| 18-1005 |
Eileen L. Zell v. Katherine M. Klingelhafer, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure court-misconduct cover-up due-process judicial-bias legal-malpractice perjury political-influence settlement-conference |
Whether the actions of the district and appellate courts violated due process by allowing perjury, denying motions, and covering up misconduct by a pr… |
| 18-1076 |
In Re Robert K. Hudnall |
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Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction secret-hearing service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a State Supreme Court with only appellate jurisdiction can exercise personal jurisdiction without proper service of process, take subject matt… |
| 18-1077 |
Akil Jahi, aka Preston Carter v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
|
atkins-v-virginia collateral-review constitutional-protection death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Does Hall v. Florida apply retroactively to cases on collateral review? |
| 18-1087 |
Javier Chavez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts attorney-abandonment attorney-death certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-access due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline legal-malpractice pro-se |
Should the Fifth Circuit have granted a Certificate of Appealability on equitable tolling when Petitioner's retained lawyer died and no one could find… |
| 18-1089 |
Annette Benjamin v. Felder Services, L.L.C., dba Oxford Health and Rehab Center |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
age-discrimination burden-of-proof civil-rights direct-evidence disparate-treatment employment-act employment-discrimination employment-law poor-performance pretext summary-judgment workplace-discrimination |
Whether a court may properly grant summary judgment in an Age Discrimination in Employment Act case by accepting as true the employer's disputed claim… |
| 18-1095 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-discharge-injunction bankruptcy-discharge bosse bosse-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights court-judgment creditor-rights discharged-debtor judicial-procedure personal-liability rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine unsecured-creditor |
Whether 11 U.S.C. Sec. 524(a)(1) and 11 U.S.C. Sec. 524(a)(2) void court judgments that determine a discharged Chapter 7 no asset' debtor still has pe… |
| 18-1096 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
as-applied-challenge civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation retaliation standing vexatious-litigant |
Is California's vexatious litigant law unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-1098 |
Daniel E. Witte v. Jayden H. Huynh, nka Jayden Scacco |
Utah |
Denied |
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14th-amendment civil-litigation civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process faretta-v-california first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech pro-se-representation self-representation strict-scrutiny |
Is a pro se civil litigant's right of self-representation in state court protected as a fundamental federal constitutional right subject to the strict… |
| 18-1104 |
Nina Ringgold v. Providence Health & Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
ada americans-with-disabilities-act associational-standing circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-rights disability-discrimination injunctive-relief mootness mootness-doctrine rehabilitation-act standing |
Whether a non-disabled plaintiff must establish a separate injury causally related to, but separate and distinct from, a disabled person's injury |
| 18-1106 |
Delaware Riverkeeper Network, et al. v. Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-review administrative-review-process clean-water-act federal-preemption federalism finality-standard natural-gas-act preemption state-finality-standard state-law tenth-amendment |
May a federal court preempt a state's administrative-review-process by substituting a federal-finality-standard for a state-finality-standard |
| 18-1112 |
Alvin S. Kanofsky v. Bethlehem Area School District |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-v bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection freedom-of-speech government-action religion religious-discrimination takings taxation taxation-dispute |
Was Kanofsky denied Due Process, as required in Article V of the Bill of Rights? |
| 18-1113 |
Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. Laurie Zelon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint district-court-dismissal due-process federal-circuit-court federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-precedent rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of the federal civil rights complaint under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine |
| 18-1115 |
Ronald DeCoster v. Waushara County Highway Department, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process fair-notice federal-funding fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation res-judicata takings uniform-relocation-assistance ura |
Whether petitioner's claims under the URA, the Fifth Amendment, and 42 U.S.C. §1983 are barred by claim preclusion and res judicata despite lack of no… |
| 18-1118 |
Kim Kerrigan v. Qualstar Credit Union, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction presumption-against-jurisdiction procedural-presumption removal removal-jurisdiction standing standing-challenge state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction washington-law |
Whether the presumption against federal court subject matter jurisdiction is rebutted by state procedural law |
| 18-1121 |
Captain James Linlor v. Michael Polson |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
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4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-powers qualified-immunity sexual-battery tsa tsa-screener tsa-screening |
Whether the attested-as-intentional excessive and unreasonable force striking of a cooperative passenger's genitals by a TSA screener not meeting mand… |
| 18-1128 |
Curtis Minchuk v. Craig Strand |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split deadly-force deadly-force-justification excessive-force fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity self-defense totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
Whether evidence of a dangerous and violent suspect's sudden and unexpected gesture of surrender immediately and objectively terminates the deadly thr… |
| 18-1136 |
Beverly L. Hennager v. Troutman Sanders LLP |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees charging-liens civil-procedure civil-rights client-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-ethics legal-fees pro-se-representation standing |
Whether charging liens should be clarified to apply only to judgments obtained with the lawyer's assistance, not client funds, to protect constitution… |
| 18-1138 |
Charles Kinney v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-discretion retaliation standing vexatious-litigant |
Unconstitutional vagueness of California vexatious litigant law, violation of civil and constitutional rights, bankruptcy law violations, due process … |
| 18-1143 |
Ronald Lee Blake v. Federal Bureau of Investigation |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-determination employment-law expungement federal-employment federal-law-enforcement full-faith-and-credit standing state-felony-conviction |
can federal law enforcement employment determinations be based upon a state felony conviction that was expunged by operation of law within the state o… |
| 18-1146 |
Johanna Ong, et al. v. Hudson County Superior Court, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment bodily-harm civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations damages due-process eighth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing statute-of-limitations |
Did the lower courts repeatedly violate the Petitioners' Constitutional protections, including Fifth/Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Rights and Eight… |
| 18-1148 |
