| 18-113 |
Jeremiah Rodgers v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process hurst-v-florida jury-trial jury-waiver retroactivity sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment waiver |
Does waiving a state-law right to have a jury make an advisory sentencing recommendation constitute a knowing and intelligent waiver of the federal co… |
| 18-14 |
Carlos Donjuan v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
coram-nobis criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining due-process equal-protection false-document-employment humanitarian-exception immigration-deportation immigration-removal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargain strickland-ineffective-assistance strickland-v-washington vagueness |
Whether the Petitioner was denied due process and equal protection when the court failed to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea under Padilla v. Ken… |
| 18-165 |
DHL Supply Chain v. DEX Systems, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
calder-effects-test civil-procedure due-process electronic-server foreign-defendant forum-state internet-jurisdiction jurisdictional-analysis long-arm-statute minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction virtual-presence |
Whether a U.S. court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant based solely on the defendant's 'virtual presence' through electronic… |
| 18-188 |
Ivy T. Tucker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-deficiency constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum offense-of-conviction out-of-circuit-precedent procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-counsel |
Whether trial counsel's failure to make an argument that courts of appeals outside the circuit have accepted amounts to constitutionally deficient ass… |
| 18-246 |
Mary L. Doherty, et al. v. Allstate Indemnity Company |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
anderson-v-liberty-lobby due-process expert-witness expert-witness-reports expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence insurance-contract jury-trial mend-the-hold mend-the-hold-doctrine seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether the affirmed Rule 56 summary judgment decision is inconsistent with the standard set forth in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., and violative o… |
| 18-247 |
Animal Legal Defense Fund, et al. v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
None |
|
| 18-257 |
Monty Bauch, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of O. B., a Minor, et al. v. Richland County Children Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
child-removal civil-rights complaining-witness due-process due-process-rights ex-parte ex-parte-order magistrate-testimony qualified-immunity removal-order social-worker social-worker-immunity standing witness-immunity |
Whether a social worker is entitled to absolute immunity when she makes false statements and omits highly relevant information as a complaining witnes… |
| 18-287 |
Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison v. Frederick Michael Baer |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act deferential-review habeas-corpus habeas-relief indiana-supreme-court ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Seventh Circuit violate the deferential review requirements of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act by disregarding the reasoned … |
| 18-321 |
TVEyes, Inc. v. Fox News Network, LLC |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
17-usc-107 campbell-v-acuff-rose commercial-success copyright-law fair-use market-harm second-circuit statutory-factors transformative-use |
Can the transformative use of a copyrighted work cause a cognizable market harm under 17 U.S.C. 107(4) if it is used in connection with a commercially… |
| 18-329 |
Landry Rountree v. Troy Dyson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
amended-complaint circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection mootness motion-to-dismiss standing sua-sponte-dismissal wrongful-arrest |
Whether the filing of an amended complaint moots a pending motion to dismiss |
| 18-366 |
Roberta Golden, et vir v. George Peterson |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
|
contract due-process equitable-principles foreclosure fraud fraudulent-mortgage legal-mandates mortgage mortgage-fraud property-rights real-property standing |
Were Petitioners denied due process when the state refused to allow Petitioners to have a hearing on the nature of the illegality and instead conflate… |
| 18-369 |
Fidencio Valdez v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
|
circumstantial-evidence constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct tacit-agreement timely-objection trier-of-fact void-for-vagueness witness-testimony |
Whether a defendant must timely object to a prosecutor's use of false or perjured evidence |
| 18-376 |
Lisa Partin, et vir v. Michigan Children's Institute |
Michigan |
Denied |
|
administrative-law adoption arbitrary-and-capricious best-interest best-interest-factors child-protective-services civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law michigan-adoption-code parental-rights standing |
whether-michigan-adoption-code-mcl-710.45-violates-due-process |
| 18-379 |
Ellis Keyes v. Edison G. Banks, II |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bill-of-rights bona-fides civil-rights due-process elections free-speech good-faith literacy-test voting-rights |
Whether a state's right-to-work law can subject a candidate to a mandatory literacy test as a condition of ballot access, abridging voting rights |
| 18-383 |
Jesse J. Davis, Jr., et ux. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association |
Connecticut |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process Due-process-of-law,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amen equal-protection Equal-protection-of-the-laws,fourteenth-amendment Excessive-fines,foreclosure free-speech impartial-court petition-clause Right-to-impartial-court,sixth-amendment,seventh-a right-to-petition Right-to-petition-government,first-amendment right-to-public-trial Right-to-public-trial,right-to-information,sixth-a sanctions |
Whether the sanctions imposed by the Connecticut Appellate Court violate the petitioners' constitutional rights, including their rights to due process… |
| 18-385 |
Jakks Pacific, Inc. v. Accasvek LLC |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure court-precedent diversity diversity-jurisdiction espinosa-v-united-student-aid-funds finality-of-judgments judicial-interpretation jurisdiction procedural-dismissal public-policy standing subject-matter-jurisdiction united-student-aid-funds-v-espinosa |
Whether the lower courts disregarded this Court's judgment in United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa, 559 U.S. 260 (2010), and thereby defeated th… |
| 18-390 |
Sandra Pletos, et vir v. Makower Abatte Guerra Wegner Vollmer, PLLC , et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse civil-rights concealment contract contractual-rights debt-collection due-process fraud fraud-concealment homeowners-association rico-act rooker-feldman |
Whether Rooker-Feldman can be used to prevent parties from asserting their contractual rights, and new independent claims for relief based on statutes… |
| 18-409 |
Lewis Y. Liu v. Paul Ryan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights comity-clause congress constitutional-standing due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-voting-right equal-voting-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review standing voting-rights |
Whether the Electoral College clause (1787) has violated the Comity clause (1787) and three subsequent amendments, the First (1789), the Fifth (1789) … |
| 18-414 |
Carl M. Burnett v. Panasonic Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 analog-signal civil-procedure digital-data digital-signal electromagnetic-signal electronic-data evidence patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 subject-matter-eligibility tangible-embodiment |
