| 18-260 |
County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (32)Relisted (3) |
clean-water-act fair-notice groundwater groundwater-contamination groundwater-regulation navigable-waters nonpoint-source nonpoint-source-pollution permit-requirements point-source point-source-pollution underground-injection |
Whether the CWA requires a permit when pollutants originate from a point source but are conveyed to navigable waters by a nonpoint source, such as gro… |
| 18-265 |
Micah Patterson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
adversarial confrontation constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation sixth-amendment virginia-supreme-court |
Did the Virginia Supreme Court err by effectively affirming a lower court holding that denied relief for Patterson's ineffective assistance of counsel… |
| 18-295 |
Alexander Alimanestianu, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
due-process eminent-domain espousal fifth-amendment foreign-affairs foreign-state international-law just-compensation property-rights takings |
Can the United States seize, use, and compromise the claims and judgments of its citizens against a foreign state—a practice in international law know… |
| 18-306 |
Steven M. Larrabee v. United States |
Armed Forces |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
active-duty civil-rights civilian-status court-martial due-process military-jurisdiction retired-status separation-of-powers |
Whether the Constitution permits the court-martial of a retired military servicemember |
| 18-331 |
Rafael Pabon Ortega v. Isabel Llompart Zeno, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law ex-parte-young first-amendment insular-cases promesa puerto-rico section-1983 |
Whether the automatic stay provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 362, 922, as incorporated into PROMESA are unconstitutional as applied by t… |
| 18-377 |
Montanans for Community Development v. Jeffrey A. Mangan, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
buckley-test buckley-v-valeo campaign-finance circuit-split citizens-united-v-fec entity-based-burdens first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech free-speech major-purpose ninth-circuit-split nonprecedential-decisions political-committee political-committees |
Whether states are barred by the First Amendment from imposing PAC-status and resulting entity-based burdens on groups lacking Buckley's 'major purpos… |
| 18-392 |
Aaron M. Richardson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing stored-communications-act warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
whether-cell-site-location-information-obtained-without-a-warrant-violates-the-fourth-amendment |
| 18-393 |
Aura Moody v. National Football League |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection rehabilitation-act standing standing-doctrine |
Whether the lower courts properly followed statutory and constitutional requirements in dismissing the complaint |
| 18-399 |
John W. Fink v. J. Philip Kirchner, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-error jury-trial standing summary-judgment trial-by-jury |
Whether the court of appeals abdicated its responsibility to conduct a plenary review and thereby improperly denied the petitioner of his constitution… |
| 18-404 |
The Colorado Independent v. District Court for the Eighteenth Judicial District of Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
capital-murder court-records criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment first-amendment-access judicial-proceedings press-enterprise press-enterprise-co-v-superior-court press-enterprise-doctrine public-access qualified-right |
Does the public's qualified First Amendment right of access apply to the substantive motion papers, hearing transcripts and court orders filed in a ca… |
| 18-406 |
Aaron J. Schock v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine immunity legislative-immunity non-justiciability pendent-appellate-jurisdiction rulemaking-clause separation-of-powers speech-or-debate-clause |
Whether a member of the Legislative Branch may immediately appeal the denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment on Rulemaking Clause grounds |
| 18-410 |
Corey D. Yates v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
|
brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process evidence-suppression federal-state-courts-split materiality preserving-brady-doctrine prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-diligence suppressed-evidence |
Whether a defendant must show he did not know of and could not have reasonably obtained the suppressed evidence to establish a Brady violation |
| 18-413 |
David R. Bosch v. Arizona Department of Revenue |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
26-usc-6103 26-usc-6103(d) administrative-procedure agreement-on-coordination-of-tax-administration due-process federal-authority federal-law information-sharing non-federal-agency privacy-act recipient-agency state-tax statutory-interpretation tax-administration |
Whether a non-federal recipient agency can purport to act under 26 U.S.C. § 6103(d) and the Privacy Act while ignoring due process |
| 18-423 |
Christopher Barrella v. Village of Freeport, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure golden-rule-argument jury-instructions liability liability-determination new-trial standing |
Whether a lawyer's invitation to the jury to imagine themselves in the shoes of an interested party in determining either liability or damages is impr… |
| 18-443 |
Bobby James Moore v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (5) |
capital-punishment clinical-criteria clinical-standards criminal-procedure eighth-amendment intellectual-disability lay-stereotypes medical-standards moore-v-texas |
Whether the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decision in Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017) prohibit relying on non-clinical criteria and lay ste… |
| 18-444 |
Montana v. Ronald Dwight Tipton |
Montana |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
calder-v-bull criminal-prosecution dna-evidence ex-post-facto sex-crimes statute-of-limitations stogner-v-california |
Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause bars revival of a statute of limitations for a rape case where DNA evidence identifies the suspect after the limitati… |
| 18-446 |
City of Taunton, Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
agency-deference causation causation-standard chevron-deference clean-water-act due-process effluent-limitations narrative-criteria npdes npdes-permit |
Whether the Clean Water Act and NPDES rules require a demonstration of causation beyond a 'mere possibility' to impose more restrictive effluent limit… |
| 18-462 |
Bobbie Gunderson, et vir v. Indiana, et al. |
Indiana |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
beach-access equal-footing equal-footing-doctrine great-lakes high-water-mark land-ownership navigable-waters ordinary-high-water-mark property-rights public-rights state-boundaries state-sovereignty territorial-sovereignty union-admission |
Whether the newly-admitted states took title to the entire beach surrounding the Great Lakes under the federal equal-footing doctrine |
| 18-5200 |
Kerry Kruskal v. Allan Meltzer, et al. |
New Mexico |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights collection-fees contract contract-dispute due-process judgment-lien punitive-damages standing takings trust-account |
Should Kruskal be entitled to a full release for paying off the entire judgment lien on 10/1/2015 |
| 18-538 |
Wendy A. Nora v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process due-process-clause exculpatory-evidence fair-hearing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discipline petition-for-redress petition-rights procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a lawyer can be disciplined based on evidence known by the state to be false and when the state suppresses exculpatory evidence |
| 18-541 |
Lakhdeep Deol v. Gary W. Depreta, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-conflict civil-litigation civil-procedure discovery discovery-law faulkner-v-adt federal-civil-litigation-system judicial-precedent pleading-law pleading-standards sufficiency-in-legal-proceedings third-party-intervention twombly-iqbal |
Whether the lower court's decision conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on pleading standards, circuit court rulings on discovery law, and the scope… |
| 18-5425 |
Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Joseph Aponte, et al. |
New York |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-detention standing |
Whether the New Mexico state bail law as applied ($30.42) to a bill of rights violation, purposely keeping a recluse out of the court process in viola… |
| 18-546 |
Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. v. Association for Accessible Medicines |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
commerce-clause consumer-protection dormant-commerce-clause drug-pricing extraterritoriality federalism generic-drugs prescription-drugs price-control price-gouging state-police-powers state-regulation |
Does the Commerce Clause prohibit a state from protecting consumer access to essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs by requiring manufact… |
| 18-548 |
Adorers of the Blood of Christ, United States Province, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-procedure agency-action federal-energy-regulatory-commission judicial-review natural-gas-act religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act standing |
Whether RFRA claims must be exhausted through administrative procedures before being asserted in court |
| 18-5537 |
Alla Opengeym v. Heartland Employment Services, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights complaint-procedures employment-policies hostile-work-environment retaliation whistleblower-protection civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection hostile-environment retaliation |
Whether the employee's policies and complaint procedures for addressing a hostile working environment for an employee and the court's failure to follo… |
| 18-5538 |
Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states peugh-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit volina-martinez-v-united-states |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously speculated that the District Court would have imposed the same sentence o… |
| 18-5584 |
Lawrence L. Thompson v. Pete Copeland, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-supervise fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether Deputy Copeland's arrest of Mr. Thompson was unconstitutional and warranted the denial of qualified immunity |
| 18-5591 |
Valerie Mason v. Dan A. Polster, Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 chambers-conduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-courts free-speech judicial-conduct judicial-misconduct photography recusal standing |
Whether a judge's refusal to recuse himself after being photographed in his chambers violates the petitioner's civil rights under 42 USC 1983 |
| 18-560 |
Peaje Investments LLC v. The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
|
agency-discretion agency-regulation bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-statutory-lien bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals due-process lien-definition property-interest property-rights puerto-rico-law secured-creditor statutory-lien |
Whether a lien is a 'statutory lien' under the Bankruptcy Code |
| 18-5621 |
Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Nina Helwig, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-vitiates res-judicata |
Does fraud vitiate every judicial proceeding? |
| 18-5628 |
John Richard Tacquard v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights compulsory-process due-process equal-protection evidentiary-standards post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Arizona state courts violated the petitioner's due process rights by denying his post-conviction claims despite a lack of physical evidenc… |
| 18-569 |
Linda Shao v. Tsan-Kuen Wang |
California |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appeal child-custody civil-procedure conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights dismissal due-process fraud judicial-misconduct procedural-irregularities rule-8.57 |
Does due process require reversal of the dismissal where the court fraudulently concealed dismissal and knowingly dismissed the appeal with false grou… |
| 18-5718 |
James Willis Campbell, Sr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review |
Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in reversing the Court of Appeals of Virginia's ruling and affirming the judgment of the trial court? |
| 18-5722 |
Keith Robert Lugo v. California |
California |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedures-act board-of-prison-terms constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-offender juvenile-parole parole senate-bill-261 some-evidence standard-of-proof |
Whether the Board of Prison Terms Violated Senate Bill 261 for Failing to Apply the Legally Correct Standard of Analysis |
| 18-5742 |
Solomon David Roberts v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus life-without-parole mandatory-minimums miller-v-alabama sentencing simple-robbery standing |
Whether the Supreme Court should review the role of constitutional law in excluding particular litigants based on previous filings |
| 18-5765 |
DeAndre Russell v. Redstone Federal Credit Union, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-rights bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation disqualification due-process judicial-bias pro-se res-judicata |
Has the refusal to properly adjudicate this case by the Eleventh Circuit presented prejudice and bias against the petitioner pro se? |
| 18-577 |
David Netzer v. Shell Oil Co., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appearance-of-impropriety civil-procedure conflict-of-interest disclosure due-process judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal res-judicata |
Does the above scenario represent a violation of Rule 455(a), an appearance of impropriety and/or conflict of interests? |
| 18-580 |
Nu Image, Inc. v. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
arbitration collective-bargaining-agreement declaratory-relief fraud fraud-claims intentional-misrepresentation labor-management-relations-act negligent-misrepresentation subject-matter-jurisdiction textron-lycoming |
Do federal courts have subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to Section 301(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act over a complaint for intentional a… |
| 18-5888 |
Jared Morrison v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitation constitutional-violations deferred-adjudication due-process habeas-corpus mcquiggin-perkins mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice schlup-v-delo |
Whether a Mcquiggin v. Perkins actual innocence gateway can be denied |
| 18-5931 |
John Laschkewitsch v. Legal & General America, Inc., dba Banner Life Insurance Company |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights contestability-period contract due-process incontestable-period-violation insurance insurance-authorities insurance-contract insurance-policy-contract manifest-disregard perjury-fraud-on-court policy-interpretation statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitation unfair-claim-settlement unfair-deceptive-trade-practices unfair-practices unfair-trade-practices |
Whether LGA can rely on a policy never issued or produced |
| 18-597 |
John Ching En Lee v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
agency-decision ambiguous-question false-statement false-statement-defense literal-truth materiality mens-rea real-world-context statutory-interpretation |
When determining whether an alleged false statement has a literal truth defense, may a court isolate the ambiguous question or view it in the totality… |
| 18-6003 |
David Kavandi v. Time Warner Cable, Inc., et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-dismissal california-supreme-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal-of-appeal due-process failure-to-file hospitalization illness-and-hospitalization procedural-fairness statutory-right-to-appeal |
Did the California Supreme Court violate the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution or the statutory right to appeal when it dismissed the petiti… |
| 18-6009 |
Emile Myrthil v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-16 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) attempt attempt-liability attempted-offense categorical-approach constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-statute intent-element sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-force |
Is 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-6011 |
Irek Ilgiz Hamidullin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-conflict article-iii-court battlefield-conduct combatant-detention common-law-defense criminal-prosecution foreign-soldiers international-law military-law war-crimes |
Whether Army Regulation 190-8 requires an individual determination of legal status as a prerequisite to criminal prosecution of combatants for battlef… |
| 18-6020 |
Stefan Rodgers v. Darrell Miller, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure consideration due-process fair-trial judicial-review legal-standards rule-10 standing supreme-court-procedure tribunal-fairness tribunals |
Did each of the tribunals rule fairly within the Consideration of Rule 10 (a), (b), (c) of the Supreme Court? |
| 18-6055 |
Willie Triplett, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 state-created-impediment supervisory-authority |
Whether Lower Court's denial of Motion for Reconsideration pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) based on intervening law was an abuse of discretion |
| 18-6061 |
Rogelio Ortiz-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
change-in-law criminal-appeal divisible-statute fifth-circuit intervening-change-in-law judicial-proceedings mandate mandate-rule recall-of-mandate rehearing-petition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines texas-burglary-statute |
Whether it is a serious departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when a federal court of appeals refuses to consider an in… |
| 18-6093 |
Brian Tate v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights developmental-capacity diminished-capacity due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-defendant juvenile-justice maryland-rule-4-242(c) mental-illness |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires a state court to conduct an inquiry on the record into the effects of a juvenile defendant's age, mental healt… |
| 18-6096 |
Michael Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca armed-career-criminal-act case-law evidentiary-record johnson johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
May a court grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition challenging a sentence under Johnson when the evidentiary record is silent as to whether the petitioner'… |
| 18-6106 |
James L. Miller v. Amir Kashani, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires the government to provide a hearing before seizing a person's property for civil forfei… |
| 18-6134 |
Scott Peters v. John Baldwin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion dismissal due-process federal-claim legal-action procedural-issue standing summary-judgment |
Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims due to lack of standing and failure to prosecute |
| 18-6147 |
Macking Nettles v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aedpa due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-incompetence procedural-bar substantive-due-process time-limit |
