| 18-1017 |
Angelex, Ltd. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
|
33-usc-1904 administrative-delay administrative-law apps-act-to-prevent-pollution-from-ships civil-procedure compensation-claim due-process government-liability maritime maritime-law marpol-treaty statutory-interpretation takings unreasonable-delay vessel-detention |
Whether the court below erred in prematurely dismissing Angelex's case and failing to apply the correct 'reasonableness' standard for unreasonable del… |
| 18-1117 |
Kabani & Company, Inc., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-framework administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process hearing-officer judicial-review lucia-v-sec procedural-validity ryder-v-united-states separation-of-powers structural-constitutional-objections timely-challenge |
Whether petitioners who timely challenge the constitutional validity of the administrative framework, including the appointment of the officer adjudic… |
| 18-1134 |
Virginia House of Delegates, et al., Appellants v. Golden Bethune-Hill, et al. |
Virginia |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
None |
|
| 18-1142 |
Casimir M. Toczylowski v. Samantha Giuliano, et vir |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure appellate-procedures appellate-review civil-appeal civil-appeals civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review merits-review property-rights state-appeals state-courts |
Denial of due process in state appellate procedures for civil litigants seeking to vindicate property rights |
| 18-1144 |
Natural Alternatives International, Inc. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-guidance federal-circuit intellectual-property judicial-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeals-board priority property-law property-rights trips |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit err in analyzing rulings by the Patent Trial and Appeals Board |
| 18-1149 |
George A. Gallenthin, III v. Borough of Paulsboro, et al. |
New Jersey |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process eminent-domain Fifth-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment just-compensation procedural-due-process property property-rights state-action takings |
Uncompensated takings of private property without procedural due process |
| 18-1152 |
Elaine Steele, et al. v. Sylvester McCauley, et al. |
Michigan |
Denied |
|
breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias probate probate-court property-rights |
Arbitrary and biased probate court proceedings violating due process |
| 18-1158 |
Jarrod Taylor v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appeals brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Jarrod Taylor's habeas corpus claims challenging the State's concealment of evidence during his trial |
| 18-1168 |
Carolyn J. Florimonte v. Borough of Dalton, Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure continuing-trespass due-process equal-protection equal-protection-14th-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court just-compensation land-taking res-judicata standing takings unconstitutional-government-taking |
When the lower federal courts abandon the imperatives of the Fifth Amendment to provide just compensation and the Fourteenth Amendment to provide equa… |
| 18-1172 |
Tynisa Williams v. City of Cleveland, Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights delousing detainee-rights due-process fourth-amendment penological-interests prison-policy privacy-rights reasonable-alternatives reasonable-search strip-search |
Whether the physical delousing and group strip searches of detainees entering the Cleveland Workhouse were constitutional under the Fourth Amendment, … |
| 18-1178 |
Christopher Paige, et ux. v. Lerner Master Fund, LLC, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-discrimination judicial-review procedural-fairness speedy-trial |
When the lower courts deny important substantive and procedural rights to protected minorities, may they simply refuse to explain their rationale(s) f… |
| 18-1179 |
John Mbawe v. Ferris State University, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
ada ada-section-504 americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation disability-discrimination due-process individualized-assessment interactive-process property-interest property-liberty-interest rehabilitation-act rehabilitation-act-of-1973 student-rights university-dismissal |
Whether the interactive process is triggered when a University knows or should know of a student's disability, and of that student's desire to remain … |
| 18-1180 |
New Vision Home Health Care, Inc., et al. v. Anthem, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-circuit 6th-circuit administrative-law circuit-split collateral-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction mandamus-relief medicare-administrative-law-judge medicare-appeals-process medicare-contractors medicare-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction tort-claims |
Whether federal courts have jurisdiction to enforce a Medicare Administrative Law Judge's order |
| 18-1183 |
Dorothy A. Smulley v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-liability agency-relationship circuit-procedures conservatorship due-process fannie-mae federal-instrumentality fhfa internal-operating-procedures mortgage-servicers mortgage-servicing regulatory-oversight rico vicarious-liability |
Whether Fannie Mae is a federal instrumentality subject to due process requirements, whether FHFA as conservator of Fannie Mae is vicariously liable f… |
| 18-1184 |
Charles Kinney v. Michele R. Clark |
California |
Denied |
|
11-usc-524 bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-law-violation chapter-7 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights discharge-of-debt discharged-debt due-process judicial-misconduct personal-liability unconstitutional-vagueness vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-law |
Whether state court judges and justices are ignoring bankruptcy law that voids any order implying a discharged Chapter 7 'no asset' debtor still has p… |
| 18-1213 |
Jose Jorge Gonzalez Garita v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 18-1217 |
Waples Mobile Home Park Limited Partnership, et al. v. Rosy Giron de Reyes, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
disparate-impact fair-housing-act immigration-policy immigration-status national-origin race racial-discrimination robust-causality statistical-correlation |
Whether a plaintiff can allege a prima facie case of disparate-impact discrimination on the basis of race or national origin under the Fair Housing Ac… |
| 18-1229 |
In Re Carolyn Fjord, et al. |
|
Denied |
Response Waived |
7th-amendment antitrust antitrust-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-court beacon-theaters civil-procedure civil-rights clayton-act due-process jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment |
Does the decision of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York denying Petitioners the right to a jury trial for damage… |
| 18-1247 |
Robert Alan Ries v. Oregon |
Oregon |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affidavit blood-sample constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-particularity |
Does a warrant commanding the police to seize a blood sample from a person with an entirely different name than the defendant violate the Fourth Amend… |
| 18-1249 |
Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
compounding-pharmacy cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam pentobarbital |
Whether an Alabama death row inmate has shown that pentobarbital is 'available' to the Alabama Department of Corrections for use in executions |
| 18-1250 |
Corey Lea v. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedures-act agricultural-law civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause exhaustion-requirements fifth-amendment foreclosure moratorium-relief usda |
Denial of formal hearing for Black and socially disadvantaged farmers on discrimination complaints |
| 18-1268 |
Paras Jhokke v. City of Los Angeles, California |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process equal-protection gender-bias gender-discrimination hate-crime police-misconduct section-1983 |
Whether States, Cities or its Police Officers knowingly or unknowingly Commit Hate Crime Acts motivated by Gender Bias while Enforcing Domestic Violen… |
| 18-1270 |
Henry M. Jagos, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency sixth-circuit standing tax-appeals tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-procedure |
Did the Tax Court lack jurisdiction when it had no facially legitimate notice of deficiency? |
| 18-1273 |
Alma Caldavado v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense expert-testimony harrington-v-richter ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence presumption-of-ineffective-assistance shaken-baby-syndrome strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel-for-failure-to-present-counter-expert-testimony-on-shaken-baby-syndrome |
| 18-1274 |
In Re Urvashi Bhagat |
|
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
35-usc-101 administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act bilski-v-kappos federal-circuit-discretion graham-v-deere graham-v-john-deere judicial-discretion patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent uspto-discretion |
Whether the USPTO abused its discretion by refusing to allow claims that passed every requirement of Title 35 by insisting on extra-statutory requirem… |
| 18-1278 |
Corey A. Kerns, et al. v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 due-process due-process-clause horizontal-drilling mineral-extraction mineral-rights permanent-physical-invasion property-rights regulatory-police-power state-action state-regulatory-police-power state-regulatory-power subsurface-rights takings-clause |
