Conference: 2019-06-06

129 cases — 0 granted, 129 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
18-1008 In Re Veronica Hollowell and Vivian Epps Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-rule due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction incarceration jurisdiction jury-trial mental-fitness single-parent standing statute-of-limitations Whether the State Court lacked jurisdiction of the child since the unwed, single-parent mother's case was not jury adjudicated (the ex-boyfriend/fathe…
18-1041 Frances K. Konieczko, et al. v. Adventist Health System/Sunbelt, Inc., et al. Florida Denied Relisted (2) access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice parties processes Denial of right to be heard
18-1050 Michael H. Wu, et ux. v. Prudential Financial, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) fraud investment-company investment-company-act-1940 investment-company-act-of-1940 material-misstatement registration-requirement rule-10b-5 sales-literature securities-act-1933 securities-act-of-1933 securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-law securities-registration unit-investment-trust Whether the Variable Separate Account(s) of Pruco Life Insurance Company is registered with the Commission under the 1940 Act as a unit investment tru…
18-1070 Village of Lincolnshire, Illinois, et al. v. International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399, et al. Seventh Circuit GVR employment-law federalism labor-relations labor-unions local-government municipal-ordinance national-labor-relations-act political-subdivision preemption right-to-work state-law statutory-interpretation union-membership Does a law enacted by a political subdivision of a state constitute 'State ... law' under section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act?
18-1109 James Erin McKinney v. Arizona Arizona Judgment Issued Amici (14)Relisted (2) aggravating-evidence arizona-supreme-court criminal-procedure death-penalty eddings-precedent eddings-v-oklahoma mitigating-evidence resentencing sentencing sentencing-review Whether the Arizona Supreme Court was required to apply current law when weighing mitigating and aggravating evidence to determine whether a death sen…
18-1116 Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. v. Christopher M. Sulyma Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) actual-knowledge breach breach-of-fiduciary-duty disclosure disclosure-requirements employee-retirement employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty limitations-period retirement-plans statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the three-year limitations period in Section 413(2) of ERISA bars suit where all relevant information was disclosed to the plaintiff more than…
18-1132 Oscar Franklin Smith v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied cullen-v-pinholster federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan pinholster-limitation pinholster-v-cullen procedural-default state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-post-conviction trevino-v-thaler Whether Martinez and Trevino apply to ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claims that were technically raised in state habeas proceedings but went…
18-1137 Les Schwab Tire Centers of Portland, Inc., et al. v. Scott Wilcox, Individually and as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Jenna Wilcox Oregon Denied civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights due-process federal-courts legal-proceeding military-service representative-capacity servicemembers-civil-relief-act standing state-courts statute-of-limitations tolling Tolling of statute of limitations for servicemember's representative claim
18-1156 Morgenthau Venture Partners, LLC, et al. v. Robert A. Kimmel Florida Denied appellate-review arbitration blanket-order circuit-split federal-arbitration-act kpmg-llp-v-cocchi motion-to-compel prejudice prejudice-standard standing waiver waiver-defense Whether the Florida court of appeal's one-word refusal to compel arbitration disregards this Court's decision in KPMG LLP v. Cocchi, 565 U.S. 18 (2011…
18-1160 Teck Metals Ltd., fka Teck Cominco Metals, Ltd. v. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3) arranger-liability cercla cercla-arranger-liability cross-border-pollution environmental-liability extraterritorial-application first-circuit-conflict first-circuit-split morrison-v-national-australia-bank personal-jurisdiction rjr-nabisco-v-european-community walden-v-fiore waste-disposal Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly concluded that holding Teck liable for its discharges in Canada was not an impermissible extraterritorial applicat…
18-1171 Comcast Corporation v. National Association of African American-Owned Media, et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (4) 42-usc-1981 but-for-causation causation civil-rights contract-dispute discrimination plausibility-standard pleading race-discrimination section-1981 standing Does a claim of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 fail in the absence of but-for causation?
