Conference: 2019-06-20

172 cases — 0 granted, 172 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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18-1015 Ruben Ovalles v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Relisted (2) None
18-1023 Maine Community Health Options v. United States Federal Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) appropriations-act appropriations-rider cardinal-rule implied-repeal legislative-history legislative-intent reciprocal-commitments retroactivity statutory-obligation statutory-payment-obligation Whether an appropriations rider can impliedly repeal a statutory payment obligation despite the 'cardinal rule' disfavoring implied repeals
18-1028 Moda Health Plan, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) appropriations appropriations-riders bait-and-switch federal-circuit government-contracts government-obligation health-care health-exchanges health-insurance insurance statutory-commitment statutory-interpretation statutory-promise takings Whether Congress can evade its unambiguous statutory promise to pay health insurers for losses already incurred simply by enacting appropriations ride…
18-1038 Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Company, an Illinois Nonprofit Mutual Insurance Corporation v. United States Federal Circuit Judgment Issued Relisted (2) affordable-care-act appropriations appropriations-riders government-contracts government-obligations legislative-history money-mandating-statute retroactive-abrogation retroactive-application risk-corridors Whether a temporary cap on appropriations availability from certain specified funding sources may be construed, based on its legislative history, to a…
18-1054 Jason Allen Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied admissibility circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution drug-crimes drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-admissibility knowledge-intent prior-conviction prior-convictions Whether the mere fact of a prior drug possession conviction is admissible to show knowledge and intent in a subsequent drug distribution prosecution
18-1055 Roberto Enrique Mauricio-Benitez v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied None
18-106 John R. Turner v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (6)Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure dual-sovereignty formal-charges plea-bargaining plea-negotiations pre-charge pre-indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches during pre-charge plea negotiations
18-1060 Michael A. Weiss, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Jane L. Marsh, Deceased v. Stephen D. Marsh, as Executor of the Estate of Monroe F. Marsh, Deceased, et al. California Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-clauses constitutional-standing due-process fourth-amendment fundamental-justice jurisdiction legal-principles material-change pre-trial-seizure standing statutory-basis takings unclean-hands Whether specified principles of fundamental justice, including unclean hands, constitutionally prohibited the court from affirming distribution of pro…
18-1062 Love Terminal Partners, L.P., et al. v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Amici (8) civil-rights due-process economic-impact fair-market-value federal-law investment-backed-expectations investment-expectations just-compensation property-rights property-taking regulatory-environment regulatory-taking takings Whether courts may treat real property as worthless solely because the owner was not generating positive cash flow at the time of the taking
18-1065 Interpipe Contracting, Inc. v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) as-applied-challenge chamber-of-commerce-v-brown civil-rights collective-bargaining labor-speech metropolitan-life-v-massachusetts minimum-labor-standards nlra-preemption project-labor-agreements union-organizing worker-consent Advocacy opposing 'top down' union organizing campaigns that seek to impose project labor agreements (PLAs)
18-1074 Brian Perryman v. Josue Romero, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights class-action class-action-settlement class-counsel cy-pres cy-pres-award due-process fair-reasonable-adequate fairness-standard fees rule-23 settlement settlement-scrutiny Whether the cy pres award that provides no direct relief or benefit to class members comports with the Rule 23(e) requirement that a settlement bindin…
18-1084 Minnesota v. Mark Jerome Johnson Minnesota Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process dui fourth-amendment implied-consent retroactive-application retroactivity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Retroactive application of Birchfield v. North Dakota rule on warrantless blood tests
18-109 Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Illumina, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-102 35-usc-119 disclosure federal-circuit filing-date patent patent-application patent-law patent-prior-art prior-art priority subject-matter Unclaimed disclosures in a published patent application and an earlier application it relies on for priority enter the public domain and thus become p…
18-1092 Associated Builders and Contractors of California Cooperation Committee, Inc. v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights collective-bargaining first-amendment free-speech government-speech legislative-amendment private-donation private-speech proxy subsidy viewpoint-discrimination Does a plausible allegation of viewpoint-discrimination-by-proxy state a valid First Amendment claim?