Whether state regulatory police power statute allowing permanent physical invasion of private subsurface for oil/gas extraction violates due process a… |
| 18-1282 |
David Lee Sanders v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process illegal-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation reversal sentencing speedy-trial |
Whether a criminal defendant who pleads guilty pursuant to an illegal plea agreement is entitled to include the time from his original arrest until re… |
| 18-1286 |
Brian D. Baur v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response Waived |
castle-doctrine chain-of-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preservation ineffective-counsel law-of-the-case prosecutorial-misconduct reassignment sentencing standing use-of-force |
Whether the Law of the Case Doctrine is an issue in this case |
| 18-1312 |
Steven Mateski v. Raytheon Company |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure false-certification false-claims false-claims-act fraud fraud-allegations government-contract government-contracts materiality rule-9(b) rule-9b subcontract-compliance |
Whether the complaint provided sufficient notice of the alleged false claims against Raytheon under Rule 9(b), and whether the alleged false claims we… |
| 18-431 |
United States v. Maurice Lamont Davis and Andre Levon Glover |
Fifth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-5453 |
Mark Elliott v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process due-process-brady-v-maryland favorable-to-accused hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct remand-for-coa right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment |
whether-under-brady-and-its-progeny-the-prosecution's-intentional-nondisclosure-of-petitioner's-requested-911-audio-recordings-requires-his-conviction… |
| 18-5818 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Harika Kondaveeti |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings |
Why did the court not grant the petitioner's request for a preliminary injunction? |
| 18-5819 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Jessie Fields |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights diagnostic-procedure due-process free-speech infectious-disease laboratory-methods lysate-contamination medical-device medical-testing patent sample-analysis standing takings |
Whether the state of Missouri's disposal of a defective and contaminated COVID-19 vaccine violated the plaintiff's constitutional rights |
| 18-5833 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Fabio Volterra |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings |
Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 18-5834 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Keith Robinson |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction medical-treatment patent prison-conditions standing takings |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment when the court failed to provide him with adequate medical… |
| 18-5877 |
Levi Lapp Stoltzfoos v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cash-deposit civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-mens-rea due-process financial-institution financial-institutions mens-rea money-laundering overbreadth overbroad-statute statutory-interpretation |
Is 18 Pa. C.S. § 5111(a)(8) unconstitutionally overbroad? |
| 18-5906 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. David Weiss |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech medical-records patent standing subpoena takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 18-5907 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Mary Ellen Elia, Commissioner, Office of Professional Discipline, Board of Regents, Education |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech retaliation standing |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of due-process, civil-rights, free-speech, and retaliation |
| 18-5908 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Howard A. Zucker, Commissioner, New York State Department of Health, Office of Professional Medical Conduct |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction medical-treatment standing takings |
Why were the lives of the petitioners terminated without due process? |
| 18-673 |
Terrence Edwin Prince v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
and whether applying AEDPA's restrictive provisio aedpa brady-claim brady-rule due-process federal-courts gatekeeping-provisions habeas habeas-corpus retroactivity second-in-time-petition second-or-successive |
Whether a Brady claim brought in a second-in-time habeas petition is 'second or successive' under AEDPA |
| 18-6750 |
Rita Pultro v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
codefendant codefendant-confession confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay redaction sixth-amendment |
Should a court look beyond the four corners of a nontestitying codefendant's confession to determine if introduction of the confession violates the Co… |
| 18-6794 |
Charlton Bradshaw v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process and equal protection rights were violated |
| 18-6859 |
James Myers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility enumerated-offenses force-clause mathis-principles mathis-v-united-states statutory-divisibility statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the principles regarding a statute's divisibility announced in Mathis v. United States apply to offenses analyzed under the 'force clause' and… |
| 18-6993 |
Jamie Todd Bjerke v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-law force-clause gvr-order light-resistance petition-for-writ-of-certiorari predicate-conviction predicate-offense procedural-thesis robbery sentencing-determinations sentencing-guidelines state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation substantive-thesis united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a state robbery offense that permits a conviction for use of force sufficient to overcome light resistance qualifies as a predicate conviction… |
| 18-7016 |
Tuad Damonn Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claims discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing |
whether-district-court-assessment-was-debatable |
| 18-7051 |
Jacqueline Lenorlia Taylor v. CVS Caremark Corporation |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act civil-rights-defense dismissal due-process equal-access failure-to-prosecute prejudice public-accommodations standing title-ii |
Did the General District Court, Fourth Circuit, err in dismissing the plaintiff's case for failure to prosecute and an impending unfavorable judgment,… |
| 18-7063 |
In Re Charles A. Dread |
|
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing official-responsibility qualified-immunity racial-discrimination standing summary-judgment |
Was the Trial Court's denial of the Appellant's Motion for Summary Judgment and the Request for Hearing without granting the Appellant a Hearing he re… |
| 18-7130 |
Matthew G. Alden, Jr. v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-charges criminal-charges-text-messages criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt right-to-acquittal structural-error text-message-evidence text-messages |
Whether the government's use of a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard to prove that the defendant sent text messages violates the defendant's right… |
| 18-7153 |
J. E., aka J. E. C. v. Oregon Department of Human Services |
Oregon |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
agency-deference agency-discretion chevron-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment human-services parental-rights standing |
Did the Supreme Court of Oregon have the opportunity to consider every possible situation which might arise from a Termination of Parental Rights? |
| 18-7191 |
Scott Richard Pendergraft, et ux. v. Network of Neighbors, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process procedural-fairness standing substantive-due-process |
Whether a pro se litigant's procedural or substantive due process rights are violated when trial and appellate courts willfully refuse to fully and fa… |
| 18-7213 |
Akash Dixit v. Christopher Brasher, Judge, Superior Court of Georgia, Atlanta Judicial Circuit |
Georgia |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure attorney civil-rights divorce-proceeding due-process family fraud immigration immigration-status international-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct service-of-process standing unethical visa void-judgment |
Whether the Georgia appellate courts erred in not addressing questions about unethical conduct of a subordinate judge and a void lower court order des… |
| 18-7232 |
Arthur Sanchez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault aggravated-battery armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause force force-clause johnson-definition mens-rea physical-force state-appellate-courts state-robbery victim-resistance violent-felony |
Whether a state robbery offense that includes overcoming victim resistance by use of force is a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's e… |
| 18-7236 |
Dwayne Stoutamire v. Christopher La Rose, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alternative-grounds appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure clear-error-of-findings-of-fact district-court-discretion federal-civil-procedure federal-civil-rule-60(b) federal-civil-rule-60(d) federal-rules-of-civil-procedure findings-of-fact habeas-corpus rule-60 |
Do a Habeas Corpus petitioner need to obtain a Certificate of Appealability(COA) from the denial of a federal civil rule 60(b) and (d)? |
| 18-7325 |
John Joseph Zinkand v. Carlos Hernandez, Superintendent, Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment indictment state-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did North Carolina State unlawfully imprison Petitioner upon an unconstitutional statute? |