Kimberly Franett-Fergus v. Omak School District 19, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
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burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights diversity diversity-considerations employment employment-discrimination hiring-practices national-origin protected-classes race racial-bias religion summary-judgment |
Discrimination-based-on-perceived-race/religion/national-origin |
| 18-1159 |
The Universal Church, Inc. v. Calvin Toellner, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
archaic-religious-texts circuit-split civil-rights contemporary-public-perception free-speech generic-marks generic-term legal-standard public-perception religious-freedom religious-organizations standing technical-theological-usages theological-usages trademark trademark-law trademark-protection |
Whether religious organizations' names like The Universal Church' and 'Universal Church' can be deemed generic as a matter of law regardless of eviden… |
| 18-1174 |
Ian Goldenberg, et al. v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
eminent-domain equity judicial-taking just-compensation just-compensation-clause natural-gas-act preliminary-injunction property-rights separation-of-powers takings |
Whether a judicially-conferred right of possession to a pipeline company before judgment and without compensation in a Natural Gas Act taking improper… |
| 18-1175 |
Colin Shillinglaw v. Baylor University, et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-preemption preemption res-judicata state-court-procedure |
Whether the FAA preempts a conflicting state anti-SLAPP statute and precludes a state court from refusing either to compel arbitration or to stay liti… |
| 18-1176 |
Eric Wenzel, et al. v. Carl Storm |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-rights dash-camera-evidence dash-camera-video excessive-force fourth-amendment lytle-v-bexar-county police-use-of-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris seizure-intrusive seizure-standard summary-judgment unarmed-suspect |
Did the Eighth Circuit err in holding that Officer Storm was entitled to qualified immunity for the fatal shooting of Mr. Wenzel under the Fourth Amen… |
| 18-1234 |
John A. Moriarty, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 18-1248 |
Neil C. Kienast and Braman B. Broy v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography circuit-split due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement privacy-interest probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-doctrine suppression-of-evidence warrant warrant-validity |
Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies to a warrant that should have never been issued, involving the government's reproduc… |
| 18-1251 |
Sandy Annabi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-deprivation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing standing |
Whether petitioner has established a colorable claim of constitutional deprivation such that the Court of Appeals should have issued a certificate of … |
| 18-1254 |
Jeremiah L. King v. United States |
Armed Forces |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-facts fifth-amendment permissive-inference search-terms sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Court of Appeals relied upon permissive inferences that violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment in finding Petitioner's con… |
| 18-319 |
E. & J. Gallo Winery, et al. v. Refugio Arreguin |
California |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
arbitrability circuit-court-split circuit-split class-arbitration federal-arbitration-act gateway-question gateway-question-of-arbitrability oxford-health-plans oxford-health-plans-v-sutter stolt-nielsen stolt-nielsen-v-animalfeeds supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a court, or an arbitrator, decides whether an arbitration agreement permits class arbitration |
| 18-5924 |
Evangelisto Ramos v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine racial-discrimination sixth-amendment stare-decisis unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict? |
| 18-6611 |
Sherif Philips v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law fraud fraud-upon-court medical-license medical-statute right-to-honest-services summary-suspension vagueness-doctrine |
Whether due process of law should be allowed |
| 18-670 |
SFR Investments Pool 1, LLC v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
federal-housing-finance federal-housing-finance-authority fhfa foreclosure-bar lien-enforcement lien-priority mortgage-securitization property-rights real-estate-transactions secondary-mortgage-market securitized-mortgages statutory-interpretation tax-liens |
Does 12 U.S.C. § 4617(j)(3) apply to foreclosures of properties for which FHFA holds a securitized mortgage solely as trustee for the security holders… |
| 18-6734 |
Henry Franklin Reddick v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights digital-privacy digital-search fourth-amendment hash-value private-search private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Does a police officer violate the Fourth Amendment by opening a digital file and viewing an image in it without a warrant to confirm a private company… |
| 18-6758 |
Michael Bordman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography constitutional-vagueness continued-dissemination due-process harm-disaggregation initial-abuse restitution sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the restitution award in child pornography sentencings must disaggregate the harm caused by the initial abuse from the harm caused by the poss… |
| 18-6774 |
Jimmy L. Thompson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession firearm-charges predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute |
Whether a conviction based on a void statute can be used to increase punishment |
| 18-679 |
Erick Virgil Hall v. Idaho |
Idaho |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-standards death-penalty felony-murder heinous-atrocious-cruel jury-sentencing narrowing-requirement propensity-to-commit-murder sentencing-guidance utter-disregard |
Whether certain of the 'aggravating circumstances' used by Idaho to determine whether a defendant may be sentenced to death—those that ask whether the… |
| 18-6870 |
James Frederick v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca-elements-clause bodily-harm categorical-approach causation-of-harm circuit-split criminal-law curtis-johnson duenas-alvarez florida-battery-statute statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-force |
Whether causation of harm necessarily entails the use of 'violent force' under Curtis Johnson |
| 18-6881 |
Jason Alston v. Mississippi Department of Employment Security |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights conspiracy due-process employment-security fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-proceedings jurisdiction state-government unemployment-benefits |
Whether the Mississippi Department of Employment Security and/or Mississippi Department of Transportation violated petitioner due process rights under… |
| 18-7017 |
Donna A. Black v. Jerome Lindsay |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights dc-housing-authority discrimination due-process habitability-standards housing housing-discrimination housing-voucher landlord-tenant landlord-tenant-law lead-poisoning public-housing |
Why is our family left homeless when the landlord Jerome W. Lindsey Jr. AKA Jerome W. Lindsay Jr. had a job to maintain and keep a home in habitable l… |
| 18-7188 |
Ian R. Davis v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2244 actual-innocence brady-v-maryland discovery due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition prima-facie-showing successive-petition witness-recantation |
Whether the proof necessary to make a prima facie showing that a petitioner satisfies 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(ii) is equivalent to the proof necessa… |
| 18-719 |
Kathleen Uradnik v. Inter Faculty Organization, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
association associational-freedoms compelled-association constitutional-scrutiny exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech labor-union labor-unions public-sector public-sector-employees |
