Conference: 2019-05-16

132 cases — 0 granted, 132 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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18-1010 Joseph P. Hagan, et al. v. Karim Khoja Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split corporate-disclosure corporate-issuer disclosure duty-to-update historical-fact material-misstatement materiality reliance rule-10b-5 sec-rule-10b-5 securities-law Whether the Court should resolve the current circuit split regarding a corporate issuer's duty to update under Securities and Exchange Commission Rule…
18-1025 Lillie Leon v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law arbitration arbitration-decision arbitration-hearing civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process hall-street-assoc-v-mattel legal-preclusion res-judicata standard-of-review If the Arbitrator's decision was rendered unlawfully will this limit the scope of the preclusive effect of Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel per th…
18-1031 Sybil Little v. CSRA, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-discrimination harassment hostile-work-environment supervisor supervisor-liability title-vii workplace-harassment How should a court handle an EEOC Complaint? What information should be formally on the Complaint for the court to review?
18-1049 Peter M. Hoffman, et al. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (3) criminal-law-fraud criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquittal criminal-procedure-burden-of-proof criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence due-process evidence evidentiary-standard jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal mail-fraud prosecutorial-burden regulatory-ambiguity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud Whether a federal court must grant a motion for judgment of acquittal when, construing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, evi…
18-1056 Mitzi Johanknecht, Sheriff, King County, Washington v. Eva Moore, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young monell municipal-liability official-capacity prospective-relief section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-court-orders Whether Ex parte Young establishes a novel and unprecedented judge-made cause of action, separate from § 1983, that can be used through an official ca…
18-1057 Marei von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3) act-of-state-doctrine art-restitution civil-rights due-process foreign-policy holocaust-assets looted-art nazi-looted-art property-rights sovereign-immunity sovereign-interest Where artworks were forcibly confiscated from their Jewish owner by Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring, then recovered by the Dutch government after …
18-1061 Karen Graviss v. Department of Defense, Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools Federal Circuit Denied Amici (4) None
18-1103 Paul Ross Evans v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability choice-of-counsel civil-rights due-process effective-assistance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel standing Whether the right to choice of counsel or effective assistance is violated when counsel is appointed to represent fewer claims than the Government is …
18-1164 In Re Alan Giordani Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-review property-rights right-to-petition rooker-feldman-doctrine second-amendment second-amendment-review special-master sua-sponte-review takings Whether the failure of the District Court to appoint a federal monitor or special master to review the matter was error
18-1173 I. B. and Jane Doe v. April Woodard, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (7) child-abuse child-protection circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment qualified-immunity strip-search warrant warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a caseworker to obtain a warrant to strip-search a child
18-1181 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Ahmad Fawzi Issa Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) aedpa aedpa-standard confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington due-process federal-court-review habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment state-prisoner-rights supreme-court-precedent Whether a state prisoner's conviction is constitutional under current Supreme Court precedent, even if it violated now-overruled precedent at the time…
18-1187 Mitchell Miorelli, et al. v. Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit Denied admiralty-jurisdiction civil-procedure discovery discovery-limitations discovery-rules disputed-facts due-process equitable-tolling maritime-law material-fact material-facts motion-to-dismiss pre-answer-dismissal summary-judgment Whether summary judgment was proper where the respondent Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, LTD. moved to dismiss before filing an answer, no discovery had …
18-1193 Brandon Lee Moon v. County of El Paso, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process imbler-v-pachtman judicial-proceedings post-conviction post-conviction-DNA-testing prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct Prosecutorial misconduct in post-conviction DNA testing
18-1196 In Re William Kinney, et ux. Denied 14th-amendment all-writs-act civil-rights district-court-discretion district-court-jurisdiction due-process equitable-tolling fair-debt-collection fdcpa fdcpa-claim federal-jurisdiction mandamus state-court-jurisdiction state-court-proceedings stay-of-proceedings title-42-claims Challenging dismissal of FDCPA and civil rights claims, seeking reinstatement and stay of state court proceedings