18-1097 SkyWest, Inc., et al. v. Andrea Hirst, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (2) airlines discrimination dormant-commerce-clause federal-preemption federal-statute interstate-commerce judicial-review preemption state-law statutory-interpretation Is a state law exempt from the Dormant Commerce Clause merely because it does not discriminate against interstate commerce or because Congress has pas…
18-1120 Theresa Riffey, et al. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights class-action constitutional-rights damages due-process first-amendment free-speech harris-precedent janus-precedent janus-v-afscme standing subjective-opposition union-fees First Amendment injury to individuals from whom union fees were seized without consent
18-1122 Alpenglow Botanicals, LLC, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 26-usc-280e administrative-determination administrative-determinations administrative-law civil-rights criminal-culpability criminal-law criminal-penalties drug-crimes drug-trafficking due-process irs irs-investigation section-280e standing tax tax-deductions tax-law Taxpayer's challenge to IRS authority to investigate federal drug law crimes and administratively determine criminal culpability under 26 U.S.C. §280E…
18-1145 Minerva Dairy, Inc., et al. v. Brad Pfaff, in His Official Capacity as Secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (3) burdens-on-interstate-commerce circuit-split civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law discrimination disparate-impact dormant-commerce-clause due-process economic-liberty interstate-commerce local-benefits pike-v-bruce-church rational-basis rational-basis-test state-regulation substantive-due-process Dormant Commerce Clause challenge to Wisconsin butter grading law
18-1150 Georgia, et al. v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (34)Relisted (2) annotations copyright copyright-law government-edicts judicial-opinions legal-annotations official-code-of-georgia-annotated public-policy state-statutes statutes statutory-interpretation Whether the government edicts doctrine extends to—and thus renders uncopyrightable—works that lack the force of law, such as the annotations in the Of…
18-1153 Timothy J. Rizzo v. Applied Materials, Inc., et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights daubert daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony scientific-evidence seventh-amendment standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the courts below erroneously abused their discretion in dismissing Rizzo's experts, whether the courts below erroneously held a different stan…
18-1166 Colton W. Sievers v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-suspect fourth-amendment information-gathering police-investigative-stop police-powers police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop Whether Illinois v. Lidster allows the police to stop a criminal suspect without reasonable suspicion on the ground that the stop is merely 'informati…
18-1191 Carter Davenport v. Estate of Marquette F. Cummings, Jr. Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights davis-v-scherer due-process legal-authority money-damages qualified-immunity standing state-law state-law-authority state-official takings Whether a state official's qualified immunity defense to a claim for money damages necessarily fails if he cannot first prove that he had authority un…
18-1198 Westley A. Albright v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure diversion due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the Supreme Court of Tennessee erred when it held, as a matter of first impression, that due process rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Am…
18-1199 InvestPic, LLC v. SAP America, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (8) 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-v-cls-bank computer-implemented-process federal-circuit inventive-concept judicial-exceptions patent-act patent-eligibility physical-realm preemption Whether the Federal Circuit's physical realm' test contravenes the Patent Act and Supreme Court precedent by categorically excluding otherwise patenta…
18-1220 Cleveland Franklin v. American Elevator Inspections, Inc. Texas Denied 7th-amendment affidavit-evidence burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process elevator-safety evidence negligence personal-injury standing summary-judgment trial-by-jury Whether a plaintiff must anticipate and preemptively rebut every possible inference favoring the defendant, even if implausible, to survive summary ju…
18-1260 Jessica Cooke v. United States Second Circuit Denied administrative-claims administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure claim-filing common-law federal-tort-claims-act legal-procedure mailbox-rule standing statutory-interpretation Whether the common-law 'mailbox rule' applies to claims brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2675(a)
18-1300 Nevenka Obuskovic v. Kathleen L. Wood, et al. Third Circuit Denied civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,equal-protection,family-l color-of-law divorce due-process equal-protection family-court family-law forced-labor fourteenth-amendment involuntary-servitude peonage pro-se-representation Was federal law violated under color of law for violations of Fourteenth Amendment substantive and procedural due process and equal protection when hu…
18-1317 American Institute for International Steel, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (3) article-i checks-and-balances constitutional-challenge delegation-doctrine delegation-of-power facial-challenge federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng legislative-power presidential-authority section-232 separation-of-powers steel-tariffs trade-expansion-act trade-expansion-act-1962 trade-expansion-act-of-1962 Whether section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 unconstitutionally delegates legislative power to the President, violating separation of powers
18-1318 Marquette Transportation Company, L.L.C. v. Kelvin Dunn Fifth Circuit Denied comparative-fault emergency-drills emergency-procedures fitness-for-duty in-extremis-doctrine jones-act maritime-collision maritime-law primary-duty-doctrine seaman-standard-of-care Does the Primary Duty Doctrine still exist as a defense in Jones Act cases, and if so, does it only apply to a captain?
18-1327 Christian Vernon Sims v. Texas Texas Denied carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment privacy privacy-expectation standing surveillance-tracking third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement Does a person have a legitimate expectation of privacy in historic or real-time cellphone tracking data (CSLI) regardless of the duration of the track…
18-1328 Stephen Gilmore, et al. v. Neil R. Holland, et al. Third Circuit Denied administrative-law agency-regulation chevron-deference circuit-split cms-regulation emergency-medical-treatment emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act hospital-inpatient-care hospital-stabilization medical-care statutory-interpretation Should the regulation issued by CMS, 42 C.F.R. § 489.24(d)(2)(ii), be stricken as contrary to the statutory language, which provides that the obligati…
18-1331 William G. Bolton v. Department of the Navy Board for Correction of Naval Records Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived 10-usc-1552 administrative-law administrative-review clemency courts-martial due-process legislative-history military-justice military-record-correction naval-board-authority record-review statutory-interpretation summary-court-martial Whether the Navy's Board for Correction of Naval Records has the authority to remove an unjust summary court-martial sentence from a service member's …
18-1332 Mario Alberto Recinos v. Board of Trustees, Police and Firemen's Retirement System New Jersey Denied Response Waived administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious-decision break-in-service civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing pension pension-benefits pension-rights police-and-fireman-retirement-system retirement-benefits retirement-system undersheriff-position Should certiorari be granted as an important question of federal law that should be settled by this Court exists as the petitioner Mario Alberto Recin…
18-1334 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. First Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (2) appointments-clause article-iv constitutional-law exceptional-importance federal-government-structure federal-officers financial-oversight-and-management-board merits-review oversight-board puerto-rico separation-of-powers supreme-court territorial-government Whether the Appointments Clause governs the appointment of members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
18-1335 Continental Motors, Inc. v. Elizabeth Snider, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived aviation-accident aviation-safety component-part component-part-defect component-part-liability general-aviation general-aviation-revitalization-act manufacturer-immunity manufacturer-liability manufacturing-defect preemption product-liability statute-of-repose Whether the preemptive statute of repose created by the General Aviation Revitalization Act insulates the designer and manufacturer of a 37-year-old g…