Whether electronic data is the tangible embodiment of an electromagnetic analog or digital signal and is therefore patent-eligible subject matter |
| 18-416 |
JoAnn Hatch v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada burden-of-proof civil-rights disability-discrimination non-discriminatory-reason reasonable-accommodation seniority-system summary-judgment |
Whether the trial court may disregard or ignore a party's sworn testimony concerning a material historical fact based upon contradictory inferences ar… |
| 18-419 |
Len Boogaard, et ux., as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Derek Boogaard, Deceased v. National Hockey League, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights federal-jurisdiction forfeiture judicial-discretion pleading-requirements remand removal state-law-claims tort-law |
Whether the federal courts abused their discretion in usurping a states' power to adjudicate common law tort claims |
| 18-424 |
Judith M. Brown-Williams, et vir v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-warranty court-sanctions due-process excusable-neglect fraud rico standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigation warranty |
Did the Petitioner prevail in the Song Beverly Consumer Warranty Act violation? |
| 18-425 |
Alvin E. Williams, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection consumer-warranty-act court-of-appeals due-process fraud fraud-upon-court judgment rico rico-violation song-beverly-consumer-warranty-act superior-court |
Did the Court of Appeals Second Appellate District Affirm the Judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles in favor of Petitioners Alvin E. Williams … |
| 18-426 |
Anica Ashbourne v. Donna Hansberry, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-procedure arnett-v-kennedy codd-v-velger due-process evidence meaningful-opportunity-to-be-heard notice notice-of-termination personnel-records privacy-act privacy-act-5-usc-552a-e-5 third-party-verification |
Whether the D.C. Circuit erred in its rulings on the Privacy Act's verification requirement and the due process right to a meaningful opportunity to b… |
| 18-434 |
Dawn Mosby v. Matthew G. Parilla |
New York |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-practice civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion Judicial-review Legislative-authority legislative-intent notice-of-appeal separation-of-powers timeliness-of-appeal |
Whether the Appellate Division, Second Department, violated the New York State Constitution's separation of powers doctrine by permitting a late appea… |
| 18-452 |
Jesse L. Wesley, III v. Town Square Media West Central Radio Broadcasting, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure de-novo de-novo-review motion-to-amend standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether a district court's decision on a motion to amend a summary judgment should be reviewed with the standard of abuse of discretion or de novo |
| 18-464 |
Hatfield Enterprizes, Inc., et al. v. Washington State Employment Security Department |
Washington |
Denied |
Response Waived |
carrier-classification carrier-control federal-aviation-act federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-preemption independent-contractor independent-contractors preemption state-law trucking-industry unemployment-compensation |
Whether Washington's statute defining independent contractors for unemployment compensation taxes preempts the Federal Aviation Administration Authori… |
| 18-465 |
Sade Garnett v. Remedi Seniorcare of Virginia, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 18-466 |
Gulick Trucking, Inc. v. Washington State Employment Security Department |
Washington |
Denied |
Response Waived |
carrier-classification carrier-control faaaa-preemption federal-aviation-act federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-regulation independent-contractor independent-contractors owner-operator preemption prices-routes-services state-law trucking-industry unemployment-compensation |
Whether Washington's statute defining independent contractors for unemployment compensation taxes, which effectively eliminates the owner-operator bus… |
| 18-469 |
MacMillan-Piper, Inc. v. Washington State Employment Security Department |
Washington |
Denied |
Response Waived |
carrier-classification carrier-control faaaa federal-aviation-act federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act- federal-lease-contract-provisions federal-preemption independent-contractor independent-contractors preemption state-law trucking-industry unemployment-compensation unemployment-compensation-taxes |
Whether Washington's statute defining independent contractors for unemployment compensation taxes preempts the Federal Aviation Administration Authori… |
| 18-484 |
Melvin Charles Pettigrew v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-review state-court substantive-review texas |
Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas violated the Petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the … |
| 18-494 |
Thomas S. Ross v. Apple, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
17-usc-106 17-usc-501 copyright-infringement copyright-ownership eleventh-circuit exclusive-rights motion-to-dismiss standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly held that granting defendant's Motion for Dismissal was justified even though a) plaintiff proved ownership of … |
| 18-501 |
Alim Adburahman, et al. v. Hyundai Motor America, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amendment appellate-procedure case-dismissal civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction docket-management final-order frcp-15 judicial-authority jurisdiction multidistrict-litigation procedural-conflict |
Does a U.S. District Court have the power to dismiss cases previously transferred to a Multidistrict litigation, interfering with the adjudication of … |
| 18-5011 |
Xavier Cardona v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review asset-seizure burden-of-proof civil-forfeiture currency-seizure drug-trafficking drug-transaction due-process evidence-standard judicial-conversion procedural-due-process property-rights sentencing-guidelines |
Was the court of appeals correct in affirming the district court's conversion of the petitioner's seized cash into cocaine when there was no evidence … |
| 18-5020 |
In Re Lewis Brown |
|
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-violation due-process harmless-error judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standard-of-review structural-error |
Whether a judge who is named as an adverse party opponent is prohibited from presiding over the proceedings in which he is a defendant, and whether th… |
| 18-5052 |
Thomas Cureton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
924(c) constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence interstate-communication johnson-v-united-states ransom-request residual-clause section-924c unconstitutionally-vague |
Whether Mr. Cureton's § 924(c) conviction for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated |
| 18-5058 |
Deante Drake, aka Panama, aka Shawn, aka Papa Bear v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-timeliness appellate-procedure court-of-appeals criminal-procedure-rule-18-usc-3742-f-1-a en-banc-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure first-amendment incoming-prison-mail legal-mail-delays mandamus-or-certiorari petition-clause rehearing-en-banc statutory-construction timeliness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Deante Drake's petition for rehearing en banc as untimely under Fed. R. App. P. 4(b)(3)(A… |
| 18-5067 |
Clark L. Stuhr v. Daniel White, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights documentary-evidence due-process good-time-credits habeas-corpus prison-discipline prisoner-rights right-to-evidence |
Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to a certificate of appealability when it is demonstrated that a substantial showing of the denial of a const… |
