de-novo district-of-colombia-v-heller federal-criminalization federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-regulation guilty-plea interstate-commerce intrastate-firearm-possession intrastate-firearm-sale plain-error second-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unconditional-guilty-plea united-states-v-lopez Whether as-applied constitutional challenges to statutes of conviction are waived by an unconditional guilty plea, and the standard of review
18-6225 Scott Mitchell Bummer v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment hearing-absence indefinite-retention motion-to-suppress personal-property telephonic-conference unreasonable-search-and-seizure warrantless-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…
18-6226 Roderick K. Forest v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center Missouri Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-hearing resentencing Does the Eighth Amendment require juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing proceed…
18-6229 Josh A. Wairi v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review booker-standard booker-v-united-states criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing first-circuit-court-of-appeals gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-josh-wairi Does the First Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in petitioner's case conflict with this Court's decisions in Booker v. United States and Gall v. Uni…
18-6232 Dion Dakota Johnson v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c categorical-approach categorical-approach-18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation third-circuit vagueness Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense is a crime of violence' for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)?
18-6240 Darryl Johnson v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights constitutional-error due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing Was Petitioner's guilty plea sustained in violation of due process warranting habeas relief
18-6241 Edward Jewell v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP class-precedent constitutional-challenge controlled-substance-offense criminal-law direct-appeal due-process mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Does this Court's holding in Mathis v United States apply to determinations under the United States Sentencing Guidelines of whether a prior convictio…
18-6242 Billy Wayne Locke v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process property-rights takings civil-rights compensation due-process property seizure takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the government seized his personal property without just compensation
18-6251 Lonnie James Pebley v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reprosecution supervisory-authority trial-court Whether the federal double jeopardy protection barring reprosecution as a result of prosecutorial misconduct intended to provoke a mistrial was not sh…
18-6266 Ivan Rivera-Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Can appellate courts reweigh sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)
18-6267 Denise Robertson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure document-disclosure evidence-review in-camera-review jencks-act palermo-v-united-states reasonable-particularity threshold-showing united-states-v-palermo Whether a defendant must make a threshold showing with reasonable particularity that identified documents constitute 'statements' under the Jencks Act…
18-6268 Roger King v. Terence Kilpatrick, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-interference constitutional-rights discretionary-review due-process fourth-amendment fraud misrepresentation probable-cause procedural-error search-and-seizure Whether the Georgia Supreme Court erred in dismissing the Petitioner's application for certificate of probable cause because the Petitioner did not fi…
18-6271 Sonny Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review?
18-6277 Glover A. Yawn, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ACCA armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law elements-clause felony-battery great-bodily-harm possession-of-firearm sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum violent-felony Whether a Florida conviction for felony battery is a 'violent felony' under the ACCA's elements clause
18-6279 Samuel Kwushue v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-11 elements-of-crime federal-regulation federal-regulations federal-rule-11 guilty-plea jurisdiction rule-11 statute-of-conviction statutory-elements wire-fraud Could a guilty plea, accepted in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, support a conviction, when the conduct to which a defendant admit…
18-6280 Thomas Gilmore Stewart v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion revocation state-conviction state-court-conviction supervised-release Whether a district court's decision to revoke a term of supervised release that is based upon a previous state court conviction which is being challen…
18-6282 Iseal Dixon v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-firearms-law firearm-possession intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional …
18A365 Ellis Keyes v. Edison Banks Sixth Circuit Presumed Complete None