18-1337 Robert Rael, et ux. v. Patrick S. Layng, United States Trustee, Region 19 Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived 11-usc-727 bankruptcy bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction chapter-11 chapter-11-plan chapter-eleven-plan civil-procedure court-order debtor post-confirmation property-of-estate property-of-the-estate subject-matter-jurisdiction willful-disobedience Whether a bankruptcy court's subject matter jurisdiction over what was property of the bankruptcy estate continues after the confirmation of a Chapter…
18-1348 Orion Insurance Group, et al. v. Washington State Office of Minority & Women's Business Enterprises, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitrary-and-capricious burden-shifting-test deference disadvantaged-business-enterprise discrimination-law federal-agency federal-agency-deference federal-program full-faith-and-credit minority-certification minority-group-membership state-agency state-agency-determination state-program vagueness Whether a federal agency should give full faith and credit or extreme deference to a state agency's prior determination of minority group membership
18-1352 Commerce Bank v. Beverly Williamson, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act counterclaim diversity-jurisdiction federal-court jurisdictional-requirements original-defendant removal removal-statute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a counterclaim defendant in a state court class action is any defendant' entitled to remove a class action which satisfies the jurisdictional …
18-1360 Robert G. Thornton v. United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment standing administrative-law civil-rights due-process fair-hearing first-amendment fraud judicial-review obstruction-of-justice standing veterans-affairs veterans-rights Whether a veteran has a right to meaningful access to the courts and administrative agencies under the First Amendment when the government concealed e…
18-1361 Penelope Stillwell, et vir v. Eagle-Kirkpatrick Management Company, Inc., et al. Indiana Denied Response Waived conditional-payments due-process full-and-fair-hearing judicial-proceedings liability-settlement medicare-beneficiary medicare-secondary-payer medicare-secondary-payer-act medicare-trust-fund trust-fund-interests Does the Indiana Court of Appeals' approval of lower court judge's ordered settlement of a Medicare beneficiary's liability case lacking consideration…
18-1371 Jefferson Morley v. Central Intelligence Agency District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-law attorney-fees circuit-court-conflict civil-rights due-process foia-attorney-fees freedom-of-information-act judicial-precedent legal-uniformity mandate-rule national-uniformity precedent Whether conflicts within the D.C. Circuit and between the D.C. Circuit and other circuits created by Morley XI require reversal in order to maintain n…
18-1377 Kwame Gyamfi v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-procedure standing trojan-servers Whether the use of 'Trojan Servers' by federal courts to manage cases violates the petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth Amendment
18-1378 Michael Ledet v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana Denied Response Waived age-element categorical-approach circumstance-specific-approach constitutional-comparison due-process federal-state-comparison fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment modified-categorical-approach sex-offender-registration sorna Whether the constitutional due process requirements that apply to a federal agency or federal court comparing the elements of state and federal offens…
18-1391 N'Dama Miankanze Bamba v. Kimberly Fenton, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination discrimination due-process eleventh-amendment federal-financial-assistance federal-statute physicians-board protected-activity retaliation standing title-vii Whether the plaintiff's complaint of discrimination to the New York State Physicians Board was a protected activity under Title VII
18-1396 Dereck Pelletier v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Arkansas Denied Response Waived criminal-law double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiplicity retroactivity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution Whether a state supreme court can overcome a defendant's multiplicity challenge under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment by classifying…
18-1403 Jehan Zeb Mir v. Sharon Levine, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-proceeding due-process equal-protection fair-notice issue-preclusion license-revocation medical-license notice-requirement procedural-protections supreme-court-precedent Whether petitioner was denied due process when respondents revoked his license without adequate procedural protections
18-1408 John Washek v. Vermont Vermont Denied Response Waived complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-behavior criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation fourth-amendment innocent-behavior probable-cause reasonable-suspicion right-to-defense terry-stop Whether Defendant/Petitioner John Washek's Fourth Amendment rights were violated because the police officer's Terry stop was based on observations muc…
18-1419 Andrea Hirst, et al. v. SkyWest, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit Denied ashcroft-v-iqbal context-specific fair-labor-standards-act iqbal-standard pleading-requirements rule-8 wage-violations workweek workweek-averaging Must an employee protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act always allege wage violations averaged across a specific seven-day workweek, or may an empl…
18-1420 Timothy Burns v. Alabama Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment citizenship civil-rights constitution constitutional-protection court-procedure court-reporting custody damages discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-conduct legal-damages standing Are Plaintiff and minor child A.B. citizens of the United States?
18-1430 ReDigi Inc., et al. v. Capitol Records, LLC, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived copyright copyright-law copyright-reproduction digital-distribution electronic-transfer exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine fair-use first-sale-doctrine reproduction-right statutory-interpretation Whether lawful purchasers of iTunes music files are entitled to freely alienate those digital phonorecords under the first sale doctrine
18-1453 Mitra Rangarajan v. Johns Hopkins University, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct attorney-responsibility circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-violations dismissal federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure prejudice rule-37 sanctions warning When is it appropriate to dismiss an action for discovery violations under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37?
18-1463 Melissa Maher v. Iowa State University Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process harassment post-traumatic-stress retaliation sexual-assault student-housing title-ix Does discrimination making a student vulnerable to harassment after a sexual assault create a cause of action for deliberate indifference by the insti…
18-1464 Milos Jiricko v. Frankenburg Jensen Law Firm, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-oath due-process judicial-review legislative-statute medical-malpractice standing supreme-court-review takings Whether the US Supreme Court can apply a blind eye to the alleged unconstitutionality of the Utah State Medical Malpractice statute, Code 78B-3-401
18-1467 Ty Clevenger v. Melanie Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived abstention administrative-hearing administrative-law article-iii-judges civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-claims federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing state-administrative-hearing state-court-judicial-review state-court-review younger-abstention younger-abstention-doctrine Where a state administrative hearing officer is prohibited from hearing a party's federal claim, may a federal court abstain from hearing that claim o…
18-1468 United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund, et al. v. Andre M. Toffel, as Chapter 7 Trustee for Walter Energy Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 1992-plan-premiums anti-injunction-act bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-1114 circuit-split coal-act south-carolina-v-regan statutory-interpretation tax-assessment tax-validity Whether the South Carolina v. Regan exception to the Anti-Injunction Act applies only in this Court and, if not, whether it applies only to litigants …
18-1475 Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response Waived appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-violation de-facto-officer-doctrine meaningful-relief ongoing-injury principal-officers separation-of-powers standing Does the de facto officer doctrine allow courts to deny meaningful relief to successful separation-of-powers challengers who are suffering ongoing inj…
18-1478 Ryan Lawrence Steck v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment drug-dog-search drug-sniffing-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure police-investigation police-procedure probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure vehicle-search Does an indication of a drug-sniffing dog being 'in odor' without an alert provide probable cause for a search?