| 18-5071 |
Juan Carlos Vazquez v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
deportation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea knowing-and-voluntary language-barrier prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Was petitioner denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel? |
| 18-5119 |
Ambrose King v. Mary King |
Maryland |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal-dismissal appeals award civil-procedure dismissal due-process judicial-discretion monetary-award procedural-due-process standing substantive-due-process vacatur |
Did the lower court violate substantive and procedural due process in not vacating the dismissal of the appeal? |
| 18-5121 |
Leslie Dominic Musgrove v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquitted-conduct drug-quantity due-process jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-amendment |
whether-it-is-a-sixth-amendment-and-due-process-violation-for-a-judge-at-sentencing-to-attribute-acquitted-and-relevant-conduct-by-a-preponderance-of-… |
| 18-5158 |
Mario Lee Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability descamps-v-united-states evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment florida-robbery-statute sixth-amendment stokeling-v-united-states |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioner a Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-5163 |
Kai Uwe Thier v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
consular-relations consular-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incriminating-statement international-treaties international-treaty law-enforcement miranda-rights vienna-convention vienna-convention-on-consular-relations |
Whether petitioner is entitled to discharge or a new trial based on a violation of international treaties as codified in the Vienna Convention on Cons… |
| 18-5224 |
Frank Costelon v. New Mexico |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel cronic-violation custody due-process equitable-tolling federal-custody gideon-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standing state-court-conviction |
Whether the District Court erred in concluding that it did not have jurisdiction because the petitioner was no longer in custody of the state court ju… |
| 18-5280 |
Patrick Lanier v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings judicial-review manifest-miscarriage plain-error plain-error-review restitution rule-52b sentencing sentencing-error |
Whether the plain error standard requires a 'manifest miscarriage of justice' to correct a forfeited error affecting substantial rights |
| 18-5296 |
Todd Rasberry v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
consent fourth-amendment home-privacy home-search probable-cause search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Whether the government can circumvent a home occupant's consent by invoking Terry v. Ohio to search the home and person without a warrant |
| 18-531 |
Terry Lee Coffman v. Iowa |
Iowa |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cady-v-dombrowski cady-v-drombrowski community-caretaking constitutional-law exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment immediate-need objective-facts police-assistance probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-seizure |
Whether the Court's holding in Cady v. Dombrowski permits a warrantless seizure under the Fourth Amendment without objective facts establishing an imm… |
| 18-5322 |
Santiago Hum Rodriguez-Aparicio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure discretionary-relief due-process fundamental-fairness illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mendoza-lopez removal-order removal-proceeding uniformity |
Whether the failure to inform an alien of his eligibility for discretionary relief in a removal proceeding is a due process violation that can make th… |
| 18-535 |
Residents Against Flooding, et al. v. Reinvestment Zone Number Seventeen, City of Houston, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure land-use land-use-decisions motion-to-dismiss property-rights rational-basis rule-12b6 standard-of-review substantive-due-process takings |
Whether, and to what extent, a court must give deference to a plaintiff's complaint and view the government's rational basis as a rebuttal presumption… |
| 18-5400 |
In Re Wilma Pennington-Thurman |
|
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus mental-health mental-incarceration pro-se standing unlawful-detention writ-of-right |
Can I file a writ of habeas corpus when I am not physically incarcerated, but mentally incarcerated by those in authority? |
| 18-542 |
John E. Hamilton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
charging criminal-procedure defendant-standing due-process extradition extradition-treaty international-law punishment rule-of-specialty sentencing standing treaty treaty-interpretation |
Whether an individual defendant has standing to assert a rule of specialty violation |
| 18-5422 |
Dedrick T. Garrett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness with respect to defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines |
| 18-5424 |
Patsy N. Sakuma v. Association of Apartment Owners of the Tropics of Waikele, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim due-process hypothetical-jurisdiction jurisdictional-waiver merits-question rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing sua-sponte waiver |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit properly applied waiver on appeal as a new exception to bypass the Rooker-Feldman jur… |
| 18-5442 |
Craig Alan Wall, Sr. v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights crawford-standard crawford-v-washington due-process fifth-amendment forced-appeal fourteenth-amendment hearsay-exception separation-of-powers sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-facts |
Whether Florida Statute § 90.804(2)(f) violates the Sixth Amendment and Due Process rights of defendants, whether a state court can force a defendant … |
| 18-5450 |
Amilcar Rivas-Rivera v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pcra plea-agreement post-conviction-relief prison-mailbox-rule standing state-law timeliness |
Whether the Pennsylvania lower court and appellate court's decision dismissing petitioner's second pro se PCRA petition as untimely is contrary to Pen… |
| 18-5468 |
Raul Villarreal and Fidel Villarreal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquitted-conduct appellate-review constitutional-rights dismissed-conduct fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-review sixth-amendment statutory-law statutory-maximum |
Whether an upward departure from the advisory Sentencing Guidelines is subject to appellate review |
| 18-5475 |
Johnaton Sampson George v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act habeas-corpus habeas-relief habeas-relief-eligibility johnson-v-united-states procedural-eligibility procedural-requirements residual-clause substantive-eligibility substantive-requirements |
Whether courts should look to the factual record, the law at the time of sentencing, the law as it currently stands, or a combination of these factors… |
| 18-554 |
Charles J. Weiss v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law due-process irs levy-action notice statutory-interpretation tax tax-notice taxpayer-rights |
Whether the IRS notice means what it says - that the 30 days runs from 'the date of this letter,' or whether it means the 30 days runs from the date o… |
| 18-5567 |
Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-procedure court-discretion default-judgment due-process failure-to-answer fraud judicial-review jurisdiction perjury procedural-due-process standing |
Should Plaintiff Curry been Awarded Default Judgement |
| 18-5568 |
Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge opinions-below patent procedural-defect standing summary-judgment takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 18-562 |
