| 18-1004 |
James Seaman v. Westfield Medical Center, L.P., et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure dismissal due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure notice notice-requirement pro-se pro-se-litigant public-policy rules-of-procedure service-of-pleading |
WHETHER THE FAILURE TO SERVE A PLEADING UPON PRO-SE LITIGANTS WARRANTED A FAVORABLE RULING UNDER FED.R.CIV.P 60 AND REMOVAL OF A DISMISSAL OF AN ACTIO… |
| 18-1014 |
In Re Rex E. Russo |
|
Denied |
|
14th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-right due-process equal-protection equal-rights florida-constitution judicial-administration judicial-records judicial-transparency mandamus public-records public-records-access |
public-records-access,judicial-transparency,equal-protection,due-process,mandamus,florida-constitution |
| 18-1020 |
Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Communicar, Inc., et al. |
New York |
Denied |
|
case-consolidation civil-procedure Conflict-of-interest consolidation Discovery due-process Examination-before-trial judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-review pro-se-litigation standing subpoena Subpoena-Duces-Tecum |
Whether consolidation of three separate cases without a motion and overriding by another judge is legal and ethical |
| 18-1024 |
Lenard Johnson v. Richard Winfrey, Jr. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment accrual-of-claim civil-rights false-statements fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-analysis franks-v-delaware law-enforcement-misconduct legal-accrual material-omission probable-cause qualified-immunity warrant-application |
Franks v. Delaware analysis of omitted information material to probable cause |
| 18-1026 |
William Kinney, et ux. v. Anderson Lumber Company, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
anti-trust antitrust-law-sherman-act concurrent-jurisdiction due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act sherman-antitrust-act unlicensed-practice-of-law |
Whether Tennessee's law for the unlicensed practice of law violates the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 18-1033 |
W. A. Griffin v. United Healthcare of Georgia, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-appeals anti-assignment co-fiduciary-liability document-request erisa erisa-co-fiduciary-liability erisa-document-production-requests ERISA-governed-plan erisa-welfare-plan-administration fiduciary-duty georgia-mandatory-assignment-of-benefits-statute plan-administrator provider-anti-assignment provider-anti-assignment-clauses retroactive-assignment statute-of-limitations-for-erisa-penalties statutory-penalties |
Whether plan administrator waived anti-assignment provisions, ERISA-co-fiduciary-liability, retroactive-assignment-validity, statutory-penalties-limit… |
| 18-1034 |
Jefferson A. McGee v. City of Sacramento, California |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review civil-rights conspiracy discrimination discrimination-claims due-process equal-protection federal-financial-assistance racial-discrimination standing |
Discrimination against African Americans in law enforcement programs receiving federal funding |
| 18-1035 |
Keithrick Thomas v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
|
curtilage driveway plain-view-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search curtilage fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine police-encounter probable-cause search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Warrantless search of passenger's pockets in driveway violates Fourth Amendment |
| 18-1036 |
Antero Ramos v. Firestone Building Products Company, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
60(b)(6) attorney-misconduct attorney-negligence circuit-split civil-procedure client-abandonment client-relief equitable-relief federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion legal-malpractice rule-60(b)(6) summary-judgment |
Whether a lawyer's gross neglect of a blameless client's case is grounds for relief under Rule 60(b)(6) |
| 18-1037 |
Zheng Cai v. Diamond Hong, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-review cafc cultural-symbols foreign-cultural-symbol foreign-language foreign-language-marks judicial-interpretation language-expertise standing trademark trademark-examination trademark-law ttab |
Disputed marks with foreign language and cultural symbols, lack of judges knowledgeable in foreign languages and cultures leads to erroneous trademark… |
| 18-1039 |
Jeremy Levin, et ux. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
anti-terrorism-law asset-attachment correspondent-banking electronic-fund-transfer federal-preemption new-york-ucc preemption terrorism-risk-insurance-act |
Are blocked EFTs, originating with Iran, transferred into the U.S. by agents of Iran, and used to benefit its financial interests, immune from recover… |
| 18-1040 |
Licong Li v. Sofia Dang |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-custody crimes-against-humanity divorce divorce-proceedings due-process family-law fundamental-rights human-made-tragedies human-rights parental-rights visitation |
How long would crimes against humanity in terms of child custody and visitation in divorce cases be allowed to continue in this country? |
| 18-1042 |
Frank Gonzalez v. City of Hialeah, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
city-charter city-employment civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-rights due-process employment for-cause-removal probationary-employee procedural-due-process procedural-rights property-interest public-employment reemployment-list stigma |
Whether there is a federal common law standard to determine the existence of a property interest in city employment, without applying state laws, requ… |
| 18-1045 |
Nathaniel Brent, et al. v. Wayne County Department of Human Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment administrative-policy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-orders judicial-oversight qualified-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Plaintiffs' constitutional rights violated by administrative policy allowing probation officer to approve non-appealable, non-final, ex-parte orders w… |
| 18-1058 |
Janice Smets v. Heather Wilson, Secretary of the Air Force |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-exhaustion civil-rights civil-servant due-process employment federal-circuit federal-courts mixed-case mspb non-jurisdiction summary-judgment title-vii |
When a civil servant changes a claim to a 'mixed case' during the District Court's non-hearing proceedings and she files to remand based on non-jurisd… |
| 18-1071 |
Brandi K. Stokes v. Timothy Martin Sulak |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process geneva-conventions international-law legal-notice prisoner-of-war procedural-waiver standing treaty-interpretation waiver war-crimes |
Whether rights secured by the Geneva Conventions can be waived by inadequate briefing or late notice |
| 18-1072 |
James J. Macor v. United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-102 35-usc-103 administrative-law analogous-art obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-examination patent-law prior-art statutory-interpretation |
Whether the standard for determining if prior art is 'analogous' in making rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious, and whether a finding of no… |
| 18-1073 |
Tara King, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights content-based-regulation content-based-restriction due-process extraordinary-circumstances first-amendment free-speech irreparable-harm mandate-recall standing supreme-court-precedent takings |
Whether a lower court mandate should be recalled when the Supreme Court expressly abrogates the ruling by name and the lower court opinion continues t… |
| 18-1091 |
Afoluso Adesanya, et vir v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court-review civil-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process employment-discrimination ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-conduct judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation sanctions |
Dismissal of petitioner's employment discrimination lawsuit as a sanction without prior court finding or warning of discovery violation |
| 18-1099 |
Janie L. Robinson v. State Compensation Mutual Insurance Fund |
Montana |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process grand-bargain medical-examination new-york-central-v-white search search-and-seizure state-authority unconstitutional-conditions workers-compensation |
Unreasonable medical examinations in workers' compensation system violate Fourth Amendment, exceed 'Grand Bargain' limits, and improperly condition be… |
| 18-1110 |
Cecil Daughtrey, et ux. v. Luis E. Rivera |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
army-corps-of-engineers bankruptcy-code-conversion bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustee bankruptcy-trustee-duties chapter-11-conversion debtor-interests department-of-interior department-of-justice due-process environmental-protection environmental-protection-agency government-agencies national-defense property-dispute property-rights trustee-actions us-government water-resource water-rights |
Denial of Chapter 11 conversion to hide unique global drinking water and energy resource |
| 18-1114 |
TS Patents LLC v. Yahoo! Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 ashcroft-v-iqbal claim-dismissal federal-circuit novel-improvements novel-invention novel-technical-improvements patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-infringement patent-presumption patent-validity presumption-of-validity routine-and-conventional rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 technical-improvements |
Can a court dismiss a patent infringement complaint under Rule 12(b)(6), for a lack of patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. $101, when the complaint and… |
| 18-1133 |
Henry J. Langer, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-circuit burden-of-proof civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-evidence penalty-assessment tax-court tax-court-review tax-evasion tax-fraud tax-liability tax-penalties |
Whether the IRS has proved by clear and convincing evidence that Henry J. Langer and Patricia K. Langer are liable for fraud penalties for tax years 2… |
| 18-1141 |
Sandra Brown v. New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine |
New Hampshire |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency controlled-drug-act controlled-substances criminal-law enforcement-authority jurisdiction pharmacy-board regulatory-inspection separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Lack of subject matter jurisdiction for the New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine to inspect and enforce violations under the New Hampshire Contr… |
| 18-1155 |
James Michael Murphy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion defamation discovery due-process first-amendment government-liability judicial-estoppel litigation-strategy res-judicata |
Defamation lawsuit precluded by res judicata after dismissal of first lawsuit due to withholding of key information about additional, later, widesprea… |
| 18-1163 |
Richard Hutchings, et al. v. Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
administrative-hearing administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process eminent-domain fourteenth-amendment notice property-rights public-use quasi-judicial takings utility-siting |
Lack of notice to affected landowners for power line siting proceedings violating due process |
| 18-1169 |
John Stephen Thorne v. Union Pacific Corporation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure declaratory-judgment equitable-defense equitable-defenses equity judicial-remedy laches legal-claims limitations-period prejudice property-rights statute-of-limitations stock-ownership texas-law |
Applicability of laches to legal claims within statute of limitations period |
| 18-1194 |
Shane Crutchfield v. Jeff Dennison, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review martinez-trevino-exception post-conviction-review procedural-default state-court-proceedings trial-counsel trial-record |
Whether the exception to procedural default established in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), and Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2018), is categor… |
| 18-1204 |
Terry Haynie v. United Airlines, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
discrete incident instead of an ongoing pattern o civil-rights constructive-discharge employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment material-facts national-railroad-passenger-corp-v-morgan retaliation statute-of-limitations summary-judgment |
