| 18-149 |
Doug Lair, et al. v. Jeff Mangan, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of Political Practices, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
campaign-finance campaign-finance-regulation civil-rights constitutional-rights contribution-limits election-law first-amendment free-speech political-contributions political-parties political-speech quid-pro-quo-corruption randall-v-sorrell standing |
Whether Montana's base candidate contribution limits on individual and political committees are unconstitutional under the First Amendment |
| 18-307 |
State National Bank of Big Spring, et al. v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
appropriations-clause bureau-of-consumer-financial-protection civil-rights congressional-oversight constitutional-structure dodd-frank due-process executive-authority independent-agency power-of-the-purse removal-power removal-restrictions separation-of-powers |
Whether the CFPB violates separation-of-powers |
| 18-317 |
Alan Metzgar, et al. v. KBR, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
baker-v-carr civil-procedure damages-suit direct-control judicial-justiciability justiciability military-contractor military-contractors political-question-doctrine private-defendant state-law-tort |
Whether, and under what circumstances, a state-law tort suit for damages against a private defendant that does not satisfy any of the factors identifi… |
| 18-324 |
Douglas Leone, et ux., as Trustees Under That Certain Unrecorded Leone-Perkins Family Trust Dated August 26, 1999, as Amended v. Maui County, Hawaii, et al. |
Hawaii |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment economic-benefit economically-beneficial-use fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment investment-use just-compensation land-use lucas-v-south-carolina-coastal-council natural-state property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings-clause |
Whether holding undeveloped property as an 'investment' or using it as a 'park' in its natural state constitutes economically beneficial or productive… |
| 18-389 |
Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Brian Newton |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
choice-of-law circuit-split fair-labor-standards-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption gap-filling outer-continental-shelf-lands-act reliance-interests state-law state-law-borrowing statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour-laws |
Whether, under OCSLA, state law is borrowed as the applicable federal law only when there is a gap in the coverage of federal law, as the Fifth Circui… |
| 18-391 |
Arizona v. Guy James Goodman |
Arizona |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
adversarial-hearing bail-denial bail-restrictions clear-proof criminal-procedure due-process facial-unconstitutionality pretrial-detention salerno sexual-assault united-states-v-salerno |
Did the Arizona Supreme Court err in holding that United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739 (1987), prohibits a State from denying bail to an arrestee wh… |
| 18-394 |
Denis P. Kelleher, et ux. v. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation |
New York |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
discretionary-land-use-permit discretionary-permit investment-backed-expectations land-use-restriction palazzolo-v-rhode-island penn-central penn-central-test property-rights real-estate-market regulatory-taking regulatory-takings regulatory-takings-test |
Whether a property owner may be deemed to lack investment-backed expectations, and thus be barred from challenging a land use restriction as a regulat… |
| 18-457 |
North Carolina Department of Revenue v. The Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust |
North Carolina |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
beneficiary-residency constitutional-challenge due-process federalism pennoyer-v-neff state-courts state-revenue state-tax-revenue state-taxation trust trust-income trust-taxation |
Does the Due Process Clause prohibit states from taxing trusts based on trust beneficiaries' in-state residency? |
| 18-481 |
Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media, dba Argus Leader |
Eighth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20) |
circuit-split commercial-information commercial-or-financial-information competitive-harm confidential-information financial-information foia-exemption foia-exemption-4 freedom-of-information-act-foia statutory-interpretation |
Does the statutory term 'confidential' in FOIA Exemption 4 bear its ordinary meaning, regardless of substantial competitive harm? |
| 18-485 |
Edward G. McDonough v. Youel Smith, Individually and as Special District Attorney for the County of Rensselaer, New York, aka Trey Smith |
Second Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-proceedings due-process fabrication-of-evidence section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
When does the statute of limitations begin to run on a Section 1983 claim based on fabrication of evidence in criminal proceedings? |
| 18-496 |
Barry Michaels v. Matthew G. Whitaker, Acting Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-of-columbia-v-heller due-process felon-disarmament felons firearms-restriction heller heller-precedent law-abiding-citizens second-amendment standing |
What does the phrase 'law-abiding, responsible citizens' mean? |
| 18-5131 |
Tu My Tong v. New Mexico, et al. |
New Mexico |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-action qualified-immunity standing state-action |
Whether plaintiffs can bring civil rights claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for alleged violations of their constitutional rights by state defendants |
| 18-5180 |
Wen Liu v. University of Miami School of Medicine |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