Whether it violates the First Amendment to appoint a labor union to represent and speak for public-sector employees who have declined to join the unio… |
| 18-7203 |
Francisco Salazar v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appointed-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-record-on-appeal free-transcript in-forma-pauperis indigent standing trial-court-order |
Whether the trial court erred in denying Francisco Salazar's motion to proceed in forma pauperis |
| 18-7225 |
Neil Gillespie v. Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. |
Florida |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
7th-amendment administrative-procedure buyer-incompetence civil-rights constitutional-challenge disciplinary-functions due-process federal-regulation foia foreclosure home-equity-conversion-mortgage hud-jurisdiction lawyers-guild mortgage-law nonlawyer-ownership older-americans-act privacy-rights pro-se-litigation securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 standing the-florida-bar trial-by-jury unlicensed-practice-of-medicine void-for-vagueness voting-rights |
Is the federal HECM reverse mortgage program unconstitutional? |
| 18-7321 |
Michael A. Young v. Carol Chapdelaine, Warden |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals certiorari civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-action standing statutory-provisions supreme-court |
Whether indigent petitioner's freestanding factual innocence showing is being constructively denied appointment of counsel on first and all other appe… |
| 18-7450 |
Bradley B. Miller v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
anti-injunction-act civil-liability civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-immunity removal removal-proceedings state-court-procedure state-courts supremacy-clause title-28 |
Whether federal jurisdiction remains during the pendency of a removal |
| 18-7470 |
Carl Lee Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking categorical-approach crimes-of-violence criminal-law federal-carjacking intimidation physical-force residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether federal carjacking by way of intimidation is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)'s force clause |
| 18-7527 |
David Phillip Wilson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation co-defendant-statement criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kaupp-v-texas probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct wong-sun-v-united-states |
Whether the prosecution's failure to provide Brady evidence is excused by trial counsel's lack of diligence in pursuing that evidence, and whether Mr.… |
| 18-7543 |
Rodney Landingham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime void-for-vagueness |
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)? |
| 18-7546 |
Sherman Vickers v. Marina del Rey Marina, LLC |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-dismissal appellate-procedure automatic-stay civil-procedure clerk-error court-dismissal designation-of-records due-process fair-hearing record-perfection right-to-fair-hearing right-to-fair-trial |
Whether there is an automatic stay for the Court of Appeals |
| 18-757 |
Teddy Chuang v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation brady-vs-maryland california-penal-code-141 constitutional-mandate due-process evidence-concealment exculpatory-evidence penal-code-violation prosecutable prosecutorial-misconduct trombetta trombetta-standard trombetta-v-california |
Whether a case is prosecutable when the District Attorney commits a felony in violation of California Penal Code § 141, which violates Brady v. Maryla… |
| 18-7573 |
Matthew Hearn v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
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)? |
| 18-7576 |
Jordaan Stanly Creque v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder constitutional-rights credibility death-penalty due-process law-enforcement-testimony law-enforcement-witness reliable-process summation summation-and-bolstering trial-by-jury witness-credibility |
Does a capital murder conviction and death sentence violate due-process, trial-by-jury, and reliable-process rights when a law-enforcement witness who… |
| 18-7648 |
William R. Stevenson v. R. Cordova, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-violation-obvious-standard constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference directed-verdict-standard due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-deliberate-indifference judicial-bias perjured-testimony prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment summary-judgment-qualified-immunity |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding the law was not clearly established as to the conduct of Defendants Espinoza and Williams and in conc… |
| 18-7713 |
Darnell Grimsley v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-default prosecution-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sequestration sequestration-order sufficiency-of-evidence trial-testimony violation-of-sequestration-order |
Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the district court's opinion that this issue was procedurally defaulted and finding that Mr. Grimsley was no… |
| 18-772 |
Erasmo Aviles, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-testimony government-interests immunity prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination witness-immunity |
Does due process require a court to compel the government, on pain of dismissal, to seek immunity for an essential defense witness if government's int… |
| 18-782 |
William C. Bond v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
amendment circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process leave-to-amend pleading pleading-deficiencies pro-se pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether a district court must provide a reason for denying a pro se litigant leave to amend the complaint |
| 18-790 |
Tin Cup, LLC v. Army Corps of Engineers |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-action appropriations appropriations-act clean-water-act corps-of-engineers delineation fiscal-year statutory-interpretation wetlands wetlands-delineation |
Whether Congress' use of the words 'will' and 'until' in a provision of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act of 1993 requires the Corps… |
| 18-7911 |
Albert Miklos Kun v. State Bar of California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
11th-amendment 14th-amendment bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption federalism fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-bar Whether petitioner's right to protection by the Eq Whether petitioner's rights protected by the Due P Whether the California Supreme Court may order pay |
Whether California waived its sovereign immunity to the Bankruptcy Clause |
| 18-7916 |
Jimmy Lee Wren v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection post-conviction-relief rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's request to file a successive petition for post-conviction relief based on a ne… |
| 18-8027 |
Michael Eugene Sample v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
IFP |
case-remand collateral-review criminal-justice death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review montgomery-v-louisiana moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari |
Does Moore v. Texas apply retroactively to cases on collateral review? |
| 18-8052 |
Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity retroactivity |
Does the partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) claims designed by the Florida Supreme Court, as applied to a priso… |
| 18-8063 |
Shaun Mark Lawler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon due-process equal-protection family-violence guilty-plea heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder sentencing statutory-punishment |
Is it unconstitutional for the Texas Legislature to authorize a greater punishment range and maximum punishment for aggravated assault - family violen… |
| 18-8071 |
Stephen Silas Thomas v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 18-8072 |