Whether the court below erroneously applied Nat'l R.R. Passenger Corp. v. Morgan when it considered each incident of harassment as a single, discrete … |
| 18-5798 |
C. B. v. Thomas N. Fischgrund |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adoption adoption-law civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud fraud-allegations negligence notary-misconduct notary-public |
Should the Supreme Court of Florida decline to accept jurisdiction? |
| 18-609 |
Joseph David Robertson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
GVR |
Amici (6) |
appellate-review clean-water-act criminal-procedure motion-for-acquittal navigable-waters rapanos-v-united-states sackett-v-epa united-states-army-corps-of-engineers-v-hawkes-co void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Clean Water Act term 'navigable waters' is void for vagueness |
| 18-6314 |
Vilaychith Khouanmany v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appointment-of-counsel career-offender civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentences habeas-corpus pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process right-to-bail right-to-counsel sentence-enhancements sentencing speedy-trial |
Whether the denial of appealability of case no. 17-1243 was proper when the issues of career offender, enhancements of priors, and excessive sentences… |
| 18-6450 |
Justen Russell v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
28-usc-2244 aedpa aedpa-limitations appeal appellate-rights diligence due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mental-health-confinement mental-illness right-to-appeal state-created-impediment |
Does the complete failure by court and counsel to advise a defendant of his right to appeal and the time period in which to do so constitute a 'state-… |
| 18-6672 |
Marciano Millan Vasquez, aka Chano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aiding-and-abetting drug-conspiracy due-process kingpin-statute murder |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred by upholding Petitioner's conviction stemming from the extraterritorial-application |
| 18-6777 |
Kenya Ali Hyatt v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-statute sixth-amendment |
Whether Michigan's Miller statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 18-6782 |
Tia Marie-Mitchell Skinner v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-statute sixth-amendment |
Whether Michigan's Miller v. Alabama sentencing statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, under the Sixth and Fourtee… |
| 18-6784 |
In Re Samuel Rivera |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-amendments constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdictional-rules standing |
whether-court-judges-uphold-constitution |
| 18-6793 |
Derrick Lamont Booth v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fire-investigation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel nfpa-921 sixth-amendment standard-of-review standard-protocols trial-strategy |
Whether the state court violated Mr. Booth's 6th Amendment rights |
| 18-686 |
Lazina King, et al. v. Caliber Home Loans, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
dodd-frank-act dual-tracking foreclosure-law jury-trial private-right-of-action real-estate-settlement-procedures-act regulation-x respa-regulation seventh-amendment statutory-damages |
Is the RESPA Regulation X Section 6(f) which was promulgated by Dodd-Frank Act remedial in nature which provides a private right of action to an injur… |
| 18-6878 |
Shomari Salim Daley v. Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Why Flavors ed Beon gisen Me Hugh fo a. Farr, Spesdly and) Tevey Total) en Ynis Cote 277 |
| 18-6905 |
Thomas Thadeus Szczerba v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit-incorporation criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception incorporation-of-affidavit search-and-seizure warrant-incorporation warrant-particularity warrant-particularization |
Does the Leon 'good-faith exception' to the exclusionary rule apply when a warrant fails to particularize the 'things to be seized' and fails to conta… |
| 18-6908 |
Livingston Manners v. Ronald Cannella, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-U.S.C.-1983 Excessive-Force fleeing-and-eluding fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-Violation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Is there a violation of the fourth amendment where the arrest of a civilian stems from an illegal traffic stop |
| 18-6919 |
Marcelo Joel Santos-Cordero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
batson batson-challenge circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
Following a remand, must a trial court that is retrospectively analyzing whether a peremptory strike violated Batson's prohibition against discriminat… |
| 18-6947 |
Lisa J. Gillard v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
battery battery-conviction constitutional-violation conviction due-process final-judgment illinois-supreme-court judicial-review unconstitutional |
Whether the Illinois Supreme Court acted unconstitutional by depriving petitioner due process on a final judgment of a conviction of a battery? |
| 18-6965 |
Lei Yin v. Biogen, Inc., fka Biogen-IDEC |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protections discovery discovery-rules due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-fairness legal-representation pro-se pro-se-rights standing |
Whether a Pro Se shall share the same right as those represented by lawyers that are protected by United States Constitution? |
| 18-701 |
Clayton Prince Tanksley v. Lee Daniels, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
7th-amendment access amendment copyright copyright-infringement jury-trial lay-observer-test pleading-stage prima-facie-claim probative-similarity similarity substantial-similarity |
Whether the trial court should engage in a substantive analysis and determination regarding substantial similarity as a matter of law at the pleading … |
| 18-7033 |
Michael Casey Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
congress district-court federal-indian-law indian-country judicial-restoration land-relinquishment land-rights native-american-lands native-americans reservation-status separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation treaty-rights |
Whether a district court judge can restore lands relinquished by treaty to Native Americans |
| 18-7052 |
Gwendolyn Wilkerson v. Timothy Woods |
Maryland |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
| 18-7070 |
Corla Jackson v. GMAC Mortgage Corporation |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment alabama civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure motion-to-reinstate statutory-procedure |
Is non-judicial foreclosure pursuant to Alabama's extensive statutory procedure subject to 14th Amendment Due Process protection? |
| 18-7091 |
Steven Anthony Butler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing competence competency-evaluation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation judicial-process judicial-review mental-competence mental-health mitigating-evidence procedural-fairness |
When must the Court exercise its supervisory power to assure the fairness of the judicial process? |
| 18-7092 |
Ileen Cain v. Atelier Esthetique Institute of Esthetics, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
character-damage civil-liability civil-rights defamation defamation-per-se due-process financial-prospects professional-reputation rehabilitation-act terrorism trade trade-school |
Question not identified |
| 18-7160 |
Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff |
New York |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals divorce-judgment due-process forgery fraud judicial-misconduct jurisdiction legal-standing pro-se standing |
Whether the New York State Court of Appeals can dismiss a case for lack of jurisdiction despite evidence of fraud/forgery in the lower court proceedin… |
| 18-7161 |
Raymond Robert Martin v. Matthew G. Whitaker, Acting Attorney General |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
| 18-7204 |
Julio Rolon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
Alleyne alleyne-v-united-states Almendarez-Torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states Apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey crimes-of-violence Dimaya due-process hobbs-act Johnson-II johnson-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states section-924c sessions-v-dimaya |
Whether the mandatory life sentence for a reverse sting Hobbs Act robbery case with no actual drugs should be overturned based on conflicts with Supre… |
| 18-7211 |
Frank M. Monte v. Joe Kessling, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism interstate-dispute judicial-review legal-standing original-jurisdiction standing state-sovereignty |
Whether a State has standing to bring an original legal action against a citizen of another State |
| 18-7217 |
C. G., a Minor v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial juvenile-justice state-law |
Does a state law that completely bans jury trials for juveniles charged with crimes violate the federal constitutional rights to a jury trial, due pro… |
| 18-7219 |
Jose Amador and Diana Mekaeil v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule invited-error judicial-procedure legal-burden standard-of-review warrantless-search |
Whether a finding of invited error requires a finding of deliberateness |
| 18-722 |
Soundboard Association v. Federal Trade Commission |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (4) |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking arbitrary-and-capricious chilled-speech chilling-effect federal-trade-commission judicial-review protected-speech rulemaking staff-advisory-opinion |
Do Petitioners have a right to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act of a Federal Trade Commission staff advisory opinion that effect… |
| 18-7226 |
Omar Blanco v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights death-penalty due-process retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Did Hall v. Florida announce a substantive rule of constitutional law? |
| 18-723 |
Jose Rodriguez v. Bank of America, N.A. |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process equitable-relief foreclosure foreclosure-evidence impartiality judicial-impartiality mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement |
Whether the due process protections enshrined in the 5th and 14th Amendments prohibit Florida Courts from turning a blind eye to the continued use of … |
| 18-7233 |
Hosea Latron Swopes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act assault circuit-split intent physical-force statutory-interpretation threat violent-felony weapon-exhibition |
Whether a statute prohibiting an angry exhibition of a weapon in the presence of another without requiring that the perpetrator direct or intend to di… |
| 18-7235 |
Jason Eugene Bush v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-doctrine due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment investigative-agencies kyles-v-whitley prosecutorial-disclosure |
Whether Arizona follows the rule of Kyles v. Whitley requiring prosecutors to investigate and disclose exculpatory evidence from all participating inv… |
| 18-7237 |
Dione C. Saunders v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights disability due-process government-misconduct social-security standing |
Why did Nancy A. Berryhill ignore and discourteous available evidence from petitioner and refuse to consider their opinion? |
| 18-732 |
Jean Coulter v. Blaze Tatananni, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process grand-jury-review impartiality judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal standing vagueness |
Are Recusal Statutes 28 U.S. Code §455 and §144 Unconstitutionally Vague? |
| 18-7379 |
Edward Bruno Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-sentence armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 |
Whether a § 2255 movant raising a Johnson claim can satisfy his burden of proof by showing his ACCA sentence 'may have' been based on the residual cla… |
| 18-7404 |
John Laake v. Turning Stone Resort Casino |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion indian-land jurisdiction religious-freedom tribal-sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the established clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as it pertains to Free Speech and Freedom of Religion effectiv… |
| 18-755 |
Illinois Liberty PAC, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
buckley-standard buckley-v-valeo campaign-finance civil-rights contribution-limits due-process equal-protection first-amendment political-contributions political-speech strict-scrutiny |
