| 18-1002 |
Cynthia Davis, et al. v. Valsamis, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
admiralty-law carnival-cruise-lines carnival-cruise-lines-v-shute contract-interpretation cruise-line-liability fundamental-fairness judicial-scrutiny limitation-of-liability majestic-the maritime-law notice-requirement passenger-ticket passenger-tickets pre-suit-notice the-majestic ticket-limitation |
whether-cruise-ship-passenger-ticket-fairly-communicated-pre-suit-notice-requirement |
| 18-192 |
J. B. R. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
age-of-criminal-responsibility constitutional-limits constitutional-punishment criminal-prosecution death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder juvenile-justice juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-imprisonment prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation statutory-punishment |
Whether the Due Process Clause forbids the Government from prosecuting an individual who was a juvenile at the time of the crime under a statute that … |
| 18-223 |
In Re Christopher Dawson |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights consumer-protection due-process financial-misconduct foreclosure standing |
Whether Christopher Dawson has been denied due process rights by US courts and government agencies, whether he is entitled to relief under 28 USC 1651… |
| 18-272 |
Jim Yovino, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools v. Aileen Rizo |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (6) |
circuit-split civil-rights compensation due-process employment employment-law equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex gender-discrimination prior-salary sex-discrimination wage-differential |
Whether prior salary is a factor other than sex' under the Equal Pay Act |
| 18-323 |
Suzan Evans, Individually and as Wife and Next of Kin of Scott Evans, Deceased v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-law excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor police-conduct reasonableness-standard tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances use-of-force |
Whether the totality of the circumstances test for assessing the reasonableness of a use of force under Tennessee v. Garner and Graham v. Connor requi… |
| 18-328 |
Kevin C. Rotkiske v. Paul Klemm, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the 'discovery rule' applies to toll the one-year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, et s… |
| 18-340 |
In-N-Out Burger, Incorporated v. National Labor Relations Board |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law compelled-speech constitutional-rights-free-speech employer-rights first-amendment free-speech janus-v-afscme labor-relations national-institute-of-family-and-life-advocates-v- nlrb-doctrine special-circumstances special-circumstances-doctrine |
Whether the NLRB's order compelling speech of a private employer violates the First Amendment |
| 18-375 |
Daniel H. Alexander v. Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendment disqualification due-process evidence-fraud foreclosure fraud judicial-review mortgage-foreclosure national-mortgage-settlement |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protections of the 5th and 14th Amendment… |
| 18-458 |
Lillian Pellegrini v. Fresno County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
18-usc-1961 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-procedure-60b civil-rights color-of-law due-process fraud property-rights rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Can the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine bar federal court jurisdiction under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 60(b), 42 U.S.C. 1983, or 18 U.S.C. 1961 et seq.… |
| 18-5092 |
Tyrone Anderson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act florida-robbery physical-force prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement stokeling-v-united-states victim-resistance violent-felony |
Whether Florida robbery is a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 18-5128 |
In Re Gigi Fairchild-Littlefield |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process due-process,fair-trial,false-evidence,directed-ver equal-protection fair-trial false-evidence judicial-misconduct jury-verdict prosecutorial-misconduct trial-manipulation |
Is the deliberate manufacturing of false evidence and manipulation of trial transcripts, and court documents, including the jury verdicts, to support … |
| 18-5213 |
Dawn Baker v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Eleventh Circuit |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
| 18-5232 |
Charles Lynch Pettis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split physical-force robbery-statute sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement state-robbery victim-resistance violent-felony |
Whether a state robbery offense that requires only force sufficient to overcome victim resistance categorically qualifies as a 'violent felony' under … |
| 18-5288 |
Robert Serrano v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause force johnson-definition physical-force state-robbery state-robbery-offense victim-resistance violent-felony |
Whether a state robbery offense that includes as an element the requirement of overcoming victim resistance by use of force is a violent felony under … |
| 18-5384 |
Wendell Rivera-Ruperto v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment government-manipulation mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-manipulation sting-operation sting-operations |
Whether the Eighth Amendment forbids the creation of a de-facto mandatory life without parole sentence through stacking 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) charges |
| 18-551 |
Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Elaine Jordan |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure class-action constitutional-law due-process engle-progeny findings issue-preclusion jury jury-findings legal-precedent preclusion prior-proceeding tobacco |
Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule of preclusion that permits plaintiffs to invoke the preclusive effect of a prior jury's findings … |
| 18-552 |
Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Mary Brown, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Rayfield Brown |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process engle-progeny findings jury jury-findings legal-precedent preclusion prior-proceeding standing tobacco |
Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule of preclusion that permits plaintiffs to invoke the preclusive effect of a prior jury's findings … |
| 18-5612 |
Detrick C. Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability elements-clause firearm-possession florida-felony-battery florida-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied Mr. Smith a certificate of appealability |
| 18-566 |
Heriberto Menendez v. Marshall Garber |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-burden due-process interstate-commerce judicial-jurisdiction limitations long-arm-statute non-resident-tolling statute-of-limitations tolling |
Whether a state statute that tolls limitations while the defendant is absent from the state imposes constitutionally impermissible burdens on intersta… |
| 18-578 |
William L. Pender, et al. v. Bank of America Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
appropriate-relief benefit-plan civil-procedure divided-bench employee-benefits equitable-relief equity-courts erisa judicial-remedy pension-law solicitor-general statutory-interpretation |
Whether the word appropriate' in ERISA § 502(a)(8) authorizes ERISA courts to decline to award an established equitable remedy based on considerations… |
| 18-5838 |
Hosea Swopes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