| 18-7369 |
Rash B. Ghosh v. City of Berkeley, California, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal due-process judicial-petition judicial-review procedural-safeguards property-rights standing vexatious-litigant |
Does due process require the State to provide meaningful procedural safeguards when responding to judicial petitions? |
| 18-7378 |
Nathan Hill v. Charles A. Daniels, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
| 18-7486 |
Frank Monte v. Cyrus R. Vance, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-challenge criminal-charges due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct standing state-actors |
Constitutionality-of-the-entire-docket-vanishing-from-the-public-records |
| 18-7539 |
Justin Michael Rossi v. The Crown |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights due-process foreign-government international-human-rights international-rights jurisdiction redress standing work-permit |
What does an American Citizen traveling on a work permit do to protect his civil-liberties from being infringed upon by a foreign-government? |
| 18-7540 |
David Dewayne Riley v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-post-conviction-proceedings capital-proceedings collateral-review death-penalty death-sentence effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan murray-v-giarratano post-conviction-counsel precedent state-court |
Should this Court revisit its precedent to consider whether death-sentenced inmates are entitled to the effective assistance of counsel on initial col… |
| 18-7542 |
Pamela Suzanne Harnden v. St. Clair County, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process implied-private-right implied-private-right-of-action kidnapping statute-of-limitations tolling |
Do the 5th and 14th Amendments justify the tolling of a civil action during the course of a criminal action? |
| 18-7580 |
Mourice Neal v. Wayne County Treasurer |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitution constitution-interpretation due-process federal-courts federalism jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Is the United States Constitution for Supreme Court Proceedings? |
| 18-7584 |
Pamela Marberry v. State Bar of California |
California |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
ada civil-procedure civil-rights disability due-process employment equal-protection reasonable-accommodation standing takings |
Whether the state's denial of petitioner's request for a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act violated petitioner's cons… |
| 18-7601 |
Joseph Chhim v. Golden Nuggett Lake Charles, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
age-discrimination civil-rights computer-assessment due-process eligibility-requirements employment-discrimination equal-protection facility-supervisor hiring-practices pretext pretext-claim |
Did Defendant Golden Nugget discriminate against Plaintiff when it hired 300 employees with different eligibility requirements based on a discriminato… |
| 18-761 |
D. Dahne v. Thomas W. S. Richey |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance inmate-rights ninth-circuit prison prison-grievance qualified-immunity |
Do prison inmates have a First Amendment right to include threatening, abusive, and irrelevant language in grievances? |
| 18-7613 |
David Ackell v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-challenge speech-regulation stalking-statute united-states-v-stevens |
Whether the First Circuit erred in upholding 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(2)(B) (2013) against a First Amendment challenge |
| 18-766 |
Teresa Bierman, et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
exclusive-representation expressive-association first-amendment government-speech heightened-scrutiny individual-rights mandatory-expressive-association mandatory-representation public-employees rational-basis |
Can the government designate an exclusive representative to speak for individuals for any rational basis, or is this mandatory expressive association … |
| 18-7670 |
Thomas Alexander Porter v. David Zook, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence procedural-due-process |
Whether a state rule that excludes as irrelevant evidence that a capital defendant is unlikely to pose a risk of future violence in prison is contrary… |
| 18-7680 |
Hector Cirino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c3b armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional |
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)? |
| 18-7695 |
Leroy O. Williams v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-review civil-procedure clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error constitutional-law constitutional-protection due-process fifth-amendment veterans veterans-rights |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects veterans seeking review of allegations for Clear and Unmistakable Error? |
| 18-7755 |
Pauline Garcia v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-regulation civil-procedure constitutional-issue constitutional-law due-process henderson-v-shinseki judicial-review procedural-rights standing veterans-affairs veterans-law |
When should a Veteran be allowed to raise a Constitutional Due Process issue under 38 C.F.R. § 20.1409? |
| 18-7756 |
Roscoe Chambers v. Nicholas Sarcone |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-selection public-trial standing |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to a criminal defendant's exclusion from the courtroom during jury selection |
| 18-7790 |
Marcus Simpson v. Ethna Cooper, Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Hamilton County, Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure due-process judicial-usurpation mandamus perjury trial-court-judgment void-judgment |
Whether perjury amounts to a judicial usurpation of power, rendering the trial court's judgment void, therefore mandamus (Lie) |
| 18-7809 |
James Were v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis competency-hearing death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores racial-bias |
Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by refusing to reopen the petitioner's direct appeal to consider evide… |
| 18-7824 |
John C. Killingbeck v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights computer-search digital-privacy due-process first-amendment free-speech government-search internet-forums internet-speech interstate-commerce prosecution search-and-seizure standing title-28-usc |
Whether the government can investigate and search a private citizen's computer and storage devices for allegedly illegal speech content obtained throu… |
| 18-7859 |
Frank D. Monsegue, Sr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement standing subpoena warrantless-arrest |
Whether defective summons/subpoena (without authorizing authority, name or signature) attached herein render the indictment defective? |
| 18-7895 |
Jerry Anderson, II v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
coercion criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-trial sixth-amendment |
Was the defendant denied his state and federal constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel when his attorney failed to prepare for trial … |
| 18-7907 |
John Hassan v. Lawrence K. Marks, Chief Administrative Judge, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
arbitration civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct property-dispute property-rights standing state-court-proceeding takings |
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review the denial of due process and equal protection rights under the U.S. Constitution |
| 18-793 |
Marion Quinton Brewster v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment different-occasions legislative-intent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the interpretation of the Armed Career Criminal Act's 'different occasions' provision has become overly broad and vague as to constitute cruel… |
| 18-798 |
Joanna Joy Blauch v. Colorado |
Colorado |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-error evidentiary-standards exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington waiver-of-rights |
Does ruling the substantive nature of materially relevant documentary evidence with apparent exculpatory value effected non-existent, without applying… |
| 18-8057 |
Duane Allen Short v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defense capital-punishment death-penalty death-row effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-evidence plea-bargaining sixth-amendment |
Whether a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel is violated where, but for counsel's intervention and unfou… |
| 18-807 |
Randolph S. Baskins, et ux. v. Oklahoma Tax Commission |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
capital-gains commerce-clause constitutional-law dormant-commerce-clause due-process equal-protection state-taxation tax-deduction |
Does the Oklahoma Capital Gains Deduction tax scheme as set forth in 68 O.S. 2011, § 2358(F) as applied to Randolph S. Baskins and Beverly J. Baskins … |
| 18-809 |
Curtis T. Lovelace v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
acquittal bail-bond bail-bond-forfeiture clerk-of-courts due-process due-process,excessive-fines,equal-protection,bail- equal-protection excessive-fines fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Whether charging a person who was tried and acquitted a $35,000 bail bond forfeiture, not related to individualized costs or compliance with bail bond… |
| 18-8090 |
Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity savings-clause substantive-law |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require retroactive application of the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State to capital defe… |
| 18-8110 |