John J. Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process pro-se-representation sixth-amendment transcripts |
Can appellate counsel be denied, forcing a criminal defendant to represent himself in a direct appeal to the state district courts of appeal? |
| 18-8073 |
Tony D. Thompson v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel out-of-time-appeal procedural-default standing withdrawal-of-guilty-plea |
Whether the trial court and the Georgia Supreme Court abused their discretion by failing to reach the merits of petitioner's out-of-time appeal |
| 18-8081 |
Jared King v. Karen Creed, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1915 appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights coppedge-v-united-states due-process fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis notice-of-hearing standing summary-judgment |
Whether the panel violated plaintiff's right to due process |
| 18-8082 |
Elton Lee Baker, Sr. v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt charging-information criminal-attempt criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea strict-liability |
Can a citizen be convicted of an uncharged crime of attempt of the primary charges in the charging information without the attempt statute being inclu… |
| 18-8084 |
Warren Scott Taylor v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 18-8087 |
Joseph Michael Kurz v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof capital-trial criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review statute-of-limitations time-limitations witness-testimony |
Whether the district court erred in allowing the State to prosecute the defendant for an allegation that the time limitations had expired |
| 18-8092 |
Azaniah Blankumsee v. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
Did the lower court err in granting the defendant's summary judgment? |
| 18-8097 |
Robert Herrera, Sr. v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standard-of-review |
Was the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Mr. Benton's appeal and the Texas Court of Appeals stated that his counsel's actions were below a reaso… |
| 18-8102 |
Vivian Monroe Holman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process post-conviction-relief |
Whether the procedural protections required to challenge a conviction under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 were violated, including the right to an impartial trial … |
| 18-8103 |
Derrek Heard v. Walter Berry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights court-discretion due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent state-courts state-prisoner |
Are the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit required to … |
| 18-8108 |
Michael Bush v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-hearing postconviction postconviction-hearing trial-transcript |
Did the failure of the State of Florida to provide Mr. Bush with a complete copy of his trial transcript to be used in a postconviction evidentary hea… |
| 18-8109 |
Robert Blake Adams v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment blood-draw criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity texas-transportation-code warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Should this court's holding in Missouri v. McNeely, 133 S. Ct. 1552 (2013), be applied retroactively to state cases? |
| 18-8122 |
Ralph Hall v. Darwin LaClair, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-selection newly-discovered-evidence public-trial sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extends to the voir dire process of jury selection |
| 18-8124 |
Tony Gross v. John Havlin, Warden |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright judicial-jurisdiction right-to-counsel rothgery-v-gillespie-county sixth-amendment state-jurisdiction zerbst-v-johnson |
Whether states are required to appoint counsel in death penalty cases for all hearings before a judicial officer to sustain a valid conviction |
| 18-8129 |
Charles Russell v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission reasonable-doubt social-media social-media-evidence witness-testimony |
Did the Trial Court relieve the state of its burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt when it allowed the state to show the jury photos found o… |
| 18-8135 |
Jerry Lee Williams, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process standing state-court-error state-law statutory-interpretation transcript-request trial-court-error |
Whether the Clerk of court erred in not applying LSA-R.S. 13:1885(A) and LSA-C.Cr.P. 873 |
| 18-8137 |
Tanya Steele v. John Pedro, Jr., et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-harassment civil-rights due-process fair-housing-act jurisdiction sovereign-immunity standing sua-sponte |
Whether the First Circuit Appeals Court erred in dismissing the case for lack of jurisdiction despite the judge's sua sponte order overriding the lega… |
| 18-8138 |
Joseph Hughes v. Dan Schnurr, Warden |
Kansas |
Denied |
IFP |
acquittal acquittal-implications civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process second-prosecution sex-offender-management sexual-offender sexual-offender-registration state-authority |
How can the State of Kansas manage me as a sexual offender when I was found acquitted of rape by a jury? |
| 18-8141 |
Brian Taylor v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion alibi-witness civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct trial trial-counsel |
Was trial counsel ineffective for not calling an alibi witness? |
| 18-8142 |
Michael Williamson v. Karen Slusher, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech jurisdiction official-misconduct prisoner-lawsuit standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the case |
| 18-8149 |
Michael Achilles Fries v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial free-speech fundamental-fairness judicial-review legal-precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court's order denying the petitioner's request for a fair review of court and jury proceedings violated the petitioner's constitutio… |
| 18-8151 |
Loren Williamson, III v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254a 28-usc-2254d conflict-of-interest due-process due-process-equal-protection-disparity equal-protection parties-to-the-proceeding post-conviction post-conviction-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel |
Whether a Certificate of Appealability should issue |
| 18-8152 |
Alvin DeWayne Trigg v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-courts |
Whether the state courts erred in denying petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus |
| 18-8154 |
Deondre D. Romero v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
and whether ineffective assistance of counsel dep due-process fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment victim-credibility witness-credibility |
Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to a fair and impartial trial was violated |
| 18-8157 |
James Arthur Brinson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction final-decision fraud fraud-on-court judicial-procedure state-court timeliness untimeliness |
Is a constitutional right of access to the courts being denied when a fraud on a state court decision is used to prove untimeliness when federal court… |
| 18-8158 |
Jerry Anderson, II v. Rex Miller, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus procedural-error standing |
Whether the lower court's decision to dismiss the petitioner's claim with prejudice without affording the petitioner an opportunity to offer evidence … |
| 18-8163 |
Pierre Andre Basson v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process federal-rules motion-to-dismiss notice opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-plaintiff summary-judgment |
When considering a Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim Upon which Relief May be Granted Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(… |
| 18-8170 |
In Re William Edward Cloninger |
|
Denied |
IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal civil-rights congress-legislation constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection legal-reform prison-litigation pro-se-litigant procedural-dismissal statute-of-limitations |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments were violated by the dismissal of his appeal |