categorically constitutes a 'violent felony' unde interpreted by state law to be satisfied by the f armed-career-criminal-act circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-statute element-of-force force-element robbery-offense state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states violent-felony |
Whether a state robbery offense that includes 'as an element' the taking of property by another by force, interpreted by state law to be satisfied by … |
| 18-5886 |
Dwight Mitchell v. Wilson Taylor, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 due-diligence due-process fraudulent-concealment lower-court merits rule-12-motion rule-12-motion-to-dismiss statute-of-limitations term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 |
Was it proper for the lower court to throw out a properly plead 42-U.S.C-1983-cause-of-action,statute-of-limitations,civil-rights,civil-procedure,due-… |
| 18-5940 |
Moises Perez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
appellate-interpretation armed-career-criminal-act common-law-resistance force-clause resistance state-appellate-courts state-robbery state-robbery-offense violent-felony |
Whether a state robbery offense that includes as an element the common law requirement of overcoming resistance' is categorically a 'violent felony' u… |
| 18-598 |
Andrew Chien v. Andrew K. Clark, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-relief judicial-bias rico rico-act second-circuit-review standing summary-affirmance summary-judgment takings Whether the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organ |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in granting Appellees' motion for summary affirmance while denying Chien's motions as moot |
| 18-6025 |
Rene Borrero v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-robbery due-process state-law state-statute statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony |
Whether Florida's State attempted robbery offense that includes as an element' the common law requirement of overcoming 'victim resistance' is categor… |
| 18-6092 |
Robert Dion Ables v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-review empirical-analysis empirical-foundation-of-guidelines guideline-2g2.2 judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-of-sentences |
Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review? |
| 18-6160 |
Kevin R. Carmody v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
bias civil-procedure cross-examination due-process employment hearing-officer involuntary-termination post-termination-proceedings privileged-document procedural-fairness public-employee public-employment standing termination |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit err in finding Plaintiff bowed out of the post-termination proceedings? |
| 18-6177 |
Tony Lipscomb v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split illinois-robbery stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony |
Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 18-621 |
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Mary Faricy Pardue, as Personal Representative of the Estate of John N. Faricy |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process engle issue-preclusion jury-findings preclusion preclusion-doctrine prior-jury-findings res-judicata tobacco |
Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits a plaintiff to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of her claims without sh… |
| 18-6230 |
Harvey L. Shoate v. Jason Lewis, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing sua-sponte |
Can a post-conviction court find plain error in the movant's guilty plea or sentence record and 'sua sponte' order relief when the movant never raised… |
| 18-6257 |
Edward Dean McCranie v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender colorado-robbery common-law common-law-robbery crime-of-violence force force-clause generic-robbery sentencing-guidelines stokeling-v-united-states tenth-circuit violence |
Is Colorado robbery, which follows the common-law definition of the amount of force required, a crime of violence for purposes of the career-offender … |
| 18-6294 |
Steven Anthony Walcott, Jr. v. Terrebonne Parish Jail Medical Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process exhaustion-of-remedies frivolous-claims medical-conditions medical-treatment prison-conditions standing |
Whether the petitioners allege serious medical conditions |
| 18-6298 |
Robert Alan Fratta v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
capital-punishment civil-rights constitutional-rights constructive-amendment due-process fatal-variance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-review miscarriage-of-justice pro-se-representation right-to-counsel standing sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is it unconstitutional for a U.S. Court of Appeals to accept, sanction or make decisions that allow state courts to refuse to accept meritorious issue… |
| 18-6326 |
Terry Alfred Coxe v. Daniel White, Superintendent, Washington State Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights counsel-abandonment due-process equitable-tolling fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations |
Whether the lower courts' rulings directly conflict with the holdings in (1) McQuiggin v. Perkins; (2) Cronic v. United States, and (3) Cuyler v. Sull… |
| 18-6354 |
Cheryl Lynn Jossie v. CVS Pharmacy |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights consent discrimination healthcare-information healthcare-information-processing healthcare-information-sharing healthcare-privacy herzing-university hipaa-violation license-practical-nurse licensing medical-information-sharing patient-consent privacy privacy-rights |
Why is CVS Pharmacy being allowed to break the law by sharing my Healthcare information? My consent was not given or authorized to be included in thei… |
| 18-6369 |
Lashon Browning v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach certiorari circuit-split illinois-robbery statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony |
Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 18-6383 |
Robert J. Kulick v. Steven Rein |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
ada-accommodation attorney-client attorney-client-rights civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process legal-ethics legal-malpractice legal-representation pro-per-status pro-se standing state-bar-bias |
Why the CA State Bar denied an investigation against Steven Rein, Esq. for his blackmail against me, & why attorneys allowed to be relieved as an atto… |
| 18-6410 |
Michael McKinzy v. Carletha Gaston (McKinzy) |
Missouri |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection legal-notice notice procedural-fairness service service-of-process state-action state-court |
Did Missouri (CSE) violate Father's United States Constitutional Rights to Due Process of Law and Equal Protection of Laws under the Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 18-6411 |
Ennis Reed v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire |
Has California again departed from the federal standards governing determinations of racial bias during jury voir dire? |
| 18-642 |
Morris E. Zukerman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
18-usc-3742 appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance shocks-the-conscience substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness |
Whether a court of appeals that finds that a district court has failed adequately to explain a sentence can simply request further elaboration without… |
| 18-649 |
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Cheryl Searcy, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Carol LaSard |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
actually-decided civil-procedure claim-preclusion class-action constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit issue-preclusion jury-findings opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion |
Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims w… |
| 18-6507 |
Alice Brown v. Del Norte County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-discrimination dereliction-of-duty due-process equal-protection fraudulent-concealment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-disqualification jurisdiction magistrate-judge ninth-circuit |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the interlocutory appeal for lack of jurisdiction, thereby violat… |
| 18-651 |
Jason Craig Montgomery v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
18-usc-2422b attempt coerce criminal-attempt entice induce intent interstate-communication interstate-communications minor minor-solicitation persuade sexual-activity statutory-interpretation substantial-step telecommunications-act |
Does a defendant attempt to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b), where the defendant communicates so… |
| 18-653 |
Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Vickie McKeever, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Theodore McKeever |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process jury-findings opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion preclusion-doctrine prior-proceeding res-judicata standing |
Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims w… |
| 18-654 |
Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. v. Richard Boatright, et ux. |
Florida |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure claim-preclusion class-action due-process engle-progeny issue-preclusion jury-findings preclusion procedural-due-process |
Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims w… |
| 18-6647 |
Kiran Sharma v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing forfeiture forfeiture-restitution ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-victim-restitution-act plea-agreement restitution statutory-interpretation third-party-beneficiary trust-corpus |
Does the language in the Mandatory Victim Act (MVRA) allow the courts to forfeit the third party beneficiary's 'Trust Corpus' without an 'Evidentiary … |
| 18-6654 |
In Re Gary Ray Debolt |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
Is it in violation of the fifth Amendment and Brady v. Maryland to convict a person with the use of false and manipulated evidence? |
| 18-6715 |
Cortney John Edstrom v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment apartment-dwellers apartment-search circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights curtilage drug-detection-dog drug-detection-dogs due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech reasonable-expectation-of-privacy standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 18-6727 |
John C. Stojetz v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation capital-punishment due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-records mitigation prosecutorial-misconduct ptsd racial-bias |
Has the Constitutional right to due process of law been violated where a prosecutor withholds prison medical records that substantiate a capital defen… |
| 18-674 |
Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
brady-violation criminal-procedure-error cross-examination due-process expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel materiality materiality-standard presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct psychological-evaluation standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals erred in requiring that an expert witness, instead of trial counsel, correct the false impression that the prosecutor cre… |
| 18-6752 |
David McGuire v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation brady-violations criminal-procedure discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process evidence-disclosure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct remedies |
When a discovery violation is discovered mid-trial, does a remedy that fails to order the disclosure of the withheld evidence violate the Due Process … |
| 18-6772 |
Donovan Grant v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process financial-transaction guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error plain-error-doctrine specified-unlawful-activity trial-court |
Whether the plain-error doctrine permits an appeals court to affirm a conviction based on a potential crime that it identifies in the record that was … |
| 18-6781 |
Joan E. Farr v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-conspiracy legal-representation sixth-amendment |
Whether Joan Farr was denied constitutional rights |
| 18-680 |
Erica Huss, Warden v. Loren Robinson |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas habeas-corpus jury-right parole-eligibility sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment jury right applies to parole-eligibility dates |
| 18-6813 |
Rash B. Ghosh v. City of Berkeley, California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process final-determination judicial-review legal-argument relitigation standing vexatious-litigant |
Was petitioner deprived of due process of law when the appellate court based its decision on an argument that had never been raised in the trial court… |
| 18-6818 |
Ruben Rangel v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing |
Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to meaningfully narrow the class of dea… |
| 18-683 |
Bradley Christopher Stark v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
5th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment motion-to-dismiss notice-pleading sovereign-immunity |
Whether a plaintiff possesses a burden to do more than allege an unequivocal waiver of sovereign immunity on a motion to dismiss raising a defense of … |
| 18-7026 |
Bryan Coats v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts government-action jurisdiction jurisdiction-filing legal-procedure order-denying-rehearing petition-for-rehearing rehearing standing takings timeliness united-states |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions |
| 18-7099 |
Richard Allen Ratushny v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
Brady-v-Maryland brady-violation conflict-of-interest crimen-falsi due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment welfare-fraud |
Was the petitioner denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel? |
| 18-7118 |
Richard E. Lynch v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-fact-finding sixth-amendment |
Whether the State of Florida violated Petitioner's rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-7137 |
Jamie R. Madrigal v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance res-judicata statutory-interpretation |
May withholding exculpatory and impeaching evidence be disregarded and/or used to obtain or sustain a conviction? |
| 18-7146 |
Jonathan Samuel Sage v. Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause cross-examination double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process evidence-restriction judicial-review jury-instructions multiple-convictions same-crime same-person-same-time separate-and-distinct-conduct uncharged-misconduct witness-credibility |
Should this Court grant review where Washington State's published Court of Appeals decision affirmed these multiple convictions despite ambiguous and … |
| 18-7149 |
Mary Danielak v. Shawn Brewer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 circuit-split due-process federal-court federal-court-review habeas-review habeas-review-28-usc-2254-d-1 sixth-circuit state-court-opinion statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers |
Did the Sixth Circuit err by applying the pre-Wilson 'could-have-reasoned' approach—which blatantly disregarded Wilson and created a split with other … |
| 18-7151 |
