| 18-1000 |
American Freedom Defense Initiative, et al. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-censorship government-speech public-forum speech-restriction transit-advertising transit-authority viewpoint-discrimination |
Is the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's advertising space a public forum for Petitioner's Support Free Speech' ads such that Responden… |
| 18-1083 |
Garda CL Northwest, Inc., fka AT Systems, Inc. v. Lawrence Hill, et al. |
Washington |
Denied |
|
collective-bargaining-agreement labor-management-relations-act-301 mental-state preemption unreasonableness willfulness collective-bargaining contract-interpretation federal-labor-law labor-preemption labor-relations lmra mental-state preemption statutory-construction waiver-interpretation |
Whether a state labor claim that requires the plaintiff to show that an employer acted with 'willfulness,' 'unreasonableness,' or other mental state, … |
| 18-1094 |
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, et al. v. Joe R. Whatley, Jr., WD Trustee |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
|
cargo-damage carmack-amendment circuit-split federal-preemption limitations-period limitations-periods notice-of-claim notice-requirements rail-carrier-liability uniform-bill-of-lading |
Whether a shipper's notice asserting a rail carrier's liability for damage to specifically identified cargo and demanding a determinable amount of mon… |
| 18-1135 |
Batu Shakari v. Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, et al. |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-application due-process federal-courts illinois-statute standing state-law |
Did the Illinois courts' application of an Illinois statute deprive Batu Shakari of due process under the 14th Amendment? |
| 18-1165 |
Retirement Plans Committee of IBM, et al. v. Larry W. Jander, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
amgen-v-harris circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty fifth-third-standard fifth-third-v-dudenhoeffer insider-information pleading-standard private-securities-litigation-reform-act prudence prudent-fiduciary securities-fraud securities-litigation |
Alleged-fraud-disclosure-harm |
| 18-1252 |
Rev. Barry D. Bilder v. Rev. Beth Mathers, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights dna dna-collection due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights reasonableness right-to-counsel search-warrant seizure sixth-amendment |
Is a Search Warrant (for DNA) reasonable under the Fourth (4th) Amendment? |
| 18-1253 |
Brian Mark Burmaster v. Switzerland |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
18-usc-229 asset-seizure chemical-weapon chemical-weapons civil-rights diplomatic-immunity due-process embassy-contact extradition federal-statute international-law international-terrorism standing swiss-assets terrorism uncontested-proceedings writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Supreme Court should punish Switzerland for an alleged chemical weapon attack on a U.S. citizen by enforcing a lien on Swiss assets, despi… |
| 18-1257 |
Peter Lee, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, California |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights district-boundaries hunt-v-cromartie legislative-privilege racial-gerrymandering redistricting shaw-claim shaw-v-reno summary-judgment united-states-v-gillock village-of-arlington-heights-v-metropolitan-housin |
Whether legislators drew boundaries with a predominant racial intent |
| 18-1277 |
William F. Sorin v. Department of Justice |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
' °° ae federal-sentencing-guidelines foia-exemptions foia-improvement-act-2016 government-transparency presidential-memorandum prosecutorial-discretion |
Whether the appropriateness of the government's reliance on FOIA exemptions must be determined in light of the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 and the Pr… |
| 18-1284 |
Jennifer L. Wilson v. SunTrust Bank, et al. |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure court-hearing due-process judge judicial-discretion judicial-procedure jurisdiction north-carolina-constitution north-carolina-general-statutes procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation trial-court venue |
Did the Trial Court hearing of August 15, 2016, Judge Gregory R. Hayes presiding, violate Article VI Section 11 of the North Carolina Constitution; N.… |
| 18-1289 |
Allergan, Inc., et al. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blocking-patent blocking-patent-doctrine commercial-success graham-v-john-deere long-felt-need objective-indicia objective-indicia-of-non-obviousness obviousness patent-law patent-law-doctrine-of-obviousness prior-art |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that objective indicia of non-obviousness may be partially or entirely discounted where the development o… |
| 18-1290 |
Reed Kirk McDonald v. Arapahoe County, Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack colorado-law colorado-rule-120 due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction non-judicial-proceeding non-judicial-proceedings preclusion res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine rule-120 standing |
Whether a party who was not, and has never been named as an underlying party to any court proceedings for/against petitioner can invoke Rooker-Feldman… |
| 18-1292 |
Craig Roth v. Nassau County, New York |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada affirmative-defense americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel disability due-process employment federal-claims judicial-procedure |
Are lower courts correctly applying the affirmative defense of collateral estoppel to bar federal claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act? |
| 18-1326 |
Justin Shultz, et al. v. Jason Cole |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process first-amendment individual-assessment law-enforcement legal-standard police-conduct qualified-immunity retaliation summary-judgment |
When multiple police officers seek qualified immunity on a summary judgment motion, their entitlement to qualified immunity should be evaluated indivi… |
| 18-1342 |
Andrew Ndubisi Ucheomumu v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-discipline brady-v-maryland in-re-ruffalo quasi-criminal willner-v-committee 14th-amendment attorney-disciplinary-proceeding attorney-discipline brady-disclosure confrontation confrontation-rights due-process in-re-ruffalo prosecutorial-misconduct willner-v-committee |
Whether the State of Maryland violated Petitioner's 14th Amendment due process rights |