18-1200 Fluid Dynamics, LLC v. JEA, fka Jacksonville Electric Authority Eleventh Circuit Denied certification certification-to-state-court civil-procedure discovery erie-doctrine erie-v-tomkins erie-v-tompkins fact-specific florida-law sovereign-immunity summary-judgment tenth-amendment Whether the District Court and the Circuit Court erred in applying a case dating from 1981 from a lower Florida Court to hold that JEA was entitled to…
18-1202 Pedro Montalvo, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio Denied 6th-amendment child-pornography computer-age constitutional-rights criminal-procedure doyle-violation due-process massiah-doctrine obscenity right-to-defense scienter sixth-amendment strict-liability Whether Ohio's strict liability for inadvertent child pornography dissemination violates due process, whether defendant's right to mount a defense was…
18-1205 Phillip B. Leiser, et al. v. Donald W. Lemon, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman abstention doctrine applies to deprive the lower federal courts of subject matter jurisdiction when a state-court loser, se…
18-1208 William M. Turner v. Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights continuing-wrong continuing-wrong-doctrine due-process heck-v-humphrey malicious-prosecution section-1983 statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit younger-abstention Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in finding that Appellant's 1983 and 1985 claims are barred by the Statute of Limitations
18-1209 Nicholas J. Bonacci v. Transportation Security Administration District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure apa-section-706 chevron-deference chevron-doctrine due-process judicial-deference judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether Sec. 706 of the APA is compatible with Chevron, or other deference models when a Court is faced with a significant question of statutory law
18-1212 Anthony Pappas v. Joseph Lorintz, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Supreme Court Judge of New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived campaign-funds civil-procedure civil-rights divorce-court divorce-court-seizure due-process federal-campaign-finance federal-election federal-election-law free-speech judicial-error prior-restraint standing writ-of-mandamus Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals commit reversible error when it denied a Writ of Mandamus sought by Petitioner as a candidate for Congress to …
18-1215 Alvin S. Kanofsky v. City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived abuse-of-power civil-rights code-enforcement conflict-of-interest conservatorship due-process government-corruption government-misconduct judicial-misconduct municipal-liability property-rights trespass Whether the City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania acted fraudulently and corruptly in its treatment of the petitioner, Alvin S. Kanofsky, and violated his p…
18-1221 Peli Popovich Hunt v. David M. Goodrich, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction-mandate appellate-review arizona-christian-sch-tuition-org-v-winn bankruptcy-amendment-interpretations bankruptcy-amendments-overrule-pre-code-interpreta bankruptcy-court-adjunct-appellate-court-jurisdict bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction-limits bankruptcy-court-power bankruptcy-decision-abrogation bankruptcy-decision-statutory-basis bankruptcy-decision-without-statutory-basis bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction-distinctions bankruptcy-jurisdiction-dominance bankruptcy-jurisdiction-interpretations bernards-v-johnson bnsf-ry-co-v-tyrell calflin-v-houseman challenge-to-federal-law civil-procedure clearly-abrogated-principle cutler-v-rae czyzewski-v-jevic-holding-corp davis-v-dewakelee davis-v-wakelee emil-v-hanley ex-parte-rowland ex-parte-siebold federal-law-challenge federal-law-challenges hamilton-v-lanning intra-circuit-conflicts isaacs-v-hobbs-tie-timber-co jurisdictional-analysis kuehner-v-dickinson-co lower-courts-power-to-ignore-law miss Does bankruptcy jurisdiction consist of more than one type of jurisdiction, and if so, is one type of jurisdiction more dominant than all the other ty…
18-1226 Clinton County Children and Youth Services v. A. A. R., Natural Mother, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment preemption prenatal-injury standing state-law supremacy-clause Whether a state violates the constitutional guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment when it denies protections to children who suffer prenatal injury
18-1227 Alvin S. Kanofsky v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights conservatorship due-process free-speech government-corruption judicial-bias judicial-misconduct municipal-fraud municipal-liability property-rights standing takings Whether the City of Bethlehem improperly seized Kanofsky's property through abuse of process and collusion with the courts
18-1228 Barbara Mrzlak Brundo v. Christ the King Church of Omaha Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights defamation due-process employment estate-administration estate-litigation frivolous-litigation judicial-retaliation ministerial-exception probate-court retaliation rule-11-sanctions Whether Rule 11 sanctions paid by petitioner for alleged frivolous complaints should be returned with interest
18-1232 Al Zeiny v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process emotional-distress fbi-investigation federal-tort-claims-act free-speech government-misconduct intelligence-agency intelligence-agency-misconduct mental-health pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether Zeiny's rights would prevail over the CIA's power
18-1237 Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Argante R. Grippa, et al. New York Denied accident appellate-jurisdiction dismissal-without-explanation highway judicial-bias leaving-scene motor-vehicle motor-vehicle-accident negligence new-evidence police-report racial-discrimination state-trooper sudden-stop taxi-driver-negligence traffic traffic-law Can a driver suddenly stop on a highway without warning?
