Conference: 2019-03-01

121 cases — 0 granted, 121 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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18-1009 United States, ex rel. Muge Cody v. ManTech International Corporation Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review circumstantial-evidence defense-contractor-whistleblower-protection-act false-claims-act federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-50(b) judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing rule-50 whistleblower-protection Whether the appellate court erred in not applying the Reeves standards in a case brought under the False Claims Act and the Defense Contractor Whistle…
18-1011 Iveth Rodriguez Lopez v. ReadyOne Industries, Inc. Texas Denied Response Waived federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause which then preempts incompatible state law - civi commerce-clause contract-interpretation employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause supreme-clause texas-arbitration-act Whether an arbitration agreement must in fact be part of a contract evidencing a transaction involving commerce" to be within the coverage of Section …
18-1018 Andrew Bennett, et al. v. Jefferson County, Alabama Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived article-ii article-iii-review bankruptcy-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process equitable-mootness federalism municipal-utilities plan-of-adjustment ratemaking-authority sewer-user-rates standing takings tenth-amendment Bankruptcy court's exclusive power over municipal sewer ratemaking
18-1021 Travis Hawkins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review preservation-of-error public-trial state-court state-court-decision state-courts Whether an objection is required to preserve appellate review for an alleged public trial violation
18-364 Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders, et al. v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, et al. New Jersey Denied Amici (2)Relisted (6) civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech government-funding historic-preservation public-funding religious-status status-based-discrimination trinity-lutheran trinity-lutheran-precedent Whether using generally available historic preservation funds to repair or restore a house of worship constitutes a religious use' that falls outside …
18-365 The Presbyterian Church in Morristown, et al. v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, et al. New Jersey Denied Relisted (6) church-state-separation constitutional-rights establishment-clause free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech government-funding government-grants historic-preservation religious-discrimination religious-neutrality standing status-use-distinction Does the categorical exclusion of active houses of worship from a competitive government grant program advancing the secular interest of historic pres…
18-384 Papierfabrik August Koehler SE v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1) administrative-record adverse-facts-available antidumping-duty commerce-department corroboration facts-available judicial-review statutory-interpretation tariff-act Whether a court may rely on the Tariff Act's perceived purpose to override its specific statutory requirements for selecting antidumping duty rates
18-450 Utah Republican Party v. Spencer J. Cox, Lieutenant Governor of Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) candidate-selection expressive-association first-amendment political-parties political-party standard-bearer state-regulation viewpoint-discrimination Does the First Amendment permit a government to compel a political party to use a state-preferred process for selecting a party's standard-bearers for…
18-5057 James T. Bagby v. William Hyatte, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-circuit-court 7th-circuit-court-of-appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct timeliness Did the United States 7th Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability without specifically addressing any of Bagby's claims…
18-5120 Kenneth P. Nelson v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security First Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent property-rights standing takings Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claims under the Takings Clause and Due Process Clause
18-534 Well Luck Company, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit Denied administrative-law customs-classification customs-law explanatory-notes general-rules-of-interpretation hts-heading-1206 hts-heading-2008 legislative-intent nesoi prior-statutory-construction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tariff-classification trade-classification Whether the panel disregarded legislative intent and prior statutory construction to improperly use the General Rules of Interpretation and the Explan…
18-5355 Del Ray Sanders v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP accidental-death criminal-procedure criminally-negligent-homicide due-process homicide-charges jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses manslaughter standard-of-review texas-penal-code trial-court-discretion unreasonable-application-of-federal-law Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's request for jury instructions on the lesser-included offenses of manslaughter and criminally …
18-555 Marquette County Road Commission v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (2) administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa agency-action clean-water-act clean-water-act-cwa environmental-protection epa-veto final-agency-action judicial-review permit-approval state-authority state-permitting wetlands Whether an arbitrary and capricious EPA veto of a state-approved CWA § 404 permit, a final agency action that denies the state-approved permit forever…
18-5578 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exceptional-injustice federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing supervisory-authority Whether the undisputed and clear violation of a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel on direct appeal results in an exceptio…
18-5704 Robert Austin v. District Attorney of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice rule-60b6-motion Does the district court commit error in denying a Rule 60(b)(6) motion for not showing a constitutional violation when the unreasonable determination …
18-5896 Beverly Allen Baker v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-conspiracies sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the government committed a Kotteakos violation by using evidence of multiple conspiracies to support an indictment for a single conspiracy
18-5989 Gary Dan Bilbo, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation 28-usc-2255 appeals district-court habeas-corpus motion-to-reopen standard-of-review What is the appropriate standard of review for a district court's denial of a motion to reopen a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255?