Should political contribution limits that favor one type of speaker over another receive strict scrutiny? |
| 18-759 |
Matthew D. Sample v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-authority district-court-discretion imprisonment income-earning probation restitution sentencing-discretion victim-compensation |
Whether a district court may reduce a prison sentence, or impose a probationary term in lieu of imprisonment, to enable a defendant to earn income to … |
| 18-7618 |
David S. Neal v. ASTA Funding, Inc. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
alternative-theories arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure condition-precedent contract contract-law dispute-resolution due-process non-parties non-party-enforcement standing |
Can non-parties to a contract with an arbitration provision be compelled to arbitrate based on alternative theories when the contractual condition pre… |
| 18-7733 |
Tyrone Justin Cowan v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights ninth-circuit right-to-counsel |
Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability and in evaluating petitioner's claims |
| 18-7743 |
Kevin Daniel Driscoll v. Josie Gastelo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa anti-terrorism antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process government-petition habeas-corpus petition-clause petition-rights procedural-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Anti-ferrorist and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) of 1996 vitiates citizens' 1) Privilege to the Writ of Habeas Corpus, 2) Right to p… |
| 18-7744 |
Corey Clark v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto retroactivity |
Does the state of Alabama ACV 2014-169 violate the ex post facto clause of the U.S. Constitution? |
| 18-7749 |
Ada A. Gonzalez v. Grant Maloy |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certiorari-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-delay mandamus pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-procedure |
Whether the Supreme Court of Florida unjust delay denied Petitioner access for certiorari review |
| 18-7752 |
Mohan A. Harihar v. US Bank NA, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1915 appointment-of-counsel circuit-panel-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process judicial-recusal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-complexity pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation recusal standing |
Whether the replacement Circuit Panel repeatedly refused to address/clarify Jurisdiction issues, ultimately denying Petitioner's efforts to resolve a … |
| 18-7753 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review rules-of-construction separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Did MN Supreme Court violate Separation of Powers? |
| 18-7757 |
William Davenport v. James Falk, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure dna dna-evidence dna-testing due-process evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-gestae witness-identification |
Whether trial court erred in admitting evidence of DNA testing from mixed samples |
| 18-7767 |
Joshua Sanchez v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents texas-court-of-appeals |
Whether the interpretation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by the Texas Court of Appeals is in conflict with preceden… |
| 18-7771 |
Tommy Wayne Brotherton v. Jay Cassady, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment suppression-hearing videotaped-statements |
Whether petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial when the state court overruled his motion to suppress statements and allowed videotaped sta… |
| 18-7772 |
Antonio Franklin v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel execution-date habeas-corpus right-to-counsel |
Is the right to effective representation critical during which time the State moves for an execution date? |
| 18-7775 |
Joseph F. Olivares v. Michigan Workers' Compensation Agency, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing statute-of-limitations takings workers-compensation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions? |
| 18-7782 |
James E. Mason, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-challenges burden-of-proof confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impeached-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instructions jury-selection race-neutral-challenges |
Whether the State obtained Mr. Mason's conviction with insufficient evidence |
| 18-7786 |
Roy Shotwell v. Kevin Genovese, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage dna-analysis dna-evidence dna-testing due-process effective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing warrantless-seizure |
Whether the Tennessee courts abused their discretion in denying Petitioner's DNA and post-conviction relief |
| 18-7789 |
Ashley Richards v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sentencing-enhancement state-jail-felony statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires retroactive application of a court decision finding a sentencing enhancement inapplicable, thereby decreasing th… |
| 18-7798 |
Steven Floyd Voss v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing state-court state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the state trial court has jurisdiction to conduct resentencing proceedings and enter an amended judgment of conviction after the petitioner's … |
| 18-7803 |
Dennis Hegstrom v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
eighth-amendment homicide late-adolescent late-adolescent-offender mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama neuroscience-evidence parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
Is it time to extend the Eighth Amendment protections enunciated in Miller v. Alabama to late adolescent homicide offenders? |
| 18-7813 |
Bradley Jared Barton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-process judicial-review post-conviction-relief postconviction-remedy standing state-court-proceedings state-post-conviction state-procedure |
At what point does a state's post-conviction remedy become ineffective as contemplated by 28 U.S.C. 2254(b)(1)(B) |
| 18-7815 |
Shea Pascal Dease v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-judgment civil-procedure due-process service-of-process standing state-court-judgment state-law statutory-interpretation |
Did the state maintain a civil judgment for which it did not serve process in the manner required by its own statute? |
| 18-7816 |
Jason Brooks v. Phil Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-securities-fraud due-process fair-notice mens-rea scienter securities-fraud statutory-interpretation strict-liability willfulness |
Whether 'scienter' is an element of criminal securities fraud and whether its existence is a question of fact that must be proven beyond a reasonable … |
| 18-7820 |
Kelly Winton Pierce v. Erik Hooks |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process essential-element jury-instructions sex-offender sex-offender-registration |
Whether a criminal defendant's jury trial was fundamentally violated due to the trial judge's jury instructions that changed and expanded the definiti… |
| 18-7822 |
Meryl S. McDonald v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-fact postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing standing voir-dire |
Whether the voir dire examination oath provision of Rules 3.191 and 3.300(a) of the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is a jurisdictional fact |
| 18-7827 |
Roger L. Kaufman v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto federal-guidelines parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers state-prisoner |
Whether a state prisoner is entitled to a parole hearing under the Due Process Clause and Separation of Powers Doctrine when a court disposes of feder… |
| 18-7828 |
Robert Largo v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-law-section-440.10 due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penal-law-section-70.02 persistent-violent-felony sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Did the New York State Supreme Court err in holding that, as-applied, the part of Penal Law Section 70.02, Subdivision one (c) challenged as void-for-… |
| 18-783 |
John M. Barone v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption foreclosure-fraud national-bank-act national-banks property-rights state-courts |
Whether the National Bank Act, 12 U.S.C. 1 et seq. restrictions on states, federal preemption and exclusive federal regulation vie for exclusive feder… |
| 18-7832 |
Jason Lee Harris v. Karen A. Mullins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-law first-amendment in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines service-of-process standing |
Did the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in barring the grant of in forma paupe… |
| 18-7834 |
Brent William Bogseth v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deliberation due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment murder premeditation prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination |
Whether the lack of evidence to show the defendant actually committed the offense of murder means premeditation and deliberation cannot exist, or if t… |
| 18-7837 |
Marlon Blacher v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitution due-process jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction standing state-authority statutory-provisions |
Is the writ true that the Constitution and all of its instruments are bound to the matters declared via Article IV, clause 3, Constitution of the Unit… |
| 18-7845 |
Philip Andra Grigsby v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law contact-restrictions court-of-appeals due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment juvenile-justice minor-children parental-rights |
Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by denying a parent c… |
| 18-7851 |
Vincent Lynden Young v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-provisions due-process expert-testimony false-evidence federal-habeas habeas-corpus opinion repudiated-expert senate-bill senate-bill-1134 statutory-provisions |
Whether an opinion of an expert that has been repudiated by the expert who originally provided the opinion at a hearing or trial constitutes false evi… |
| 18-7853 |
John Patrick Fletcher v. Celia Schwartz, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1915 42-U.S.C-1983 7th-amendment abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process prisoner-complaint pro-se section-1915 section-1983 section-242 seventh-amendment standing takings |
Whether the Seventh Amendment allows an action to be dismissed under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 — without a finding of factual error — six months after the issu… |
| 18-7855 |
Barry Glenn Thunder v. Douglas Weber, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-accusation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing |
Why was the petitioner arrested on a forensic charge when the videos clearly show the victim's right hand that is clearly seen in the videos to prove … |
| 18-7860 |
Timothy L. Barnes v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-finding mandatory-minimum retroactivity sixth-amendment substantive-rule watershed-rule |
Does the Alleyne rule apply retroactively on collateral review? |
| 18-7864 |
Prince Charles Cotton, Sr. v. Ghae Harris, Warden |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus illegal-confinement imprisonment ohio-law parole sentencing sentencing-entry standing supreme-court-ruling |
Is it Lawful, For The State Of Ohio to Hold The Herein Petitioner In Illegal Confinement, 'Under' Statutes That: The ' United States Supreme Court Has… |
| 18-7867 |
Meria James Bradley v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa constitutional-rights due-process evidence-withholding federal-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review state-court-findings state-court-proceedings state-court-review |
Whether defense counsel withheld evidence that could have shown the petitioner was actually innocent |
| 18-7873 |
Troy Sierra v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel right-to-counsel rights-advisement sixth-amendment |
Why were Petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights violated? |
| 18-7879 |
Clayton D. Colkley v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment appeal appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss trial-court trial-court-jurisdiction |
Did the court of special appeals of maryland err in affirming trial court's denial of defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground of double-jeopardy? |
| 18-7888 |
