Conference: 2019-03-22

182 cases — 0 granted, 182 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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18-1006 Michael Kevin Adams v. Texas Texas Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment impoundment interrogation law-enforcement minor-offense probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search Michael-Kevin-Adams
18-1007 Assem A. Abulkhair v. Google LLC, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process email-privacy federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-amendment judicial-recusal law-enforcement-overreach privacy-rights recusal religious-discrimination search-and-seizure search-warrant standing Whether the District Judge has the authority to dismiss suit while his/her recusal remains pending and his/her disqualification and impartiality comes…
18-1047 Crystal Wade v. Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived disability-discrimination employment-law indefinite-leave medical-leave prima-facie-case qualified-individual reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act workers-compensation Whether a court of appeals ruling that denied a request for indefinite medical leave as a reasonable accommodation under the Rehabilitation Act underm…
18-1082 Marianne Guzall v. City of Romulus, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-court circuit-court-split civil-rights due-process evidence federal-rules-evidence free-speech hearsay motive-intent party-opponent sixth-circuit whistleblower-retaliation Does the Sixth Circuit Court's split decision determining a statement by a party opponent to be hearsay directly contradict other Circuit Court decisi…
18-1090 Mary Kay Beckman v. Match.com, LLC Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-split civil-liability communications-decency-act immunity internet-immunity negligence publisher-liability section-230 third-party-content tort tort-liability website-immunity Petitioner seeks review of whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes website operators from liability for their own negligent or…
18-1119 The Richman Group of Florida, Inc. v. Pinellas County, Florida Florida Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment class-of-one comparative-analysis difference-in-treatment due-process equal-protection florida fourteenth-amendment legislative-decision property-rights rational-basis selective-enforcement similarly-situated Unequal treatment of similarly situated persons under Florida's equal protection analysis
18-225 Zappos.com, Inc. v. Theresa Stevens, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights concrete-injury cybersecurity data-breach due-process future-injury judicial-standing personal-information privacy standing Whether individuals whose personal information is held in a database breached by hackers have Article III standing simply by virtue of the breach even…
18-498 Maricopa County, Arizona v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process issue-preclusion law-enforcement monell-doctrine monell-liability policymaker-liability sovereign-immunity title-vi violent-crime-control-act Whether Arizona sheriffs are policymakers for counties in law enforcement, whether policymaker liability can be applied to Title VI and § 12601, wheth…
18-533 Contrice Travis v. Exel Inc., dba DHL Supply Chain (USA), et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-conduct eleventh-circuit higher-management kolstad kolstad-v-american-dental managerial-capacity punitive-damages title-vii Whether the proper test for imputing a manager's discriminatory conduct is the 'higher management' standard advanced by the Eleventh Circuit in Dudley…
18-6051 John Phillip Bender v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion aedpa-limitations appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review prima-facie-innocence rule-60b standing Did the lower court clearly err abusing its discretion applying certificate of appealability (COA) law outside Constitutional bounds
18-6218 Desrel Ray Linden v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-question habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure supervisory-power Whether the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in inverting the statutory order of operation by deciding the merits of the appeal and then deny…
18-640 Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. Alabama Alabama Denied Amici (2) attorney-client-relationship conflict-of-interest criminal-defense death-penalty fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment third-party-payment Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to conflict-free counsel
18-6413 Joshua Jackson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 21-usc-841 controlled-substances conviction criminal-adjudication criminal-law due-process federal-statute recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation youthful-offender Is an Alabama youthful-offender adjudication a 'conviction' for purposes of sentencing enhancement under 21 U.S.C § 841(b)(1)(A)?
18-6478 In Re Inzel Gaitor Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-status judicial-review legislative-repeal public-contracts public-service separation-of-powers standing state-agency state-government statutory-construction statutory-provision When legislatures of a state repeal members, employees, and expenses of a state-created agency, can the agency members, employees, and expenses remain…
18-6540 Maha Z. Rayan v. Georgia Georgia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest contempt contempt-order criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-appointment municipal-court-jurisdiction municipal-courts probable-cause state-penal-law uniform-traffic-citation Whether the use of a municipal traffic citation as an initial accusation for a state penal law non-traffic offense is constitutional
18-657 Justin Grimsrud v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights civil-service drug-testing due-process employment employment-law evidence property-interest property-rights Was petitioner deprived of a fair and meaningful opportunity to protect his property interest when he was denied the opportunity to access and examine…
18-6607 Scott Peters v. John Baldwin Seventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment 38-usc-1331 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violations disability-discrimination due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims free-speech habeas-corpus Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28-U.S medical-mistreatment retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs Whether the district court erred in denying plaintiff's claims against the Department of Veterans Affairs, its directors, the hospital staff, the stat…
18-6706 Jeremiah Davis v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-law enhanced-penalties predicate-offense reckless-driving sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Should a crime that can be committed by reckless driving resulting in injury be a predicate offense for the Armed Career Criminal Act and its signific…
18-6710 Myra Tyler v. Main Industries, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower court's decision
18-6717 Lei Yin v. Thermo Fisher Scientific First Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-court-rules federal-courts judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-rights standing summons summons-issuance Whether a pro se litigant shall share the same rights as those represented by lawyers that are protected by the United States Constitution
18-6728 Francisco R. Quintana v. Colorado Colorado Denied IFP constitutional-claims criminal-procedure defense-evidence due-process evidence exclusion-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment materiality-requirement right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment What showing must a defendant make to establish that the erroneous exclusion of defense evidence at trial violated the defendant's Sixth and Fourteent…
18-6740 Lena Lasher v. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy Pennsylvania Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-actions due-process equal-protection fair-notice judicial-review license-revocation perjury pharmacy-board Whether the Pennsylvania Board of Pharmacy violated the Fair Notice/Warning Rule and the Equal Protection Clause in revoking the plaintiff's pharmacis…
18-6789 Delroy McLean v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-115 brady-violation constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary government-official immigration-judge judicial-officer protected-person statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether an immigration judge is a protected person under 18 U.S.C.S. § 115(a)(1)(B)
18-6822 Mark Anthony Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute lesser-included-offense notice-requirement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Does § 851 allow the United States to be excused from the notice requirement when it receives an unexpected and disfavorable result after trial?