disparate-impact eeoc-charge eeoc-charges employment-discrimination employment-discrimination-title-vii family-medical-leave-act fmla-claims medical-leave retaliation statute-of-limitations title-vii |
Which was the terminate date University of Miami terminated me? October 12, 2012 with a failed attempt of termination letter dated October 7, 2011 or … |
| 18-525 |
Fort Bend County, Texas v. Lois M. Davis |
Fifth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7) |
administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-claim employment-discrimination exhaustion jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite title-vii waivable-claim-processing-rule |
Whether Title VII's administrative exhaustion requirement is a jurisdictional prerequisite to suit |
| 18-5429 |
Michael Garry v. Trane Company |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud judicial-review jurisdiction labor-law standing state-court-appeals |
Whether the Wisconsin courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction despite evidence of fraud and due pro… |
| 18-5499 |
Hilario Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence evidentiary-hearing federal-court habeas-corpus involuntary-plea state-court time-barred |
Whether a federal court failed to hold an evidentiary hearing on habeas corpus if, among other factors, the petitioner was unable to develop the factu… |
| 18-5523 |
Chris Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-evidence false-testimony miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence new-reliable-evidence |
Claim of actual innocence given that the state presented false evidence at trial, namely fraudulent testimony from law enforcement officers |
| 18-573 |
Colony Cove Properties, LLC v. City of Carson, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
appellate-review character-of-regulatory-action city-of-monterey-v-del-monte-dunes economic-impact investment-backed-expectations investment-expectations jury-trial jury-trial-7th-amendment penn-central penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-takings seventh-amendment standard-of-review takings-clause-5th-amendment |
Whether a regulation that causes a property temporary but substantial cash losses is immune as a matter law from regulatory takings scrutiny if these … |
| 18-5763 |
Jimmy Don Wooten v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diligence-standard due-process insanity insanity-defense jurisdiction legal-diligence mental-capacity mental-handicap procedural-fairness standing |
Did the Arkansas Supreme Court violate due process by denying mentally handicapped petitioner opportunity to litigate insanity at time of trial? |
| 18-5810 |
Laureano Chirino Rivera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence government-error government-misconduct judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing |
Violation of all constitutional rights, illegal sentence and detention |
| 18-5920 |
Ronnie R. Rolland v. Carnation Building Services, Inc. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
ada-accommodation civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination judicial-estoppel misconduct-claims reasonable-accommodation retaliation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction termination |
Whether the appeals court ruling conflicts with previous Supreme Court decisions on important matters and cannot survive application of the correct le… |
| 18-5925 |
Dean Loren v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-filing civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-misconduct public-forum standing state-actor |
Whether the lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings in failing to file an appeal under FRAP Rule 4, … |
| 18-5981 |
Elizabeth Pastor v. Partnership for Children's Rights |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
article-78-proceeding civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process employer-threshold employment employment-discrimination judicial-transfer standing statutory-interpretation title-vii |
Should the lower court have denied full discovery for the purpose of violating Title VII? |
| 18-604 |
Lorina G. Delfierro v. Pensco Trust Company, fbo Jeffrey D. Hermann |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing beneficiary custodial-arrangement custodian due-process fifth-amendment promissory-note self-directed-ira standing standing-article-iii,self-directed-ira,custodian-b |
Whether a self-directed IRA custodian has standing to litigate over an IRA asset without joining the beneficiary |
| 18-6046 |
Michael Skillern v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-counsel constitutional-error due-process extraterritorial-effect geders-v-united-states harmless-error mail-fraud perry-v-leeke sixth-amendment structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-recess wire-fraud |
did-the-district-court-violate-the-sixth-amendment |
| 18-6050 |
Timothy L. Rodriguez v. DeWayne Burton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause subject-matter-jurisdiction Void-for-Lack-of-Jurisdiction warrantless-arrest |
Whether the states have reached incongruent results when interpreting this Court's decision due to a radical defect that occurred after the petitioner… |
| 18-607 |
Jon Roozbeh Vazeen, aka Hassan Vazin v. Michelle Smith Vazin |
Tennessee |
Denied |
|
asset-dissipation civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial free-speech galileo-style-prosecution national-science-foundation patent property-rights scientific-prosecution standing takings trial-court-overreach |
Does a trial court have the right to prosecute a scientist for forward-thinking science? |
| 18-610 |
