Conference: 2019-03-29

159 cases — 0 granted, 159 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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18-1012 Patrick Lafferty, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. California Denied attorney-fees california-consumers-legal-remedies-act consumer-legal-remedies-act consumer-protection consumer-protection-act federal-trade-commission holder-rule implied-cause-of-action preemption private-cause-of-action private-right-of-action unfair-or-deceptive-acts Whether the Holder Rule" implies a new private cause of action and whether the "Holder Rule" cap preempts the California Consumers Legal Remedies Act"
18-1030 United States, ex rel. Thomas A. Berg, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived energy-savings-performance-contract false-claims-act government-knowledge materiality scienter statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements utility-cost-savings Are guaranteed savings' which will actually result in higher aggregate utility costs true 'savings' under 42 U.S.C. § 8287(a)(2)(B)?
18-1032 Robert Steven Mawhinney v. American Airlines, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived air-carrier-employee air21-complaint air21-discrimination air21-discrimination-complaint arbitration-provision department-of-labor dol-investigation employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-exemption ninth-circuit-error pre-dispute-arbitration pre-dispute-arbitration-provision settlement-agreement statutory-federal-regulation statutory-interpretation Determining whether an air carrier employee's AIR21 discrimination complaint can be subject to a pre-dispute arbitration provision
18-1046 Virginia Callahan, et al. v. Pacific Cycle, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-ruling hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review Standard-of-review-for-hearsay-rulings
18-1051 James Dickey v. City of Boston Inspectional Services Department First Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1443 42-usc-3617 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-removal civil-rights-removal-act court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction remand remand-standard removal statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred when it concluded that removal was inappropriate under the Civil Rights Removal Act, 28 U.S.C…
18-1066 Tracy Chang and Howard Hsu v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-defense criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense good-faith-reliance jury-instructions search-warrant standing tax-fraud Whether a court must instruct the jury on a criminal defendant's good-faith reliance on professional tax advice as a defense, the scope of discretion …
18-1080 Anderson Living Trust, fka The James H. Anderson Living Trust, et al. v. WPX Energy Production, LLC, fka WPX Energy San Juan, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action class-certification federal-rules-civil-procedure final-judgment microsoft-v-baker mootness settlement-agreement standing tenth-circuit Whether plaintiffs who settle their individual claims may appeal an earlier denial of class certification under Microsoft v. Baker
18-1088 Kamran Asghari-Kamrani, et al. v. United Services Automobile Association Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 constitutional-grant constitutional-power judicial-exceptions patent-act patent-eligibility statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-test Whether the Court's 'judicial exceptions' test for patent eligibility is unconstitutional and deviates from the plain language of Section 101 of the P…
18-1100 Wayne D. Ramsay v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure deficiency deficiency-interest interest internal-revenue-service jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax tax-court tax-law Does the U.S. Tax Court have jurisdiction to determine deficiency interest assessed by the Internal Revenue Service?
18-1101 Classic Cab, Inc. v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights dormant-commerce-clause emergency-rulemaking mootness preexisting-contracts regulatory-taking res-judicata statutory-requirement Is the use of illegal emergency rulemakings in the absence of any objectively cognizable emergency resulting in the complete elimination of an industr…
18-1102 Askia Cuff v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response Waived abandonment coercion counsel-withdrawal criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment voluntariness voluntary voluntary-waiver withdrawal Was Appellant's waiver of his Sixth Amendment right to trial, pursuant to a plea agreement, freely and voluntarily made or the product of coercion — t…
18-1105 Samuel Pierce v. Yale University, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived affirmative-action civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection higher-education race-based-discrimination stare-decisis university-admissions Whether the Court should overrule its holdings in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke and Grutier v. Bollinger that professional school a…
18-1107 Charles Chandler v. Vermont, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lackawanna ninth-circuit strickland-standard tenth-circuit Is the Exception for Habeas Corpus Custody under Lackawanna valid law as affirmed by the Ninth, Tenth, and Fifth Circuits?