18-1223 Mario Villena, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1) 35-usc-101 35-usc-102-103 administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-test judicial-review patent-eligibility patent-examination patent-trial-and-appeal-board preemption section-101 statutory-interpretation uspto well-understood-routine-conventional Rejection of patent claims under 35 U.S.C. § 101 without addressing each limitation separately and as an ordered combination, lack of substantial evid…
18-1266 Timothy P. O'Leary v. Aetna Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit Denied adverse-benefits-determination arbitrary-capricious benefits-determination civil-procedure claims-procedures department-of-labor erisa erisa-statute erisa-statute-and-regulations fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty standard-of-review Does a fiduciary's decision take priority over compliance with ERISA statute and regulations?
18-1288 Jean Coulter v. ADT Security Services, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied choice-of-law civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection contract contract-interpretation contract-renewal contractual-limitations contractual-period due-process fraud fraud-in-inducement implied-contract public-safety statute-of-limitations Did ADT Security Services commit fraud in inducement, and is it applicable for renewals or later implied contracts?
18-1295 Dale De Steno, et al. v. Kelly Services, Inc. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-issue constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-trial precedent seventh-amendment sixth-circuit standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred by denying the Petitioners' request for a jury trial pursuant to the Seventh Am…
18-1296 Maria Romella Suriano-Laine v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
18-1297 New Doe Child #1, et al. v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived atheism currency-inscription due-process equal-protection establishment-clause monotheism political-disenfranchisement religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act Whether Congress violates the Establishment Clause when it makes laws respecting an establishment of Monotheism, thus perpetuating and exacerbating th…
18-1301 Javier Bautista-Delacruz v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
18-1311 Cathy Cardillo v. Mark Neary, Clerk, Supreme Court of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived adequate-notice attorney-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic-industries-corp hearing jones-v-flowers judicial-procedure legal-review middlesex-county-ethics-comm-v-bar-assn notice-requirement rooker-feldman-doctrine state-courts Can the Constitutional right to due process or 'adequate notice and a hearing' be ignored by the Courts below?
18-1330 Gavin B. Davis v. Timothy G. O'Connor Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived brady-disclosure brady-disclosures civil-rights civil-rights-removal due-process interlocutory-appeal parallel-claims removal removal-action state-criminal-proceeding Whether a state-to-federal removal action under 28 U.S.C. § 1443 qualifies for interlocutory appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a) or 1292(b)
18-1345 Charles G. Kinney v. Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud civil-rights creditor-liability creditors discharged-debtor due-process federal-officers first-amendment fraud judges-and-justices judicial-crimes judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-challenge statutory-violation Whether federal courts have improperly ignored federal and state laws that violate the petitioner's First Amendment rights, and whether the applicatio…
18-1379 Jeremy J. Godwin v. David Davey, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment certificate-of-appeal constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus prior-bad-acts prior-conviction profile-evidence propensity-evidence Was the decision of the Ninth Circuit to deny a Certificate of Appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) under the standards set forth in Miller-El v. Co…
18-1397 Prism Technologies LLC v. Sprint Spectrum L.P., dba Sprint PCS Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 appellate-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction jurisdiction-scope mandate-rule patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-invalidity retroactive-expansion Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals may retroactively expand the scope of its appellate jurisdiction to invalidate patent claims under 35 U.S…
18-1402 Harold R. Stanley, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-procedure,filing-fees,refunds Can Circuits impose a burden to prove circumstance Can litigants present their case to appellate cour court-administration court-discretion due-process due-process,mandamus,judicial-misconduct,irs,recor irs judicial-misconduct mandamus mandamus-relief pacer,appellate-procedure,records-on-appeal procedural-due-process record-falsification rule-59-motion supervisory-powers When a judge refuses to adjudicate a Rule 59(e) motion alleging misconduct, can mandamus relief be conditioned on proving the refusal itself is 'egreg…
18-1405 Robert N. Taylor, III v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment good-faith income-tax standing tax tax-liability waiver waiver-of-rights Whether a citizen can be compelled to waive constitutional rights or pay a tax he does not owe in good faith
