Conference: 2019-05-09

239 cases — 0 granted, 238 denied/dismissed, 1 pending

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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