Whether a procedural bar or the AEDPA time limit apply to the substantive due process mental incompetence issue that petitioner plead guilty while men… |
| 18-6157 |
Sealed Appellee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-3553 due-process government-appeal individualized-hearing liberty-interest plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-waiver |
Whether sentence-waiver provisions in plea agreements bar government appeals |
| 18-6164 |
John B. Laschkewitsch v. ReliaStar Life Insurance Company |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights claim-limitation contestable-period due-process estoppel federal-rules-of-civil-procedure insurance insurance-contract precedent precedent-review rule-60a statutes-of-limitation |
Whether Hurni, Enelow, Stewart and Pickering precedent from this Court; American Trust Co. and Chavis precedent from the NC Supreme Court; unanimous U… |
| 18-6168 |
Soon Young Kim v. California |
California |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
What would You do against such jurists, tremendous crimes as the National matter!? |
| 18-6185 |
Jason Beckman v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding factfinding jury-factfinding juvenile-sentencing life-sentence miller-factors miller-v-alabama sentencing-factors sixth-amendment |
Whether section 921.1401, Florida Statutes, violates the Sixth Amendment by allowing a judge rather than a jury to conduct the factfinding necessary t… |
| 18-6187 |
Antonio Martinez-Lopez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1425 acquisition-of-citizenship citizenship-application criminal-statute false-statement immigration-law judicial-interpretation maslenjak-v-us naturalization naturalization-fraud revocation-of-citizenship |
Did the appeals court err in affirming petitioner's conviction for unlawful procurement of naturalization |
| 18-6212 |
Thomas Burgess v. Nicole English, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255e amendment-782 criminal-procedure intervening-arrest mandatory-minimum miscarriage-of-justice precedent-change savings-clause sentencing sentencing-modification sentencing-relief-28-usc-2255e |
Whether a defendant can seek relief under the savings clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) when the court of appeals changes its binding precedent to what th… |
| 18-622 |
Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal discovery discovery-order first-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-conduct judicial-review mohawk-industries mootness privilege supervisory-power |
Whether the court of appeals' decision to exercise jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from a discovery order rejecting a claim of privilege con… |
| 18-6228 |
John Laschkewitsch v. American National Life Insurance Company |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
breach-of-contract civil-procedure contestability due-process estoppel insurance-authorities insurance-contestability insurance-contract insurance-law precedent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation unfair-and-deceptive-trade-practices unfair-claim-settlement |
Whether Hurni, Enelow, Stewart and Pickering contestability precedent from this Court; American Trust Co. and Chavis precedent from the NC Supreme Cou… |
| 18-6258 |
Steven Lazar v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-adjudication reliability standard-of-review third-circuit-review voluntariness |
Did not the Pennsylvania state courts and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals convolute the difference between a confession's voluntariness and its rel… |
| 18-6269 |
Matthew Clayton Lloyd v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence extortion force-clause intimidation johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states physical-force sentencing-review weapon-enhancement |
Is federal bank robbery a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 18-6273 |
Antoine Davis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fair-trial fifth-amendment government-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sixth-amendment |
Whether the Lower Court Misapprehended its Abuse of discretion when the lower court excluded evidence of the Government witness, which evidence was pu… |
| 18-6288 |
Jesse Cooley, Jr. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mental-health mental-stress physical-health physical-stress retaliation workers-compensation |
Whether the petitioner's workers' compensation claim was improperly denied |
| 18-6292 |
Anthony Robinson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-provisions federal-criminal-statute force-element statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states |
Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for … |
| 18-6336 |
Chamontae Walker v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence due-process evidence evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-duty |
Is the government relieved of its Brady v. Maryland duty to disclose evidence favorable to the accused if the defense could obtain the evidence throug… |
| 18-6374 |
William Carl Welsh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-4248 actual-innocence civil-commitment federal-prison jurisdiction jurisdictional jurisdictional-requirement rule-60(b)(5) rule-60b5 section-4248 summary-reversal |
Whether a district court may deny relief from a civil-commitment judgment under 18 U.S.C. § 4248 and keep a person in federal prison indefinitely when… |
| 18-6385 |
Jeffrey Bernard Beeman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule residual-clause sentencing-challenge statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant may prove that his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the now-unconstitutional residual clause through a process of elimination o… |
| 18-6386 |
Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court-dismissal due-process emotional-distress gross-negligence motion-to-dismiss reconsideration standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred |
| 18-6409 |
Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
28-usc-2254 clear-error due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus reasoned-opinion section-2254 state-court-adjudication state-court-deference |
Where the last state court to review the merits of a state prisoner's habeas claim denied relief in a reasoned opinion, may a federal court assume the… |
| 18-6486 |
In Re Steve G. Hernandez |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-material brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence-suppression impeachment ineffective-assistance perjury witness-impeachment |
What is the constitutional violation of ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-652 |
Oussama El Omari v. Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone Authority, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
amendment-of-complaint breach-of-contract commercial-activity-exception federal-common-law-immunity federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-15(a)(2) foreign-sovereign-immunities-act fraudulent-scheme fraudulent-smear-report fraudulent-smear-scheme government-instrumentality retaliation smear-campaign u.s.-citizen us-citizen us-citizen-employee us-citizen-employment Whether federal common law immunizes a foreign rul Whether leave to amend the complaint should have b |
Whether the commercial activity exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act applies to a foreign government instrumentality's alleged breach of … |
| 18-6526 |
In Re Masao Yonamine |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights district-court exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-writ habeas-corpus personal-liberty state-writ unlawful-detention void-judgment writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a federal court may entertain and determine the merits of a state prisoner's application for habeas corpus relief from a void judgment, when t… |
| 18-6563 |
Jesus R. Gonzalez-Negron v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process factual-basis firearm-possession firearms guilty-plea machine-gun-possession plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
Is evidence of a loaded machine gun and drugs within a person's residence an adequate factual basis to support a guilty plea to possession of a firear… |
| 18-6588 |
Lesley Eugene Warren v. Edward Thomas, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment character-evidence circuit-split civil-rights death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness parole parole-ineligibility prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-procedure simmons-v-south-carolina |
Is it an unreasonable application of Simmons v. South Carolina for a State court to deny a parole ineligibility instruction where the prosecution repe… |
| 18-6608 |
William Charles O'Neil v. FCC Coleman, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue retroactive-law retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) correct? |
| 18-6630 |
In Re Taquan Gullett |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandamus ministerial-duties standing |
Whether the lower court erred in refusing to correct the case title misnomer and dismissing the habeas corpus petition |
| 18-6652 |
Michael Carlton Lowe v. Tom Roy, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-discretion due-process federal-question habeas-corpus jurisdiction liberty-interest standing |
Did the district court abuse its discretion by answering a federal question on petitioner's liberty interest in a state court? |
| 18-6679 |
Donate Graham v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture forfeiture-by-wrongdoing forfeiture-doctrine giles-v-california intent witness-procurement |
Whether the forfeiture-by-wrongdoing exception to the Confrontation Clause encompasses acts of wrongful witness procurement done by alleged co-conspir… |
| 18-669 |
Shane M. Gates v. Walter Reed, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process hobbs-act insurance-interference malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct substantive-due-process |
Whether a District Attorney violated the Hobbs Act and denied due process by prosecuting a misdemeanor case at the behest of a liability insurer |
| 18-6716 |
Jerry Walker, aka Jerry Richmond v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court conviction conviction-reversal conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-preclusion sentencing superseding-indictment |
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in vacating the Petitioner's conviction and sentence pursuant to Count One of his Superseding Indictment |
| 18-6741 |
Charles Mamou, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-U.S.C.-3599(f) court-procedure due-process funding funding-request habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-review procedural-default rule-of-law statutory-interpretation substantial-need-test |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in how it applied Ayestas v. Davis? |
| 18-6743 |
Robert J. Kulick v. Leisure Village Association, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial free-speech hoa-governance legal-malpractice perjury rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Is the Rooker-Feldman doctrine constitutional when it fails to protect individual rights under the Constitution and the purpose of the U.S. Supreme Co… |
| 18-6766 |
David Gulbrandson v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-ruling second-in-time-petition statutory-aggravating-factors statutory-aggravator successive-petitions |
Whether reasonable jurists would debate the correctness of the district court's procedural ruling that Gulbrandson's second-in-time § 2254 petition wa… |
| 18-6773 |
Tito Knox v. David Plowden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process due-process-clause equal-protection life-liberty-property standing takings |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause prohibit the government from depriving individuals of life, liberty,… |
| 18-6776 |
Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity state-court |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |
| 18-6779 |
Guy Heffington v. Pamela Puleo, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment 7th-amendment amendment-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process judicial-conspiracy legal-representation property-rights |
Whether Guy Heffington was denied due process, right to attorney, right to jury trial, and equal protection |
| 18-6796 |
Paul L. Muckle v. Wells Fargo Bank, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights code-of-conduct due-process eleventh-amendment financial-conflict financial-interest judicial-conduct judicial-recusal ninth-amendment recusal standing |
Did the second panel err in denying Muckle's motion to remand or recuse itself due to appearance of impropriety and Canon 8C |
| 18-6799 |
Maurice R. Nash v. Wachovia Bank, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-law civil-rights color-of-state-law congress congress-authority constitutional-rights due-process judicial-authority legal-jurisdiction state-law |
Do the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of Los Angeles, California 90012, Case Number LA02-30368TD, Acting under the Color of t… |
| 18-6802 |
Patrick Kitlas v. F. B. Haws, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-reason actual-reasons batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing jury-selection ninth-circuit peremptory-strike prosecutor-reasons prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination |
Does the Ninth circuit's affirmance of the denial conflict with this Court's actual reason requirement? |
| 18-6803 |
Anthony McNeil v. Mr. Grim, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure-rules-12-b-6-motion-to-dismiss civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment-free-speech standing arrest-warrant civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process speedy-trial statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial applies to the period between the filing of a criminal complaint and the issuance of an arrest war… |
| 18-6805 |
Jose Rodriguez v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-question first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instructions penal-code-187a principal reasonable-doubt |
Whether the petitioner's conviction for first-degree murder lacked sufficient evidence to support the verdict |
| 18-681 |
Chinyere U. Nwoke v. Consulate of Nigeria |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1603 28-usc-1605 commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception diplomatic-immunity foreign-service fsia fsia-28-usc-1603 fsia-28-usc-1605(a)(2) missing-passports passport-issuance proper-service-28-usc-1608 service-of-process sovereign-immunity |
Whether the practice of Respondent, CONSULATE OF NIGERIA, NY, that requires consulate officials to leave the New York Consulate office to advertise an… |
| 18-6815 |
Micheal Jerrial Ibenyenwa v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining procedural-default right-to-counsel sentencing |
Whether a petitioner deserves encouragement to proceed further when trial counsel instructs him to reject a favorable plea offer at trial colloquy thr… |
| 18-6835 |
Ricardo Enriquez Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
benefits civil-rights due-process eligibility prison statutory-limits workers-compensation |
Can compensation be denied for workplace injuries that have statutory limits on eligibility and benefits that may be less than in the regular workers'… |
| 18-6836 |
Carlos Dagoberto Rivas v. Sherman Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-waiver miranda miranda-rights self-incrimination waiver |
Does the State meet its burdens of showing that it clearly informed a criminal defendant of his Miranda rights and that a defendant validly waived the… |
| 18-6837 |
Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
anders-brief appellate-review collateral-attack due-process extraordinary-writ federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment state-court-review |
If the merits of an appeal exist and are not evaluated by a State or Federal Court of review, should a Federal court address Ineffective Assistance of… |
| 18-6840 |
John H. Rosky v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process economic-wipeout equal-protection fifth-amendment habeas-corpus property-rights standing takings-clause |
Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects the petitioner's property rights against the government's actions that result in a complete… |
| 18-6849 |
Steven James v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitutional-rights jdb-v-north-carolina jury-instructions juvenile-brain-science juvenile-homicide juvenile-justice juvenile-rights miller-retroactivity miller-v-alabama retroactivity sentencing-standards |
Whether the Massachusetts statute M.G.L. c.278 sec.33E and the state court judge's decision denying discretionary appellate review for juvenile homici… |
| 18-6850 |
Steven Madina Esparza v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 court-appointed-counsel discretionary-review equitable-tolling federal-courts finality-of-conviction gonzales-v-thaler gross-negligence habeas-corpus look-through-presumption ylst-v-nunnemaker |
Under GONZALES V. THALER, when does a petitioner's conviction become final for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A) |
| 18-6857 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeal district-court due-process judge judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction nondiscretionary-standard recusal standing |
Does the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a collateral appeal of a district court judge's refusal of a nondiscretionary recusal? |
| 18-6866 |
Thomas Edward Sperber v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment cellular-phone civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Does the act of accessing any information from a cellular phone without a warrant contravene the Supreme Court's decision in Riley v. California and U… |
| 18-687 |
Auriel Devon Frett v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Virgin Islands |
Denied |
|
chambers-v-mississippi co-defendant-testimony confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cumulative-error-doctrine due-process jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the instruction to not consider the specific length of sentence a testifying co-defendant faced absent cooperation violates a defendant's sixt… |
| 18-6876 |
Pierre Donte Joshlin v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-v-ayala federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court |
Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied the federal habeas harmless error analysis in light of this Court's recent decision in Davis v. Ayala, 135 … |
| 18-6877 |
Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-rights retroactivity |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |
| 18-6883 |
Stan J. Caterbone v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights congressional-hearings constitutional-rights due-process government-conspiracy government-experimentation government-oversight mental-illness military-training mind-control whistle-blowing |
Did the United States of America err in not granting a juris prudential exception |
| 18-6884 |
Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits a state appellate court from reweighing aggravating and mitigating circumstances and determining that death is t… |
| 18-6885 |
Stephen Anthony Marquez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
business-records confrontation-clause constitutional-amendments crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-records sixth-amendment |