| 18-8174 |
Jack D. Hall v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
brady-violation cheney-v-u.s.district-court due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus magistrate-judge townsend-v-sain writ-of-mandamus written-order |
Should federal habeas corpus rule 8(a) require a written order from a federal district court judge when not appointing a magistrate judge to oversee a… |
| 18-8176 |
Anthony James Brightwell, Jr. v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment |
Was the petitioner's guilty plea knowingly and intelligently made? |
| 18-8179 |
Keith Dwayne Lewis v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing state-criminal-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a state criminal conviction violates due process when a state has unconstitutionally concluded the sufficiency of the evidence |
| 18-8180 |
William N. Lucy, Personal Representative of Annie D. Fox, Deceased v. Dialysis Associates, et al. |
Alabama |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alabama-supreme-court civil-procedure civil-rights double-county-circuit-court due-process equal-access-to-justice-act filing-fees in-forma-pauperis standing |
Whether the National Supremacy Clause prohibited the Alabama Supreme Court from holding that petitioners were not entitled to proceed in forma pauperi… |
| 18-8192 |
James Anthony Barnett, Jr. v. Alamance County Sheriff Office Detention Center, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3582 access-to-courts administrative-law civil-rights compassionate-release due-process federal-courts first-amendment prison-conditions standing |
Did the United States District Courts of North Carolina unlawfully deny petitioner's motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) |
| 18-8196 |
Larry R. Tart v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medication medication-consent mental-health pretrial-detention solitary-confinement |
Where the petitioner was unknowingly administered multiple mental health medications while in pre-trial confinement, resulting in incompetence to unde… |
| 18-8197 |
Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-code criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-parte-review habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-period parole sentencing sentencing-statute texas-criminal-procedure texas-law |
Whether Texas Penal Code, Art. 42.082 is unconstitutional as interpreted by the Texas Court in Ex Parte Kuester, 24 SW3d 247 (2000)? |
| 18-8199 |
Michael DeVaughn Johnson v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
IFP |
automatic-reversal constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure critical-stage critical-stages due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Was the Arizona state courts' decision that the absence of the petitioner's trial counsel during two 'critical stages' of the trial did not require au… |
| 18-8203 |
Darryl Burghardt v. Renee Stein-Graham |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis pro-se service-of-process standing |
Whether a petitioner's First and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights are violated if their civil action is dismissed due to the U.S. Marshal's … |
| 18-8204 |
Eduardo Molina Bracero v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies patent qualified-immunity standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondent's actions |
| 18-8207 |
Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness new-trial public-trial secret-trial sixth-amendment trial-fairness |
Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was violated |
| 18-8208 |
In Re Donivan Diaz |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-petition professional-conduct state-bar-act |
Whether the California Supreme Court abused its discretion and/or committed plain error by failing to follow the State Bar Act, Rule 3-700(a) and depr… |
| 18-8209 |
Raymond Alford Bradford v. M. Marchak, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process healthcare judicial-precedent legal-interpretation mental-health ninth-circuit prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether state prisoners have a statutory right to refuse long-term treatment with psychotropic drugs absent a judicial determination of incompetence |
| 18-8211 |
Russell Berger v. James Gibson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
ada civil-rights criminal-law disability discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-statute judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards standing statutory-interpretation |
Can a person's height be a disability under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101-12213? |
| 18-8212 |
Harry Brantley v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-convictions dismissal district-court due-process federal-review federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus petition-dismissal standing state-court timeliness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition challenging his state court convi… |
| 18-8219 |
Jose J. Hernandez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence felony-murder ineffective-assistance newly-presented standing |
Did appellate counsel render ineffective assistance |
| 18-8221 |
Jonathan Judkins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-performance due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-petition post-conviction-relief standing subpoena |
Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel by counsel's failure to adequately investigate the facts of the case, interview eyew… |
| 18-8222 |
Desi A. Lewis v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-court virginia-code |
Was the trial court in error in finding it lacked jurisdiction to resentence or modify the defendant's sentence based on due process rights? |
| 18-8227 |
Bodey Cook v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief |
Whether the Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's request for discretionary review under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (… |
| 18-8228 |
Daryl Bocook v. Gary Mohr, Warden |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-precedent forensic-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict legal-principles precedent-conflict standing state-court-dismissal supreme-court-review |
Whether the state courts' sua sponte dismissal of the petition is in direct conflict with other precedents on standing legal issues as well as federal… |
| 18-8229 |
Sam Chinn, aka Sam Chinn, III v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-455 28-usc-636 article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-iii-violation civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process federal-rule-8 habeas-corpus judicial-disqualification magistrate-judge-process plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60b-motion |
Whether the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion was an abuse of discretion when the motion was about a judge violating 28 U.S.C. § 455 |
| 18-8250 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-circuit appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process encourage-prisons-to-utilize-transfers-to-moot-sui judicial-discretion mootness mootness-doctrine prisoner-rights rluipa rluipa-standard standing |
Did the 8th Circuit incorrectly apply the mootness standard and encourage prisons to utilize transfers to moot suits? |
| 18-8279 |
George Wayne Brooks v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-law constitutional-standards criminal-procedure due-process evidence-determination federal-law fraud-on-the-court judicial-process newly-presented-evidence |
Whether the United States has a substantial interest in preventing the risk of injustice to defendant and an interest in the public's confidence in th… |
| 18-8290 |
Vicky Ware Bey v. Joseph Ponte, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1981 42-usc-1983 42-usc-2000e anti-retaliation civil-rights civil-rights,title-vii,42-usc-2000e,42-usc-1981,42 due-process employment-discrimination federal-procedure retaliation title-vii |
