Conference: 2019-10-01

1442 cases — 0 granted, 1442 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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18-1043 Adam Clayton Zilm v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof coerced-testimony criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony napue-standard napue-v-illinois recantation reliability-hearing witness-coercion Conviction of child sex abuse challenged on due process grounds for use of coerced testimony at trial
18-1044 PharMerica Corporation v. United States, ex rel. Marc Silver Third Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split false-claims-act fraud original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam qui-tam-action statutory-interpretation Whether a relator's admission that he derived his complaint from public disclosures triggers the public disclosure bar, whether the public disclosure …
18-1067 Ambac Assurance Corporation v. U.S. Bank National Association Minnesota Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-limits due-process forum-state in-rem-jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction trust trust-law trustee trustee-presence Whether a court may exercise in rem jurisdiction over a trust where the trust's primary assets are located outside the forum state
18-1069 Diebold Foundation, Inc., Transferee v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit Denied circuit-split commissioner-notice jurisdictional-issue second-circuit statutory-interpretation tax-appeals tax-court-jurisdiction tax-liability tax-notice tax-procedure tax-year taxable-year waiver Tax-court-jurisdiction,tax-liability,tax-year,tax-notice,tax-appeals,tax-procedure
18-1085 Rocio Aurora Martinez-de Ryan v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) None
18-1111 James J. Kaufman v. Scott Walker, et al. Wisconsin Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-versus-punitive ex-post-facto fourth-amendment gps-monitoring judicial-review Lifetime-GPS-Monitoring Reasonable-Suspicion retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender sex-offenders Whether lifetime GPS monitoring of sex offenders based on decades-old convictions and the possibility of future crimes is reasonable under the Fourth …
18-1154 Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc., et al. v. Jesse Busk, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-court circuit-split employment-law exertion fair-labor-standards-act portal-to-portal-act security-screening work work-definition Whether the Portal-to-Portal Act modified the FLSA's broad, pre-1947 definition of 'work'
18-1170 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Incorporated Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) antitrust antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud regional-circuits sherman-act subject-matter-jurisdiction walker-process Appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process antitrust claims involving patent fraud lies in the regional circuits, not the Federal Circuit
18-1182 Scott Ogle v. Texas Texas Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights content-based-regulation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications first-amendment free-speech intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine Does a statute criminalizing electronically communicated speech that is both intended and reasonably likely to annoy, alarm, or embarrass another pers…
18-1189 Mitch Carmichael, President of the West Virginia Senate, et al. v. West Virginia, ex rel. Margaret L. Workman West Virginia Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process federalism guarantee-clause impeachment-process judicial-cognizability justiciability political-question-doctrine republican-form-of-government separation-of-powers state-impeachment-proceedings state-judiciary Whether Guarantee Clause claims are judicially cognizable?
18-1207 In Re Twelve Grand Jury Subpoenas Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 5th-amendment act-of-production-privilege business-entities business-records closely-held-businesses closely-held-corporations closely-held-entities corporate-privilege fifth-amendment limited-liability-companies self-incrimination subchapter-s-corporations subpoena-duces-tecum Should Braswell v. United States be limited or overturned?