Does Due Process to cross-examine still apply in all criminal cases? |
| 18-6886 |
Vinita Johnson v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-6887 |
Michael A. Wilson v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-6888 |
Kathy Glenn Clay v. Peace Officer Papik |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its decision |
| 18-6899 |
John Uranga, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari circuit-split circuit-splits constitutional-error constitutional-violations de-minimis federal-courts federal-law implied-bias intra-circuit-split juror-bias structural-error structural-errors |
Whether the implied bias doctrine constitutes clearly established federal law |
| 18-6901 |
Enoch D. Hall v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-panel aggravating-circumstances Caldwell-v-Mississippi civil-rights constitutional-due-process death-penalty due-process harmless-error hurst-decision jury-instructions jury-role jury-sentencing sentencing sentencing-process unanimous-recommendation |
Whether the Hurst error is harmless given the jury's diminished sense of responsibility as an advisory panel, resulting in a Caldwell v. Mississippi e… |
| 18-6902 |
Scott Mansfield v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process fact-finding findings-of-fact jury-findings jury-instructions notice procedural-due-process sentencing unnoticed-defendant |
Whether a conviction and death sentence may stand where a jury made no specific findings of fact that subjected an unnoticed individual to conviction … |
| 18-6903 |
Curtis McLaurin v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-law fourth-amendment groh-v-ramirez habeas-corpus incorporated-application new-york-state-appellate-court search-warrant stone-v-powell |
Whether the New York State appellate court's holding that a defective search warrant can be cured by an incorporated search warrant application |
| 18-6909 |
Albert Andrew Lucero v. Kim Holland, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruton-rule bruton-v-united-states co-defendant confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-rights crawford-analysis crawford-v-washington harmless-error joint-trial sixth-amendment testimonial-statement |
Was the California Court of Appeal's decision contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, this Court's jurisprudence holding that the Sixth Amendm… |
| 18-691 |
Lonnie Snelling v. Kevin Segbers, et al. |
Missouri |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Did the State of Missouri through its Judicial Officials, deny Petitioner, one of its Citizens, and a Citizen of the United States, Rights Guarantees … |
| 18-692 |
Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. v. UCB, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
35-usc-103 double-patenting federal-circuit graham-factors graham-v-john-deere invention-disclosure lead-compound-test obviousness patent-eligibility patent-law patent-law-doctrine-of-double-patenting patent-validity prior-art |
Whether a patentee may obtain a second patent on the same invention actually covered by a former patent to the same patentee |
| 18-6921 |
Stevie J. Stevenson v. Craig Richman, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
discovery-materials discovery-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-conviction postconviction-relief postconviction-writ section-1983 statutory-interpretation |
Does California Penal Code Section §1054.9 create a Liberty Interest under Kentucky v. Thompson, 490 U.S. 454, 460-63 (1989)? |
| 18-6925 |
Warren Tarver v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-felony detention due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment noncapital-offense pro-se-claim |
Whether it is a violation of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment for a person to be detained for an offense that is legislatively designated a … |
| 18-6928 |
Asia Johnson v. Christopher Wylie, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights compensation data-misuse data-privacy data-protection due-process facebook-litigation government-surveillance personal-information privacy privacy-violation social-media standing third-party-access |
Was the petitioner's Facebook account improperly accessed and their personal information obtained and used without authorization? |
| 18-6929 |
Asia Johnson v. Queen Elizabeth |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights climate-change constitutional-crisis due-process environmental-law equal-protection gender-discrimination political-feud racial-discrimination restoration |
Was the constitutional crisis between Democrats and Republicans affecting the environment and leading to racial and gender discrimination against Afri… |
| 18-6930 |
Asia Johnson v. Jacob Rothschild |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure-standing-due-process-takings-pate administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the doctrine of mootness |
| 18-6931 |
Asia Johnson v. Rothschild |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions |
| 18-6932 |
Asia Johnson v. German Aerospace Center |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process environmental-protection free-speech housing-crisis pro-se-petition public-health standing sunlight-access takings |
Whether the dismissal of the complaint for failure to state a claim was proper |
| 18-6933 |
Asia Johnson v. Children Youth and Families |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process negligence pro-se-litigation standing state-agency-liability summary-dismissal |
Was ordered to Dismiss my complaint summarily affirmed lower court decision |
| 18-6938 |
Jarrod Phillips v. Rusty Washburn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure boykin-precedent boykin-v-alabama civil-rights constitutional-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-6940 |
Dalray Kwane Andrews v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure dilatory faretta-right faretta-v-california habeas-corpus self-representation sixth-amendment timeliness trial-court |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that Faretta clearly established a requirement that a request for self-representation must be made at least… |
| 18-6942 |
Monserrate Zapata v. PECO Energy Company |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-regulatory-commission government-regulation pleading-standards property-rights smart-meter standing state-actor utility-regulation utility-service utility-shut-off |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process rights were violated when PECO issued shut-off notices to the petitioner for failing to provide access to… |
| 18-6944 |
Jose Luis Vizcaino-Ramos v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan procedural-default tennessee tennessee-post-conviction-procedures trial-counsel |
Whether under Martinez v. Ryan, a prisoner confined pursuant to a Tennessee Judgment may assert ineffective assistance of initial-collateral-review co… |
| 18-6946 |
Sergio Louis Trevino v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining presentencing-waiver right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-procedure waiver waiver-of-appeal waiver-validity |
Can a presentencing waiver of appeal be knowingly and intelligently entered when potential errors cannot be anticipated and the consequences of the wa… |
| 18-695 |
Christopher Chung, et al. v. Gulstan E. Silva, Jr., as Personal Representative of the Estate of Sheldon Paul Haleck, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law community-caretaking due-process excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity reasonableness use-of-force |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying the officers qualified immunity |
| 18-6950 |
Jason Wayne McBride v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment mens-rea speedy-trial statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code |
Did the state decide an important Constitutional Double Jeopardy violation that conflicted with another Court and the Supreme Court? |
| 18-6953 |
Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect post-conviction-writ texas-constitution |
Whether the Trial Court, as well as, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, abused their discretion (violating Applicants Constitutional Rights) by f… |
| 18-6954 |
Steven Scott Wells v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards expert-testimony fingerprint-analysis fingerprint-evidence forensic-evidence judicial-review scientific-methodology |
Does a fingerprint expert's testimony that two fingerprints 'match' have any evidentiary value if the expert provides no explanation for that conclusi… |
| 18-6956 |
Jason Dirk Walton v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-unanimity resentencing retrospective-application retrospective-law sentencing-elements substantive-criminal-law |
When changes in a state's substantive criminal law apply retrospectively to cases involving homicides committed in 1981 and 1982, but not to cases inv… |
| 18-6957 |
Hakeem Sultaana v. Chae Harris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction fact-claims habeas-corpus jurisdiction-powers-28-usc-1291 jurisdictional-powers pending pending-case publication sixth-circuit u.s.c.-section-1291 void-order |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals can ignore its jurisdiction powers under Title 28 U.S.C. §1291 and file a void order on August 20, 2018 wit… |
| 18-6958 |
Benjamin D. Velayo v. John Talamayan, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's case |
| 18-6959 |
Glenn Lloyd Kingham v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment actual-prejudice assistance-of-counsel civil-rights competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure |
Whether arbitrary government intrusion violates the Fourth Amendment by means of unlawful search and seizure without probable cause |
| 18-6960 |
Craig Mack v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by errors in his criminal trial and sentencing proceedings |
| 18-6962 |
In Re Walter E. Kostich |
|
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements |
Whether the State prosecution or Courts has the authority to prosecute a criminal case in the absence of a statutory required signed 'Bind-Over Order'… |
| 18-6966 |
Tina L. Wagoner v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-power civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-misconduct pauperis-exclusion standing state-action state-actor-immunity state-actors |
Whether the pauperis public can find justice and relief from oppression when they do not have the Courts or the Constitution to protect them from corr… |
| 18-6968 |
Alejandro Quinones Leyva v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel language-barriers notice-of-appeal plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-rights sixth-amendment |
Whether the defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel due to counsel's failure to file a notice of appeal |
| 18-697 |
Tony Von Carruthers v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
argersinger-v-hamlin capital-case capital-punishment criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver |
Does depriving a criminal defendant of trial counsel against his will, without at least the warnings and voluntary waiver required by Faretta, violate… |
| 18-6975 |
Roy Arlen Van Nortrick v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process duress duress-inducements-promises involuntary-statements judicial-error jury-instructions reasonable-doubt |
Whether reasonable jurist would debate that the State failed to meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Van Nortrick is guilty |
| 18-6976 |
Joseph Lochuch Ewalan v. Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-basis jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-dixon |
Whether the state trial court erred when it failed to instruct the jury on a lesser included offense when the evidence in the case supports an inferen… |
| 18-6977 |
James Edward Mitchell v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
california california-law constitution constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process inhabitance-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions residential-burglary statutory-interpretation |
Does the standard jury instruction for residential burglary in California violate the United States Constitution where it fails to convey that the 'di… |
| 18-6978 |
Ronald Fermin Mascarena v. Montana |
Montana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rights right-to-speedy-trial speedy-trial state-rights |
Whether the Montana State Supreme Court violated the petitioner's federal right to a speedy trial |
| 18-6982 |
Jerry Walden v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 28-usc-994 career-offender district-court due-process federal-sentencing guideline-application harmless-error johnson-v-united-states molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to resentencing due to Guideline application error |
| 18-6987 |
Javon Sanders v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-challenge due-process evidence-standard forced-labor-slavery interaction-log international-covenant international-law involuntary-servitude labor-conditions law-enforcement police-contact prison-labor prison-reform procedural-review |
Whether the failure of the Arkansas Department of Correction to pay equitable remuneration to its inmate population violates the Thirteenth Amendment'… |
| 18-6988 |
Donald Sanders v. Domingo Uribe, Jr., Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process eyewitness eyewitness-testimony federal-proceedings fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit state-court state-court-proceedings |
Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in its decision that the state court reasonably concluded that Petitioner's right to confrontation was not vio… |
| 18-6990 |
Elena Sturdza v. United Arab Emirates |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion court-procedure due-process guardian-ad-litem incompetence incompetent-person judicial-discretion legal-representation motion-for-reconsideration pro-se-representation standing |
Whether the district court erred in its rulings on the motions for reconsideration, leave to file a supplemental complaint, and appointment of a guard… |
| 18-6991 |
Julius King Rambo, III v. Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights corpus-delecti corpus-delicti criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence falsification-of-evidence perjury statutory-interpretation |
Whether it is legal, lawful, and constitutional for states to manipulate distinctly explained statutes in order to present charges |
| 18-6997 |
T. H. -H. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment involuntary-termination parental-rights right-to-counsel |
May a State, consistent with the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, condition the statutorily granted right to coun… |
| 18-6998 |
George Cleveland, III v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts bounds-v-smith civil-appeal civil-rights court-of-appeals direct-appeal docket-fee docket-fees due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-litigant indigent-litigants pro-se-litigation south-carolina |
Whether Bounds v. Smith 430 U.S. 817 97 S.Ct. 1491 (1977) requires the waiver of the docket fee in a civil on direct appeal to Indigent litigants who … |
| 18-6999 |
John McQueen v. Lynn Fisher |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure district-court-errors due-process exceptional-importance exxon-mobil-precedent exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine sixth-circuit-errors standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the District Court has subject matter jurisdiction to decide if Rooker-Feldman applies to cases filed in federal court before the state court … |
| 18-700 |
Tiby J. Saunders-Gomez v. Rutledge Maintenance Corporation |
Delaware |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law contract contract-law due-process equal-protection fair-debt-collection-practices-act jurisdiction statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Delaware Superior Court erred in asserting jurisdiction over a claim that exceeded the statute of limitations |
| 18-7001 |
In Re Michael Kennedy |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction free-speech habeas-corpus pleadings standing |
Whether the lower federal courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims without allowing him to file any pleadings |
| 18-7002 |
Clifton Stanley Diaz, Jr. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law damages default-judgment due-process employment judicial-review legal-procedure motion reinstatement remand standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erred in denying the plaintiff's request for monetary damages and reinstatement to his job |
| 18-7003 |
Jose Jesus Ramirez v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights congress constitutional-law due-process federal-courts impeachment separation-of-powers standing |
Whether the federal court erred in denying petitioner's constitutional challenge to the impeachment process |
| 18-7006 |
Gordon C. Reid v. Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis plra prisoner-litigation-reform-act standing three-strikes |
Whether the PLRA's 'three strikes' provision, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), which bars prisoners from proceeding in forma pauperis if they have had three prior… |
| 18-7011 |
John S. Myzer v. George W. Bush, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure final-order personal-jurisdiction prejudice-standard service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
May a district court dismiss a case with prejudice that has not begun? |
| 18-7014 |
Muriel Collins v. Alan B. Epstein, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitration arbitration-hearing civil-rights code-of-conduct criminal-justice due-process employment employment-dispute last-chance-agreement retaliation termination termination-procedures whistleblower workplace-discrimination wrongful-termination |
Why was Plaintiff issued disciplinary actions for following Defendants' code-of-conduct and absolute-relief-procedures? |
| 18-7015 |
Joe Ann West v. Richard V. Spencer, Secretary of the Navy |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-employment-opportunity federal-employee federal-employee-discrimination free-speech judicial-misconduct standing |
Was petitioner a Federal Employee denied United States Citizen's Constitutional 1st Amendment Rights when denied by the judge the right to be speak, s… |
| 18-7018 |
Luis Santos LaGaite, Jr. v. James Foley, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
3-strikes 8th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-fairness magna-carta standing |
Whether the 3 strikes provision of 28 U.S.C. Section 1915(g) violates the Magna Carta, due process, and the fundamental fairness doctrine |
| 18-7019 |
Jeff Jones v. Quentin Byrne, Warden |
Nevada |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-justice parole parole-board probation sentencing |
Does the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 130 S. Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825, create a categorical bar against the applic… |
| 18-7024 |
Jacques Villafana v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction notice notice-requirement post-trial post-trial-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Virginia statutes, when applied in Petitioner's case, that allow for the destruction of evidence — post-trial — without notice are unconst… |
| 18-7025 |
Tyree Marquez Burt v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
coercion due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury judicial-instruction jury-coercion jury-instructions trial-procedure |