18-1123 Southern Trust Metals, Inc., et al. v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived bank-of-america-v-city-of-miami commodity-exchange-act commodity-futures-trading-commission dura-pharmaceuticals-v-broudo foreseeability industry-ban judicial-injunction lifetime-industry-ban loss-causation proximate-cause reliance separation-of-powers Whether foreseeability and reliance alone, without any proof of loss causation, satisfy § 13a-1(d)(8)(A)'s proximate cause requirement, in contraventi…
18-1124 Stephens Institute, dba Academy of Art University v. United States, ex rel. Scott Rose, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived department-of-education escobar escobar-standard false-claims-act false-claims-act-fca federal-financial-aid financial-aid incentive-compensation-ban incentive-compensation-ban-icb materiality materiality-standard universal-health-services-v-escobar Alleged failure to disclose noncompliance with the incentive compensation ban (ICB) was material to the Department of Education's decision to make fed…
18-1126 Mufasa Wilson Sejour v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution hobbs-act interstate-commerce jurisdictional-reach local-business robbery sentencing Robbery-of-local-gas-station-for-$200-prosecuted-under-Hobbs-Act
18-1127 SpeedyPC Software v. Archie Beaton Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived affidavit-sampling affidavits class-certification consumer-fraud credibility due-process implied-warranty individual-issues sampling Proper certification of nationwide class for implied warranty and consumer fraud claims despite individual issues
18-1167 Sam Francis Foundation, et al. v. Sotheby's, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-preemption discretionary-standard federal-copyright-act federal-copyright-law federal-jurisdiction legal-standard preemption procedural-interpretation state-statute uniformity Where an action is brought under a state statute preempted by section 301(a) the Copyright Act of 1976
18-5135 Mark Francis Honish v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation tolling Was Honish's first state habeas writ 'application' properly filed within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(2), and required to be tolled?
18-556 Kansas v. Charles Glover Kansas Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 4th-amendment fourth-amendment habitual-violator investigative-stop law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion registered-owner traffic-law traffic-laws vehicle-registration vehicle-stop Whether an officer may reasonably suspect the registered owner of a vehicle is driving the vehicle absent information to the contrary
18-5664 Chan Cheeseboro v. Little Richie Bus Service, Inc. Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP accident-report civil-procedure deposition discovery district-court due-process evidence false-testimony judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct legal-standing standing witness witness-testimony Why the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York would allow the law firm of Lewis Bris Bois Bisgaard and Smith LLP. allowed …
18-579 Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Judy Schurke, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-requirement civil-procedure collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement federal-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act labor-preemption labor-relations ninth-circuit-ruling preemption railway-labor-act state-law-claim state-law-claims Whether federal courts lack authority to inquire into the nature and scope of an alleged state law claim in determining whether resolution of that cla…
18-5881 Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. The Hoopskirt Lofts Condominium Association Pennsylvania Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights condominium-law constitutional-violations due-process fair-housing-act fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights racial-discrimination Whether the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act violates the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments and the Fair Housing Act
18-608 Capital Medical Center v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. District of Columbia Denied acute-care-hospital employee-rights informational-picketing labor-relations national-labor-relations-act nlrb private-property private-property-rights section-7-rights unfair-labor-practices Whether the National Labor Relations Board's framework for employee informational picketing at acute care hospitals
18-6261 Ilich Vargas, aka Ilich Ernesto Vargas Romero v. John McMahon Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct pro-se pro-se-petition procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether a district court magistrate acts in excess of her discretion and outside the bounds of reason during the initial screening of a pro-se petitio…
18-6263 Ilich Vargas v. John McMahon, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-complaint constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct pleading pro-se-litigant recusal screening section-1983 standing Whether a district court judge and a magistrate conducting a 28 U.S.C. § 1915 IFP screening acted on an excess of discretion and beyond the limits of …
18-6547 Christopher Brooks v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act
18-6747 Gibran Richardo Figueroa-Beltran v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure divisibility-analysis divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-courts federal-divisibility-doctrine federalism mathis-doctrine mathis-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-courts state-statutes three-part-test When applying the federal divisibility doctrine to state statutes, may federal courts terminate the three-part test set forth in Mathis v. United Stat…
18-682 Manuel Enrique Santana v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied aggravated-identity-theft appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federalism identity-theft means-of-identification name statutory-interpretation Whether the use of a name, without more, constitutes the use of a 'means of identification of another person' under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A
18-6823 James Douglas Williams, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment title-vii Was the Plaintiff's Fourteenth Amendment and Title VII civil rights compromised or violated?
18-6926 James Valentine v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement drug-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals commit error in applying 21 U.S.C. §851 sentence enhancement?
