| 18-104 |
Robert Philip Tuerk v. The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection freedom-of-travel freedom-to-travel prior-restraint reciprocal-discipline |
Whether reciprocal upon reciprocal discipline of disbarment of an attorney by his home state that originally disciplined him for one (1) year and a da… |
| 18-139 |
Thomas E. Freeman, Jr. v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-authority arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights due-process equal-justice equal-protection exceeded-authority judicial-review prejudiced-rights procedural-rights state-action state-agency state-employee |
May a court deny due-process of law and equal justice under the law of a State employee, when it is suspected that a State agency may have prejudiced … |
| 18-143 |
Sandra Lee Bart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-conviction due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial government-witness juror-misconduct jury-misconduct precedent sixth-amendment substantial-evidence |
Did the Eighth Circuit fail to follow its own precedent and rule contrary to other Appellate Circuits and the United States Supreme Court when it appr… |
| 18-150 |
Phil Plummer, et al. v. David M. Hopper, Special Administrator of the Estate of Robert Andrew Richardson, Sr. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-right deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement medical-intervention qualified-immunity |
Whether the Sixth Circuit defined the constitutional rights in question at too high a level of generality contrary to this Court's teachings on qualif… |
| 18-186 |
Samuel David Silva-Ramirez v. Hospital Espanol Auxilio Mutuo de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
agency-oversight civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-burden due-process false-claims-act legal-technicality materiality materiality-standard regulatory-compliance religious-freedom standing |
How can be properly submitted to the rigors of the dispositive effects of materiality standard of False Claims Act [FCA] violations; something hidden … |
| 18-204 |
Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. Iris Pounds, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction fraud independent-action independent-actions lack-of-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine prohibit a federal district court from exercising jurisdiction over an independent action challenging the validity of… |
| 18-212 |
Bank of America, N.A. v. Donald M. Lusnak |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
escrow-accounts federal-banking-powers federal-preemption mortgage-escrow mortgage-lending mortgage-loan-escrow national-bank national-bank-act occ-regulations office-of-the-comptroller-of-the-currency preemption real-estate-lending state-banking-law state-banking-laws |
Whether the National Bank Act preempts state laws regulating national bank loan terms, such as California's law requiring payment of interest on mortg… |
| 18-300 |
Delano Farms Company, et al. v. California Table Grape Commission |
California |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
attribution commercial-speech compelled-speech compelled-subsidy first-amendment government-speech industry-advertising industry-group oversight speech-attribution |
Whether compelled subsidy of promotional advertising by an industry group may be deemed 'government speech' without democratically accountable oversig… |
| 18-315 |
Cochise Consultancy, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Billy Joe Hunt |
Eleventh Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (10)Relisted (2) |
31-usc-3731 civil-action false-claims-act government-intervention official-of-the-united-states official-status qui-tam relator statute-of-limitations united-states united-states-intervention |
Whether a relator in a False Claims Act qui tam action may rely on the statute of limitations in 31 U.S.C. § 3731(b)(2) in a suit in which the United … |
| 18-326 |
Estate of Bernice Goldberg by Executor Gary Goldberg v. Philip Nimoityn, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process expert-testimony federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure perjury procedural-due-process sanctions trial-evidence |
Is a federal court required to follow the federal Rules of Civil Procedure and procedural due process, which mandate that an expert's report and depos… |
| 18-336 |
Thaddeus Jones, et al. v. Michelle Markiewicz-Qualkinbush, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
15th-amendment 1st-amendment class-of-one constitutional-challenge Engquist equal-protection first-amendment municipal-referendum political-animus referendum-rights strict-scrutiny |
Whether the reasoning and decision of Engquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture extends to the political context, precluding class-of-one equal pro… |
| 18-338 |
Leonardo Soccolich, et ux. v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee |
Florida |
Denied |
|
administration-of-justice case-and-controversy civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process florida-courts mortgage-foreclosure res-judicata standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Florida courts have strayed from their core responsibility of determining and applying law in the administration of justice |
| 18-354 |
Stanley Weiss v. New Jersey |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment due-process federalism interstate-law jones-case jones-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity privacy property-rights search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent trespass |