TiEnergy, LLC v. Wisconsin Central Ltd. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure consignee-liability contract contract-law demurrage-charges seventh-circuit shipping-law statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Whether a party who has not agreed to be a consignee can nevertheless be liable for demurrage charges as a matter of law |
| 18-6162 |
Lyanne Lemeunier-Fitzgerald v. Maine |
Maine |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment blood-test civil-rights consent-coercion criminal-penalties due-process implied-consent mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search |
Does a motorist voluntarily consent to a warrantless blood draw if she has been warned that refusal to submit will result in a mandatory minimum perio… |
| 18-620 |
Jamahl Harim Simmons v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-challenge due-process foreign-state jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the state trial court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction |
| 18-6210 |
Gerald P. Mitchell v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11)Relisted (2)IFP |
blood-draw exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment implied-consent motorist-rights search-and-seizure unconscious-motorist warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Whether a statute authorizing a blood draw from an unconscious motorist provides an exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement |
| 18-6309 |
Warren Justin Hardy v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
comparative-analysis equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination racial-overtones sixth-amendment |
Whether the California Supreme Court's refusal to conduct a meaningful comparative analysis or infer a likelihood of discriminatory purpose violates t… |
| 18-631 |
Kevin McCabe v. Gerardo Aranda, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure class-action class-action-settlement-agreement class-members cy-pres district-court due-process guidance judicial-discretion potential-recipients procedural-fairness recipient-selection settlement-agreement standing |
Whether a cy pres provision of a class-action settlement agreement may authorize class members to make recommendations for the selection of a cy pres … |
| 18-635 |
Brian M. Burmaster v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-general criminal-conspiracy federal-court-judges federal-judges immunity international-criminal-court international-law judicial-immunity jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction u.s.-attorney-general |
Are US Federal Court Judges and former U.S. Attorney General immune from the International Criminal Court? |
| 18-638 |
Greg Anderson v. Gary Herbert, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy contract-law contractual-interpretation due-process judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-challenge property-rights standing state-court-procedure void-judgment |
Is a judgment void on its face when a State Court steals a paid-for home at the motion to dismiss stage of the proceedings, under the guise that the o… |
| 18-641 |
J. M., By and Through his Mother, Maria Mandeville v. Kathryn Matayoshi, Superintendent, Hawaii Public Schools, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
autism bullying burden-of-proof due-process endrew-f fape free-appropriate-public-education idea individualized-education-program special-education special-education-law |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to follow the Supreme Court's standard for a free appropriate public education (FAPE) established in… |
| 18-643 |
Janette Dunkle v. Jennifer Dale, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-seizure circuit-court-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-seizure |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying the narrow approach from Kirkpatrick, and whether Circuit-level opinions stating that an emergency is requ… |
| 18-644 |
David Carl Cottingham v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. |
Washington |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-conduct bar-discipline due-process first-amendment objective-analysis petitioning petitioning-rights pro-se-representation professional-discipline regulatory-approval split state-court strict-scrutiny |
Should this court resolve the split in state court responses to this court's prescribed objective analysis protecting first amendment petitioning as d… |
| 18-6471 |
Anthony Cardell Haynes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit-review finality gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez merits-review rule-60(b) rule-60b strickland substantiality trevino-standard |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in finding no 'extraordinary circumstances' and that the ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claim was not 'substa… |
| 18-650 |
Miguel Cabrera-Rangel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response Waived |
acquittal-impact acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibits a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on a charge for which the jury a… |
| 18-6598 |
Darryl A. Robinson v. Tony Baynes |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the government's seizure of private property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| 18-6615 |
Eugene Riley, III v. Stephanie Dorethy, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment criminal-justice due-process evidence jury-instructions law legal-assessment legal-principles separateness-of-events |
Whether Ritey was denied his 6th Amendment right to have his jury assessed with instructions on the application of legal principles to the evidence an… |
| 18-6617 |
James L. Rudzavice v. D. J. Harmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitution constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech freedom-of-speech habeas-corpus judicial-oath judicial-review separation-of-powers standing supreme-law |