Was the trial court's admonition to a deadlocked jury coercive, implicating the petitioner's due process rights to a fair trial? |
| 18-703 |
University of Southern California, et al. v. Allen L. Munro, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-scope erisa erisa-arbitration-agreement erisa-claims erisa-fiduciary-duty erisa-plan-participant fiduciary-duty plan-participant standing statutory-interpretation trust |
Whether an agreement to arbitrate 'all claims' that an ERISA plan participant 'may have' against a plan fiduciary encompasses a breach-of-fiduciary-du… |
| 18-7030 |
S. R. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. |
West Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
child-custody civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process family-law judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal procedural-fairness recusal standing |
Whether the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals erred in reversing the lower court's decision in favor of the petitioner |
| 18-7031 |
Kacey Lewis v. Angel Quiros, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure dismissal due-process in-forma-pauperis standing |
Whether the court of appeals erred in denying the petitioner's motion to proceed on appeal in forma pauperis |
| 18-7034 |
Shawn Sadik v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty developmental-disability eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing parole |
Does the Eighth Amendment bar individuals with intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities from receiving mandatory-life-imprisonment-without-parole s… |
| 18-7040 |
Adam L. Perry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights concurrent-jurisdiction constitutional-codes court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules standing state-codes state-courts |
Whether state courts have concurrent jurisdiction with federal courts, and whether state court judges can facilitate procedures to address violations … |
| 18-7041 |
Mark P. Donaldson v. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-hearing administrative-procedure cms-compliance due-process federal-preemption federal-regulations hearing-rights medicaid medicaid-regulations preemption procedural-due-process state-agencies supremacy-clause |
Whether Mr. Donaldson's procedural due process rights afforded him under Medicaid including 45 C.F.R. 155.530 (a), (b)(1) - (3) have been violated by … |
| 18-7042 |
Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation contracts-clause due-process federal-precedent plea-agreement retroactive-application retroactive-legislation state-plea-agreements supreme-court-precedent |
What is the proper application of the Contracts Clause to a plea agreement contract, and did Texas misapply the Federal Contracts Clause to Petitioner… |
| 18-7043 |
Coleman Tuton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine commercial-passenger-bus drug-detection-canine fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine luggage probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Does the general alert of a drug-detection canine to the luggage compartment of a commercial passenger bus—but not to any particular piece of luggage … |
| 18-7045 |
Chris G. Gilkers v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit gonzalez-v-crosby habeas habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-habeas successive-habeas-petition |
Proper-standard-for-Rule-60(b)-motion |
| 18-7046 |
Tomas Liriano Castillo v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedures-act agency-regulations article-iii article-iii-courts article-iv congress due-process notice-and-comment possessions rule-making territories territories-and-possessions united-states-possessions united-states-territories |
Is Congress required to establish Article III courts in the United States Territories and Possessions? |
| 18-7047 |
Anthony Casanova v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure custodial-confession custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interrogation involuntary-confession miranda-rights self-incrimination |
Did the trial court's admission of Anthony Casanova's custodial confession deprive him of his Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incriminati… |
| 18-7049 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Nanette Larson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights dismissal due-process eighth-amendment expert-evaluation jury-trial medical-care mootness prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment |
Was Petitioner unconstitutionally denied his right to have a jury determine the facts of his case? |
| 18-705 |
Wendell Griffen, Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit, Pulaski County, Arkansas v. John Dan Kemp, Chief Justice, Arkansas Supreme Court, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-1983 due-process jurisdiction mandamus motion-to-dismiss non-final-order standing writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the All Writs Act grants the circuit courts jurisdiction to issue writs of mandamus to review on the merits a district court's non-final denia… |
| 18-7053 |
Kevin Scott Varner v. John Christiansen, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court state-court-litigation state-court-review stone-v-powell |
What constitutes an opportunity for full and fair litigation of a Fourth Amendment claim in state court? |
| 18-7054 |
Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion disciplinary-records due-process equal-protection medical-malpractice race racial-bias racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens |
Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga… |
| 18-7055 |
Brenda White v. Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital, et al. |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, due-process judicial-discretion medical-malpractice race race-discrimination rico rico-claims standing |
Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctors, … |
| 18-7056 |
David Leonard Johnson v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
california-law criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-lesser-included-offense descamps-standard due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prejudicial-error prior-convictions receiving-stolen-property robbery |
Is the crime of receiving stolen property a lesser included offense of robbery, and if so, was the trial court's failure to instruct on receiving stol… |
| 18-7057 |
Marcus Jermaine Royston v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3582-motion 3582(c)(2) amendments-750-782 career-offender criminal-sentencing drug-offense guidelines-2d1.1 guidelines-amendment hughes-v-us sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction |
Does this Court's ruling in the case of Hughes v. U.S., apply to a career offender seeking reduction in his sentence by way of a 3582(c)(2) motion pur… |
| 18-7058 |
Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment bail-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony flight-risk mental-health pretrial-detention |
Whether the denial of bail for over 15 months on an individual who has no documented history of felony, prior acts of violence, and no history of flig… |
| 18-7059 |
John H. Rosky v. Quentin Byrne, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's due process rights and access to the courts |
| 18-7062 |
Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment malicious-prosecution state-governmental-immunity |
Does FL.S. § 768.28 first claiming to allow Florida citizens to sue State Governmental Agencies for malicious prosecution and then disallowing it, in … |
| 18-7064 |
Thomas W. Mackenzie v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights costs court-fees declaration due-process financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis incarceration indigent-status legal-materials legal-proceeding poverty prison-law-library redress |
Whether the Florida Department of Corrections violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by denying him access to the courts and legal materials |
| 18-7068 |
Nelson Figueroa v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-protections due-process due-process-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the rule of Apprendi must apply to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines to comport with the constitutional protections of due process and jury tr… |
| 18-7069 |
John Ludovici v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process material-evidence misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the Commonwealth commit misconduct when it intentionally withheld various forms of material evidence in violation of the 14th Amendment? |
| 18-707 |
Marie A. Becton v. Social Security Administration, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 18-7071 |
Chad Preston Brewer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress exceeded its authority under the Commerce Clause in enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm or Ammunition statute |
| 18-7073 |
Todd James Luh v. Fulton State Hospital, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability-discrimination discovery due-process institutional-misconduct involuntary-commitment medical-abuse medical-records retaliation veterans-rights |
Does it serve justice to dismiss my claims when it is clear that testimony will be presented at trial that the defendants have assaulted me themselves… |
| 18-7075 |
Patrick Martinez v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper parole parole-eligibility plea-bargaining reasonable-probability sixth-amendment |
Whether the decision below is irreconcilable with Lafler v. Cooper and the reasonable probability standard for analyzing prejudice in ineffective assi… |
| 18-7080 |
Yusufu Danmola v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitution constitution-law constitutional-interpretation court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-enforcement separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation uniform-commercial-code |
Is the Court Allowed to Enforce a Law not in Pursuance with the Constitution? |
| 18-7081 |
Marlon Dantruce Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process false-testimony giglio giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review prosecutorial-misconduct slack-v-mcdaniel standing summary-judgment |
Whether Slack v. McDaniel requires a court of appeals to issue a certificate of appealability to a challenge a district court's holding that Giglio pe… |
| 18-7082 |
Juan Bautista Rosas Cuellar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-defendant due-process intervening-change-in-law intervening-law-change issue-preclusion legal-doctrine offensive-preclusion summary-reversal |
May collateral estoppel be applied offensively against a criminal defendant? |
| 18-7083 |
Sylvia Ogbenyeanu Walter-Eze, aka Sylvia O. Okam v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-standards constructive-denial-of-counsel counsel-conflict critical-stage fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit presumed-prejudice structural-error waiver |
Whether the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit erred in not applying the per se presumed prejudice rule |
| 18-7084 |
Anthony Steven Young v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-pornography close-scrutiny criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion internet-access relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2g2.2 |
What standard of review applies to the district court's decision to use the guideline for receiving or distributing child pornography to sentence a ch… |
| 18-7085 |
Larry A. McGhee v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
affirmative-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-constitution free-speech jurisdiction public-education standing state-constitution |
Whether the Michigan Constitution's prohibition on affirmative action in public education violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitutio… |
| 18-7086 |
Alex Joe Hernandez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-retroactivity due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states judicial-interpretation prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-error standing welch-v-united-states |
When a Johnson movant would not be an armed career criminal if sentenced today, how can he show that his sentence is infected with error under Johnson… |
| 18-7087 |
Daniel Lopez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the District Court committed plain error by allowing the prosecutor to commit prosecutorial misconduct by breaching the plea agreement |
| 18-7088 |
Oscar Raul Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause |
| 18-7089 |
Esau Milliner v. Kathy Litteral, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver closing-argument confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-burglary ineffective-assistance-of-counsel initial-aggressor procedural-bar right-to-appeal right-to-testify self-defense trial-counsel |
Effective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 18-7090 |
Leonardo T. Morales v. Florida |
Florida |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-writ-of-certiorari supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court dismissal of mandamus conflicts with this court's decisions in Schlagenhauf v. Holder, Bankers Life and Casualty Co.… |
| 18-7093 |
Deidre Holmes Clark v. Allen & Overy, LLP |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-stability first-amendment free-speech psychiatric-evaluation sexual-harassment standing |
Whether a sexual harassment motion can be dismissed, solely on the basis of her right to free speech |
| 18-7095 |
Miguel Robinson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circumstances circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-search rigid-legal-rules rule-of-law search search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Did the Court of Appeals violate the principle that rigid legal rules are ill-suited to an analysis of probable cause by relying on a rule to find a m… |
| 18-7100 |
Brian Simmons v. Michael Capra, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-on-the-court ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether petitioner's justification defense was lost amongst the volume of prosecutors' use of false or perjured testimonies that went uncorrected |
| 18-7101 |
John Samuel Ghobrial v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to increa… |
| 18-7102 |
Curtis D. Huling v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence mens-rea mental-state physical-force recklessness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 voisine-v-united-states |
What is the least culpable mental state that qualifies a state aggravated assault offense as generic? |
| 18-7103 |
Rene Garcia-Montejo, aka Bibian Garcia-Montejo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process found-in-doctrine illegal-entry immigration-authorities immigration-law official-restraint official-restraint-doctrine statutory-interpretation surveillance |
Whether the 'official restraint' doctrine precludes the possibility that a defendant can be illegally 'found in' the United States, for purposes of Ti… |
| 18-7104 |
Axel Irizarry-Rosario v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct government-obligation government-obligations judicial-ethics plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-argument statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government may avoid its obligation to scrupulously observe the terms of a plea agreement by including in its sentencing argument informat… |
| 18-7106 |
Ramiro Plascencia-Orozco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal breach breach-of-contract commerce-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-power plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether the District Court Erred When it Declared, Petitioner Breached His 2011 Plea Agreement and Thus Allowed the Government to go Forward on Charge… |
| 18-7107 |
Naeem-Lateef Odums v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment-due-process,6th-amendment-right-to-c 5th-amendment-due-process,sentencing-discretion,me 6th-amendment attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-deception mental-health-evaluation sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does it violate the 6th Amendment right to effective-assistance-of-counsel when a defendant's lawyer intentionally-deception |
| 18-7109 |
Tshombe Miller v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-charging criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process juror-consensus jury-consensus ohio-constitution rape-allegations united-states-constitution |
Is 'carbon copy' charging of multiple allegations of rape violative of due process and/or double jeopardy pursuant to the United States and Ohio Const… |
| 18-7111 |
Johnny Joe Guerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1291 constitutional-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-constitution fifth-amendment fifth-circuit injustice jurisdictional-review mandate-recall unadjudicated-claims |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred when it did not recall the mandate in order to prevent an injustice relative to two unadjudicated claims in the distri… |
| 18-7112 |
Brien O. Hill v. Associates for Renewal in Education, Inc. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment hostile-work-environment reasonable-accommodation standing summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the elements for the hostile work environment claim have been raised to a standard of violation of Title VII SEC. 2002e-2 |
| 18-7114 |
Earle D. Williams v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-kidnapping asportation constitutional-vagueness criminal-law dimaya-precedent due-process kidnapping penal-code sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether California Penal Code Section 209(b) is unconstitutionally vague under Sessions v. Dimaya |
| 18-7116 |
Lonnie Anthony Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act curtis-johnson-v-united-states denard-stokeling-v-united-states edwin-deshazior-v-united-states florida-statute florida-statutes johnson-definition physical-force second-degree-murder violent-felony |
Whether second-degree murder in Florida is a 'violent felony' within the meaning of the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) |
| 18-7117 |
Charles J. Mayberry v. Michael A. Dittman, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-v-florida mental-incompetency statute-of-limitations |
Whether the opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals contravenes this Court's precedent in Holland v. Florida |
| 18-7119 |
Stanley Grigsby v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-sentence judicial-error jurisdiction louisiana-law sentencing sentencing-review subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in determining that the sentence was not excessive? |
| 18-712 |
Jerry Artrip v. Ball Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
amendment civil-procedure claim-dismissal complaint-amendment district-court federal-circuit judicial-review patent patent-infringement standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's patent infringeme… |
| 18-7120 |
Carlos Zuniga Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-d constitutional-right district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing gonzalez-v-crosby rule-60-motion rule-60(d) standing successive-claim |
Whether a Rule 60(d) motion challenging only the District Court's failure to hold an evidentiary hearing presents a successive claim within the meanin… |
| 18-7121 |
Donald Higgs, aka Kyle Beachum v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-elements |