Whether United States v Antoine Jones is the law of the land and should be followed in all states? |
| 18-358 |
Richard Roe v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights contempt document-sealing due-process first-amendment-right free-speech judicial-records judicial-records-access lower-court-authority lower-court-orders public-access public-docketing redactions standing supervisory-power supreme-court-supervisory-power |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in ordering additional redactions beyond what the Supreme Court had approved and ordered public |
| 18-361 |
Lael J. Alleyne v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions manslaughter self-defense supreme-court-pennsylvania trial-court-error voluntary-manslaughter |
Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying a Petition for Allowance of Appeal despite the trial court's improper exclusion of voluntar… |
| 18-362 |
Darrell Wayne Brown v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 18-363 |
Ruben Dario Uribe-Sanchez v. Matthew G. Whitaker, Acting Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 18-367 |
Mary E. Jacobi v. New York Tax Appeals Tribunal, et al. |
New York |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment driver's-license due-process financial-hardship property-interest tax-collection tax-law |
Whether New York Tax Law Section 171-v is unconstitutional by failing to provide meaningful due process and/or a financial hardship provision before s… |
| 18-380 |
Darrel Vannoy, Warden v. John David Floyd |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence appellate-procedure brady-violation due-deference due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins schlup-v-delo standard-of-review supreme-court-review |
Whether the court of appeals failed to apply due deference under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and (e)(1) to the ruling of the Louisiana Supreme Court |
| 18-405 |
Shabnam Dastmalchian v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-immunity government-overreach government-seizure innocent-third-party property-rights takings third-party-property |
Whether the interplay of the Constitution, Fed.R.Crim.P.7(c)(2), and 21 U.S.C. § 853 allow government employees to seize an innocent third party Calif… |
| 18-441 |
Accord Healthcare, Inc., et al. v. UCB, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
35-usc-103 lead-compound obviousness patent patent-invalidation patent-law pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-compound prior-art |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that a patent claim to an obvious modification of a prior art compound was not invalid as obvious under 3… |
| 18-463 |
Bernard Morello v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-proportionality due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment proportionality state-law state-statute statutory-fines |
Does a properly enacted state statute imposing fines and penalties violate the Eighth Amendment if the state applies the statute arbitrarily and abusi… |
| 18-468 |
SSL Services, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
35-usc-325(d) administrative-law administrative-procedure estoppel inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-office patent-review patent-validity predictability prior-art statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts may review an agency's ruling on the multiple-proceedings rule under 35 U.S.C. § 325(d) |
| 18-49 |
Georgia Plumb, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Washington |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure fourteenth-amendment note-possession procedural-due-process property-rights residential-mortgage standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Plumbs' procedural due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were violated |
| 18-492 |
David Souza v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
berger-standard berger-v-united-states constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment napue-v-illinois napue-violation preliminary-hearing pretrial-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct |
Does the state prosecutor's failure to acknowledge and correct false/misleading testimony at a preliminary hearing violate due process? |
| 18-5002 |
John Gray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus illegal-confinement judicial-misconduct retroactivity sentence-expiration sentencing standing unlawful-confinement vindictiveness |
Whether certiorari is warranted to correct disobedience by the state courts and lower federal courts if their decisions are contrary to clearly establ… |
| 18-5009 |
Wade Anthony Drummond v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
| 18-5017 |
Glenn Lee Selden v. Elizabeth A. Kovachevich, Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-contract constitutional-provisions criminal-forfeiture due-process false-name-registration government-authority legal-counsel military-appeal national-security standing takings |
Whether the court will enforce a commercial contract when the United States is under nuclear assault and the public is in grave danger |
| 18-5094 |
Jerry Wayne Sherry v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress preservation-of-error retroactive-precedent retroactivity |
Whether defense counsel has a duty to object to inadmissible evidence, and, or file a motion to suppress evidence under the Fourth Amendment to preser… |
| 18-5099 |
Lennie Williams v. Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation declaratory-relief due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court monell-v-department-of-social-services municipal-immunity officer-of-court perjury prospective-relief standing |