18-6936 Anthony Bernard Harris v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a § 2255 defendant may prove that his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the now-unconstitutional residual clause through a process of elimin…
18-694 Derek T. Williams v. Merit Systems Protection Board, et al. Federal Circuit Denied appeal-rights civil-rights current-continuous-service due-process federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board preference-eligible united-states-postal-service veterans-rights Whether a preference-eligible veteran maintains 'current continuous service in the same or similar positions' under § 7511(a)(1)(B) when the agency an…
18-696 Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-SLAPP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment free-speech heightened-pleading investigative-journalism protected-speech Should the Ninth Circuit have applied the anti-SLAPP statutes?
18-7013 In Re E. Edward Zimmermann Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause congress constitution constitutional-interpretation federal-authority federal-government interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce legislative-interpretation regulatory-scope state-governments state-powers Does Article One of The Constitution of The United States (The Constitution) say, 'We the people grant to ... The Congress of the United States the co…
18-7241 Mary-Ann Bernadette Kerrigan v. QBE Insurance Corporation Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith-investigation breach-of-contract civil-rights consumer-protection criminal-activity criminal-damages criminal-law due-process insurance insurance-coverage insurance-investigation insurance-regulations procedural-error property-damage property-rights statute-of-limitations Whether QBE insurance improperly denied coverage for insured damages caused by criminal activity
18-7326 Mark Anthony Soliz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP certiorari-standard due-process federal-habeas-review federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation plain-statement-rule procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-determination state-court-proceedings Whether this Court should grant certiorari to remand this case to the Fifth Circuit because the Fifth Circuit misapplied this Court's 'plain statement…
18-7360 Peter Mathis, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment grand-jury insufficient-evidence sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation Did Congress' enactment of 18 USC § 3742(a) allow for the review of an otherwise final sentence if a defendant could show a violation of law?
18-7548 David Abiodun K. G. B. Onafeko v. Great Britain, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP appellant-rights civil-rights district-court due-process human-rights international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-venue standing treaty united-nations Whether the Appellant is entitled to rights afforded him under the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights whilst he is residing in the United Stat…
18-7549 Bonnie Robles v. Brookwood Terrace Apartments Kansas Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-fairness lower-court-rulings procedural-violations statutory-procedure Why should it be lawful for the lower court to ignore 'STATUTORY PROCEDURE' violations by the Respondents during a lower court hearing and then questi…
18-7568 Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida Florida Denied IFP co-defendant constitutional-review death-penalty equal-protection equal-protection,death-penalty,sentencing,retroact hurst-v-florida mccloud-v-state retroactivity ring-v-arizona sentencing-disparity Whether Mr. Shere's case is no longer one of the most aggravated and least mitigated following Hurst v. Florida and McCloud v. State
18-7569 Paul William Scott v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied IFP codefendant-comparison constitutional-proportionality cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection sentencing-disparity Whether Florida's refusal to consider the disparity between the 15-year prison term of his equal or more culpable codefendant and Scott's death senten…
18-7583 In Re Bill Herron Dismissed IFP adjudicatory-procedures administrative-procedure deprivation-of-property due-process judicial-review logan-v-zimmerman-brush-co mandamus missouri-administrative-procedure-act missouri-law property-interest property-rights Where the District Court has repeatedly refused to address or adjudicate claims raised by a party, in this and other cases filed by Missouri Prisoner'…
18-7590 Joshua Jacobs v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-and-impartial-jury fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-selection trial-counsel trial-procedure voir-dire When trial-judge-imposed limitations on voir dire interfere with trial counsel's ability to identify veniremembers whom may be challengeable for cause…
18-7595 Gabriel Robles v. Brookwood Terrace Apartments Kansas Denied IFP administrative-error civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy court-procedure due-process fraud housing-rights judicial-misconduct legal-conspiracy property-rights standing Did lower court personnel in this matter give the Petitioner erroneous instructions knowing beforehand that the higher courts of this State would not …
18-7596 In Re Robert F. Russo Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-overreach legislative-action legislative-overreach procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation successive-petition successive-petitions Has the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals arrogated its own form of legislative action concerning a Petitioner's request for 'Leave'' to commence a suc…
18-7597 Carlos E. Ponce v. D. Baughman, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit-court-of-appeals fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-showing sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the issuance of a certificate of appealability based on the decision that the petitioner d…