| 18-1347 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-law civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment criminal-law discharge-injunction discharge-violation due-process federal-enforcement fraud judicial-misconduct statutory-immunity |
Whether the removal was due to crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact |
| 18-1349 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-524 attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-crimes bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment criminal-law discharge-injunction discharge-violation discharged-debtor due-process fraud judicial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Whether the motion to re-open was justified due to crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact |
| 18-1351 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-law civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment discharge-injunction due-process enforcement-duty first-amendment fraud judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct statutory-violation |
Kinney v. Clark |
| 18-1358 |
Douglas Echols v. Spencer Lawton |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation libel-per-se presumption-of-innocence qualified-immunity retaliation substantive-due-process |
Whether a prosecutor's use of libel per se to retaliate against a wrongfully convicted person seeking compensation through legislative means violates … |
| 18-1363 |
David G. Morton v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-standing due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court misprision standing standing-issue summary-judgment tila tila-violation truth-in-lending-act |
Whether the lower court erred in granting summary judgment to the respondents despite their documented violation of the Truth in Lending Act, their de… |
| 18-1364 |
Jim Miller v. Eric Olsen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court district-court employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-plan jurisdiction ninth-circuit primary-purpose-test retirement-plan surrounding-circumstances-test |
Whether the Oregon District Court and Ninth Circuit erred in applying the 'primary purpose' test rather than the 'surrounding circumstances' test to d… |
| 18-1365 |
Mogul Media, Inc., et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
commercial-speech content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-speech municipal-government public-forum public-property zoning-resolution |
Does the First Amendment prohibit the City of New York from preferring the commercial speech of its tenants over private landowners' commercial and no… |
| 18-1383 |
James M. Hale v. United States |
Armed Forces |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10-usc-802 court-martial court-martial-jurisdiction general-verdict judicial-deference jurisdictional-defects jurisdictional-limits legal-sufficiency military-discipline military-discipline-jurisdiction military-law overt-acts plain-error rostker-v-goldberg sufficiency-of-evidence weiss-v-united-states |
Whether the court-martial had jurisdiction over the charged conduct |
| 18-1385 |
Ruben Delhorno v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
coram-nobis criminal-procedure deportation-consequences habeas-corpus immigration immigration-consequences immigration-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-v-kentucky padilla-waiver sixth-amendment writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Whether a Padilla constitutional waiver may be inferred without an evidentiary hearing by mere passage of time where defendant sought neither a direct… |
| 18-6826 |
Carlos David Caro v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
§-2255-claim bop-data brady-violation criminal-procedure-brady death-penalty due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-prison government-misconduct procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-procedure suppression-of-evidence |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in ruling Caro was procedurally barred from raising a § 2255 claim that the Government's suppression of available exc… |
| 18-6949 |
Eric A. Klein v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
critical-stages federal-felony johnson-v-zerbst limited-appearance plea-negotiations pro-se right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel waiver-of-counsel |
Whether the district court should address the facts showing a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel post-arraignment and for critical stag… |
| 18-7115 |
Richard Clark v. D. J. Harmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appointments-clause article-iii constitutional-delegation due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255-2241 ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conference separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the fact that the § 2255 remedy failed to test and determine one of two Ineffective Assistance of Trial Counsel issues satisfies the phrase 'i… |
| 18-7136 |
Mark Hanna v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process incarceration incarceration-rights insurance-requirement motor-vehicle-law retaliation standing vehicle-registration |
Whether La. RS32:863 of the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Law is unconstitutional for due process of law |
| 18-7187 |
Willis Wheeler v. United States |
Third Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
circuit-split curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment key-insertion privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search warrantless-search |
Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless insertion of keys into a locked apartment door, within a secured multi-unit dwelling, to gain informat… |
| 18-7208 |
Nicholas Maslonka v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
constructive-denial critical-stage cronic-standard cronic-v-united-states habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-action |
Is there a requirement that state action contribute to counsel's absence from a critical stage of the proceedings in order for there to be a construct… |
| 18-7347 |
Arthur J. Freer v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
| 18-7383 |
Jennifer Feldman v. Adoption Star Agency, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment adoption adoption-fraud adoption-law adoption-proceedings child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-bonds family-separation jurisdictional-challenge standing |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court erred in denying jurisdiction over the District Court's decision, in light of this Court's precedents recognizing t… |
| 18-7408 |