Whether a municipality engaged in an ongoing violation of the Constitution is immune from declaratory and other prospective relief in an action under … |
| 18-5178 |
Kimberly Baltimore v. Frank Stephen Buck |
Alabama |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure-abuse-of-discretion-reversal-judgm civil-rights conspiracy district-court due-process fraud fraud-allegation judicial-misconduct legal-ethics procedural-irregularity standing unsworn-testimony |
Whether the lower court erred in allowing the appellee's 'because I said so' defense without sworn testimony |
| 18-5197 |
Akash Dixit v. Tanya Singh Dixit |
Georgia |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-abduction divorce-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption foreign-nationals hague-convention hague-convention-on-child-abduction immigration immigration-status international-child-abduction international-law jurisdictional-limits state-court-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation |
Did the state court err in ignoring/condoning illegal retention of a foreign-citizen-child by the respondent, violating the Hague Convention? |
| 18-522 |
Michael Ishee v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech mens-rea scienter separation-of-powers void-ab-initio |
Whether a statute proscribing the mere possession of child pornography is facially unconstitutional if it contains no element of scienter |
| 18-5235 |
Antrone Arness Thomas v. David Chandran |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial legal-remedy procedural-due-process standing state-criminal-conviction |
Ought I have right to a jury trial? Also a civil action due to my State criminal conviction being reversed? |
| 18-524 |
Eric D. Gathings v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
Was the appellate court's summary denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) reciting that it had 'carefully reviewed the original file of the dis… |
| 18-5252 |
Ricky Lee Earp v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
credibility-of-prosecution discovery discovery-rights dna-testing due-process federal-court-proceedings federal-habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct spoliation-of-evidence |
Whether a petitioner can be denied discovery necessary to learn the circumstances of the government's spoliation of potentially exculpatory evidence i… |
| 18-5289 |
Stephen Dale Barbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
client-autonomy ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana post-conviction prejudice prejudice-standard sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington structural-error |
Did the Fifth Circuit impose an improper ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard, which required him to show prejudice, to Barbee's claim that his … |
| 18-5309 |
Maurice McLain v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cooperator-testimony currier-v-virginia double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause jury-unanimity physical-evidence plea-agreement rico rico-prosecution rutledge-v-united-states santobello-v-new-york uncorroborated-testimony |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause and plea agreement were violated by a second prosecution,whether the verdict conflicts with physical evidence and r… |
| 18-5316 |
Susan Wells Vaughan v. Jennifer Vaughan, et al. |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
absolute-immunity child-neglect child-neglect-cases-recusal due-process ex-parte ex-parte-initiations judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction troxel-v-granville |
Whether a judge who regularly participates in unlawful ex parte initiations of child neglect cases should recuse herself from hearing a challenge to t… |
| 18-532 |
Sixty-01 Association of Apartment Owners v. Penny D. Goudelock |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
assessment-discharge bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-discharge chapter-13 chapter-13-bankruptcy community-association community-association-assessments due-process due-process-clause federalism fifth-amendment property-ownership ripeness-doctrine takings takings-clause |
Does the Bankruptcy Code discharge community association assessments that accrue after the filing of a Chapter 13 bankruptcy even if the debtor retain… |
| 18-5321 |
Salvador Ortiz-Uresti v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split colorado-drug-statute criminal-law divisibility drug-statute federal-predicate federal-sentencing immigration-consequences nationwide-impact sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction under Colorado's primary drug statute qualifies as a federal predicate for an increased sentence |
| 18-5327 |
Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi v. Lieutenant Fields, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference deliberate-misconduct due-process evidence-suppression excessive-force federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-conflict retaliation standing takings witness-tampering |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's conflicting rulings overlooked key evidence and were in conflict with Supreme Court precedent in Farmer v. Brennan |
| 18-5401 |
Melissa J. Poirier v. Massachusetts Department of Correction |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-review claim-preclusion employment-termination gender-discrimination right-to-sue right-to-sue-letter statute-of-limitations |
Gender-discrimination |
| 18-5597 |