18-7603 Raymond Zayas v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights crawford-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether this Court should vacate the Third Circuit's Order denying a Certificate of Appealability and remand so the Third Circuit can apply Martinez-v…
18-7604 Jacques Paul Villafana v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights confidentiality confidentiality-statute due-process mailroom-search medical-records medical-records-privacy prisoner-rights privacy privacy-rights veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Whether privacy rights extend to a prisoner's military medical records
18-7610 Michael Colbaugh v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP equitable-exception federal-habeas-corpus federal-writ habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-writ texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-court-of-criminal-appeals trevino-exception trevino-v-thaler Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruling denying Petitioner a second Writ of Habeas Corpus is in error
18-7620 Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County Jail, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights competency criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eleventh-amendment immunity mental-illness monetary-damages personal-involvement rational-understanding section-1983 standing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that …
18-7622 Kendrick Bernard Demus v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP accomplice-witness accomplice-witness-rule criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Whether the prosecutor engaged in prosecutorial misconduct by having the petitioner's codefendant testify that he was not promised any leniency in exc…
18-7624 Mario Griffin v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-law illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-integrity manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice sentence-enhancement sentencing Does the sentence imposed constitute an illegal sentence under federal law and represent a manifest injustice calling in question the integrity of the…
18-7625 Thomas Florence v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction sentencing standing Can the sites of the United States government maintain a valid conviction based on a DNA report that does not prove beyond a reasonable doubt to suppo…
18-7629 Calvin E. Barnett v. Joe M. Allbaugh, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process property-rights standing takings civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its ruling on the legal issues involved in this case
18-7630 In Re William W. Frey Denied IFP appeals-review civil-rights court-duty due-process fraud-upon-the-court judicial-fraud perjury procedural-misconduct standing stare-decisis tainted-testimony testimony-integrity Can a conviction or civil judgment stand on tainted/perjury testimony?
18-7631 Jerry Haley v. Blair Leibach, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-proceedings procedural-default trevino-v-thaler Whether the United States District Court decision that Mr. Haley cannot establish cause to excuse the procedural default of his substantial claims of …
18-7633 Michael Lynn Heard v. Scott Solomon, et al. Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing supremacy-clause title-42-usc-1983 Whether Section 16-123-105 of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution by denying this Co…
18-7636 Ernest Lee Glover, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 26-usc-2244 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review statutory-interpretation Does a court of Appeals violate Due Process and Equal protection of law by applying 26 USC §2244(d)(1) to deny review of G.0.A. Challenging District c…
18-7637 Fidencio Valdez v. Texas Texas Denied IFP capital-case capital-case-review-habeas-corpus-due-process-equa criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus mccoy-claim mccoy-v-louisiana standing texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-law Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas misapplied this Court's decision in McCoy v. Louisiana
18-7640 Donna J. Hockman v. Phyllis Baskerville, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied IFP None
18-7641 Arturo Huerta v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing Whether the natural and probable consequences of a criminal act can support a conviction for second-degree murder under the 'natural and probable cons…
18-7643 Billy Leon Kearse v. Florida Florida Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State to death-sentence…
18-7651 Eric Steve Anderson v. California California Denied IFP antagonistic-defenses conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fair-trial jury jury-trial severance severance-motion Did this trial court's denial of petitioner's severance motion as to co-defendant and its subsequent acquittal of co-defendant on the conspiracy charg…
18-7653 Lonzo Bonner v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP brady-material due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct Whether petitioner was deprived of his state and federal constitutional right to a fair trial and due process of law
18-7655 Michael R. Spengler v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-standard civil-rights coercion constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process miranda-warnings police-lineup undercover-operations witness-identification Whether the widespread policy of the L.A. Superior Court and the L.A. Sheriff's Department, known as the Perkins Operation, which allows undercover ag…
18-7657 Devi Smith v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel defense-witnesses direct-review effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial Was the petitioner deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel at trial?