Whether the state's failure to subpoena the victim to the grand jury and instead rely on fabricated police reports and officer testimony violated the … |
| 18-7122 |
Jeffrey Thomas Gola v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ability-to-pay Ability-to-pay-restitution BOP-jurisdiction-over-payment-plan bureau-of-prisons Consideration-of-18-USC-3664-factors constitutional-liberties Delegation-of-authority-to-BOP financial-responsibility mandatory-victims-restitution-act payment-schedule plain-error Plain-error-in-restitution-order restitution restitution-payment |
Is the BOP's Financial Responsibility Program voluntary when constitutional liberties are taken for non-participation? |
| 18-7124 |
Ruben Geovanni Hernandez v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fishing-expedition fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion scope-of-detention search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search |
Does the Fourth Amendment protect against a 'fishing expedition' to develop 'reasonable suspicion' to exceed the scope of an initial stop in order to … |
| 18-7125 |
Refaat F. Abul Hosn v. Department of State, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admitted-mistakes authority authority-regulation breach-of-contract civil-rights contract diplomatic-immunity foreign-sovereign-immunities fsia immunity international-law iraq-invasion legal-authority political-doctrine regulatory-compliance |
Was the immunity under the FSIA affected when the invasion of Iraq occurred? |
| 18-7126 |
Ishmael Abdullah v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-statute state-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's holding that New Jersey Statute §2C:12-1(b)(2) satisfies the elements clause of t… |
| 18-7127 |
Christopher French v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-burglary armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-court-review divisibility non-generic-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute |
Can a Tennessee Aggravated Burglary conviction serve as an armed Career Criminal Act predicate? |
| 18-7128 |
Joseph A. Bebo v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2254-standard 28-usc-2254 due-process extraneous-material federal-law habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-impartiality jury-inquiry supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should clarify its jurisprudence on the right to an impartial jury |
| 18-7129 |
Brennan Christian, aka Twin, aka Trey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-records cell-site-records circuit-split constitutional-rights district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-circuit pro-se-petition stare-decisis |
Has the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied this Court's ruling in Carpenter v. United States regarding cell phone records being Constitutional… |
| 18-713 |
Stuart Wright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby drawing-inferences-in-favor-of-nonmovant. genuine-issue-of-material-fact procedural-rules tolan-v-cotton adickes-v-s-h-kress-co anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure due-process genuine-issue-of-fact inference-drawing nonmovant-evidence procedural-rules summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent tolan-v-cotton |
Whether the U.S.A.'s failure to 'respond' and the Magistrate Judge's failure to 'deem admitted' conflict with Supreme Court precedent |
| 18-7131 |
Andreco Lott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-fairness standard-of-review standing |
Whether the lower courts applied the correct legal standard at the certificate of appealability stage? |
| 18-7132 |
James R. Bright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 2255(f)(3) tolls the filing period for a defendant asserting that Johnson v. United States applies in a situation similar to that in J… |
| 18-7133 |
Paul Burks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-tax due-process elements federal-courts federal-prosecution indictment indictment-elements pretrial-motion statutory-interpretation substantive-law tax-law uncertainty |
Whether the substantial existence of uncertainty in the governing substantive tax law is irrelevant to the determination of a pretrial motion to dismi… |
| 18-7134 |
Lindsey Brooke Lowe v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bouie-v-city-of-columbia criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception judicial-decision-making retroactive-application rogers-v-tennessee |
Whether the limitations on ex post facto judicial decision-making that this Court recognized in Bouie v. City of Columbia and Rogers v. Tennessee, and… |
| 18-7141 |
Luis Rey Gonzalez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overruling precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)? |
| 18-7142 |
Evelyn Talley v. Pride Mobility Products Corporation, et al. |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process full-and-fair-trial negligence privileges-and-immunities product-liability trial-on-merits |
Are state courts required to allow a plaintiff in product liability case alleging negligence a full and fair trial on the merits under the privileges … |
| 18-7143 |
Derian Eidson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1956 18-usc-1956-a-3 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution government-sting money-laundering proceeds-definition specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the criminal prohibitions against money laundering contained in 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1) based on financial transactions that 'in fact involvel]… |
| 18-7145 |
William Sadowski v. Randy Grounds, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-impartiality police-presence |
Whether the presence of uniformed police officers during a trial involving the death of a police officer violates a criminal defendant's right to due … |
| 18-7147 |
Abasi Akeem Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 criminal-procedure federal-officer federal-task-force law-enforcement official-duties state-law-enforcement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state law enforcement officer, who has also been made a member of a federal task force, qualifies as a federal agent when he is acting in th… |
| 18-7148 |
Austin Ray v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest custody custody-rights detainer habeas-corpus implied-consent interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers jurisdiction prisoner-transfer speedy-trial |
Is the Interstate Agreement on Detainers (IAD) triggered when a prisoner in custody is arrested by another jurisdiction? |
| 18-7150 |
Daniel Hostetler v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation brady-violation-suppression circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct suppression |
Whether material exculpatory evidence is unconstitutionally suppressed when the defense is made aware its existence and its content, but is later inco… |
| 18-7154 |
John Visconti v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boulware-precedent boulware-v-united-states corporate-fraud corporate-governance corporate-stock criminal-law criminal-procedure distribution-interpretation legal-classification return-of-capital securities-law shareholder-rights statutory-interpretation stock-distribution tax-evasion unlawful-diversion |
Whether an unlawful diversion may be deemed a 'distribution . . . with respect to [a corporation's] stock,' the question expressly left open in Boulwa… |
| 18-7158 |
Tony Knox v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-question federal-questions judicial-review legal-standard novel-claim procedural-default statutory-vagueness unconstitutional vague-statute |
Did The State Court Decide Important Federal Questions In A Way That Conflicts With Relevant Decisions Of This Court, such as: (1) A Vague Statute Was… |
| 18-7162 |
Muna Osman Jama v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process first-amendment foreign-terrorist-organization free-speech freedom-of-speech material-support peaceable-assembly terrorism vagueness |
Does section, 18 USC § 2339B(a) [material support of foreign terrorist organization(s)] impose an unconstitutionally vague provision in times of peace… |
| 18-7163 |
Kent Mayfield, et ux. v. Harvey County Sheriff's Department, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights dog-seizure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-property pet-dog property-rights qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Did the defendants violate the plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights? |
| 18-7167 |
Cornelius Tyrone Kirsh v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-flight burden-of-proof criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habitual-offender insufficient-evidence involuntary-statements reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether reasonable jurist would debate that the State failed to meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Kirsh is guilt |
| 18-7169 |
Steve L. Wright, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity-for-release ongoing-offense retroactivity sentencing-mitigation term-of-years term-of-years-sentence |
Whether courts must consider juvenile conduct as a mitigating sentencing factor for an ongoing offense |
| 18-717 |
PMCM TV, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency administrative-agency-interpretation administrative-law agency-interpretation cable-television-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-power federal-judiciary federal-statutes statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Should courts continue to follow the Chevron policy of deferring to administrative agency interpretations of federal statutes? |
| 18-7176 |
Jose A. Garcia-Ortiz v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery intangible-property pattern-jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery can be a categorical 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) when pattern jury instructions extend it to causing … |
| 18-7177 |
Robert Joe Gonzales v. Kelly Santoro, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 chavis federal-habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-bar procedural-bars statute-of-limitations summary-denial timeliness |
Whether the Ninth Circuit abdicated its responsibility under Chavis when it treated a pincite in a summary denial to a page of a state opinion that ad… |
| 18-7178 |
David Kinh Duc Tran v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review civil-procedure district-court due-process injustice judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-construction-error statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-clark |
whether-the-court-erred-in-its-previous-construction-of-the-statute |
| 18-718 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Sannie L. Overly, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-fraud immunity judicial-review party-accountability political-parties standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified |
| 18-7180 |
Miguel Antonio Urquia-Melendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-7181 |
Antonio Amar White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dismissed-conduct district-court due-process judge-found-facts sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation unreasonable-sentence |
Whether Petitioner's sentence violated the Sixth Amendment |
| 18-7183 |
Christopher Jude Martin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consequential-damages criminal-law criminal-valuation damages enhancements evidence legal-damages property-damage restitution restitution-order sufficiency-of-evidence valuation |
Whether there was sufficient evidence that the value of the items at the time that Mr. Martin damaged them was over $1,000? |
| 18-7184 |
Antione Chambers, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Twizzie v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-data civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act warrantless-search |
Whether the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule applies |
| 18-7185 |
Santos Orlando Diaz-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) |
| 18-7186 |
Corey Ian Weidner v. Jeri Taylor, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-rule post-conviction-review state-law state-post-conviction-proceedings strickland-standard |
Whether state court decision on state law is binding on federal court |
| 18-7189 |
George Leslie Manlove v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights credibility due-process fact-finding fair-trial jury-role leading-questions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-jury witness-credibility |
Was petitioner denied his constitutional rights, including his right to a fair trial, because the prosecutor's calculated, sustained, and improper use… |
| 18-7192 |
Lavell Phillips v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-first-degree-murder attempted-murder attempted-use-of-force criminal-statute elements-clause first-degree-murder physical-force procedural-background sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Where a completed offense satisfies the ACCA's elements clause, does the attempted commission of that offense necessarily do so as well? |
| 18-7193 |
Bryan D. Collins v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law chenery-doctrine civil-procedure disability due-process harmless-error medical-opinion social-security social-security-disability substantial-evidence treating-physician |
What is the standard for assessing harmless error when a treating doctor has provided a form medical opinion statement that an applicant for social se… |
| 18-7194 |
Brandon Lee Colbert v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson batson-challenge impartial-jury jury-selection peremptory-challenge police-misconduct race-neutral race-neutral-reason sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury permit the reviewing court, at Batson's first stage, to conclude that a minority venire member's n… |
| 18-7195 |
Eduardo Gomez v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence criminal-activity firearm-possession investigatory-seizure police-powers reasonable-suspicion |
Does suspected possession of a firearm, on its own, provide a police officer with reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to justify an investigator… |
| 18-7196 |
Edward Allen McElroy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process faretta-hearing faretta-v-california pro-se-representation self-representation sentencing supervised-release waiver-of-counsel |
Where a defendant is charged in federal court with possession and production of child pornography, the maximum punishment for which carries a lifetime… |
| 18-7197 |
Johnnie O'Neil Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence generic-robbery minimal-force no-threat-of-violence no-violence robbery sentencing-guidelines split-among-circuits statutory-interpretation |
Whether theft offenses requiring no more than minimal force and no violence or threat of violence categorically constitute generic 'robbery' for purpo… |
| 18-7198 |
Julio Cruz v. David Hallenbeck, Superintendent, Hale Creek Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaration due-process excessive-fines habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis incorporation ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief poverty redress |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 18-7199 |
Adelmo A. Fauntleroy v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel incarceration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Did the Court have sufficient evidence beyond a reasonable doubt to convict the petitioner under the Sixth Amendment |
| 18-720 |
Ronald Duhe, et al. v. City of Little Rock, Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness detention-policy disorderly-conduct due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-precedent overbreadth probable-cause vagueness |
Whether precedent by this Court together with the Eighth Circuit, other circuits and state courts of last resort had clearly established the vagueness… |
| 18-7200 |
Dayvon Bryan Riley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence equitable-analysis evidence evidence-claim federal-habeas habeas-corpus legal-sufficiency schlup-standard schlup-v-delo |
Whether a petitioner's claim in a federal habeas case that it is logically impossible that they committed an element of the offense is an actual innoc… |
| 18-7205 |
In Re Arthur O. Armstrong |
|
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60 due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty liberty-interest property rule-60 standing |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| 18-7206 |
Christopher Thomas Kegler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-precedent miranda-rights search-and-seizure self-incrimination supreme-court-review |
Should this Court reconsider and reverse Schneckloth v. Bustamente |
| 18-7207 |
In Re Andrew Johnston |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-7209 |
Daniel Oberacker v. Jeff Noble, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-criminal-procedure-due-process-hab civil-proceeding criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parallel-proceedings sex-offender-classification statutory-limitation |
Whether a parallel civil proceeding may be merged and transformed into a criminal charge/issue at the appellate level |
| 18-721 |
Norman Bloom v. Aftermath Public Adjusters, Inc., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
certification circuit-split civil-procedure discretion diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-court-discretion federal-courts legal-uncertainty procedural-standards state-law state-law-certification |
Whether the language of a state's certification rule should factor into the federal court's decision to certify a dispositive state law question in a … |
| 18-7210 |
Gordon Prailow v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
automatic-reversal collateral-review constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions jury-verdict reasonable-doubt retroactivity sixth-amendment watershed-rule |
Whether state collateral review courts must retroactively apply the watershed/bedrock procedural rule of automatic reversal to jury findings that are … |
| 18-7212 |
Anthony Ray Dailey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability collateral-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review panetti-v-quarterman procedural-due-process retroactivity second-and-successive-petitions section-2255 supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-mathis |
Whether the U.S. District and Appellate Courts violated Castro v. United States, 124 S.Ct., by refusing to issue a Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-7214 |
Waymon Scott McLaughlin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrestee-access arrestee-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest unreasonable-search vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits officers to search objects carried by an arrestee without a warrant even after they have eliminated any realistic… |
| 18-7215 |
Salih Zeki Uces v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment-amendment international-kidnapping international-parental-kidnapping jury-instructions mens-rea parental-rights |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated Mr. Uces's rights under the Fifth Amendment |
| 18-7216 |
Jason Duhamel v. Michelle Miller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment affidavit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty declaration due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis intellectual-disability miller-el-standard poverty redress sixth-circuit threshold-merits |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at th… |