In Re LaShawn Anderson |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-18-usc-924-e categorical-approach circuit-split constitutional-review descamps-v-united-states divisibility fundamental-defect habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit has effectively suspended the writ of habeas corpus by narrowing the circumstances under which a federal prisoner can pro… |
| 18-813 |
Maria Suyapa Velasquez, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 18-8153 |
Steven Anthony Walcott, Jr. v. Pat Naquin, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusion-of-evidence federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal |
| 18-8178 |
Charles E. Justise, Sr. v. David Liebel, et al. |
Indiana |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure exceptions federal-court federal-removal judicial-discretion jurisdiction multi-defendant procedural-rules removal state-court unrelated-claims |
Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 18 allows a case with unrelated claims to be removed from state court to federal court, and, if so, the except… |
| 18-8232 |
Jesus Rosales v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment allen-charge coercion criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberation jury-instruction jury-instructions trial-procedure |
At what point should a court grant defense's request for an Allen charge, so that the lack of one, in itself, does not become coercive? |
| 18-8235 |
Arthur Lopez v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias racial-discrimination |
Whether the deprivation of Alo's civil rights under the United States Constitution Amendments 1 and 6 violates his constitutional rights to free speec… |
| 18-8240 |
Howard Anthony Moniz v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-impartiality post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal recusal-standard |
Should the State Circuit Court Judge be disqualified from ruling on a collateral appeal for relief from judgment where he personally opposed post-conv… |
| 18-8241 |
Andrew Guy Moret v. Pat Garrett |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review lower-court-decision standing supreme-court-petition |
Does the seriousness of criminal charges obviate the states' governments' obligation to uphold the constitutional rights of the accused? |
| 18-8242 |
Jody Ford McCreary v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure collateral-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment standing state-court strickland-standards substantive-claim |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit abused its discretion in denying a certificate of appealability on the denial of the … |
| 18-8248 |
Hersy Jones, Jr. v. Supreme Court of Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights default-judgment disbarment due-process judicial-review recusal rooker-feldman section-1983 standing |
Does Rooker Feldman bar a disbarred attorney from seeking damages and equitable relief under Sec. 1983 |
| 18-8249 |
Rickey Morgan v. Dale W. Steager, West Virginia State Tax Commissioner |
West Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights code-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-obligation mandamus prosecutorial-duty refund state-law state-tax-commissioner tax |
Does the West Virginia State Tax Commissioner Dale Steager have a legal obligation pursuant to the West Virginia Code § 11-1-5, to provide the petitio… |
| 18-8251 |
Zachariah Joel Peterson v. Jay Cassady, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review |
Whether the Eighth Circuit court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying petitioner a COA on his claim on insufficient evidence |
| 18-8255 |
David E. Ponder v. Avalon Correctional Services, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-protections due-process foia-exemption freedom-of-information inmate-rights prison prison-transparency private-prisons standing takings |
Private for-profit prisons-are-allowed-to-deny-FOIA-and-State-Open-Records laws |
| 18-8257 |
Iris McClain v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-order dismissal due-process fraud judge judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge legal-review procedural-taint standing tainted |
Whether Judge Chuang was fair |
| 18-8258 |
Lowell Edward Jackson v. Eddie Climmer, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-registration civil-action civil-rights copyright copyright-infringement copyright-registration due-process infringement library-of-congress registration standing statutory-provisions |
Whether the copyright registration requirement under 17 U.S.C. 411(a) is unconstitutional |
| 18-8271 |
Tony Hernandez v. Darlene S. Sims, et al. |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-clerk due-process mailing-rule motion-for-stay petition-rejection pro-se pro-se-guideline standing workman's-compensation |
Did a Wisconsin Supreme Court clerk ignore the plus 3-day mailing self-represented rule given to pro-se mailing filer Petitioner Tony Hernandez when h… |
| 18-8272 |
Juliette Fairley v. Don Ford, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement district-court diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals violate the 14th Amendment when it upheld Petitioner Juliette's dismissal which was based on the District Court's… |
| 18-8276 |
Derek Sample v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process due-process,fair-trial,impartial-jury,lesser-inclu fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense right-to-be-present trial-rights |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-8278 |
Timothy M. Schieve v. Indiana |
Indiana |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process false-testimony free-speech judicial-instructions jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-reduction standing |
Why was the testimony of a 'mean person' who provided false testimonies to obtain a sentence reduction permissible? |
| 18-8283 |
Terry A. Burlison v. Pam Angus, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as a Marion County, Florida Court Deputy Clerk |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process immunity official-liability pre-seizure-conduct property-loss property-rights section-1983 seizure |
Whether a public official is protected by absolute immunity under 42 U.S.C. 1983 when their pre-seizure conduct violates clearly established law and c… |
| 18-8285 |
Miguel Martinez v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
mistrial objective-facts oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-intent subjective-beliefs wheeler-factors criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-intent wheeler-factors |
Whether Texas courts have replaced the manageable and effective 'objective facts and circumstances' test recognized in Oregon v. Kennedy with the so-c… |
| 18-8288 |
Derrick Allen v. Envirogreen Landscape Professionals, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-conflict civil-rights conflict-of-circuits due-process eeoc-decision employment-discrimination equal-protection federal-question judicial-discretion judicial-proceedings judicial-review lower-court-review supervisory-powers |
Can the US Supreme Court review at their judicial discretion for the compelling reason |
| 18-8295 |
Raymond Lumsden v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
ake ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error-doctrine dna-expert due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Did the Court of Appeals commit err by affirming the trial court's erroneous denial of additional funds for the defense's DNA Expert to testify at tri… |
| 18-8296 |
Keith Alexander v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence pro-se-petition reasonable-doubt standing third-circuit-review |
Whether the Third Circuit was in error in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability on the merits of Pro Se petitioner's arguments |
| 18-8297 |
John Baccus v. Edgar L. Clements, III, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
4th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-power prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court's proceedings that led to petitioner's sentence violated his constitutional and statutory due process rights |
| 18-830 |
Township of Millburn, New Jersey, et al. v. Michael J. Palardy, Jr. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-rights connick-v-myers constitutional-rights first-amendment public-employee retaliation retaliation-claim union-association |
Whether the Connick framework applies to public employee retaliation claims based on union association |
| 18-8300 |
Paul Glen Everett v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-defect harmless-error harmless-error-review hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-error structural-defect structural-error trial-mechanism |
Whether the Sixth Amendment error identified by this Court in Hurst v. Florida is a structural defect that infects the entire constitutionality of the… |
| 18-8303 |
Thomas T. Alford v. Stephen S. Carlton, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation |
Does the Comanassion al Ennocence Protection Act, 18 UiS.c. $3400 CrPAY, specifically, exclude State Prisoners from Receiving Relief from Said Act con… |
| 18-8304 |
Whitney N. Broach v. David G. Peake, Chapter 13 Trustee |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-mistakes bankruptcy-attorney bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-filings bankruptcy-judge bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-petition bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect federal-courts federal-rules-civil-procedure medical-bills procedural-rights |
Does a Federal Bankruptcy Judge deny the debtor's procedural and substantive due process by holding the debtor responsible for the Bankruptcy Attorney… |
| 18-8305 |
Nausheen Zainulabeddin v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause disability-discrimination diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-taking sovereign-immunity |