Elizabeth Haring Coomes v. Maryland Insurance Administration |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-law-362-b-4 bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure double-jeopardy due-process insurance-licensing police-power regulatory-action regulatory-power |
Whether 11 U.S.C. 362(b)(4) applies to a Debtor's appeal of a final regulatory action |
| 18-563 |
Darren Commander v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
26-usc-6672 circuit-split civil-procedure negligence statutory-interpretation summary-judgment tax-law willfulness |
Was the Third Circuit's standard for willfulness under 26 U.S.C. § 6672(a) too lax for situations that at best are mere negligence in conflict with th… |
| 18-5666 |
Arthur Dennison v. Mark Hooks, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoner statutory-interpretation |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability to state prisoner Arthur Dennison to challenge the denial of his … |
| 18-5674 |
Roger Clay Swain v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender collateral-review due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity timeliness |
Whether federal prisoners who were sentenced under the mandatory career-offender guideline filed timely § 2255 motions within one year of Johnson v. U… |
| 18-568 |
Bart H. Rippl v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment internal-revenue-code statutory-interpretation substantive-regulations |
Does the Fifth Amendment's due process of law guarantee apply to the specific language set forth in the Internal Revenue Code and other laws, and in s… |
| 18-5683 |
In Re Todd Britton-Harr |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus judicial-review mortgage-fraud newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief section-2255 successive-motion successive-motions |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner's application seeking an order authorizing the district court to consider a second or su… |
| 18-5692 |
Melvin Jordan, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability enumerated-clause habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing violent-felony |
Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA |
| 18-5702 |
Miguel Angel Mejia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
article-iii article-three drug-enforcement executive-power jury-trial maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the MDLEA violate Article III and the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial by giving dispositive weight to the Executive Branch's assertion that… |
| 18-5786 |
Donell A. Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2255-motion certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-calculation rule-59(e)-motion rule-59e section-2255-motion sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Petitioner prove his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel and satisfy the Strickland test? |
| 18-5788 |
James Everett Dutschke v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
biological-agents bioweapon-offenses civil-rights constitutional-separation-of-powers due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction jurisdictional-ambiguity plea-agreement select-agents separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation statutory-validity subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction treaty treaty-enactment |
Is it constitutional for an Article III judge to act as an Article I lawmaker by rewriting or nullifying existing written law, writing new law or as a… |
| 18-5791 |
Robert Wharton v. Donald T. Vaughn |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-law federal-laws judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure relief standing takings third-circuit |
Did the Third Circuit erroneously apply, enlarge and/or ignore several established federal laws in denying petitioner relief? |
| 18-5796 |
Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Eric Sellers, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability circuit-split court-of-appeals exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-information habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard reasonable-diligence |
Where must a court of appeals grant a certificate of appealability in a habeas corpus action where at least one judge votes in its favor? |
| 18-5982 |
Todd F. Britton-Harr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lee-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-person sixth-amendment |
Does the Court's decision in Lee v. United States, 137 S.Ct. 1958 (2017) allow lower courts to require a showing that a 'reasonable person' would have… |
| 18-6064 |
Robert L. Rose v. Leroy Kirkegard, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance lafler-v-cooper plea-negotiations remedies remedy sixth-amendment united-states-v-morrison |
What is the proper remedy when a defendant's lawyer fails to inform her client of, or offers deficient advice as to whether to accept, a favorable ple… |
| 18-6077 |
Omar Qazi v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
2254-petition 28-usc-2254 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remittitur state-court-appeals |
Did the Federal District Court of Nevada have the jurisdiction to hear my 2254 Petition? |
| 18-6085 |
Gerald Daniels v. Janet Dowling, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-issue constitutional-law constitutional-review equal-protection evasion federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus race-discrimination state-court state-law state-law-interpretation |
Whether a federal habeas court may reexamine a state court's interpretation of state law when it is an obvious subterfuge to evade consideration of a … |
| 18-6089 |
Marie Therese Assa'ad-Faltas v. City of Columbia, South Carolina |
South Carolina |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-expenses due-process equal-protection indigent-criminal-defendant indigent-defense pro-se pro-se-defense sovereign-immunity takings |
Whether South Carolina's Defense of Indigents Act denies equal protection between criminal defendants who choose to proceed pro se and those with stat… |
| 18-6091 |
In Re Steven A. Walcott, Jr. |
|
Denied |
IFP |
bail civil-rights criminal-procedure detention due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pretrial-detention release speedy-trial |
Whether the State of Louisiana violated the petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 18-6101 |
Jean-Gespere Pierre v. FJC Security Services, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment free-speech government-overreach retaliation search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment were violated by the respondents'… |
| 18-6105 |
John Patrick Wallace v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence exculpatory exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal witness witness-rights |
Was the petitioner denied an impartial tribunal under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 18-6110 |
Mikal Mahdi v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
Denied |
IFP |
appointment-of-counsel capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence habeas-corpus indigent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-history right-to-counsel sixth-amendment south-carolina-supreme-court state-court |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when the state post-conviction court failed to appoint counsel for M… |
| 18-6114 |
Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Kathy Hung Pham |
Oregon |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-dismissal damages disability due-process guardian-ad-litem legal-standing medical-damages negligence personal-injury real-party-in-interest standing vegetative-state |
Did the trial court err in granting General Judgment of Dismissal in favor of defendant Kathy Hung Pham? |
| 18-6115 |
Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process elements-of-offense hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retrospective-application |