Furn-Lee Salomon v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel passport-fraud pre-trial-investigation prejudicial-testimony pretrial-investigation strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel witness-testimony |
Was trial counsel ineffective? |
| 18-7889 |
Ramon Romero v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Whether the police officers' use of force against the petitioner was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-7892 |
Sheila J. Halousek v. California Public Employees' Retirement System |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
autonomy civil-rights due-process employment-retaliation osha osha-protections privacy privacy-rights whistleblower workplace-safety |
What is required for the consistent application of civil rights to be 'free and independent,' 'enjoying and defending life and liberty,' and 'pursuing… |
| 18-7893 |
Sheila J. Halousek v. Bank of America, N.A. |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights consistent-application constitutional-law due-process legal-notice legal-relief notice process-service relief service-of-process |
What constitutes due process for proper notice in service of process? |
| 18-7894 |
Roszetta McNeill v. Wayne County Third Circuit Court, et al |
Sixth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection fraud fraud-exception fraud-exception-rooker-feldman judicial-activism rooker-feldman-doctrine statute-of-limitations superintendent-control |
Is it appropriate to request 'Superintendent Control' from the higher courts (in accordance to Article 3, section 2 of the Constitution) when the lowe… |
| 18-7901 |
Darrius DaJuan Cohee v. James Yates, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal |
Was Petitioner's Counsel Ineffective For Failing To File Petitioner's Motion To Withdraw Guilty Plea |
| 18-7902 |
Mario Akothe v. Carl Bear, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions |
What avenues are available to seek habeas corpus relief when a certificate of appealability is denied without due process of law? |
| 18-7906 |
Johnny Flores v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process lesser-included-offense manslaughter prosecutorial-vindictiveness retaliation |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Constitution entitles the petitioner to the lesser included offense of Manslaughter |
| 18-7909 |
John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Correct Care, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1915 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process imminent-injury in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure monell monell-claim standing temporary-injunction |
Can cases still under litigation be used as a reason to deny a plaintiff under threat of imminent injury or loss of life the right to proceed in forma… |
| 18-7912 |
Eriese Alphonso Tisdale v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process jury jury-vote statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's failure to apply a statutory amendment violates due process and double jeopardy |
| 18-7917 |
Najee Sharif Wilkins v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause cross-examination eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-eligibility witness-testimony |
Does Petitioner's sentence violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 18-7919 |
Susan Grund v. Julie Murphy, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-need prisoner-rights summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court improperly decided disputed factual issues |
| 18-7924 |
Clifton Donell Lyles v. Angela Broach, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-procedure jurisdictional-bar rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err by allowing the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to be used to grant motion for issue preclusion? |
| 18-7925 |
Syed Nazim Ali v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitration arbitration-immunity civil-rights corporate-representation due-process fair-hearing finra-arbitration immunity legal-standing pro-se-representation small-business small-corporation sole-owner |
Whether FINRA Arbitration process violated the Petitioner's rights of due process of law by failing to be fair and using the arbitration immunity to s… |
| 18-7926 |
Hubert Babb v. Clara Smith, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution determinative-motive due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination sentencing |
Whether indigent and/or pro se defendants in criminal prosecutions have constitutional protection from the presence of socioeconomic discrimination as… |
| 18-7933 |
Keith Charleston v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure-miranda due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights premeditated-murder probable-cause self-defense self-incrimination warrantless-arrest |
Whether petitioner's statement was unconstitutionally obtained due to intoxication and lack of sleep preventing a knowing and intelligent Miranda waiv… |
| 18-7935 |
Kahri Smith v. Bonita J. Hoffner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari criminal-procedure felony jurisdiction michigan-law reasonable-jurists self-defense sixth-circuit |
Is certiorari appropriate where the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decided the merits of petitioner's self-defense claim without jurisdiction and is i… |
| 18-7936 |
Jaquan Henderson v. Greg Skipper, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure duress legal-justification murder statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER DURESS IS AN AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE PRIOR TO AN OCCURRENCE OF MURDER? |
| 18-7939 |
In Re Daniel Eric Salley |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus patent standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-powers |
Whether the district court failed to properly apply 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) and (c), and Fed. R. Civ. P. 52(a) by not computing time according to the stat… |
| 18-7940 |
Charles Kelvin Johns v. Alabama Department of Human Resources |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity property-rights Question not identified. racial-discrimination |
Whether the 11th Circuit has interfered with the black appellant's rights under 42 USC §1981 and 42 USC §1982 |
| 18-7942 |
Shannon Lancaster v. James Ruane |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process homeland-security standing takings civil-rights compelled-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech religious-freedom |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private individuals to engage in speech that violates their sincerely held religi… |
| 18-7953 |
Matthew Peterson, et ux. v. New Hampshire Division of Children, Youth & Families, et al. |
New Hampshire |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review child-welfare constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process family-law findings-of-fact neglect parental-rights state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights |
Is it unconstitutional for the State Appellate Court to uphold a trial court's decision that did not find the facts in dispute nor make any findings a… |
| 18-7955 |
Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. David Baughman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentences criminal-sentences-parole due-process early-release non-violent-offenders parole parole-considerations-hearings parole-eligibility parole-hearings sentencing statute violent-offenses |
Whether individuals who receive a determinate sentence do not need a parole consideration hearing to be released from prison at the end of their sente… |
| 18-7957 |
Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Mikel Steinfeld |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-procedure-abuse-of-discretion compulsory-process constitutional-question due-process jurisdiction sixth-amendment-compulsory-process standing |
Whether the judge's denial of leave to amend complaint is a reversible error |
| 18-7959 |
Paul David Maze v. Renea Terrell, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
12(b)(6) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion plra prisoner-rights pro-se-litigant section-1983 standing |
Does a prisoner's §1983 civil matter require a remand if a District Court wrongly equate the standard for frivolousness of a complaint under §1915(d) … |
| 18-7962 |
Al-Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. Plant City Police Department, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-rights property-rights section-1983 takings |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires an opportunity for a post-deprivation hearing for a property right/interest § 1983 claim |
| 18-7963 |
Fredmun Wayne Reynolds v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights procedural-rules rules-of-civil-procedure state-prisoner statute statute-interpretation timeliness |
Does a district court's dismissal of a state prisoner's habeas petition under Habeas Rule 4 for lack of timeliness violate statute, the Rules of Civil… |
| 18-7967 |
James Dalton Smith v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process facial-challenge penal-statute standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant may raise for the first time on direct appeal the constitutionality of the statute creating and defining the crime for wh… |
| 18-7976 |
Gerald Adger v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process question-not-identified standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions |
| 18-7980 |
Joseph Michael Ladeairous v. Department of Justice |
District of Columbia |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process foia-request foreign-intelligence-surveillance foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act freedom-of-information freedom-of-information-act national-security standing summary-judgment surveillance terrorist-designation |
Whether petitioner had a right to confront respondent under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act |
| 18-7982 |
Obelin Jaimes-Aviles v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search |
Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a person's vehicle and its contents violates the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable sea… |
| 18-799 |
Deborah J. Davis v. Mehul Bhatt |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law battery-claims civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection expert-witness georgia-state-law legal-procedure medical-malpractice standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause to the facts of this cas… |
| 18-7990 |
Demetrius Dwayne Brookins v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights collusion due-process false-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct subornation-of-perjury |
Whether the available competent, credible, highly persuasive and exculpatory evidence conclusively establishes the petitioner's actual innocence, ther… |
| 18-7991 |
George E. Kersey v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1915 appeal appeal-certification civil-procedure complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals dismissal district-court frivolous immunity in-forma-pauperis standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals properly affirmed the District Court's December 18, 2017 decisions |
| 18-7992 |
Kessele Livingston v. Lauri Esslinger, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law child-custody civil-rights due-process evidence government-agencies government-authority standing |
Does a government agency have the authority to verify the age of a child who is in their custody and the child's mother and father there? |
| 18-7998 |
Bobby Charles Byrd v. W. W. Lindsey, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
ada-accommodation appointment-of-counsel civil-rights disability-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant rehabilitation-act |
Does the district court have an obligation to appoint counsel for an ADA-eligible pro se pauper litigant prevented from conducting their own trial due… |
| 18-800 |
Linda Shao v. McManis Faulkner, LLP |
California |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appeal appeal-dismissal california-rules-of-court conflict-of-interest court-procedure dismissal due-process fraud insufficient-records judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct notice procedural-deception |
Does due process require reversal of the dismissal of appeal based on the fact that the California 6th District Court of Appeal fraudulently dismissed… |
| 18-8000 |