18-1483 Gene N. Barry v. Scott M. Freshour, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment administrative-law administrative-search civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment medical-records privacy privacy-interest property-rights section-1983 standing Must doctors have an ownership interest in their medical practices in order to have cognizable privacy or property interests in medical records that (…
18-1496 Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of All Title III Debtors Other Than COFINA v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. First Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law appointments-clause article-ii article-iv constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight financial-oversight-and-management-board financial-oversight-board oversight-board puerto-rico separation-of-powers territorial-clause territorial-governance Whether the Appointments Clause governs the appointment of members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
18-1514 United States v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. First Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (1) appointments appointments-clause constitutional-law officers-of-the-united-states promesa public-officers puerto-rico separation-of-powers territorial-government territorial-officers Whether the members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico are 'Officers of the United States' within the meaning of the Appo…
18-1521 Unión de Trabajadores de la Industria Eléctrica y Riego, Inc. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law de-facto-officer de-facto-officer-doctrine ongoing-injury oversight-board principal-officers puerto-rico relief uncon-stitutional-appointments united-states-constitution Whether the de facto officer doctrine allows for unconstitutionally appointed principal Officers of the United States to continue acting, leaving the …
18-164 First Solar, Inc., et al. v. Mineworkers' Pension Scheme, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) disclosure fraud fraud-claim loss-causation market-price private-plaintiff securities-fraud standing Whether a private securities-fraud plaintiff may establish the critical element of loss causation based on a decline in the market price of a security…
18-447 Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. v. CSX Transportation, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) commerce-clause discrimination dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection fuel-exemption interstate-commerce preemption state-taxation statutory-interpretation tax-discrimination tax-exemption transportation-carriers Under 49 U.S.C. § 11501(b)(4), when can a State justifiably maintain a sales-and-use tax exemption for fuel used by vessels to transport goods interst…
18-486 Toshiba Corporation v. Automotive Industries Pension Trust Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split domestic-transaction domestic-transactions extraterritoriality forum-shopping legal-interpretation morrison-v-national-australia-bank ninth-circuit second-circuit securities-exchange-act securities-fraud securities-regulation Whether the Exchange Act applies without exception whenever a claim is based on a domestic transaction, or whether in certain circumstances the Exchan…
18-575 YPF S.A. v. Petersen Energia Inversora S.A.U., et al. Second Circuit Denied CVSGRelisted (2) civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception expropriation federal-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-challenge legal-exception sovereign-immunity Whether the 'commercial activity' exception to sovereign immunity in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(2), is inapplicable to su…
18-581 Argentine Republic v. Petersen Energia Inversora S.A.U., et al. Second Circuit Denied CVSGRelisted (2) civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception expropriation foreign-policy foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law legal-exception sovereign-act sovereign-immunity Whether the 'commercial activity' exception to sovereign immunity in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2), is inapplicable to …
18-600 Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc. v. Renesas Electronics America, Inc., fka Intersil Corporation Federal Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) 35-usc-271 commercial-transactions extraterritoriality federal-circuit infringement international-relations offer-to-sell patent patent-infringement patent-law statutory-interpretation united-states-code venue Whether an 'offer to sell' under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a) occurs where the offer is made or where the proposed sale will take place
18-612 CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) commerce-clause csx-transportation discrimination discriminatory-taxation dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection interstate-commerce motor-carrier motor-carrier-tax preemption railroad-fuel state-taxation supreme-court-precedent tax-discrimination tax-jurisprudence Whether Alabama's imposition of a motor fuels tax on interstate motor carriers justifies its facially discriminatory sales and use tax on railroad die…
18-6700 Michael DePietro v. Allstate Insurance Co., et al. New Jersey Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal case-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial judicial-bias legal-reconsideration motion-denial new-trial reconsideration standing trial-fairness Why is Judge Fuentes denying everything I brought in front of him, including caselaw?
18-6943 Gregory Dean Banister v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (4)IFP aedpa appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus pro-se rule-59(e) successive-petition Whether Gonzalez v. Crosby extends to Rule 59(e) motions
18-7038 William Owens v. Texas Texas Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence material-evidence police-report prosecutorial-misconduct victim-credibility whether-state-withheld-material-evidence
18-7409 Stephen Daniel Leonard v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing takings Did the Court of Appeals violate Petitioners' Fourteenth Amendment rights by refusing to vacate all orders after Ms. Leonard's amended complaint
18-7449 Joel Darnell Patton v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure finality-of-judgment gonzalez-standard habeas-corpus post-judgment-motion post-judgment-motions reconsideration rule-59-motion successive-motions successive-petition Does a district court have the authority to reconsider the merits of a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 action in response to a prisoner's timely post-judgment motion…
18-762 Jaime Valente Pina, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) conflict-of-interest criminal-indictment federal-prosecution plea-bargaining pre-indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-charges state-prosecution Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches before the filing of a formal federal criminal charge
18-7696 Tony J. Walton v. David Ballard, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-deliberations jury-impartiality sixth-amendment voir-dire Were the Petitioner's due process right to an impartial jury under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution violated when the trial judg…
18-7721 Laron Darrell Carter, aka Birdd, aka Gardena Pimpin Birdd, aka Garr Birdd, aka Pi Birdd, aka Pi Pimpin Birdd v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty-doctrine federal-prosecution prejudice prejudice-showing rule-48(b) rule-48b separate-sovereign-doctrine separate-sovereign-exception state-prosecution What type of prejudice showing is required to obtain dismissal under Fed. R. Crim. P. 48(b) for delayed federal prosecution after state conviction?