18-1239 Havasupai Tribe v. Heather C. Provencio, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived consultation-requirement cultural-resources cultural-significance federal-agency federal-agency-consultation historic-preservation indian-tribes national-historic-preservation-act ongoing-project ongoing-project-supervision project-mitigation section-106 Whether the National Historic Preservation Act imposes a continuing obligation on federal agencies to engage in consultation when an agency maintains …
18-1241 Demetrius Jackson v. Ohio Ohio Denied child-protective-services criminal-procedure fifth-amendment police-interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether interrogations by state-employed child protective services caseworkers violate the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, where the caseworkers are requi…
18-1243 Nolvia Montoya-Aguilar v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Third Circuit Denied Response Waived None
18-1244 David Pickup, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived abrogation civil-rights content-based content-based-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech irreparable-harm mandate-recall recall-mandate supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it refused to recall its mandate after this Court explicitly abrogated its opinion by name
18-1294 Michael D. Lynch, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived business-records circuit-split due-process equal-protection erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-testimony national-mortgage-settlements summary-judgment supervisory-power Does Federal Rule of Evidence 803(6) authorize hearsay testimony concerning the contents of business records which have not been admitted into evidenc…
18-1304 Richard Ashbaugh v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived burrage-decision burrage-v-united-states collateral-review criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule Whether the courts below erred by failing to hold that this Court's decision in Burrage announced a substantive rule that courts must apply retroactiv…
18-1313 Michael Moran v. California Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights cumulative-effect cumulative-error due-process fair-trial in-custody-statements miranda miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel right-to-present-a-defense Could a jurist of reason find that the state court unreasonably applied clearly established federal law in determining that admission of petitioner's …
18-1321 Edward Ronald Ates v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment attorney-client-privilege civil-rights due-process federalism fourth-amendment interstate-communications jurisdictional-authority law-enforcement-surveillance out-of-state-interception phone-call-interception privacy state-jurisdiction wiretap-statute wiretapping Whether the New Jersey Wiretap Statute violates the Fourth Amendment by permitting law enforcement to intercept phone calls of out-of-state individual…
18-460 Walter Daniel, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Rebekah Daniel v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine medical-malpractice military-discipline military-exigencies service-member service-members stare-decisis statutory-interpretation Does the Feres doctrine bar service members, or their estates, from bringing claims for medical malpractice under the Federal Tort Claims Act where th…
18-672 City of Newport Beach, California, et al. v. Richard Vos, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-illness totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act require law enforcement officers to provide accommodations to an armed, violent, and mentally ill…
18-6907 Robert J. Kulick v. Leisure Village Association, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (3)IFP anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process equal-protection freedom-of-speech home-owners-association legal-procedure rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Is 9th Cir's Case#18-56000, Dismissal, 11-29-18, null & void because of defective Defendant-Appellee, when correct was Leisure Village Association, In…
18-7096 Reinaldo Santos v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP acca acca-violent-felony armed-career-criminal-act battery categorical-approach circuit-split descamps divisibility florida florida-battery mathis mens-rea modified-categorical-approach sixth-amendment violent-felony Is the 'touches or strikes' language in the Florida battery statutes divisible under Descamps v. United States and Mathis v. United States, permitting…
18-7322 Robert R. Yerton, Jr. v. Jason Bryant, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal confrontation-clause criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness federal-appeal indigent-defense sixth-amendment tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit Court erred in holding that the District Court of Tulsa County's refusal to permit a unique expert defense witness to presen…
18-733 1A Auto, Inc., et al. v. Michael Sullivan, Director, Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance Massachusetts Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (2) association campaign-finance contribution-limits equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech intermediate-scrutiny political-contributions strict-scrutiny Should Beaumont be overruled?