18-1210 Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida v. Doris Freyre, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment ada ada-standing arm-of-the-state associational-claim child-protective-investigations child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity florida-statute-39.3065 grant-agreement judicial-restraint standing standing-associational-ada-claim state-immunity Whether the court of appeals violated this Honorable Court's 'fundamental rule of judicial restraint' by failing to address whether Doris Freyre had s…
18-1211 NuStar Energy Services, Inc. v. ING Bank N.V., et al. Fifth Circuit Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) authorized-agent cimla commercial-instruments commercial-instruments-and-maritime-liens-act contract-law contractual-relationships maritime-law maritime-lien maritime-liens necessaries statutory-interpretation vessel-necessaries vessel-owner Whether a party that physically supplies a vessel with fuel or other necessaries possesses a statutory maritime lien where the vessel owner or its aut…
18-1219 Illinois v. Derrick Bonilla Illinois Denied Amici (1) apartment apartment-building apartment-search common-area dog-sniff drug-detection-dog exclusionary-rule florida-v-jardines fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search search-and-seizure Whether a sniff by a drug-detection dog conducted in the common area of an apartment building is a Fourth Amendment search under Florida v. Jardines
18-1224 NuStar Energy Services, Inc. v. ING Bank N.V., et al. Second Circuit Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) authorized-agent cimla commercial-instruments commercial-instruments-and-maritime-liens-act contract-law contract-relationships contractual-relationships federal-maritime-law maritime-law maritime-lien maritime-liens necessaries statutory-interpretation vessel-necessaries vessel-owner vessel-supplies Whether a party that physically supplies a vessel with fuel or other necessaries possesses a statutory maritime lien where the vessel owner or its aut…
18-1230 Juan Zamudio v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment nexus-requirement particularized-nexus probable-cause residence search-and-seizure search-warrant standing Whether a search warrant application that fails to provide any particularized nexus between an individual's alleged drug trafficking activity and the …
18-1240 Phil Kerpen, et al. v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) accountability articles-i-and-ii congressional-delegation constitutional-accountability constitutional-authority core-federal-power delegation federal-power federal-property federal-statute government-accountability guarantee-clause inherently-federal interstate-compact separation-of-powers Whether the delegation of federal power to an unaccountable interstate compact violates the separation of powers and the Guarantee Clause
18-1245 Oglala Sioux Tribe, et al. v. Lisa Fleming, in Her Official Capacity, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process irreparable-harm parental-rights procedural-rights standing state-action tribal-sovereignty younger-abstention Whether the procedures used for preliminary hearings in child removal cases violate due process rights of parents
18-1258 Enclarity Inc., et al. v. Matthew N. Fulton Sixth Circuit GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-procedure commercial-availability commercial-communication commercial-transaction communication-law due-process fax-regulation information-request standing statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-advertisement unsolicited-faxes Whether faxes that only request information and propose no commercial transaction with recipients are 'advertisements' under the TCPA
18-1267 Angela Rene Leeman v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama non-homicide-offenses parole-eligibility parole-restriction proportionality proportionality-review Whether consecutive sentences for non-homicide offenses that effectively result in life without parole for a juvenile offender violate the Eighth Amen…
18-1275 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure-fraud-on-the-court civil-rights discovery due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct patent patent-infringement sanctions standing summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case based on the magistrate judge's fraudulent statements and Huawei's perjured testimony
18-1280 Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. v. Roxane Laboratories, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (5) blocking-patent-doctrine blocking-patents burden-of-proof graham-v-john-deere nonobviousness objective-indicia obviousness patent patent-law patent-obviousness pharmaceutical-innovation prior-art Whether objective indicia of nonobviousness may be partially or entirely discounted where the development of the invention was allegedly 'blocked' by …
18-1281 Hayes B. Milliman v. Timothy L. Randall California Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-law congressional-intent constitutional-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-question markham-v-allen probate-exception state-probate-court trust trusts wills What is the scope of the probate exception to federal jurisdiction?