Did the lower court violate Commerce Clause of the constitution of Article 1, section 8, Clause 3; when it denied principal's interest to maintain uni… |
| 18-8319 |
Jason Ray Flick v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion change-of-venue fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-impartiality presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-publicity sixth-amendment |
Was petitioner denied a fair trial due to the trial court's abuse of discretion? |
| 18-8323 |
Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-review eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-recommendation newly-discovered-evidence |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require the law of Hurst v. State to be factored into the analysis of the likelihood of a less severe sen… |
| 18-8326 |
Dana Gray v. V. Romero, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-amendment access-to-court civil-rights constitutional-access due-process expert-testimony medical-care medical-care-claims medical-expert neutral-expert prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation summary-judgment |
Whether United States district courts need to reliably appoint neutral medical experts in individual prisoner pro se §42 USC 1983 medical care cases w… |
| 18-8332 |
Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, et al. v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
cross-examination discovery due-process execution-method execution-secrecy method-of-execution prisoners-rights privileged-communications standing state-officials state-secrecy |
Does a state deprive condemned prisoners of due process when, to defeat a challenge to the state's method of execution, state officials rely on and th… |
| 18-8334 |
Ada A. Gonzalez v. Alfredo Ernesto Gonzalez |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandamus-writ standing state-court-review state-courts writ-of-mandamus |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to a writ of mandamus |
| 18-8338 |
Anthony T. Jackson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process due-process,standing,criminal-procedure,evidence,p evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction wrongful-conviction |
Whether the Illinois state courts' refusal to allow a petitioner an evidentiary hearing on post-conviction claims despite the record containing facts … |
| 18-8340 |
Victor Roblero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutes a violation of the Sixth Amendment ri specifically the failure to investigate and prese appeal capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial counsel failed to investigate and present evidence of the… |
| 18-8351 |
Arek Fressadi v. Arizona Municipal Risk Retention Pool, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process judicial-takings just-compensation nollan-dolan notice ongoing-violations property-rights statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations takings takings-clause |
Whether a failure by government to provide Mullane notice, Nollan/Dolan burden-shifting protections, and/or Lucas/First English just compensation are … |
| 18-8354 |
Anthony K. Anderson v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights district-court due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-district-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-review pro-se pro-se-litigant protective-petition standing |
Whether a Federal District Court Unfairly Precluded pro se Prisoner Litigant Anthony Anderson's Future Ability to a Federal Habeas Review of his Nevad… |
| 18-8365 |
Derrick Scott v. Allen Stark, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-filing due-process imminent-danger in-forma-pauperis prisoner-rights standing three-strikes |
Whether the middle district Court and Fifth Circuit court of appeals erred in refusing to allow the petitioner to proceed IFP as an indigent prose pri… |
| 18-8367 |
Lamar Williams v. American Auto Logistics |
New Jersey |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-issues constitutional-review court-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standards expert-opinion judicial-opinion legal-standing standing witness-testimony witnesses |
Is the prior court's decision constitutional? |
| 18-8368 |
Desmond Martin v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant legal principles |
| 18-8372 |
Dominique Green v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
appellant-rights civil-procedure civil-rights court-determination due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fact fact-and-law informal-marriage legal-sufficiency marriage marriage-evidence standing |
Did she Loust of Anpeads eccod Wwhen it derermincd aod Vert WHS leqarlyy \\asudlicient evidence to Estaalish a inloramnal Wnarrage Wer Ween Appatank A… |
| 18-8374 |
Naykima Tinee Hill v. Shawn Brewer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fair-trial findings-of-fact habeas-corpus harmless-error identification-expert ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Michigan Supreme Court was objectively unreasonable in application of harmless-error-analysis |
| 18-8375 |
Zebadiah Holland v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
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 |
| 18-8379 |
John Anthony Dobbs v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-standard crawford-v-washington due-process evidence forensic-evidence medical-examination medical-forensic medical-forensic-purpose sane-nurse sane-nurse-examination testimonial-statement testimonial-statements |
Whether statements obtained during a 'sane nurse' examination have become 'testimonial' for purposes of the Confrontation Clause under Crawford v. Was… |
| 18-8383 |
Jeremy C. Southgate v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antitrust antitrust-conspiracy business-damage civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy court-procedure inherent-authority legal-representation racketeering standing trademark trademark-property |
Is there arguable merit to the claim that Respondents engaged in an unlawful antitrust-conspiracy, racketeering-conspiracy, trademark-property, busine… |
| 18-8384 |
Bruce L. Small v. Florida |
Florida |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights denial-of-review due-process extraordinary-writ florida-law precedent standing state-court state-court-denial written-reason |
Whether the state appellate court's denial of petitioner's extraordinary writ without providing a written reason or citing any precedent supporting it… |
| 18-8385 |
Scott James Repella v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 18-8396 |
Mary Jo Weidrick v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 5th-amendment-right-to-counsel 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-right-to-counsel adversarial-process civil-rights constitutional-violation counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment investigation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing terrorism terrorism-investigation |
Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to counsel are violated |
| 18-8398 |
Wiliam Oneal Watters v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Was Me. Weathers Constobonal Rights becky ? |
| 18-8399 |
Randall Scott Jones v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violations violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 18-8409 |
Anthony Mungin v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteent… |
| 18-8412 |
Lamar Perryman v. Georgia, et al. |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-amendment cherokee-nation-v-georgia civil-rights constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment johnson-v-mcintosh native-american-rights non-intercourse-act sovereign-immunity treaty-law worcester-v-georgia |
Does Title 25 U.S.C. Section 177 (Non-Intercourse Act) and this Court's decisions abrogate Georgia's sovereign immunity and Eleventh Amendment immunit… |
| 18-8413 |
Francisco K. Avoki v. Carolinas Telco Federal Credit Union, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection creditor-notification due-process rescission rescission-right standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation three-year-period tila truth-in-lending-act truth-in-lending-act-tila |
Does a borrower exercise his right to rescind a transaction in satisfaction of the requirement of Section 1635 by notifying the creditor in writing wi… |
| 18-8414 |
Dennis E. v. Matthew J. D'Emic, Administrative Judge, Supreme Court of New York, 2nd Judicial District, et al. |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process equal-protection jackson-v-indiana standing state-law |
Whether the State may compel relief under Jackson v. Indiana over a defendant's objection |
| 18-842 |
Gilbert Mendez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
assistant-us-attorney attorney-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process fraud government-negligence jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction us-attorney |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred by failing to recognize that a U.S. District Court lacks subject-matter jurisdiction over a criminal prosecution wh… |
| 18-8420 |
Kevin Anthony Briggs v. Montana |
Montana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights defendant-responsibility defense-counsel presumption presumption-of-delay rescheduling-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-claim speedy-trial trial-delay withdrawal-of-counsel |
Whether a delay caused by permissive withdrawal of defense counsel, and the subsequent delay in rescheduling trial, is presumed to be caused by a defe… |
| 18-8421 |
Timothy M. Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 abuse-of-discretion amendment certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-of-appeals district-court due-process exhaustion habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2254 habeas-corpus-amendment judicial-discretion law-of-the-case merits section-2254 slack-v-mcdaniel |