18-7414 Ray McArthur Freeney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)IFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence habeas-corpus material-evidence notice-and-hearing procedural-fairness state-court state-court-deference statutory-interpretation Whether deference is accorded to a state court decision under 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) where the state court received and relied upon material evidence and …
18-7444 Chad Talada v. David V. Cole, Sheriff, Steuben County Jail Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence administrative-procedure binding-precedent collateral-review criminal-procedure district-court habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective retroactivity saving-clause Whether § 2255(e)'s saving clause permits a criminal defendant to pursue a claim of actual innocence in the district where he is detained when binding…
18-7471 Mark Henry, aka Weida Zheng, aka Scott Russel, aka Bob Wilson, aka Joanna Zhong v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP arms-export-control-act court-interpreters-act criminal-procedure mens-rea nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether a 'willful' violation of the Arms Export Control Act requires proof of defendant's awareness of export licensing requirements
18-7530 Tonya Udoh, et vir v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 1983-claims 1985-claims 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process emotional-distress false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner minor-children miranda-rights monell-liability municipal-liability parental-rights pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing unconstitutional-statutes Whether pro se litigants are held to the same legal standards as counseled litigants
18-756 William Gittere, Warden, et al. v. Jose Lorente Echavarria Ninth Circuit Denied aedpa compensatory-bias due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct law-of-the-case Whether the Nevada Supreme Court's application of the law of the case in the state habeas appeal was an adjudication of Echavarria's compensatory bias…
18-7564 Jovan Howard v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied Relisted (2)IFP amended-information burglary-dwelling constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-remedy prosecutorial-misconduct unlawful-alteration unlawful-detention void-indictment Whether Habeas Corpus was the proper remedy for the petitioner unlawfully detained against his will
18-7591 Kofi Kyei v. Tessica L. Swift, et al. Oregon Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process due-process,civil-procedure,turner-v-rogers,state- fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-statutes state-support-statute turner-v-rogers Do state support statutes like the Oregon Statute (ORS) at Chapter 416.440 (8) contravene the 2011 United States Supreme Court rulings in Turner v. Ro…
18-7667 Marion Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure article-3 civil-procedure constitution constitutional-power due-process federal-courts judicial-proceeding judicial-proceedings judicial-review standing supervisory-power supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. 5th Cir. Court of Appeals has so far departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceeding
18-7690 Thomas Phillip Bell v. Kiah Demarias Leigh, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review mental-competency record-correction sentencing standing Whether the court should consider the petitioner's case as seriously as other cases involving civil rights or due process violations
18-7731 Anthony Ciavone v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence competency-hearing court-jurisdiction due-process evidence-fabrication fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-fraud judicial-integrity jurisdictional-defects supervisory-power Whether Supervisory Power of this Court is necessary to investigate and correct an extrinsic fraud upon the lower courts
18-7794 John M. Krott v. Scott May, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest-validity backdated-warrant civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fabricated-warrant fabrication habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge standing substantive-rights warrant warrant-fabrication Whether the petitioner's substantive due process rights were violated when the courts dismissed his habeas petition despite the existence of an active…
18-7876 Jordie L. Callahan v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competency mental-evaluation sixth-amendment Whether a Mentally Deficient Defendant is Entitled to a Competency Hearing or Mental Evaluation
18-8024 Alex Rodriguez v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea new-jersey-constitution plea-bargaining pre-trial-preparation pretrial-preparation right-to-counsel sexual-offense sixth-amendment Was the defendant denied the right to effective assistance of trial counsel?