18-1283 Joseph Montano v. Texas Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived consent consent-requirement cross-examination double-jeopardy fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-privilege judicial-discretion mistrial oregon-v-kennedy plain-error united-states-v-olano Whether the underlying reason for a sua sponte declaration of mistrial was plain error that overrides the consent requirement of Oregon v. Kennedy, an…
18-1285 Gilbert P. Hyatt, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Amici (2) administrative-law mandamus manual-of-patent-examining-procedure patent-act patent-and-trademark-office patent-appeal patent-appeal-rights patent-appeals patent-examination patent-examiner patent-office patent-office-procedure patent-prosecution statutory-interpretation steinmetz-v-allen Whether MPEP § 1207.04 violates patent applicants' statutory right of appeal following a second rejection
18-1298 Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama Alabama Denied arbitrary-and-discriminatory cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override jury-sentencing repealed-statute sentencing sixth-amendment Does the imposition of a death sentence through judicial override under a now-repealed statute violate the constitutional guarantees implemented by th…
18-1299 Marie Gillispie v. Regionalcare Hospital Partners, Inc., et al. Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-retaliation at-will-employment circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-ruling civil-rights common-law due-process employment-law emtala emtala-statute free-speech medical-malpractice preemption public-policy-exception retaliation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent whistleblower whistleblower-protection Does the precedential ruling by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals directly contradict Supreme Court precedent and the intent of Congress regarding the …
18-1306 Fred Anderson, Jr. v. Florida Florida Denied Amici (3) advisory-jury capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty florida-supreme-court harmless-error hurst-v-florida judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error Whether a judge-imposed death sentence that violates Hurst is a structural error requiring reversal of the sentence
18-1307 Tennessee Clean Water Network, et al. v. Tennessee Valley Authority Sixth Circuit Dismissed clean-water-act epa groundwater navigable-waters permit-requirement permitting point-source pollutant-discharge pollution resource-conservation-and-recovery-act Whether a defendant's addition of pollutants to a navigable water from a point source via groundwater conduits may ever violate the Clean Water Act's …
18-1308 KPMG, LLP v. Singing River Health System, aka Singing River Hospital System Mississippi Denied arbitrability arbitrability-question arbitrability-questions arbitration-agreement contract-enforceability contract-formation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act preemption state-law-challenge state-law-contract-challenge Whether the Federal Arbitration Act prohibits courts from relabeling a state law contract challenge as relating to contract formation, as opposed to e…
18-1320 Renee Baker, Warden v. Alquandre H. Turner Ninth Circuit Denied 28-usc-2244 amended-judgment civil-rights conviction conviction-challenge due-process federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus new-judgment sentence sentencing successive-petition successive-petitions time-served-credit Whether an amended judgment of conviction containing only nominal changes that do not disturb the original conviction and sentence should be considere…
18-1338 United States v. Joseph Decore Simms Fourth Circuit Denied 18-usc-924(c) constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-1340 Bonnie R. Fowler v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel dismissal due-process federal-question res-judicata standing state-actor supervisory-power Does the doctrines of res-judicata and collateral estoppel fail when the Petitioner has repeatedly disputed and proven that not any one of the necessa…
18-1341 Jeffrey A. Robertson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Amici (1) civil-rights employee-benefit-plan employee-benefit-plans erisa erisa-venue-provision fiduciary-duty forum-selection forum-selection-clause participant-rights public-policy statutory-interpretation venue venue-provision Whether a private employee benefit plan's unilateral adoption of a forum selection clause that circumvents the venue choices that Congress granted pla…
18-1344 LaMarcus Thomas v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-review officer-reliance probable-cause warrant-application Whether a suppression court may consider (1) only information contained within the four corners of the warrant application, (2) only that information …
18-1346 Dale E. Kleber v. CareFusion Corporation Seventh Circuit Denied age-discrimination circuit-split disparate-impact employment-law griggs-doctrine griggs-precedent griggs-v-duke-power hiring-practices job-applicants national-economy smith-v-city-of-jackson statutory-interpretation Does the text of section 4(a)(2) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) protect outside job applicants, or does it apply only to incumbent…
18-1350 Maria S., as Next Friend for E. H. F. and S. H. F., Minors, and A. S. G. v. Ramiro Garza Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) bivens border-protection civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort immigration qualified-immunity retaliation standing wrongful-death Whether a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent is entitled to qualified immunity for allegedly coercing a mother into departing the U.S., where sh…
18-1353 Kevin McCabe, et al. v. Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC Second Circuit Denied Response Waived american-pipe american-pipe-doctrine appeal appellate-review civil-procedure class-action class-action-tolling class-certification due-process legal-tolling precedent procedural-rules procedural-tolling sanctions standing statute-of-limitations Whether class-action statute-of-limitations tolling under American Pipe & Constr. Co. v. Utah should continue until a district court's denial of class…
18-1354 C. P., et al. v. C. A. California Denied child-custody custody custody-rights due-process extramarital-affair family-code family-law family-rights fourteenth-amendment fundamental-parental-rights parental-rights third-parent-law third-party-custody Does California's Family Code section 7612(c), granting third parties legal and physical custody rights to a minor child as a 'third parent,' regardle…
18-1355 Edward Kramer v. Antonio Vitti, et al. Second Circuit Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights factual-dispute jury-trial malicious-prosecution material-dispute material-facts seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury determination of the material disputed facts in his case was violated when the Court of App…
18-1357 Randy Cummings, et al. v. Celina Bussey, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 clearly-established-law discretionary-function federal-court-interpretation federal-court-review ministerial-exception property-rights qualified-immunity state-law state-law-interpretation state-supreme-court-precedent statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court interpreting a state statute can conclude that it grants the state agency discretion such that the 'ministerial exception' to …
18-1362 James Hall v. John H. Merrill, Alabama Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1) ballot-access capable-of-repetition class-action courts-of-appeals election election-law elections-mootness evading-review judicial-review mootness-doctrine standing Under what circumstances can a candidate continue to challenge a ballot-access rule after the election over which he originally sued has passed?