18-6834 Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-death-penalty federal-habeas federal-procedure final-judgment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus rule-58 What are the requirements under Rule 58 for a final judgment in district court for a federal death penalty habeas petition under the Eighth and Fourte…
18-6945 William Nathaniel Washington v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence false-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-misconduct miranda-waiver If there exist authentic uncontradicted testimonial evidence in the record of a criminal proceedings that proves that a member of a law enforcement ag…
18-6996 Jonathan R. Curshen v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Was the petitioner denied his substantial rights to access to the courts, due process, and equal protection, when the United States Court of Appeals f…
18-7027 Crystal Nicole Kuri v. Addictive Behavioral Change Health Group, et al. Kansas Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy defamation due-process emotional-distress slander standing Has Haw Stecruke o Unni ation sepired on AN 13 of my Claims?
18-7066 Raymond Jones v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel en-banc-review jurisdiction petition-for-rehearing rehearing rule-60b6 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction wilkins-precedent Whether the district court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to adjudicate Rule 60(b)(6) motion
18-7098 Amos Junior Scott v. Heriberto H. Tellez, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-statute habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective ineffective-assistance ineffective-remedy mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence nonexistent-prior-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement Whether Petitioner is Entitled to Seek Federal Habeas Corpus Relief Under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, From an Erroneous Mandatory Minimum Sentence, That Was Bas…
18-7113 Dewey Hylor v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-offense circuit-conflict criminal-conviction elements-clause florida-robbery mens-rea reckless-mens-rea violent-felony Whether petitioner's prior conviction for Florida robbery is not a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause
18-7140 Tommy Ray Hull, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP chavez-meza-precedent chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion due-process fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-standard mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its standard of review when a district court fails to address arguments of counsel in mitigation of sentencing
18-7152 Yosnel Bonet v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-power federal-prosecution firearm-possession firearms intrastate intrastate-commerce legal-authority possession second-amendment standing supreme-court-review Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional …
18-728 Jacobus Rentmeester v. Nike, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) 9th-circuit circuit-split copyright copyright-law copyright-protection creative-expression intellectual-property judicial-interpretation original-creative-judgments original-judgments photographic-originality photography selection-and-arrangement Is copyright protection for a photograph limited solely to the photographer's 'selection and arrangement' of unprotected elements, as the Ninth Circui…
18-729 Maxwell & Morgan, P.C., et al. v. Martha A. McNair Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure consumer consumer-protection debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa foreclosure judicial-foreclosure security-interest statutory-interpretation Whether the FDCPA applies to foreclosure activity that does not seek payment of money from a consumer
18-7376 Scott Peters v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Seventh Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence standing Whether the records used by the Commissioner as substantial evidence were found to be clearly erroneous
18-7455 Josue Israel Sanchez v. California California Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial government-misconduct presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct wrongful-conviction Whether the wrongful prosecution, conviction, and appeal of an innocent person is legally permissible despite the government's and society's unwilling…
18-7472 Cynthia M. Yoder v. Good Will Steam Fire Engine Company No. 1, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure contract-breach elder-abuse fair-debt-collections-act fraud procedural-violations section-1983 unjust-enrichment Has FRAUD been committed on the Court leading to numerous clear legal errors for unjust enrichment of Appellee?
18-7474 Miguel Gonzalez v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP None
18-7475 Aldona B. v. Nicholas S. West Virginia Denied IFP biological-father child-custody civil-rights custodial-rights custody due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements unwed-parent Whether an unwed biological father who meets none of the statutory requirements preserves the same custodial rights as a parent who fulfills parental …
18-7476 Scott Ash James Zirus v. Sharon Faye Keller, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-section-1983 civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights fee-payment prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights standing writ-of-mandamus When a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 action is construed as a Petition for Writ of Mandamus, is it a 'civil action' within the scope of the Prison Litiga…
18-7477 Ja'Juan Williams v. Dean Minor, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief Was trial counsel ineffective for not raising issue of actual innocence?