Stephen Daniel Leonard v. George Washington University Hospital, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process effective-remedy equal-protection standing takings |
Did the United States Court of Appeals err in denying Petitioner's appointment of counsel |
| 18-7505 |
Demian Pina v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause daubert due-process ecpa ecpa-violation electronic-surveillance evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment kyllo search-and-seizure speedy-trial |
Does the use of computer/internet surveillance technology violate the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights? |
| 18-7558 |
Brandon Lamar Hawkins v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-competency criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-competency mental-health resentencing sentencing trial-court trial-court-discretion |
Whether petitioner is entitled to discharge, new trial, and/or resentencing based on the trial court failing to conduct a competency hearing |
| 18-7562 |
Donald Jodiah Isaiah v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection life-liberty-property standing takings |
Whether the Shalev Woelks doctrine violates the Dunrerve Cru ver tule |
| 18-7635 |
Harold Hall v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adversarial-process due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment united-states-v-cronic |
Whether Mr. Hol was denied effective assistance of counsel required by the Federal constitution's Sixth Amendment |
| 18-7639 |
Caster Delaney Whetstone v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-waiver armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split illegal-sentence plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether a defendant's challenge to his status as an armed career criminal, where the sentence is in excess of the otherwise applicable statutory maxim… |
| 18-7725 |
Ralph Francis DeLeo v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
collateral-review due-process judicial-proceeding luis-v-united-states new-watershed-rule powell-v-alabama retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-rule-10 watershed-rule |
Should this Court exercise its supervisory power under Supreme Court Rule 10 and grant review of petitioner's case? |
| 18-7747 |
Jae Yung Kim v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus ninth-circuit substantial-showing |
Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for the issuance of a certificate of appealability (COA)" |
| 18-7791 |
Joyce Ann Smith v. City of Princeton, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-dismissal civil-mediation civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court due-process magistrate-judge mediation procedural-review reconsideration settlement settlement-dispute standing towing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 18-7807 |
Christopher Young v. Michael M. Kraus, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals-court civil-rights due-process hrcp-rule-4 indigent-rights insurance-fraud judicial-misconduct no-fault-claim public-interest public-safety standing standing-issue state-court-jurisdiction summons-order |
Whether the lower Court had Standings to hear and Dismiss a No-Fault claim issue, under abuse of HRCP Rule 4 |
| 18-7825 |
Trevonte Jenkins v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial flawed-process identification in-court-identification state-witness witness-testimony |
Is a petitioner denied due process of law and a fair trial when identification was at issue at trial and there was a flawed process related to a first… |
| 18-7885 |
Christopher VanGuilder v. Daniel Martuscello, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process entrapment-defense grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supplemental-instructions supplemental-jury-instructions |
Whether United States District Second Circuit Court Of Appeals and or said Lower Court's Erred in Failing to grant Petitioner's Ineffective Assistance… |
| 18-7891 |
Leslie Ann Haymond v. Helmand Investment, LLC |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parrish-v-federal-nat-mortg-association pro-se-litigation standing stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-detainer |
Did the Court error when disregarding the maxim of stare decisis et non quieta movere |
| 18-8002 |
Brad Hunter Smith v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstance aggravating-circumstances arbitrary-imposition capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigating-circumstance mitigating-circumstances |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court's holding that a capital-sentencing jury permissibly declined to weigh an existent statutory mitigating circumstanc… |
| 18-8023 |
A. R. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
None |
|
| 18-8060 |
Glenn S. Solberg v. First National Bank and Trust Co. of Williston, et al. |
North Dakota |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
7th-amendment amendment-violation civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discrimination jury-trial standing |
Whether I should have been granted a jury trial after petitioning the ND Supreme Court three times abiding by the law in the 7th amendment |
| 18-8184 |
Daryl Sharp v. Timothy Dolan |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence free-speech jurisdiction jury-instructions standard-of-review standing |
Whether the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to support the conviction |
| 18-8194 |
Jerome Henderson v. Terry Collins, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
due-process equal-protection post-conviction-remedies statutory-law suspension-clause due-process equal-protection federal-statutory-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ohio-public-defender-commission post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies procedural-default |
Whether appointed counsel violated federal statutory law or constituted an equal protection clause violation |
| 18-8273 |
Cecilio Cuero Payan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-free-attorney conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver |
Whether, under the sixth amendment, a criminal defendant may waive his right to raise a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel as part of a plea-a… |
| 18-8292 |
Julius Greer v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure forfeiture judicial-review motion-to-dismiss plain-error-review speedy-trial-act standard-of-review waiver |
Speedy-Trial-Act-violation |
| 18-8583 |
Gilbert Postelle v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment eighth-amendment flynn-effect fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether the failure to investigate and present mitigating evidence of intellectual disability based on the Flynn Effect violates the Sixth, Eighth, an… |