18-7658 Julius Darius Jones v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juror-bias post-conviction post-conviction-review racial-prejudice sixth-amendment Whether newly-discovered evidence establishes that racial prejudice influenced the decision of at least one juror to convict Mr. Jones and sentence hi…
18-7659 Adolph Lee Hardwick v. California California Denied IFP None
18-7665 Robert Tommy Garrett v. California California Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-provision double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-interpretation lesser-included-offense multiple-convictions multiple-punishments procedural-issue statutory-provision Whether the trial court's erroneous failure to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of law and the defendant's right to a jury trial viola…
18-7671 Ada A. Gonzalez v. Grant Maloy, Clerk Florida Denied IFP alimony child-custody child-support civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations domestic-violence due-process family-law injunction pro-se standing Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a state court to provide a hearing before issuing a domestic violence injunction agains…
18-7673 In Re Roda Hiramanek Denied IFP access-to-courts ada-accommodations civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection federal-court-procedure judicial-interference judicial-misconduct standing Question not identified
18-7676 Louis Hill v. Cynthia Link, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus legal-error reasonable-jurists standard-of-review standing substantial-showing third-circuit Does the Third Circuit Court of Appeals denial of a Certificate of Appealability in the instant matter constitute legal error given it is debatable am…
18-7683 Deandre Anderson v. Daniel Lesatz, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment miranda-rights new-evidence post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief probable-cause standing statute-of-limitations trial-errors wrongful-conviction Does the cases stated apply to this case?
18-7685 Michael E. Bargo, Jr. v. Porter County, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-compliance county-treasurer due-process indiana-statute property-tax standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether Petitioner Michael E. Bargo Jr.'s property tax payments submitted to the Porter County, Indiana Treasurer in 2011 and 2012 were properly and l…
18-7686 In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge mandamus-prohibition national-importance separation-of-powers standing Whether the issues presented are important and beyond the particular facts and parties involved, whether there exists a conflict between courts of app…
18-7688 Vincent Johnson v. United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Sixth Circuit Denied IFP appeal-proceedings appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure coa-process due-process federal-appeals integrity-of-proceedings integrity-of-process judicial-review procedural-motion rule-60(b) rule-60b standing Whether a R. 60(b) motion can be first presented at the Federal Appeals level to attack a defect in the integrity of the COA process of the appeal pro…
18-7691 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP america-invents-act civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-grants due-process judicial-review patent patent-prosecution-history-estoppel patent-reexamination standing takings Whether the District Court and Circuit Court Judges have a duty to abide by the Constitution and rule per the Law of the Case and Law of the Land
18-7703 Nathan Smith III v. Sherry Pennywell, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 2254(d)(2) cumulative-error de-novo-review deference due-process fact-finding fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review unreasonable-determination Did the CCA so stretch the facts in this case so unreasonably that no deference could be possible to its interpretation of what occurred in the taco r…
18-7704 In Re Adem Albra Dismissed Response WaivedIFP None
18-7708 Philip Eberhard Koebel v. Stevan Chandler, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 11-usc-109e attorney-discipline automatic-stay bad-faith bankruptcy-code chapter-13 debtor-attorney-discipline debtor-eligibility dismissal homestead-exemption Whether a bankruptcy court contravenes the Bankruptcy Code
18-7710 Jose Garcia Mejia v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-processing aedpa constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-error Were Petitioner's constitutional Rights violated during trial?
18-7718 Joseph Gant v. Gloria Peterson Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Whether the appellate court erred in upholding a city ordinance or state/federal statute as constitutional
18-7719 Cesar Gomez v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment-rights standing texas-penal-code Whether Texas Penal Code § 21.02, is Constitutional under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution?