18-7478 Lloyd Michael Blair v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-trial post-conviction-relief relief resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Are the sentencing proceedings that were found to be unconstitutional made to be invalid?
18-7481 Olandio Ray Workman v. Robert Perry, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process false-documentation officer-of-the-court standing Is it lawful for an officer of the law and a lawyer, an officer of the court, to knowingly and willfully with corrupt intent deliberately file false d…
18-7487 Kevin Hokenstrom v. New Hampshire Department of Corrections, et al. First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-7491 Scott Anthony Crow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing Did the federal judges in the 8th Cir. Fail to review newly discovered claims
18-7493 Hayward Jackson v. Equifax Workforce Solutions, dba Labor Ready Southwest, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-sufficiency conley-v-gibson due-process federal-causes-of-action judicial-review leatherman-v-tarrant pleading pleading-standards second-amended-complaint supreme-court-precedent Was the Ninth Circuit in conflict with this Court's Decisions in Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit, 507 U. S. …
18-7494 Richard Dernard Bozell, Jr. v. Greg Skipper, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP blackledge-v-allison blackledge-v-perry class-v-united-states constitutional-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-court-jurisdiction guilty-plea-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining procedural-cognizability supreme-court-precedent Whether guilty plea cases are cognizable for federal review
18-7497 Carl Burnie Wellborn v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP fair-cross-section fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness habeas-corpus prejudice procedural-default sixth-amendment structural-error Can reasonable jurists debate whether habeas petitioners asserting procedurally defaulted fair cross-section claims must show actual prejudice or that…
18-7499 Ilirjan Bida v. Sharon Johnson Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure court-decision court-error due-process email-address jurisdiction notice service-of-process standing Why did the District Court of Newark email the decision to the wrong email address instead of bidas|@aol.com?
18-7502 Edjuan Payne v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process mental-fitness mental-health right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sentencing trial-errors Whether the defendant's due process rights were violated by the trial court's failure to conduct a competency hearing despite evidence of the defendan…
18-7503 Abdur Rahim Ambrose v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Amici (1)IFP contemporary-standards-of-decency cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment geographic-arbitrariness racial-arbitrariness Does the death penalty violate the Eighth Amendment?
18-7504 Raphael R. Hamilton v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-court-discretion coercion competency criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue right-to-withdraw standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by not reversing the trial court's order denying petitioner his right to withdrawal of the guilty ple…
18-7509 Antonio Lee Mixon v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights copyright due-process free-speech mail-censorship standing takings Whether prisoners have a First Amendment right to receive copyrighted materials in prison
18-7510 Mark A. Perez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP 42-pa-csa-721-726 collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law direct-review due-process extraordinary-relief original-jurisdiction pennsylvania sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Does the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's original jurisdiction process constitute a process to seek 'other collateral review'?
18-7514 Toni R. Palmer v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals Technology Risk Office Tenth Circuit Denied IFP case-merits civil-procedure complaint-analysis court-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standards judicial-review legal-interpretation pleadings standing summary-judgment Whether the district court and appeals court erred when they granted the defendant's motion to dismiss despite evidence submitted by the plaintiff tha…
18-7516 Joseph Adam Mora v. California California Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-sentencing death-penalty jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt statutory-maximum Does the California death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that any fact, other than a prior co…
18-7520 Benjamin Patrick Lee v. Officer Pirko, in His Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-court-order standing Whether state actors can completely violate the 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendments without liability
18-7524 Roger L. Harrison, Jr., et al. v. Charlotte H. Huggins, et al. Illinois Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process government-seizure indigent-rights necessary-parties petition-clause petition-for-redress petition-rights recusal seizure-of-property standing takings trust-property Whether due process allows the denial of the right to petition the government for redress of grievances due to lack of funds to pay court costs and fe…
18-7529 Andre Almond Dennison v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP 6th-amendment apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights dangerous-crimes dangerous-crimes-against-children due-process enhancement fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Does Arizona's Sentencing Scheme Violate Due Process Clause, & Amendment, And Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348 (2000) When Petitio…
18-7531 John Paul Galbraith v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-3006a 28-usc-2254-rule-8 appeal appointment-of-counsel circuit-justice criminal-justice-act criminal-justice-act-of-1964 due-process evidentiary-hearing indigent-prisoner right-to-counsel Whether a circuit justice has discretion to deny appointment of counsel for an indigent prisoner granted appeal
18-7532 Dale B. Green v. Florida Florida Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process partial-denial presumption-of-unfair-trial pretrial-proceedings right-to-counsel Whether the presumption of an unfair trial applies to the petitioner on the ground that the petitioner suffered a partial denial of his right to couns…
18-7533 Shawn Canada v. Eddie Miles, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing Did Canada receive effective assistance of counsel?