Whether the anti-retaliation provision of section 704(a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protect the Plaintiffs from discrimination and r… |
| 18-8343 |
Jose Luis Mattes Baez Carmona Lopez Cordero v. Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitution constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection native-american-rights native-rights treaty-rights |
Did the lower court breach any treaties between the native Taino Indian tribe and the Government of the United States of America, pursuant to Article … |
| 18-8350 |
Erdal Aslan v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-8443 |
James F. Oliveira v. Patricia A. Coyne-Fague, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Whether the defendant James F. Oliveira was denied his constitutional right to a speedy trial |
| 18-8476 |
Anthony Grandison v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-sentencing collateral-consequences constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process harmless-error jury-instructions mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof |
Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in finding that Grandison failed to prove he suffered significant collateral consequences from his unconst… |
| 18-8477 |
Lester D. Fletcher v. Ashton Baldwin Carter, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ames-v-kansas case-remand civil-procedure civil-rights disability-accommodation-discrimination disability-discrimination due-process eeoc eeoc-v-united-airlines original-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court |
Does the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction allow parties to bring suit in any court with jurisdiction over the parties or subject matter? |
| 18-8489 |
Danny R. Moore v. Gene Beasley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-precedent mathis-decision retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States,136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) should apply |
| 18-8495 |
Leroy Scott v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation conflict-of-interest death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel |
Whether counsel's ineffectiveness conflicts with the holding in Missouri v. Frye |
| 18-8496 |
Anthony Swatzie v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 constitutional-decision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process federal-statute federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactive-relief retroactivity section-2255 sentencing silent-record statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to relief under a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statutory provision |
| 18-8508 |
Charles Edward Cooper, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
curtilage evidence-suppression fourth-amendment gated-community home police-procedure privacy privacy-rights privacy-wall search-and-seizure warrant warrantless-entry |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's protection of the home and its curtilage extends to the entrance of a privately gated community, surrounded by an eight… |
| 18-8512 |
DaRen Kareem Gadsden v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings multiplicitous-sentence plain-error remand rosales-mireles-standard sentencing sentencing-review substantial-rights |
Whether a multiplicitous sentence issue can be raised at any time |
| 18-8514 |
Jonathan Leroy Homedew v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion co-defendant co-defendants criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion plea-arrangement plea-bargaining procedural-rights right-to-be-present speedy-trial waiver |
Whether Petitioner waived Speedy-Trial-Rights based on Co-defendants-Plea-arrangements |
| 18-8518 |
John Moses Burton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-interpretation legal-precedent magistrate-qualifications search-and-seizure search-warrant standing |
When and how should the courts be bound to the precedent set by the high Court's opinion? |
| 18-8519 |
Frederick H. Banks v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process error-coram-nobis foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act jurisdiction revocation-proceeding standing |
Did the appeals court and/or district court err in denying the petition for a writ of error coram nobis to vacate the criminal conviction and affirmin… |
| 18-8520 |
Aaron Haas, et al. v. City of Richmond, Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure court-procedure document-evidence documents due-process facts judicial-review legal-relief procedural-fairness relief standing |
Would the court provide due process when facts and documents to entitle relief are provided to the court are not never considered? |
| 18-8521 |
Angel Galan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense ineffective-assistance obstruction-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
Whether the sentencing court's upward variance from 71 months to 84 months for felon in possession of a firearm was substantively unreasonable |
| 18-8522 |
Edwin Fernandez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Arizona-v-Gant criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings critical-stages ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Montejo-v-Louisiana presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report right-to-counsel search-and-seizure search-doctrine Strickland-v-Washington |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to address the shortcomings of counsel in light of Strickland-and-Montejo? |
| 18-8523 |
Tynisha Latrice Reinerio, nka Akosua Tanisha Aaebo v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
15-usc-7003 account-debtor collateral-estoppel diversity-jurisdiction eighth-circuit mortgage-law mortgage-loan negotiable-instrument note-negotiation res-judicata security-interest standing statutory-trust ucc ucc-3-103(a)(12) ucc-3-110(b) ucc-9-102(a)(3) ucc-9-312(e)-(g) uniform-commercial-code |
Was the issue of res judicata and collateral estoppel improperly decided by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals? |
| 18-8525 |
Robert Brian Winston v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation |
Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 18-8526 |
Marcel Henderson v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-court-split criminal-procedure dixon-standard due-process fifth-amendment imminent-threat justification-defense sixth-amendment |
Were the petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights violated by the ambiguity of the Dixon standard as applied regarding what constitutes a 'well-f… |
| 18-8528 |
Willie Robertson, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act force-clause state-robbery state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony |
Is a state robbery offense that includes 'as an element' the common law requirement of overcoming 'victim resistance' categorically a 'violent felony'… |
| 18-8531 |
Omar Sharif Beasley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review assistance-evaluation court-of-appeals fair-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonableness-of-sentence record-of-reasons record-of-sentencing-reasons sentence-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-and-policies statutory-factors statutory-sentencing-factors |
Did the District Court and Court of Appeals properly consider sentencing guidelines and factors? |
| 18-8532 |
Terrence L. Wright v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings |
Question not identified |
| 18-8534 |
Gino Carlucci v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability collateral-review criminal-procedure-retroactivity fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel marital-communications-privilege mccoy-v-louisiana ninth-circuit retroactive-application retroactivity |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to issue a C.0.A. to determine if McCoy v. Louisiana applies retroactively to cases on collatera… |
| 18-8539 |
Blake Joseph Sandlain v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction remedy standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case |
| 18-8556 |
Alimamy Barrie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 amendment-doctrine appellate-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mayle-v-felix relate-back-doctrine |