David E. Miller v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis capital-punishment civil-rights due-process federal-civil-procedure ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan rule-60b6 trevino-v-thaler |
Whether the change in law announced in Martinez and Trevino, when coupled with a particularly substantial deprivation of a capital defendant's right t… |
| 18-5631 |
Steven M. Jacob v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Eighth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas habeas-corpus jury-selection prejudice presumption-of-impartiality standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent voir-dire |
Was the Petitioner's demonstration sufficient to require de novo review under the Panetti v. Quarterman standard or the Johnson v. Williams standard, … |
| 18-5665 |
Orestes Cabrera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
all-writs-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel immigration-consequences nolle-prosequi padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky retroactivity |
Whether petitioner's rights under the due process clause and the effective assistance of counsel were violated |
| 18-5799 |
In Re Robert N. Smithback |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining selective-prosecution subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-by-jury |
Whether Smithback is being deprived of his liberty without due process of law |
| 18-5948 |
Patrick Henry Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
conspiracy criminal-conspiracy death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida-tison-v-arizona felony felony-murder jury-findings sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth or Eighth Amendment require that before a party may be sentenced to death as a conspirator (rather than a trigger-person), the jury mus… |
| 18-5985 |
Jeffery Dana Sparks v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination death-penalty evidence-presentation expert-testimony expert-witnesses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecution-experts prosecution-theory trial-strategy |
Whether defense counsel in a death penalty trial provided effective assistance |
| 18-5988 |
Master Baye Balah Allah v. Brian Wilson, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1915-e abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure,standing,due-process,abuse-of-disc court-of-appeals due-process evidence federal-statute legal-standard lower-court standing |
Whether the court of appeals abused its discretion |
| 18-6002 |
David Librace v. Deborah Helton Wright, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit federal-jurisdiction legal-notice procedural-defect remand service-of-process standing summary-judgment |
Whether the lower court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of the respondents when their attorney knew the summary judgment was issued illega… |
| 18-6004 |
Matthew Jones v. Superior Court of Connecticut, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-prosecution due-process government-employee government-immunity hiv-disclosure immunity statutory-interpretation yale-university |
Do government employees enjoy immunity from committed crimes and civil prosecution? |
| 18-6019 |
John Randall Quintero v. Nevada |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus notice parole separation-of-powers standing |
Whether the legislative mandate of Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-1,135 violates the separation of powers doctrine by requiring the judicial branch to conduct a… |
| 18-6021 |
Patricia Burney v. Debbie Aldridge, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence false-testimony federal-due-process harmless-error jailhouse-informant state-court-denial state-law trial-prejudice |
Whether the state court's denial of petitioner's due process claim, wherein he alleged that the state's destruction of exculpatory evidence fatally pr… |
| 18-6022 |
Theophilus K. Udeigwe v. Texas Tech University, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court civil-rights continuing-violation continuing-violation-doctrine due-process employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation racial-discrimination retaliation title-vii unlawful-retaliation workplace-harassment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erroneously interpreted and applied the law governing the timeliness of Title VII claims (racial discrimination and unlawful… |
| 18-6026 |
James Ray Booth v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendments appeals circuit-court-decision civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction ministerial-correction procedural-relief sentence-amendment sentencing |
Whether the Circuit Court's decision nullified amendments to Petitioners' sentences and deprived him of the ability to seek habeas corpus relief in th… |
| 18-6027 |
Hayden Beaulieu v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment extradition juvenile-justice plea-deal prosecutorial-discretion sentencing transfer-hearing |
Is it permissible under the 8th amendment to impose an adult sentence on a minor for a non-dangerous, non-repetitive offense? |
| 18-6029 |
Debra Ann Aquilina v. Sarah Davis, Administrator, Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-of-death constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-opinion expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner right-to-counsel right-to-effective-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-errors trial-proceedings |
Did the petitioner's trial counsel provide constitutionally ineffective assistance, violated petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel, be… |
| 18-6032 |