18-6038 Carlos D. Villavicencio v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction nolle-prosequi prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial statute-of-limitations Whether the prosecution (State of Florida) retained jurisdiction after the speedy trial period expired
18-6207 Manuel Ernesto Paiz Guevara v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion capital-crime capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-split mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying the defendant's request for two attorneys in a capital case
18-6239 Sean P. Reilly v. Guelsy M. Herrera, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey limitations-period prisoner-rights section-1983 Whether a Section 1983 Plaintiff can proceed with an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when Heck v. Humphrey requirements are met but § 2254 Federal Habea…
18-6291 Steven H. Cook v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights collateral-review deprivation-of-liberty due-process federal-law federal-mail-box-rule habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-deprivation mail-box-rule mailbox-rule standing timeliness Is the issue of great import to potentially thousands of prisoners similarly situated and does it have significant impact on the public?
18-6306 Amy Hebert v. James Rogers, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP comparative-juror-analysis due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination ineffective-assistance-of-counsel j.e.b.-v.-alabama jury-discrimination miller-el-v.-dretke peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes When reviewing a claim of gender discrimination in violation of J.E.B. v. Alabama, is comparative juror analysis appropriate even where the male and f…
18-6365 Angel Bartlett v. Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-2332a 18-usc-2332h 18-usc-ch-13 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process government-conspiracy state-action torture weapons-of-mass-destruction Is it wrongful or illegal to use weapons of mass destruction to radiate and torture Angel Bartlett?
18-6376 Adem Albra v. Board of Trustees of Miami Dade College, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disability disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence free-speech higher-education retaliation standing Did the Public College take away the Petitioner's right to earn a living in whatever vocation he chooses, indirectly, by expelling him, twice, for bei…
18-648 Burdette Searcey, et al. v. James L. Dean, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 1989 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-trial due-process evidence false-evidence false-evidence-manufacture law-enforcement-liability manufacture-of-false-evidence municipal-liability qualified-immunity reckless-evidence-gathering substantive-due-process voluntary-plea Whether a law enforcement officer violated substantive-due-process rights by recklessly gathering unreliable evidence
18-6482 Roger Alfred Anchundia-Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-3553(f) criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-safety-valve united-states-v-mosquera-murillo Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim…
18-6509 John Tedesco v. Monroe County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process heck-v-humphrey prosecutorial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing younger-abstention Did Mr. Tedesco's complaint get dismissed with prejudice?
18-6517 Aretha D. Brown v. Elite Modeling Agency Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination equal-employment equal-protection exemption fashion-industry protected-classes title-vii Whether the fashion industry has been exempted from the law of equal employment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
18-6569 Mark Lee Murray v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-consecutive-sentence residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)
18-6575 Finess Edward Stokes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection sentencing civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendments due-process standing state-constitutional-rights Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying equitable relief based on the impairment of state constitutional rights
18-6661 Bryan Christopher Samuel v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-issues court-of-appeals delayed-opinions due-process first-impression-issues habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-barriers jurisdictional-issues petition-for-certiorari petition-for-rehearing procedural-delay timeliness Whether the federal courts abused their discretion in causing delays that made the petitioner untimely in seeking further review
18-6676 Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment wire-fraud Whether Mr. Wilmore's right to be tried on charges accepted by a grand jury, and Mr. Wilmore's right to effective assistance of counsel, were violated…
18-6780 Joan E. Farr v. Daryl Davis, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech homeowners-association retaliation section-1983 Whether the Huckleberry Homeowners Association and its individual members denied Joan Farr her rights under 42 USC 1983 and retaliated against her to …
18-6807 Larry M. Slusser v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to collateral attack in a plea agreement bars a claim that the sentence exceeds the statutory maximum for th…
18-684 Patti Stevens-Rucker, Administrator of the Estate of Jason White, Deceased v. John Frenz, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process eighth-amendment police-duty-of-care police-use-of-force qualified-immunity tenth-amendment Are there circumstances in which police officers are constitutionally obligated to help a person injured during arrest, as the Eighth and Tenth Circui…
18-6841 Robert K. Stewart v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment true-bill Whether the name of the defendant, the date of the sentences, and the time and county where the alleged offense was committed are material facts of an…
18-6845 Edward Mitchell v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP clearly-established-law confrontation-clause constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process greene-v-fisher habeas habeas-corpus habeas-statute retroactivity Whether the habeas statute can be reinterpreted to allow application of a later Supreme Court decision to deny relief that would otherwise obtain base…