18-740 Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied Relisted (5) armed-conflict authorization-for-use-of-military-force constitutional-limits detention detention-authority due-process enemy-combatant guantanamo-bay habeas-corpus law-of-war military-detention Whether the government's statutory authority to detain Mr. al-Alwi has unraveled
18-7451 Shane Cox v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP affirmative-defense criminal-procedure due-process due-process-right-to-present-defense federal-preemption federal-prosecution firearms-regulation kansas-law second-amendment short-barreled-rifles silencers state-rights Did the district court deny Mr. Cox his due process right to present a defense when it precluded Mr. Cox from arguing to the jury that his reliance on…
18-7677 Charles Geeter v. Dan Lesatz, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-reporters-act federal-proceedings habeas-corpus jencks-act state-proceedings truth-determining-process Whether the Jencks Act and the Court Reporters Act apply to State proceedings as well as Federal proceedings
18-7693 Dustin Dressner v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied IFP brain-damage ineffective-assistance-of-counsel organic-brain-damage penalty-phase prejudice-standard sears-v-upton sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether it violates the Sixth Amendment and this Court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington and Sears v. Upton where trial counsel failed to follow…
18-7774 Cecil Boyett v. Dwayne Santistevan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP ake-v-oklahoma circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-error due-process federal-review gerstien-v-pugh habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel petition-denial procedural-due-process sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether petitioner Boyett was denied effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment
18-7857 Calvin Raymond Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-concerns courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process retribution sentencing supervised-release Whether a district court commits reversible error by imposing a sentence for a supervised release violation for the purpose of retribution
18-7897 Larael Owens v. Maria Zucker, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation contract-law due-process federal-question-jurisdiction immunity judicial-immunity standing state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
18-7899 Ramirez D. Dewberry v. Third Circuit Court of Michigan Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus liberty standing Did the respondent deprive the petitioner of liberty without due process of law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the U…
18-7985 Afshin Bahrampour v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
18-8003 Anthony J. Dannolfo v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper north-carolina-v-alford plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did Dannolfo's protestation of innocence foreclose his ability of proving Strickland prejudice under Lafler v. Cooper, or did the courts fail to give …
18-8008 Cedrick Euron Draper v. Muy Pizza Southeast LLC, dba Pizza Hut Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-courts'-review-of-a-federal-courts'-decr appellate-review detected-fraud-upon-the-court-predominantly-voidab federal-courts fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court immunity impersonation-by-title-18 intentionally-and-unintentionally-protected-or-unp judgment-void judicial-immunity legal-misrepresentation overrule-frivolous-defiance pro-se-ligitant's-defense-not-identified-to-author pro-se-litigant procedural-defiance voidable-judgment fraud upon the court
18-8035 Loretta C. Adigun v. Express Scripts, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada ada-reasonable-accommodation,eeoc-right-to-sue,dis americans-with-disabilities-act eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination prima-facie-case reasonable-accommodation right-to-sue social-security-administration Did Loretta C. Adigun neglect to satisfy the third prong of the prima facie case
18-8118 Alvin Davis, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment witness-tampering Was the Petitioner, Alvin Davis, Jr. denied a fair trial
18-8214 Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure-rule-60b6 civil-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan martinez-v-trevino post-conviction-review postconviction-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b)(6) trevino-v-thaler Whether a court must categorically deny a Rule 60(b)(6) motion premised on the change in decisional law produced by Martinez v. Ryan
18-8223 Michael A. Young v. Vernon Oliver, Judge, Superior Court of Connecticut, Tolland Judicial District, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights mandamus self-recusal standing 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process premature-dismissal self-recusal standing Whether petitioner was wrongfully invoking self-executing Sections 1 and 4 of the 4th Amendment, becoming a named defendant in a civil-rights case, wi…
18-8377 Walter D. Booker v. T. Johnson, et al. Fourth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigative-detention probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion section-1983 seizure Whether the officers had reasonable suspicion to seize Mr. Booker Shabazzallah?