| 18-8591 |
Jose J. Salazar-Hernandez v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment child-sexual-assault confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations victim-testimony |
Whether the 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard was reasonably and rationally applied when the alleged victim of child sexual assault testified they … |
| 18-8593 |
Dontae Callen v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty fourth-amendment jury-unanimity probable-cause search-warrant separate-affidavit |
Where an affidavit does not support a finding of probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant, can a reviewing court consider information from … |
| 18-8597 |
Barbara E. Brown v. Scott Burton, Deputy Sheriff, in His Individual Capacity, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice search-warrant standing state-court-liability trespassing unreasonable-search-and-seizure |
Whether District Court Judge Cormac Carey obstructed justice under the definition of 18 U.S.C. 1503 when he refused Petitioner Counsel? |
| 18-8607 |
Johnnie Sterling v. Chuck Dwyer |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance manifest-injustice mixed-questions-of-law-and-fact procedural-due-process |
Should the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have granted the Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-8608 |
William Ramirez, et ux. v. Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment precedent pro-se state-court statutes |
Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect that a state court at the county level follow precedent as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Ame… |
| 18-8609 |
Robert L. Clark v. Carroll County Sheriff's Department, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process in-forma-pauperis standing |
Is the appeal lacking merits? |
| 18-8610 |
Antonio Sierra v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-impairment standing |
Whether the District Judge of the Custodial United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania is precluded from exercising Article… |
| 18-8611 |
Elicia Bailey v. Jeremy Gasaway |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-act criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process family-court family-law harsh-penalties subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Do family courts hold subject-matter jurisdiction to find guilt of a criminal act and subsequently impose harsh penalties without due process in a cri… |
| 18-8612 |
Jason Johnson v. Paul M. Gonyea, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination |
Did trial court unreasonably apply Supreme Court's precedent when it bypassed step 3 of the Batson v. Kentucky requirement's in its consideration of p… |
| 18-8613 |
Quincy Magee v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
IFP |
antitrust business-disputes civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-infringement copyright-protection corporate-infringement due-process employment-rights fraud intellectual-property licensing patent patent-infringement patent-ownership standing trade-secret |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging copyright infringement, patent infringement, and fraud |
| 18-8618 |
Umadean Hatch v. Dr. Wilson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims |
| 18-8622 |
In Re Mark Garrett |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-remedy mandamus-petition opinions-below patent reason-for-granting-the-petition rules-involved standing takings writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant legal principles |
| 18-8628 |
Deon Tremell Lee v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment citizenship citizenship-rights civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction nationality naturalization property-rights |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the denial of his claim of nationality and citizenship under the 14th Amendment, resul… |
| 18-8637 |
James Paul Arlotta v. Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process establishment-clause fair-hearing reverse-discrimination standing title-vi transportation-discrimination transportation-services |
Whether the constitutionality of an Act of Congress was properly drawn into question |
| 18-8639 |
Anthony Franklin v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection faretta-hearing faretta-v-california habeas-corpus pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment third-circuit third-circuit-law |
Whether the district court erred in denying a Writ of Habeas Corpus to Petitioner |
| 18-8640 |
Safron Huot v. Montana State Department of Child and Family Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights custody custody-dispute due-process family-law judicial-review ninth-circuit-court parental-rights reunification standing |
How long must one take to be Given the Chance to be an Active Parent in the lives of Their Children? |
| 18-8641 |
Willie Houston, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel objective-record plea-bargaining postconviction-proceedings probation probation-eligibility record-of-trial trial-record unintelligent-waiver waiver-of-rights |
Whether the court must give greater weight to the objective record of trial over counsel's affidavit in an ineffective assistance of counsel claim |
| 18-8643 |
Joseph Lee Flores v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
bias criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire |
WHETHER VENIREMAN WHO STATED DURING VOIR DIRE THAT HIS ABILITY TO BE FAIR WOULD BE AFFECTED BY PRIOR EXPERIENCE WITH CRIME EXPRESS BIAS; RENDERING COU… |
| 18-8645 |
David Dean Harris v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-procedure constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent victim-identification witness-testimony |
Was the state's use of the complaining witness's name specifically as the victim a violation of presumption of innocence, Supreme Court precedent, Uni… |
| 18-8648 |
Undraneckio Brassfield v. Ron King, Superintendent, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis indigent-defendants standing |
Whether indigent petitioners have a constitutional right to access the courts by way of being granted in forma pauperis status as a matter of law? |
| 18-8651 |
Robert Butrim v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Whether the District Court's failure to address all the issues presented in the Habeas Corpus Petition deprived the Movant of a full review by the Cir… |
| 18-8652 |