18-7534 Tylon Hudson v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment parolee probable-cause reasonable-belief search-and-seizure warrant Does a Police officer who without reasonable belief that a parolee is inside his residence and repeatedly enters the parolee's unoccupied residence, i…
18-7547 Michael Joseph Mulder v. Nevada Nevada Denied IFP competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty dementia eighth-amendment intellectual-disability memory-loss Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically excludes from the death penalty an individual who, because of a stroke that caused dementia, is functionall…
18-7551 Joel Gomez v. Mary Berghuis, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure contract-formation contract-interpretation contract-law contract-validity due-process equal-protection legal-standards standing state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining the existence of a valid contract under state law
18-7552 Leroy Hayes v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity standing state-courts Whether a state court must hear a case as a matter of federal right when the state court has discretion to decline jurisdiction over the case
18-7553 Elmos D. Hopkins v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury jury-instructions right-to-counsel witness Whether a defendant can be convicted by a jury when two key witnesses (owners of the home) were not allowed to testify
18-7554 Jack Ferm v. Office of the Attorney General of Nevada Nevada Denied IFP attorney-general-misconduct contract-breach contract-damages fair-dealing false-statement gainful-employment good-faith good-faith-and-fair-dealing implied-covenant implied-covenant-of-good-faith-and-fair-dealing plea-agreement restitution Whether the court below erroneously held that a false statement by the Attorney General did not breach the plea agreement or the 'Spirit the contract'…
18-7574 Libby Haines-Marchel v. Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board Washington Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights community-property community-property-law criminal-liability-transfer due-process equal-protection fundamental-right-of-marriage fundamental-right-to-earn-a-living fundamental-rights marriage-rights right-to-earn-living spousal-liability state-licensing Can the transfer of the criminality of one spouse be legally shifted to another innocent spouse, to deny the innocent spouse a state license, despite …
18-7582 Ralph Nicholas Canete v. Chuck Keeton, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the destruction of material evidence by the government violates the right to due process
18-7589 William Lee Judy v. Kathy Williams, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment government-liability qualified-immunity administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-officials government-liability medical-regulations ministerial-duties qualified-immunity Whether the government, its agencies, and employees are entitled to the exception under 28 U.S.C. § 2680(a) and qualified immunity when they fail to a…
18-7661 Philip Walter Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-courts circuit-split diligence diligence-standard judicial-procedure new-evidence pace-v-diguglielmo postconviction-motion proper-filing properly-filed relief-standard time-bar untimely Is diligence in discovering new evidence a condition to filing a postconviction motion or a condition to obtaining relief on that motion?
18-7709 John B. Laschkewitsch, as Administrator for the Estate of Ben Laschkewitsch v. Lincoln Life and Annuity Distributors, Inc., dba Lincoln Financial Group Fourth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals attorneys-fees breach-of-contract civil-rights contract costs diagnostic-disclosure due-process equal-protection insurance insurance-policy policy-contestability producer-agreement standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese…
18-7728 Alphonso Haynesworth v. South Carolina Department of Mental Health, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure-rules due-process equal-protection standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
18-7732 James B. Curry v. Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process obstruction prejudice standing Was Weck's Constitutional Rights Violated
18-774 Anderson News, L.L.C., et al. v. American Media, Inc., et al. Second Circuit Denied antitrust antitrust-law boycott horizontal-agreement horizontal-boycott market-power per-se-rule price-increase sherman-act Whether a horizontal agreement to boycott a supplier can escape per se condemnation under Section 1 of the Sherman Act
18-7770 Michael Paul Bradley v. Georgia Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's conviction should be overturned due to procedural errors in the trial court
18-7780 Joseph Lemoine v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof burden-of-proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt constitutional-rights daubert-standard due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel essential-elements-of-offense expert-witness fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether reasonable jurists could argue that the State failed to meet its burden of proof beyond reasonable doubt
18-7787 Alan William Golder v. Carol Chapdelaine, Warden, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the habeas petition on procedural grounds without reaching the petitioner's constitutional claims
18-7805 Michael Bohannan v. Wesley Griffin Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-rights court-discretion deputy-clerk discretion-abuse due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure indigent-representation legal-access motion-classification reconsideration rule-26(b) standing time-extension Does a court of appeals deputy clerk abuse discretion by refusing to consider appellate procedure rules in a time extension motion decision
18-7808 Michael Duane Wilson v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review claim-splitting due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard ninth-circuit post-conviction state-courts sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Erred in Sanctioning the Ability of Courts to Refashion a Habeas Claims into Various …
18-7829 Joe Homer Mark v. Amy Rabeau Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure counsel-performance custodial-interrogation district-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error miranda-warning procedural-default self-incrimination standing Whether Petitioner Joe Mark's Fifth Amendment Rights were violated
18-7847 Ronell Howlett v. Reed Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2254 procedural-bar rape-shield-law right-to-present-defense state-court state-court-review Is a federal court permitted/required to review a state court's reliance on a procedural bar, when a petitioner claims the application of the facts do…
18-7869 Samuel Deorio v. Vic Flournoy, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 acca-predicate-offenses constitutional-law court-of-appeals habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241-2255 new-rule-of-constitutional-law retroactivity savings-clause second-or-successive-petition sentencing-enhancement successive-petitions unconstitutional-sentence Whether 28 U.S.C. §2255(e) may serve as a failsafe mechanism
18-7875 Lionel Cannon, aka Cannon v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search wiretaps Was Cannon denied his Fourth Amendment rights?