Did the circuit court of appeals err when it denied (COA) status on the point raised that the U.S. district court abused its discretion by not allowin… |
| 18-8425 |
Henry Johnson Lucas, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals brady-violation civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal-timeliness-dismissal-rules- constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression new-trial-motion procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct rules-of-court standing timeliness |
Did the Virginia Supreme Court rule erroneously in dismissing petitioner's appeal as being untimely under Rule 5:9(a) of the Supreme Court of Virginia… |
| 18-8438 |
Abdul Cole v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdictional-standards procedural-due-process reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sexual-harassment strip-search title-ix university-liability |
Whether the strip search and visual body cavity search of Mr. Cole violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizu… |
| 18-8444 |
Primo C. Novero v. Duke Energy Florida, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts administrative-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims document-delivery due-process equal-access equal-protection right-to-jury-trial right-to-petition rules-of-court standing trial-by-jury |
Does the district court erred and had conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court Rule 29.2, and U.S. Constitution Amendment 14 due process in defining 'time… |
| 18-8446 |
Patrick J. Werner v. City of Green Bay, Wisconsin |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process due-process,ex-post-facto,residency-restrictions,s ex-post-facto public-outrage residency-restrictions sexual-offender |
Whether Respondent's Ordinance conformed with Due Process or is this Petitioner denied this based on his original offense, which was committed about 2… |
| 18-8452 |
In Re Harold B. Mason |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection mandamus standing takings |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment in the lower court proceedings |
| 18-8459 |
Wayne A. Bisso v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment blockburger-test common-law-marriage double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause estate-inheritance fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-theft property-rights |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects a surviving spouse, who is factually and actually innocent, from being convicted a… |
| 18-8460 |
Antonio Avilez v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment kidnapping petitioner-rights |
Whether the Petitioner's conviction for kidnapping violated the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution? |
| 18-8474 |
John Henneberry v. County of Alameda, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment bench-warrant civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment mail-fraud qualified-immunity rico-statute service-of-process |
When can a court allow faulty and fabricated service-by-mail of a criminal summons instead of personal service-by-sworn-officer? |
| 18-8479 |
Alexander A. Fels v. Mitch McConnell, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-healthcare free-speech healthcare healthcare-policy insurance-regulation legislative-claims obamacare standing statutory-interpretation |
Were the claims by President Trump, former Speaker Paul Ryan, Senator Mitch McConnell and others, that Obamacare is bankrupting our healthcare industr… |
| 18-8482 |
Lourdes Margarita Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brecht-standard constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage Cronic cronic-rule cronic-standard defense-counsel direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit hybrid-error prejudice structural-error trial-procedure |
Did the Eleventh Circuit err by holding this 'startling, intentional' violation of the defendant's constitutional and statutory rights did not constit… |
| 18-8485 |
In Re Michael David Hower |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mandamus massaro-v-united-states plea-coercion prohibition |
Is the petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including mandamus or prohibition from this Court, to protect his constitutional and statutory rights … |
| 18-8486 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Eddie Miles, Warden |
Minnesota |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights department-of-corrections due-process filing-delay frivolousness habeas-corpus judicial-error mootness procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Was it error to not consider the DOC's role in filing delays when ruling Writ. of Habeas corpus moot? |
| 18-8497 |
Leslie Roy Lynch v. Idaho |
Idaho |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the Petitioners are entitled to be heard in open court to challenge the constitutionality of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of t… |
| 18-8509 |
Towaki Komatsu v. NTT Data, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitration arbitration-impossibility civil-procedure civil-rights contractor-misclassification due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction financial-impossibility rooker-feldman-doctrine standing supplemental-jurisdiction younger-abstention younger-abstention-doctrine |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in affirming the judgment of the U.S. District Court |
| 18-8510 |
Travis Thaniel v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity right-to-be-present right-to-presence state-law trial-counsel weaver-retroactivity weaver-v-massachusetts |
Does the federal law of Weaver v. Massachusetts, 137 S.Ct. 1899 (2017) have retroactive application in the state of Maryland? |
| 18-8533 |
Lance Williams v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-appellate-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficiency-of-evidence intent invalid-illegal-strike perjury police-report prejudicial-1101(b)-evidence pro-se prosecutor-coercion prosecutorial-misconduct uncharged-act witness-credibility witness-description |
Whether the state courts erred in denying appeal on prejudicial 1101(B) evidence on uncharged act used to prove intent where the police report differs… |
| 18-8535 |
Daniel Arthur Heleva v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-representation due-process-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal judicial-waiver jurisdiction prosecutorial-effectiveness prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-overreach right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion waiver-of-constitutional-rights waiver-of-rights |
Whether state statutes provide pre-trial remedies for prosecutorial overreaching by interlocutory appeal, and whether defense counsel's failure to per… |
| 18-8545 |
Debra Ann Lohri v. Specialized Loan Servicing, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure bankruptcy civil-procedure due-process filing-deadline government-agencies mailbox-rule notice-timeliness procedural-technicality statutory-interpretation |
Whether the mailbox rule should apply to bankruptcy filings |
| 18-8549 |
Keith D. Goodman v. I. D. Hamilton, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process facial-unconstitutionality fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus second-or-successive second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-statute |
Whether a § 2254 (habeas) claim of a conviction under a facially unconstitutional statute is sufficient to overcome a statutory 'second or successive'… |
| 18-8559 |
Betty Caitlin Nicole Smith v. Zachary Taylor Daniel |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation constitutional-violations court-procedure due-process due-process,civil-procedure,state-laws,federal-law fraud judicial-misconduct legal-mandate procedural-integrity standing |
Whether the Florida First District Court of Appeals acted legally in refusing to uphold its own opinion and affirming an order that goes against its o… |
| 18-8560 |
Hakeem Sultaana v. Chae Harris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction fact-claims habeas-corpus jurisdiction-powers-28-usc-1291 jurisdictional-powers pending pending-case publication sixth-circuit u.s.c.-section-1291 void-order |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals can ignore its jurisdiction powers under Title 28 U.S.C. §1291 and file a void order on October 31, 2018 wi… |
| 18-8567 |
Rohan McDermott v. J. Soto, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-exclusion felony-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief post-trial-confession standard-of-review |
Did the panel so clearly misapprehend section 2253's modest standard as to call for summary reversal? |
| 18-8571 |
Javier Pellecer v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cumulative-error due-process fair-trial gang-evidence impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
Whether the cumulative effect of the errors discussed above deprived petitioner of due process of law and a fair trial by an impartial jury and requir… |
| 18-8580 |
Sidney Marts, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process sanctions standing |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in upholding sanctions against the petitioner that violated his due process rights under the 14th Amendment |
| 18-859 |
Earnest Peel v. H.E. Butt Grocery Company |
Texas |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 18-8590 |
Harlin Argelio Ramos v. Utah |
Utah |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice self-defense |
Did the Utah appellate court err in holding that the erroneous jury instruction, which impermissibly shifted the burden of proof onto Petitioner/Defen… |
| 18-8592 |
Wendell Arden Grissom v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
