Conference: 2019-03-15

307 cases — 1 granted, 306 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
18-1001 Casey Brandon Sibley v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-prosecution first-amendment free-speech overbreadth-vagueness strict-scrutiny subjective-intent true-threat Whether the First Amendment requires proof of a speaker's subjective wrongful intent in order for speech to be deemed a 'true threat' subject to crimi…
18-1003 Norma L. Slone, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review clearly-erroneous fact-finding factual-findings judicial-procedure standard-of-review tax tax-court tax-court-deference Whether a court of appeals may reverse a fact-dependent ruling of the tax court without articulating any standard of review, finding that any of the t…
18-1016 Lloyd Gene Beam v. Michigan Michigan Denied Response Waived collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution judicial-impartiality judicial-impartiality-standard-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application state-collateral-review teague-retroactivity teague-v-lane watershed-rule watershed-rules Was the new standard from People v. Stevens a decision by the Michigan Supreme Court interpreting the federal Constitution?
18-1029 Sujit Ghosh v. DISH Network L.L.C. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-process arbitration-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial non-party non-party-participation party personal-guaranty standing Can a 'Non-Party' of an Arbitration Process get equal Privileges and Rights like a 'Party' as per the laws of the United States and its Constitution, …
18-1064 In Re Octavious DeMont Williams Denied 21-usc-841 burden-of-proof constitutional-due-process constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-crime fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury jury-finding jury-trial Octavious Demont Williams petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, arguing that his constitutional due process was violated when he was deprived of the…
18-1075 RPX Corporation v. Applications in Internet Time, LLC Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-law inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-office-decision patent-review patent-review-procedure statutory-interpretation timeliness timeliness-objection Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) bars judicial review of the Patent and Trademark Office's decision to institute inter partes review where a patent holder's…
18-217 Randall Mathena, Warden v. Lee Boyd Malvo Fourth Circuit Granted Amici (13)Relisted (9) collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rule criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in concluding that Montgomery v. Louisiana modified and expanded the rule announced in Miller v. Alabama
18-234 Guadalupe Chaidez Campos v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied civil-rights discretionary-function-exception due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment federal-tort-claims-act intentional-torts law-enforcement-proviso sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act restricts the law enforcement proviso's waiver of sovereign immunity for i…
18-285 Missouri v. Phillip Douglass, et al. Missouri Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment particularity particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing warrant warrant-severability Is severance the default remedy when part of a warrant is valid, or does the Fourth Amendment also require that the valid sections make up 'the greate…
18-292 Detric Lewis v. Nicole English, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (5) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to raise arguments foreclosed by binding but erroneous circuit precede…
18-420 United States v. Gerald Adrian Wheeler Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-prisoner habeas-corpus retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum Whether a prisoner whose Section 2255 motion challenging the applicability of a statutory minimum was denied based on circuit precedent may later seek…
18-442 Jesse R. Benton v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied 18-usc-1001 campaign-finance false-statement falsity fec feca federal-election-commission materiality materiality-requirement reporting-violations sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act statutory-interpretation Whether the materiality requirement in 18 USC Section 1001 can be turned into a mere falsity requirement in the FEC reporting context or whether the s…
18-451 Aloha Bed & Breakfast v. Diane Cervelli, et al. Hawaii Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fair-notice first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise intimate-association privacy prohibitory public-accommodation public-accommodations quasi-criminal religious-beliefs religious-liberty stigmatizing Whether holding a homeowner liable for refusing to host a same-sex couple violates due process and free exercise rights
18-461 Raquel Hinojosa, et al. v. Petra Horn, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure-act citizenship-claim due-process immigration judicial-review passport passport-denial rusk-v-cort standing Whether 8 U.S.C. §§1503(b)-(c) preempts judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act of the denial or revocation of a passport for a United …
18-472 Behr Dayton Thermal Products LLC, et al. v. Terry Martin, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-conflict civil-procedure class-certification courts-of-appeals federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure issue-certification issue-classes predominance predominance-requirement rule-23 rule-23(b)(3) rule-23(c)(4) Whether plaintiffs can obtain certification of issue classes under Rule 23(c)(4) despite failing to demonstrate predominance under Rule 23(b)(3)
18-497 Jean Coulter v. Cathy Bissoon, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct recusal rule-of-law separation-of-powers vexatious-litigant Have the courts' refusal to recuse and non-compliance with criminal/civil statutes, case law and their code of conduct and the rule of law resulted in…
18-499 Mark Griffioen, et al. v. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railways Company, et al. Iowa Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) alternative-remedy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-railroad-safety-act federal-remedy interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption preemption-under-iccta public-safety rail-transportation savings-clause state-law state-law-claims takings Whether the Iowa Supreme Court erred in holding that state laws of general application addressing primarily public safety issues and with only an inci…
18-503 N. E. L., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association full-faith-and-credit interstate-agreement procedural-due-process qualified-immunity right-to-travel Whether petitioners' summary removal from Colorado to Kansas violated clearly established rights to procedural due process, a warrant or valid court o…
18-530 Congregation Jeshuat Israel v. Congregation Shearith Israel First Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) charitable-trusts diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine establishment-clause evidence federalism free-exercise free-exercise-clause personal-property property property-dispute religious-liberty secular-evidence trust trust-law In ordinary trust and property disputes, does the Establishment Clause preclude courts from considering secular evidence that is relevant and admissib…
18-539 George T. Hawes v. Daniel P. Reilly Rhode Island Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process full-faith-and-credit full-faith-and-credit-clause interstate-litigation judicial-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction standing Did the Supreme Court for the State of Rhode Island violate the full-faith-and-credit-clause by failing to uphold and enforce a Utah court's order fin…
18-5428 Restituto D. Barraquias v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing takings Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the court failed to consider his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
18-545 First Advantage Background Services Corp. v. Superior Court of California, San Mateo County, et al. California Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof class-action due-process fair-credit-reporting-act federal-statute forum-state fourteenth-amendment harm nationwide-class-action non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether a state court may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant in a nationwide class action when the alleged conduct …
18-576 Robert H. Wright, Jr. v. Jerald Watson, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution police-misconduct probable-cause standing Is a malicious prosecution claim under the Fourth Amendment and Manuel v. City of Joliet the proper civil remedy for an 'overcharge' prosecution?
18-5773 Michael Delancy v. Jorge L. Pastrana, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (5)IFP 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017) Inc. unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-acces which is in conflict with opinions of nine other 28-usc-2241 circuit-split constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-inmates florida-state-convictions habeas-corpus mathis-v-us sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-access
18-5781 Larry Dean Dusenbery v. Ronnie R. Holt, Warden Third Circuit Denied Relisted (5)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-speech due-process federal-prisoner free-speech habeas-corpus religious-freedom section-2241 sentencing-issue standing Does the First Amendment prohibit the government from requiring individuals to engage in speech that violates their sincerely held religious beliefs?
18-586 Jack R. Koch v. Adam Estrella, et al. California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction final-judgment jurisdiction state-court statute-of-limitations supplemental-jurisdiction Is it lawful for the state courts to create a final judgment from within the federal court files when there is no entry of a final judgment and then h…
18-596 Marie Neba v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion judicial-review presumption-of-reasonableness proportionality rita-v-united-states sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines Should the Court overrule or refine Rita v. United States (2007) 551 U.S. 338, such that an irregular and disproportionate within-Guidelines sentence …
18-5969 Carlos Alberto Fuentes-Canales v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burglary burglary-offense crime-of-violence criminal-history plain-error-review sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities Did the Fifth Circuit err—to the point of warranting summary reversal—when it denied Petitioner relief under the fourth prong of plain-error review ba…
18-601 John Frederick Tate, aka John M. Tate v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (3) agency-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-law false-statements federal-election-commission jurisdiction materiality obstruction obstruction-of-justice obstruction-statute remand Whether an agency's receipt of information over which it has no authority to act implicates a 'matter within' the agency's jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C…
18-606 Dimitrios N. Kesari, aka Dimitri Kesari v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied campaign-finance criminal-law disbursement-disclosure disclosure-requirements false-reporting federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission purpose-statements reporting-requirements Whether and under what circumstances a report to the Federal Election Commission that does not specify the ultimate recipient of a campaign disburseme…
18-611 John J. Tatar v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-claim burden-of-proof civil-procedure due-process equal-protection frivolous-claims rule-of-law tax-evasion tax-refund Did Petitioner-Tatar carry his burden of proof for his tax refund claims?
18-6135 James K. Kahler v. Kansas Kansas Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (7)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense legal-history mens-rea mental-health Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state to abolish the insanity defense?