Ammar Asimfaruq Harris v. Nevada |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment capital-case constitutional-error due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury sixth-amendment |
Whether Mr. Harris' rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth amendments to a fair trial by jury were violated |
| 18-8653 |
Tavares J. Wright v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment adaptive-functioning atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's adaptive functioning analysis of intellectually disabled individuals violate the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 18-8657 |
Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Maricopa Commissioners |
Arizona |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure dismissal evidentiary-ruling judgment judgment-of-dismissal jurisdiction reversible-error rule-38.1(n) special-commissioner |
Whether the Special Commissioner committed reversible error in the judgment of dismissal |
| 18-8658 |
Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Paul Penzone, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights complaint discretionary-rulings dismissal due-process failure-to-state-a-claim pro-se standing |
Whether the court below committed a reversible error by dismissing the pro se litigant's complaint |
| 18-8659 |
Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Amy M. Wood |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fees standing statutory-certification |
Whether or not the lower Court committed reversible error in dismissing the Pro Se litigant's Complaint, for failure to state a claim |
| 18-8661 |
Eddie Lee Jackson v. Sandy McCain, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-medical-condition counsel-misconduct due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation misconduct procedural-error right-to-counsel suspension |
Whether the Petitioner was denied the right to assistance of counsel |
| 18-8668 |
Joseph Edwards Teague, III v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appeal appellate-review detective-affidavit federal-law good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant state-law state-vs-federal state-vs-federal-law |
Was COA17-1134 dispositive of appeal brought to NC Court of Appeals? |
| 18-8671 |
Glynndeavin Von Fox v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation federal-consent federal-preemption federal-questions international-law judicial-access judicial-review medical-access senate-ratification separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity sovereign-immunity-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction treaty-power us-constitution |
Can a State Court answer federal questions of an International Country in Japan, regarding judicial access to documents, or medical access to document… |
| 18-8674 |
Dewayne Montgomery v. Garry Lewis Properties |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process landlord-tenant precedent slum-landlords standing summary-judgment tenant-rights tenants |
Whether the court of appeal's decision below, which effectively shifted the burden of proof onto Petitioner, a non-moving party at the summary judgmen… |
| 18-8679 |
John James Bell v. South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure legal-representation |
Did the petitioner receive equal protection of the law under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 18-8680 |
George Rahsaan Brooks v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township |
Third Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-precedent retroactivity rule-60(b) rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the decision of McQuiggin v. Perkins applies retroactively |
| 18-8681 |
Jamal James Carmouche v. Jason Kent, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-circuit-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review malicious-prosecution standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel trial-record |
Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Carmouche of a crime? |
| 18-8685 |
Ervin Thomas v. Cathy A. Jess, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-district-court habeas-corpus pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing time-bar |
Whether a federal district court should deny petitioners petitions for a writ of habeas corpus as untimely and failed to issue a certificate of appeal… |
| 18-8686 |
Juan Francisco Vega v. Florida |
Florida |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-provisions criminal-convictions criminal-judgments due-process involuntary-commitment involuntary-proceedings standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the criminal judgments and convictions that are being utilized for involuntary civil commitment are barred by the Florida civil action statute… |
| 18-8710 |
Veronica Moody Johnson v. Social Security Administration |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment due-process lien lien-enforcement social-security social-security-administration spousal-support |
Whether the United States District Court had jurisdiction to make a 14th Amendment due process declaration of rights |
| 18-8720 |
Rodney Reep v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-records agency-referrals civil-procedure exemption-7(c) exemption-interpretation foia foia-request government-disclosure government-misconduct grand-jury improper-conduct judicial-procedure statute-of-limitations |
Does 28 U.S.C. §2401(a) apply to FOIA? |
| 18-8762 |
Jason Curtis Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment indictment remand standing superceding-indictment superseding-indictment |
Whether Brown's Fifth Amendment right to double jeopardy, due process and the expressed terms of the 6th Cir. Court of Appeals limited remand order we… |
| 18-8764 |
Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-hearing calfresh-benefits civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-speech county-notice establishment-clause first-amendment food-stamps free-speech hearing-rights notice public-assistance state-hearing utility-allowance wedding-services welfare-assistance |
Whether the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a private business to create custom wedding invitation… |
| 18-877 |
Frederick L. Allen, et al. v. Roy A. Cooper, III, Governor of North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
14th-amendment article-i-power congress congressional-power constitutional-law copyright copyright-infringement copyright-remedy-clarification-act federal-power federal-remedies federal-statute intellectual-property sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity |
Whether Congress validly abrogated state sovereign immunity via the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act |