18-8038 James Patrick Burke v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction network-investigative-technique rule-41 rule-41(b) Should evidence be suppressed under the 'exclusionary rule' when obtained from Network Investigative Tecnique (NIT) warrants that violated Rule 41(b) …
18-8062 Saundra Taylor v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review discretionary-review dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-deference judicial-review standard-of-review substantial-evidence Whether memorandum and opinion is not supported by substantial evidence in the record, is not in accordance to the law and an abused of discretion
18-810 John Maguire, et al. v. Anika Edrei, et al. Second Circuit Denied acoustic-device civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement lrad police-tactics protest-control qualified-immunity Did the Second Circuit err in finding a potential constitutional violation for excessive force and denying the officers qualified immunity
18-8112 Floyd Andrew Brown, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-issues constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merit-standard reasonable-jurists section-2255 standard-of-review standing Should the judgment be vacated and remanded in light of Buck v. Davis?
18-8246 In Re Dennis D. Jackson Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest speedy-trial Whether a petitioner who remains in custody in violation of his 5th and 14th Amendment rights must be immediately discharged without regard to state l…
18-827 Amir Francis Shabo v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) None
18-8315 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5-usc-2302 age-discrimination civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employee in-vitro-fertilization medical-leave probationary-employment sex-discrimination termination-rights Shall the Court immediately reinstate back to work a Federal employee who was fired for an attempt to get pregnant, for being discriminated against se…
18-8407 Gregory Scott Savoy v. Craig M. Burns, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP antipsychotic-drugs brain-volume brain-volume-reduction civil-rights constitutional-equity due-process equity involuntary-treatment judicial-deference medical-coercion mental-health issues being raised
18-8408 Renee L. McCray v. John E. Driscoll, III, et al. Maryland Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure-action remand standing standing-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari Whether the Court of Appeals of Maryland erred when it denied the Petitioner's petition for writ of certiorari
18-8418 Marvin Waddleton, III v. Bernadette Rodriguez, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process force-application good-faith qualified-immunity summary-judgment Whether the District Court erred in resolving the issue of qualified immunity without a trial to cross-examine witnesses on the application of force i…
18-8450 Randall Alan Carder v. California California Denied IFP assault assault-with-deadly-weapon constitutional-rights counter-attack criminal-procedure deadly-weapon due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense Did the trial court violate petitioner's due process rights by failing to sua sponte instruct the jury on self-defense to a charge of assault with a d…
18-8454 Carl Lynn Scott v. Jerry Goodwin, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ standing statement-of-case statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the court has jurisdiction to consider the petition
18-8457 John Garrett Smith v. Washington Washington Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings us-v-will Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims due to lack of jurisdiction and failure to state a claim under the U.S. Constitution
18-8461 Arther Lee Williamson v. Tyrie W. Boyer, Judge, Circuit Court of Florida, 4th Judicial Circuit Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals ACCA/Appellant failed to properly review the District Court's decision to deny the Appellant further leave to amend …
18-8465 Paula Jo Kunsman v. Joel Wall Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts access-to-justice bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-1307 bankruptcy-dismissal bankruptcy-judge-discretion bankruptcy-law chapter-13 circuit-split dismissal due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-debtor Are Bankruptcy Judges dismissing too many pro se debtors' cases without cause?