18-6869 Mario Andrette McNeill v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-defendant-instructions capital-punishment counsel counsel-decision-making cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment allow a state to give binding force …
18-6916 Troy Lincoln Powell v. California California Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-illness sixth-amendment Does the imposition of the death penalty on a severely mentally ill defendant violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-6941 John Leslie Chapman v. Robert Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Wyoming Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion legal-advisement plea-bargaining sentencing void-judgment Whether the strictures of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 11 and the Fourteenth Amendment due process were met concerning personal advisement…
18-704 Ross Abbott, et al. v. Harris Pastides, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (6) campus-speech civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth qualified-immunity standing vagueness Whether students have standing to challenge university speech regulations
18-7190 Zachary Q. Wicks v. Jon H. Radnothy, et al. Florida Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure medical-malpractice statute-of-limitations testimony trial-court Did the trial court deny Petitioner's due-process rights when it refused to allow testimony or review evidence presented in support of Petitioner's as…
18-7218 Samuel Berhe v. Johnson Oleseha District of Columbia Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-7220 Pashtoon Farooqi v. California California Denied IFP bill-of-attainder civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hearsay-evidence jury-instruction mental-disorder sexually-violent-predator vagueness Does the California version of its Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA) violate the precedents of this Court, and is it therefore unconstitutional?
18-7221 Kevin Abdul Gilbert v. Washington Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 assault-and-battery circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-claims constitutional-grounds due-process heck-doctrine section-1983 unlawful-arrest unlawful-imprisonment Whether the Ninth Circuit of Appeals erred in affirming the Western U.S. District Court's ruling barring the Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims
18-7223 Jesse Lloyd Hall v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 barefoot-standard coerced-confession due-process federal-review habeas-corpus police-misconduct recantation state-writ-petition victim-recantation victim-rights witness-intimidation Whether federal courts must take the allegations of a state writ petition as true when weighing if the state's denial was objectively unreasonable
18-7295 Earnest Barnes v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment miller-v-alabama National-Consensus parole scientific-evidence Whether the Eighth Amendment's protection established in Graham and Miller should be expanded beyond age cutoff at eighteen to prohibit mandatory life…
18-7316 Alice Annette Howell v. NuCar Connection, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure in-forma-pauperis leave-to-proceed motions pending-motions Whether the circuit court erred in denying Appellants' pending motions while granting leave to proceed in forma pauperis
18-7319 Charles J. Greene v. Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-pleading causality causation civil-procedure civil-procedure-pleading-standards civil-procedure-pleading-standards-discovery-causa civil-rights discovery discovery-standards due-process employer-liability federal-rules heightened-pleading-requirements judicial-review pleading-standards Whether the court of appeals' decision is in conflict with the Twigbal holdings
18-7339 Earl Reyes v. Michael Duggan, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination judicial-discretion seventh-amendment Whether the alleged facts that Defendant Duggan intentionally discriminated against Reyes (suspect class) states a claim for violation of the First, F…
18-7362 Roy O. Daniels v. Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP focusing on the core legal dispute I cannot identify a clear legal issue being raise I cannot provide a meaningful set of key terms. M in order to receive a more helpful response. As p making it difficult to extract a concise statemen the 'Question(s) Presented' section does not prov civil-rights collateral-attack due-process finality jurisdiction plea-bargain Whether the principles of finality still apply, especially in a case where the foundational terms of a specifically negotiated and agreed upon plea ba…
18-7402 Robert Shapiro v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial public-trial right-to-counsel speedy-trial What is the meaning of the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right to a criminal prosecution, including the right to a speedy and public trial, by an…
18-7405 Gary Lee Beason v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness appellate-review child-molestation collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias state-action trial-counsel trial-counsel-ineffectiveness Was Beason denied basic Due Process when a biased judge presided over his trial, and can the states preclude the issue from review on collateral attac…
18-7415 Anthony James Scott v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law alcohol-regulation civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation local-ordinance preemption procedural-rules state-constitution statutory-provisions transportation-of-alcohol Whether an officer could have reasonably entertained a good faith belief that a local ordinance prohibiting the transportation of alcohol in public wa…
18-746 County of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Angel Mendez, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment causation circuit-review civil-rights clearly-erroneous fourth-amendment intervening-event proximate-causation proximate-cause reasonable-force remand search-warrant section-1983 standard-of-review use-of-force warrantless-search Whether a plaintiff's injuries resulting from a police officer's use of force may be proximately caused by the officer's failure to secure a search wa…
18-7479 Farrell Haycraft v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberation jury-instructions mistrial trial-court-error verdict verdict-modification Did the Trial Court Err when it order the jurors to redeliberate after it reach a verdict of guilty and not guilty on all counts?