How can a constitutional challenge be frivolous? |
| 18-6621 |
Aloeng Kelly Vang v. Tom Roy, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel effective-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-prong sixth-amendment state-law straight-plea straight-pleas trial-rights ultimate-authority |
Where offers of straight pleas to the district court is permitted under state law, does state criminal defendants receive their Sixth Amendment right … |
| 18-6624 |
Farris Genner Morris v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge-review batson-v-kentucky collateral-review due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
Where the trial prosecutor's rationale for striking the lone black juror applied just as well to two white jurors, and the proof that the prosecutor's… |
| 18-6626 |
William Foley Miller v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial procedural-default right-to-counsel state-appellate-review |
Who did not use any federal case's or federal codes, did not preserve these issues for review that creates an unexhausted and procedurally defaulted c… |
| 18-6631 |
David Hollenback, Jr. v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice state-conviction state-court-jurisdiction |
Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals commit error by denying the petitioner a Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-6633 |
Keith Fremin v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
castration civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process good-time guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-district plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the 22 Judicial District Court failed to uphold the plea agreement in exchange |
| 18-6634 |
Leandro Leonel Gonzalez v. F. Armenta, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech Is there a right to have-a-witness in the Due-Proc mail-communication prisoner-rights witness-testimony |
Is there a right to outgoing mail in the First Amendment? |
| 18-6635 |
Eddie Hampton v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error felony-murder first-degree-murder jury-instruction jury-instructions murder natural-and-probable-consequence natural-probable-consequence prejudice-standard premeditated-murder standard-of-prejudice |
Where she jury was erroneously instrycted on (a) Murder as a natural and presbable consequence per peopie vs chiu 39 cal 4th $35 172 cad Rotr 3d 438 3… |
| 18-6636 |
James Edward Griffin v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang jury-instructions misconduct motorcycle-gang prosecutorial-misconduct |
Was appellant deprived of a fair trial and due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the trial court al… |
| 18-6640 |
James Derrick Hundley v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing |
Whether the federal habeas court improperly and unconstitutionally suspended and foreclosed petitioner's habeas rights? |
| 18-6641 |
Antonio Fahie v. Neil McDowell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal-motion prosecutorial-misconduct rape-charges right-to-counsel sentencing |
Why didn't the judge let the defendant take back their plea when counsel told the court the defendant never admitted to the rape charges? |
| 18-6643 |
Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-competence judicial-discretion judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-standards rule-of-law state-court-decision |
Whether the state court decision is contrary to federal law based on the principle of an independent, fair, and competent judiciary |
| 18-6644 |
Jingyuan Feng v. Sheena Komenda, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adverse-employment-action employment-discrimination employment-discrimination,civil-rights,title-vii,p equal-employment performance-evaluation pretext retaliation title-vii |
Whether the falsified employment performance statements are pretexts or legitimate reasons for the employment decisions |
| 18-6645 |
Peyton John Wesley Hopson v. Stark County, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-faith in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion manifest-injustice pro-se standing |
Do the district court's failure to state reasons for certifying lack of good faith, failure to dismiss as frivolous, and failure to allow amendment am… |
| 18-6646 |
John Edward Davis v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
autopsy-photographs coercion constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-confession involuntary-statements juvenile-offender juvenile-offender-rights juvenile-rights motion-to-suppress right-to-testify self-incrimination |
Whether the Florida Court of Appeals unreasonably applied this Court's precedent |
| 18-6648 |
Tracy Lynn Escobedo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
None |
|
| 18-6649 |
Thelma R. Davis v. Brown & Dortch LLC, et al. |
Maryland |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-representation civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process indigent-rights judicial-impartiality partiality standing state-court-corruption unfair-treatment |
Corruption-within-state-court-system |
| 18-6651 |
Antonio Cobb v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness right-to-fair-trial statement-against-interest trial-procedure |
Whether the trial judge denied the petitioner a trial in accord with fundamental standards of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing… |
| 18-6655 |
Andrew John Miller v. Duncan MacLaren, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence preliminary-examination right-to-counsel sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Whether the admission of a Preliminary Examination transcript violated the Petitioner-Appellant's 6th Amendment right to confront the witness |