18-7877 Lester Roger Decker v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-performance constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was defendant's attorney's role to fulfill his advisory position to his client ineffective, thus violating client's right to Due Process?
18-7881 Zonta Tavarus Ellison v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alford-plea compulsory-process due-process fair-notice fifth-amendment motion-to-reopen-time rehearing-en-banc right-to-counsel rule-4(a)(6) sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari Did the appeals court infringe upon petitioner's Fifth Amendment due-process rights
18-7887 Rodney Lyle Roberts v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 16th-amendment apportionment brushaber-case constitutional-basis constitutional-interpretation direct-income-tax direct-tax fifth-circuit-precedent income-tax parker-v-commissioner precedent sixteenth-amendment tax tax-law Whether the Fifth Circuit precedent in Parker v. Commissioner becomes unassailable in holding that the Sixteenth Amendment provided the needed constit…
18-7896 Ricardo Montanez-Quinones v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography distribution evidence knowingly-distributed knowledge plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines What constitutes sufficient evidence of knowledge to support two-level enhancement for 'knowingly engaging in distribution' of child-pornography under…
18-7904 Spassky Alcequiecz v. Kelly A. Ryan, Warden First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manslaughter manslaughter-instruction sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied his constitutional right to a fair trial, due to ineffective assistance of counsel
18-7923 Derrick Jones v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure retroactive retroactive-application sentencing-provision substantive-rule-change Could jurists of reason debate whether Louisiana may, consistent with the Due Process Clause's fair notice requirement, judicially invent a new proced…
18-7928 Gilbert Carrasco v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abney-rule appeal bail bail-denial criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction notice-of-appeal Was U.S. District Court, (S.D. Cal.) divested of jurisdiction because of Abney-rule
18-7931 Michael Keith Henley v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure compelled-speech content-neutrality due-process fraudulent-plea-agreement free-speech government-regulation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice private-property public-forum standing Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from requiring private entities to host speech they disagree with
18-7938 Alex Quintana-Torres v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-addiction drug-offense presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether Rifa's presumption of reasonableness is, in practice, effectively binding and not rebuttable, and whether the 15-year, within-Guidelines sente…
18-7941 Trevor Little v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause restitution sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Did the lower courts' Fourth Circuit violate the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution Article I, Section 9, Clause 3, when it still …
18-7943 Robert David Watson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability collateral-review luis-v-united-states new-rule retroactivity section-2255 supreme-court-rule teague-analysis teague-v-lane Whether Luis v. United States is retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review
18-7946 Robert Hawkins v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-speech separation-of-church-and-state standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
18-7948 Cesar Carapia Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
18-7950 Marquette Walker v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law premises-liability search-and-seizure Does nonexclusive possession of a premises serve to establish constructive possession of items found within the premises?
18-7951 Cornell Winfrei McClure v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion bench-trial due-process impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal sua-sponte waiver-of-jury-trial Should a judge recuse themselves from reviewing a motion challenging their rulings made during a bench trial?
18-7952 Stanley D. Partman, aka Goat v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements standard-of-review unconstitutionally-vague Is the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's Standard of Determination for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability in Essence Decides an Appeal Without …
18-7958 John Lohmeier v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was Petitioner's plea of guilty knowingly and voluntarily entered?
18-7964 Rafael Santos v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking federal-officer firearms motion-for-reduction-of-sentence sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court erred when it denied petitioner's section 3582(c)(2) motion?
18-7965 Daniel Stewart v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights counsel-of-choice due-process fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-Claim Miranda-Rights probable-cause Right-to-Counsel rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure standing Suspicionless-Surveillance warrantless-search Warrantless-Searches Whether the warrantless searches of petitioner's person and his motor vehicle were in clear violation of his Fourth Amendment rights
18-7971 Kilunnun Adyden Chivoski v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility admissibility-threshold child-sexual-abuse daubert daubert-standard expert-testimony expert-witness gate-keeping-hearing kumho-tire peer-review psychological-testimony Should a district court be required to conduct a hearing under Daubert to consider the admissibility of expert testimony when the proffered expert adm…
18-7973 Jaime Villa v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery burden-of-proof crime-of-violence criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether there was insufficient evidence to prove Villa guilty beyond a reasonable doubt?