18-854 George Alvarez v. City of Brownsville, Texas Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence monell-liability municipal-liability plea-agreement plea-bargaining united-states-v-ruiz Whether due process requires the government to disclose exculpatory evidence before entering a plea agreement with a criminal defendant
18-8541 In Re Randy A. Jones Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cell-site-simulator civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment honeycutt-v-united-states legal-representation lis-pendens luis-v-united-states right-to-counsel takings warrantless-search Did the government violate this petitioner's rights, creating a flaw so grave that it rendered the proceedings unreliable?
18-8669 James Paul Arlotta v. David Anthony Heraty, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, due-process establishment-clause excessive-entanglement first-amendment in-forma-pauperis section-1983-violation standing Why did the U.S. C.A. 2d Cir. cite the S. Ct. Case Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. (1989); when the . petitioner's in forma pauperis motion was approved…
18-8683 James Aren Duckett v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection retroactivity Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-8687 Melanie A. Ogle v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Sixth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split credibility-of-witness due-process habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence schlup-gateway Has this Court amended its previous decision that the Schlup gateway standard does not require absolute certainty about the petitioner's guilt or inno…
18-8689 Joel Glaston Muir v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP clear-record constitutional-rights criminal-homicide criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel known-eyewitness legal-review lesser-degree-homicide postconviction-review right-to-counsel standard-of-review trial-counsel trial-strategy Whether initial-postconviction review counsel provided ineffective assistance
18-8693 Art Larson v. Michael Hoenig, General Counsel, National Indian Gaming Commission, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights commerce due-process gaming licensing standing state-regulation tribal-sovereignty Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause require states to recognize the right of individuals to participate in commercial gaming businesses…
18-8697 Frederick H. Banks v. Pennymac Holdings, LLC, fka Pennymac Mortgage Investment Trust Holdings I, LLC Pennsylvania Denied IFP civil-procedure document-submission due-process electronic-filing fifth-amendment immigration institutional-barriers judicial-access land-use pacer prisoner-litigation privacy privacy-policy property-rights regulatory-takings social-security takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to provide a public easement as a condition…
18-8702 Vernon Carter v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied IFP fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus illegal-traffic-stop ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in affirming the denial of Carter's petition for writ of habeas corpus, where Carter raised sufficient allegat…
18-8704 Brandon Keith Alexander v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing non-homicide-offense non-homicide-offenses parole parole-eligibility sentencing Whether sentencing a juvenile non-homicide offender to 60 years without the possibility of parole violates the 8th Amendment, prohibition against crue…
18-8706 Donn Deveral Martin v. Texas Texas Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure patent scotus-rules standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rules takings Whether the lower courts correctly applied the standard for granting a writ of certiorari under SCOTUS Rule 10
18-8707 Wallace G. Carlyle v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment history-of-abuse ineffective-assistance mental-retardation plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment Did trial counsel's failure to adequately consider mental-retardation-and-history-of-abuse deprive defendant of effective-assistance-of-counsel,right-…
18-8709 Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law common-law-fraud conspiracy-against-rights due-process failure-to-train fourteenth-amendment fraud standing statute-of-frauds Can the United States identify any of nine elements of common and law fraud in this case?
18-8722 In Re Curtis Lee Sheppard Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-ruling mandamus prisoner-rights standing Whether the Eighth Circuit's refusal to allow the petitioner to file a successive habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. 2244(b) was proper
18-8727 Corey Wiggins v. Stanley Payne, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure failure-to-investigate habeas-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-degree-murder sixth-amendment voluntary-manslaughter Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in refusing to grant a certificate of appealability
18-8728 Joseph Christen Thoresen v. Minnesota Minnesota Denied IFP corroborating-testimony credibility credibility-of-witnesses criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-jury-instructions-d criminal-procedure-jury-instructions drug-addiction due-process forensic-evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions methamphetamine prejudicial-evidence prejudicial-information witness-credibility Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of two circuits, that a special jury instruction was not warranted when consi…
18-8733 Russell T. McElvain v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection federalism self-incrimination statutory-interpretation Can a state enact a statute that combines the use of older, established statutes as the ways and means to commit the new statutes crime, merely erodin…
18-8734 Corey D. Phillips v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP civil-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel witness-testimony Was the defendant's counsel ineffective for failing to properly investigate and present evidence of a plea agreement?