Allister Freeman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts aedpa-limitations aedpa-time-limitations circuit-court-precedent civil-rights diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-test indigent-prisoner law-library law-library-access prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals precedent in Dodds v. United States and Atkins v. United States, denying equitable tolling to a pro-se i… |
| 18-8001 |
William Fykes v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights credibility criminal-procedure due-process intent jury-instructions post-arrest-silence prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination |
Whether Petitioner's rights under the due process of law were violated where the trial Court committed reversible error by refusing to provide jurors … |
| 18-8004 |
Henry Lee Craig v. Jody Bradley, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct judicial-oath prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial |
Did the Mississippi Attorney General and his assistant attorney general brief to the Mississippi Supreme Court of Appeals on page number 9 that the co… |
| 18-8005 |
Jason Brooks v. Angel Medina, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-appellate-review federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus merits-determination res-judicata rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) state-court-appeal state-court-appeals state-remedies |
Whether a federal appellate court can deny making a merits determination for a petitioner's failure to exhaust state remedies, when the petitioner's a… |
| 18-8007 |
Kenneth R. Beagle v. Kevin Lindsey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-ruling Alleyne-v-United-States constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process Montgomery-v-Louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-doctrine supreme-court teague-doctrine Teague-v-Lane |
Did the court in Montgomery v. Louisiana identify, for the first time, a third criteria for determining which of its rulings may be applied retroactiv… |
| 18-8029 |
Charles Russell Rhines v. Darin Young, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (6)IFP |
28-usc-2244(b) amendment anti-gay-animus appellate-procedure appellate-proceedings civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus impartial-jury juror-bias second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition second-or-successive-petitions standing |
Could reasonable jurists debate whether a court may permit an amendment to an initial habeas corpus petition, without applying 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)'s l… |
| 18-8030 |
Charles Russell Rhines v. Darin Young, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 cullen-v-pinholster federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan pinholster-standard procedural-default state-court-adjudication |
Where is the boundary between 'new claims,' whose default federal habeas courts may excuse, and 'new facts,' which federal habeas courts may not consi… |
| 18-8069 |
Eric Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-241 18-usc-242 agreement civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law due-process enhanced-penalties federal-statute proximate-cause spontaneous-event statutory-interpretation |
Whether conspiracy liability under 18 U.S.C. § 241 may be premised on unsubstantiated inferences of an agreement or mere participation in a spontaneou… |
| 18-8074 |
Javonte T. Morgan v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
challenge-for-cause civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-proceedings jury-selection peremptory-challenges standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the lower court erred in denying the petitioner's challenge for cause and finding the evidence sufficient to support the conviction |
| 18-8077 |
Donald Glenn Estes v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary-confinement mental-competency mental-health-confinement prosecutorial-evidence right-to-remain-silent wainwright-v-greenfield |
Whether this Court's Decisions in Wainwright v. Greenfield, 474 U.S. 284 (1996), and Buchanan v. Kentucky, 483 U.S. 402 (1987), Allow a Prosecutor to … |
| 18-8078 |
Elbert Walker v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-to-vacate statutory-interpretation time-requirements trial-court-error void-judgment |
Whether the trial court erred in dismissing petitioner's motion to vacate the indictment on the premise that the motion did not qualify as a statutory… |
| 18-8085 |
Steven Clayton Thomason v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-trust antitrust beacon-theatres beacon-theatres-inc.-v.-westover civil-procedure constitutional-procedure due-process jury-trial restraint-of-trade rooker-feldman standing |
whether-the-right-to-a-jury-trial-wherein-anti-trust-issues-are-before-the-court-in-a-restraint-of-trade-conflict-with-u.s.-supreme-court-holding-in-b… |
| 18-8088 |
Steve Lee Menius v. Michael Stephan, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts administrative-law administrative-response civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-system due-process free-speech grievance-procedure grievance-process inmate-rights prison-litigation-reform-act retaliation standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's civil rights claims due to failure to exhaust administrative remedies under the Prison… |
| 18-8093 |
John Ferreira v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legislative-amendment legislative-deference statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Did the State of Georgia err and violate the Petitioner's constitutional rights by upholding a statute that lacks an essential element of the crime ch… |
| 18-811 |
JPay, Inc. v. Cynthia Kobel, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitrability arbitrability-delegation arbitration-agreement class-arbitration contract-interpretation contractual-language dispute-resolution oxford-health-plans parties-intentions presumption stolt-nielsen stolt-nielsen-presumption |
Whether courts may presume parties intended to let an arbitrator decide if class arbitration is available when they 'simply agree[d] to submit' disput… |
| 18-8119 |
Walter Douglas Jenkins v. Israel Hamilton, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel standing waiver |
Was the petitioner denied by the United States Court of Appeals a prima facie of Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment due process |
| 18-8120 |
Jerry Lynn Lofton v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial defendant-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-comment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-silence self-incrimination testimonial-privilege |
Whether a prosecutor who this Court has held may not comment to a jury concerning a defendant's failure to testify in a criminal trial may submit his … |
| 18-8123 |
In Re Ronnie Lee Fagan |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel double-jeopardy mistrial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the trial court's exclusion of defense counsel denied the defendant an opportunity to be heard or object to the discharge of the jury, prejudi… |
| 18-8126 |
Ronnie W. Wilson v. Michael Stephan, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest-warrant civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause search-and-seizure standing vawa |
Should the VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) charges against the petitioner be dismissed because the arrest warrants were not signed? |
| 18-8134 |
Ramon Vasquez v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process false-conviction fundamental-rights liberty-interest substantive-rights |
Whether 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 9543 (a)(1)(i), as applied by the court violated Vasquez's Substantive Rights of Due Process by impinging collateral civil and … |
| 18-8136 |
Ong Vue v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-8146 |
Jamie Geer v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment interstate-police-action jurisdiction jurisdictional-violation minor-consent out-of-state-jurisdiction police-conduct wire-communication wiretap-act |
Whether the minors consent for the interception of wire communication is legally and constitutionally valid, when secured by police acting outside of … |
| 18-8147 |
Jerry Allen Horn v. Kansas |
Kansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights county-of-riverside-v-mclaughlin due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gerstein-hearing investigative-delay res-judicata sixth-amendment state-habeas-corpus supremacy-clause warrantless-arrest |
Question not identified |
| 18-8150 |
Ilya Liviz, Sr. v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-court access-to-courts care-and-protection child-custody constitutional-rights due-process federally-protected-rights jury-trial parental-rights question-of-law state-court |
Is Dad being denied his federally protected due process right to petition for redress and access to a meaningful hearing resulting from state's refusa… |
| 18-8155 |
Benjamin E. Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-right constitutional-rights courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-scholars standing state-prisoner |
Does a state and/or federal prisoner have a constitutional right to raise a freestanding claim of actual innocence, in a federal habeas corpus proceed… |
| 18-8161 |
Kali Lord v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
above-guidelines-sentence appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness |
Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error? |
| 18-8164 |
Geoffrey W. Freeman v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-application civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the statute of limitations for filing a civil rights lawsuit is unconstitutionally vague and arbitrarily applied, violating due process |
| 18-8182 |
Monty M. Shelton v. Gene Beasley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice non-capital obstruction procedural-hurdles savings-clause sixth-amendment |
Should meritorious actual innocence claims in non-capital Habeas Corpus filings overcome all procedural hurdles and be afforded at least one full and … |
| 18-8201 |
Robert Edward Butler v. Howard W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-appeal due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction legal-review procedural-default retroactivity state-post-conviction-proceedings statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Whether Supreme Court decisions in Buck v. Davis, Martinez v. Ryan, and Trevino v. Thaler permit federal habeas review of ineffective assistance of ap… |
| 18-8215 |
Blake Sandlain v. C. Johnson, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech maritime standing state-statutes takings |
Does the right of maritime states implicate the validity of the Assente Amendment for the purpose of banning certain cases, or was the validity of mar… |
| 18-8225 |
Barry Druilhet, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement witness-testimony |
Can a federal court consider enhance a defendant's sentence for obstruction of justice where the defendant was seeking out witnesses to testify on his… |
| 18-8230 |
Montgomery Carl Akers v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction legal-obstruction record standing |
Does petitioner/appellant/defendant have a constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment due process clause to have his case heard by the district co… |
| 18-8231 |
Alvin Stanley Briggs, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-review counsel-claim court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claim |
| 18-8233 |
Calvin J. Reid v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2255-motion 18-usc-4241 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance mental-competency mental-illness right-to-counsel standards-of-review |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has misapplied the standards set forth in Miller-El v. Cockrell and Buck v. Davis |
| 18-8234 |
Jeremy Snider v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines circuit-court-decision circuit-split cognizable-claims criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 federal-law federal-statute non-constitutional-claims post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-constitutional claims for sentencing relief grounded on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines can ever be cognizable under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 18-8237 |
Harry Eugene Briscoe v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-se-petition stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment |
Whether this U.S.S. Ct. will certify the conflict of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| 18-8245 |