18-1366 Estate of Adriano Roman, Jr. v. City of Newark, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment joint-and-several-liability joint-several-liability pleading qualified-immunity section-1983 standing tort-law warrantless-search Whether joint and several liability applies under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, where a plaintiff alleges unconstitutional search by multiple officers
18-1367 Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Mark A. Sumner Virginia Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof but-for-causation but-for-cause causation civil-procedure common-law employee-injury federal-employers-liability-act federal-employers-liability-act-fela fela negligence proximate-cause railroad-liability Whether FELA permits liability when the plaintiff cannot meet the common-law standard of proof for but-for causation
18-1368 San Diego Gas & Electric Company v. California Public Utilities Commission California Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation public-utility ratepayers strict-liability takings takings-clause Whether it is an uncompensated taking for public use in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments for a State to impose strict liability for in…
18-1369 James Bradley Anderson v. Washington Washington Denied bill-of-particulars criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions pre-trial-notice prosecutorial-discretion Must the particulars of each count of an information be specified prior to trial, or can a prosecutor be allowed to match alleged acts to the counts i…
18-1372 City of Newark, New Jersey v. Estate of Adriano Roman, Jr. Third Circuit Denied civil-rights consent-decree constitutional-violation false-arrest malicious-prosecution monell monell-claim probable-cause res-judicata Whether dismissal of a Monell claim is proper where all underlying claims against officers have been dismissed
18-1373 Gene Rechtzigel v. City of Apple Valley, Minnesota Minnesota Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eminent-domain government-action liberty property property-rights standing takings trial-by-jury Did the Government deprive Petitioner of Liberty, without Due Process of Law?
18-1375 Douglas Walter Greene v. Independent Pilots Association, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fraud free-speech freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct jury-trial rule-of-law Whether federal district and appellate courts may render decisions abridging First Amendment rights based on overwhelming fraud in the record, while a…
18-1376 Fernando Gabriel Irazu v. Margarita O. Connecticut Denied abuse-of-process constitutional-law contempt-of-court divorce-judgment due-process enforcement-of-us-judgments equal-protection exequatur-proceedings international-law international-private-law jurisdictional-dispute parental-rights unequal-treatment-under-law Parental rights and due process violations in international child custody dispute
18-1380 Thomas P. Gannon v. Riverwatch Condominium Owners' Assn., et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1927 appeal-procedure appellate-procedure attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-procedure dismissal-of-appeal due-process judicial-discretion notice-of-appeal procedural-technicality standing Whether an attorney's notice of appeal that identifies the judgment being appealed but does not specify the attorney as the party taking the appeal sh…
18-1382 American Eagle Express, Inc., dba AEX Group v. Ever Bedoya, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split employment-classification federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act preemption presumption-against-preemption state-regulation transportation-of-property Whether the Third Circuit erred by holding that New Jersey's statutory test for determining employment classification is not preempted under the FA
18-1384 Joseph D. Bradley v. Alco Oil & Gas Company, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-959(b) diversion-of-funds exclusive-in-rem-jurisdiction federal-equity-receiver federal-freeze-order federal-receivership fund-diversion in-rem-jurisdiction in-rem-jurisdiction-28-usc-754 midlantic midlantic-decision notice-to-parties state-agency state-agency-regulation statutory-interpretation summary-proceedings Whether a State agency can divert defrauded investor funds subject to a federal court's exclusive in rem jurisdiction and freeze order, whether a fede…
18-1387 Susan Lloyd v. Becky Doherty, Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Portage County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived access-to-courts ada ada-violations civil-rights courtroom-access disability-rights discrimination judicial-bias judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation rehab-act service-dogs sunshine-law transcript-alteration Is a magistrate and judge allowed to refuse well behaved service dogs in a courtroom?