18-8736 Juan Espinoza, et al. v. San Benito Consolidated Independent School District Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 5th-circuit civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act genuine-dispute-of-material-fact inferences-in-favor-of-non-moving-party standard-of-review summary-judgment trial-court wage-violations Whether the 5th Circuit erred in affirming the trial court's grant of summary judgment on FLSA-wage-and-hour-violations
18-8744 Vadim Stanley Miesegaes v. Department of Homeland Secretary, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-8746 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement California Denied IFP abandonment-of-appeal appeal appeal-dismissal attorney-signature civil-procedure civil-procedure-defects defendant-identification due-process electronic-service motion-to-dismiss party-identification procedural-defect service-of-process standing Shall the Court of Appeal grant Defendants' Motion to Dismiss an Appeal if Defendants improperly served the Plaintiff with this Motion
18-8751 William Len Rainey v. Texas Texas Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause discovery due-process hearsay sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sexual-offenses Whether the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Part 33.37 is unconstitutional as applied at trial on June 24, 2013, denying the petitioner basic Due Pro…
18-8754 Richard D. Pomeroy v. Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska Alaska Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-test breath-test civil-penalties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure minor-traffic-infraction probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-infraction traffic-stop Should civil penalties be imposed on petitioner for refusal to submit to a breath test when an intrusive blood test was administered
18-8756 Jonathan S. Williams v. Dr. Kurk, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process federal-procedure judicial-error prima-facie-case res-judicata standing Did the U.S.D.C. commit legal error by granting defendant's motion to dismiss under res judicata without allowing the appellant an opportunity to cont…
18-8757 Jason Lee Tincher v. Tim Berners-Lee Colorado Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy due-process evidence judicial-misconduct judicial-review standing Why didn't the judge do a full investigation?
18-8765 Michael A. Young v. Thomas Duncan, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure equitable-tolling recusal rico standing statute-of-limitations Question not identified
18-8770 Martin Rugamba v. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of New York Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights custom-law due-process free-speech misconduct police-misconduct retaliation standing Whether the municipal police in General, and other Security agencies violate Constitutional rights in retaliation for reporting their misconduct to FB…
18-8774 John Elvin Turner v. Nevada, et al. Nevada Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-exercise jurisdiction religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Amish Sect's religious beliefs and practices are protected under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment
18-8780 John T. Higgins v. Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance First Circuit Denied IFP affordable-care-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process health-care individual-mandate standing Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the petitioners lacked standing to challenge the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's indivi…
18-8788 Robert L. Moore v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2254-d-2 28-usc-2254-e-1 adjudication-on-merits adjudication-on-the-merits constitutional-claim de-novo-review federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-review Where a state court denies a person the opportunity to establish the necessary factual record to support a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel,…
18-8809 B. C. v. Florida Department of Children and Families Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-neglect child-custody child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights due-process family-law law-enforcement parental-rights standing state-intervention Whether the Supreme Court will allow a distressed parent to file this writ of certiorari that most likely will not correct according to the prevailing…
18-8813 Jean Bultman v. Cigna Group Insurance Company, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-duty civil-procedure employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty plan-administration prudent-investor-rule retirement-plans standing statute-of-limitations Did the ERISA Plan Fiduciaries Breach their Duty to Provide
18-8823 Omer Al Obaidy v. Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process false-arrest fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration immigration-removal self-incrimination sixth-amendment tenth-amendment unlawful-seizure Whether a long-term legal resident with no criminal record who was removed from the U.S. based on falsified records has due process rights
18-8836 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP sovereign-immunity-waiver 28-usc-2106 appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act judicial-process judicial-recusal judicial-review recusal sovereign-immunity standing Whether the Supreme Court may consider the risk of manifest injustice and potential effect on public confidence in the judicial process when an impair…
18-8837 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-standing due-process federal-tort-claims-act judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct notice pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process sovereign-immunity standing sua-sponte-dismissal Whether a trial court should render a sua sponte decision to dismiss an informa pauperis pro se litigant first pleaded affidavit to commenced civil ac…