18-7724 Elloyd Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law court-procedure due-process legal-challenge pauper pauper-petition pauper-status rule-10.6 sanctions standing statutory-provisions supervisory-power untimely-pay-sanction Whether the USCA denial of rehearing en banc constitutes a 90-day deadline for filing a certiorari in this case under S.C. Rule 13.3?
18-776 Pedro Pablo Guerrero-Lasprilla v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) agency-decision criminal-alien-bar diligence-standard due-process equitable-tolling immigration-law judicial-review removability statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation Whether the application of a legal standard to an undisputed set of facts is a question of law, or a pure question of fact that may be barred from jud…
18-7850 Larry Howard v. Daniel Lesatz, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review mental-disability pro-se standing Whether the exhaustion of legal assistance measures, especially in the case of a mentally disabled defendant, can conclusively overcome the respondent…
18-7852 Donald Hug v. T. J. Conley, Warden Georgia Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-review freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech habeas-corpus judicial-authority prison-policies prisoners-rights statute-of-limitations time-limits Whether prison officials have the authority to prevent (deny) pro se prisoners from getting their legal documents notarized until it is too late to fi…
18-7908 Twila Haynes v. Walmart, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-rules in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction legal-malpractice pro-se-litigation seventh-amendment standing Whether an in forma pauperis (IFP) status granted by one district court is transferable to another district court
18-7932 Dale Allen Hamer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-record criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-bargaining pre-trial-hearing sentencing transcript warrant-review Whether the lower courts erred in denying petitioner's request to review the court records, transcripts, and findings related to his conviction and se…
18-7934 Seaun Llwellyn Farthing v. Dara Watson, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense perjury prior-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-burglary witness-testimony Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to prevent prosecutorial misconduct?
18-7945 Carl Allen Watts v. Michigan Michigan Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-question criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-bias legal-standard michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-conflict standing Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals decision to reversed and remanded for a new trial in two similarly situated cases as petitioner's case, conflict…
18-7956 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Paul Penzone Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction pleadings standing Whether the court below committed a reversible error in dismissing Appellants Complaint for Failure to State a Claim upon which Relief can be Granted,…
18-7987 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Paul Penzone, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law appeal civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal conviction-expungement criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus revocation standing Whether the District Judge committed a reversible error by forestalling Appellant's relief pending the outcome of a revocation proceeding
18-7988 James Forney v. Florida Florida Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-power administrative-rules civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-abridgement court-rules due-process felony-conduct judicial-misconduct legal-impunity standing state-jurisdiction Have we really reached the point where stote judges can commit felonies from the beach against the citizens with a sense of impunity?
18-7999 Raoul A. Galan v. Larry Gegenheimer, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error racial-discrimination standing Were the lower courts manipulated by internal and/or external influences to deny petitioner his state and federal constitutional rights of protection?
18-8018 Michael Anthony Kendrick v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction patent standing statutory-provisions takings Can Fagen Nebers Coutr dissaern MY Peesuma Tb be; Poaener™ 2 USES 22H408) Cini AND DENY qo Explaln Why?
18-8046 Stephen L. Paulmier v. Hawaii Hawaii Denied IFP bench-trial constitutional-rights due-process family-court family-court-procedure hawaii-family-court-rules jury-trial jury-trial-waiver trial-continuance Whether the ICA gravely erred in failing to recognize Stephen Paulmier's constitutional rights to due-process,jury-trial
18-8105 Alicja Herriott v. Paul Herriott California Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-overbreadth discrimination due-process first-amendment first-amendment-right-to-petition overbreadth petition-rights privileges-immunities standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statute Is the statutory law prohibiting the arbitrary selected litigants petition to court discriminatory under Be & K Constr. Co. v. NLRB (2002) 536 U.S. 51…
18-8193 Ada Albors Gonzalez v. William M. Stern, et al. Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review court-discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing fla-r-civ-p-1-540b legal-malpractice procedural-rights sovereign-powers statute-of-limitations void-or-voidable-orders void-orders Whether the State of Florida court abused its discretion
18-8200 Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process legislative-intent official-discretion parole punishment-proportionality sentencing-discretion standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Texas legislature's strategic dismantling of the SAFE-Keeping proviso of the 1987-Amended Law violates substantive due process
18-8206 Robert L. Clark v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law imminent-danger in-forma-pauperis standards standing How Could the US. Court of Appeals grant a leave to proceed in forma pauperis in US. Court of Appeals Case no.18-10949 under the 'imminent danger' sta…
18-821 David Keith Wills v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty fifth-amendment gamble-v-united-states supreme-court Whether the Court should overrule the dual sovereignty exception to the Fifth Amendment Double Jeopardy Clause
18-8224 Antonio Dickerson, aka Girbaud v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography constitutional-challenge fifth-amendment first-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea strict-liability Whether the child pornography offense set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) should be interpreted as including at least a recklessly mens rea element regar…
18-8270 Wylmina Hettinga v. Timothy P. Loumena California Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process liberty-interest minor-child monetary-judgment parental-visitation standing vexatious-litigant Does a vexatious litigant have a reasonable opportunity to know the claims of the opposing party, who the opposing party is, and to rectify a monetary…
18-8335 Lamar C. Chapman, III v. Barack Hussein Obama District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ballot-access civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-districts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech religious-freedom signature-requirements standing takings voting-rights Whether the lower courts erred in violating Appellant's right to the free exercise of religion
18-8432 Kelly Foust v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-precedent hurst-v-florida jury jury-waiver sixth-amendment Does Ohio's death penalty scheme violate the Sixth Amendment right to a jury as explained in Hurst v. Florida?