18-617 Spirit Airlines, Inc. v. Steven Maizes, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-agreement bilateral-arbitration burden-of-proof class-arbitration delegation delegation-doctrine standard-arbitration-rules standard-of-review Must a party overcome a higher burden to show that an arbitration agreement delegates to the arbitrator the power to decide the availability of class …
18-6237 Jacob L. Smith v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process gall-v-united-states plain-error plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-variance In order to preserve a § 3553(c) challenge to the adequacy of the district court's sentencing explanation, must a party, who is given no opportunity t…
18-6245 Johnny Kirkland v. Progressive Insurance Company, et al. Alabama Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights directed-verdict due-process evidence motion-to-dismiss right-to-counsel standing Whether Raymond Lofer vs Wonton, and Negligence
18-6265 Samuel Silva v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidence-prejudice federal-firearms federal-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-possession jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudicial-evidence probative-value rule-403 Whether the practice of telling juries in a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prosecution that the defendant is a previously-convicted felon should be excluded un…
18-6272 Gregory Steshenko v. Thomas McKay, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP academic-expulsion civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-expulsion due-process education employment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mixed-motive mixed-motive-defense protected-speech spoliation-of-evidence standing Whether the mixed-motive defense doctrine of Mt. Healthy City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274, 287 (1977) in employment terminations fo…
18-6310 LeShawn Lawson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights drug-activity due-process fourth-amendment investigative-questioning pretextual-stop prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-rule rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Whether five minutes of drug-related investigative questioning of a driver at the beginning of an admittedly pretextual traffic stop violates the rule…
18-6319 William Shane Reid v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-denial discretionary-review procedural-reasonableness review-standard sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction to review a district court's discretionary denial of a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2)
18-6321 Josephloc T. Nguyen v. Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-employment-action causation civil-rights employment-discrimination mixed-motive protected-activity retaliation title-vii Whether Title VII's retaliation provision requires but-for causation or mixed motive
18-6377 Rashad Woodside v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights counsel-presence criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process limited-remand open-court resentencing right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sentencing Whether a defendant has the right to be present with counsel at a resentencing hearing
18-6388 Ruby Blackmon v. Eaton Corporation Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP None
18-6481 Jeremy Fontanez v. Joseph Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment inmate-financial-responsibility-program mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-order voluntary Does the sentencing court violate the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) when it delegates its restitution payments to the BOP?
18-6533 Anthony Lewallyn v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-registration-requirements due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-travel nichols-precedent nichols-v-united-states registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation Can a sex offender be prosecuted for failing to register or update his registration in the district where he began his interstate travel but in which …
18-6550 Anthony Thomas v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP affidavit costs court-fees declaration effective-assistance-of-counsel financial-disclosure habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis income-declaration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-indigency poverty prejudice procedural-default redress sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a new trial when counsel's deficient performance prejudiced the defendan…
18-656 Johnathan Hall, Director, Kentucky Department of Corrections, Division of Probation and Parole v. William O. Ayers Sixth Circuit Denied 28-usc-2254 experienced-criminal-defense-attorney experienced-criminal-trial-attorney federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-court-decision uncounseled-defendant waiver Was federal habeas relief improperly granted when, without basis in this Court's clearly established precedent, the federal court disregarded the dete…
18-659 Mostafa Masomi v. Mehrandokht Madadi First Circuit Denied Relisted (2) alimony civil-procedure civil-rights divorce divorce-law due-process fifth-amendment human-rights procedural-due-process religious-divorce Whether the Fifth Amendment is violated when a judge denies a hearing or a trial in a civil (divorce) case, and as a result the petitioner was forced …
18-661 Jason Michael Zank v. Liz Lorena Lopez Moreno Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) child-abduction habitual-residence hague-convention icara international-child-abduction international-law parental-removal passage-of-time retention unilateral-removal Whether a child's habitual residence can be changed based on one parent's unilateral removal of a child to or retention of the child in another countr…
18-6612 James Pinkney v. United States Seventh Circuit GVR IFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bi armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach force illinois-robbery-statute statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony Whether the Illinois robbery statute categorically requires the use of force called for by this Court so as to qualify as a 'violent felony' under the…
18-6667 Khaled Elbeblawy v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confession criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence impeachment impeachment-use-waiver medicare-fraud plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 substantive-evidence united-states-v-mezzanatto Does the impeachment-use waiver doctrine established by the Court in United States v. Mezzanatto, 513 U.S. 196, permit the government to introduce in …
18-6671 Jimmy David Malone v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acca constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federalism generic-conviction state-courts state-statute statutory-interpretation Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is 'generic' for ACCA purposes based on an independent interpreta…
18-6688 Stephen D. Leonard v. Florida Florida Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights dade-county due-process public-defender public-leader restitution right-to-counsel standing universal-declaration-of-human-rights Did the State court violate Petitioner's right to counsel by allowing 'pro waved' Dade County Public Defender to appear on behalf of the court ordered…
18-6771 Johny Gardner v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause
18-6819 Keith Tharpe v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review death-penalty due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias racial-bias-in-jury retroactivity Whether a juror's racial bias affected a death sentence
18-689 Mariano Moya, et al. v. Robert Garcia, Sheriff, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied 42-usc-1983 arraignment causation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process section-1983 standing state-court When a jailer detains a person for an extended period with no access to a court hearing for arraignment and bail review, in violation of his or her Du…
18-6904 Oree Roberson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof chavez-meza chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review mitigation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Whether the defendant bears the burden to establish that objected to information in the Presentence Report is materially untrue, or whether the govern…
18-6913 Lamar Sowell v. United States Third Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-provisions force-element lower-federal-courts statutory-interpretation united-states Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for …
18-6914 Daniel Rojas v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law force hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states physical-force section-2255 section-924c sentencing violent-crime What amount of force satisfies the definition of 'physical force' under Johnson v. United States?
18-6927 In Re Jerry Urbina Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining retroactivity rule-11 sentencing-amendment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by denying petitioner Urbina relief under the 782 Amendment due to his being the beneficiary of a Rul…
18-6979 Lewis Carnell Jackson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-offense culpable-negligence deference federal-circuit-courts federal-courts mens-rea sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a criminal offense with a mens rea of 'culpable negligence' qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 9…
18-6989 Jessie Lee Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states post-sentencing-case-law residual-clause retroactivity statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states May a § 2255 defendant prove that his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based upon the residual clause through a process of elimination?
18-699 Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Marjorie Prather Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contractors government-payment materiality pleading-requirements regulatory-violation scienter Whether the failure to plead facts relating to past government practices in an FCA action can weigh against a finding of materiality
18-7000 Luis Rolando Bueno Jimenez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-3553(f) circuit-split criminal-law drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act is eligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence under the 's…
18-702 Rajeshwar Singh Yadav, et ux. v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection New Jersey Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-discrimination pro-se-rights property-rights standing takings Am I a second-class citizen?
18-7022 Ryan Lee Zater v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation What is the scope of the §2255(e) saving clause? And is it permissible for Zater to proceed thereunder?
18-7065 Fabio Porfirio Lobo v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process inaccurate-information judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the United States District Court relied on inaccurate information sentencing him to a defac…
18-716 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. v. EIG Energy Fund XIV, L.P., et al. District of Columbia Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split conflict-among-circuits conflict-with-other-courts direct-effect foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-corporate-structure international-investment investment-fund investment-loss judicial-restructuring jurisdictional-challenge overseas-conduct sovereign-instrumentality subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the D.C. Circuit correctly held that there is a 'direct effect' in the United States under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act when the plain…
18-7224 Jose Alejandro Acuna Valenzuela v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial heightened-reliability impartial-jury juror-bias jury-selection motion-to-vacate prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the trial court violated Mr. Acuna's constitutional rights to a fair and impartial jury, to due process, to heightened reliability, and to be …
18-7242 Dauntorian Lyndel Sanders v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Whether Arizona follows the precedent of Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), as set forth in Lynch v. Arizona, 136 S. Ct. 1818 (2016)
18-7246 Harold Shawgnessy Sims v. King, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process sentencing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force federal-law-enforcement qualified-immunity What constitutional and statutory protections apply to individuals who are assaulted by federal law enforcement officers?
18-7248 Vertis Anthony v. Louis Boyd, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-bias jurisdiction probable-cause rules-of-civil-procedure standing subject-matter-jurisdiction warrantless-search Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in its rulings on the jurisdictional issues raised in the petition
18-7252 Eddie Ray Wiese, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner fifth-circuit johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful substantive basis to enhance his sentenc…
18-7257 Amadou Diakite v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection personnel policy sentencing standing Whether the prosecution of the petitioner violated the petitioner's constitutional rights
18-7258 Clayton Thomason v. Joy Jackson, et al. Alabama Denied IFP None
18-7259 Jack E. Allen v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale Pennsylvania Denied IFP batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance innocence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Did the petitioner give the first opportunity of the state supreme court to resolve such claims, issues, contentions in a state habeas corpus?