Gary Casdell Fite v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-bank-robbery general-intent general-intent-crime section-2255 sentencing-enhancement |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 18-8256 |
Mustafa Ahmad Naushad v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach courts-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery judicial-discretion legal-definition specific-intent statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence violent-physical-force |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8261 |
Cordell Berry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement certificate-of-appealability collateral-review federal-rules-civil-procedure legal-error mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states procedural-reasonableness rule-59-motion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-miscalculation |
Whether the court of appeals committed clear legal error when it denied a certificate of appealability (COA), on my challenge to the application of a … |
| 18-8262 |
Christian Dior Womack v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-misconduct court-appointed-attorney court-appointment criminal-justice-act due-process ethical-standards fee-violation indigent-client judicial-discretion professional-conduct professional-misconduct referral |
Whether the District Court abused its discretion in declining to refer the court-appointed attorney's misconduct to the Chief Judge for an order to sh… |
| 18-8264 |
Guadalupe Avendano-Vasquez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure deportation due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether an appeal waiver precludes review of the sentence of supervised release when the defendant has been deported |
| 18-8265 |
Bradford D Vol Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-843b administrative-law auer-deference categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense notice-and-comment sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sentencing Commission may add a crime to the Sentencing Guideline definition of a 'controlled substance offense' without Congressional app… |
| 18-8266 |
Tamim Abdul-Samad, aka Tamin Abdul-Samad, aka Brandon Harris v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 924(c) bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach courts-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8267 |
Vincent Green v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ACCA acca-offender armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure enumerated-offense o.c.g.a.-16-7-1 sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's sentence as an ACCA offender must be set aside, whereas O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 is not a viable enumerated offense predicate, based… |
| 18-8268 |
Alandis D. Patterson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-history criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process presentence-investigation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance sexual-abuse |
Did the trial court err in overruling the Petitioner's objection to the Application of a two-level increase pursuant to U.S.S.G. Section 2G1.1(c)(1), … |
| 18-8269 |
Alejandro Casillas Prieto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 chapter-5-part-a criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range guidelines life-imprisonment notice offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the sentencing judge's oral pronouncement of the offense level 43 control? |
| 18-8274 |
Avniel Awan Anthony v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue obstruction-of-justice probation-department reckless-endangerment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines unproven-conduct Upward-variance |
Does the U.S. Probation Department have authority to apply enhancements for conduct alleged to have happened outside the jurisdiction of the United St… |
| 18-8275 |
Brian Sawyers v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection implicit-bias jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-selection racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Whether the federal district court should give an implicit-bias jury-instruction upon-request |
| 18-8277 |
Trevor Ransfer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 binding-precedent circuit-precedent crime-of-violence federal-appeals-court habeas-petition hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation successive-petition |
Should a three-judge panel's order denying a second or successive habeas petition be considered binding precedent? |
| 18-8281 |
Michael Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-intent criminal-law intimidation-statute leocal-v-ashcroft reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court in Carter v. United States add an additional layer of proof to 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) such that the government must now prove beyond a reas… |
| 18-8282 |
Jason Andrew Wright v. Oregon |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability on the petitioner's claim which was brought pursuant to Strickland v. Washingto… |
| 18-8289 |
Kwame Asafo-Adjei v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure mandatory-disclosure maryland-rule-4-342(d) maryland-rules plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing void-sentence |
Is the failure of the Maryland Court of Appeals to enforce the Maryland Rule 4-342(d) a denial of a citizen's equal protection right under the Fourtee… |
| 18-8293 |
Rodolfo Rivero Garcia, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment border-patrol border-search drug-interdiction drug-trafficking fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion terry-stop traffic-stop vehicle-search vehicle-stop |
Whether the stop of Mr. Garcia's vehicle was supported by reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-8294 |
Demetrius Fitzgerald v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law deadly-weapon federal-sentencing-guidelines florida-law florida-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime violent-felony |
Whether the Florida offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon is a violent felony under the ACCA and a crime of violence under the Federal Se… |
| 18-8299 |
Walter Raynard Lingard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution-rights appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-departure due-process judicial-discretion probation-revocation right-to-allocution sentencing-review |
Did the court of appeals err in its determination that the district court did not err in declining to vary downward based upon Lingard's state probati… |
| 18-8302 |
Dominique Dontae Lasker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach courts-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-definition specific-intent statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8306 |
Billy Gene Howard v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca acca-clause armed-career-criminal-act concurrent-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felony |
Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove the sentencing court relied on the residual clause |
| 18-8307 |
Dockery Cleveland v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment-search-and-seizure 6th-amendment-jury-trial appellate-review cell-phone cell-phone-search equal-protection fourth-amendment jury-selection ongoing-intrusion peremptory-challenge race-neutral-basis search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence time-limitation warrant warrant-limitation whether-defendant-must-renew-objection-to-perempto |
Whether the failure to extract information from a cell phone within the time limitation of a warrant requires suppression of the tardily obtained info… |
| 18-8308 |
Leonard Burton Jones v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights congressional-privileges constitutional-boundaries constitutional-law due-process in-personam judicial-immunity judicial-mechanics judicial-review privileges-and-restrictions prosecutorial-immunity separation-of-powers ultra-vires |
What is the Jurisprudence of the intra vires constitutional boundaries within the applied mechanics of exercising the judicial law of prosecutorial ab… |
| 18-8310 |
Azhar Lal v. B. G. Flores, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment damages deliberate-indifference due-process medical-treatment prisoner-rights standing |
Whether the prison doctor's deliberate failure to provide insulin treatment for a diabetic inmate's serious medical need amounts to cruel and unusual … |
| 18-8311 |
Ademolla Wahhed Adeyemi, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-8313 |
John Allen Newton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause general-intent intent intimidation statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
Is federal carjacking by intimidation not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) because the offense fails to requi… |
| 18-8316 |
Ricardo Guerrero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-materials criminal-justice-act evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-hearings expert-services habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-rights rule-5(b) section-3500(b) trial-counsel |
Whether the habeas corpus statute at Rule 5(b) mandates the government to address the petitioner's allegations, allowing the district court to circumv… |
| 18-8317 |
Robert Gering v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-right due-process florida-constitution florida-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial liberty-interest trial-by-jury |
Whether the constitutional right to a trial by jury in a civil commitment case can be circumvented by a Florida rule of civil procedure nullifying the… |
| 18-8318 |
Helen Thomasina Gardner v. Verizon Communications Inc. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach civil-procedure defined-contribution-plan erisa erisa-fiduciary-duties erisa-section-502 fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty health-insurance life-insurance participant plan-participant relief standing statutory-interpretation |
Do sections 502(a)(2) and 502(a)(3) of ERISA authorize a participant to sue for relief caused by breaches of fiduciary duties? |
| 18-8320 |
Darius Andre Holmes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buford-v-united-states career-offender categorical-approach circuit-court-review criminal-history de-novo-review eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement predicate-offense serious-drug-offense taylor-v-united-states |
Whether the circuit court departed from the established rule of Taylor v. United States, 495 US 575(1990), requiring a categorical approach to determi… |
| 18-8321 |
Noah Richard Lovell, III v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process free-standing-innocence-claim habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review signing-statement standing supreme-court teague-v-lane |
Should the Sixth Circuit have granted a certificate of appealability on the question of whether a free standing claim of innocence is a constitutional… |
| 18-8324 |
Johnny Madison Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)? |
| 18-8325 |
Amaury Villa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-procedure u-s-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether appellant received the effective assistance of counsel? |
| 18-8327 |
Robert Nathan Alm v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8328 |
Maritza Burgueno-Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-USC-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion federal-sentencing sentencing-considerations sentencing-disparities smuggling smuggling-scheme unwarranted-sentences |
Whether the district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)'s rule that a district court must consider unwarranted sentencing disparities |
| 18-8329 |
Aristides Duartez, Jr., aka Aristedes Duartez, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the elements cause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(A) |
| 18-8330 |
Martin Fitzgerald Connors v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 18-8331 |
Jeffrey Bowers v. Frank Lawrence, Acting Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-separation plain-error |
Whether a conflict exists between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Appellate Court in case at bar where jury separation after deliberations ha… |
| 18-8333 |
Jorge Sosa v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 criminal-law due-process racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-crime violent-crime-in-aid-of-racketeering |
Whether a VICAR conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) can be sustained when a gang member commits a violent act that is unrelated to the racketeering e… |