18-8478 Sheila Halousek v. Yuba County Animal Care Services California Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process notice-requirement privacy property-rights property-seizure redress seizure Violation of due process rights, seizure of private property
18-8480 Kevin Funk v. Montana Montana Denied IFP allodial-tenure constitutional-rights contract contract-interference contract-rights due-process federal-land-patent irrevocable-trust land-ownership property-protection takings takings-clause Is there a right for the irrevocable trustee and patent holder to redress any breach of the trust and hold and retain the land until in the judgement …
18-8483 Rafael Agosto v. Christopher Miller, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals had subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to the U.S. Const. Art. III, Sec. 2(a), to issue an order on December 19th …
18-8484 Gregory Donzell Bailey v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 6th-amendment caseload caseload-management civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance public-defender public-defenders right-to-counsel Whether the defendants' representation and resources should be limited due to public defenders in trial courts being overwhelmed with caseloads
18-8491 Ernest Marquis Flowers v. Laura Uriarte, et al. Florida Denied IFP appeal civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment unlawful-detention Whether petitioner was unlawfully detained in the Florida Department of Corrections under 'fully completed' to verdicts contrary to Florida Supreme Co…
18-8502 John Allen Alexander v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review jurisdiction standing Whether a clerk of a court issuing an opinion denying a petitioner his right to appeal violates the United States Constitution, Article III, Section 1…
18-8516 John E. Drummond v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeals collateral-review direct-appeal due-process forum judicial-procedure legal-remedy precedent prejudice records standing Is the state required to provide a defendant a forum to litigate a due-process claim
18-8527 Rene Rivera v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial foreign-born-national intellectual-disability language-barrier miller-el-v-cockrell post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review Whether the courts applied the correct standard of review in denying petitioner's application for certificate of appealability
18-853 United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Postal Regulatory Commission District of Columbia Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-discretion chevron-deference cost-attribution institutional-costs package-delivery postal-accountability-and-enhancement-act postal-regulatory-commission postal-service statutory-interpretation Should this Court reconsider the doctrine of Chevron deference?
18-8538 Rufus Spearman v. Mary Parson, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-8542 S. N., et al. v. San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP adoption child-welfare due-process family-finding-and-engagement family-notification family-separation foster-care grandparents-aunt-uncles-sibling-parent-of-sibling medical-best-interests notification permanency relative-placement Is it legal for an Agency to proceed to adopt a toddler out of her biological family when the record contains no written notification to any of her pa…
18-8544 Keith J. Myles v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial impartial-jury jury standing Was the petitioner's constitutional rights violated?
18-8548 Marvin Belser v. Jeffrey Woods, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process grievances qualified-immunity standing Whether the grievances were properly brought under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and were wrongly dismissed
18-8553 Amy M. Hicks v. Dallas County Community Colleges Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-law free-speech labor-rights protected-activity retaliation workplace-harassment wrongful-termination Whether the employer's actions in dismissing the petitioner violated the petitioner's constitutional rights and employment protections under federal a…
18-8564 Kelvin Wayne Heath v. Melinda K. Braman, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-reversal compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct uniform-act-on-production-of-out-of-state-witnesse witness-tampering Whether the trial court erred in convicting the petitioner despite the lack of testimony from a key witness and the prosecutor's misconduct in handlin…
18-8638 Michael Bennefield v. Georgia Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial guilt-determination jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect plea-bargaining plea-proceedings procedural-validity standing structural-defects When Structural Jurisdictional defects prevent a fair proceeding, can any reliable determination of guilt or innocence be deemed fair?
18-8646 Norman Hampton v. Gregory McLaughlin, Warden Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing state-courts Was the petitioner's sentence pronounced unlawfully?