18-7511 Edwin J. Ortiz-Fagot v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-3582-c-2 criminal-statute due-process non-delegation retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's modification of a sentence via 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) to include deciding whether to retroactively apply the plain language …
18-7538 Jeffrey Russo v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations suspension-clause Whether the 'right' recognized in Johnson v. United States triggers the statute of limitations under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3) for a petitioner seeking t…
18-7541 Adrian G. Rangel v. Tippecanoe County, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP absolute-immunity appeals civil-procedure civil-rights complaint court-of-appeals dismissal due-process federal-court federal-trial-court immunity jurisdiction legal-error standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh and the Hammond Indiana Federal Trial Court err in dismissing Petitioner's Complaint based sole…
18-7544 Briand Williams v. California California Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-record due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain prejudice statute-of-limitations strickland-standard Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-7545 Briand Williams v. California California Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection plea-bargain right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain record statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-7557 Terveus Hyppolite v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) is unconstitutional
18-7560 Marcus Leland Freeman v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court below erred by misconstruing the petitioner's motion based on Buck v. Dinis by failing to apply the correct legal analysis standard …
18-7561 Juan Guzman v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process standing Whether the Constitution of the United States protects against arbitrary actions of government
18-7563 Lynce P. Foster v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-constitution Whether counsel were ineffective for not representing petitioner according to a counsel guaranteed to the petitioner by the Sixth Amendment of the Uni…
18-7566 Pedro Goris, aka Pedro Goriz, aka Pedro Abreu v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Whether Petitioner's sentence was both procedurally and substantively unreasonable
18-7567 Ron Collins v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability
18-7611 Terrance E. Everett v. Delaware Delaware Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-issues court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-interpretation officer-discretion police-misconduct public-policy standing suspect-authority Whether the lower Court and the Delaware Supreme Court erred, and abused their discretion, with regards to the lower Court's denial of a mistrial and …
18-7612 Nathaniel Bowens v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking-crime firearm firearm-use mens-rea statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals' decision below contravenes this Court's holding in Rosemond v. United States
18-7616 Rodrigo Tovar Pupo v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-issue constitutional-issues criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal district-court due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel offense-enhancement plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines If Appeals Court erred by not considering the grounds raised by Appellant and denying his appeal disregarding the Constitutional issues raised by Appe…
18-7621 Jacoby Burns v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-law elements-clause physical-force sentencing sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does a conviction under Georgia's felony obstruction-of-an-officer statute qualify as a 'crime of violence' or 'violent felony'?
18-7627 Tavis Labron Houpe v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence search-and-seizure standing Was the petitioner's Fourteenth(14th) Amendment ri Was the petitioner's Fourth(4th) Amendment rights violated due to a search and seizure?
18-7632 Abraham Grant v. Wendy Kelly, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-conviction habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion speedy-trial standing state-court-decision Whether the state court's denial of a motion to dismiss a felony charge that was never prosecuted violates the petitioner's due process rights
18-7642 Kirk Lassend v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acca accomplice-liability armed-robbery circuit-split non-dangerous-weapons sentencing strict-liability violent-felony Whether a crime which does not require the actual use of violent force can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the ACCA
18-7645 Alhan Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-guidelines due-process mcmillan-v-pennsylvania meacham-v-fano minor-role-adjustment mitigating-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts vulnerable-victim Whether the government must prove facts necessary for a vulnerable-victim sentencing enhancement by a preponderance of the evidence
18-7646 Jesse Sawyer v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-procedure judicial-mandate judicial-power mandate sentencing standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the powers of federal appellate courts are diminished and whether a defendant is deprived of his fundamental right to appellate review
18-7649 Sergeyi Bazar v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP caminetti-v-united-states criminal-law federal-law mann-act mann-act-18-usc-2422 prostitution sex-trafficking sexual-conduct sexual-intercourse statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-bitty When Congress amended the Mann Act (18 U.S.C. § 2422) in 1986, did it overrule this Court's decisions in United States v. Bitty, 208 U.S. 393 (1908), …
18-7660 LaBarrion Harris v. James Deal, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law custody-violation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-courts statute-of-limitations time-limitation unconstitutional void-judgment Whether the 1-year limitation period under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A) and (D) can be tolled under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) and (c)(1), and whether the tim…
18-7663 Randy Jason Ford v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act assault dangerous-weapon display-of-weapon force-clause iowa-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation threatened-use-of-force Whether an Iowa 'assault' accompanied only by the 'display' of a dangerous weapon satisfies the 'force clause' to qualify as a predicate offense under…
18-7668 Patricio Paladin v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-element criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements Whether the contested fact of prior conviction entering into the sentence to increase a defendant's penalty for the instant offense, must be treated a…
18-7669 Bertulio Moreno-Alvarez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment firearms second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5) violates the Second and Fifth Amendments?