D. L. v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
does-wisconsin's-sentencing-scheme-apply-to-juveni federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence martinez-trevino-doctrine martinez-v-ryan miller-v-alabama procedural-default state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings trevino-v-thaler |
Can the exceptions excusing procedural default of ineffective assistance of trial counsel claims in the Martinez/Trevino doctrine apply to State Habea… |
| 18-6043 |
Patrick Wayne Manning, II v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-court civil-rights claim-construction court-access discrimination due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-claims pro-se-litigants recharacterization-of-claims |
Should there be a precedent from the Court that protects pro-se-prisoners' right to contest misconstrued-of-pro-se-claims? |
| 18-6045 |
Corey Levon Beckham v. Darrell Miller, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
drug-abuse equal-protection fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington unprofessional-conduct |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in holding that the District Court failed to accept the showing of the two-prong test in Strickland v. Washington on counse… |
| 18-6047 |
Leo Llowlyn Seed v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
alibi appeal charging-information civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions trial-counsel verdict-form witness-investigation |
Whether trial counsel was ineffective for multiple reasons |
| 18-6052 |
Mohsen Khoshmood v. Catholic Charity, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights court-system discrimination due-process judicial-bias judicial-independence judicial-misconduct judicial-system standing |
Whether the judicial system in the superior courts is completely corrupt, resulting in misjudgments or unjust judgments that undermine public trust in… |
| 18-6053 |
Donald Lee Kissner v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process effective-assistance full-and-fair-review guilty-plea lafler-v-united-states michigan-courts strickland-v-united-states trial-counsel |
Whether the petitioner has a due-process right to effective assistance of trial counsel |
| 18-6059 |
Cedric Carter v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sentencing-phase sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 18-6082 |
Jeffrey Eugene Lee v. R. C. Cheatham, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
betterman-v-montana braden-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-circuit sentencing sentencing-obligation speedy-trial state-constitutional-obligations state-obligations state-procedure |
Whether the court of appeals erred in rejecting the petitioner's claim under Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit of Kentucky and Betterman v. Montana |
| 18-6154 |
Donald Lee Easley v. Oregon |
Oregon |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitution due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech lack-of-counsel lack-of-evidence life-liberty |
Whether the petitioner's due process, equal protection, and First Amendment rights were violated |
| 18-6200 |
Emmanuel Chukwuebuka Uzoechi v. David Wilson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process emotional-distress false-conviction intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress malicious-prosecution title-ix |
Did the State of Maryland intentionally inflict emotional distress on Emmanuel C Uzoechi, and was Emmanuel C Uzoechi Maliciously prosecuted? |
| 18-6253 |
Daniel R. Wesling v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-sufficiency pennsylvania-law presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-standards vagueness victim-testimony |
Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's conviction of the Petitioner with uncorroborated victim statements coupled with an indictment so vague as to des… |
| 18-6254 |
Lou Tyler v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias bias-in-courts big-business civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-credit-reporting-act fair-debt-collection-protection-agency federal-jurisdiction foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure pro-se pro-se-litigation standing statute-of-limitations |
Why did lower courts refuse to hear Plaintiff's case, is there bias in favor of Big Business? |
| 18-6259 |
Lou Tyler v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias big-business cfpb-enforcement civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-credit-reporting fair-debt-collection foreclosure judicial-bias mortgage-foreclosure pro-se pro-se-litigation standing statute-of-limitations |
Why did lower courts refuse to hear Plaintiff's case, is there bias in favor of Big Business? |
| 18-6275 |
Ricardo Lupian-Barajas v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when it failed to st… |
| 18-6327 |
Rolando Humphrey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-determination judicial-discretion jury-role jury-trial sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-minimum |
Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is 'not greater than necessary' to achieve… |
| 18-6335 |
George Jenkins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process first-time-offender non-violent-crime proportionality reasonableness-review sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentence imposed is unreasonable |
| 18-6339 |
Michael T. Willan v. Petitioner |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights clear-and-present-danger constitutional-rights domestic-abuse due-process first-amendment free-speech injunction mens-rea notice |