18-8838 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process due-process-clauses federal-tort-claims-act in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity standing Whether, When, and to What extent raised therefor, a civil action is commenced
18-8839 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process federal-tort-claims-act frivolous-claims in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity standing Whether the Supreme Court has clearly established uniformity precedent for pro-se litigants' procedural due process rights under 28 USC § 1915 screeni…
18-8840 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act impartiality judicial-discretion judicial-review jurisdictional-threshold sovereign-immunity standing tort-claims Whether the invoked appellate court adjudicative jurisdiction should acknowledge the particularism of any trial court judge's non-judicial palpable ac…
18-8841 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-access due-process due-process-clause employment-discrimination federal-employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis pro-se-plaintiff property-right retaliation title-vii-litigation Whether the Due Process Clause provides heightened protection for a property right of action vested upon filing an in forma pauperis complaint allegin…
18-8864 Joseph B. v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights visitation visitation-rights Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from forbidding visitation between a noncustodial p…
18-8871 Roy L. Rambo v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act asset-freezing counsel-of-choice criminal-prosecution due-process personal-assets sixth-amendment state-court-ruling Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice was violated
18-8877 Reginald Knox v. Unknown Parties Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional constitutional-error court-rules district-court due-process federal-statute judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-certiorari standing statutory-provisions writ-of-mandamus Should the District Court's dismissal of the Petitioner's Writ of Mandamus under 28 U.S.C. § 1361 be reviewed?
18-8881 Garry Coleman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-52-rule-60 coa competency conclusions-of-law due-process federal-procedure findings-of-fact habeas-corpus rule-60b-motion Whether the district court failed to provide findings of fact and conclusions of law as required by Fed. R. Civ. P. 52(a)(1) in denying petitioner's F…
18-8936 William Arthur McIntosh v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan newly-available-evidence schlup-v-delo state-court-review successive-writ supreme-court-precedent texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-court-of-criminal-appeals trevino-v-thaler Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rule adversely by denying Petitioners successive writ of habeas corpus when he presented newly available evide…
18-8937 Michael P. Johnson v. Mark Hooks, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-constitutional-rights federal-court-rulings habeas-corpus similar-facts sixth-circuit state-court-proceeding Whether a state habeas petitioner may satisfy his burden under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2) of making a substantial showing of a denial of a federal constitu…
18-9000 Johnnie Sterling, Jr. v. Ronda Pash, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1257 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process post-conviction-relief skinner-v-switzer subject-matter-jurisdiction Should the United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have granted the Certificate of Appealability in case no. 18-2519, where no reasonable jurist…
18-9022 Maurice Edward Carter v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decision to deny Mr. Carter's habeas corpus relief misconstrued meritorious unresolve…
18-9036 Gregory Tarrel Brown v. Virginia, et al. Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights curtilage fourth-amendment plain-smell-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights were violated
18-9052 Neil Grenning v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment institutional-lighting prison-conditions prisoner-rights sleep-deprivation writ-of-certiorari Should this Court grant writ of certiorari where lower courts have no guidance on what level of 24-hour lighting is appropriate in prisons so as not t…
18-9089 Itoffee Gayle v. Home Box Office, Inc., et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process fair-use federal-jurisdiction first-amendment intellectual-property motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing Whether the plaintiff's intellectual property was improperly featured in the defendant's (HBO) series, Vinyl
18-9097 Freddie L. Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession criminal-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea jail-cell right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's sixth amendment right to the assistance of counsel
18-9103 Milton Thomas, Sr. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1334 article-iii bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction congressional-intent district-court-jurisdiction fraudulent-transfer non-core-proceeding non-core-proceedings stem-v-marshall stern-v-marshall Can the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals deny the Act of Congress conferring original and exclusive jurisdiction on the District Court of all civil procee…
18-9139 Calvin Lyndale Gaddy v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process standing unpublished-opinions Was the petitioner's original complaint properly dismissed as frivolous and without issuance and service of process?