| 18-8336 |
London Ettione Dunbar v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-precedent miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review stare-decisis |
Should this court grant this petition to determine whether the lower court's refusal to issue a certificate of appealability is at conflict with this … |
| 18-8337 |
David Michael Decker v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence deficient-performance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief strickland-analysis strickland-v-washington |
Whether an initial post-conviction attorney's failure to raise a substantial claim of ineffective assistance of counsel could be considered reasonable… |
| 18-8339 |
Joshua E. Shepherd v. Jeffrey E. Krueger, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca-prior-conviction acca-purposes constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue criminal-law due-process federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts prior-conviction sentencing state-case-law state-courts state-statute state-statute-analysis statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is 'generic' for ACCA purposes based solely on another federal co… |
| 18-8344 |
James Edward Whitney v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-procedure appeal-process-issues civil-procedure clerk-error clerk-of-court clerk-of-court-duties court-filing due-process institutional-filing notice-of-appeal record record-filing record-lodging standing timeliness |
Whether the clerk of the court improperly declined to lodge the record on the petitioner's appeal from the order of the Circuit Court for Washington C… |
| 18-8345 |
Gary Lakey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus indictment judicial-procedure jurisdiction |
Did the Eleventh Circuit decide an appeal without jurisdiction when it denied a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on all issues on the basis that the… |
| 18-8346 |
Danilo Velasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidence expert-testimony fundamental-rights life-sentence ninth-circuit sentencing |
Did the Ninth Circuit fail to protect petitioner's fundamental due process right to present his complete defense? |
| 18-8347 |
Jason Allen Tiszai v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-courts-conflict federal-jurisdiction fex-v-michigan florida-law interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-detainers judicial-review jurisdiction speedy-trial state-court-determination |
Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial |
| 18-8349 |
Daverne Michael Foy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-proceedings plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights waiver |
Whether the trial court's consideration of non-charged offenses with significantly higher sentencing guidelines constitutes plain error affecting the … |
| 18-8352 |
Lino Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582(c)(2) 3553(a)-factors 3582(c)(2)-motion amendment-782 amendment-782-788 criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentence-disparity sentence-reduction sentencing-disparities sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court committed substantive error in sentencing |
| 18-8353 |
David A. Hicks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-rule criminal-procedure due-process evidence-destruction exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct habeas-corpus spoliation-of-evidence witness-credibility |
Whether the Government can destroy evidence a defendant has sufficient reason to believe is necessary to prove innocence in an anticipated § 2241 Moti… |
| 18-8355 |
Mario Chester Tabron v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary burglary-element criminal-enhancement criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fourth Circuit and the Middle district Of North Carolina (Greensboro) err in affirming the USSG 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) | 4-Level enhancement without p… |
| 18-8357 |
Richard A. Wilford v. Bradley M. Trate, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-privilege criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner governmental-custodian habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pro-se pro-se-petition standing unlawful-detention |
Whether the dismissal for lack of jurisdiction of a federal prisoner's pro se petition for the writ of habeas corpus against the governmental custodia… |
| 18-8358 |
Joel S. Elliott v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure brief-denial certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion jurisdiction merits standing |
Did the Circuit Court err when it denied in part the appellants Combined Opening Brief and Application for Certificate of Appealability on the merits? |
| 18-8359 |
Jarrett Terrell Edwards v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.1 u.s.s.g.-4b1.1(a) |
Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed error by sentencing the Petitioner as a career offender pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 4B1… |
| 18-8360 |
Fernando Castillo-Quintanilla v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif sentencing strict-liability |
Whether the 'knowingly or intentionally' mens rea in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) and 960(a) applies to the offense elements of drug type and drug quantity in … |
| 18-8361 |
Arturo Sarli v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights consent-to-search custodial-interrogation detention due-process fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-consent vehicle-search |
Whether consent to search comes to a natural end after a thorough and fruitless search has been conducted or may officers use the initial consent to s… |
| 18-8362 |
Pedro Rodriguez-Cortez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines immigration-offense sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether a combined 70-month sentence on an immigration offense and the underlying supervised release violation was substantively unreasonable? |
| 18-8363 |
Joshua G. Stegemann v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1915 appellate-procedure circuit-court criminal-appeal dismissal federal-rules greenlaw-v-united-states gvr in-forma-pauperis neitzke-v-williams party-presentation-rule sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal |
Whether the Second Circuit may dismiss a criminal appeal sua sponte under Neitzke v. Williams and 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (e) without briefing by any party a… |
| 18-8364 |
James D. Sullivan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure evidence-rule-414 evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-evidence grand-jury plea-agreement plea-withdrawal prosecutorial-discretion rule-104 rule-414 |
Whether the trial court must determine by a preponderance of evidence that the defendant engaged in child molestation conduct |
| 18-8366 |
Anthony Eudean Woollis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-sanctions due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified … |
| 18-8370 |
Lonnie Eugene Lillard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-procedure ninth-circuit self-representation |
What procedural safeguards are afforded to federal criminal defendants when an Appellate Court panel exercises its discretion in deciding whether or n… |
| 18-8373 |
Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-officer-fraud criminal-conviction fraud fraud-by-officer-of-court hazel-atlas hazel-atlas-motion officer-of-the-court puerto-rico-territory second-or-successive-2255-petition second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Could a Hazel-Atlas motion be used to attack a criminal conviction? |
| 18-8378 |
Garron T. Briggs v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceeding plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-prong reasonable-probability right-to-trial strickland-v-washington |
Whether the district court's ruling, which implies that when a petitioner successfully proves that his counsel was ineffective, that petitioner must t… |
| 18-838 |
Scott Kaseburg, et al. v. Port of Seattle, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure federal-interest federal-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption federal-statute grable-type-jurisdiction property-rights quiet-title railroad-easement state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction trails-act |
Whether Grable-type subject matter jurisdiction exists where (A) it is undisputed that the Plaintiffs' state law cause of action for quiet title does … |
| 18-8382 |
Guy Ennis Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech military military-medals ninth-circuit speech-restrictions standing stolen-valor-act supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Alvarez has any effect on the subsection that criminalized the unauthorized wearing of military meda… |
| 18-8387 |
Delmart E. J. M. Vreeland, II v. David Zupan, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflicting-rulings defendant-rights due-process forfeiture implied-waiver intelligent judicial-discretion knowing right-to-counsel trial-court-procedure voluntary waiver waiver-of-counsel |
Whether a trial court violates this Court's requirement that any waiver of counsel be knowing, voluntary and intelligent |
| 18-8388 |
Brian Wright v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-tracking due-process fourth-amendment overbreadth search-and-seizure sentencing supervised-release tapia-error vagueness warrantless-search |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that there was no 'egregious violation' of Mr. Wright's Fourth Amendment rights when Mr. Wright's cellular phone … |
| 18-8390 |
Jose Salvador Lantigua v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C.-455(a) 28-usc-455 court-victim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal sentencing sentencing-guidelines victim-of-crime |
Whether a sentencing judge should recuse himself when he expressly views his own court as a 'victim' of the offense in deciding to sentence a defendan… |
| 18-8391 |
Nam Nhat Ngo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8392 |
Obinna Obiora v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
When the evidence that links a defendant to a charged drug conspiracy is based on his participation in an isolated series of alleged transactions with… |
| 18-8394 |
Asim Shakir Daniels v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process equal-protection federal-crime federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8395 |
Janet Sonja Schonewolf v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split criminal-sentencing prison-sentence prison-term rehabilitation sentencing-discretion sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation tapia-v-united-states |
Whether § 3582(a) prohibits sentencing courts from taking rehabilitation into consideration at all in selecting a prison sentence, or whether it merel… |
| 18-8400 |
Travis Demond Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness statutory-purposes-of-sentencing upward-departure |
Whether the district court erred in departing upward under the United States Sentencing Guidelines §4A1.3 |
| 18-8401 |
Justin D. Burgess v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, dba Christiana Trust, as Trustee for Premium Mortgage Acquisition Trust |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
automatic-stay civil-procedure court-rules due-process equal-protection judgment judgment
18-83" lawsuit Question not identified. rules standing |
Is it an error and an impermissible denial of due process of law and equal protection of law for a court to ignore its own rules which would impose an… |
| 18-8402 |
Jesse Allen Dauenhauer, aka Jesse A. Dauenhauer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 4th-amendment,search-and-seizure,exclusionary-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence washington-state-law |
Should the District Court have suppressed the evidence of firearms in the Defendant's car because the search and seizure was inadmissible under Washin… |
| 18-8403 |
Sergio Caballero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment habeas-corpus third-party-culpability |
Whether the district court violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights by failing to allow evidence of third-party culpability |
| 18-8404 |
Adrian Laroy Seymore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process evidence evidentiary-standard government-evidence presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a District Court erred in applying a guideline enhancement based solely on allegations contained in the Presentence Investigation Report after… |
| 18-8405 |