18-7974 Carlos Cruz-Rivera, aka Chiqui, aka Cano, aka Cano Llorens v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal federal-statute first-step-act pending-cases retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), as amended and clarified by the First Step Act of 2018, should apply to this case on direct review
18-7975 William Krisstofer Wolf v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjury perjury-subornation prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision now conflicts with this court's long standing rulings on the known and willing use of perjury of material fact, t…
18-7977 James Mowery v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit first-amendment free-speech internet-access internet-restrictions packingham-precedent packingham-v-north-carolina social-media-access standing supervised-release Whether the Fifth Circuit has failed to apply the Supreme Court's ruling in Packingham v. North Carolina to supervised release Internet restrictions, …
18-7978 Raymond Amerson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act audita-querela clarification criminal-procedure jurisdictional-review relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-morgan Whether an All Writs Act petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1651 (Audita Querela) fills the gap where a defendant has no other appropriate vehicle to pu…
18-7979 Eric K. Watkins v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S:C. 924(c)(3) (B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-7981 Santos Peter Murillo, aka Peter Santos Murillo v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP batson batson-hearing civil-rights discrimination first-amendment fourth-amendment jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment standing triviality-exception warrantless-search Is there a 'triviality' exception to the First Amendment's and Sixth Amendment's public trial requirement, and, if so, was a hearing regarding Governm…
18-7984 James Scott Ervin v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit north-carolina statutory-interpretation violent-felony Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Petitioner's rights to due-process by not following this Court's prior holdings, when it determine…
18-7986 Maurin Chacon v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 794 amendment-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law judicial-review plain-error plain-error-standard rosales-mireles rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-olan Does a amendment violation of 794 warrant a plain error review under Rosales-Mireles
18-7989 Manuel Guerrero v. N. C. English, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to raise arguments foreclosed by erroneous circuit precedent
18-7994 Daniel H. King v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure custody-transfer district-of-columbia due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether someone serving a sentence imposed by the District of Columbia whose physical custody was transferred to the Bureau of Prisons is 'in the cust…
18-7995 Rodney Martin v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error reasonableness-of-sentence section-3553a sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines Did the trial court improperly sentence Mr. Martin and did the appellate court improperly affirm the trial court?
18-7997 Samuel Gregg Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement unconstitutional waiver waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Allen's Plea Agreement
18-8010 Alimamy Barrie v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-retroactivity criminal-sentencing direct-appeal resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner is eligible for resentencing under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(2) when amendments relevant to the case were enacted by the Sentencing Co…
18-8011 Kevin Kerr v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1988 6th-amendment civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech pardon pro-se-appearance psychological-evidence self-representation sixth-amendment standing Does 42 U.S.C. § 1988(a) confer jurisdiction on the respondent, the United States District Court, and the United States Court of Appeals conveying to …
18-8012 Tasha Michelle Blackburn v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-communication criminal-procedure due-process duty-to-advise ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-acceptance plea-bargaining plea-negotiations professional-responsibility sixth-amendment What constitutes communicating a plea, and does counsel have an obligation to recommend accepting a plea, or rejecting a plea and proceeding to trial?
18-8015 In Re Michael Ojegba Agbonifo Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-detention criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings detention due-process indefinite-detention judicial-misconduct legal-representation not-guilty right-to-counsel right-to-trial trial Is it Constitutional for a District Court Judge to Hold an accused in an alleged criminal proceedings indefinitely in detention without TRIAL when the…
18-8019 Bryan Austin v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split coa congress constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the determination by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals with respect to Petitioner's COA application improperly deviated from the mandates of…
18-8025 Michael St. Hubert v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague vagueness Is the definition of 'crime of violence' in the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague?
18-8026 Sergio Ramirez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 92…
18-8028 Ronald Reel v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions reasonable-doubt self-representation speedy-trial Whether petitioner was deprived of his 5th Amendment right to the Reasonable Doubts Clause
18-8031 William Bolden v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Was petitioner sentenced under a statute that violate due process of law under the United States Constitution by permitting a trial court to impose an…
18-8034 Jesse Brewer v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain property-rights standing takings 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-8036 Edmund Boyle v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a court of appeals should remand a habeas action where the lower court fails to fully adjudicate the underlying habeas claims on the merits an…
18-8040 Quinton Bannister v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence dimaya-standard due-process elements-clause johnson-doctrine johnson-v-united-states ovalles-v-united-states section-924c sessions-v-dimaya Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability by relying on Ovalles v. United States
18-8041 Mark Johnson v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP adolescent-culpability age-as-factor age-of-culpability brain-development criminal-procedure de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana roper-v-simmons Whether the Court's rulings regarding when age is a factor in determining culpability apply to those under the age of 25, or is the age lower, but not…
18-8042 Aaron Maurice Blaylock, aka Stephan Blaylock v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-U.S.C-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate residual-clause unconstitutional Should a certificate of appealability have issued after the district court denied as untimely a 28-U.S.C-2255-motion