Whether Petitioner's death sentence can remain intact even though his jury was not instructed that the State had to prove all of the elements of capit… |
| 18-6124 |
Sherman Washington, aka Sherman Lance Washington v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fair-trial-denial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mre-404b other-bad-acts other-bad-acts-testimony res-gestae sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner was denied a fair trial by the admission of irrelevant other bad acts testimony |
| 18-6125 |
Willie Frank Wright, Jr. v. Shawn Carter, aka Jay-Z, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights consideration constitutional-violation due-process factual-allegations federal-courts judicial-review motion-to-dismiss pleadings procedural-dismissal scheuer-v-rhodes Twombly-Iqbal |
Whether a court can rely on material outside the pleadings when ruling on a motion to dismiss |
| 18-6129 |
Arika Matelyan v. CD Baby Distribution Co. |
Ninth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-infringement due-process fair-use first-amendment intellectual-property standing |
Whether the copyright holder has exclusive rights over the reproduction and distribution of their work |
| 18-6136 |
Francisco Lara-Aguilar v. Matthew G. Whitaker, Acting Attorney General |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-614 |
In Re George Houston |
|
Denied |
|
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey collateral-review conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-quantity jurisdictional-error mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the individualized drug quantity or the amount of drugs attributable to the conspiracy as a whole can trigger the mandatory minimum sentence f… |
| 18-6140 |
Lena Terrell Hardaway v. Cross State Moving, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights due-process standing civil-rights disability discrimination due-process housing standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act |
| 18-6142 |
Joseph Dingler v. Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fetal-personhood parental-rights standing ubi-jus-ibi-remedium unborn-child |
Does a 'person' exist, an 'unborn-child' exist under the 14° Amendment which deserves protection from injury and/or have a legal right in a court of l… |
| 18-6144 |
Guadalupe Padilla v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-habeas-corpus-standing-due-process civil-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus legal-remedy petition standing statutory-provisions writ |
Whether the U.S. District Court has authority to order the clerk to not file any further pleadings in habeas corpus proceedings, where the order resul… |
| 18-6152 |
M. E. D. v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-endangerment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions other-wrongs-evidence second-degree-child-endangerment victim-testimony witness-testimony |
Did the trial court violate petitioner's right under the due process clause to a fair trial when the court failed to instruct the jury properly on a k… |
| 18-6153 |
Tonya Lynn Raisbeck v. Anthony Stewart, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment assets assets-liabilities civil-rights due-process excessive-fines expenses financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis income incorporation monthly-expenses monthly-income poverty poverty-affidavit support |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 18-6158 |
Makandi L. Terry v. Larry Abraham, Chief, Dillon County Detention Center |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining standing |
Should Petitioner Feery's case be reversed and remanded based upon direct evidence of ineffective assistance of counsel in his failure to disclose any… |
| 18-6167 |
Ronald Wayne Clark, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-case,eighth-amendment,cruel-and-unusual-pu capital-punishment codefendant-culpability codefendants cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment proportionality-review reliability-of-death-sentence |
Whether an assessment of the relative culpability of codefendants in a capital case in Florida is required pursuant to the Eighth Amendment in order t… |
| 18-6170 |
Tommie Lee Henderson v. VIP Taxi LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the complaint for lack of standing |
| 18-6176 |
Michael Lucero v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment prior-acts propensity propensity-evidence |
Whether the admission of prior acts of domestic violence to establish the petitioner's propensity to commit such crimes violated his right to due proc… |
| 18-6179 |
Mario Govan Emmanuel v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Virgin Islands |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment bolo-flyer collective-knowledge collective-knowledge-doctrine fellow-officer-doctrine fourth-amendment officer-discretion reasonable-suspicion stop-and-frisk terry-stop terry-v-ohio united-states-v-hensley whiteley-v-warden |
Does the collective knowledge or fellow officer doctrine eliminate the need for the BOLO-flyer to articulate facts supporting a reasonable suspicion t… |
| 18-6182 |
Randolph Moore v. Nevada, et al. |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland capital-murder capital-punishment crucial-evidence due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus outcome-of-trial prosecutorial-misconduct withheld-evidence witness-tampering |
Whether the Brady v. Maryland standard requires a defendant to prove that withheld evidence is crucial, would affect the outcome, or affirmatively und… |
| 18-6189 |
Eduardo Salgado v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment carry-outside-home civil-procedure civil-rights concealed-carry concealed-carry-license due-process federal-circuit-split firearm-rights good-cause-requirement level-of-scrutiny scrutiny-standard second-amendment self-defense standing |
Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a firearm outside the home for self-defense, and what level of scrutiny applies to laws that … |
| 18-6191 |
Quordalis V. Sanders v. Carlo Esqueda, Dane County Clerk of Court |
Wisconsin |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process felon-in-possession free-speech mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states standing |
Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court erred in upholding the conviction of Quovadis Sanders for violating the Wisconsin statute prohibiting the possessi… |
| 18-6194 |
James Dow Vandivere v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
absurd-results civil-action civil-commitment civil-procedure congressional-act due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-statute procedural-law statute-of-limitations united-states |
Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a) four-year statute of limitations applies to civil commitment proceedings under 18 U.S.C. § 4248 |
| 18-6195 |
Marlon L. Watford v. Natasha Doe, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the case |
| 18-6199 |
Marco M. Torres v. Frances M. Perrone, Judge, Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Hillsborough County |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-courts florida-supreme-court judicial-power judicial-review separation-of-powers sister-circuit |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in its interpretation of Article 3, Section 1 and 2 of the U.S. Constitution regarding the judicial power to d… |
| 18-6202 |
Amil Dinsio v. Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York, Third Judicial Department |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-mandate discretion due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-review mandate mandate-recall motion-denial recall standing |
Did the Second Circuit Court abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner's motion to recall the Court's mandate? |
| 18-6203 |
Larry Hayes v. Marvin Plumley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment confession-evidence criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process false-confession miranda-rights miranda-waiver miranda-warning police-conduct police-interrogation voluntariness |