| 18-8771 |
Timothy Barr v. Rebecca Pearson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process due-process-rights judicial-authority jury-trial prisoner-civil-rights prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation standing supreme-court-precedent |
Does the 8th circuit federal court of appeals have the authority to supersede the standards and precedent set by the United States Supreme Court in pr… |
| 18-8772 |
Ellery Bennett v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prison-law-library pro-se pro-se-petitioner statute-of-limitations |
Whether the pro se petitioner's lack of knowledge about the habeas corpus statute of limitations due to the prison law library clerk's misleading stat… |
| 18-8778 |
Fred Huffman v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-justice ex-post-facto-law judicial-vindictiveness redress-of-grievance retroactive-sentencing time-bar |
Retroactive amendment of U.S. Constitution's ex-post facto law |
| 18-8803 |
Raymond Ramirez v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-violation conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-of-conviction jurisdiction jurisdictional-rule sentence sentencing state-court |
Whether the State of Florida / State Court violated the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution by enlarging a jurisdictional rule without au… |
| 18-8861 |
Allen Louis Dorsey, Sr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-documents charging-information confidential-informant confidential-informants controlled-substances criminal-procedure discovery double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-discretion substance-sale |
Can a citizen be convicted of an uncharged crime? |
| 18-8880 |
M. A. Edwards, aka Michael Anthony Edwards v. Scott Semple, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fabricated-testimony fraud government-misconduct impeachment standing testimonial-evidence testimonial-statement |
Can the government tell the triers of fact that defendant confessed to murder |
| 18-8888 |
Nexis Rene Gomez v. Ken Clark, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-diligence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) sixth-amendment |
Did the Ninth Circuit erred in finding that petitioner did not showed that jurist of reason would find it debatable whether the district court abused … |
| 18-8944 |
Timmy W. Doucet v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-deliberation jury-deliberations louisiana-criminal-code reasonable-doubt reversible-error sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence |
Whether reasonable jurists determine that it was reversible error for the district court to permit the jury, over defense counsel's objections, to vie… |
| 18-8946 |
Willie Peterson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process duncan-v-louisiana illinois-v-allen lewis-v-united-states right-to-be-present third-circuit-court |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that the State Court Violated the U… |
| 18-8963 |
Jose Cobian v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
730-ilcs-5-5-9-1-1 apprendi constitutional-challenge criminal-fines due-process guilty-plea sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Southern Union Co. v. United States has clarified that criminal fines are subject to the rule announced in… |
| 18-8971 |
William T. Liepe v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment blood-alcohol blood-alcohol-test case-review constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-interpretation legal-standard search-and-seizure statutory-provisions suppression warrantless-search |
Did the warrantless search of defendant's blood for the purpose of determining his blood alcohol level violate the established constitutional principl… |
| 18-8986 |
David E. Kelly v. Joseph M. Arpaio, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment business-identity-theft civil-rights constitutional-rights copyright-infringement due-process equal-treatment identity-theft law-enforcement property-rights |
Are law enforcement officers allowed to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens? |
| 18-9002 |
David Curtis Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa de-novo-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Petitioner was prejudiced under the Sixth Amendment due to trial counsel's failure to object to a concededly erroneous jury instruction an… |
| 18-9008 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias due-process evidentiary-facts in-re-murchison judicial-bias post-conviction-relief recusal rippo-v-baker williams-v-pennsylvania |
Whether there is an impermissible risk of actual bias, likelihood of bias, appearance of bias, or unconstitutional potential for bias on the issue of … |
| 18-9015 |
Diego Rodrigo Perea v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constructive-denial criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Was the State Court's rejection of the Petitioner's claim that he was constructively denied the assistance of counsel |
| 18-9016 |
Henry Earl Miller v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 4th-circuit-court-of-appeals 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-equal-protection constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus procedural-due-process procedural-law wood-v-milyard |
Does The Fourth Circuit's Widespread Practice Of Issuing Virtually Indistinguishable Production-Line Manufactured Rubber Stamped Opinions Violate Mill… |
| 18-9032 |
Michael Slager v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights credibility-of-witness criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony legal-standard officer-involved-shooting police-misconduct police-use-of-force second-degree-murder use-of-force voluntary-manslaughter |
Did the district court deny Petitioner's right to due process when it found that the underlying conduct at issue here—Officer Michael Slager's shootin… |
| 18-9037 |
Rolander Brown v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act |
Whether the 'good faith exception' to the exclusionary rule should apply to court orders obtained pursuant to the Federal Stored Communications Act |
| 18-9041 |
Peter Gakuba v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule free-speech search-and-seizure standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional and statutory rights were violated when the state court denied his motion to suppress evidence obtained throug… |
| 18-9042 |
Kingy Ossarius Holden v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence search-and-seizure |
Whether the district court erred in denying the appellant's claims related to an unconstitutional search and seizure, ineffective assistance of trial … |