18-1388 Susan Lloyd v. City of Streetsboro, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived abuse-of-power civil-rights due-process government-misconduct property-damage qualified-immunity retaliation trespass wiretapping Are public officials allowed to show a repeated pattern of abuse and dereliction of duties and still maintain immunity towards a private citizen?
18-1389 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Andalusian Global Designated Activity Company, et al. First Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy civil-rights commercial-law constitutional-violations debtor-name due-process law-enforcement-misconduct official-immunity perfection property-rights public-record registered-organization secured-lending secured-transactions uniform-commercial-code Whether public officials can maintain immunity des Whether the court below erred by inventing an exception to Article 9's requirement that the name of a debtor for perfection purposes is 'the name that…
18-1393 William T. Walters v. United States Second Circuit Denied criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing grand-jury-secrecy presumption-of-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct rule-6(e) rule-6e-violation structural-error Whether systematic and pervasive government misconduct that violates Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e) is structural error giving rise to a pres…
18-1394 Waterfront Marine Construction, Inc., et al. v. Heard Construction, Inc. Virginia Denied bid-protest contract-law federal-contract federal-procurement federal-regulations state-tort-action subject-matter-jurisdiction tucker-act Where a disappointed bidder to a federal contract fails to file a bid protest pursuant to the Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1491 (2016), does a state trial …
18-1395 Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge No. 7 v. Illinois Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure-intervention civil-rights consent-decree deception due-process intervention intervention-motion misrepresentation rule-24 statutory-rights timeliness timely-filing timely-intervention unrebutted-facts Whether a motion to intervene is timely when it is filed shortly after a would-be intervenor learns that the existing parties misrepresented that the …
18-1398 Anica Ashbourne v. Donna Hansberry, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-proceedings brown-v-gen-services-adm brown-vs-board chandler-v-roudebush civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination-claims due-process equal-employment-opportunity equal-employment-opportunity-act federal-sector-employee title-vii trial-de-novo Did 42 U.S.C. §2000e-16(c) provide Anica Ashbourne with an unconditional right to a trial de novo on her discrimination claims filed pursuant to Title…
18-1399 Geoffrey Parker Damon v. Cincinnati Bar Association Ohio Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment-14th-amendment attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violation disbarment disciplinary-process disparate-treatment due-process equal-protection legal-profession race-discrimination racial-discrimination reinstatement reverse-discrimination reverse-race-discrimination Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio issued an order of permanent disbarment against Petitioner as a result of reverse race discrimination against Caucas…
18-1404 Dorsey Eugene Wallace v. Gary Edward Wallace, et al. Georgia Denied 5th-amendment corporate-stock court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment georgia-court-of-appeals judicial-review judicial-taking property-rights standard-for-judicial-taking stock-ownership stop-the-beach takings takings-clause well-established-property-right Judicial taking of petitioner's stock ownership in Wallace Electric Company
18-1406 Kristin Roebuck Bethell v. Bryan Stephens, et al. Arizona Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-ethics attorney-sanctions civil-rights client-advocacy client-representation conflict-of-laws due-process free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-procedure judicial-sanctions legal-ethics legal-ethics-and-professional-responsibility professional-conduct sanctions standing writ-of-certiorari Whether counsel Roebuck Bethell's Petition for Writ of Certiorari should be granted after she was sanctioned by the Arizona courts for: (1) believing …
18-1409 Saied Emami v. Jim Bridenstine, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 discovery discrimination due-process employment-discrimination expert-witness procedural-due-process retaliation sanctions scheduling-order title-vii Whether the Respondent's counsel failed to comply with the District Court Scheduling Order, thereby violating the petitioner's procedural due process …
18-1410 James A. Jackson v. Thomas Lawson Sixth Circuit Denied constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination sixth-circuit united-states-v-hale unlawful-detention Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit may condition enforcement of a citizen's right against unlawful detention guaranteed …