What constitutes a promise of leniency that destroys the voluntariness of a subsequent confession? |
| 18-6217 |
Colette Marquis v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process homeowner-rights lender-lawsuit notice-effectiveness rescission standing supreme-court-ruling tila tila-rescission |
Whether a court has jurisdiction to rule that a TILA rescission is not 'effective upon notice', absent a lender lawsuit timely filed claiming it is no… |
| 18-6219 |
Melissa May v. Continental Towers Condominiums Association, et al. |
Kentucky |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-justice accessibility civil-procedure civil-rights court-accommodation disability-discrimination due-process legal-procedure reasonable-accommodation self-representation standing |
Did the state of Kentucky not facilitate discrimination of Ms. May entirely, because of her disability? |
| 18-6223 |
Martin Jonassen v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment administrative-procedure cell-conditions civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process facility-design habeas-corpus inmate-safety prison-conditions prison-overcrowding standing |
Whether the 5th Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's dismissal without a hearing and denial of petitioner's requests for injunctive and dec… |
| 18-6305 |
Igor Polshyn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence reversal right-to-testify structural-error testimony |
Whether preventing a defendant from testifying on the sole disputed element of an offense, his subjective intent, amounts to structural constitutional… |
| 18-6329 |
Adan Sandoval Dominguez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-standard constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process factual-understanding judicial-standard major-depressive-disorder mental-competency mental-health rational-understanding standing trial-rights |
Did defendant meet the competency requirement to stand trial set forth in Godinez v. Moran, 509 U.S. 389 (1993)? |
| 18-6337 |
Travis W. Williams v. Missouri |
Missouri |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof child-sex-offense criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment mo-const-art-i-18c presumption-of-innocence propensity-evidence |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits evidence that the defendant has an unrelated remote prior child sex offense conviction… |
| 18-6338 |
Briand Williams v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel contract contract-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge plea-bargain statute-of-limitations |
Is a Plea Bargain Agreement a contract between the defendant and the prosecutor on behalf of the State, and can the defendant be relieved from the res… |
| 18-6364 |
Phap Buth v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
barnes-v-united-states burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment in-re-winship |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment allows reliance on an inference that is at best more likely than not, but not beyond a reas… |
| 18-6393 |
Omar Qazi v. Janice Killian, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2243 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure petition-dismissal standing |
Does 28 U.S.C. § 2243 authorize dismissal of a 2241 petition for failure to state a claim? |
| 18-6394 |
Jimmy Steele v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances gatekeeping-provision habeas-corpus intervening-change-in-law retroactivity second-motion successive-petitions |
Whether the lower court erred in denying Steele's second-in-time § 2255 motion, in light of his argument that the claim he has asserted for challengin… |
| 18-6395 |
Alex D. Ramos v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-offense sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Did the lower Court err, and concomitantly violate the United States Constitution, Amendments V and VI, where it determined that Petitioner's prior co… |
| 18-6396 |
Guillermo Solorio, Jr. v. William Muniz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244(b)(2) brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-defendant criminal-procedure evidence-suppression federal-statute habeas-corpus hidden-evidence second-or-successive-petition |
Whether a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus based on Brady v. Maryland Evidence That Was Hidden from a Criminal Defendant — Until After Appeal and … |
| 18-6397 |
Angel Rosario v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence advisory-guidelines amendment-709 career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance johnson-rule rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness |
Were the Appellant's right to Due Process of Law violated |
| 18-6398 |
Deon Pittman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense element-of-offense federal-law means-of-offense michigan-law sentencing-guidelines state-law state-statute |
Whether the specific type of controlled substance is an element of the offense or one of many means to commit the offense under a state statute that p… |
| 18-6399 |
Marcos Perez-Trevino v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
berger-v-united-states circuit-split closed-container closed-containers conspiracy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process florida-v-wells fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure indictment inventory-search law-enforcement-policy material-variance probable-cause shared-interest Whether a material variance exists where the gover written-policy |
Whether the officer conducted a valid inventory search of a closed container without a written policy governing such searches |
| 18-6401 |
James Gabriel Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review competency criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure informed-consent judicial-process plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11-procedure |
Whether the district court followed the procedure mandated by FED. R. CRIM. P. 11 in accepting a guilty plea |
| 18-6404 |
Tomas Ramirez-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review non-frivolous-arguments procedural-due-process procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing-policy sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness |
Whether an appellate court may affirm as procedurally reasonable a sentence imposed where the record contains no indication the sentencing judge consi… |
| 18-6405 |
Sydney L. Thieszen v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana tatum-v-arizona |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a juvenile convicted of a homicide offense to be sentenced to the functional equivalent of life without parole |
| 18-6408 |
Tiffany A. Prince v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offenses drug-overdose federal-courts federal-law physical-injury sentencing-guidelines significant-physical-injury sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether a non-fatal drug overdose is a 'significant physical injury' under U.S.S.G. § 5K2.2 |
| 18-6415 |
Amalya Cherniavsky, aka Amalya Surenovna Yegiyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review sua-sponte sufficiency-of-evidence theory-of-defense trial-procedure |
Under what circumstances must a district court sua sponte instruct the jury on a theory of defense presented and relied upon at trial where the theory… |
| 18-6417 |
Derrick Wilson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
faretta-v-california faretta-waiver Fifth-Amendment-due-process Fourth-Amendment Franks-v-Delaware johnson-v-zerbst pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right United-States-v-Giordano voluntariness waiver wiretap-application |
When trial counsel informs the court that he is not prepared for trial and the court's Faretta colloquy does not inquire into the voluntariness of Pet… |