18-7261 Keith Stuart Cumbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appeal appealability appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure fraud-on-the-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction merits motion-to-reconsider procedural-error rule-60(b) Whether the lower court clearly erred in abusing its discretion by dismissing the appeal as premature/no jurisdiction without addressing the merits of…
18-7265 Rodney Scot Armstrong, Jr. v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP civil-procedure closing-argument de-novo-review directed-verdict legal-preservation motion objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-issues prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review trial-procedure Is a motion for a directed verdict an objection that preserves an issue for and mandates de novo review?
18-7271 Richard Steven Johnson, Jr. v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP confrontation-clause coy-v-iowa criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fundamental-rights maryland-v-craig witness-testimony Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated petitioner's fundamental rights by ruling that the California Courts reasonably applied this Court…
18-7273 Shaidon Blake v. Brian Fish, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights denial-of-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence standing Whether the lower courts erred in the denial of Petitioner's Habeas Corpus Writ
18-7279 Christian Thomas v. District Attorney of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-question graham grant juvenile-sentencing mental-capacity miller sixth-amendment teague Whether a federal question is raised by a claim that a state collateral review erroneously failed to find a Teague, Graham, and Grant case and Miller …
18-7280 Michael Wappler v. Wayne Ivey, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights confinement-conditions constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention standing three-strikes-rule Was petitioner, an indigent pretrial detainee, prevented from challenging pretrial conditions of confinement by the improper assessment of a 'strike' …
18-7281 Olandio Ray Workman v. John Vandermosten, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-charges indigent-defense legal-mail medical-care prison prison-conditions right-to-counsel standing Did the District Court in Greenville, South Carolina deny me due process when they didn't finish school and let me know yet?
18-7283 Angel Bartlett v. Kalamazoo County Community Mental Health Board, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights corrective-programs discriminatory-practices due-process false-imprisonment false-reporting false-reports mental-health mental-health-confinement probate religious-discrimination torture-allegations weapons-of-mass-destruction Is it illegal or wrongful for Community Mental Health to be holding Angel Bartlett in corrective programs even when there is no open probate to hold A…
18-7285 Brenda J. Burch v. Atlanta City Court, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights corruption due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct local-government state-courts state-government Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to equal protection and due process have been violated by alleged corruption and misconduct in the stat…
18-7288 Jamie Rozelle Harrison v. California California Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing statutory-provisions takings Whether the differences raised in the opinions that need to be addressed in a higher court
18-7290 Muhamet Ajvazi v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence judicial-review prior-conviction prior-convictions remand reversal sentencing Whether the court should reverse and remand due to the admission of evidence of prior conviction used as enhancement that was not fulfilled
18-7291 Dillon Wade Thompson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberation digital-cameras due-process evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion jury jury-deliberations lewd-exhibition prosecutorial-misconduct trial Is it a violation of a defendant's Due Process rights if, while deliberating, the fact-finder viewed evidence that was not shown at trial, even if sai…
18-7299 Leon Tony Parker, Jr. v. Texas Texas Denied IFP conflict-of-interest counsel-of-choice counsel-withdrawal court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion motion-resolution motion-to-substitute motion-to-substitute-counsel motion-to-withdraw record-keeping right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion trial-fairness Does the highest state court's decision conflict with the United States Supreme Court's guarantee to be represented by counsel of one's own choice?
18-7301 J. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas Denied IFP appellate-review clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-standard due-process equal-protection parental-rights standard-of-review Whether the Fourteenth Court of Appeals erred by employing an unconstitutional standard of review that violated the petitioner's due process rights
18-7302 Angel Bartlett v. Stephen Gorsalitz, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights court-misconduct criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process false-allegations hate-crime judicial-abuse peonage retaliation witness-tampering Was it illegal or wrongful for Stephen Gorsalitz and the Kalamazoo Courts to frame, Set up and destroy Angel Bartlett when she first had her kids?
18-7312 Danny D. Tran v. Kansas Kansas Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process in-re-gault ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-confession juvenile-rights postcard-denial strickland-standard williams-v-taylor Question not identified
18-7314 Deontae Thomas v. Florida Florida Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-bias newly-discovered-evidence standing summary-judgment Whether Procedural Due Process of Law was Mandated An Evidentiary hearing on Newly Discovered Evidence that Establishes Petitioner was denied a Neutra…
18-7315 James Gregory Armistead v. Jennie Bowen, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights contracts-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto fourth-amendment hearing-rights informal-hearing program-eligibility termination Whether the trial court and administrative agency denied petitioner due process and equal protection rights by terminating him from a program without …
18-7318 Jesus Gomez v. California California Denied IFP burglary criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment uncharged-burglaries Whether admission of evidence of uncharged burglaries violated petitioner's rights to a fair trial and due process
18-7324 Roberto Gil v. Florida Florida Denied IFP arrest confidential-informant contingent-fee due-process forfeiture fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement testimony Whether a confidential informant's contingent fee arrangement with police violates due process rights?
18-7328 Anthony Sheely, et ux. v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP affidavit civil-procedure compensation costs court-access declaration due-process fifth-amendment financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure legal-filing poverty poverty-exemption private-property regulatory-burden takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires compensation when the government imposes a regulatory burden on private property that does …
18-7332 James Dellinger v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas procedural-vehicle roper-v-simmons Whether a state may thwart the constitutional prohibition against execution of the intellectually disabled by failing to provide a procedural vehicle …
18-7334 Jesse R. Perez v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the court below erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-7335 Alonzo Alexander McKay v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye supreme-court-precedent Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA), due to its exceeding the scope of t…
18-7336 Jonathan Henry Hill v. Michigan Sixth Circuit Denied IFP affidavit affidavit-standard civil-procedure conviction due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence one-year-limitation post-conviction-relief statute-of-limitations Can a Habeas Petitioner rely on an affidavit as newly discovered evidence when the affidavit is submitted more than one year after a conviction?
18-7342 Robert Gross v. Jeanine Dannatt Texas Denied IFP civil-divorce civil-procedure civil-rights consent-judgment constitutional-rights due-process family-law full-faith-and-credit prenuptial-agreement statute-of-frauds texas-family-code Can a Texas Court refuse to give full faith and credit and not honor a Pennsylvania Court Order?
18-7343 Alberic Israel, on Behalf of Minor Children A. I. and E. I. v. City of North Miami, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent standing takings Where Manifest Injustice Has Occurred in Courts is Wrongly Construing Applicable Statutes of Limitations on Timely Submissions of Previous Motions Den…
18-7349 Kevin Hicks v. California California Denied IFP None
18-7353 Nathaniel Jackson v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-7357 David T. Frazier v. Stephen Crump, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP 1983-suit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,civil-procedure,standing, due-process equal-protection favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pro-se-litigant section-1983 time-bar Is petitioners claims Time Barred Under The Favorable Termination Rule Founded under Heck V. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) When he brought the 1983 su…
18-7359 Billy Joe Greenwood v. Tennessee Board of Parole Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights discrimination discriminatory and illegal application of its par due-process hence causing them to serve more time than those parole violate the equal-protection arbitrary-and-capricious constitutional-rights discrimination discriminatory-application due-process equal-protection judicial-review offense-severity parole parole-system sentencing Does Tennessee's arbitrary, discriminatory and illegal application of its parole review and release consideration utilizing the seriousness of the off…
18-7363 Christopher David Krohe v. Zandra Steinhardt Ninth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review district-court due-process facts judicial-remedy money-damages remedy standing If the district court should not have denied case on its resolution of facts presented & If the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals should not have denied …
18-7364 Brandon M. Chambers v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP court-interpretation grammar grammatical-construction judicial-deference judicial-discretion legislative-intent punctuation state-court statutory-analysis statutory-construction statutory-interpretation What responsibility/power does a State District court have in interpreting a provision of a statute, and when interpreting a statute to determine legi…
18-7366 Frederick Gray v. Patricia Sorrels, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prison-conditions Whether the petitioner should be granted remedial relief regarding the denial of his motion for the appointment of competent counsel presented in Appe…
18-7370 Skye Ely Gipson v. Cynthia Y. Tampkins, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act antiterrorism-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default standing statute-of-limitations Whether the court should hear this writ of certiorari challenging the denial of a certificate of appealability under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure …
18-7373 Warren Ray Patton v. Texas Texas Denied IFP actual-innocence counsel-appointment dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest postconviction-proceedings postconviction-relief Whether the State's substantive procedures for obtaining appointment of counsel and DNA testing in postconviction proceedings create a protected due p…
18-7380 Ricardo Glover v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure deprivation-of-liberty due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge liberty prosecutorial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-constitution Whether a person is deprived of their liberty when they are forcefully brought before a court in chains and shackles by the prosecution, the prosecuti…
18-7381 Anthony C. Hernandez v. California California Denied IFP administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hearing medical-license professional-discipline regulatory-agency standing Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the denial of a hearing on the revocation of his medical license
18-7382 Jervon L. Herbin v. Virginia Virginia Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment structural-defect Did the Lower Court(s) Err in refusing to grant retroactive application to Fishback v. Commonwealth?