| 18-6656 |
Timothy Kyle Prince v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment suggestive-identification suggestive-procedures unreliable-identification witness-identification |
Whether petitioner was denied of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair trial, due process |
| 18-6657 |
Mohsen Khoshmood v. DC HQ Housing Authority |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities civil-rights constitutional-violations discrimination due-process employment employment-rights government-services housing-authority housing-discrimination |
What is the issue being raised? |
| 18-6658 |
Ronald D. Veteto v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Alabama |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection indigent pro-se standing |
Whether a State may arbitrarily deny an indigent pro se prisoner effective and meaningful access to the courts? |
| 18-6663 |
Esau Escobar v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions murder murder-conviction prior-acts provocation provocation-defense self-defense substantial-evidence |
Whether the Appellate Court erred in rejecting the Petitioner's claim of provocation instruction due to the Petitioner's testimony that he acted out o… |
| 18-6668 |
Michael Tory, Jr. v. Whited, RNB, et al. |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure common-knowledge due-process jury-determination jury-selection legal-standard medical-malpractice procedural-rights state-authority state-regulation |
Can the State of Virginia in all medical malpractice cases determine the common knowledge and experience of a jury? |
| 18-6669 |
Gernard Denez Chestnut v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-justice due-process equal-protection public-health standing civil-rights criminal-justice discrimination due-process equal-protection standing |
Can entry other cases in Florida with similar stakes be granted relief if not the one presented in this petition? |
| 18-6670 |
Richard Allen Barker v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice-liability constitutional-law constitutional-proportionate-punishment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida in-re-butler in-re-rodriguez individual-culpability proportionate-punishment |
Whether forcing the petitioner to serve an excessive punishment of 45 years incarceration for his individual culpability as an accomplice, when the ac… |
| 18-6674 |
Octavious Lamar Rhymes v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process judicial-vindictiveness jurisdiction prosecutorial-vindictiveness same-criminal-episode venue-transfer |
Where Rhymes' due process rights violated by prosecutorial and judicial vindictiveness |
| 18-668 |
Peggy Berg v. Social Security Administration |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-debt bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-553(b) circuit-split creditor-rights debt-setoff fifth-circuit mutual-debt setoff seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Whether Bankruptcy Code Section 553(b) requires that a debt be 'absolutely owed' for a setoff to occur, or whether a setoff can occur at an earlier ti… |
| 18-6685 |
Bruce Merryman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice right-to-be-present standing statute-of-limitations trial-in-absentia trial-rights |
Whether an individual can overcome the one-year statute of limitations under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 by showing he w… |
| 18-6686 |
Grady Pederson v. Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process evidence-suppression sex-offender-registry standing statute-of-limitations |
Why was the State of Minnesota allowed to suppress evidence since 11/01/1995? |
| 18-6690 |
Eric Lawson v. Kelly Speight, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 due-process employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis judicial-authority race-discrimination retaliation right-to-sue standing title-vii wrongful-termination |
Does the Petitioner have the right to sue under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, even after he has received his letter of right to sue? |
| 18-6696 |
Octavio Torres Ortega v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal motion-to-suppress public-defender speedy-trial trial-counsel witness-credibility |
did-the-trial-court-err-in-denying-a-judgment-of-acquittal |
| 18-6699 |
James Tyrell Drane v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner has a due process right to plea withdrawal because his plea was unknowing and involuntary, and entered in violation of his Sixth Am… |
| 18-6701 |
Roger Dale Epperson v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
Denied |
IFP |
client-autonomy closing-argument concession-of-guilt criminal-procedure defense-strategy ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-control-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Is a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel, and the right to control the objective of the defense, violated, under the Court's recent decision … |
| 18-6704 |
Aaron Jonathon Zemke v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion bias criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-discretion motion-to-withdraw plea-bargain plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal prejudice prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion |
Whether Mr. Zemke received ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment |
| 18-6709 |
Lawrence Alfred Landrum v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 18-671 |
Kurt Robert Smith v. Anna Valentine, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2254 aedpa federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus ignorance-of-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ignorance reasonable-counsel strategic-decision |