accuracy-of-factfinding aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act capital-proceedings federal-court-deference heightened-standard-of-reliability procedural-fairness |
To what extent, if any, should a federal court defer to prior state court factfinding and adjudication under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Pen… |
| 18-8594 |
Jason Allen Tiszai v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fex-v-michigan florida-law interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-detainers judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial |
Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial |
| 18-8596 |
Jose Bernazard v. Joseph Koch |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeals-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review legal-procedure procedural-error qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Did The Coork of Appeals not granting Ped, boner Access to Enter Appeal WAS ow Abvse of dixre lion by diswuss: |
| 18-8606 |
Lester J. Smith v. Greg Dozier, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights continuing-harm continuing-violation-doctrine due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-standard standing |
Whether the petitioner's serious medical ailment requires treatment with cure medications in accordance with the professional community standard of me… |
| 18-8620 |
Joel M. Hicklin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel |
Whether the Virginia Supreme Court erred in finding the petitioner's failure to investigate |
| 18-8633 |
James Greene v. Walgreen Eastern Co., Inc. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights data discovery discrimination disparate-impact due-process expert-testimony indigent-plaintiff standing statistical-significance statistics |
Whether the First Circuit Court erred when it affirmed the District Court's denial of an indigent plaintiff's (Greene's) motion to provide and pay for… |
| 18-8635 |
Benny L. Willis v. Kenneth Ross, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing civil-rights due-process free-speech preliminary-injunction standing state-law |
Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent the enforcement of a state law that allegedly … |
| 18-8644 |
Emanuel L. Finch, Sr. v. Bradley Graham, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-clause,compulsory-process,miranda-ri consent-to-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial materiality-of-false-testimony miranda-rights sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence weight-of-evidence |
Whether the conduct complained of is a question of law |
| 18-8656 |
Geneva Elaine Hames v. Patricia Yeldell, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing state-court-procedures |
Whether the denial of a constitutional right is permissible when a state court sets up a procedural bar to prevent review of the constitutional claim |
| 18-8675 |
Joshua Sedillo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance 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… |
| 18-8678 |
Mizell Campbell, Jr. v. The Florida Bar |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights disbarment disciplinary-proceedings due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal fair-trial fair-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-misconduct marshall-v-jerrico racial-bias racial-discrimination |
Whether an African-American lawyer facing disciplinary proceedings was deprived of his rights to Due Process and a Fair and Impartial Tribunal |
| 18-8684 |
Robert E. Young v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-amendment administrative-law burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jury-trial mixed-cases pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation rules-of-evidence standing summary-judgment |
Did the 7th District Court and the 7th Circuit Court deny the Appellant the protection and benefits granted by the 5th and 7th Amendments? |
| 18-8688 |
Frederick A. McShan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rights record statutory-provisions |
Whether the District Court erred in denying the appellant's due process and fundamental fairness claims |
| 18-869 |
Shawn Hall Lecuona v. Mark R. Lecuona |
Texas |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
conscience constitutional-protection due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests marriage marriage-rights no-fault-divorce personal-identity religion texas-family-code |
Does section 6.001 of the Texas Family Code violate Petitioner's fundamental liberty interests protected by the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process cla… |
| 18-8690 |
Dagoberto Ontiveros v. Michael Pacheco, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-appeal anders-v-california appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights direct-appeal due-process legal-ethics legal-frivolity right-to-counsel |
Whether a finding of frivolity is required when rejecting a criminal defendant's direct appeal under Anders v. California |
| 18-8691 |
Eugene C. Boisvert v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
13th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights counsel-ineffective due-process government-misconduct |
Whether the petitioner's 5th, 6th, 8th, and 13th Amendment constitutional rights were violated by the United States government and the petitioner's co… |
| 18-8694 |
Bryan Gilbert Henderson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception law-enforcement search-warrant systemic-misconduct systemic-mistake united-states-v-leon |
Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule of United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984) applies when law enforcement makes an obvious,… |
| 18-8695 |
Deontray Vershon Tate v. Jeff Titus, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about the denial of relief on procedural grounds where other courts have… |
| 18-8696 |
Cody R. Brown v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 18-8699 |
Marckenson Chery v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2422b criminal-offense criminal-offense-element double-jeopardy fifth-amendment indictment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether an indictment for violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) must identify the ''criminal offense'' element in order to meet the required nature of the … |
| 18-8700 |
Dorian Givens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release |
What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release? |
| 18-8703 |
Alan Wade Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner legal-background procedural-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement silent-record successive-habeas-motion successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that, due to a silent record and the relevant legal background, the sentencing court may have relied on the Armed… |
| 18-8708 |
Charles Clark v. Joe Coakley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 circuit-split controlled-substance-act drug-offense felony-drug-offense habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the decision handed down in Mathis v United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016) is retroactive in a post-conviction petition, as some courts have st… |
| 18-8711 |
Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-record due-process family-law parole probation sentencing |
Can a court deny a defendant permission to cohabitate with his or her child and the child's other parent while on probation or parole solely because t… |
| 18-8713 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment code-of-civil-procedure constitutional-violation counsel-of-choice due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance marsden-hearing plea-bargaining procedural-rights right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does a defendant have a right to replace his privately retained counsel at any time during trial court proceedings? |
| 18-8714 |
Kenneth Whigham, Jr., aka Kenneth Pringle v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jury-submission jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which held that the allegation of a prior conviction need no… |
| 18-8715 |
Quillie Merle Spray v. Kelly A. Ryan, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Shirley |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure effective-counsel fair-trial insanity-defense mental-evaluation sixth-amendment |
Whether the Court of Appeals correctly decided an important question of constitutional law: that the Petitioner was denied his right to effective coun… |
| 18-8717 |
Hanoi Barbaro Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-petitioner federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings slack-v-mcdaniel |
Does the blanket denial of a certificate of appealability by the district court violate the rule announced in Slack v. McDaniel? |
| 18-8718 |
Anthony C. Barrett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness |
Whether a second or successive habeas petitioner asserting that his sentence is invalid under Johnson II must show that the sentencing court relied ex… |
| 18-8721 |
Kelvin Reed v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-access-to-courts equal-protection error-coram-nobis poverty racial-discrimination |
Does Tennessee's Error Coram Nobis procedure discriminate against blacks and the poor, violating their constitutional rights? |
| 18-8724 |
In Re Archie Cabello |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law due-process judicial-discretion legal-ethics motions pleadings procedural-rules right-to-counsel rule-11 self-representation |
Does a trial judge have a duty to protect a defendant's right to counsel of choice? |
| 18-8725 |