18-7384 Michael Deuschel v. USC Faculty Dental Practice, et al. California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-accommodation ada-requests-for-accommodation court-reporter disabilities disability-rights due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-access multiple-disabilities pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-petitioner record-on-appeal Whether the trial court denials of ADA requests for accommodation from in forma pauperis pro se Petitioner with multiple disabilities, receiving multi…
18-7386 Oscar Armando, aka Oscar Armando Sarres Mendoza v. Gerald Wayne Whitfield, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights classification due-process grievance property-rights retaliation standing takings Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the prison confiscated his legal materials without proper notice or opportunity to be h…
18-7389 Scott Smith v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit supervisory-power Was petitioner denied his fundamental and constitutional right to due process?
18-7396 Alonzo Fishback v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa credibility credibility-of-counsel deference-to-state-court due-process federal-review federal-review-of-state-court-findings habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentencing sixth-amendment state-post-conviction state-post-conviction-review Whether the federal court must accept that trial counsel's performance was adequate simply because trial counsel testified his performance was adequat…
18-7398 Kerry Kruskal v. Peter Sprunt New Mexico Denied IFP amended-complaint association-ditch-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights contested-issues due-process issue-preclusion motion-to-reconsider pro-se-litigant pro-se-representation property-dispute property-rights sanctions standing stored-water-rights summary-judgment surface-water-rights warranty-deed water-rights Was the district court correct to adversely rule on Sprunt's summary judgment motion when there were so many legitimate contested issues?
18-7399 Gene Donta Carter v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP consecutive-sentences criminal-conspiracy drug-delivery drug-offenses due-process non-violent-crime offense-gravity offense-gravity-scores sentence-proportionality sentencing sentencing-error Did the sentencing court err in applying incorrect offense gravity scores in violation of the appellant's due process rights based on the unproven wei…
18-7401 Robert Shapiro v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause due-process federalism free-speech general-welfare standing takings taxation Whether Congress has the power to levy and collect taxes, imposts, and excises to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare…
18-7403 Keith Lamar Blackwell v. Charlie A. Dooley, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process informed-consent medical-care medical-ethics medical-licensing medical-practice patient-consent pharmacist-duties physician-duties physician-licensing professional-licensing state-regulations In the State of Missouri, can a licensed pharmacist redundantly practice medicine as to a physician's duties of professional judgment and perform phys…
18-7406 Benjamin James Boatman v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error drug-induced-psychosis due-process heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel Ineffective assistance of counsel
18-7407 Azaniah Blankumsee v. Circuit Court of Maryland, Washington County, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence immunity injunctive-relief standing Did The lower Court err in Granting Absolute Immunity to All defendants, Refusing and Dismissing his Claims for Injunctive Relief, and in Denying Indi…
18-7411 David H. Jacob v. Rosalyn Cotton, Chairperson, Nebraska Board of Parole, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 allen-v-mccurry civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-claims due-process failure-to-state-a-claim federal-petition haines-v-kerner parole-board section-1983 Can the U.S. District Court, after first finding the Federal Petition does in fact allege federal constitutional claims, summarily dismiss the Federal…
18-7413 Billy Dean Smith v. Robert Corcoran, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP alaska-statute brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute disciplinary-actions due-process free-speech prison-discipline prison-regulations state-action state-law vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Does the Fell Faith and Credit Clause apply to the Bradshaw v. Ash case involving disciplinary actions against a prisoner?
18-7416 Javier Solis v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington hearsay hearsay-exception jury-instructions jury-interpretation police-testimony sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence truth-of-the-matter-asserted Whether 'testimonial' or 'non-testimonial' should be the only factor in deciding whether Crawford's protection should apply
18-7422 David Lee Williams v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction louisiana-supreme-court right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation Whether the defendant's due process rights were violated when the Louisiana Supreme Court upheld his conviction and sentence without a hearing or oral…
18-7423 Rodney Washington v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights court-discretion criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-profile double-standard due-process ex-post-facto legal-precedent perjury retroactive-application statute-of-limitations What constitutes a specific DNA profile for the purposes of tolling the statute of limitations?
18-7425 Jovan Cooper v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the 4th Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-7428 Harry Jones v. Florida Florida Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-7429 Adam Lee Lopez v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment coercion constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation due-process law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-rights police-interrogation self-incrimination suspect-waiver Whether officers may, when a suspect mentions a desire to wait for an attorney, follow up a reading of the Miranda warnings with soft persuasion and e…
18-7435 James Arthur Biggins v. Carl C. Danberg, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure damages due-process jurisdiction patent patent-eligibility patent-infringement patent-law standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant patent law statutes
18-7438 Armando A. Villa v. Robert J. Kowalski Illinois Denied IFP abuse-of-power appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-procedure legal-profession rule-of-law standing unclean-hands Why would the United States Supreme Court refuse to hear the Appeal of a case in which an individual, who as an 'Honorable' member of the legal profes…
18-7441 James L. Wheeler v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process haines-standard haines-v-kerner judicial-review liberal-construction pro-se pro-se-pleading procedural-fairness standing Was the lower Court's Action in failing to allow Liberal Construction of Petitioner's claims in conflict with this Court's holding in Haines v. Kerner…
18-7442 Kevin Underwood v. Mike Carpenter, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey beyond-reasonable-doubt capital-punishment capital-punishment-scheme capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-findings jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision conflicts with Apprendi v. New Jersey and Ring v. Arizona
18-7446 Anthony Jujuan Hopkins v. Warden, Ventress Correctional Facility Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-proceeding ninth-circuit petition-for-review sentencing standing Whether the U.S. Appeals Court for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioners' COA, when petitioners raise jurisdictional issues that can be ra…
18-7457 Charles Edward Case v. California California Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-amendment criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con…
18-7458 Samuel Lewis Taylor v. Michael Miller, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment access-to-court access-to-courts cell-search civil-rights discovery due-process prison-conditions property-rights retaliation Whether or not petitioner's civil rights discovery material confiscated from petitioner's cell during cell search and disposed of denied access to the…
18-7459 Michael J. Greene v. William O. Huffman, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process juvenile-justice sentencing standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process juvenile-justice standing state-law Whether the juvenile rights of the petitioner were violated under the Juvenile Rights Act, 14-F-13 of the state code
18-7460 Clint Horvatt v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP adversarial-testing appeal change-of-venue civil-procedure competency-hearing criminal-acts criminal-procedure disciplinary-history due-process independent-act-doctrine ineffective-assistance involuntary-intoxication record standing trial-counsel trial-court Did the trial court fail to attach portions of the record?
18-7464 Carlton E. Gary v. Florida Florida Denied IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony expert-witness fundamental-error judicial-error prejudice violation witness-credibility witness-influence Whether the expert witness's report was improperly influenced by the witness's actions, resulting in a violation of due process
18-7465 Marshaun Boykin v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the police violated the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights by conducting a warrantless search and seizure of the petitioner's property
18-7480 Karreem Tislam Jabar Wiley v. Larry Cartledge, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Did Trial Defense Counsel violate the Petitioner's 6th Amendment rights?
18-7483 Robert John Frank v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the Second District Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's case
18-7492 Lorenzo Gerald Ferebee, Jr. v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry firearms outside the home for self-defense
18-7508 Patrick Brooks v. Pinnacle Financial Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights consumer-protection due-process foreclosure home-rescission jesinoski-v-countrywide-home-loans res-judicata rescission supreme-court-precedent truth-in-lending-act Whether a lender can use res-judicata to bar examination of an invalid foreclosure that was barred by federal-consumer-protection-law
18-7517 Donelle L. Johnson v. Jennifer McDermott, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard prisoner-rights procedural-rights Did the United States Court of Appeals err in denying Mr. Johnson a certificate of appealability?