| 18-9044 |
Troy Latrial Ramsey v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell per-se-rule reasonable-jurist sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling denying a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's ruling in Miller-El v. Cockrell |
| 18-9046 |
Richard Shusterman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists standard-of-review |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying issuance of a Certificate of Appealability of a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 ruling when the District Court… |
| 18-9049 |
Jackie Madore v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-waivers contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Whether the Supreme Court should review appellate waivers in criminal cases under principles of contract law |
| 18-9050 |
Roland Kailihiwa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment canine-alert contamination drug-detection drug-detection-canine expert-testimony probable-cause residual-odor search-and-seizure search-warrant training |
Whether Mervin's positive alert on a parcel shipped to Hawaii, given his unsophisticated training and the possibility of contamination, suffices to es… |
| 18-9053 |
Paul William Hilton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing title-28-usc-2255 |
Whether the Petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 18-9055 |
Ronald Ray Horner v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extra-territorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-jurisdiction fifth-amendment international-law sovereign-territory supreme-court-precedent |
Does the fact that the Appellant was arrested and questioned in Canada immunize the United States Attorney from following the Constitution of the Unit… |
| 18-9058 |
Juan L. Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone-data civil-rights consent fourth-amendment home-search lawful-arrest probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure unreasonable-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures applies to the search of a person's home and belongings when the pers… |
| 18-9060 |
Bruce Wayne Harrison v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-599 criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto higher-sentence judicial-discretion pre-2011-sentence retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-1b1.10 |
Ex Post Facto Clause-application |
| 18-9063 |
Tyrone Leonard James v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3584 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b certificate-of-appealability concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentences,federal-sentencing,state-sent Does the Supreme Court's grant of writ of certiora federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-consideration sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors state-sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 third-circuit unrelated-crimes vagueness |
Whether a district court's finding that a state crime and federal crime were unrelated is sufficient, in itself, to satisfy its obligation under 18 U.… |
| 18-9069 |
Hector Rengifo v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split civil-procedure controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-winstead |
Whether two United States Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with relevant decision of this Court |
| 18-9079 |
Steven Dedual, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternate-sentences appellate-review district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-procedure unsupported-alternate-sentences unsupported-claims |
Can a district court that has erroneously applied a sentencing enhancement shield itself from appellate review by claiming, without providing specific… |
| 18-9081 |
Scott Books v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brooks-v-tennessee coerced-confession confession-suppression criminal-procedure due-process impeachment right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination-5th-amendment |
Under Brooks v. Tennessee, did the district court's ruling permitting impeachment with the coerced confession and its physical fruit impermissibly int… |
| 18-9082 |
Arion D. Andrews v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-investigation evidence-sufficiency fourth-amendment independent-evidence judicial-review police-investigation probable-cause residence search-warrant |
Can a search warrant properly issue under the Fourth Amendment when the police-officer-affiant states that the address to be searched is the residence… |
| 18-9084 |
Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness sentencing sentencing-mitigation |
Whether the district court erred or abused its discretion by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing after grant of COA on contested factual allegation… |
| 18-9085 |
Juan Antonio Hunter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility base-offense-level criminal-appeal criminal-procedure-sentencing criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum u.s.s.g.-5g1.1(a) |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by deducting the three points awarded the petitioner for his acceptance of responsibility when those … |
| 18-9086 |
Roel Daniel Galvan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession felony firearm-possession hypothetical-facts misdemeanor misdemeanor-predicate predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sixth-amendment united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the four-level enhancement for possessing a firearm in connection with another felony offense pursuant to U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) applies whe… |
| 18-9091 |
Antwayne Tremayne Lowry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-9092 |
Juan Lopez-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-state-statute immigration permanent-resident removal-order state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal courts applying the categorical approach must rely on state court decisions that establish the elements of state court statute of conv… |
| 18-9104 |
Kurt Zamor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure common-carrier criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-16 evidence evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony firearms firearms-regulation mens-rea sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit failed to properly apply Title 18 U.S.C. Section 922(e) |
| 18-9105 |