Must a court reviewing counsel's failure to investigate first determine whether the basis for the failure was counsel's ignorance of the law, or anoth… |
| 18-6713 |
Donald Anthony Grant v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eddings-precedent eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment lockett-rule lockett-v-ohio mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigating-evidence moral-culpability |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a sentencer to consider mitigating evidence of a capital defendant's mental health and background when determini… |
| 18-6724 |
Roger Lee Ozier v. Shirlee Harry, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review armed-robbery bank-robbery confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination eyewitness-testimony fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence probable-cause sixth-amendment |
Was the evidence sufficient to sustain Mr. Ozier's conviction for armed robbery and bank robbery? |
| 18-6730 |
William Ramirez, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure default default-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment merits-based-adjudication pro-se pro-se-litigant relief-from-default state-court state-court-procedure |
Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect relief from default as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitu… |
| 18-6751 |
Patrick McIntosh v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-4243 civil-commitment criminal-law due-process mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect mental-health-law personality-disorder statutory-interpretation |
Does a severe personality disorder constitute a mental disease or defect under 18 U.S.C. § 4243(c)(d) civil commitment provision? |
| 18-6754 |
Domonic McCarns v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-amendment criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment plain-error-review speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether Cryptic Letter, Number Codes are Sufficient to Satisfy the Speedy Trial Act Requirement that Reasons Justifying Delay of a Criminal Trial Must… |
| 18-6756 |
John J. Koresko v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights contempt debt-imprisonment disgorgement due-process erisa erisa-case erisa-enforcement garnishment imprisonment judicial-review labor-secretary-powers preliminary-injunction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly decided that parts of a $38 million judgment for disgorgement' entered in 2015 against the Peti… |
| 18-6831 |
David Errol Willock v. William Sperfslage, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal habeas-corpus postconviction-relief remand rule-of-lenity statute-of-limitations |
Whether the correct calculation of the statute of limitations in a habeas corpus action under 28 USC 2254 where the petitioner has filed for state pos… |
| 18-6860 |
Johnny Ray McCloud v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process dwelling-definition dwelling-vs-storage-building equal-protection florida-law florida-statutes habeas-corpus perkins-vs-state young-vs-state |
Was Perkins v. State, 682 So. 2d 1083 (Fla. 1996) correctly applied? |
| 18-6874 |
Christine Cornelius v. Town of Atkinson, New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights corruption disability-accommodations disability-rights due-process incompetence judicial-proceedings legal-abuse reasonable-accommodations standing |
Whether the Court unconstitutionally denied the Petitioner, disabled with bipolar disorder, her rights to reasonable accommodations during judicial pr… |
| 18-690 |
Bruce C. Rosetto, et al. v. Charles Murphy, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
barton-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-receiver due-process federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-12(b)(1) jurisdictional-dismissal pleading-standards rule-12(b)(1) standing ultra-vires |
Where a plaintiff alleges that an agent of a court-appointed receiver is liable for misconduct committed outside the scope of designated authority, bu… |
| 18-693 |
Steven Crain v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment legal-process malicious-prosecution unreasonable-seizure |
Does an individual's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizure continue beyond legal process so as to allow a malicious prosecution … |
| 18-6939 |
Jonathan S. Nelson v. Joe Norwood, Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography conviction-reversal de-novo-review due-process first-amendment obscenity scienter |
Whether the right to a de novo review demands the reversal of conviction once the images disappear from the record post-conviction if the verbiage in … |
| 18-6955 |
Guy W. Harrison, III v. Fulton County, Georgia |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-ruling summary-judgement summary-judgment title-vii trial-by-jury |
Whether the lower courts have the authority to grant Summary Judgement when the EEOC has ruled that the Plaintiff rights were violated under Title VIF… |
| 18-6971 |
Zachery Joseph Cooley, aka Red v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states guideline-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
When a defendant appeals his sentence on the grounds that his Guideline range was miscalculated, may an appellate court disregard any error in the gui… |
| 18-6980 |
Traveon Shaquille Martin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility clear-error criminal-procedure district-court offense-level sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-3e1.1 |
Whether the district court clearly erred in denying a three-level reduction in Petitioner's offense level for acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S… |