18-8440 Travis Trevino Runnels v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court counsel-misconduct equitable-relief habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review Whether certiorari should be granted when the circuit court improperly applied an 'overly rigid per se approach' in denying COA on petitioner's motion…
18-8456 Roberto Miramontes Roman v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP 18-USC-924(c)(1)(A) acquittal conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy Double-Jeopardy-Clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-prosecution Firearm-Possession firearm-statute Prosecution state-court-acquittal state-federal-prosecution statutory-interpretation Did it violate the Double Jeopardy Clause for the United States to prosecute Mr. Roman for the same offense and conduct for which he was acquitted in …
18-8524 Tony Kalumba Tshiansi v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process factual-claims judicial-discretion objection presentence-report presumption-of-reliability reliability sentencing unjust-incarceration Whether the factual claims of a Presentence Report are presumed reliable in the face of objection?
18-8585 Zhordrack Bloodywone v. Joseph Bellnier, Superintendent, Marcy Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process privacy right-to-counsel 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel trial-court Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the prosecution's misconduct and the trial court's denial of his request for appointment …
18-866 Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Tennessee Department of Revenue, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 4-r-act discrimination fuel-tax infrastructure-funding interstate-commerce motor-carrier motor-carrier-taxation railroad railroad-taxation statutory-interpretation tax-discrimination transportation-law Whether Tennessee's tax on railroad fuel discriminates against railroads under 49 U.S.C. § 11501(b)(4)
18-8666 Tremane Wood v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-court-review death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-test Does a circuit court contravene this Court's decisions in Strickland-v-Washington, Wiggins-v-Smith, Rompilla-v-Beard, and Porter-v-McCollum where it d…
18-8716 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 107th-congress congressional-act constitutional-provisions employment-rights federal-funding job-placement jurisdiction public-law public-law-107-288 state-obligations state-services statutory-provisions us-jobs-for-veterans-act veterans-affairs veterans-benefits veterans-services What services are owed to all veterans by states that accept federal funding under the US Jobs for Veterans Act (Public Law 107-288, 107th Congress)?
18-8844 Farris G. Morris v. Tennessee Sixth Circuit Denied IFP recognized by Tyler-v-Cain to determine what opinions are subject to retroac 28-u.s.c.-2244(b)(3)(e) 28-usc-2244 batson-challenge capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-discrimination retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-authority tyler-v-cain Does the Constitution permit Congress to enact 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(E) to divest this Court of its authority, recognized by Tyler v. Cain, to determ…
18-8857 Jeffrey A. Weisheit v. Indiana Indiana Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances penalty-phase strickland-standard strickland-v-washington williams-v-taylor Whether the Indiana Supreme Court contravened Strickland by acknowledging counsel made mistakes, but not finding them to be deficient performance even…
18-8887 Miriam Soler v. Capital One Auto Finance Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appeal appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-interpretation courts-of-appeal due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure original-jurisdiction rule-of-law Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals infringed the ex-post-facto-clause, depriving Petitioner's right of remedy sustaining no due-process at …
18-8899 Eric Richard Eleson v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation due-process due-process-equal-protection equal-protection federal-statute judicial-discretion legal-definition non-violent-offense-classification penal-code-definition reasonable-jurist-standard state-constitution-interpretation state-federal-judge-duties state-law supremacy-clause violent-felony Does the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause require judges to follow a federal statute's legal definition even if the state law lacks such a definit…
18-8903 Owen W. Barnaby v. Bret Witkowski, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fraud law-of-the-case res-judicata Whether res judicata and collateral estoppel doctrines should bar an independent or original action in federal court when the defendants employed frau…
18-8904 Octavius Matthews v. Terry Ratliff (TR Motors) Alabama Denied IFP appeal appeal-procedure appeals civil-procedure court-dismissal down-payment due-process jurisdiction legal-timeliness plaintiff-claim procedural-grounds standing statute-of-limitations timeliness Why did the courts find that the Appeal was improper, because the plaintiff did not do it right?
18-8905 Anthony G. Bryant v. Army Corps of Engineers, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process first-amendment sixth-amendment 10th-amendment 14th-amendment administrative-procedure asset-seizure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourth-amendment Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to asset seizures by state and local governments
18-8914 Manuel Cazares v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 conclusiveness district-court due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-procedure lower-court reply rules-governing-section-2254 section-2254 writ-of-habeas-corpus May Rule 5(e) of the Rules Governing Section 2254 cases in the United States District Courts, entitled Reply, be disregarded by the lower court?
18-8916 Steven Lawrence Wright v. California California Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-standard motion-for-new-trial new-trial standard-of-review Did the trial court's erroneous jury instruction violate the Due Process Clause?