Curtis John Mulhern v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-enterprise due-process entrapment law-enforcement outrageous-conduct outrageous-government-conduct probable-cause reverse-sting |
Did law enforcement conduct become constitutionally unacceptable where government-agents-and-confidential-informant-engineered-criminal-enterprise |
| 18-7155 |
Alfredo Provencio v. Joe Lizarraga, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aedpa custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-rights sixth-amendment |
Whether defendant's incriminating statements and body language should be excluded as custodial interrogation without Miranda advisement |
| 18-7157 |
Cody Wayne Mayfield v. Jimmy Martin, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
clearly-established-law deferential-review due-process estelle-v-mcguire federal-claim federal-law habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court state-court-adjudication supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application |
Whether deferential treatment is given when a state court's adjudication of a federal claim is not merely unreasonable, but too involved an incorrect … |
| 18-7159 |
Andrew Mark Lamar v. John O'Dell, Colorado Parole Board Member |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure circuit-split circuit-splits civil-rights discretionary-parole due-process liberty-interest parole parole-release-hearings wilkinson-v-dotson |
Whether reasonable tourists would find the district court's resolution of petitioner's due process claim debatable or wrong with respect to extending … |
| 18-7164 |
Nathan Daniel Knuth v. Randall C. Arp, Judge, District Court for the First Judicial District of Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion procedural-fairness standing waiver |
Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals violated Mr. Knuth's constitutional rights to due process |
| 18-7165 |
Drakile Leroy Jones v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence michigan-supreme-court sixth-amendment standing state-court-appeal supervisory-power williamson-v-united-states |
Whether the decision of the Michigan Court of Appeals conflicts with Crawford v. Washington? |
| 18-7168 |
Michael Deontray Williams v. J. Soto, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ninth-circuit non-capital standard-for-granting-coa substantive-innocence-claims supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a claim of actual innocence is cognizable in federal habeas |
| 18-7170 |
Jonathan Yancey v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection exculpatory-evidence first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to investigate and presen… |
| 18-7171 |
Zuri Sana Kabisa Young v. M. Voong, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts bias civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process pleadings standing |
Whether the courts constitute a success in stating a cognizable claim for relief when a plaintiff has failed to satisfy a claim's elements, as require… |
| 18-7172 |
Tomas Marco Keen v. Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disclosure due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining plea-negotiations prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct |
Does the prosecutor have a duty to disclose exculpatory information relating to threatened--but not filed--charges during plea negotiations? |
| 18-7173 |
Karen Lofgren v. Todd Hardin |
Washington |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process family-law incarceration incarceration-impact parental-rights troxel-v-granville visitation-rights |
Whether it is First and Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment violations for a Family Court in State to deny a parent visitation with her children becau… |
| 18-7174 |
Shawndell Everson v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice due-process effective-assistance ineffective-counsel public-trial sixth-amendment trial-rights |
Did the State of New York deny petitioner his civil rights, liberties, and due process of law, guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, by… |
| 18-7175 |
Christopher Lipsey, Jr. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts california-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the ALLS role complies with the First Amendment and due process rights of individuals seeking access to the courts |
| 18-7179 |
Trevelle J. Taylor v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment arrest-standards civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search witness-testimony |
Whether a person's mere proximity to others independently suspected of criminal activity, without more, gives rise to probable cause to search that pe… |
| 18-7182 |
Roy Dean Gates v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority jurisdiction texas-court-jurisdiction texas-court-of-criminal-appeals texas-supreme-court united-states-constitution-amendment-fourteen void-order |
Does the Texas court have authority to overrule a state supreme court order? |
| 18-7202 |
Fidel Rios Soto v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment custodial-interrogation custodial-interview due-process edwards-rule incriminating-statements incriminatory-statements law-enforcement-questioning miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona right-to-counsel smith-v-illinois |
When a suspect invokes the right to counsel during a custodial interview, can law enforcement officers continue to question the suspect if their post-… |
| 18-7234 |
Robyn G. Edwards, et al. v. Gene Salter Properties, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-7244 |
Vidal Licea Morales v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing voting-rights |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 18-7250 |
Diane S. Jones v. Samson Resources Corporation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-proceedings civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigenous-landowner indigenous-rights property-rights standing takings |
Whether Petitioner has standing to challenge Respondents' business practices |
| 18-7276 |
Juan Francisco Vega, et al. v. Rebecca Kapusta, Interim Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights deterrence due-process for-profit-corporation Kansas-v-Hendricks-521-US-346-1997 retribution retribution-and-deterrence statutory-interpretation statutory-oversight |
May a for-profit corporation enact a system of retribution-and-deterrence by way of policy, in desecration of the dicta of Kansas-v-Hendricks, 521-U.S… |
| 18-7298 |
Nicole M. Moore v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony incarceration prison-sentence prosecutorial-misconduct state-action wrongful-conviction |
Whether the Due Process Clause excuses the State of Florida's use of false testimony in the procurement of a conviction and 13-year prison sentence wh… |
| 18-7311 |
Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Paul Gonzalez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process equal-protection standing |
Whether the reasoning of the Court in Buck v. Davis (2017) 137 S.Ct. 759 also applies to the Court of Appeals |
| 18-7337 |
Gary D. Martin v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden |
West Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
change-of-venue constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel venue |
Did the State of West Virginia and subservient Circuit Court of Fayette County, West Virginia abuse its discretion and commit clear error in failing t… |
| 18-7354 |
Derrick L. Johnson v. Charles Bradley, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process federal-magistrate-act magistrate-judge notice procedural-rules service service-of-process sixth-circuit supervisory-power |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to exercise its supervisory power to establish a rule that precludes a United States District Magist… |