18-8043 Victor Alanis v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 92…
18-8044 Lois Brooks v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure government-rights judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing sentencing-error substantial-rights Does the government have 'substantial rights' such that actions taken in derogation of them may constitute 'plain error' under Fed. R. Crim. Pro. 52(b…
18-8047 Randy L. Pope v. Steve Franke Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-nullification convictions criminal-procedure disposition due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion nullification re-sentencing relief-standard sentencing state-law Whether the district court must grant relief by adhering to the relief dictated by state law when the state concedes in habeas corpus proceedings and …
18-8048 Darnell D. Owens v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-history due-process federal-law historical-practice judicial-discretion propensity-evidence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit supervised-release Whether the Due Process Clause permits a judge or factfinder to rely on a person's criminal history to conclude that he or she likely committed anothe…
18-8049 Ramon Montero v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit harmless-error harmlessness-standard molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states preserved-error preserved-errors rule-52a sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Is the Fifth Circuit correctly conducting its harmlessness inquiry when reviewing preserved Guidelines-calculation errors arising under Rule 52(a) of …
18-8051 Yeison Valencia Torres v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection
18-8053 Malcolm Roland Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3006a 6th-amendment career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-proceedings notice-of-appeal prejudice sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines Whether ineffective counsel failed to file a notice of appeal and object to career offender sentencing guideline
18-8054 Michael Kenneth Young v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment crack-cocaine-seizure criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-joinder fair-trial firearm-seizure fourth-amendment joinder motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure severance traffic-stop Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in upholding the denial of Petitioner Michael Young's motion to sever his unrelated charges arising out of…
18-8056 Ronald Glick v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief professional-conduct remand sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether petitioner's request for equitable tolling of the statute of limitations period meets the statutory requirement for the issuance of a certific…
18-8058 Joel Elias Sanchez v. Jeffrey A. Beard, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit aedpa constitutional-rights crane-v-kentucky criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion ninth-circuit-review right-to-present-defense self-defense Did excluding this evidence violate Sanchez's clearly established right under Crane?
18-8059 Christopher David Simmons v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g1 alderman-v-united-states bond-v-united-states commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power federal-statute felon-in-possession gun-control national-federation-of-independent-business-v-sebe police-power second-amendment Does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)) exceed Congress's authority to regulate under the Commerce …
18-8065 James Steven Maxwell v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act assault-and-battery categorical-analysis categorical-approach elements-clause force-standard mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states oklahoma-law taylor-precedent Does Taylor's holding that Oklahoma's offense of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon meets the force standard in the elements clause incorrect…
18-8066 Roger E. Magana v. Ron Credio, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel habeas-corpus impartial-jury ninth-circuit sixth-amendment supreme-court-review Does the Ninth Circuit's memorandum decision contravene this Court's rulings affirming the guarantees of effective counsel and an impartial jury for a…
18-8067 Arthur Nop Lew v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions jury-trial self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-by-jury Whether upholding a criminal conviction based on a jury instruction and legal standard that are more favorable to the prosecution than what was actual…
18-8068 Frankie Hill, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction sufficiency-of-the-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-8075 Godwin Oriakhi v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-filing strickland-v-washington Whether Lafler v. Cooper is violated when trial counsel advises a defendant to enter a guilty plea to an indictment that, on its face, violates the Fi…
18-8079 Christopher Loran Bentley v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion notice-requirement relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness upward-departure Whether the district court erred in sentencing Mr. Bentley
18-8083 Reshawn D'Arby Magnificent-El, aka Reshawn D'Arby Phillips v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion compliance criminal-procedure discretion district-court drug-testing due-process knowingly-used-drugs sentencing-conditions supervised-release supervised-release-conditions Whether a district court abuses its discretion in imposing a drug-testing condition on a defendant who never knowingly used drugs, and has otherwise b…
18-8091 Alvin Jakelyn Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof conclusively-apparent-from-the-record direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure standard-of-proof standard-of-review summary-rejection Whether the court of appeals summary rejection of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim on direct appeal by placing the burden on the defendant a…
18-8094 Eric Gros v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-principle due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-of-state-remedies fifth-circuit finality habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-review magistrate-judge report-and-recommendation state-remedies Whether the Magistrate Judge for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when he issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the p…
18-8096 Antonio R. Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court houston-v-lack mailbox-rule notice-of-appeal pro-se timeliness timely-filing Does the presumption of timeliness under Houston v. Lack apply when the petitioner proves timely mailing but the district court did not receive the no…
18-8099 In Re Henry Lee Bryant Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1654 appellate-procedure collateral-proceeding collateral-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation self-representation-right statutory-interpretation Did the Court of Appeals violate 28 U.S.C. § 1654 by refusing to allow Mr. Bryant to represent himself in the appeal of the collateral proceeding?
18-8101 Lawrence Montgomery Foltz v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction military-law military-records property-rights standing takings veterans-affairs Do the chattels and loans of an American soldier come under the jurisdiction of this court's record and receive the full protection of record?
