| 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 |
|