| 18-7368 |
Redmond Howard v. Daryl McCready, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada ada-compliance civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-dismissal pro-se-pleading special-litigation standing |
Had Judge Russell III drafted an inaccurate OPINION based on the American Disabilities Act (ADA), rather than the plaintiffs true claim: What the US D… |
| 18-7385 |
Cheng Le v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
biological-weapons biological-weapons-act commerce-clause constitutional-law-commerce-clause-treaty-power-bi criminal-law-biological-weapons-anti-terrorism-act criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-standard-of-review-plain-error- federalism plain-error standard-of-review treaty-power Whether federalism principles preclude holding Le Whether the Biological Weapons Act 18 U.S.C. §175 |
Whether a less demanding standard of review than plain error should be applied |
| 18-7394 |
Torrey Brown v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process motion-to-proceed motion-to-proceed-in-forma-pauperis standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 18-7395 |
Wilfred H. v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-materiality brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct suppressed-evidence |
Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), does the materiality standard require that the suppressed evidence directly go to proving any count again… |
| 18-7397 |
Jackie Breeden, Jr. v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-exercise free-speech racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights to free speech and free exercise of reli… |
| 18-7410 |
Walter A. Kott, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent petitioner-claim precedent standing supreme-court |
Whether the United States District Court, Eastem District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals mis-applied clearly established Supreme Cour… |
| 18-7412 |
Keith Kennedy v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing standing |
Why did the judge deny the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea? |
| 18-742 |
Brandon Washington v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-review cumulative-effect cumulative-error due-process ineffective-assistance performance prejudice prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel trial-counsel-errors |
Whether, under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a court assessing the prejudice resulting from trial counsel's errors should consider ea… |
| 18-7427 |
Abdirahman Yasin Daud v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment specific-intent |
Whether the Court of Appeals' application of 'harmless error' analysis to an erroneous jury instruction violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right… |
| 18-7430 |
Mohamed Abdihamid Farah v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions specific-intent trial-by-jury witness-credibility |
Whether the failure to include in jury instructions the required element of specific intent is subject to harmless error analysis where the element is… |
| 18-7436 |
Jeffrey Nicholas Aase v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest criminal-defense cuyler-v-sullivan federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-integrity prosecutorial-ethics right-to-counsel structural-error |
Did the Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit err in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-7440 |
Christopher Whitman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest disqualification due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion juror-bribery plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines standing |
Should the appeals court have appointed an attorney who did not have a conflict of interest? |
| 18-7443 |
Wallace Thornton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery armed-career-criminal-act bodily-harm curtis-johnson-v-united-states elements-clause eleventh-circuit florida-battery statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously held that a Florida conviction for aggravated battery is a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the … |
| 18-7445 |
Lennis A. George v. Jason Kent, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-manslaughter constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence procedural-history standard-of-review |
Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Lennis George of attempted manslaughter? |
| 18-7447 |
Christopher E. Lemon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional constitutional-provision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Lemon's Plea Agreement |
| 18-7448 |
Charles Foxx v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act beckles-v-united-states career-offender collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-a-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines |
| 18-7452 |
Herminio Garcia-Carillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process due-process,equal-protection,immigration,prejudice equal-protection fair-trial free-speech immigration immigration-bias impartiality jury-selection prejudice voir-dire |
Whether a judge must allow voir dire into prejudice against Mexican immigrants when a Mexican immigrant faces trial for illegal reentry after a presid… |
| 18-7453 |
Corey Kirkpatrick Sterling v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness sentencing-review vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-a-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines |
| 18-7454 |
Tyshaun St. Vallier v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) constitutional-statutory-provisions district-court district-court-discretion lodestone lodestone-principle sentence-reduction sentence-reductions sentencing sentencing-decisions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Are district courts required to maintain the Sentencing Guidelines as the lodestone of the sentencing decision when ruling on motions for sentence red… |
| 18-7456 |
Jonathan Sebert v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process erotica first-amendment free-speech free-speech
18-7455" overbreadth overbroad overbroad-condition Question not identified. supervised-release vague vagueness |
Whether the special condition of supervised release imposed upon Mr. Sebert, which (for example) would prevent him from shopping at Wal-Mart because i… |
| 18-7462 |
William Anthony Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals-court-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-discretion due-process finality finality-principle fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice judicial-discretion legal-finality mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice recall-mandate statutory-provisions |
Whether the appeals court abused its discretion in denying petitioner's motion to recall mandate |
| 18-7468 |
Robert Charles Jones v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-advice criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-without-parole parole plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether Jones received ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-7473 |
William Dale Albright v. Kansas |
Kansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-decision alleyne-v-united-states apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Does this Court's decision in Alleyne v. United States, 570 US 99 (2013) announce a new rule or was it dictated by Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 US 466 … |
| 18-7495 |
Willie E. Boyd v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