Samuel Eugene Geddie v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-crimes alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states court-of-appeals criminal-classification criminal-law due-process north-carolina north-carolina-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the North Carolina Court of Appeals erred by holding there are 'no aggravated crimes' in North Carolina, when the Supreme Court has held in Al… |
| 18-9106 |
Daqone Lentell Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-predicate felony-complaints modified-categorical-analysis modified-categorical-approach prior-conviction sentencing-court sentencing-court-consideration sentencing-guidelines shepard-analysis shepard-v-united-states sixth-amendment unadopted-assertions |
Whether a sentencing court may consider felony complaints, with unadopted assertions, under Shepard v. United States, 544 U.S. 13 (2005), when that co… |
| 18-9109 |
Jose Christian Nunez-Belemontes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-order constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding dea drug-enforcement-administration due-process notice opportunity-to-be-heard title-21 title-21-usc-841 title-21-usc-841a |
Is an administrative order conclusive and in violation of constitutional due process without the administrator providing notice and opportunity to be … |
| 18-9116 |
Jesus Cotto v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition compliance-exception due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-court-discretion federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction procedural-default procedural-rules state-court-determination state-court-rules state-courts |
Whether Federal Courts May Excuse A Petitioner's Failure To Comply With The State Court's Procedural Rules, Notwithstanding The State Court's Determin… |
| 18-9120 |
Russell Frey v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault cumulative-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-issues fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial prejudice right-to-counsel |
Whether the defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to counsel's overall health and performance |
| 18-9121 |
Jerry L. Gater v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california jury-trial-guarantee nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence pro-se right-to-counsel sentencing-factors voir-dire |
Does a defendant have a right to participate in voir dire when proceeding pro se? |
| 18-9124 |
Garland D. Miller v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coram-nobis criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence judicial-jurisdiction restitution rule-35 sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation title-18 |
Does jurisdiction exist to correct an illegal sentence at any time? |
| 18-9131 |
Ryan Canfield v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking due-process fourth-amendment impoundment inventory law-enforcement probable-cause public-safety reasonableness standardized-procedures vehicle-impoundment |
Must impoundment be reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, or conducted pursuant to standardized procedures, or both? |
| 18-9132 |
Earlie Dickerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness government-witnesses motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence perjury trial-motion witness-credibility witness-testimony |
Whether new evidence that Government witnesses provided untruthful statements during a trial can ever satisfy the requirements for a motion for new ba… |
| 18-9133 |
Abdul Karim Bangura v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-review guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice right-to-counsel sentencing-enhancement withdrawal |
Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea |
| 18-9148 |
Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. James T. Blomo |
Arizona |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure court-rules due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Whether the Honorable Margaret Mahoney should have issued a court order for the pro se litigant to reply to the defendant's motion to dismiss, as a mi… |
| 18-9149 |
John David Brookins v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
equal-protection evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights of due process and equal protection were violated in the lower court proceedings |
| 18-9150 |
Peter Victor Ayika v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-speedy-trial effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act statutory-rights statutory-speedy-trial |
whether a certificate of Appealability (COA) should issue to pursue the Sixth Amendment claim on appeal |
| 18-9151 |
Blake Joseph Sandlain v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-counsel capital-punishment criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice successive-petition |
Does the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel require a showing of prejudice to establish a claim that appellate counsel was ineff… |
| 18-929 |
Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services, Inc., et al. v. Rae Weiler |
California |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
affordable-forum arbitration-agreement arbitration-costs arbitrator-role contract-law cost-sharing cost-sharing-provision federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-preemption preemption state-contract-law state-law |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state rule that denies enforcement of a cost-sharing provision in an arbitration agreement without a fi… |
| 18-972 |
Mathew Martoma v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
corporate-disclosure dirks-v-sec fiduciary-duty insider-trading personal-benefit securities-law securities-regulation tippee tippee-liability tipper |
Whether the government must demonstrate that the tipper received a personal benefit in exchange for providing insider information, as required by Dirk… |
| 18-976 |
Association of American Railroads v. Department of Transportation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
arbitration arbitration-provision due-process government-corporation industry-regulation regulatory-authority rulemaking rulemaking-power self-interested-actor separation-of-powers |
Whether PRIIA § 207 violates due process and the separation of powers by permitting regulatory authority to be exercised by a for-profit government co… |
| 18A1126 |
Presbyterian Church U.S.A. v. Brian Edwards, Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, et al. |
Kentucky |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 18M164 |
Lloyd George White v. Kee Nguyen |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
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