18-8655 Nicholas Ryan Holloway v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-attorney appellate-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether the U.S. District Court erred in deferring to the Arkansas State Courts' finding that Mr. Holloway was not prejudiced by both his trial and ap…
18-873 Casino Pauma v. National Labor Relations Board Ninth Circuit Denied chevron-deference civil-rights employee-solicitation indian-gaming-regulatory-act indian-tribes labor-law labor-solicitation national-labor-relations-act republic-aviation tribal-sovereignty Whether the National Labor Relations Act applies to Indian tribes
18-8759 Cuauhtemoc Juarez-Aquino v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-authority due-process judicial-discretion majority-circuits ninth-circuit sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors Whether a federal district court is permitted boundless discretion to weigh established factors at sentencing
18-8761 Arthur Jones v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing Whether the California Penal Code §1192.7(c) that removes assessment of fact from the jury used to increase punishment is unconstitutional under the A…
18-8763 Terry Walker v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-finding jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining recharaterization sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Can a sentencing court consistent with the Sixth Amendment recharacterize a defendant's conviction into conduct that was neither found by a jury or ju…
18-8777 Salim Abdu Gould v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel self-representation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the petitioner was denied due process and the right to self-representation before the appointment of counsel and during the motions entertaine…
18-8792 Mario Devant Cheers v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-robbery career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-precedent mandatory-guidelines mandatory-minimum residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied Beckles to Mr. Cheers's pre-Booker sentence in light of Supreme Court precedent
18-8798 Brent Lynch v. Eddie Miles, 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…
18-8810 Pedro Martinez-Negrete v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guideline-range clear-error criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-appellant government-response plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines Where a criminal defendant shows that the district court made a clear legal error when applying the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, but the government res…
18-8814 Michael Perales v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process objection preservation-of-error sentencing substantial-arguments Whether parties to a criminal action must lodge a separate objection to the failure of a district court to address substantial arguments for a differe…
18-8821 Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c2 5k1.1-motion criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion koons-v-united-states mandatory-minimum sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance Can a defendant receive a 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) sentence reduction when the district court discarded the mandatory minimum because of a substantial-a…
18-8822 Thomas Reynolds v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
18-8825 Timeiki Hedspeth v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial federal-sentencing-guidelines offense-level reasonable-doubt restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines Did the District Court use an incorrect criminal history category to sentence Ms. Hedspeth?
18-8830 Julio Cesar De La Rosa v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process firearms mens-rea misdemeanor-crime-of-violence physical-force statutory-interpretation voisine-v-united-states Whether recklessness is consistent with the 'use of physical force'
18-8831 Javier Contreras Vargas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Does a sentence-appeal waiver frustrate the remedy fashioned by this Court in U.S. v. Booker, thereby rendering the waiver unconstitutional or void as…
18-8833 Shea Pascal Dease v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process elements felon-in-possession jurisdiction notice second-amendment Can a State maintain a judgment of conviction for a crime that the defendant never served notice of the elements for?
18-8834 José Amaya-Vasquez v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion prior-bad-acts reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review Whether the Court erred by considering the prior bad acts in the determination of the appropriate sentence?
18-8842 Michael Demon Nixon v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law-922g firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no …
18-8843 John Leroy Milne v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-identity drug-quantity due-process evidence reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence presented was sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Milne conspired to possess and knowingly possessed with inte…
18-8852 Xavier Huron Sanders v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review motion-for-review standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability?
18-8856 Jairo Estupinan Micolta v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process illegal illegal-transfer jurisdiction legal-transfer procedural-violation standing transfer united-states-jurisdiction Was due process violated when Micolta was illegally transferred into the United States jurisdiction without any due process of law?
18-8865 Marvin Lopez-Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict collateral-attack collateral-challenge conviction criminal-procedure district-court forfeiture government-enforcement government-forfeiture habeas-corpus waiver Does the government forfeit its right to enforce a defendant's waiver of a collateral challenge to his conviction by failing to raise the waiver issue…
18-8868 Amilcar C. Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP clerical-error commitment court-filing criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-36 federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment judgment-correction judicial-error procedural-rule record Is it error for the district court to file an order granting a petition to correct a clerical error in the judgment under Fed. R. Crim. P. 36, but fai…
18-8885 Jose Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-activity criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense fifth-circuit-interpretation firearm-enhancement firearms foreseeability presumption presumption-of-use sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade WHETHER THE GUIDELINES ARE MISAPPLIED UNER 2D1.1 (b)(1) BY MAKING A GENERAL PRESUMPTION THAT FIREARMS ARE 'TOOLS OF THE TRADE' AND THAT ALWAYS IS FORS…
18-8891 Warner Bernard Crider v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255 buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-review sixth-circuit Was Crider denied a COA improperly, where the Sixth Circuit's decision is contrary to Buck v. Davis?