| 18-6983 |
Sholam Weiss v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and a Certificate of Appealability should have is where the government had committed itself to pros adversary-system adverse-positions certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury prosecutorial-commitment prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel |
Whether Mr. Weiss was denied his right to conflict-free counsel during grand jury proceedings |
| 18-6984 |
Benjamin Tillman v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 collateral-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcfadden-case mcfadden-v-us retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
Whether petitioner was entitled to file an application for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. §2241 and/or 28 U.S.C. 2255(e) in light of McFadden v. U.S. |
| 18-6986 |
Nathan Lynn Cloud v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment intergovernmental-agreements law-enforcement law-enforcement-agreements nevada-v-hicks service-of-process tribal-sovereignty |
Does the tribal criminal defendant have Fourth Amendment rights when state law enforcement violates an agreement with the tribe regarding criminal ser… |
| 18-6994 |
Cleveland McDowell Meador, IV v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent-search consent-to-search felon-in-possession fourth-amendment home-search police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure supervision supervision-of-search withdrawal-consent withdrawal-of-consent |
Whether police officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they obtain consent to search a person's home, then keep that person outside the home, preve… |
| 18-6995 |
Ashley Owens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant co-defendant-disparity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection loss-calculation plea-agreement sentencing |
Did the Lower Courts violate the Due Process Clause when they sentenced Owens based on an unproven and inflated loss? |
| 18-7004 |
Miguel Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 18-7005 |
Denis Aviles Salguero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing |
Whether Petitioner's convictions for receipt and possession of child pornography violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| 18-7007 |
Ronald T. Spoor v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2256 child-pornography civil-rights due-process equal-protection lascivious-exhibition racial-discrimination rule-414 school-desegregation sexual-proclivities standing uncharged-crimes |
Must a video be considered in its totality to determine if it is a 'lascivious exhibition' under 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v)? |
| 18-7009 |
Jimmy Davis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure notice notice-requirement procedural-due-process supervised-release third-circuit |
Whether Mr. Davis was denied procedural due process |
| 18-7010 |
Jermaine Mitchell v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause expert-testimony expert-witness forensic-evidence lab-reports law-enforcement-testimony lay-testimony narcotics narcotics-testimony scientific-evidence sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence |
Whether law enforcement (lay) testimonies about the narcotics character of certain substances may be shined with the expert testimonial gloss of unpro… |
| 18-7012 |
Anthony Jerome Addison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-rights criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment origination-clause sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-claims |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 18-7021 |
Juan Thomas v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility-of-evidence due-process eighth-amendment equitable-tolling fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge martinez-v-ryan notice-of-appeal public-defender |
Whether the Circuit Court erred in failing to appropriately consider the 'Equitable Tolling' in conjunction with Ineffective Assistance of the Public … |
| 18-7023 |
Webster Douglas Williams, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection exclusionary-rule forced-entry fourth-amendment restitution ruse search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel third-party |
When police officers attempt to gain voluntary admittance to a residence by use of a ruse, which fails, and are peacably asked to present a search war… |
| 18-7029 |
Jorge Ruelas-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-7032 |
Reginald L. Lomax v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-drug-law federal-preemption mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state statute criminalizing possession of 'counterfeit' controlled substances qualifies as a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career C… |
| 18-7035 |
Eminiano A. Reodica v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-withdrawal rule-11 |
Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(d) governing motions to withdraw a guilty plea establishes a liberal standard which precludes the distri… |
| 18-7037 |
Gerald L. Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b-6 criminal-law district-court due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ii johnson-v-united-states judicial-procedure retroactivity rule-60b sentencing welch-v-united-states |
Whether the district court and Eighth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's true Rule 60(b)(6) motion, when the district court failed to address petit… |
| 18-7039 |
Alexander Ndaula v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 5th-amendment 6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing loss-amount sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 5th and 6th Amendments require an evidentiary hearing on disputed sentencing factors and an adequate explanation for an enhanced sentence … |