Whether the Wisconsin sec. 813.12 Domestic Abuse statute requires Mens Rea |
| 18-6341 |
John William Lieba, II v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury legal-standard standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether sufficient evidence existed to convict Mr. Lieba? |
| 18-6342 |
Jaime Rene Lopez-Vaal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit-review sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether Section 1326(b) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-6343 |
Roberto Llerenas, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking ninth-circuit reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591 is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-6346 |
Mark A. Dubarry v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951(b) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence economic-harm federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a 'crime of violence' under the 'force clause' of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 18-6347 |
Adam Brake v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting firearm-enhancement firearm-theft guideline-enhancements guideline-range sentencing-considerations sentencing-guidelines stolen-firearm u.s.s.g-2k2.1 |
Whether the district court erred in applying impermissible double counting when calculating the guideline range |
| 18-6349 |
Daniel Israel Palomino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-review due-process guideline-commentary judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court abuses its discretion in misapplying a sentencing guideline when it refuses to consider a factor expressly provided for in th… |
| 18-6350 |
Zavien Brand v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pro-se-petition section-2255 transcripts |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals was compelled to consider the petitioner's subsequent pro se demonstration of actual innocence |
| 18-6351 |
Raymond Baker v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-testimony corroboration corroboration-of-accomplice-testimony due-process due-process-rights fair-trial impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-misconduct post-verdict post-verdict-inquiry |
Whether a district court must permit inquiry into alleged juror misconduct |
| 18-6352 |
Joseph Kelvin Aberant v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder cross-reference firearm firearm-offense fourth-circuit imperfect-self-defense indictment self-defense sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that the cross reference under Section 2K2.1(c)(1) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines was applicab… |
| 18-6355 |
Christian Dominique Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence parole revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Whether supervised release revocation defendants enjoy a limited right of cross-examination |
| 18-6358 |
Alj Hilton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and Are Plain and Affect Petitioner's Substantial -and-Are-Plain-and-Affect-Petitioner's-Substantial 18-usc-3661 5th-amendment appeal-waiver appeal-waiver,sentencing-guidelines,criminal-histo criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights trial-court-error Whether the mandatory five-year minimum sentence u |
Whether Petitioner's Appeal Waiver Is Inapplicable to Issues of Trial Court Error in Applying Sentencing Guidelines' Enhancements or in Calculating Cr… |
| 18-6359 |
Uriel Gomez-Saavedra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3661-3553 5th-amendment 5th-circuit-law constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the mandatory five-year minimum sentence under which Mr. Gomez-Saavedra was sentenced is unconstitutional and contravenes 18 U.S.C. 3661 and 3… |
| 18-6360 |
Jocelyn Faurisma v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether armed bank robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3) |
| 18-6361 |
Bob Lee Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fair-trial harmless-error hearsay hearsay-exception involuntary-intoxication judicial-bias judicial-ethics present-sense-impression specific-intent standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court's demonstration of bias against the defense impeded the defendant's right to a fair trial |
| 18-6363 |
Calvin Bernhardt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1512 arthur-andersen circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering |
Should this Court now define corruptly persuade' and settle the matter for itself and the circuits? |
| 18-6366 |
John A. Barbosa v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act carachuri-rosendo carachuri-rosendo-v-holder charging-decision charging-document circuit-split judgment maximum-sentence plea-colloquy prosecutorial-discretion record-of-conviction rodriguez-precedent serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense |
Whether a prior Massachusetts state drug offense that carried a maximum term of imprisonment of two and a half years as charged can constitute a serio… |
| 18-6370 |
Charles Harper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states |
May a § 2255 defendant prove that his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based upon the residual clause through a process of elimination? |
| 18-6371 |
Tyrell Henderson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
credibility criminal-procedure evidence jury-instructions mistrial prior-conviction |
Whether a mistrial should have been declared after the prosecutor improperly introduced evidence of the defendant's prior federal conviction where the… |