Saiydin Abdullan Muhammad v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender common-law-robbery criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-law predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether North Carolina common law robbery qualifies as a predicate offense to support a designation of career offender |
| 18-8729 |
Alan Kenneth Thompson, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-peter |
Whether the ambiguousness of the term 'material' within Title 18 USC 2252A(a)(2)(B) gives unintended breadth to District Courts to accept pleas of gui… |
| 18-8738 |
Noe Machado-Erazo and Jose Martinez-Amaya v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-trial physical-force sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether an act of omission can constitute the 'use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force' under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(8)(A) |
| 18-8740 |
Michael Manley v. Delaware |
Delaware |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-creation judicial-overreach life-without-parole mandatory-sentence |
Did the Delaware courts violate Mr. Maniey's due process and Eighth Amendment rights by judicially creating a mandatory life without parole sentence? |
| 18-8741 |
Francisco Frank Apodaca, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
association-in-fact corporation enterprise enterprise-definition guilty-plea individuals ineffective-assistance legal-entity rico rico-statute sentencing-error statutory-interpretation union |
Can a corporation or other legal entity be associated in fact with a union or one or more individuals under the 'enterprise' definition of the RICO st… |
| 18-8743 |
Arturo Torres-Cabrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process immigration-offense indictment-requirements prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement 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… |
| 18-8747 |
Valentin Aguilar-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process 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… |
| 18-8752 |
Kulwant Singh Sandhu v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law criminal-speech first-amendment free-speech harassment public-policy statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-harassment |
Does 47 U.S.C. subsection 223(a)(1)(D) prohibit only the harassment caused by repeatedly ringing a telephone or does it also prohibit repeated verbal … |
| 18-8755 |
Matthew Ryan Murdoch v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-restrictions due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech liberty liberty-interest sentencing sex-offender statutory-interpretation |
Whether a lifetime prohibition on going to 'locations where any form of pornography, sexually stimulating performances, or sexually oriented material,… |
| 18-8767 |
Antonio Slaton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alford-plea criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-of-innocence federal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-supervised-release revocation-hearing supervised-release |
Whether a state conviction entered via an Alford plea creates an irrebuttable presumption such that a defendant in a federal supervised release revoca… |
| 18-8775 |
Samuel William Maines v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remand summary-denial |
Should the Fifth Circuit's unreasoned summary denial of a Certificate of Appealability be remanded for further consideration? |
| 18-8779 |
Yamura D. Hudson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing curtilage ex-post-facto exclusionary-rule fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-warrant jurisdiction-violation search-and-seizure standing warrant |
Whether the 11th Circuit courts must suppress the fruits of the admitted to illegal search and seizure |
| 18-8781 |
Kerri L. Kaley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-restitution due-process jury-finding jury-findings jury-trial sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states |
Should the rule of Apprendi apply to the imposition of criminal restitution? |
| 18-8782 |
Cesar Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-8783 |
Daniel R. Kendricks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest-warrant firearm fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety plain-view search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether law enforcement, when searching a residence pursuant to an arrest warrant, can initiate a separate search into any firearm that it encounters,… |
| 18-8784 |
DiAngelo Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct pretextual-stops racial-profiling traffic-stops whren-v-united-states |
Should this Court overrule Whren? |
| 18-8786 |
Stephen Krell v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights controlling-legal-principles deficient-advice effective-assistance-of-counsel legal-principles misapprehension-of-case plea-bargaining sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-counsel-incompetence |
Whether the Sixth Amendment's right to the effective assistance to counsel during the plea bargaining stages of the proceeding is implicated when tria… |
| 18-8808 |
Derrick Redmond v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fees-and-fines fines-fees standing takings |
Whether the commonly-imposed assessments are fines or fees, according to the analysis adopted by the Court in People v. Graves, 235 Ill. 2d 62 (2009) |
| 18-881 |
American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, et al. v. Jane O’Keeffe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response Waived |
commerce-clause commerce-clause,extraterritorial-regulation,inters constitutional-law due-process extraterritorial-regulation foreign-commerce fuel-regulation interstate-commerce standing state-discrimination |
Whether the Oregon Fuel Program violates the United States Constitution by restricting transportation fuel imports based on a 'life-cycle analysis' th… |
| 18-8816 |
Charles Ray Hooper v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus merits-adjudication miller-el voluntariness |
Where an appellate court decides that circuit precedent precludes the use of a Brady violation to challenge the voluntariness of a guilty plea, does t… |
| 18-8824 |
Darren Gonzales v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis money-laundering plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing |
Does a defendant who merely parrots the language of the concealment money laundering statute satisfy a district court's obligation under Rule 11 to es… |
| 18-8829 |
Leonid Djuga, aka Leonid Dzhuga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining statutory-rights |
Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement? |
| 18-8886 |
In Re James Rodgers, Jr. |
|
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness. aggravating-circumstances criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection facial-unconstitutionality gang-relation-element jurisdiction legislative-intent statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness |
Whether ACTR No. 92-601 is facially unconstitutional |
| 18-8922 |
In Re Efrain Campos |
|
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fraud habeas-corpus parole parole-eligibility plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Was Petitioner Efrain Campos Denied A Fundamentally Fair Guilty Plea Procedural Execution |
| 18-8923 |
Ryan Watkins v. Norm Robinson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief re-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit successive-petition |
Whether Petitioner was entitled to present his claims after re-sentencing to the United States District Court of appeals |
| 18-8960 |
In Re Robert Winkel |
|
Denied |
IFP |
case-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection legal-issues legal-terms petition scotus standing takings writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 18-917 |
Michael S. Bent v. Pamela Talkin, Marshal, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights courthouse-procedures due-process police-booth police-powers probable-cause separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority |
Does the Chief of Police's Police Booth Operation violate the right to be secure in papers and due process? |
| 18-944 |
Tree of Life Christian Schools v. City of Upper Arlington, Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split conditional-use-permit discrimination equal-terms equal-terms-provision facial-or-as-applied-violation free-exercise nonprofit-organization religious-land-use religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a rluipa standing tax-revenue zoning zoning-code |
What is the proper test for a RLUIPA equal-terms claim? |
| 18-983 |
City of Mackinac Island, Michigan, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-deference chenery-doctrine federal-power-act judicial-review regulatory-agency retroactive-rate-increase retroactive-rate-increases statutory-construction |
Does the prohibition against retroactive rate increases set forth in Section 206(a) of the Federal Power Act foreclose a judicially created exception … |
| 18M143 |
Mark A. Grethen v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M144 |
Robert Oulton v. Florida |
Florida |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M145 |
Eddie Taylor v. William J. Edwards, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M146 |
Benjamin Cunningham v. United States Marshals Service |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M147 |
Dale Shoop v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M148 |
Carlos Cordoba v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M149 |
Henry E. Gossage v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M150 |
Daniel Acedo v. Ernest Pinedo, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M151 |
William Joe Long v. C. Keeton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M152 |
Louis Bonanno, Sr. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M153 |
Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|