even though the federal prisoner has demonstrated under Brady and shows new evidence that undermine 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence brady-claim brady-rule constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner fifth-amendment habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit is in conflict with United States v. Hayman, 342 U.S. 205 (1952) |
| 18-7498 |
Eddie Hall v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the District and Circuit Courts erred in the denial of Hall's § 2241 Petition |
| 18-7522 |
Freddie B. Kennedy, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-consistency judicial-decision-making legal-error precedent rehearing rehearing-request |
Did the lower Court commit error by not adhering to its prior decisions when it denied Petitioner's request for rehearing without discussion of the fa… |
| 18-7523 |
Charles James v. Jeffrey Krueger, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection felony-murder jury-instruction jury-instructions retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Iowa state court decision in State v. Heemstra, that it is an interpretation of the statute, is contrary to the decision in State v. Goosm… |
| 18-7537 |
Felix Ricardo Saldierna v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment due-process interrogation-rights juvenile-confession limited-english limited-english-proficiency parental-consent police-interrogation self-incrimination social-science voluntariness |
Whether the North Carolina Supreme Court erred in finding a juvenile confession to be voluntary |
| 18-7550 |
Marbin Rene Reyes-Ruiz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law court-of-appeals due-process due-process,civil-procedure,standing,immigration,r error-correction fundamental-fairness immigration-law immigration-status judicial-review legal-error procedural-due-process removal-proceedings unlawful-status |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the entry of a prior administrative-removal order against the petitioner was not fundamentally unfair,… |
| 18-7556 |
Michael James Horton v. Clark E. Ducart, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-trial-stages due-process pro-se-representation right-to-be-present right-to-counsel self-representation standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Whether the unequivocal right to represent oneself or have counsel should be left ambiguous |
| 18-7565 |
Michael Fuller v. Lashann Eppinger, Warden |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregate-sentence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus maximum-term sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention |
Whether Petitioner's maximum aggregate sentence has expired and he is being held unlawfully |
| 18-7578 |
Jeffrey T. Howard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence circuit-court-procedure civil-rights coa constitutional-challenge due-process due-process,civil-procedure,standing,habeas-corpus habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-issue manifest-injustice venue writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the law applicable in COA proceedings |
| 18-7579 |
David L. Price v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-enterprise drug-conspiracy drug-distribution due-process felon-in-possession heroin-conspiracy money-laundering restitution sentencing straw-purchaser |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner to a 37-year sentence for a non-violent drug conspiracy and related offenses |
| 18-7585 |
Lemuel Gay v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-enhancement guidelines judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Can the sentencing court's statement—that it would impose the same sentence irrespective of any error in its application of a guideline enhancement—ab… |
| 18-7587 |
Biven Hudson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court eleventh-circuit magistrate-court mandatory-minimum minimum-mandatory-enhancement reasonable-jurists sentencing-enhancement sentencing-review |
Whether the appellate court erred in denying Mr. Hudson's motion for certificate of appealability |
| 18-7588 |
Frank Odom, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver district-court due-process fourth-circuit mitigation mitigation-arguments plea-agreement remand sentencing |
Does a plea agreement with an appeal waiver waive the right to obtain a remand requiring the district court to actually consider the defendant's mitig… |
| 18-7593 |
Richard Michael Sanchez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver consecutive-sentence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process legal-interpretation plea-agreement sentencing |
Does a plea agreement's limited appellate waiver preclude a defendant's challenge of a decision to impose a consecutive sentence where the appellate w… |
| 18-7598 |
Carol J. Morris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-compensation patent standing statutory-construction takings |
Whether the petitioner's convictions should be vacated due to ineffective assistance of counsel and violations of due process |
| 18-7600 |
Johnathan Holt v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure custody custody-analysis interrogation law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-custody miranda-v-arizona objective-analysis personal-mobility sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-interpretation totality-of-circumstances |
Whether a court must evaluate all of the circumstances surrounding the interrogation, including a lack of personal mobility, when deciding whether a p… |
| 18-7602 |
Percy Elwayne Demerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g1 alderman-v-united-states bond-v-united-states commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession national-federation-of-independent-business-v-sebe police-power statutory-interpretation |
Does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) exceed Congress's authority to regulate under the Commerce … |
| 18-7605 |
Daniel Diaz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling speech |
| 18-7607 |
Bruce White v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-actions criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-withdrawal plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing voluntary-plea withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether a plea was entered voluntarily, intelligently, and knowingly |
| 18-7608 |
James E. Whitney v. Blake H. Chancellor |
Arkansas |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process list-of-parties preemption preface standing table-of-contents takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining standing to bring a claim |
| 18-7609 |
Merlin Alston v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 18-usc-926b criminal-law-enforcement-officer-exemption criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession firearms law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the conviction of a local police officer, required to carry a service pistol when off duty, excluded from prosecution for violating 18 U.S.C. 924(c… |
| 18-7614 |
Michael Jacoby v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment circuit-court-review circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit reasonable-jurist reasonable-jurist-standard sixth-amendment strickland-standard undermining-of-confidence-in-verdict |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 18-7615 |
Michael Alexander Bacon v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split criminal-justice-process criminal-procedure evidentiary-inquiry fact-finding factual-dispute federal-rule-41 federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(g) government-possession post-conviction-motion property-return property-seizure rule-41g seized-property |
What evidentiary inquiry is required when the government responds to a post-conviction motion under Rule 41(g) by asserting that it lacks physical pos… |