Whether the Relate Back doctrine announced in Mayle v. Felix allows for an amended motion to relate back to an original claim of ineffective assistanc… |
| 18-8558 |
Jorge Edwin Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release |
Whether a district court's imposition of a term of supervised release double the Guidelines range without first calculating the range or providing an … |
| 18-8566 |
John Bartholomew Lowe v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure criminal-procedure direct-evidence evidence jury-instructions standard-of-review |
Whether multiple instances of circumstantial evidence can accumulate and become direct evidence? |
| 18-8568 |
David Piper v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion compulsory-process criminal-procedure defense-witnesses due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-rights witness-production |
Whether Petitioner was deprived of compulsory process under the Due Process Clause and Compulsory Process Clause |
| 18-8575 |
Jose Camargo-Alejo, aka Jessica Camargo-Alejo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement-intent ninth-circuit-precedent objective-theory sorrells-v-united-states subjective-theory |
Whether a court may decline to instruct a jury on an entrapment defense because the government agents did not objectively intend to induce a crime |
| 18-8576 |
Yusef Allen v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-requirements brady-violation constitutional-rights conviction conviction-integrity criminal-conviction criminal-justice-system due-process integrity integrity-of-justice judicial-review prosecutorial-ethics prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the gross actions of prosecutorial misconduct were so egregious as to render the defendant's conviction unconstitutional |
| 18-8581 |
Robert Nicholas Brooks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud venue wire-fraud |
Whether the District and Appellate Courts violated Petitioner's Constitutional rights |
| 18-8582 |
Malvin Nater-Ayala v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 18-8584 |
Antwan Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-challenge criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction mens-rea statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness title-21-usc-846 vagueness |
Is Title 21 U.S.C. §846 ATTEMPT AND CONSPIRACY UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE BECAUSE IT FAILS TO PROVIDE THE REQUIRED ESSENTIAL ELEMENT THAT THE DEFENDANT … |
| 18-8586 |
Roderick Black v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-licensing constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the petitioner's sentence should be vacated in light of his trial attorney not being duly licensed to practice law in violation of his Sixth A… |
| 18-8589 |
Demetrius S. Rankin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-law court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance legal-ethics legal-standards procedural-review right-to-counsel |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied and ignored the procedural pronouncements made in Anders v. California |
| 18-8599 |
Antwon D. Jenkins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail bail-reform-act due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-verdict-bail resentencing sentencing stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-rights |
Does a petitioner have a statutory due process right to post-verdict bail and to be treated as a defendant being sentenced for the first time when his… |
| 18-8600 |
Tony McLeod v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phones circuit-split criminal-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment internet-anonymity lay-testimony mens-rea rule-702 sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Cellebrite forensic data requires expert testimony |
| 18-8601 |
Tommy Nelson, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement intent robbery security-guard sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-gordon united-states-v-hill weapon-discharge |
Whether the 7-level sentencing enhancement for the discharge of a weapon applies when the defendant never intended the weapon to discharge |
| 18-8602 |
Enrico M. Ponzo v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-affidavit false-statements franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware judicial-review law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause sanctions standing |
Whether Franks v. Delaware should be revisited to allow sanctions for false affiant declarations even if there remains probable cause in the absence o… |
| 18-8603 |
Gralyn Leon White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting brandishing consecutive-sentences criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit first-step-act hobbs-act united-states-v-lewis |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to apply the holdings of United States v. Lewis, 907 F.3d 891, 894-95 (5 Cir. 2018) to Hobbs Act… |
| 18-8614 |
Leonard Dwayne Hill v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment atf-regulations civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction standing-issue statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'terminal ballistics test' used to determine the dangerousness of ammunition is properly applied in this case |
| 18-8615 |
In Re Patrick Henry Murphy |
|
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment civil-rights due-process equal-protection establishment-clause execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise religious-accommodation religious-freedom state-procedure |
Whether the Constitution or federal statutory law requires that members of all faiths be permitted to be accompanied in the execution chamber by a min… |
| 18-8616 |
Parley Drew Hardman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conclusion constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection felon-in-possession index second-amendment sentencing statutory-provisions table-of-contents |
Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence for possession of a firearm by a felon under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment |
| 18-8617 |
Kristen Patrick Doyle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-motion-type mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in its denial of Defendant - Appellant's Motion to be granted relief under the clari… |
| 18-8623 |
Justin Cole Milam v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing standard-of-review |
Are appeal waivers in federal criminal plea agreements unconstitutional? |
| 18-8624 |
Bruce Elliott Miller v. Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-procedural-bar constitutional-deficiency due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-test |
Whether trial counsel's failure to make a timely objection or file a pretrial motion to dismiss a fatally flawed indictment can validate a 'constituti… |
| 18-8625 |
Jennifer N. Nere v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation constitutional-rights contributing-cause controlled-substances criminal-law drug-induced-homicide due-process illinois-supreme-court precedent reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation |
Whether the defendant may be convicted under the Minois drug induced homicide Statute when the use of the controlled substance was a coe. 'contributin… |
| 18-8626 |
Aaron Murray v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process federal-criminal-procedure initial-appearance magistrate-judge plea-bargaining plea-hearing right-to-counsel |
Was Petitioner Aaron Murray Entitled to an initial appearance before a United States Magistrate Judge under Fed. R. Criminal P Rule 5? |
| 18-8627 |
Frank Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
disclosure fifth-amendment gardner-v-florida probation sentencing confidential-recommendation disclosure due-process fifth-amendment gardner-v-florida probation probation-officer sentencing |
Whether the sentencing court's failure to disclose the 'Confidential Recommendation' of the Probation Officer regarding the Petitioner's sentence viol… |
| 18-8629 |