| 18-7222 |
Winifred Jiau v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus insider-trading jury-instruction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prisoner must prove that some jurists would grant habeas corpus |
| 18-7227 |
Antonio Ledon Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3553a6 due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment judicial-review sentencing sentencing-disparities unwarranted-sentence-disparities |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit decided the opinion below based on inaccurate information and thereby betrayed the due process guarantees of the Fifth Am… |
| 18-7228 |
Dashawn D. Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency excited-utterance excited-utterances hearsay hearsay-evidence prior-identification residual-hearsay-exception sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release |
Whether the sentencing court erred in admitting hearsay statements as excited utterances |
| 18-7229 |
Telisa De'Ann Blackman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa brady-claim brady-giglio-napue brady-rule burden-of-proof exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas federal-writ giglio-claim giglio-rule napue-claim napue-rule prosecutorial-misconduct successive-petitions |
Should a prisoner be substantively disadvantaged by having to meet a higher burden of proof on her Brady/Giglio/Napue claims because the prosecution h… |
| 18-7230 |
Antwain D. Ashley v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel open-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether Ashley Was Denied His Sixth Amendment Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel |
| 18-7231 |
Mark J. Avery v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial good-faith good-faith-defense money-laundering specific-intent trust trustee-liability wire-fraud |
Where the defendant, trustee of a private trust charged with wire fraud and money laundering based on his non-disclosure and misspending involving tru… |
| 18-7238 |
Antron Edwards v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof civil-rights collateral-review due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-burden-of-proof statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states |
Whether a § 2255 defendant may prove that his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the residual clause through a process of elimination or by surveying… |
| 18-7239 |
Daniel P. Cannon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-precedent due-process mandatory-sentencing mandatory-term post-booker sentencing seventh-circuit |
Should this Court GRANT this Writ because the decision of the Seventh Circuit violates Petitioner's Due Process Right, whereas sentencing occurred Pos… |
| 18-724 |
City of Sandpoint, Idaho, et al. v. Dana Maddox, on Behalf of Minor Children D. M. and D. M., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment waiver-and-forfeiture |
Does the Ninth Circuit Panel's refusal to hear these petitioning police officers' interlocutory appeal on their claim of qualified immunity deny them … |
| 18-7240 |
Charles Jermaine King, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guidelines habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant was properly treated as a recidivist? |
| 18-7243 |
Javier Rojas-Cisneros v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus notice-and-warning pro-se standing |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit failed to undertake the notice-and-warning requirement of a pro se filing as a 2255 motion as … |
| 18-7245 |
Ronnie Junior Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-declaration federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay legal-procedure perjury self-incrimination standing witness-testimony |
Whether the petitioner's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination was violated when the government presented hearsay evidence against him at t… |
| 18-7247 |
In Re Dennis Roger Bolze |
|
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review money-laundering plea-bargain plea-bargaining |
Whether the district court erred in denying Bolze's 28 U.S.C. §2255 motion for relief from counsel's ineffective assistance in advising him to plead g… |
| 18-7249 |
John Doe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-court-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether the holding in Dillon v. United States, 560 U.S. 817 (2010) applies to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(B) in the same manner it applies to 18 U.S.C. § … |
| 18-7251 |
Consuelo Jordan v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process exclusionary-rule jurisdiction probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 18-7253 |
Eugene E. Forte v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-disobedience civil-rights collateral-bar-rule constitutional-order criminal-enforcement due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-precedent unconstitutional-orders walker-v-birmingham |
Should this Court reverse Walker v. City of Birmingham |
| 18-7254 |
Alvin E. Thomas v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment actual-prejudice automatic-reversal collateral-review counsel-of-choice fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error |
Is automatic reversal required where a defendant was denied counsel of choice due to the ineffective assistance of counsel? |
| 18-7255 |
In Re Andre Barnes |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-disclosure courts due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction parties relief standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 18-7256 |
Amin De Castro v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction police-encounter police-seizure probable-cause reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure terry-stop |
whether a reasonable person would feel free to refuse a police officer's polite request to take his hands out of his pockets |
| 18-7263 |
Gerald Patmon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon eleventh-circuit enumerated-offenses georgia-assault-statute gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbreadth sentencing-guidelines state-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously affirmed Mr. Patmon's sentence under USSG § 2K2.1 based on its determination that Ge… |
| 18-7264 |
Joel E. Miller v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-liability drug-trafficking gonzales-v-oregon jury-instructions medical-malpractice medical-practice medical-practitioner prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-care united-states-v-moore |
Whether the phrase 'issued for a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of his professional practice' mus… |
| 18-7266 |
Dymond Charles Brown v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their civil rights and due process rights under the 14th Amendment |
| 18-7267 |
Mashawn Greene v. Scott Semple, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Connecticut |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-rights cooperating-witness criminal-trial criminal-trials due-process false-testimony government-witnesses prosecutor-duty prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the due process clause requires prosecutors to bear the burden of preventing and correcting false or misleading testimony by cooperating gover… |
| 18-7268 |
Christopher Berry v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure court-filing-requirements due-process federal-law federal-procedural-rules newly-discovered-evidence pro-se-litigant standing third-circuit-court |
Did the holding of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit involve an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law in … |
| 18-7269 |
Larry Allison v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can one be sentenced for a crime to which no plea of guilty has been entered and no actual resulting conviction has been held? |
| 18-727 |
Chene DeVonne Manley v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 8th-amendment chiari-malformation due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-condition newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing-rights |
Does the Due Process Clause entitle a convicted prisoner to appointment of counsel and opportunity to amend a Notice of Post Conviction Relief asserti… |
| 18-7270 |
Antonio Bryant v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process in-re-winship ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-confessions involuntary-statements people-v-bryant standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Illinois Appellate Court's decision in People v. Bryant is contradictory to this Court's decisions in In re Winship, Jackson v. Denno, and… |
| 18-7272 |
Juan Pablo Arreola v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cocaine-trafficking criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process evidence evidence-admission indictment-scope jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standards-of-review |
Whether evidence of uncharged cocain trafficking was admitted erroneously |
| 18-7274 |
Reginald L. Spears, aka RLS Ar Abdul Aziz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure bias certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit impartial-judge judicial-bias procedural-error strawman-argument |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals introduced and attacked a strawman argument as a basis to deny appellant a COA, and whether this violates d… |
| 18-7275 |
Thomas Powers v. Jennifer Block, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-detainee civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-treatment retaliation standing treatment-program |
Whether the Supreme Court should define the elements of the Constitution's adequate civil detainee treatment program |
| 18-7278 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection plea-bargain record-on-appeal statute-of-limitations appellate-counsel appellate-record due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations strickland-standard |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,due-process,equal-protection,statute-of-limitations,plea-bargain,appellate-record |
| 18-7282 |
Benjamin Edward Henry Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process factual-findings objection presentence-report sentencing sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in affirming the district court's sentencing judgment where the district court adopted the Presentence Repo… |
| 18-7284 |
Roger Leon Barlow v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-pa-c-s-a-9541 constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act re-sentencing sentencing void-ab-initio |
Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statute, 42 Pa.C… |
| 18-7286 |
Johnathan Masters v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution criminal-statute first-amendment free-speech good-order-and-discipline school-speech vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Does criminalizing the content of free speech based solely on how a person who heard the content reacted, or interpreted the content, violate this Cou… |
| 18-7287 |
Lamont LaPrade v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appeal collateral-attack crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process firearm-offense predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government must show a connection between the predicate offense and the crime of violence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 18-7289 |
Peter D. Bommerito v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment administrative-policy ballot-initiatives civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process public-policy state-legislation |
Should the people in the state of California be constitutionally protected under the Fourteenth Amendment in the presence of increasingly severe crimi… |
| 18-7292 |
Marco Whitley, Sr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit prejudice second-degree-robbery sentencing sixth-amendment violent-crime |
Did the Eighth Circuit err by holding Missouri's Second Degree Robbery is always considered to necessarily be a crime of violence? |
| 18-7293 |
Neil Walker v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jurisdiction sentencing standing venue |
Where there is a conflict between the two state laws? |
| 18-7294 |
Sergio Antonio Zambrano v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment fourth-amendment pat-down probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-search warrantless-searches |
Whether a police officer may reach into an individual's pockets and remove objects during a Terry stop if the officer cannot determine through a pat-d… |
| 18-7296 |
Demetrio Cisneros v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-actions due-process global-tech investigative-duty knowledge knowledge-standard patent standing willful-blindness |
Can failure to investigate suspicious circumstances, without more, constitute the 'deliberate actions' to avoid knowledge under the willful-blindness … |
| 18-7297 |
Donnie Howard v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure jury-instructions jury-trial reasonable-doubt burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Did the trial court's statements during jury selection equating being convinced beyond a reasonable doubt with being 'sure' or 'positive' of guilt vio… |
| 18-7303 |
Joel Rivera v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting armed-robbery credibility-of-witness credible-witness criminal-intent due-process evidence firearm-use new-trial prosecutorial-discretion seventh-circuit witness-credibility |
Whether Rosemond v. United States was wrongly interpreted and applied |
| 18-7304 |
Juan Rodriguez-Mantos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-circuit judicial-review reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervisory-power |
Whether the imposition of an outside Guidelines sentence is reasonable |
| 18-7305 |
William Hilts v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury hearsay hearsay-testimony indictment witness-testimony |
Whether a criminal defendant's right to be prosecuted on an indictment voted by a Grand Jury under the Fifth Amendment is violated when the Grand Jury… |
| 18-7306 |
Michael Martin Steele v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process immigration immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-x-citement-video |
Did the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits misconstrue the mens-rea requirements of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B), when they created an aggravated felony for 'ql… |
| 18-7307 |
Yoni Rayo-Espinoza 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 … |
| 18-7308 |
Ronnie Junior Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony expert-witness federal-agent jury-instructions photographic-evidence pro-se-defense prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Whether the defendant's due process rights were violated when the government presented unreliable expert testimony and improperly influenced the jury |
| 18-7309 |
Kevin Balfour v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment home-invasion inevitable-discovery police-procedure protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Does the inevitable-discovery doctrine unlawfully and/or improperly expand the limits of the protective-sweep exception to the Fourth-Amendment right … |
| 18-731 |
Stefany Vega Duron, a Minor, et al. v. Ron Johnson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-remedy constitutional-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment iirira immigration immigration-law judicial-review selective-prosecution |
Is there an administrative remedy in the immigration courts to decide American citizens' claims of a violation of their First and Fifth Amendment cons… |
| 18-7310 |
Kadeem Thomas v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-ruling alleyne-v-united-states appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability direct-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-standard retroactivity |
Should the district court judge issue or deny a certificate of appealability |
| 18-7313 |
Lewis Templeton v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-crimes firearms sentencing spatial-connection sufficiency-of-evidence u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) waiver |
Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly concluded that Mr. Templeton had waived his argument that the evidence was insufficient to support increasing Mr. … |
| 18-7320 |
Nehemiah William Ford v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-7323 |
Robert Willis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum violent-felony |
Whether petitioner Willis's 'B&E Occupied' is a violent felony under ACCA? |
| 18-7327 |
Trevor Johnson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-rape Batson-Violation constitutional-rights daubert-standard Denial-of-Motion-to-Suppress expert-testimony first-fourth-fourteenth-amendments fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence jury-verdict Non-Unanimous-Verdict reasonable-doubt Unreliable-'Expert'-Testimony unreliable-expert-testimony Violation-of-Telecommunications-Act whether-reasonable-jurists-would-debate-that-the-t whether-reasonable-jurists-would-find-that-the-tri |
Whether reasonable jurist would find that the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, every essential dement of the offense that Mr. Johnson … |
| 18-7329 |
Phillip Dale Selfa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty due-process federal-state-jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vindictiveness |
Does the prophylactic presumption of prosecutorial vindictiveness (North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711 (1982)) apply when two different sovereigns … |
| 18-7330 |
Michael Anthony Garrett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-theory due-process evidence fifth-amendment jury-instructions right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-evidence |
Whether a defendant's constitutional right to present a defense encompasses the right to have the jury instructed on a theory of defense that constitu… |
| 18-7333 |
DeShawn Maurice Moffett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appealability appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-adjudication standing writ-of-certiorari |
whether-certifying-petitioner's-request-for-certificate-of-appealability |
| 18-734 |
Daniel G. Szmania v. E-Loan, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure foreclosure-dispute jurisdiction-challenge ninth-circuit-review procedural-error property-rights res-judicata standing trustee-sale |
Did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT error in not enforcing the District Court's ruling that this was not a foreclosure case |
| 18-7340 |
Eric Dillon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process federal-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-battle |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(j) requires a minimum 10-year consecutive sentence |
| 18-7341 |
Roderick V. Burton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure-standing-due-process-takings-juri civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings |
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of certiorari |
| 18-7344 |
Tony Dickinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-defense entrapment fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-indictment-delay sixth-amendment structural-error |
Whether the 6th Amendment permits the introduction of a criminal defendant's pre-indictment delay caused by the government as substantive evidence of … |
| 18-7345 |