18-7674 Michael S. Gorbey v. Michael McCall, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process extradition federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Can a state habeas corpus be removed from state court to federal court?
18-7675 Eric Hayes v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abstract-approach circuit-court collateral-appeal constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-appeal daubert-v-merrell-dow double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-evidence illinois-v-vitale sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent whalen-v-united-states Whether the circuit court departed from the established rules of Whalen v. United States and Illinois v. Vitale regarding the double jeopardy clause
18-7678 Alfonso Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP client-attorney-relationship client-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel sixth-circuit speedy-trial-act trial-counsel Can a defense lawyer, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, contravene his client's wishes to object to a violation of the Speedy Trial Act?
18-7679 Jeriton Lavar Curry v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction unconstitutional-sentence Did the Appeals Court err by granting the Government's motion to enforce an invalid appeal waiver, after determining that Currys' issue was non-frivol…
18-7682 Stacie Demers v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-court counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claim sixth-amendment Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals should have decided Ms. Demers's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
18-7692 Byron Anthony Horn v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining pleading reasonable-doubt reasonable-sentence sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether facts that alter the range of 'reasonable' federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases?
18-7699 Facundo Ruiz-Ruiz v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process recidivism sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
18-7700 Luther Gene Ray v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process federal-statute force-requirement human-trafficking interstate-commerce mens-rea sentencing sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction resulting in a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1591 requires, as the statute says, that force 'was used…
18-7707 Antonio Anguiano v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice-act defense-counsel defense-function due-process independent-counsel judicial-control sixth-amendment structural-error Whether, in upholding structural error flowing from judicial control over the defense function under the Criminal Justice Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3006A, the …
18-7711 Christopher Fitzgerald v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-leon warrant-affidavit Does the 'good faith' exception to the exclusionary rule apply to uphold a search
18-7712 Andre Mims v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness Is the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague?
18-7715 Jose Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-quantity due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure minor-role minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-3b1.2 Was the District Court's failure to determine a factual basis, and to insure that defendant understood the nature of the charges, in violation of Rule…
18-7716 Jesse Ingram, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors 5th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is it a Fifth Amendment violation when Petitioners are sentenced to a higher guideline sentence when 18 U.S.C. statute 3553(A) warrants a below guidel…
18-7717 Byrion Demeco Ferguson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 1B1.3 amendment appellate-review constitutional criminal-procedure evidence judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-commission u.s.-sentencing-commission Whether the trial court committed plain error by admitting insufficient evidence applied by the pre-amendment 1B1.3 version of the U.S. Sentencing Gui…
18-7737 Tyshawn Simmons v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process federalism sentencing standing statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment Whether the Controlled Substances Act's prohibition on the distribution of marijuana violates the Due Process Clause and the Tenth Amendment
18-7740 Esequiel Joel Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility certificate-of-appealability due-process government-breach ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether it was error to deny Rodriguez a Certificate of Appealability to pursue his Sixth Amendment claim on appeal
18-7742 Luis A. Serna v. County of Hennepin, Minnesota Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights due-process foucha-v-louisiana future-dangerous-behavior heck-doctrine kingsley-v-hendrickson presumption-of-innocence section-1983 speculation state-speculation Is the 'Petitioner' entitled to [a] defense of [the] 'presumption of innocence' upon a State's assertion of 'future dangerous behavior' via pure 'spec…
18-7745 Alrick A. Evans 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…
18-7750 Ronald Morrobel v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault categorical-approach firearms-trafficking possession-of-firearm sentencing-guidelines armed-career-criminal categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process felony-possession firearm-trafficking florida-aggravated-assault sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court erred in finding the petitioner was an armed career criminal