18-7519 Daltonia Duncan v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4246 civil-commitment civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute judicial-procedure mental-health mental-health-law state-custody statutory-interpretation united-states-code Whether a district court may civilly commit a person under 18 U.S.C. § 4246 without first determining whether suitable arrangements for state custody …
18-7521 Freddie King, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right counsel douglas-v-california habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-criminal-procedure martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-review procedural-default right-to-counsel state-procedure Whether a defendant in a Louisiana state criminal case has a constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel in a first post-conviction procee…
18-7525 Delexsia Harris v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence evidence-suppression federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion old-chief-v-united-states prejudicial-evidence prejudicial-information prior-bad-acts rule-403 Should the analysis utilized in Old Chief v. United States control in determining whether prejudicial information should have been excluded in the def…
18-7535 Timothy S. Chalfant v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights disability due-process judicial-review social-security standing Whether the Social Security Administration and federal courts have to follow the same laws and rules that apply to all other litigants
18-7570 Anthony Eugene Hardeman v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful basis to enhance his sentence, but fails…
18-7577 Roland Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act due-process habitual-offender johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-maximum united-states-v-herrold united-states-v-johnson violent-felony Whether petitioner's 240-month sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) must be vacated because it is unclear whether he was sentenced unde…
18-7586 Zachary T. Frey v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation post-sentencing-case-law post-sentencing-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement Whether a defendant can prove his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the unconstitutional residual clause by relying on post-sentencing case law
18-7592 Zane Hubbard v. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-procedure due-process fair-procedure government-action judicial-review legal-interpretation standing statutory-interpretation Whether the government's denial of Petitioner's request for a letter of recommendation violates the Constitution by denying the Petitioner's right to …
18-760 Oberist Lee Saunders v. Wayne Ivey, Sheriff, Brevard County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment hutto-v-finney kingsley-v-hendrickson pretrial-detention qualified-immunity rhodes-v-chapman sanitation-standards Whether the Fourteenth Amendment conditions-of-confinement claim should be evaluated under an objective or subjective standard
18-7606 Samuel Davis v. Sergeant Florence, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment free-speech incorporation standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-7617 Talbert Hinton v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech sentencing standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-7626 Gregory Haynes v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial legal-standards miscarriage-of-justice second-degree-murder self-defense trial-court-error Whether the Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial
18-7628 Anthony Brian Bevan v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-misconduct ineffective-counsel spoilage-of-evidence stare-decisis usc-242 Was the Petitioner denied Due Process, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause, and/or in violation of U.S.C Code # 242, and/or in…
18-763 Chaka Fattah, Sr. v. United States Third Circuit Denied 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure deliberations due-process evidence judicial-discretion juror-removal jury-unanimity misconduct-standard standard-of-review Whether a district court must determine that there is no possibility that allegations of juror misconduct stem from the juror's view of the evidence t…
18-7634 Lincoln E. Fox v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel victim-testimony witness-testimony Whether the trial court's admission of a videotaped statement of the victim violated the defendant's right to a fair trial
18-7672 Lester Moody v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-7684 Raynard Reginald Brown v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process patent standing takings Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying the petition for appeal
18-7687 Dre'Shawn Markuise Lee v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus institutional-confinement pro-se state-court-appeals statute-of-limitations timeliness When does the federal habeas petition clock begin to run for an inmate confined in an institution after the state supreme court has denied their state…
18-7689 Frank James v. Rebecca Kapusta, Interim Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-provisions criminal-convictions criminal-judgments due-process involuntary-commitment involuntary-proceedings standing statute-of-limitations Whether the criminal judgments and convictions that are being utilized for involuntary civil commitment are barred by the Florida civil action statute…
18-7697 Duane Yates v. Iowa Iowa Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment postconviction prison-discipline self-defense sixth-amendment whether-inmates-who-file-a-postconviction-under-io Whether inmates who file a postconviction under lowa Code 822 in the lowa District Court's are denied the equal protection of law under the Sixth and …
18-7698 Lawrence Andrew Ingram v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights contemporaneous-objection criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-evidence-waiver-contempo definitive-ruling evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-procedure waiver Does trial counsel waive a defendant's right to appellate review of an erroneous ruling on evidence if counsel chooses not to object to the ruling whe…
18-7702 George Reese v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violations due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct vouching Whether the prosecutor committed misconduct
18-7705 Duane Yates v. Iowa Iowa Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure dismissal due-process fourteenth-amendment mullane-precedent notice postconviction-action service service-of-process standing state-citizens Whether the Iowa Supreme Court has failed to properly apply the Iowa Rules of Civil Procedure
18-7706 Syed Nazim Ali v. Interactive Brokers LLC Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-standing civil-rights corporate-law corporate-laws corporate-representation due-process fair-justice judicial-procedure legal-representation legal-standing pro-se-litigation shareholder shareholder-exception shareholder-rights standing Whether the district court erred by dismissing the case on the grounds that the Petitioner who is the sole owner and shareholder of the corporation di…
18-7714 Anthony Grandison v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response WaivedIFP blockburger-test common-law-murder commutation cumulative-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process felony-murder handgun-use jury-instructions legislative-intent merger-of-offenses non-merger-rule prosecutorial-discretion required-evidence-test sentencing statutory-construction statutory-offenses Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in holding...
18-7720 Howard Webber v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split consent consent-defense criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute identity-theft mens-rea statutory-interpretation Can consent be a defense to aggravated identity theft under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A?
18-7722 Rodrigo Escobedo-Coronado v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-offense federal-sentencing mens-rea model-penal-code state-survey statutory-interpretation Does the federal generic aggravated assault offense require more than a merely reckless mens rea?
18-7723 Randy Dempsey v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-prisoner residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th…
18-7726 Carlton Williams v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law federal-criminal-law pattern-of-racketeering predicate-crime racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines Is a sentencing court limited to applying a categorical approach when determining whether a conviction for violating the Federal Racketeer Influence a…
18-7727 Gregory Hatt v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea heroin-distribution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-causation plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment Whether failure to convey unbiased, complete, or correct information to a defendant during plea bargaining by defense counsel invalidates a guilty ple…
18-7734 Joe Willie Cannon v. Iowa District Court, Des Moines County Iowa Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Did the State of Iowa violate the petitioner's 5th, 6th, & 14th Amendment confrontation and due process rights to be present during a critical stage o…
18-7735 Michael Kenta Davis v. Justin Andrews, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE S$. C. CODE ANN 44-53-370 TS OVERLYBRO&D AND INDIVISBLE AND NO LONGER QUALIFIES IN LIGHT OF BOTH MATHIS V US AND DESCAMPS?
18-7736 Robert Davis v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel criminal-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance legal-review procedural-due-process questions-of-fact questions-of-law standing state-court state-court-review Did the State's highest court fail to lawfully review the questions of law in Petitioner's application prior to denying him permission to appeal his c…
18-7738 Kukia R. Farrish v. Navy Federal Credit Union Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights consumer-financial-protection-bureau consumer-protection credit-card-agreement credit-report credit-reporting damages debt-collection digital-forensics document-manipulation due-process electronic-evidence evidentiary-standards federal-credit-union financial-regulation judicial-review procedural-integrity Whether the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unlawfully collected debts from the petitioner, and whether the petitioner is entitled to compensatio…
18-7741 Robert Sills v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion merits-adjudication merits-review Whether the Court of Appeals' denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability (COA) was improper"
18-7746 Joseph Davis v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP thereby rendering the use of evidence uncovered d constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence florida-v-wells fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause ruse search-and-seizure Whether errors in an inventory search report are indicative of a 'ruse' under Florida v. Wells, thereby rendering the use of evidence uncovered during…
18-7748 James Freeman v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability COA due-process Eleventh-Circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits procedural-claims section-2255 sentencing substantive-claims underlying-2255-claims Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed the limited scope of 28 USC §2253, the Certificate of Appealability (COA) statute, by deciding Petitioner's underlying…
18-7751 Brian Bolton v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines welch-v-united-states Whether the government's arguments are incorrectly that the Supreme Court's ruling in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), is 'procedural…
18-7754 In Re Archie Cabello Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure judicial-discretion legal-procedure pleadings right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation rule-11 self-representation Does a trial judge have a duty to protect a defendant's right to counsel of choice?
18-7758 Mary Cummins v. Amanda Lollar Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judge-selection judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-selection texas-courts trial-fairness visiting-judge visiting-judges Is a trial by a visiting Judge according to Texas regulations a fair trial?