18-7729 Earnest S. Harris v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP attorney-discipline civil-rights court-rules disbarment due-process election-law equal-protection habeas-corpus incarceration professional-conduct suspension voting voting-rights Is the State of California's and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's involation of the U.S. Constitution's Amendment 3 by pr…
18-7730 Clark Derrick Frazier v. Randy Lee, Warden Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state's actions
18-7761 William James Harris v. David Baughman, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-7793 Amos Chasson, aka Roee Alias, aka Roee Hanson v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-7810 James Traxler v. Sherry Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-analysis merits-review sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Sixth Circuit's inquiry in denying petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability was coextensive with a merits analysis
18-7811 Ronald Bishop Thompson v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-testimony cell-site-location cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure stored-communications-act warrant-requirement Did trial counsel perform ineffectively at Petitioner's second trial
18-7819 Sazar Dent, aka Cesar Augusto Jimenez-Mendez v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-7826 Curtis R. Leachman v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-determination jury-instruction jury-instructions michigan-self-defense-act psychological-expert self-defense self-defense-statute Was petitioner denied the right to compulsory process when the trial court failed to grant funds for a psychological expert to aide the jury in determ…
18-7831 Curt Lockett v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mandamus sentencing standing Should a circuit court be legally bound to hear a petitioner's motion to correct an illegal sentence after the petitioner has been barred from that co…
18-7854 Josiaha R. Wills v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts accessibility civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights due-process language language-rights standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lack of effective communication accommodations during legal proceedings
18-7866 King Grant-Davis v. South Carolina Office of the Governor, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-procedure americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights due-process federal-statute procedural-rights property-interest rehabilitation-act vocational-rehabilitation Whether an individual with a disability has a protected liberty or property interest in vocational rehabilitation services
18-7870 Jeremiah W. Balik v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment armed-forces-status civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-bias judicial-review removal removal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment Whether harmful legal error occurred in the lower court proceedings
18-7872 Steven Torres v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights guidelines habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit upward-departure Did the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erroneously den…
18-7929 Robert L. Burns, Jr. v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error sixth-circuit standing united-states-supreme-court Are the sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, and other Circuit Courts by denning a Certificate of Appealab…
18-7937 Jaques J. Sullivan v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dementia due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice sixth-amendment standing Did the lower courts err in dismissing the petitioner's claim of actual conflict of interest due to trial counsel's dementia, which resulted in ineffe…
18-7944 Jerkeno Wallace v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence judicial-discretion non-testifying-defendant remorse remorse-consideration right-to-silence sentencing sentencing-error Was there an error by the court at sentencing when court considered observations of the non-testifying defendant as basis of proving no remorse
18-7972 Victor D. Vickers, Jr. v. Missouri Missouri Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP alibi alibi-evidence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-discovery-sanctions discovery discovery-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment taylor-v-illinois willful-violation Whether the exclusion of alibi evidence that could prove a defendant's innocence, as a sanction for an uncalculated discovery violation, is permitted …
18-8089 Lattrell Anthony Morris v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-due-process court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts gvr habeas-corpus procedural-review rule-60b standing summary-denial summary-disposition Whether the Certificate of Appealability standard can be consistently applied when petitioners are denied relief under Rule 60(b)
18-8095 Enrique Gamino-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant should receive retroactive application of sentencing guidelines under 18 USC 3582(c)
18-8107 Dheadry Loyd Powell v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-error drug-quantity due-process grouping grouping-of-counts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-1b1 ussg-calculation Did the District Court err with its finding of a new inaccurate drug quantity?
18-8117 Brandon Pete v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-proportionality juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana offense-level-43 sentencing-guidelines title-18 May a juvenile convicted as an adult of a non-premeditated homicide be sentenced to life-without-parole under Offense Level 43 and bear the burden to …
18-8131 Adelfo Pamatmat v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights drug-quantity evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel whether-petitioner-received-effective-assistance-of-counsel
18-8133 Daryl Mingo v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining drug-trafficking due-process firearm-offense firearms plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-construction When Congress enacted and amended 18 U.S.C. Section 924(G)(1)
18-8139 Louis A. Hardison v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-procedure-forfeiture due-process federal-adoption federal-jurisdiction forfeiture in-rem-jurisdiction ineffective-counsel missouri-forfeiture-laws missouri-statute state-federal-jurisdiction state-law turnover-order Whether Missouri statute RSMO 513.607-613.647 provides exclusive in rem jurisdiction over seized property even when state and local government fail to…
18-814 Maurice Walker, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Calhoun, Georgia Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (4) bail bail-policy civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights misdemeanor poverty pretrial-detention Whether heightened scrutiny under the Fourteenth Amendment applies to a government policy that keeps misdemeanor and traffic-offense arrestees in jail…
18-8143 Stephen Talbert v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process fraud fraudulent-misrepresentation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-trial voluntariness Can a defendant voluntarily and intelligently enter a plea where counsel fraudulently misrepresents a key fact
18-8145 Desmond Farmer v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-782 assault criminal-classification criminal-history drug-abuse drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection family-member judicial-discretion non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction violent-offender Whether the court erred in deeming the petitioner as a 'violent offender' instead of a 'drug abuser' and using that as a reason to deny a sentence red…
18-8156 In Re Dennis Bowden Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing united-states-v-watts Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado has been or should be made retroactively applicable to ca…
18-8159 Phillip Camillo-Amisano v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-crisis constitutional-violation due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice strickland-standard supreme-court Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly deny a Certificate of Appealability (COA), violating due process in a manner that conflicts …
18-8160 Paul Wagner v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conflict circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-precedent mickens-v-taylor ninth-circuit sixth-amendment supreme-court-interpretation united-states-v-hanoum Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision conflicts with other circuit courts and Supreme Court precedent on the issue of actual conflict between a defenda…
18-8162 Eric V. Bartoli v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-recusal mandate-recall sentencing stare-decisis Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals go against Supreme Court precedent, its own stare decisis, and create a circuit split by failing to recall its ma…
18-8165 Michael J. Galvan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
18-8166 Bruce Dwayne Winston v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-data evidence-admissibility pretextual-stop reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure terry-stop unlawful-search-and-seizure Did the District Court err in admitting evidence obtained from an illegal Terry/pretextual stop in violation of the 4th Amendment?