Mario Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2518(9) burden-of-proof due-process exclusionary-mandate mens-rea notice statutory-interpretation wire-intercepts |
Whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C. § 2510 et seq. mandates a burden of proof on the government in cases involving wire intercepts |
| 18-7346 |
Mark Raymond Ford, aka Dred, aka Benjamin Lee Green, aka Donald Wray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker-decision criminal-sentencing due-process retroactive-rule retroactivity sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation united-states-v-booker |
Whether the lower court denial of modification of sentence under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(2) based on a mandatory guidelines range departure's sentence viol… |
| 18-7348 |
Edgar Arnold Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-USC-3582c2 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states district-court-discretion due-process legal-error sentence-modification sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether Dillon v. United States requires reevaluation of original sentencing methodology in sentence modification proceedings under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c… |
| 18-7350 |
Rafael Flores-Botello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-7351 |
Rahmad Lashad Geddes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-review apprendi civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Can a court of appeals sanction a lower court's departure from this court's well-established precedents that effectively conflates the standard of rev… |
| 18-7352 |
Giovanni Ellis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits due-process federal-firearms-law federal-regulation firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-7355 |
Michael R. Haynes v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review opinion order record standing |
Whether the record shows that the respondents deviated from the applicable legal standards |
| 18-7356 |
Jack Gossett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial-procedure defendant-rights due-process expert-testimony government-agent-testimony jury-influence prejudice reasonable-doubt reversible-error substantial-rights untendered-expert-testimony |
Did the testimony of a government agent, not tendered as an expert, influence the jury's decision on guilt beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 18-7358 |
Aaron Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255,ineffective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error presentence-investigation-report section-2255-motion sentencing |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying to issue a certificate of appealability to review Petitioner's denied motion under 28 U… |
| 18-736 |
Carl Lawson, et ux. v. Bell Sports USA |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-action civil-procedure conference court-rules due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hearing state-court witness-testimony |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits a State court from directly violating one of its own court rules, by failing to provid… |
| 18-7361 |
John Edward Gibbons v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-7365 |
Robert Allen DeVore v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus minimum-sentences sentencing |
Does the combined sentence totaling of 495 years with a 247% year minimum violate the Eighth Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment? |
| 18-7367 |
Darwin Markeith Huggans v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review counsel-advice criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lee-v-united-states legal-standard misinformation sixth-amendment |
Was the lower court required to address an evidentiary hearing when the evidence clearly showed that Huggins was misinformed based on counsel's advice… |
| 18-7371 |
Nicole Johnson v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence reasonable-doubt stolen-property |
Whether proof that the defendant possessed recently stolen property—any stolen property, as far as the instruction is concerned, even if the defendant… |
| 18-7374 |
David Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa counsel-performance fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-hoc-rationalization sixth-amendment strickland-test strickland-v-washington wiggins-v-smith |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a court may indulge 'post hoc rationalization' for counsel's decision making that contradicts the avai… |
| 18-7375 |
Wayne Nicolaison v. County of Hennepin, Minnesota |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-commitment civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-violation due-process foucha-standard foucha-v-louisiana indefinite-commitment presumption-of-innocence section-1983 |
Is the 'Petitioner' entitled to [a] defense of [the] 'presumption of innocence' upon a State's assertion of 'future dangerous behavior' by purely mere… |
| 18-7377 |
Jarvis Harris v. Joe Easterling, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-law federal-question judicial-review legal-precedent standing supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and District Court for the Western District has entered a decision in conflict with t… |
| 18-7387 |
James Dennis Lenihan, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3a carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-offense force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether the federal offense of carjacking, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 2119, categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(… |
| 18-7388 |
David Romo v. Ray Ormond, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-802(44) 21-usc-841 categorical-analysis categorical-approach congressional-intent due-process felony-drug-offense recidivist-clause recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the intent of Congress was to restrict the application of 21 U.S.C. § 841's recidivist enhancement to prior drug trafficking crimes that quali… |
| 18-7390 |
Martin R. Stancik v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-circuit waiver |
Whether a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a sentence includes a waiver of the right to appeal a later, unforeseen constitutional du… |
| 18-7391 |
Gadiel Romero v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment kidnapping kidnapping-offense offense-level ransom-demand sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Is it proper to apply a 6-level increase for a ransom demand in a kidnapping offense when not communicated? |
| 18-7392 |
In Re James Rudnick |
|
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure custody due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus incarceration-authority mittimus thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the Respondent has valid authority to punish the Applicant and keep him incarcerated without a valid conviction |
| 18-7393 |
Rodrigo Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process firearm-enhancement firearm-possession guidelines-interpretation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement stare-decisis |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's application of the firearm enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) without requirin… |
| 18-7400 |
Damion Sleugh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review co-defendant-testimony criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-credibility |
Whether the need for sealing a co-defendant's subpoena applications ends once the co-defendant changes his plea and testifies for the Government at tr… |
| 18-741 |
Emily M. Odermatt v. Amy Way, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-benefits pickering pickering-test public-employment public-service public-services |
Whether, consistent with the First Amendment and Pickering, the government's ability to remove a valuable financial benefit on the basis of the benefi… |
| 18-7417 |
Omari Robinson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process illinois illinois-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-vagueness vagueness weapon-enhancement |
Is the mandatory 25-year-to-life weapon enhancement imposed by Illinois courts unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-7418 |
Derrick T. Seals v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
851-enhancement ambiguous-plea contract criminal-procedure due-process enhancement government-breach ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Did government breach plea agreement/contract when defendant never agreed to enhancement? |
| 18-7419 |
Fausto Becerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accountability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process maximum-punishment plea-agreement plea-bargain prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner beyond the maximum punishment for the conduct he was 'accountable' for under the plea ba… |
| 18-7420 |
Joe Ray Alires v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing federal-criminal-law generic-burglary generic-crime residential-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a conviction for residential burglary under N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-16-3(A) falls within the generic crime of burglary in the Armed Career Crimin… |
| 18-7421 |
Torrence Allen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-provision certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines retroactivity retroactivity-of-supreme-court-decisions sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether Johnson v. United States applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion |
| 18-7424 |
William Felix Vail v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-code criminal-evidence doctrine-of-chances due-process forensic-evidence physical-proof presumption-of-innocence presumptive-evidence reasonable-doubt |
Did the State offer sufficient evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 18-743 |
White Oak Realty, LLC, et al. v. Army Corps of Engineers, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-action agency-authority chevron-deference congressional-authority federal-contracts property-rights public-projects regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-conditions |
Where a statute directs an agency to carry out and pay for a federal project for public benefit without granting express authority to regulate private… |
| 18-7432 |
Cornell W. Barber v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute curtis-johnson-v-united-states mens-rea reckless reckless-conduct reckless-mens-rea united-states-v-castleman violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 18-7434 |
Christopher Adin Graham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability closing-argument counsel-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standard prejudice testimony |
Whether the court of appeals correctly denied petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c) on his ineffective-assistance-of-couns… |
| 18-744 |
Mark Unger v. David Bergh, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel junk-science sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment guarantee of effective assistance of counsel is violated when counsel fails to expose junk science that sends his client t… |
| 18-7463 |
Sherwin V. Koyle v. Sand Canyon Corporation, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence perjury public-policy rule-of-law |
Whether a federal judge or justice condones fraudulent misrepresentation, perjury, disregard of the rule of law, denial of newly discovered evidence, … |
| 18-7466 |
Glenn Bennett, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment |
Whether the erroneous jury instruction given in Mr. Bennett's case negated his only defense and relieved the State of the burden of proving all elemen… |
| 18-7467 |
Phillip E. LaPointe v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment atkins-precedent atkins-v-virginia brain-development criminal-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing |
Does this Court's 8th Amendment protections extend to a just turned eighteen year old who received life without parole, where the evidence shows he wa… |
| 18-7469 |
David Valenzuela Arzate v. James Robertson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process fair-trial gang-evidence insufficient-evidence judicial-review legal-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse discretion or err in denying petitioner's certificate of appealability? |
| 18-747 |
Sonja Ritter v. Lois Brady, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-chapter-7 bankruptcy-trustee chapter-7 chapter-7-liquidation judicial-precedent lien-stripping lien-valuation secured-claims stare-decisis statutory-interpretation unsecured-claims |
Whether Dewsnup v. Timm should be overruled |
| 18-748 |
Richard McKinley Wilson, Jr. v. Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue of Stafford County, et al. |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process international-law jurisdiction legal-recognition nation-state property-law sovereignty standing taxation |
Do the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia have the jurisdiction to recognize the authority of the Petitioner's re-established nation state? |
| 18-7484 |
Nimon Naphaeng v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 18-749 |
JoEllen Mary Crossett v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
|
conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges prejudice sixth-amendment state-and-federal-rights trial-procedure |
Was Petitioner denied her state and federal rights to the effective assistance of counsel, and did Michigan Court of Appeals err when it confirmed wit… |
| 18-7496 |
Nemiah Allan v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense alleyne-precedent criminal-statute element jury-determination mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment united-states-v-alleyne |
Whether a state court may interpret a criminal statute so that a fact that triggers a mandatory minimum is termed an 'affirmative defenses' rather tha… |
| 18-7501 |
GwanJun Kim v. Grand Valley State University, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure complaint dismissal due-process evidence factual-findings jurisdiction marshal service-of-process standing summons time-limits |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the complaint for failure to serve the defendants within the time period required by Rule 4(m) of the F… |
| 18-7506 |
Jonathan Glen Turner v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure dilatory-conduct due-process manipulative-conduct obstreperous-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver |
Whether a defendant may waive his Sixth Amendment right to counsel by dilatory, obstreperous, or manipulative conduct, as opposed to express statement |
| 18-7507 |
In Re Dwight Carter |
|
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Did the 11th Circuit adopt a divergent interpretation of the gatekeeping standard contrary to Congress' plain language in 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(C), wh… |
| 18-751 |
Metropolitan Interpreters & Translators Inc. v. Francisco Bates, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process employee-polygraph-protection-act executive-branch-review executive-power federal-contractor federal-contractors judicial-review polygraph polygraph-examination security-clearance standing |
Whether the Employee Polygraph Protection Act supersedes the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual's authorization of federal agencies… |
| 18-7512 |
Ronald Jackson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment state-court subjective-intent |
Whether counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to adequately investigate and present exculpatory evidence |
| 18-7515 |
Jafaria Deforrest Newton v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment presumption religious-worship statutory-presumption |
Whether the presumption in § 407(b)(2) comports with the Due Process Clause as to the State's burden of proof |
| 18-7518 |
Kevin Holt v. J.A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-cfr-chapter-1-2-61 federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-judicial-system first-impression good-time-credits life-sentence military-prisoner military-prisoners military-prisoners-life-sentence presumptive-release sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-4206 title-18-usc-4206a |
Should the Supreme Court of the United States hear this case that presents a substantial issue of 'first impression in the Federal Judicial System tha… |
| 18-752 |
Edward Taupier v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure criminal-law free-speech mens-rea negligence objective-standard recklessness scienter speech-act state-of-mind true-threats |
Whether in a prosecution for speech under the 'true threats' doctrine an objective standard of mere recklessness is sufficient to meet the scienter re… |
| 18-7526 |
In Re Robert Heffernan |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence reasonable-doubt winship-doctrine |
Whether it violates the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for a state trier of fact to convict petitioners where the evidence cannot fair… |
| 18-7528 |
In Re Keith E. Doyle |
|
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment 14th-amendment adversarial-hearing constitutional-intent due-process fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-by-information information-document intent-of-delegates judicial-procedure montana-constitution preliminary-examination preliminary-hearing void-proceedings |
Did the district court judge violate my right to Due Process of Law, factually loose jurisdiction, and create void proceedings? |
| 18-753 |
Robert Stephen Couturier v. Presiding Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
arrest-warrant bench-trial certificate-of-appealability due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance judicial-impartiality |
Did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals error when it denied The Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-754 |
David A. Ramirez v. Walmart |
North Dakota |
Denied |
|
civil-rights discrimination due-process employee-termination employment employment-law labor labor-rights protected-activity retaliation workload-allocation workplace-dismissal |
Why did the Walmart lawyer tell the court that this was a protected activity? |
| 18-7555 |
Doiakah Gray v. Stephanie Dorethy, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-prisoners habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent state-prisoners statute-of-limitations statutory-construction |
What is the limitations period for newly recognized rights for state prisoners? |
| 18-758 |
Johnnie C. Ivy, III, et al. v. H. Thomas Moran, II |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure-due-process civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process life-insurance ownership-claims predeprivation-hearing property property-rights receivership standing vested-interest vested-interests viatical-investment |
Whether the District Court's refusal to provide Petitioners with a predeprivation hearing on their ownership claims deprived Petitioners of necessary … |
| 18-765 |
James H. Brady v. New York, et al. |
New York |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-action due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity legal-fees obstruction-of-justice property-rights prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct quid-pro-quo sanctions standing takings |
Did the Appellate Division, First Department err in finding Respondents immune pursuant to Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976)? |