18-8893 Mark M. Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review criminal-procedure impairment mental-capacity mental-impairment probable-cause standard-of-review suppression-motion trustworthiness warrant warrant-issuance witness witness-credibility witness-testimony Does probable cause to issue a warrant extend to situations where a witness to alleged criminal behavior was severely impaired?
18-8894 Robert L. Mayfield v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility co-conspirator co-conspirator-statements co-conspirators confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule hearsay hearsay-exception out-of-court-statements rule-801 rule-801(d)(2)(e) Whether admission of out-of-court statements made by Robert Mayfield's alleged co-conspirators violated the hearsay exception of Rule 801(d)(2)(E)
18-8898 Melinda J. Campbell v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-prosecution economic-harm hobbs-act hobbs-act,economic-harm,criminal-law,mens-rea,prec mens-rea precedent sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent wrongful-conduct Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals disregarded this Court's established precedent set forth in United States v. Enmons, 410 U.S. 396 (1973), a…
18-8900 Juan Garcia Herrera v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the enhanced-penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b) and 851 that require judicial factfinding about a prior conviction to increase the mand…
18-8902 Gustav Kloszewski v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation Crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility precedent sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Did the lower court fail to follow this Court's precedent in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004)?
18-8920 Charles Franklin Glasscock v. Jeri Taylor Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process effective-counsel habeas-corpus impartial-jury memorandum-decision ninth-circuit supreme-court Does the Ninth Circuit's memorandum decision, affirming the denial of habeas corpus relief, contravene this Court's commands regarding the vital guara…
18-8967 In Re Larry L. Brinson Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence all-writ-jurisdiction all-writs constitutional-review constitutional-rights gate-keeping gate-keeping-order gatekeeping-order habeas-corpus jurisdiction successive-habeas-corpus successive-petition supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the United States Supreme Court has jurisdiction under habeas corpus and all writ jurisdiction to review circuit court's gate keeping order de…
18-8975 Derran Smiley v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto kidnapping kidnapping-enhancement one-strike-statute penal-code retroactive-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation Did the California Supreme Court err in imposing the one strike statute of Penal Code section 667.61, when Souley was convicted of only one kidnapping…
18-930 David Brandon v. Sarah Brandon California Denied Relisted (2) annulment annulment-basis civil-rights domestic-relations due-process federal-immigration-law federal-state-relations fraud immigration immigration-marriage-fraud marriage marriage-fraud state-domestic-relations state-marriage-law Are the States, in particular California, required to recognize Immigration Marriage Fraud as a basis for annulment in their dissolution of marriage s…
18-938 Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC Sixth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) 28-usc-158 appellate-jurisdiction automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay circuit-split civil-procedure final-order precedent statutory-interpretation Whether an order denying a motion for relief from the automatic stay is a final order under 28 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1)
18-941 Carl B. Davis, Chapter 13 Trustee v. Tyson Prepared Foods, Inc. Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-estate circuit-split courts-of-appeals creditor creditor-rights passive-conduct property-interest property-interests property-of-the-estate statutory-interpretation Should the Court grant certiorari to resolve an entrenched and acknowledged conflict among the courts of appeals over whether section 362(a) applies t…
18-981 Theresa Jones, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine government-liability legislative-intent military-negligence military-service-members negligence servicemember-rights standing tort-action Should the Feres doctrine be revisited and limited to the legislative purpose underlining the Federal Tort Claims Act, such that a negligence action f…
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