| 18-6372 |
Michael Small v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default procedural-rules sentencing state-court sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred when it agreed with the district court that the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was withou… |
| 18-6373 |
Erwin Eugene Semien v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3585 5th-amendment board-of-pardons-v-allen constitutional-rights due-process federal-sentencing greenholtz-v-nebraska-penal-inmates liberty-interest official-detention sentencing-credits |
Does the Federal time credit Statute 18 U.S.C. § 3585(b) create a liberty interest protected by the 5th Amendment due process clause? |
| 18-6379 |
Ramess Nakhleh v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech postal-regulations public-forum vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a regulation criminalizing the creation of a 'loud and unusual noise' unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-6387 |
Spencer Bowens v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) 28 U.S.C. §2255(£)(3) 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(3) extend to pre-Booker mandatory career-offender gu that has been newly recognized by the United Stat career-offender career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,retroactivity,collat Johnson-right johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines Supreme-Court-precedent |
Whether the right in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) that has been newly recognized by the United States Supreme Court and made retro… |
| 18-6389 |
Anthony Lomax v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder buyer-seller career-offender conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-history drug-quantity heroin-attribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court properly attributed 16.8 kilograms of heroin to Anthony Lomax during sentencing despite the dismissal of his conspiracy cha… |
| 18-6391 |
Matthew Vaughn Hawks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-disability plain-error sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-reasonableness substantial-rights united-states-v-olano |
whether-the-eleventh-circuit-misapplied-fed-r-crim-p-52(b)-and-united-states-v-olano |
| 18-6436 |
Jorge Cintron v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence standing trial-procedure |
Did the Court of Appeals Erred in denying a Certificate of Appeability and in evaluating the claims under Brady violation |
| 18-6444 |
James E. Whitney v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-and-statutory-provisions due-process federal-and-state-cases free-speech issues-presented jurisdiction opinion standing statement-of-the-case table-of-contents takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondents' actions |
| 18-6448 |
In Re Michael Quattrocchi |
|
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-forfeiture administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-approval judicial-review procedural-violations property-rights statutory-interpretation trial-delay unborn-rights |
Whether the administrative forfeiture of Bond's property under case 04-12958 was judicially approved, where Bond was deprived of his property for over… |
| 18-6470 |
In Re Gary Malone |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2244(b) actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-court-procedure habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice panetti-v-quarterman standing successive-petition successive-petitions |
Whether a single district court and circuit court judge can entertain a second successive 2254(b) petition when the second application is a continuati… |
| 18-6514 |
In Re Melvin T. Bell |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment jurisdiction liberty-deprivation standing territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether the petitioner is illegally deprived of his liberty |
| 18-78 |
J. Cruz Ramirez-Barajas v. Matthew G. Whitaker, Acting Attorney General |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 18-9 |
Lisa Washington v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination equal-pay race-discrimination retaliation strict-scrutiny summary-judgment title-vii workplace-retaliation |
Whether strict scrutiny should apply in reviewing lower courts' dismissal of Title VII complaint alleging discrimination, unfair pay, and retaliation |
| 18-92 |
David V. Perry v. Bruce Kriegman |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-law clawback-provisions constitutional-rights due-process fraudulent-transfer fundamental-human-rights ponzi-scheme presumption trustee vague-laws |
What is a Ponzi Scheme and are the vague laws and interpretations surrounding its definition and the subsequent enforcement of the Ponzi Scheme Presum… |
| 18-95 |
Kyrt M. Wentzell, et al. v. BP America, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal deepwater-horizon dismissal due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion mdl-procedure multidistrict-litigation oil-spill procedural-compliance standing timeliness |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the petitioners' appeal to the Fifth Circuit was not timely filed |
| 18M63 |
LaShawn N. Lofton v. SP Plus Corp., fka Standard Parking Corporation, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M64 |
Morris E. Zukerman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M65 |
Dianne M. Carter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M66 |
Lawton Frederick Tyson v. Texas |
Texas |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|