18-9143 Justin D. Fuller v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-discrepancies burden-of-production criminal-procedure-franks-hearing,evidence,thresho defendant-rights due-process evidentiary-threshold franks-hearing government-evidence judicial-error pre-franks-procedure threshold-determination When does a court err in a 'Pre-Franks' procedure by considering government evidence to determine a defendant's entitlement to a Franks hearing?
18-9155 Robert Strecker v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus standing Whether the court of appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability (COA) to the petitioner, where the district court denied the petitioner's…
18-9161 Robert Leonard Wood v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states criminal-law johnson johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the Court should resolve the question left open by Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017), that continues to divide the courts of app…
18-9168 Melissa Owens v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights controlled-substances criminal-history drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection plea-agreement racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing sentencing-guidelines voting-rights Whether the district court erred in calculating the defendant's criminal history score and sentencing range under the United States Sentencing Guideli…
18-9169 Andre McDaniels v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255 6th-amendment appeal appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-reporter due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment standing transcripts Does a pro-se petitioner forfeit his constitutional rights when denied opportunity to have merits heard?
18-9172 Wendy Darlene Pitts v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflicting-information disaster-assistance due-process fema jurisdiction plea-bargain privacy privacy-act special-needs standing Did FEMA error in releasing funds without due process of the Privacy Act law on FEMA Form 009-0-37?
18-9180 Cesar Arce-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure garza-v-idaho indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining pretrial-proceedings right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does a Sixth Amendment claim of ineffectiveness of assistance of counsel during pretrial proceedings survive a general waiver of the right to appeal i…
18-9181 Kwame Ali Askia v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process exculpatory-evidence government-oversight indictment sixth-amendment statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations Question not identified
18-9183 Zachary Wayne Jones v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process federal-law federal-prosecution fifth-amendment generic-federal-standard predicate-offense state-statute Is it a violation of Due Process under the Fifth Amendment for the federal government to utilize a state statute in the prosecution of a federal law a…
18-9188 Eric Thorton Von Hall v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-procedure article-iii article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mistake-of-law party-presentation party-presentation-principle Whether Article III of the Constitution and the party presentation principle foreclose appellate court judges from relying on an argument not presente…
18-9193 Artez Brewer v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights federal-law-enforcement fourth-amendment gps-tracking law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrant warrant-limitations warrant-requirements Whether federal law enforcement exceeds the limitations on the face of the warrant for GPS tracking to in-state monitoring and continues to monitor an…
18-9196 Delano Marco Medina, aka Michael David Allen Bell, aka William Anders Bryant v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-defense barker-factors cell-site-location-information constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reason-for-delay self-representation sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the reason-for-delay factor in a Sixth Amendment speedy trial analysis weighs against the government when it intentionally waits and does not …
18-9197 Earl Moore v. Stephen Kallis, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender crime-of-violence descamps-v-united-states due-process due-process-clause mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause section-2241 stash-house-robbery statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states Whether Mathis v. United States represents a substantive change in law and should be applied retroactively in a § 2241 petition
18-9200 Andrew Cox v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP change-of-venue civil-procedure civil-rights docket-manipulation due-process fifth-amendment fraud judicial-misconduct malicious-prosecution obstruction-of-justice standing Does the Fifth Amendment demand immediate correction of a fraudulently manipulated district court docket (arrest post-dated 35 days) used to per se ma…
18-9202 Edilberto Maso Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-statements jury-instructions standard-of-review trial-procedure Did the Fifth Circuit err by affirming the district court admission of hearsay statements made by an unindicted co-conspirator over the objection of A…
18-9205 Antonio Ballesteros v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-6th-amendment criminal-procedure importation machine-generated-data sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strict-liability Whether GPS Data prepared specifically for an ongoing investigation and culled from several databases is machine-generated data that implicates the Si…
18-9208 Robert Tringham v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights core-judicial-functions court-of-appeals due-process habeas judicial-delegation judicial-functions non-judicial-officer procedural-authority remand rule-12.1' 'Does the Court hold that pursuant to rule-22b2 rule-60b6 rule-60b6' 'Does FRAP 12.1 grant a Circuit Court standing Under what circumstances does access to the courts not mean access to justice
18-9215 Dale Giles v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit fair-notice in-forma-pauperis judicial-process opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-fairness supreme-court-precedent Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals violate petitioner's due process rights to fair notice and an opportunity to be heard?