18-7760 Geoffrey A. Gish v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-assessment plea-bargaining procedural-default statute-constitutionality subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed its subject-matter jurisdiction by denying a certificate of appealability based on its assessment of the underlying cl…
18-7762 Douglas Fauconier v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process legitimate-penological-interests penological-interests prison-regulation prison-regulations prisoner-rights What minimum showing of proof must prison officials establish on the record, to meet their initial burden of proof, in demonstrating that a prison reg…
18-7763 Charles Dereck Adams v. Department of Defense Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power administrative-procedure age-discrimination civil-rights discrimination discrimination-abuse-of-power disparate-treatment disparate-treatment-discrimination employment-discrimination extortion mspb-quorum-bias prohibited-personnel-practice vera-vsip-denial vera-vsip-hearing-fairness vera-vsip-weapon veraivsip Unlawful VERA Retirement Denial
18-7764 Marcellus French v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-error standard-of-review Did the appellate court abuse its discretion in finding that the evidence of prior acts was admissible and justified according to FRE 404(b), when the…
18-7765 Burgess Massey v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause habeas-corpus johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states new-york-robbery residual-clause retroactivity second-or-successive-habeas sentencing-enhancement violent-felony Whether the New York State offense of robbery in the third degree is a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act
18-7768 Jon M. Strauss v. Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure Kentucky Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment hearing-record license-restriction licensing state-agency state-law Is it a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process for an independent state agency, completely dependent on member financing, to restr…
18-7769 Demetrius Hill v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel new-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment witness-credibility witness-vouching Do exculpatory recordings that were purposefully withheld by the government warrant a new trial?
18-7776 Miguel Angel Olvera-Cruz v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1326 apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit…
18-7777 In Re Jaron Brice Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in denying habeas corpus relief to the petitioner
18-7778 Mikhail Zemlyansky v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-reintroduction health-care-fraud jury-acquittal jury-trial prosecutorial-strategy RICO rico-conspiracy Whether the district court violated the collateral estoppel component of the double-jeopardy clause by allowing the government to reintroduce its enti…
18-7779 Kenneth William Kirkland v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law destructive-device federal-courts federal-courts-split federal-statute firearm firearm-regulation firearms parts-possession statutory-interpretation unregistered-firearm Whether a combination of parts designed or intended for use as a bomb can qualify as a 'destructive device'
18-7781 Juan Ramone Lopez v. Jeff Noble, Warden Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP age-misrepresentation age-misrepresentation-at-arrest age-of-majority birth-certificate birth-date-verification civil-rights constitutional-privilege criminal-procedure due-process evidence foreign-national habeas-corpus juvenile-offender standing state-courts Whether a person's misrepresentation of his age at the time of arrest or the person's birth date in a court of law should be considered
18-7783 Todd Eugene Cannady v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP california-penal-code california-penal-code-211 categorical-approach commentary crime-of-violence johnson johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 Can California robbery under California Penal Code § 211 be a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, where Johnson invalidated the residual clause …
18-7784 Liston David, aka Liston Oswanio David, aka Smiley, aka Seal A. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off…
18-7788 Sunny Robinson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court and the Fifth Circuit erred in not granting relief under Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582
18-7792 Anthony Donato v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-violation brady-violation-disclosure circuit-court-split constitutional-disclosure constitutional-due-process due-process federal-review habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit-decision second-or-successive successive-habeas-petition Whether the Second Circuit's decision that petitioner's second-in-time Brady claim is successive conflicts with applicable decisions of this Court
18-7795 Markus D. Lanieux v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP Blakely Blakely-v-Washington Booker Booker-v-United-States criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender habitual-offender-law jury-trial mandatory-minimum-sentence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the sentencing scheme under Louisiana's Habitual Offender Law is subject to the jury requirements of the Sixth Amendment
18-7799 Joel Stephen Cutulle v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights democratic-society due-process fair-hearing integrity judicial-integrity judicial-review legal-protection reliability standing territorial-jurisdiction What due process protection is afforded a citizen within the territorial boundaries of the United States who brings a claim before a court of law seek…
18-7800 Rene Antonio Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-justice procedural-obligations rita-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-arguments Can a district court at sentencing fail to respond to a party's non-frivolous sentencing arguments?
18-7801 Calvin Fitzgerald Tannehill v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the Eleventh Circuit misapplied this Court's precedents by denying a certificate of appealability on whether Mr. Tannehill's § 2255 claim reli…
18-7802 Michael Hopson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aid-of-racketeering attempted-murder constitutional-claims criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit insufficient-evidence murder pattern-of-racketeering racketeering-conspiracy Whether the evidence was insufficient to convict the petitioner of racketeering conspiracy and murder/attempted murder in aid of racketeering
18-7804 Denandias Watson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a § 2255 defendant may prove that his ACCA-enhanced or § 3559(c)-enhanced sentence was based on the now-unconstitutional residual clause throu…
18-7812 Raheem Wilcox v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-inference adverse-inference-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-discovery-rule-3:13-3 discovery discovery-rule due-process evidence new-trial-factual-predicate new-trial-standard post-conviction-relief pre-indictment-destruction pre-indictment-destruction-of-evidence retroactive-application teague-v-lane Whether the New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in State v. W.B should be retroactively applied to the petitioner's case
18-7814 William E. Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining standing strickland-standard takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-7817 Andrew Paul Ceballos v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights disparate-impact due-process equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination scotus Whether disparate impact on African Americans should be considered at Batson's third step
18-7818 Marcos Castaneda v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-finding jury-trial mandatory-minimum preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court commits procedural error by basing its sentencing guideline calculation on a discretionary judicial finding by a preponderanc…
18-7821 Darryl Mixon v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment formal-complaint jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-persons jurisdiction-over-subject-matter procedural-defect sentencing standing subject-matter Whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction over the persons and the subject matter of this cause, in absence of a signed formal complaint?
18-7823 Edward Nolan Norwood v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights comity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation Whether it violates the United States Constitution as well as the principles of comity and federalism to treat a prior state drug conviction that is e…
18-7830 Rheuben Johnson v. Kansas Kansas Denied Response WaivedIFP blockburger-test constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy multiplicity same-offense schoonover-test single-statute unit-of-prosecution To determine 'same offense' in a single-statute case, regarding multiplicity that affects double jeopardy, does the directive set forth by the United …
18-7836 Michael Travis Moore v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-crimes general-intent intimidation specific-intent statutory-interpretation Whether federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) because the offens…
18-7838 William Floyd Moore v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause general-intent intimidation specific-intent statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) is a crime of violence under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act's violent fel…
18-7839 Eric Mario Byers v. E. K. White, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals-court case-dismissal civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18-7840 Tommie H. Telfair v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP dismissal-without-merits due-process miranda-v-arizona right-to-remain-silent wiggins-v-smith certificate-of-appealability due-process fundamental-rights judicial-discretion merits-review miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence wiggins-v-smith Whether the lower courts abused their discretion in denying petitioner a certificate of appealability
18-7841 Adekunle Olufemi Adetiloye v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court-files due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard standard-of-review substantial-showing-standard threshold-inquiry Whether a court of appeals can deny a certificate of appealablity without conducting the prerequisite 28 U.S.C 2253(c)(2) threshold inquiry, two-compo…
18-7842 Brian Michael Burton v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP emotional and physical dominion and control over 5th-amendment confidential-informant downward-departure due-process government-misconduct plea-agreement psychological-control sentencing statutory-minimum-sentence Whether a downward departure from a statutory minimum sentence is warranted
18-7843 Patrick K. Gibson v. Jeri Boe, Superintendent, Clallam Bay Corrections Center Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review ninth-circuit sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals error in denying a Certificate of Appealability?
18-7844 Malcolm Jarrel Hartley v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of the fed…
18-7846 Reginald Hough v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment confrontation-clause evidence expert-testimony fifth-amendment lay-witness police-procedure probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-circumstances Was there probable cause for the search warrant?
18-7848 Darrel Fisher v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-7849 Jesus Pacheco Estudillo v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights direct-appeal effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing facts procedural-due-process relevant-facts sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Right To The Effective Assistance was Violated When Counsel Failed to File A Direct Appeal
18-7858 Arif Majid v. Jeff Noble, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof closing-argument constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct religious-prejudice trial-fairness Whether a prosecutor's appeals to religious prejudice in closing argument and throughout trial to inflame the passions of the jury embody animus or of…
18-7861 Gary Don Boyd Graves v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3014 criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion future-earning-capacity future-earnings indigency mandatory-assessment mandatory-special-assessment non-indigent sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether district courts can consider future earning capacity in determining whether a person is 'non-indigent' for the purposes of assessing the $5000…
18-7862 Vincent Beatty, aka Jamaal Beatty, aka Vincent Daward Beatty, aka Mozzi v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion advisory-guidelines criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance sua-sponte upward-variance Whether a sua sponte upward variance sentence is reasonable where the advisory Guideline range accurately reflected the defendant's conduct and prior …
18-7863 Jeffrey Burris v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing due-process firearms firearms-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unregistered Whether a sixty-month sentence for the simple possession of unregistered firearms, without any evidence suggesting the defendant was doing anything il…
18-7871 Earl Vennings, Jr. v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-7874 Richard Booze v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection separation-of-powers standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
18-7878 John Timothy Cannon, aka Mr. JT v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit jurisprudence Whether the interpretation of conspiracy in the Fourth circuit is overbroad, violating the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment departing from th…
18-7880 Terrance Jerome Clarke v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias mental-health plea-bargaining right-to-counsel Were the charges filed at the same time and no other firearm was involved during the offense?