18-8167 Frederick H. Banks v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights competency due-process error-correction indian-law standing tribal-sovereignty Did the Appeals Court err in failing to find that sound reasons existed for filing the error correction motion?
18-8168 Billy Long v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus hearing-requirement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-fact plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief procedural-error withdrawal-of-plea Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's amended PCRA petition without a hearing
18-8169 In Re Alfredo Aguirre Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado has been or should be made retroactively applicable to ca…
18-8171 Omar Alarcon Fuentes, aka Omar Fuentes Alarcon, aka Omar Ramales Quintero v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel false-testimony grand-jury grand-jury-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial right-to-counsel uncorroborated-admission uncorroborated-extrajudicial-admission Whether petitioner's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel was violated
18-8172 Corinthian Bostic v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-withdrawal conflict-of-interest due-process fifth-amendment indigent indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance motion-to-withdraw pre-trial-hearing pre-trial-motion right-to-appeal Did the pre-trial judge abuse its discretion by denying Bostic's appointed attorney's motion to withdraw where Bostic and his trial counsel had a conf…
18-8177 Julia Augusta Constan Macri v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deviation fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illinois-v-caballes law-enforcement original-purpose reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Whether under the Fourth Amendment the reasonable articulable suspicion necessary to extend a traffic stop must be formed before the officer's deviati…
18-8181 Feliciano Soto-Lugo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-leniency district-court-discretion due-process judicial-response preservation-of-error reasonableness reasonableness-objection sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review Must challenges to the district court's failure to respond to a defendant's non-frivolous grounds for leniency be preserved by a separate 'reasonablen…
18-8183 Gregory Frank Sperow v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-fairness government-breach government-misconduct plea-agreement property-rights rule-11 waiver waiver-provision Whether the government can breach a Rule 11(c)(1)(c) plea agreement concerning the return of seized properties and then rely on the agreement's waiver…
18-8185 Anthony Alexander Ferrari v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-overbreadth fourth-amendment liberty-deprivation overbreadth overbroad plain-error probation-officer statutory-reasonableness supervised-release vague vagueness Whether it is plain error to require as a condition of supervised release that a defendant permit a probation officer to visit the probation officer a…
18-8186 Kirby Gant v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit inevitable-discovery inventory-search plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that the automobile exception applied when the district court made no findings that the vehicle was read…
18-8187 Kelley Toney v. David Stock, Warden Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-department due-process sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation supervised-release Should a convicted person be fully admonished at sentencing?