18-9217 Kirk Lurton Grummitt, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations Whether the 'right' in Johnson, which invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, triggers this statute of limitations for a pet…
18-9218 Alexandro Gerandino-Aracena v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii district-court due-process judicial-appointment judicial-appointments judicial-tenure non-Article-III-courts non-Article-III-judges presidential-appointment revised-organic-act separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tenure Virgin-Islands Can non-Article III judges serve indefinitely?
18-9221 Barrington M. Hamilton, aka Jaame Amun Re El v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law civil-procedure civil-rights creditor-claims debt-discharge due-process government-administration government-liability legal-procedure property-rights statutory-interpretation Does the accepted governing statutory law Title 44 USC § 594 authorize trespass or conversion against discharged property according to its ministerial…
18-9228 David D. Ewing v. Ronda Pash, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review claims-barred due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-admission merits-consideration procedural-default self-defense state-court-appellate state-court-proceedings Whether a petitioner's claims are barred from federal review when the underlying claims have been considered on the merits during state court appellat…
18-9278 In Re Edmond McClinton Dismissed IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-due-process lack-of-jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct There was no probable cause for arrest
18-928 Midwest Machining, Inc. v. Jena McClellan Sixth Circuit Denied civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination equal-pay-act federal-common-law state-law tender-back-rule title-vii Whether the common-law tender-back rule applies to Title VII and Equal Pay Act claims
18-9288 In Re Sherman Lamont Fields Denied IFP actual-innocence appeals constitutional-rights death-penalty death-row due-process immediate-relief ineffective-counsel judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice wrongful-conviction Do petitioner have a Constitutional Right to be set free Immediately in light of the overwhelming evidence showing that he was framed for the crime(s)…
18-9289 In Re Michael Leon Haley, Sr. Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing third-strike Whether petitioner is actually innocent of being eligible for a third-strike sentence under 42 PA. C. S. §9714(g)
18-935 Michelle Monasky v. Domenico Taglieri Sixth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (3) child-abduction circuit-split clear-error-review de-novo-review domestic-violence habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction parental-agreement standard-of-review Whether a district court's determination of habitual residence under the Hague Convention should be reviewed de novo, as seven circuits have held, und…
18-936 Jeremy Kettler v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (2) 2nd-amendment congressional-taxing-power constitutional-challenge constitutional-law cox-v-new-hampshire due-process murdock-v-pennsylvania national-firearms-act second-amendment sound-suppressor standing statutory-interpretation tax taxation united-states-v-sonzinsky Whether the National Firearms Act of 1934 continues to be a constitutional exercise of Congress's taxing power
18-953 Mohamed Fazlan Mohamed Fawzer v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) None
18-968 Andrew C. Najda v. Nikolaos J. Paterakis Massachusetts Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment manifestly-erroneous meaningful-appeal precedent state-supreme-court Does a state supreme court denying appellate review to parties that raise an error of law that is manifestly erroneous state supreme court precedent d…
18-970 Thomas Mitchell, et al. v. Tulalip Tribes of Washington Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) allotment declaratory-judgment jurisdictional-challenge non-indian-fee-land regulatory-authority sovereign-immunity treaty treaty-rights tribal-authority tribal-taxation Does sovereign immunity bar the federal courts' consideration of a declaratory judgment action to determine whether Respondent Tribes can exercise reg…
18-984 King Mountain Tobacco Company, Inc. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied circuit-split fair-and-equitable-tobacco-reform-act federal-tax federal-tax-exemption federal-tobacco-excise-tax indian-treaty indian-treaty-construction tax-exemption travel-rights yakama-treaty Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the Yakama Treaty must include 'express exemptive language' to create an exemption from a federal tax …
18M165 Anthony Leroy Davis v. Kansas Kansas Presumed Complete None
18M166 Doe v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
18M167 Yassine Baouch, et al. v. Werner Enterprises, Inc., dba Werner Trucking, et al. Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None