| 18-6421 |
Alexis D. Negron-Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel internet-access internet-restrictions plea-agreement plea-bargaining pornography-ban sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-conditions |
Whether District Court erred in imposing overbroad conditions of Supervised Release, limiting Petitioner's access to the Internet, for the term of sai… |
| 18-6422 |
Larry Norton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment mistake-of-law perjury police-misconduct pretext pretextual-stop search search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Does a mistake of law by police in the stopping of a vehicle render the subsequent search violative of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18-6425 |
Michael Louis Beattie v. L. Romero, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure administrative-remedies admissions civil-procedure civil-procedure-summary-judgment civil-procedure-summary-judgment-uncontroverted-fa exhaustion-of-remedies fact-admission moving-party non-moving-party prison-grievance prison-grievances procedural-default summary-judgment uncontroverted-facts |
When, during Summary Judgment proceedings, a non-moving party asserts a fact - or set of facts - and the moving party doesn't dispute the fact, is the… |
| 18-6429 |
Victor Dewayne White v. Ector County Appraisal District |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion california-v-larue civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-discretion due-process federal-law judicial-ruling jurisdiction legal-procedure standing state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the Texas Courts abuse their discretion when they ruled contrary to established Federal Law, or as now ruled contrary to this Honorable Court's Ru… |
| 18-6430 |
Kinzie Decarlos Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 alibi-defense appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel off-the-record off-the-record-facts procedural-default section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred in denying an evidentiary hearing on a § 2255 motion without resolving contested material facts |
| 18-6431 |
Justin Jenkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment evidence-suppression Exclusionary-Rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception Illegal-Search Illegal-Seizure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing vehicle-search |
Whether the trial court erred in refusing to suppress evidence from illegal searches |
| 18-6432 |
Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession confession-voluntariness consent-to-search due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation interrogation-circumstances involuntary law-enforcement-tactics totality-of-the-circumstances young-adult |
Whether Due Process allows federal agents to obtain a confession and a consent to search from an immature, young adult that has been startled awake by… |
| 18-6434 |
Craig Martin Shults v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ninth-circuit precedent rule-52(b) severance severance-motion waiver waiver-rule |
Whether failure to renew a severance motion at the close of evidence waives the issue, such that it precludes appellate review |
| 18-6445 |
Tracy Lebron Vick v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-bargaining public-interest sentencing sentencing-procedure unconstitutional |
Whether the provisions of Rule 36.1 of the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure, Tennessee Code Annotated § 29-21-101, and Tennessee law are unconsti… |
| 18-6447 |
Eullis Monroe Goodwin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did Counsel's Failure to properly develope and present Objections to Petitioner's designation as an career offender, render Ineffective Assistance und… |
| 18-6451 |
Randolph Johnson Spain v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-principles apprendi-v-new-jersey cross-reference fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals fourth-circuit-mandate multiple-count-adjustment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-application statutory-maximum |
Whether the application of the cross-reference to Count 2 of the indictment pursuant to Guidelines § 2G1.1 and § 2A3.1, and the subsequent application… |
| 18-6456 |
William J. O'Brien, III v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 18-6457 |
Abel Puente v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendant retained-attorney right-to-discharge-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and to counsel of choice, which also provided the right to discharge counsel, wil… |
| 18-6459 |
Cliserio Balmes-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
Whether a sentencing judge must provide some express treatment to a defendant's non-frivolous arguments |
| 18-6461 |
Gerren K. Love v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines causation-element circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-classification criminal-law force-definition sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-crime violent-force |
If a statute has a causation-of-harm element, does it also necessarily have an element of violent force for purposes of classifying the crime as a vio… |
| 18-6462 |
Juan Carlos Mendez v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the prosecution's use of 'were they lying' questions and argument to secure a criminal conviction constitutes prosecutorial misconduct and vio… |
| 18-6463 |
Jose Gilberto Portillo v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-obligations counsel-obligations-guilty-plea critical-stage due-process guilty-pleas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper language-barrier missouri-v-frye non-english-speaker plea-bargaining plea-negotiation sixth-amendment young-defendant |
Whether the DC Court of Appeals' decision conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on counsel's obligations to adequately counsel client regarding guilt… |
| 18-6468 |
Bernabe Lugo-Santiago v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-regulation firearms indictment interstate-commerce jury-finding jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden |
Whether the Government must allege and prove a connection to interstate commerce for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) |
| 18-6472 |
James Gibson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-trial mandatory-minimum prior-convictions reasonable-doubt recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Petitioner's sentence violated his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial |
| 18-6473 |
Jeremy Bernard Harrison v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing |
Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(… |
| 18-6474 |
Tyrone Hart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act begay-v-united-states categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense elonis-v-united-states federal-law florida-statute intent-to-sell mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states |
Is a post-2002 conviction for possession with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver a controlled substance in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'se… |
| 18-6475 |
Lewis Wright v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cross-examination-rights due-process evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment parole perjury prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-bias |
Whether the court of common pleas erred in limiting Mr. Stein's ability to establish witness Joseph Farley's bias |
| 18-6483 |
Armando Chavez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing indictment indictment-requirements judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of reasonable' federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-6484 |
Markus Davis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights fourth-amendment pat-down police-procedure prior-incidents reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether factors based largely on prior incidents, some years old, can provide a police officer with the reasonable suspicion the Fourth Amendment requ… |