| 18-7044 |
Andrew John Yellowbear, Jr. v. Robert O. Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections |
Wyoming |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-court-jurisdiction federal-court-review federal-jurisdiction federal-laws-and-statutes habeas-corpus indian-treaties indian-tribes-and-reservations state-habeas-corpus |
Whether the Wyoming Supreme Court's reliance on precedent derived from the state-friendly deferential standard of the Antiterrorism and Effective Deat… |
| 18-7050 |
Javier Portillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
border-crossing border-search criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence jury knowledge-standard mens-rea narcotics-possession ninth-circuit standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence trial-sufficiency |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's analysis of the facts was inadequate |
| 18-7060 |
Brian William Schumaker v. Hector Joyner, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claims due-process judicial-notice jury-instructions prudential-consideration theory-of-defense void-for-vagueness |
Whether the lower courts erred in recharacterizing and failing to fully consider the petitioner's constitutional claims of actual innocence and theory… |
| 18-7061 |
Francisco Reza v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-crime federal-crimes felon-in-possession firearms-possession ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing state-misdemeanor |
Did Petitioner's prior crimes qualify as Federal Crimes for enhancement? |
| 18-7067 |
Derrick Christopher Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-law divisible-statute drug-offense modified-categorical-approach plain-error prior-state-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether petitioner's prior state drug offenses qualified as enumerated offenses under the career criminal provision of the United States Sentencing Gu… |
| 18-7074 |
Gennaro Mattiaccio v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the evidence was insufficient to sustain the convictions on Count 3 |
| 18-7076 |
Evelyn Person v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process inconsistent-verdicts jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-conflict narcotics narcotics-conspiracy special-interrogatories |
Whether the Second Circuit's failure to vacate the verdict of guilt rendered against Petitioner in the narcotics conspiracy count based upon an irreco… |
| 18-7097 |
In Re Leigh Jesse Quinto |
|
Denied |
IFP |
bond-case bond-v-united-states civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-law due-process federalism habeas-corpus new-rule retroactivity standing supreme-court |
Did the Supreme Court's decision in Bond v. United States establish a new rule of constitutional law? |
| 18-711 |
Donny Marin, et al. v. The Bank of New York |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process foreclosure impartiality judicial-impartiality mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement |
Whether the due process protections prohibit courts from turning a blind eye to the use of fraudulent evidence to obtain foreclosure relief |
| 18-7110 |
James M. Flinn v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-allegations insufficient-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Petitioner was convicted upon insufficient evidence in violation of the Due Process Clause |
| 18-7135 |
In Re Walter Edward Harrington |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection key-terms legal-issues petition precedent scotus standing statutory-interpretation topic-areas writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statute and precedents |
| 18-715 |
Cynthia Carpenter-Barker v. Ohio Department of Medicaid, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process integration-mandate medical-necessity olmstead-v-lc rehabilitation-act rule-56-review standard-of-review |
Whether a state agency is entitled to deference of its fact opinion of medical necessity in a Fed. R. Civ. P. 56 de novo review? |
| 18-730 |
Moses McCormick, et al. v. Kim A. Browne, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 amendment amendment-futility civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief municipal-liability qualified-immunity section-1983 standing |
Whether leave to amend the plaintiff's complaint should be considered futile if the municipality with no immunity can be added as a defendant and held… |
| 18-738 |
Henry Paul Richardson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-claims defaulted-claims habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default sawyer-v-whitley schlup-v-delo standard-of-review |
Whether the Schlup v. Delo actual-innocence standard applies to a second habeas petition |
| 18-739 |
Trevor Wallace v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review case-revival constitutional-compliance dismissal-with-prejudice double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury jury-trial lee-v-us res-judicata |
May a state appellate court revive a case that was dismissed with prejudice after a jury was sworn? |
| 18-745 |
Alan Overton v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights state-action strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process |
Does the court order and underlying state action which prohibits all contact between the father and his children violate substantive due process under… |
| 18M88 |
Michael Deuschel v. USC Faculty Dental Practice, et al. |
California |
Presumed Complete |
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None |
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