| 18-767 |
Ancient Coin Collectors Guild v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment archaeological-objects burden-of-proof civil-forfeiture cultural-property due-process export-control import-restrictions prospective-application unesco-convention |
Did the courts below violate the Guild's 5th Amendment Due Process Rights when they authorized the forfeiture of the Guild's private property without … |
| 18-768 |
In Re Kenneth P. Kellogg, et al. |
|
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-misconduct civil-procedure class-action common-questions-of-fact contingent-fee-contracts fee-contract judicial-discretion judicial-usurpation mdl-transfer minnesota-law multidistrict-litigation pretrial-proceedings |
Whether the MDL Panel transfer of Kellogg |
| 18-769 |
Minnesota Living Assistance, Inc., dba Baywood Home Care v. Ken B. Peterson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abstention abuse-of-discretion administrative-proceeding civil-administrative-proceeding civil-rights-preemption de-novo-review federal-preemption federal-question standard-of-review state-law younger-abstention younger-v-harris |
whether the principles enunciated in Younger v. Harris and its progeny require a federal court to abstain from deciding a federal preemption question |
| 18-770 |
Webtrends, Inc. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-test claim-rejection federal-court patent patent-claims prior-art standing uspto |
Whether the USPTO or a Federal Court can declare 20 patent claims to be directed to an unpatentable abstract idea without carrying out the Alice two-p… |
| 18-771 |
Pedro Vaigasi v. Solow Management Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-sanctions due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se sanctions |
Whether review is warranted for sanctions against pro se plaintiff |
| 18-775 |
Andrew Chien v. LeClairRyan, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-error civil-rights collateral-estoppel color-of-state-act due-process false-imprisonment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity res-judicata subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether the order is void due to administrative error and lack of jurisdiction |
| 18-777 |
Jorge Bueno-Muela v. Matthew G. Whitaker, Acting Attorney General |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 18-778 |
St. Louis Heart Center, Inc. v. Nomax, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights consumer-protection due-process opt-out-notice spokeo-injury standing statutory-damages tcpa-disclosure telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether a failure to disclose information mandated by federal law is a concrete injury in itself, or whether a plaintiff must show additional harm |
| 18-780 |
Lisa Marie Kerr v. Marshall University Board of Governors, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
12(b)(6)-motion academic-deference civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process first-amended-complaint first-amendment leave-to-amend savings-statute sex-discrimination sexual-orientation sexual-orientation-discrimination |
Is sexual orientation discrimination unlawful under the Civil Rights Act? |
| 18-787 |
Robert Lee Rhoe, II v. Montgomery County Office of Child Support Enforcement |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response Waived |
13th-amendment child-support civil-rights dna dna-rights due-process economic-enslavement liberty paternity-testing property takings thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the Custodial Parent and MCOCSE's actions in economically enslaving the Petitioner through child support and U.S. citizenship claims over his … |
| 18-788 |
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Gwendolyn E. Odom, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Juanita Thurston |
Florida |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process engle-progeny jury-findings legal-procedure litigation-strategy preclusion preclusion-principles res-judicata standing tobacco |
Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims without s… |
| 18-789 |
Cecilia M. Hylton v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
26-usc-183 appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process hobby horse-activity-taxation horse-related-activities per-curiam-decision section-183-hobby-loss tax tax-law taxation unpublished-opinion |
Is petitioner denied due process of law when the court of appeals failed to timely advise her whether oral argument (which each party requested) would… |
| 18-791 |
Kyle James Moesch v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-proceedings collateral-review constitutional-rights douglas-v-california due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether a prisoner who raises a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel in initial-review collateral proceedings is entitled to the assistanc… |
| 18-794 |
Ronald R. Shea v. Winnebago County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment bail civil-rights constitutional-amendments counsel due-process fundamental-rights petition-clause prisoner-rights telephone-access |
Whether a prisoner's right to a telephone call is a necessary inference of the fundamental rights of bail and counsel under the Sixth, Eighth and Four… |
| 18-795 |
William J. Bush v. Department of Agriculture, Risk Management Agency, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-records chevron-deference circuit-split de-novo-review due-process foia-request freedom-of-information freedom-of-information-act freedom-of-information-act-foia |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's standard for agency records pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) conflicts with the D.C. Circuit's standard |
| 18-796 |
Bruce Alexander v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accountability attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process equal-protection government-accountability investigation judicial-procedure municipal-governance official-accountability standing |
Did the Western District Court err in not allowing all parties to respond to the original complaint? |
| 18-797 |
Brian M. Burmaster v. Stephen J. Herman, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights detention detention-without-trial due-process enforced-disappearance habeas-corpus international-law rome-statute rome-statutes seventh-circuit |
Is being detained without a trial for two years a frivolous case or an international case of enforced disappearance? |
| 18-804 |
Wanda McClure Dry, as Administrator Ad Litem for the Estate of Laurence R. Dry v. Christi Lenay Fields Steele, et al. |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process estate-administration notice notice-requirement personal-service pro-se-litigant rule-25 rule-4 rule-5 service-of-process |
Does Rule 5 service by mail to a deceased pro se party satisfy the due process requirement of notice and opportunity to be heard prior to the taking o… |
| 18-806 |
Jodi C. Hohman, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-court financial-privacy-act fourth-amendment john-doe-summons jurisdictional-discovery limited-liability-company right-to-financial-privacy-act sovereign-immunity |
Whether limited liability companies are 'persons' under the Right to Financial Privacy Act |
| 18-808 |
Kirk E. Webster v. Patrick M. Shanahan, Acting Secretary of Defense |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process intelligence-agency retaliation settlement whistleblower |
Whether a settlement agreement should be rendered legally invalid if coerced by a discriminating management official |
| 18-818 |
Hubert Thompson v. James C. Rovella, Chief of Police, City of Hartford, Connecticut, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process equitable-tolling prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation wrongful-incarceration |
Whether the statutory requirement for compensation for wrongful incarceration equitably tolled the petitioner's civil rights claims |
| 18-820 |
Teresa Y. Weinacker v. National Loan Acquisitions Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence legal-precedent plausibility-standard standing subject-matter-jurisdiction twombly-iqbal |
Whether lower courts can disregard precedent, the Constitution, and federal rules |
| 18-823 |
ZUP, LLC v. Nash Manufacturing, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
invention invention-evaluation legal-analysis long-felt-need non-obviousness obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-invalidity patent-law prima-facie prior-art rebuttal secondary-considerations |
Whether evidence of 'secondary considerations' is less important in rebutting prima facie evidence of obviousness |
| 18-825 |
Peggy Shumpert, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Antwun Shumpert, Sr., et al. v. City of Tupelo, Mississippi, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
canine-force civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process federal-appeals-conflict police-misconduct qualified-immunity state-created-danger use-of-force whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-concluding-t whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-finding-that |
Whether the state-created danger doctrine is clearly established law |
| 18-826 |
Kenneth Shelton v. Anthonee Patterson |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response Waived |
church-autonomy first-amendment hosanna-tabor hosanna-tabor-v-eeoc intra-church-disputes intra-church-litigation jones-v-wolf judicial-scrutiny leadership-succession neutral-principles religious-dispute serbian-eastern-orthodox-diocese-v-milivojevich |
Whether this Court should clarify Jones v. Wolf and Hosanna-Tabor v. E.E.O.C., given the doctrinal uncertainty and unpredictability reflected in incon… |
| 18-828 |
Robert Ghiringhelli, et al. v. The Assurance Group, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
breach-of-contract civil-rights contract contract-law federal-preemption insurance insurance-industry insurance-law medicare medicare-regulations separate-accrual-rule statute-of-limitations |
Whether the separate accrual rule should apply to commissions earned by insurance agents and collected monthly by the insurance company, compelling ac… |
| 18-833 |
Brandi K. Stokes v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure geneva-conventions international-law judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-review subject-matter subject-matter-characterization subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-obligations united-states-courts |
Whether a United States Court of Appeals may rely upon the subject matter characterizations of a lower court to avoid jurisdiction to review a claim f… |
| 18-839 |
Pablo Colon v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda miranda-rights police-procedure right-to-silence self-incrimination |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Miranda guarantee requires police to inform a custodial suspect of his right to stop questioning at any time? |
| 18-841 |
Michale Anthony Hoffman v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
airport aviation-authority civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment forum-analysis free-speech non-public-forum public-forum public-sidewalk public-street standing |
Whether the shoulder of a public street should be treated as an airport or a public forum for First Amendment purposes |
| 18-846 |
David Allen Anderton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-statute due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech immigration-law overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether to 'encourage' or 'induce' an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States in reckless disregard of the alien's 'in violation of la… |
| 18-850 |
David Altstatt, Sr. v. Melinda Fruendt, Executive Director, Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration blind-vendors compensatory-damages eleventh-amendment randolph-sheppard-act sovereign-immunity |
When States voluntarily choose to participate under the Randolph Sheppard Act, and consent to arbitration of blind vendors' grievances, do the states … |
| 18-851 |
Bryan Christopher Marshall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment law-enforcement predicate-offense sentencing speech-protection statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including one which does not meet the definition of a drug dis… |
| 18-856 |
Serge Antonin v. Baltimore Police Department |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accardi-v-shaughnessy administrative-hearing administrative-law constitutional-law due-process evidence law-enforcement police-misconduct prejudice procedural-rights state-agency state-agency-regulations |
Whether United States ex rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy, 347 U.S. 260 (1954) is constitutional law binding upon the State of Maryland? |
| 18-857 |
Patrick Boyd v. Mississippi Department of Public Safety, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law first-amendment free-speech government-employment government-overreach governmental-supervision law-enforcement public-concern |
Whether law enforcement and governmental supervisors, by mere announcement of some collective fear, without any factual basis whatsoever, may override… |
| 18-858 |
James McCullars v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advertisement advertising-statute communication-privacy criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-interpretation notice notice-and-advertisement private-communications statutory-interpretation trial-evidence |
Whether the proof at trial which established that petitioner was only engaged in private, closed communications — either one-to-one, or among a small … |
| 18-860 |
Larry Edward Parrish v. Board of Professional Responsibility |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitrary-punishment civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech lawyer-sanctions professional-conduct recusal-motion sanctions standing |
Should the judgment of the Tennessee Supreme Court below be reversed |
| 18-861 |
WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
agency-procedure discovery due-process inter-partes-review patent-invalidation patent-litigation patent-office patent-office-procedures privy real-party-in-interest standing statutory-interpretation time-bar |
Whether the court of appeals and agency erred by holding that 'real party in interest, or privy of the petitioner' refers only to others who 'control'… |
| 18-863 |
Tralvis Edmond v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant temporal-evidence |
Whether a complaint for search warrant that is silent as to the date on which alleged criminal activity occurred and recounts only a single drug purch… |
| 18-864 |
John Tatum, et ux. v. The Dallas Morning News, Inc., et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment free-speech milkovich-precedent milkovich-v-lorain omnicare-v-laborers opinion opinion-piece opinion-speech |
Whether an otherwise verifiable accusation of dishonesty should be considered Constitutionally protected opinion under the First Amendment because suc… |
| 18-872 |
Dariusz Dolacinski, et ux. v. Bank of America |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure consent-fraud due-process final-judgment foreclosure foreclosure-sale fraud jurisdiction-challenge service service-defect service-of-process standing |
If the Consent to final judgement in writing or otherwise never existed and was falsely and/or fraudulently presented to the Court by the Respondent's… |
| 18-874 |
Houston Auto M. Imports Greenway, Limited, dba Mercedes-Benz of Houston Greenway v. Mark Zastrow, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment certificate-of-compliance declaration-under-penalty-of-perjury due-process eminent-domain land-use property-rights supreme-court-rule-33.1(d) supreme-court-rule-33.1(h) takings word-count |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a portion of their property for publ… |
| 18-878 |
Robert Stevens, et al. v. CoreLogic, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-procedure copyright-infringement copyright-management-information dmca dmca-violation infringement-prevention mental-state mental-state-requirement ninth-circuit-standard register-of-copyrights standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the mental state requirement of 'knowing, or, . . . having reasonable grounds to know' that removal or alteration of copyright management info… |
| 18-884 |
Brenda Jeffrey v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment animal-law animal-seizure civil-forfeiture criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment matthews-test property-rights sentell-vs-new-orleans |
whether, under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, a state can seize and later permanently deprive a defendant of her property, an animal i… |
| 18-902 |
Paul Poupart v. Timothy Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act clearly-established-federal-law custodial-interrogation federal-review fifth-amendment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus miranda-rights unreasonable-application |
Whether a habeas corpus application should be granted when a state court decision was contrary to or involved an unreasonable application of clearly e… |
| 18-903 |
Robbie Perry, et al. v. Coles County, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
28-usc-2201 comity-doctrine declaratory-relief equal-protection equal-protection-clause equitable-jurisdiction property-tax property-tax-assessment state-court-remedies |
Did the Seventh Circuit err under the exception to the comity doctrine by holding Illinois state court remedies 'adequate' and 'complete' even though … |
| 18-931 |
David Christopher Hesse v. Jason Kane Howell |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 abuse-of-process civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law due-process false-arrest legal-procedure prosecutorial-immunity state-law-immunity texas-civil-practices-and-remedies-code wrongful-incarceration |
Are acting as a witness by swearing to facts, abusing process and committing crimes, acts that are foreign to the duties of a prosecutor? If so, is th… |
| 18-99 |
Johnny Barnes v. Joseph Gerhart, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights confidential-informant drug-surveillance due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-action police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure unreasonable-search |
Did the Fifth Circuit wrongly hold that Officer Barnes' mistake was 'unreasonable' under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18A554 |
Mohan A. Harihar v. US Bank NA, et al. |
First Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18A692 |
William J. Golz v. Benjamin S. Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
Tenth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M100 |
RPX Corporation v. Applications in Internet Time, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M101 |
Alex Rodriguez v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M102 |
Thad Thompson v. Nolan Uehara |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M91 |
Theresa S. Romain v. Kimberly O'Connor, et al. |
New York |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M92 |
Erik Lindsey Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M94 |
In Re Robert K. Hudnall |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M95 |
Richard Morales v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M96 |
Eric Golden v. Randy Pfister, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M97 |
Floyd Eugene Matthews v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M98 |
A. R. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M99 |
Grace S. Wong v. Jay J. Lubetkin, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|