18-7882 Christopher M. Gates v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment handcuffs investigative-detention officer-safety reasonable-suspicion terry-stop use-of-force Whether use of handcuffs is permissible during a mere investigative detention, or 'Terry stop,' where there is a risk to officer safety
18-7883 Daniel Arthur Carter v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause general-intent intent intimidation retroactivity sentencing Whether federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)
18-7884 Paula Villalva-Patricio v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pertinent-information right-to-testify sixth-amendment testify translation-of-proceedings Whether the Defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel when Appellant wished to testify or otherwise introduce pertinent information and her…
18-7886 Akeen Ocean v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure deliberate-elicitation government-informant informant-testimony massiah-doctrine massiah-v-united-states post-indictment-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does 'deliberate elicitation' for purposes of Massiah v. United States occur only in cases where the government has expressly directed its informant t…
18-7898 Latwang Janell Reid El Bey v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion right-to-be-heard standing temporary-restraining-order Did Judge MILTON F. FITCH, JR. err by denying the petitioner the right to a hearing and the opportunity to be heard?
18-7900 Jorge Ernesto Blanco-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal guilty-plea immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-citizen-defendant padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargaining plea-colloquy supervisory-power Whether a trial court commits error when it takes a guilty plea from a criminal defendant when the trial court is on specific notice that defense coun…
18-7903 Albert J. Arrington v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default-judgment due-process ex-parte-communication Fourteenth-Amendment fraud ineffective-assistance judicial-review Jurisdiction procedural-rules Rules-of-civil-procedure Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in finding that the Circuit Court of Henrico did not commit reversible error
18-7905 Christopher A. Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indiana-v-edwards medical-condition medical-resuscitation medication mental-competency pro-se-representation self-representation Does a higher standard exist for measuring competency to represent oneself at trial, than for competency to stand trial
18-7910 Richard Fuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act johnson-v-united-states maximum-imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-sentence sentencing statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Can a prison sentence imposed upon revocation of supervised release ever be substantively reasonable when certain conditions are met?
18-7913 Travis Thomas v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender due-process expert-reports expert-testimony harmless-error jailhouse-call johnson-analysis johnson-v-us sentencing sentencing-error Whether the District Court's failure to conduct the analysis required by the Supreme Court in Johnson v. U.S. violated due process
18-7914 Jay Maurice Tharps v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment anonymous-informant drug-trafficking fourth-amendment leon-exception leon-good-faith-exception partially-rotten-fruit probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in determining that probable cause existed
18-7915 Arthur Sean Warner v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-locational-elements categorical-approach categorical-match categorical-matching criminal-statute-interpretation descamps descamps-v-united-states federal-statute mathis mathis-descamps-standard mathis-v-united-states school-property state-criminal-statute state-statute Did the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court Of Appeals findings result in a decision that was(1) Unreasonable in light of the evidence present…
18-7918 Rutilio Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-924 abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w…
18-7920 Harold A. Habeck, II v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,mandatory-minimums,d criminal-sentencing discretion drug-offense drug-offenses firearms mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums predicate-crime sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation Whether the district court has discretion to consider less than the mandatory sixty month consecutive sentence for a predicate drug offense under 21 U…
18-7921 James Howard Looman, III v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process F.R.A.P.-Rule-22(b) federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit err when it refused to apply 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) and F.R.A.P. Rule 22(b) and follow this Court's commands regarding review of app…
18-7922 Thomas Isaac LaFleur v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-registration firearm-definition national-firearms-act second-amendment staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-freed weapon-classification Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals error in denying the Petitioner's Subject-Matter Jurisdiction claim
18-7927 Tyrone Anderson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington townsend-v-burke Whether trial counsel provided ineffective assistance of counsel as required by the Sixth Amendment
18-7930 Richard S. Button v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP filing-date habeas-corpus legal-interpretation motion-amendment postconviction-relief procedural-rules relation-back standard-of-review state-law timeliness Do the procedural rules in effect at time of filing govern whether an application for state postconviction relief is properly filed?
18-7947 Tyrone Garden v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure dispositive-motion effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pretrial-motion pretrial-motions sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where trial counsel failed to update his research on a dispositive pretrial motion to dismiss before the defendant pleaded guilty, did Garden have the…
18-7949 In Re Reginald Watson Denied Response WaivedIFP 2241-motion career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Watson's 2241 motion for lack of jurisdiction?
18-7954 Stephen Blanton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdictional-claim procedural-default slayton-v-parrigan Whether the Slayton rule bars federal habeas relief for a jurisdictional claim
18-7960 Andracos Marshall v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-forfeiture due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment honeycutt-v-united-states luis-v-united-states pretrial-restraint pretrial-seizure right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitute-assets Whether the Government's pretrial criminal forfeiture and seizure of petitioner's untainted substitute assets under 853 has been invalidated based on …
18-7968 Joseph Ragland v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection postconviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment state-statute Whether a state statute that limits the availability of postconviction relief violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth …
18-7969 Willie Ed Smith v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error Whether Smith's conviction and sentence derived from judicial misconduct
18-7983 Eric Joseph Laurson v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-imputation collateral-review constitutional-entitlement due-process habeas-corpus imputation judicial-review procedural-default state-action state-regulation May procedural default of the review of a claim of constitutional entitlement, which a state regulates to the collateral review venue, be properly imp…
18-7993 Ronald Bedford v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 contractor criminal-law employee-status federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-contracts obstruction-of-justice official-duties postal-service statutory-interpretation trucking-contractor Whether an employee of a private trucking contractor that maintains a contract with the United States Postal Service is a person assisting an officer …
18-8033 Luis Alberto Montalvo Borgos v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-dealer due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plain-error Prosecutor-elicited-testimony-about-witness-fear,c Prosecutor-stated-petitioner-was-known-drug-dealer prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Was the identification of the petitioner unreasonably suggestive?
18-805 Eric S. Strohmeyer v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure clear-error due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss standing standing-doctrine surface-transportation-board third-circuit transportation Was the Third Circuit's failure to address the Surface Transportation Board's jurisdiction a clear error?
18-8080 In Re Charlette Dufray Johnson Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
18-8098 In Re Christopher Hanson Denied IFP due-process government-interference habeas-corpus pcra plea-agreement post-conviction-relief-act statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions timeliness Whether appellant Hanson's PCRA's were timely under 42 Pa. C.S. §9545(b) due to government interference and refusal to release documents
18-8100 Senica Matthew Franklin v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-challenge constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-reversal newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasons-for-granting-the-writ statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Whether Senica Franklin's conviction and sentence should be reversed and set aside based upon newly discovered evidence
18-834 Farzana Sheikh, et vir v. San Joaquin General Hospital Ninth Circuit Denied 28-usc-636 article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process injunctive-relief judicial-procedure magistrate magistrate-referral standing Whether Local Rule 302 (c) (21) of Eastern District of California conforms with 28 U.S.C. § 636 and conforms with Article III Jurisprudence?
18-835 Mario R. Lozano v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk County, et al. First Circuit Denied 11th-amendment 14th-amendment 14th-amendment-enforcement-clause 42-usc-1985-conspiracy 7th-amendment-jury-trial civil-rights congress due-process enforcement-clause fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity Does Congress have the authority to override the States' Sovereign Immunity under the 11th Amendment to the US Constitution?