| 18-7619 |
Michael Scott Morris v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment coercion consent criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment police-coercion probable-cause search-and-seizure voluntary-consent warrant-requirement |
Is consent to search a home freely and voluntarily given when police threaten arrest and jail if they are required to obtain a search warrant? |
| 18-7623 |
James Goolsby v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582-c-2 appellate-procedure dillion-v-united-states exceptional-circumstances judicial-discretion mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing misapplication-of-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice official-victim-enhancement recall-of-mandate retroactive-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion in refusing to recall the mandate on the direct appeal to prevent a miscarriage of j… |
| 18-7638 |
John Todd Williams v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-violation civil-violations consumer-protection criminal-prosecution debt-collection deceptive-tactics fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa federal-law misrepresentations |
Whether the courts below erroneously held that Mr. Williams and his companies could be prosecuted criminally for acts his employees committed that hav… |
| 18-7644 |
Carlos Benitez v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas habeas-corpus legal-claim right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-appealability standard-of-review |
Did trial counsel have a conflict of interest by simultaneously representing Mr. Benitez and a defense witness? |
| 18-7654 |
Steven Fausnaught v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process in-camera-review judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct medical-records mental-capacity recusal separation-of-powers standing |
Whether the district court is required to undertake an In Camera review of District Court Judge Edwin Kosik's medical records to determine the onset o… |
| 18-7656 |
Armando Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability coa coa-standard due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b |
Whether a District court deprives a habeas corpus petitioner of his Constitutional rights to Due Process |
| 18-7662 |
Nolan Lewis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion competency competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-discretion mental-competency ninth-circuit restitution restitution-hearing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals applied the proper legal standard for determining whether the district court abused its discretion in faili… |
| 18-7664 |
John Felix Greer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review case-or-controversy civil-procedure court-of-appeals judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdiction-of-court jurisdictional-review legal-jurisdiction mandate mandate-recall procedural-error standing |
Whether the appellate court abused its discretion in deciding the merits of a motion to recall the mandate without first determining jurisdiction |
| 18-7666 |
Rowy De Jesus Vasquez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines criminal-sentencing departure district-court-discretion due-process notice notice-requirement sentencing-departures sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-1b1.1 ussg-5k2.0 |
Whether the district court must have provided defendant notice for the grounds for a sentence above the range recommended by the advisory guidelines r… |
| 18-7681 |
In Re Erasmo Aguinaga |
|
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ manifest-miscarriage-of-justice procedural-framework saving-clause |
Has the Eleventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals effectively suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, without authorization |
| 18-773 |
Daniel Sullivan v. City of Frederick, Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 assembly civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech monell monell-doctrine municipal-immunity retaliation |
Did the court below err in affirming that a six-month criminal investigation of police officer Dan Sullivan, for his off-duty activity of raising mone… |
| 18-779 |
Power Integrations Inc. v. Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
apportionment customer-demand entire-market-value-rule federal-circuit patent-damages patent-infringement patent-law patent-litigation willful-infringement |
Whether a plaintiff that proves that a patented feature creates the basis for customer demand for infringing products is entitled to patent damages ba… |
| 18-784 |
Eldon Bugg v. Marc Honey, et al. |
Missouri |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law common-law-torts diversity-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment national-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction |
Whether respondents' appearance in Missouri state court while the bankruptcy case was still open constituted presence in Missouri for purposes of pers… |
| 18-785 |
Eshed Alston v. Administrative Office of the Courts, Delaware Judiciary, et al. |
Delaware |
Denied |
|
civil-rights court-order court-order-violation due-process equal-protection equal-rights institutional-racism name-change religious-expression |
Given that the first fourth and fourteenth RELIGIOUS guaranties are the law stated with specificity in Constitutional and legal RIGHTS that are respec… |
| 18-786 |
Glenn Blair v. Angela McClinton, et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
|
child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction plenary-powers standing subject-matter subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether Title IV-D Agency Court had jurisdiction over my daughter and I when they issued a child support order |
| 18-792 |
Ronald Leroy Satterlee v. Alicia Miller-Degase, Assessor of Douglas County, Missouri, et al. |
Missouri |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-rights due-process government-authority jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge presumption-of-innocence property-rights property-tax right-of-contract tax-assessment taxation |
Whether the appellant has the right to life, liberty, property and pursuit of happiness, the right to presumption of innocence, the right of contract,… |
| 18-802 |
James DeHoog, et al. v. Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
antitrust antitrust-law brown-shoe brown-shoe-v-united-states clayton-act clayton-act-section-7 market-concentration market-share merger-analysis potential-competition supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-el-paso united-states-v-el-paso-natural-gas united-states-v-penn-olin-chemical |
Whether the Court should reaffirm its commitment to the structural evaluation of mergers and acquisitions under § 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act |
| 18-812 |
Teamsters Local 210 Affiliated Health and Insurance Fund v. Leon Silverman, as Trustee of the Union Mutual Medical Fund, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreements federal-claims jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope labor-management-relations-act labor-management-relations-act-301a labor-organization national-labor-policy signatory supplemental-jurisdiction union-benefit-trust union-sponsored-benefit-trust union-sponsored-benefit-trust-fund |
Did the Second Circuit impermissibly expand the jurisdiction of LMRA § 301(a) and drastically alter national labor policy |
| 18-816 |
Gavin B. Davis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 28-usc-2201 5th-amendment 8-usc-1481(a)(2) due-process expatriation-act expatriation-act-of-1868 federal-jurisdiction frap-21(c) frcp-57 frivolous in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction ninth-circuit political-asylum standing |
