Conference: 2018-11-16

112 cases — 0 granted, 112 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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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