Rogelio Barajas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process search-and-seizure sentencing |
Whether the district court erred in denying Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-8630 |
Joseph Christopher Birdtail v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal section-2255 |
Is it error for a district court to deny either discovery proceedings or an evidentiary hearing under the Federal Rules Governing Section 2255 Proceed… |
| 18-8631 |
Bekim Fiseku v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment handcuffing investigative-stop police-procedure probable-cause terry-stop terry-v-ohio unusual-circumstances |
Whether the Second Circuit disregarded its prior decisions and created precedent that undermines the rule that officers may not handcuff a suspect dur… |
| 18-8632 |
Marcos Lopez-Guzman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-reduction,18-usc-3582,amendm sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals committed a clear error in denying Appellant's two-level reduction pursuant to § 3582(C)(2) and Amendment 7… |
| 18-8634 |
Andrew A. Chavis v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-robbery attempted-armed-robbery career-offender crime-of-violence johnson-ruling mandatory-guidelines post-Johnson pre-Booker sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior conviction in Illinois for attempted armed robbery categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under the 4B1.1 career offender pre-Bo… |
| 18-8647 |
Amilcar C. Butler v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
binding-authority circuit-court civil-procedure dicta judicial-precedent law-of-case law-of-the-case panel-opinion precedent sixth-circuit |
Is The Dicta Of A Prior Sixth Circuit Panel Opinion Law Of The Case And Remain Binding On Any Other Panel, Despite Error? |
| 18-8649 |
Bradley Cobbler, aka B-Rad v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether the District Court erred by partially denying Mr. Cobbler's Amended Motion to Withdraw Plea of Guilty? |
| 18-8650 |
Ollisha Nicole Easley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-search due-process fourth-amendment interrogation probable-cause race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search search-and-seizure |
When examining the totality of the objective circumstances, is a bus passenger's race a factor in understanding how a reasonable person in her positio… |
| 18-8654 |
Karyea Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach collateral-review descamps mathis Mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines teague Teague-exception |
Did the Court of Appeals err in dismissing the appeal on Mathis applicability to Karyea Williams on collateral review? |
| 18-8660 |
Tyree Mansell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct to increase Mr. Mansell's Sentencing guideline range violated his Fifth Amendment right to due process and his Si… |
| 18-8662 |
Howard Lawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history-classification criminal-law due-process florida-criminal-law predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Petitioner's prior aggravated assault qualifies as ACCA predicates |
| 18-8665 |
Michael Benanti v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit criminal-activity fed-evid-r-403 fed-evid-rule-403 fourth-amendment harmless-error nexus nexus-requirement place-to-be-searched search-warrant substantial-rights |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires the affidavit supporting a search warrant to show a nexus between the criminal activity at issue and the place t… |
| 18-8672 |
Jack Holden v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-forfeiture criminal-liability due-process mail-fraud scheme-to-defraud separation-of-powers When Congress prescribed the mechanisms available wire-fraud |
When Congress defined the offenses of mail and wire fraud narrowly to punish only those who devise or intend to devise a scheme to defraud, do courts … |
| 18-8673 |
Jamael Stubbs v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
133 S.Ct. 2151 (2013) 6th-amendment alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states constructive-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-challenge sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance |
| 18-8676 |
Ronald Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment |
Whether the district court violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights by failing to return him to his original position absent the ineffective assis… |
| 18-8698 |
Marcel A. Walton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clear-error clear-error-analysis criminal-procedure due-process false-and-misleading government-assertions material-facts non-record-facts sentencing |
Can a sentencing court rely upon government assertions concerning material, non-record facts? |
| 18-8726 |
In Re Stetory Calhoun |
|
Denied |
IFP |
alabama capital-offenses constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law death-penalty due-process gang-related-murder legislative-intent legislative-process statutory-interpretation |
Whether Act No. 92-601 is unconstitutional on its face because it omits the subject of legislation as passed by the Alabama Legislature |
| 18-8730 |
In Re Jimmie Dixon |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
all-writs-act circuit-court-rulings eleventh-circuit extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus multiple-holdings new-rule retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules seventh-circuit supreme-court-holdings |
Whether the Supreme Court can make a New Rule Retroactive Through Multiple Holdings that Logically Dictate the Retroactivity of the New Rule, as the S… |
| 18-952 |
Christopher Anthony Mountjoy, Jr. v. Colorado |
Colorado |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
apprendi-precedent apprendi-v-new-jersey colorado-sentencing colorado-sentencing-system constitutional-interpretation jury-determination legal-elements sentencing-factors sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-precedent united-states-v-gaudin |
Whether the rule of United States v. Gaudin applies to sentencing factors covered by Apprendi v. New Jersey |
| 18-957 |
NextEra Energy, Inc. v. Elliott Associates, L.P., et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
11-usc-363 11-usc-503 bankruptcy bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-sale breakup-fee business-judgment-rule circuit-split debtor section-363 section-503 |
Whether a debtor's decision to agree to a negotiated breakup fee should be reviewed under the business judgment rule or a heightened standard |
| 18-962 |
In Re Joseph M. Arpaio |
|
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appeal department-of-justice due-process federal-courts prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers special-prosecutor young-v-united-states |
Where the Department of Justice has appeared in a criminal appeal on behalf of the United States, and indicated that it intends to represent the Unite… |
| 18-979 |
Joshua Caleb Bohmker, et al. v. Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
environmental-regulation federal-land federal-land-policy federal-land-policy-and-management-act federal-land-use-control federal-mining federal-mining-claims federal-preemption land-management land-use-control mineral-development mining-claims national-forest-management-act preemption state-environmental-regulation supremacy-clause |
Whether a state statute prohibiting any and all motorized mining in state-designated zones on federal land is categorically preempted under the Suprem… |
| 18A995 |
Betty Caitlin Nicole Smith v. Zachary Taylor Daniel |
Florida |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M138 |
In Re Frank J. Ashley |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M139 |
Vilaychith Khouanmany v. John Doe 1, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M140 |
Dustin Matthews v. Roseann Robles |
Arizona |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M141 |
Maria S., as Next Friend for E. H. F. and S. H. F., Minors, and A. S. G. v. Ramiro Garza |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M142 |
Andre Williams v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|