Whether Plaintiff-Appellant's Due Process rights were abridged |
| 18-822 |
Steven G. Cohen v. Grievance Administrator, Attorney Grievance Commission of Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-discipline civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-petition judicial-corruption judicial-misconduct petition petition-clause professional-ethics professional-misconduct rosa-parks-estate |
Whether the arbitrary, contradictory and fact-free proceedings conducted by the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board violated Petitioner's rights under … |
| 18-829 |
John H. Davis v. Jeanne W. Anderson, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-discipline attorney-removal civil-procedure civil-rights court-rules due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-ethics presumptive-reasonableness seventh-circuit supervisory-power |
Whether the Seventh Circuit's removal of an attorney's name from the roll of attorneys is presumptively reasonable without due process, record support… |
| 18-836 |
Phil Miranda Luna v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
capital-sexual-battery criminal-procedure due-process entrapment internet-sting internet-sting-operation jury-instruction jury-instructions minor sexual-battery statutory-entrapment traveling-to-engage-sex-with-minor |
Whether due process is denied when a trial court refuses to instruct a jury on a statutory entrapment defense |
| 18-844 |
Cesar Omar Chavez-Juarez v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 18-849 |
HTC Corporation v. 3G Licensing, S.A., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1391 28-usc-1400b federal-circuit foreign-defendant patent-infringement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation venue venue-statute |
Whether an atextual 'foreign defendant' exception exists to 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b) |
| 18-871 |
Ronald Jarmuth v. The International Club Homeowners Association, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-preclusion extrinsic-fraud fair-housing-act federal-court federal-court-injunction precedent retaliation state-court state-court-order |
Whether the Court of Appeals and the District Court erred in ignoring all precedents by holding that a federal court may not enjoin a state court orde… |
| 18-875 |
Albert G. Hill, III, et al. v. PBL Multi-Strategy Fund, L.P. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-courts circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-standards judicial-review procedural-uniformity remand standards-of-review summary-judgment uniform-standards |
Should the Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand to the District Court for further proceedings, because the Court of Appeals… |
| 18-892 |
Mark N. Kirsch v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights coercion due-process extortion extortion-statute property-transfer racketeering-act racketeering-conspiracy scheidler-precedent scheidler-v-now sekhar-precedent transferable-property union-contract |
Whether pressuring a construction contractor to enter into a union contract meets the definition of generic extortion such that a racketeering act pre… |
| 18-897 |
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Marlene Nally, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Joseph Nally, Sr., Deceased |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process engle jury-findings litigation-strategy preclusion preclusion-doctrine 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… |
| 18-898 |
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Barbara Jean Johnston, Personal Representative of Franklin James Johnston |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit engle-litigation florida-supreme-court issue-preclusion jury-findings legal-preclusion preclusion prior-proceeding res-judicata |
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… |
| 18-900 |
Philip Zodhiates v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information davis-v-united-states exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure good-faith-exception international-parental-kidnapping probable-cause warrant-requirement |
Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule allows use at trial of cell-site location information illegally seized by a prosecutor prior… |
| 18-904 |
King Law Group, PLLC, et al. v. M2 Technology, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bell-v-hood circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-facts merits merits-overlap procedural-standard standing steel-co-v-citizens-for-a-better-environment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
What is the proper procedure for handling situations in which jurisdictional and merits facts overlap? |
| 18-914 |
Gerald E. Bove v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees circuit-precedent due-process frivolous frivolous-prosecution hyde-amendment labor-law labor-laws legal-theory standing |
Whether a government theory of prosecution lacking support in case law and contrary to the purpose of existing labor laws can be considered not 'frivo… |
| 18-919 |
Robert R. Davies v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines-range interest-of-justice presumption-of-reasonableness public-perception sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-intent sentencing-procedures sentencing-reliability unjust-procedures |
Whether a sentence that lacks reliability because of unjust procedures satisfies the 'interest of justice' prong of 18 U.S.C. §3583(e)(1) |
| 18-924 |
Michael Antonio Bullock v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-limits due-process fourth-amendment mission-scope police-conduct police-investigation reasonable-duration rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop |
Whether any activities unrelated to the mission of a traffic stop inherently prolong it, and what activities fall within the mission of a stop? |
| 18-945 |
TLSL, Inc. v. Rankin Snead, as Administrator Ad Litem of the Estate of Juan Estrada, et al. |
Alabama |
Denied |
Response Waived |
at-home-test civil-procedure constitutional-rights corporate-domicile daimler due-process general-jurisdiction goodyear personal-jurisdiction tyrrell |
Whether the 'at-home' test for general personal jurisdiction should apply equally to more modest enterprises that only have connections with a minimal… |
| 18-960 |
Nationwide Biweekly Administration, Inc. v. BMO Harris Bank, N.A. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1367 arbitration arbitration-agreement article-iii article-three case-or-controversy civil-procedure federal-court supplemental-jurisdiction third-party third-party-complaint |
Whether a plaintiff loses their right to have all claims that form part of the same case or controversy under Article III of the United States Constit… |
| 18-991 |
Levi Huebner v. Midland Credit Management, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act least-sophisticated-consumer oral-dispute statutory-interpretation written-dispute |
Whether oral disputes under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act must be treated with the same validity as written disputes |
| 18-993 |
Young Adult Institute, Inc., dba YAI National Institute for People with Disabilities, et al. v. Joel M. Levy, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contract-enforcement erisa erisa-regulation executive-compensation federal-common-law non-profit non-profit-corporations non-profit-governance public-policy retirement-benefits |
Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because it refused to decide YAI's public-policy argument that arises under federal common law |
| 18M103 |
John C. Hom v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M104 |
Philip Andra Grigsby v. Juan Baltazar, Jr., Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
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