18-8104 Robert William Frazier v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-screening due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-analysis procedural-standard standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the circuit justice supplanted the COA screening procedure with a merits analysis
18-8106 Benjamin Crump v. Delaware Delaware Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification false-testimony fourteenth-amendment wrongful-conviction Whether a conviction obtained through the use of false witness testimony that is unreliable to identify the defendant at trial must be vacated under t…
18-8111 Rossahn Black v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bullcoming confrontation confrontation-clause evidence-admissibility expert-witness forensic-evidence forensic-testimony melendez-diaz melendez-diaz-precedent ninth-circuit-interpretation sixth-amendment testimony Whether this Court's decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts and Bullcoming v. New Mexico created a bright line rule excluding the testimony of an …
18-8113 Troy Arnaud v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client client-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-testify self-representation sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether Arnand was denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel
18-8114 Anthony Boyd v. Joe D. Driver, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence government-transparency legal-standing material-fact standing summary-judgment transparency video-evidence Whether Lack Of Transparency Of Video Evidence By The Government, Standing Alone, Creates A Genuine Issue Of Material Fact In A Civil Action?
18-8115 Kenny Daniel Barrios v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment type-c-plea Whether the failure of counsel to object to inaccurately calculated Sentencing Guidelines is ineffective assistance of counsel
18-8116 Budry Michel v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,federal-habeas,state-court,merits federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing merits parole-eligibility plain-language standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts Whether a state court can treat a federal habeas decision of this Court as a ruling on the merits contrary to the plain language of the decision?
18-8130 Eduardo Segoviano-Briseno v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-interpretation legal-consideration plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement
18-8243 In Re Andre David Leffebre Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether civil procedure rules should be applied to habeas corpus proceedings
18-8254 Eddie Earl Phillips v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender indictment jury-instructions sentencing statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Whether Phillips' Conviction and Sentence stems from a defective indictment, in violation of his due process rights?
18-831 Michael Presley, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process financial-privacy financial-records fourth-amendment internal-revenue-code irs-investigation preemption right-to-financial-privacy-act right-to-privacy tax-summons third-party-summons Whether the court below erroneously held that the issuance of summonses under 26 U.S.C. § 7609 preempts the privacy rights of non-party clients
18-933 Shraddha Patel v. Kirit Patel, aka Kiritkumar Ambalal Patel, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure deadline federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure grace-period notice notice-of-judgment rule-4(a)(5) rule-4(a)(6) time-to-appeal Whether a would-be appellant who missed Rule 4(a)(1)(A)'s deadline to appeal due to a lack of notice of the entry of judgment may seek relief under Ru…
18-943 Fairfield County, Ohio, et al. v. Neil A. Morgan, II, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-procedure fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement officer-safety perimeter-security search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement officers from securing the perimeter of a residence, for officer safety, when conducting a lawf…
18-946 Abigail Arroyo v. Angel M. Torres-Sanchez, et al. First Circuit Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment judicial-discretion property property-rights public-interest standing takings Whether the Petitioner's rights to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, property and due process were violated by the Respondents' alleged deceit, abu…
18-948 In Re Grand Jury Subpoena District of Columbia Denied Relisted (4) 18-usc-3231 28-usc-1330 28-usc-1604 contempt-sanctions criminal-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia jurisdictional-exceptions sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the FSIA grant foreign states sovereign immunity from American criminal jurisdiction?
18-958 Peter P. Mitrano v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals custody custody-order due-process family-court family-law federal-courts jurisdiction legal-dismissal new-hampshire ninth-circuit standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of this action?
18-971 Faye R. Hobson v. James Mattis, former Secretary of Defense Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived ada administrative-exhaustion chevron-deference civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling fmla pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation rehabilitation-act standing title-vii Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be expanded to include a pro se party's mistaken belief about filing deadlines
18-973 In Re Lee Chatfield, et al. Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure civil-procedure-abuse-of-discretion civil-rights district-court due-process emergency-motion equal-protection gerrymandering judicial-discretion judicial-economy jurisdictional-issues mandamus standing stay-of-trial Did the three-judge panel abuse its discretion in denying a stay of trial pending resolution of related cases
18-980 Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection estoppel fourteenth-amendment fraud res-judicata rooker-feldman Whether the District Court's decisions based upon estoppel to dismiss petitioner's civil lawsuit against the State of Maryland violate the Constitutio…
18-990 R. S. Raghavendra v. Jane E. Booth, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-act arbitration-act chevron-doctrine civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act first-amendment fraud judicial-recusal title-vii Whether the dismissal of petitioner's EEOC retaliation claims without allowing for agreed arbitration violates the Federal Arbitration Act or civil ri…
18-998 Sandra Waite, as Personal Representative of the Estate of John Waite, Jr. v. Union Carbide Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived asbestos asbestos-liability asbestos-litigation civil-procedure corporate-registration due-process forum-selection in-state-causation mesothelioma personal-jurisdiction product-liability products-liability specific-jurisdiction three-prong-test Whether the circuit court erred when it ignored the three-prong analysis the Court has repeatedly set forth for analyzing specific jurisdiction and, i…
18A738 Joachim Dressler v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County Wisconsin Presumed Complete None
18M117 Vincent E. Reed v. Florissant County, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
18M118 Shawn David Lockhart, Jr. v. Georgia Georgia Presumed Complete None
18M119 Jessica Wang v. California California Presumed Complete None
18M120 Jorge Eliecer Bueno-Sierra v. United States Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None