| 18-6494 |
Terrance Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure discretionary-review district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-reopen post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review |
Did the district court abuse its discretion by denying the Rule 60(b) motion without discovery or an evidentiary hearing? |
| 18-6495 |
Richard Anthony Trent v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split demand-for-certainty divisibility divisible-statute federal-courts federal-statute-interpretation mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach state-law-materials statutory-interpretation |
Is the demand for certainty satisfied where, after a survey of relevant, state-law materials, the federal court can only say what is 'suggestive' and … |
| 18-6496 |
John Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-argument appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-location cell-phone-location-data cell-phone-tracking constitutional-rights conviction-affirmance conviction-affirmation fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which failed to address Thomas's appellate argument that his Fourth Amendment rights were… |
| 18-6497 |
Dexter Watson v. Raymond Byrd, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing factual-disputes intent reversible-error |
Did the court reasonably infer petitioner's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 18-6498 |
Gildardo Majalca-Aguilar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process equal-protection sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred in denying the motion for sentence reduction under Amendment 782 §3582(c)(2) despite the minimal quantities of drugs … |
| 18-6504 |
James D. Russian v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defendant criminal-procedure federal-court habeas-corpus haines-v-kerner liberal-construction liberal-construction-rule pro-se pro-se-filings pro-se-pleadings right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitution-of-counsel |
When a criminal defendant's pro se filings can be stated as a valid basis for substitution of counsel, must a federal court read those filings in such… |
| 18-6505 |
Brian Powell v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review district-court first-circuit fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,private-search-doctrine,united-st motion-to-suppress private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure united-states-v-jacobsen |
Whether the First Circuit erred when it relied upon the private search doctrine as delineated by this Court in United States v. Jacobsen, 466 U.S. 109… |
| 18-6512 |
Jabril Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appeals cell-phone-privacy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule false-imprisonment Fourth-Amendment jurisdiction jury-trial probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest sentencing standing warrantless-search |
Whether petitioners were arrested without probable cause |
| 18-6515 |
Kevin Wayne Vanover and Meredith Ann Yates v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment,constitutional-interpretation,histor civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearm-rights founding-era government-power historical-evidence historical-intent individual-liberty military-force right-to-bear-arms second-amendment standing takings |
Whether the Second Amendment protects the right of the people to be prepared to resist abuse of government power by military force, with equal force |
| 18-6518 |
Gregory Crum v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-crimes drug-offense drug-offenses foreign-origin leadership-enhancement methamphetamine relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in determining relevant conduct |
| 18-6519 |
Mariano Alvarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion life-sentence mistrial plea-bargaining plea-negotiation recusal sentencing-guidelines |
Can doubts in granting a Certificate of Appealability (COA) be resolved in favor of the appellant when considering the severity of his life sentence? |
| 18-6524 |
Brian Thomas, aka O'Brian A. Thomas, aka Thomas A. O'Brian v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard berger-standard berger-v-united-states berger-v-us due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-review jury-bias jury-misconduct procedural-violation prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit courts violated Berger v US after it conceded that the violations had occurred but deciding that it was 'implausible that it… |
| 18-6531 |
Tyler G. Eppes v. United States |
Armed Forces |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process evidence evidence-suppression inevitable-discovery military-magistrate personal-bags scope-of-search scrivener's-error search-authorization search-warrant serivener's-error |
Was this an error? |
| 18-6534 |
John Taylor Tyler v. Eric Wilson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act factual-innocence federal-habeas habeas-corpus savings-clause statute-of-limitations |
When a prisoner has made a substantial showing of factual innocence, does a district court err when it holds that the broad jurisdiction of 28 U.S.C. … |
| 18-6546 |
Alexander Castellano-Benitez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence exculpatory-evidence Judicial-Precedent precedent Procedural-Review prosecutorial-misconduct Writ-of-Certiorari |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the Eight Circuit and the lower court erred in failing to follow this court's prior precedent i… |
| 18-6548 |
Salvatore Leone v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-habeas-motion welch-v-united-states |
Are federal courts precluded from granting a federal prisoner's successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate an illegal sentence based on Johnson wher… |
| 18-6549 |
Eric Branch v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-shuttling anti-shuttling-violation appeal-waiver constitutional-violation corrupt-officials due-process garza-v-idaho iada-violation ida-violation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel roe-v-flores-ortega |
whether-trial-counsel-and-evidentiary-counsel-were-ineffective |
| 18-6632 |
In Re Danny Howell |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
adverse-consequences article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing |
Does the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in refusing to permit consideration of a vital intervening legal development when petitioner's prior ha… |
| 18-6675 |
In Re Ryan Lee Zater |
|
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus residual-clause section-2244 section-924c sentencing supervisory-powers vagueness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of Zater's §2244 application, which would have been granted in other circuits under divergent gatekeeping protocol… |
| 18-81 |
Carltez Taylor v. Indiana |
Indiana |
Denied |
|
constitutional-proportionality cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-expectancy life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion term-of-years |
Whether it is cruel and unusual punishment to sentence a juvenile to a term exceeding their life expectancy for a single offense |
| 18-89 |
AmeriCulture, Inc., et al. v. Los Lobos Renewable Power, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-SLAPP attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal-motion expedited-motions federal-court federal-procedure fee-shifting free-speech public-participation |
Whether state anti-SLAPP fee-shifting provisions apply in federal court |
| 18M67 |
Jacob W. Deng v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M68 |
Michelle McGuirk v. Airbnb, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M69 |
Robert J. Trease v. Florida |
Florida |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|