18-8918 David Wiley v. Jennifer Wiley Washington Denied IFP best-interests-of-child bills-of-attainder child-support due-process judicial-discretion parent-child-relationship Question not identified
18-8921 Hector Tellez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-time-period recent-precedence recent-precedent supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel trial-outcome united-states-supreme-court What is a reasonable time period for trial counsel to be required to become aware of recent precedence before he/she may be deemed ineffective for fai…
18-8926 Donald C. Jackson v. Priye T. Mukoro, et al. Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights de-minimis due-process first-amendment qualified-immunity retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment Whether the Court of Appeals for the First District Texas reversibly erred when it reversed the Judgment of the trial court and rendered judgment gran…
18-8933 Zaamar Bersan Stevenson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP appeal appeal-process certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehabilitation-process right-to-counsel subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Mr. Stevenson was entitled to relief on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
18-8934 Teresa Miller v. Phillip Douglas Gaujot, Judge, Monongalia County Circuit Court, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evading-review habeas-corpus judicial-review jury-trial petition-dismissal review standing Why was a civil petition dismissed without review because the defendant was no longer in states custody it was not a heabas petition it was a civil pr…
18-8939 Daisy T. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP best-interests best-interests-of-the-child child-welfare clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights Whether the State of Arizona failed to terminate mother's parental rights by at least clear & convincing evidence as required by the due process claus…
18-8947 Michael-Francis Palma v. Harris County Appraisal Review Board Texas Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process judicial-review procedural-due-process property-rights state-judiciary statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process Are the following Due Process violations?
18-8950 Jesus Manuel Moran v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-8953 Carol J. Morris v. Noel Francisco, Solicitor General of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction just-compensation standing statutory-interpretation takings veterans-benefits Whether the petitioner was denied just compensation pursuant to Title 38 USC § 1151 when the Department of Veterans Affairs statute (being challenged)…
18-8954 Kareem Hassan Millhouse v. Ms. Davis, P.A., et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction property-rights reasons-for-granting-writ standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions takings Whether the government's seizure of private property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
18-8955 Gregory Butler v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions other-crimes-evidence sixth-amendment trial-fairness witness-confrontation Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability
18-8959 James Paul Arlotta v. McKesson Corporation, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP 28-U.S.C administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court and appeals court properly addressed the constitutionality of the Wall Street Reform Act
18-8962 Ronald Collins, Jr. v. Kristen Keller Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal for lack of jurisdiction under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A), despite the petitioner's argument…
18-8966 Eric Drake, aka E. V. Drake v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection free-speech pro-se-litigation standing vexatious-litigant Whether the denial of a pro se litigant's right to access the courts through vexatious litigant laws and rulings violates the petitioner's constitutio…
18-8969 Ronald Lunsford, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea indiana-constitution ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment Whether the State of Indiana erred in denying Appellant was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amend…
18-8974 Stanley Bruce Roberson v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence scientific-evidence scientific-reliability statistical-extrapolation statistical-sampling unvalidated-methods Does the unvalidated method of statistical extrapolation constitute scientifically reliable evidence?
18-8976 Wilfred Warren Sheppard v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process exhaustion-requirement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-code legal-review standing writ-of-certiorari Whether this Court has the power to issue a Writ of Certiorari to review the action of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
18-8979 Lisa Jacobs v. Lorraine MacDonald, et vir New Hampshire Denied IFP actual-malice constitutional-rights defamation defamation-damages first-amendment negligence-per-se presumptive-damages punitive-damages Whether enhanced compensatory damages in connection with an action for negligence per se requires proof of 'actual malice' consistent with St. Amant v…
18-8981 John Bowling v. Maryland Maryland Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency free-speech jury-instructions standing Any ERRONEOUS INSTRUCTION on force WMS Ofer to the funy
18-8982 Daniel Warren v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge custody due-process federal-constitutional-rights federal-habeas federal-rights habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-statute Whether a state court of last resort which dismisses without argument or opinion a challenge to the constitutionality of a statute from a judgment dis…
18-8984 Nathan Caetano v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa burden-of-proof civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-incompetence ninth-circuit-precedent ninth-circuit-test retrospective-competency-determination retrospective-determination state-action structural-error Whether a retrospective competency determination where mental incompetence is the impediment is permissible under AEDPA(4)(B)
18-9004 Vaughn S. Archer v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP boykin-advisement criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-trial sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation statutory-reduction trial-court-advisement Whether Archer knowingly and voluntarily entered into a guilty plea where the trial court failed to advise him as to the potential application of a st…
18-9012 Marc Anthony Lowell Endsley, aka Marc Endsley v. Edmund G. Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detention civil-rights due-process freedom-of-association fundamental-rights informed-consent privacy professional-judgment reproductive-choice youngberg-v-romeo Do civilly detained persons retain their fundamental rights to engage in voluntary sexual relations
18-9047 Gregory Swecker, et ux. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-motion-to-vacate,judicial- court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-bias motion-to-vacate recusal recusal-relief standing Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a Motion to Vacate under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60
18-9048 Brian Boykins v. Robert Napel, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court right-to-counsel standard-of-review standing trial-court-record Whether a federal court must grant an evidentiary hearing and findings, contrary to Townsend v. Sain, 372 U.S. 293 (1963)
18-9065 Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-decision strickland-v-washington Whether petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is governed by the applicable test of Strickland v. Washington
18-9072 Dewey Lee McBride v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights direct-review due-process judicial-bias legal-claims ninth-circuit standing unbiased-judge Whether Mr. McBride's direct review continued until his claims were decided by an unbiased judge
18-9078 Tina Bradford v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof compromise-and-release cumulative-trauma federal-labor-standards federal-labor-standards-act fourteenth-amendment icd-9 medical-diagnosis qme-ame qme-procedures workers-compensation Whether the burden of proof for workers' compensation benefits should be on the plaintiff or defendant, and whether a compromise and release agreement…