18-7759 Travis Buckner v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-representation fourteenth-amendment motion-to-continue right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion trial-procedure Whether the Defendant was denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to assistance of counsel
18-7773 Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-smuggling appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review guidelines-interpretation immigration risk-assessment sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation whether-the-sentencing-enhancement-under-u.s.s.g.-§-2l1.1(b)(6)-was-properly-applied
18-7890 In Re Jose Joaquin Ramirez Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment mental-health procedural-safeguards standing state-government Can a cblhy graduated individual for a be cwled college ith Corrplebe contol of the Era} ish Lantaaaye ith gbjo lately No Sincere hishry ok mental Win…
18-801 Laura Peter, Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. NantKwest, Inc. Federal Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) 35-usc-145 administrative-law civil-action civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit judicial-review patent patent-act patent-application patent-law personnel-expenses standing statutory-interpretation uspto USPTO-litigation Whether the phrase '[a]ll the expenses of the proceedings' in 35 U.S.C. 145 encompasses the personnel expenses the USPTO incurs when its employees, in…
18-815 T. B., Jr., By and Through His Parents, T. B., Sr., et ux. v. Prince George’s County Board of Education, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied child-find child-find-requirement disability-accommodation educational-decline educational-rights forest-grove-school-dist-v-ta forest-grove-school-district-v-ta individuals-with-disabilities-education-act parental-requests procedural-violation special-education special-education-supports Whether a disabled student deprived of an appropriate education under IDEA may be left without a remedy
18-819 Victoria Vasconcellos v. Debra Hamlin Illinois Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-union civil-unions constitutional-interpretation dissolution-action due-process equal-protection property-rights retroactive-application retroactive-legislation same-sex-couples same-sex-marriage same-sex-relationship statutory-recognition Whether, under the Illinois State and U.S. Constitutions, where a same-sex couple did not enjoy the legally recognized rights and benefits of civil un…
18-840 Steven Leon Banks v. Vincent Myron Gore, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process medical-negligence personal-involvement pro-se-plaintiff pro-se-pleadings qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment supervisory-liability Whether supervisors can be liable for constitutional violations of subordinates even without direct personal involvement
18-862 Michael J. Daugherty, et al. v. Alain H. Sheer, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process motion-to-dismiss pleading pleading-standard qualified-immunity rule-12(b)(6) standing May a court dismiss a complaint under Rule 12(b)(6) for failing to plead facts needed to overcome an anticipated qualified-immunity defense?
18-883 Joaquin Ledesma-Conchas v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
18-885 Bennie Kennedy, et al. v. Schneider Electric, fka Square D Company Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-455 case-consolidation civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-review pleadings standing summary-judgment supervisory-power Whether or not this Court should call for an exercise of this Court's supervisory power by rejecting the Seventh Circuit's reasoning
18-920 Margaret Adeline Veltre v. Fifth Third Bank Third Circuit Denied Response Waived antecedent-debt bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-547 bankruptcy-court chapter-7-bankruptcy circuit-split creditor-rights insolvency liquidation-value preferential-transfer property-transfer property-valuation sheriff-sale valuation Whether the Bankruptcy Code mandates a Bankruptcy Court determine the value of property transferred to a creditor within ninety days prior to a Bankru…
18-927 Emmanuel I. Mekowulu v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-vagueness criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process ex-post-facto expert-testimony procedural-default standard-of-care vagueness Whether the government's expert's after-the-fact opinion of the applicable standard of care of Florida Pharmacists is an ex post facto interpretation …
18-967 Marisol Micheo-Acevedo v. Stericycle of Puerto Rico, Inc. First Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-circuit jury-trial retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment supervisory-power Whether the First Circuit deprived Petitioner of her constitutional right to a jury trial
18-977 John A. Anderson v. John F. Walrath, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-petition judicial-precedent judicial-proceedings stare-decisis supervisory-power supreme-court-rule supreme-court-rule-10(a) Where the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia concluded that reasonable jurists could disagree on the fundamental legal …
18M105 Nathaniel Caldwell, III v. Roberto Roberts, Warden Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
18M106 Latefah Shampine v. Claire Lee, et al. Ohio Presumed Complete None
18M107 Wallace Dixon Cox, et ux. v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
18M108 David R. Dyson v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Seventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
18M109 Richard Katz v. National Board of Medical Examiners, et al. Third Circuit Presumed Complete None
18M110 Jennifer A. v. Gregory M., et al. New York Presumed Complete None
18M111 John W. Lebron v. United States Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None