18-8190 Edgar Alonso Pineda-Pineda v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a prior conviction must be alleged in the indictment before a defendant is subjected to enhanced punishment under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)
18-8195 Malcolm Bolden v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
18-8198 Brandon Lisi v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure curcio-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-challenge whether-petitioner's-guilty-plea-was-involuntary
18-8205 Elamin Bashir v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process individualized-jury-finding jury-finding jury-instructions mandatory-minimum sentencing Whether the mandatory minimum sentence was improperly imposed for drug-trafficking conspiracy, because individualized jury finding as to quantity of d…
18-8210 Mahogany Taquilla Alexander v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-discretion Did trial court abuse discretion by considering nolle prossed charge in sentencing, violating 5th and 14th Amendment rights
18-8213 Hector Santillan v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment minority-communities police-interrogation police-investigation prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion reid-v-georgia rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Whether an officer may prolong a traffic stop to investigate other matters
18-8216 Zavia L. Johnson v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clearly-erroneous clearly-erroneous-standard law-enforcement-officer law-enforcement-testimony scott-v-harris standard-of-review testimony video-evidence videotape videotape-evidence Does a federal courts of appeals misapply the clearly erroneous standard of review when it upholds a district court's crediting of a law enforcement o…
18-8217 Marvin Johnson v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process enterprise enterprise-membership fair-trial jury-instructions racketeering racketeering-act violent-crime Whether evidence supporting a conviction of violent crime in aid of racketeering must demonstrate the defendant was a member of the alleged enterprise
18-8218 Nathaniel Hoskins v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression materiality prosecutorial-misconduct rico-conspiracy suppression Whether the prosecution's pretrial evidentiary suppression of various law enforcement reports, interviews and statements favorable to the Petitioner v…
18-8220 In Re Damon Graham Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-relief appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals discretionary-powers due-process exceptional-circumstances Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to promptly decide Mr. Graham's certificate of appealability
18-8226 James Craig Bird v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole plea-bargaining prejudice-prong strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the State improperly determined the prejudice prong underlying the test set-forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1964) as to erron…
18-8238 Rafael Gomez Uranga v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-v-wingo circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process government-delay government-negligence governmental-negligence gross-negligence prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial united-states-v-doggett Whether a speedy trial delay caused exclusively by the gross negligence of the Government weighs heavily against the Government
18-8239 Negus Thomas v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure crosby-remand district-court intervening-change-in-law jacobson-remand law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine manifest-injustice new-evidence reasonableness reasonableness-review resentencing sentencing Whether the district court erred in declining to resentence the defendant-Petitioner on remand
18-8247 Patrick Joseph Kofalt v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel-waiver due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waivers Are all ineffective assistance of counsel waivers per se invalid because they violate the Sixth Amendment's right to conflict-free representation?
18-8252 Freddie Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights conviction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions mistrial structural-error Whether the United States District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the petitioner relief pursuant to the issues raised in a petiti…
18-8259 Nickie Thomas Gray, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights debatable-standard due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-of-reason law-enforcement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Was the Sixth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability erroneous?
18-8260 Kenton Deon Harrell v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant legal principles
18-8280 Darrell J. Williams v. Cecilia Reynolds, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP blakely-v-washington circumstantial-evidence due-process fifth-circuit jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Due Process Standard of Jackson v. Virginia requires a court to consider all evidence, including evidence inconsistent with guilt, in deci…
18-8291 Juanita Garcia v. Deborah Johnson, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a habeas petitioner must show that absent the attorney's deficient performance, no other evidence supported the verdict
18-8298 Jermaine Brazill v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-offender cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process-rights eighth-amendment independent-inquiry juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mental-health rehabilitation rehabilitative-potential young-age Whether the trial judge violated the Petitioner's due process rights by failing to conduct an independent inquiry into the Petitioner's fitness, and w…
18-8322 In Re Richard Madkins Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentence-modification sentencing-modification state-jurisdiction unlawful-detention Whether it would result in a fundamental miscarriage of justice if failure to entertain petitioner constitutional claims
18-8356 In Re Steven Eason Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitations procedural-bars prosecutorial-misconduct state-law successive-habeas successive-petitions Whether the petitioner's fundamental constitutional right to due process was violated when the state prosecuted him on counts of his indictment becaus…
18-959 Mandy Rooks v. Drake Rooks Colorado Denied classification constitutional-rights due-process embryo-classification embryo-personhood embryo-status family-law family-rights marital-property personhood property-rights religious-freedom religious-rights reproductive-rights Whether extracorporeal embryos are persons or property
18-975 Mark Stuart v. Jim Lane, et al. Arizona Denied due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech petition petition-rights rule-68 Whether sanctioning a petitioner under Rule 68 for pursuing a meritorious public interest lawsuit violates the First Amendment right to petition for r…
18-978 Josephenie Robertson v. Republic of Nicaragua, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process due-process,equal-protection,first-amendment,sixth equal-protection first-amendment political-question-doctrine sixth-amendment standing Whether the Petitioner was deprived of an independent, neutral, and impartial tribunal
18-982 In Re Beverly L. Hennager, et al. Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection limited-partnership mandamus non-discretionary-action pre-filing-injunction property property-rights sanctions standing writ-of-appeal Whether the enforcement of an appellant mandate affirming the plain, unambiguous language of a previous order compelling specific non-discretionary ac…
18-992 Juan B. Ortiz v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
18M121 Theodore Ridgeway v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit Presumed Complete None
18M122 Johnnie Kenon v. United States Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
18M123 John M. Franklin v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit Presumed Complete None
18M124 McKenzie Daniels v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None