Mohammed Suleiman Roble v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-defense criminal-defense-attorney-ineffectiveness due-process exculpatory-evidence government-evidence ineffective-assistance pre-trial-proceedings reasonableness sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Does Strickland v. Washington require the government's evidence to be weak to find a criminal defense attorney ineffective under the Sixth Amendment? |
| 18-8406 |
Demone Rule v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempt-offense attempted-offense categorical-approach elements-clause illinois-law physical-force sentencing-enhancement substantial-step violent-felony |
Whether an Illinois attempt offense that does not require the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property o… |
| 18-8410 |
Marshall Ray Miller v. Joseph L. McFadden, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement-statements personal-jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability where Petitioner demonstrated a substantial showing of a con… |
| 18-8411 |
Lecephrus Pierce v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent traffic-stop vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals abandoned established Supreme Court precedent in affirming the petitioner's conviction despite finding no … |
| 18-8423 |
Willie White v. Justin Hammers, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2248 administrative-law application-granted civil-procedure court-order court-orders default-judgment due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-default respondent-failure statutory-interpretation |
Whether the application should have been granted after the respondent failed to reply to the court orders |
| 18-8424 |
Keith Jenkins v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-punishment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is the trial court in error by denying the motion to quash based on errors in the multiple offender charging, pleading and proof? |
| 18-8427 |
Malcolm Roy Evans v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel right-to-testify self-representation |
Whether a trial court may summarily prohibit an accused from testifying in his own defense |
| 18-8430 |
Juan Bosco Alvarez v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 aedpa constitutional-claim due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-rules supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a federal habeas court contravenes this Court's precedent when it evaluates the merits of a petitioner's claim without regard for the state co… |
| 18-8433 |
Emond Durea Logan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-proceedings effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington totality-of-circumstances |
Whether a defendant may be entitled to relief for an attorney's ineffective assistance, even if another attorney offered reasonable advice |
| 18-8435 |
Roy Allen Green v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-vagueness due-process mandatory-sentencing residual-clause retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch, retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally vague,… |
| 18-8436 |
David Fehr Harder v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-8439 |
Richard Larry Lacey v. Oregon |
Oregon |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
courtroom-removal defendant-misconduct forfeiture misconduct right-to-representation self-representation sixth-amendment trial-rights waiver waiver-forfeiture |
Does a self-represented defendant waive or forfeit his Sixth Amendment right to representation when the defendant intentionally engages in misconduct … |
| 18-8442 |
Marc Dutch v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment apprendi criminal-procedure indictment jury prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s requirement that prior convictions be 'committed on occasions different from one another' require such facts to be allege… |
| 18-8445 |
Tommy McAdoo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery federal-statute intimidation physical-force sentencing violent-physical-force |
Should this Court accept review to resolve the conflicting 'intimidation' interpretations the Circuits have given the federal bank robbery statute? |
| 18-8448 |
Edward Bishop v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-files dna-evidence evidence fourth-amendment particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant |
Does a search warrant which described the place to be searched and the things to be seized fail the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18-8451 |
Luciano Garcia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance tenth-circuit variance |
Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-8455 |
Marc Shiroma v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery constitutional crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery ussg-4b1.2 void-for-vagueness |
Is a threatened use of physical force against the person of another an element of federal bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. §2113(a), so as to make it a crime o… |
| 18-8469 |
Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2422(b) age-of-consent coercion consensual-sexual-activity criminal-attempt criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process enticement entrapment federal-criminal-law mens-rea minor sexual-activity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the crime of attempted enticing of a minor is committed when a person agrees to engage in consensual sexual activity with an adult that the pe… |
| 18-8470 |
Tommy Lee Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial judicial-conduct sentencing |
Has the District Court denied Mr. Jones a fair trial by allowing unsustained and unproven testimony into evidence |
| 18-8471 |
Arthur Abraham v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof confinement due-process insanity-acquittee mental-health personality-disorder personality-traits release state-confinement |
Whether the Due Process Clause permits the State to continue to confine an insanity acquittee after he has recovered his sanity, as long as he has und… |
| 18-8473 |
Eric Laquinne Brown, aka Eric L. Brown, aka Eric Brown v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea mental-competency mental-evaluation mental-health mississippi-uniform-rule-9.06 plea-bargaining procedural-bars procedural-due-process standing |
Did Brown have a Constitutional right to have a competency hearing before he plead guilty? |
| 18-8475 |
In Re Kevin Funk |
|
Denied |
IFP |
allodial-tenure constitutional-rights contract contract-interference due-process federal-land-patent irrevocable-trust land-ownership property-protection takings u.s.-constitution-article-one-section-ten |
Is there a right for the irrevocable trustee and patent holder to redress any breach of the trust and hold and retain the land until in the judgement … |
| 18-8490 |
Bernard Mitchell v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-street-gangs discretion due-process evidence gang-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-exposure jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-review |
Did the court abuse its discretion in permitting the jury to be exposed to the nicknames 'Crip' and ''Scrap,' which have been taken as a suggestion th… |
| 18-8503 |
In Re Leroy Lamont Wells |
|
Denied |
IFP |
case-documentation circuit-court conviction correctional-institution criminal-conviction criminal-convictions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus lane-county-circuit-court legal-status leroy-lamont-wells oregon-correctional-institution prison-records procedural-inquiry standing state-court |
Does Petitioner have three convictions in Lane County Circuit Court Case No.201404943, State of Oregon v. Leroy Lamont Wells, as of 12/12/2018, as pur… |
| 18-852 |
Anne L. Precythe v. Ernest Johnson |
Eighth Circuit |
GVR |
|
administrative-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method feasible-alternative glossip-v-gross method-of-execution nitrogen-gas pentobarbital pleading-requirements |
Whether an inmate who demands an alternative method of execution must plead facts detailing the procedure by which his proposed alternative method of … |
| 18-8579 |
In Re John Weter, Jr. |
|
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the FISA program was intended and authorized by the FISA Court for a legitimate purpose by the Obama Administration, but was instead used to i… |
| 18-8587 |
In Re Christopher Stegawski |
|
Denied |
IFP |
21-cfr-1306.04 21-usc-802 21-usc-841 allocution chronic-pain-treatment cross-examination due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel medical-expert strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-fairness united-states-v-moore witness-testimony |
Was the trial fair when key defense witnesses were not investigated pretrial, court denied Defendant's request to cross examine government medical exp… |
| 18-868 |
Electric Power Supply Association, et al. v. Anthony M. Star, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
auction-rates federal-power-act ferc ferc-jurisdiction just-and-reasonable-rates market-rates preemption preemption-doctrine state-subsidies wholesale-electricity wholesale-electricity-markets |
Whether the Federal Power Act preempts state subsidies that lack an express requirement to sell in FERC-approved auctions but that, by design, subsidi… |
| 18-879 |
Electric Power Supply Association, et al. v. John B. Rhodes, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
energy-regulation federal-power-act ferc ferc-preemption just-and-reasonable-rates market-based-auctions preemption state-subsidies wholesale-electricity wholesale-electricity-markets |
Whether the Federal Power Act preempts state subsidies that lack an express requirement to sell in FERC-approved auctions but that, by design, subsidi… |
| 18-888 |
Michael S. Bent v. Cheryl Strange, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 due-process federal-grants impartiality judicial-impartiality noncustodial-parent parens-patriae social-security-act state-courts strict-scrutiny title-iv-d |
Does the federal classification of 'noncustodial parent' under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act violate due process? |
| 18-899 |
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, et al. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-proceeding federal-circuit indian-tribe inter-partes-review patent-challenge patent-law patent-office patent-trial-and-appeal-board sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereign-immunity |
Whether inter partes review before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is the type of proceeding in which tribal sovereign immunity may be asserted |
| 18-949 |
Jamal Knox v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-threat first-amendment free-speech reasonable-person speech-protection subjective-intent terroristic-threats true-threat true-threats |
Whether a 'reasonable person' standard or a 'subjective intent' standard should apply to determine if a statement is a 'true threat' unprotected by th… |
| 18-961 |
Mitchell R. Swartz v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-145 35-usc-section-145 administrative-law civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-review judicial-procedure patent patent-application patent-law-35-usc-145 patent-office standing takings |
Whether the court erred in not being consistent with prior Supreme Court decisions regarding the requirement of 35 U.S.C. §145 claims to address new e… |
| 18-996 |
Charles Lavel Stringer v. Storesonline, Inc., et al. |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response Waived |
chancery-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-1654 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the Mississippi Supreme Court refuse to apply the mandatory language in the use of the word of shall in Mississippi Code of Ann § 11-1-17 in viola… |
| 18M125 |
Victor Gabriel Nunez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M126 |
Carman L. Deck v. Richard Jennings, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M127 |
Chester S. Vaughn v. James Hoot Gibson, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M128 |
Christopher Diep v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M129 |
Yi S. v. Administration for Children's Services of the City of New York |
New York |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M130 |
Janet Fawemimo v. American Airlines, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M131 |
Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M132 |
Thomas Reynolds v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M133 |
Osmin Agruellaz Meraz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|