18-845 Scott M. Seidel v. Century Surety Company Fifth Circuit Denied bankruptcy constitutional-principles crime due-process federal-declaratory-judgment imputation insurance-coverage judicial-review state-court-judgment tort-facts Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in imputing a crime to the defendant without any evidence or trial, in violation of due process
18-848 Courtney Valle Bisbee v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing on her ineffective assistance of counsel claim
18-865 Giovanni Vella v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Third Circuit Denied Response Waived None
18-870 Ilyas V. Ibragimov v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response Waived fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement search-and-seizure seizure seizures unreasonable-search unreasonable-searches vehicle-stop warrantless-search Whether Petitioner's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures was violated when his vehicle was stopped by law enforc…
18-876 Cynthia N. Almond, et al. v. Singing River Health System, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-certification constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment monetary-claims opt-out property-rights rule-23 Whether the District Court erred in certifying the class under Rule 23 on the grounds that Petitioners have a constitutional due process right to opt-…
18-880 SureShot Golf Ventures, Inc. v. Topgolf International, Inc. Fifth Circuit Denied antitrust antitrust-claims article-iii article-iii-ripeness civil-procedure competitor-rights essential-technology market-foreclosure monopolist monopoly patent patent-technology ripeness-doctrine standing Whether the Article III ripeness doctrine bars a competitor's antitrust claims against a monopolist who acquired essential and patented technology to …
18-886 Lillian M. Jones v. Hawaii Residency Programs, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights corporate-fraud due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-procedure private-corporation residency-program state-action state-actor technology Whether citizens should still be afforded protection under the 14th Amendment against state abuses committed when the State disguises itself as a priv…
18-887 California Trucking Association v. Julie A. Su Ninth Circuit Denied california-labor-commissioner employment-classification federal-aviation-act federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act labor-commissioner motor-carrier motor-carrier-preemption motor-carriers owner-operator owner-operator-contracts owner-operators preemption transportation-deregulation transportation-industry workforce-exclusion Did the Ninth Circuit err by holding the FA does not preempt California's interference with contractual agreements between motor carriers and owner-op…
18-889 Dawn Smith, et al. v. Stephen P. Weber Illinois Denied Response Waived appellate-court appellate-court-misrepresentation appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-adjudicative-process illinois-state-law illinois-supreme-court-rule judicial-fairness liberty-interest oral-argument procedural-due-process state-court-procedure state-law Were the Petitioners Smith deprived, without being afforded procedural-due-process, of their federal-constitutionally-protected-liberty-interest in ha…
18-890 David D'Addario, et al. v. Virginia A. D'Addario Second Circuit Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process hemi-group holmes-v-securities-investor-protection-corp probate proximate-causation rico rico-claims standing statutory-interpretation Whether a beneficiary of a probate estate can establish the direct injury necessary to bring a civil RICO claim
18-901 Kaylen DeWayne Simmons v. Texas Texas Denied affirmative-defense affirmative-defenses constitutional-review court-of-appeals due-process due-process,civil-procedure,affirmative-defenses,i factual-sufficiency factual-sufficiency-review impossibility indigency precedent-conflict Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming in part the judgments of the trial court by not performing the constitutionally mandated factual suffi…
18-905 Mastrogiovanni Schorsch & Mersky, P.C., et al. v. Edward Mandel Fifth Circuit Denied bankruptcy comity comity-federalism due-process federalism receivership state-court-jurisdiction state-property-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction Is a federal court authorized to invade a state court's exclusive province to appoint, instruct and control its own appointed receivers, by reinterpre…
18-906 Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion separation-of-powers standing vexatious-litigant Whether the vexatious litigant laws are being used to punish and compel the silence of a property owner in violation of their constitutional rights
18-907 Charles G. Kinney v. Three Arch Bay Community Services District, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion property-rights separation-of-powers standing vexatious-litigant Whether vexatious-litigant laws are being used to punish an attorney who was not a party, pro se plaintiff who ultimately prevailed, defendant, or lis…
18-908 Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived ada-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct separation-of-powers standing takings vexatious-litigant whistleblower Will this Court stop these ongoing violations of both state and federal law?
18-909 Valarie Davis v. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles U.S., LLC Sixth Circuit Denied bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-disclosure civil-claim civil-procedure civil-rights disclosure judicial-estoppel legal-doctrine procedural-bar standing takings Whether a plaintiff who fails to disclose her civil claim in bankruptcy is barred, under the doctrine of judicial-estoppel, from pursuing her claim—ev…
18-910 City of San Diego, California v. Public Employment Relations Board California Denied Amici (2)Response Waived citizens-initiative civil-rights content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech government-code pension-reform preemption prior-restraint public-official viewpoint-based Whether California Government Code section 3505 can preempt an elected public official's First Amendment right to participate in a citizens' initiativ…
18-911 Intermountain Health Care, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Gerald Polukoff, et al. Tenth Circuit Dismissed Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived appointments-clause civil-procedure civil-procedure-9(b) false-claims-act fraud particularity-requirement pleading-standards qui-tam rule-9b standing Whether a court may create an exception to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s particularity requirement when the plaintiff claims that only the de…
18-912 AmeriCare MedServices, Inc. v. City of Anaheim, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived active-supervision antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure commercial-market-participant commercial-participant federal-antitrust-law market-competition municipal-services preemption regulatory-capacity state-action-doctrine state-action-immunity Is a municipality that is not authorized by state law exempt from federal antitrust liability in the ambulance services market?
18-915 Gregory T. Christian v. K. A. Payne, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment audio-evidence coercion consent evidence-suppression fourth-amendment procedural-irregularities qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 suppression-of-evidence warrantless-search Whether producing identification without being requested justifies search for weapons several minutes later
18-922 Abraham M. Fisch v. Texas Texas Denied attorney-fees client-rights criminal-defense-attorney criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines forfeiture sixth-amendment standard-of-review What is the appropriate standard of review for the forfeiture of attorney's fees?
18-925 A-1 Premium Acceptance, Inc. v. Meeka Hunter Missouri Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement arbitrator civil-procedure contract contract-law contract-validity dispute-resolution due-process federal-arbitration-act integral-term judicial-review section-5 statutory-interpretation Whether a statement in an arbitration agreement that a specific arbitrator is to be utilized is an integral term that prohibits application of §5 of t…
18-934 Cynthia Prosterman, et al. v. American Airlines Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived antitrust-enforcement antitrust-pleading civil-procedure combination-conspiracy due-process pleading-standards rule-12b6 sherman-act twombly twombly-standard Should this Court clarify its decision in Twombly to settle § 1 'combination or conspiracy' pleading standards?
18-939 Dinora Ortega-Morales v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived None
18-947 Michael S. Barth v. Township of Bernards, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-timeliness appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals court-rules due-process ex-parte ex-parte-motion in-camera-review judicial-misconduct misconduct procedural-rules Whether if a member of the Court of Appeals sends a party a 'racist' mailing of a court initiated letter, whether intentional or unintentional, does a…
18-950 LaTasha Freeman v. American K-9 Detection Services, LLC, et al. Texas Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-uncertainty political-question political-question-doctrine private-defendants private-plaintiffs split-of-authority standing state-law-tort tort Whether the political question doctrine bars ordinary state-law tort actions by private plaintiffs against private defendants
18-951 T&T Rock Distribution, LLC v. Rutilio I. Velasco Texas Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion arbitration-agreement civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretionary-review federal-arbitration-act litigation-stay motion-to-compel standard-of-review stay-of-litigation trial-court-discretion Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review the denial of a motion to compel arbitration
18-955 Alberto Fernandez v. School Board of Miami-Dade County, Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech garcetti-standard garcetti-v-ceballos public-employee restatement-of-agency scope-of-employment Whether scope of employment is a threshold question for public employee free speech under the First Amendment
18-985 BMP Family Limited Partnership, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process financial-records fourth-amendment internal-revenue-code katz-v-united-states neece-v-irs non-party-clients preemption privacy right-to-financial-privacy right-to-privacy standing summons-privacy tax-summons Whether the issuance of summonses under 26 U.S.C. § 7609 preempts the privacy rights of non-party clients
18-986 Sara Huckaby, et al. v. Frank Halley, as Next Friend of J. H., a Minor Child Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived child-abuse child-welfare civil-rights due-process forensic-interview law-enforcement-procedure prosecutor-directives qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-statute statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals erred in determining that the Petitioners did not act in an objectively reasonable manner in relying on a state statute, …
18-988 RPD Holdings, L.L.C. v. Tech Pharmacy Services, dba Advanced Pharmacy Services Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived asset-assumption asset-valuation assumption-and-assignment assumption-assignment bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-sale bankruptcy-trustees collateral-attack executory-contract finality-of-bankruptcy-sales patent-law patent-license What happens to an undisclosed executory contract under the Bankruptcy Code?
18-994 Dirk Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel physical-helplessness physically-helpless toxicologist toxicology toxicology-testimony Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r…
18-997 Oliver Williams, et al. v. The National Gallery, London, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law jurisdiction property-rights sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction takings wrongful-possession Is a sovereign's, or its instrumentality's, refusal to return property wrongfully held a taking of rights in property in violation of international la…
18M112 Rahim Alfetlawi v. Paul Klee, Warden Sixth Circuit Presumed Complete None
18M113 In Re Twelve Grand Jury Subpoenas Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
18M114 Travis Trevino Runnels v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
18M115 Keith B. Webb-El v. Hugh J. Hurwitz, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. District of Columbia Presumed Complete None
18M116 Felix A. Price v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None