18-9083 Ken Gryder v. Laura Rudy, et al. Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights county-taxation defamation-claim dmv-registration due-process employment-damages free-speech malicious-prosecution patent prosecutorial-misconduct sovereign-immunity standing takings unlawful-eviction Whether the issues raised in the SCOTUS petition for writ of certiorari are properly presented
18-9112 Daniel Bronson v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's appeal
18-9136 J.T., the Father v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-cases dependency-cases due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty-interest indigent-population parental-rights Whether the Florida practice and rule that do not permit litigants to seek review in the Florida Supreme Court when the District Court of Appeal issue…
18-916 Thryv, Inc., fka Dex Media, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP, et al. Federal Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (18)Relisted (3) 35-usc-314 35-usc-315 america-invents-act cuozzo inter-partes-review patent-infringement patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board ptab section-315b time-bar wi-fi-one Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) permits appeal of the PTAB's decision to institute an inter partes review upon finding that § 315(b)'s time bar did not app…
18-9226 Anne A. Sears v. Lucas D. Bottorff, et al. Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-checks contract-clause due-process elderly-protection judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-police-power What is the minimum level of judicial checks and balances constitutionally required of the judiciary and each judge when reviewing litigation involvin…
18-9230 Rushane Dwayne Kennedy v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-9250 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 13th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment employment employment-retaliation involuntary-servitude retaliation thirteenth-amendment Shall the Court of Appeals expedite an Appeal in an employment retaliation case
18-9257 Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judgment merits mitigating-evidence opinion petition search-and-seizure sentencing state-court state-courts writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court failed to consider mitigating evidence during sentencing
18-9260 Frederick E. Braxton v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause eyewitness perjury trial-judge witness-credibility Is Due Process and/or Equal Protection Clauses of the XIVth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution violated when the sole eyewitness to a crime is the vic…
18-9279 Regina M. Preetorius v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-9314 Randall Pierce v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure clearly-established-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit pleadings pro-se pro-se-pleadings sentencing-information standing supreme-court Was the District Court Judge's liberal construction of the pro se pleadings a denial of access to the courts?
18-9329 Sean M. Barnhill v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition section-2255 sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review standard-of-review Did the Sixth Circuit err by exceeding the scope of the COA analysis
18-9335 Francisco Illarramendi v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-standard civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal standard-of-review structural-error summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton Whether lower courts should follow the Supreme Court's mandate in Tolan v. Cotton when ruling on a motion for summary affirmance
18-9336 Saul Elias Camilo v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review district-court due-process fair-administration-of-justice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing-guidelines Where a plea deal has opposing clauses, is such confusion sufficient to reach the bar for appellate review in a §2255 process when ineffective-assista…
18-9340 Anes Subasic v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in denying my motion for a certificate of appealability and dismissing the appeal of my…
18-9352 Donald C. Ridley v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting Bullcoming-v-New-Mexico confrontation-clause Crawford-v-Washington due-process griffin-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions rosemond-v-united-states strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington yates-v-united-states Does a lower Court's admission that a aiding and abetting jury instruction was erroneous in light of this Court decision in Rosemond v. United States,…
18-9357 Mondrick Bradley v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection false-arrest habeas-corpus malicious-prosecution sentencing standing unlawful-search Whether the SCOTUS petition raises issues related to due-process, civil-rights, equal-protection, unlawful-search, false-arrest, and malicious-prosecu…
18-9362 Timothy Stuart Ring v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-appointment federal-habeas-proceeding habeas-corpus motion-for-counsel motion-for-discovery ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-petition Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in construing a pro se petitioner's appeal
18-9368 Antonio Dean Blackstone v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 2255-motion criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit residual-clause section-2255 section-924c timeliness-standard united-states-v-davis vagueness Whether the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is unconstitutionally vague
18-9371 Lawrence Dusean Adkinson v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment adhesion-contract cellular-service civil-rights consent csli due-process fourth-amendment historical-csli location-tracking privacy privacy-policy standing Whether a defendant necessarily consents to disclosure of historical CSLI data tracking his physical location in excess of seven days simply by utiliz…
18-9394 Ward T. Evans v. Delaware Delaware Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge constitutionality-of-statute criminal-law criminal-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process in-forma-pauperis indictment indictment-counts statutory-interpretation three-strike-rule three-strikes-law Whether Delaware's 11 Del. Crim. C. sec. 773(2) defines three distinct criminal offenses
18-9413 Hozay Royal v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2107 appeal-deadline appeals civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure filing-deadlines mail-filing notice-of-appeal postmark statutory-interpretation time-computation time-limits Does the thirty-day period under 28 U.S.C. § 2107 and Fed.R.App.Proc. 4(a)(1)(A) allow for the notice of appeal to be filed in the United States Distr…
18-9445 Volvick Vassor v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-theories constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection griffin-v-united-states jury-instructions sufficiency-of-evidence yates-v-united-states Does the holding in Griffin v United States allow a conviction based on alternate theories of offense when only one theory is supported by the evidenc…
18-9474 Irving Madden v. Michael Melvin, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision is consistent with Strickland v. Washington
18-987 McKesson Corporation, et al. v. True Health Chiropractic, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) affirmative-defenses burden-of-proof civil-procedure class-certification federal-rules-of-civil-procedure halliburton-v-erica-p-john-fund predominance rule-23 Whether the burden at class certification shifts to the defendant when predominance turns on affirmative defenses
18A1104 Melba Ford v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
18A1238 Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam pain-and-suffering Whether Alabama's lethal injection protocol using midazolam violates the Eighth Amendment by posing a substantial risk of causing severe and excruciat…
18M173 Joseph H. Holmes v. Alabama Department of Human Resources Alabama Presumed Complete None
18M174 John Doe v. Colgate University Second Circuit Presumed Complete None