18-1411 Jeffrey Isaacs v. Trustees of Dartmouth College, et al. First Circuit Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion administrative-law due-process evidence evidence-spoliation medical-license medical-licensing protected-conduct rehabilitation-act retaliation section-1983 title-ix Whether the NH District Court abused its discretion in dismissing a Rehabilitation Act retaliation claim, failing to hold Dartmouth accountable for de…
18-1412 Lewis-Jay Porter v. Texas Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-state personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction due to the court being defined as a 'foreign state' under FRCP Rule 4(j) and the Sove…
18-1413 Brandon D. Woodruff v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied ' 'habeas-corpus" ' 'prosecutorial-misconduct" ' 'right-to-confrontation" ' 'right-to-counsel" ' 'sixth-amendment" ' 'standard-of-review' certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jail-telephone-calls prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the denial of a certificate of appealability by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals constituted reversible error, given the prosecutor's violat…
18-1414 Giuliano Stefano Giovanni Wildhaber v. EFV, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied aliens-tort-claim-act aliens-tort-claims-act constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction property-rights sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitation Whether the ATS/ATCA allows liability under a 100% valid kept foreign (Switzerland) statute of limitation
18-1415 ASARCO LLC v. United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC Ninth Circuit Denied arbitration-authority arbitrator-authority arbitrator-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process judicial-review labor-arbitration labor-law no-add-provision remedial-limits remedial-power scope-of-authority waiver Whether an arbitrator can reform a collective bargaining agreement by adding language despite a contractual provision prohibiting the arbitrator from …
18-1416 Adam Bereki v. Gary Humphreys, et ux. California Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-fines penal-forfeiture restitution standing statutory-interpretation takings unjust-enrichment Are sections §7031(a) and (b) of the California Business and Professions Code unconstitutional in effect or as applied?
18-1417 Yankton County, South Dakota v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived accrual-suspension accrual-suspension-rule fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-taking government-action gradual-physical-process inverse-condemnation property-rights stabilization-doctrine takings takings-clause united-states-v-dickinson When a taking arises from a gradual physical process, may the claimant postpone filing suit until the situation stabilizes?
18-1418 Senju Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., et al. v. Akorn, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied 35-usc-144 federal-circuit mandate non-obviousness obviousness-standard opinion patent-appeal patent-appeals patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board rule-36 statutory-interpretation Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144's directive that the Federal Circuit shall issue ... its mandate and opinion' in all appeals from the Patent and Trademark Off…
18-1422 Michael B. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment guardian-ad-litem legal-disqualification parental-rights procedural-error witness-disqualification Whether the lower court's denial of the Father's motion to disqualify the Guardian Ad Litem, when her actions clearly indicated she had ceased being a…
18-1426 Samantha L. Coleman v. Schneider Electric USA, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility-determinations employment-discrimination jury-trial McDonnell-Douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework race-discrimination retaliation-claim summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination Has the McDonnell Douglas framework been fatally undermined and petitioner's right to a jury trial denied?
18-1428 Gatehouse Media New York Holdings, Inc., et al. v. New York, et al. New York Denied criminal-procedure first-amendment press press-access press-rights public public-access public-right standing voir-dire Whether the failure of state criminal procedural rules to authorize standing for the press to assert the public's First Amendment right of access to v…
18-1429 Stahl York Ave. Co., LLC v. City of New York, New York, et al. New York Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-law due-process fact-findings fifth-amendment independent-judicial-fact-finding independent-judicial-factfinding judicial-review just-compensation property-rights takings-clause Whether a property owner suing an administrative agency for violating the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment is entitled to develop the facts suppo…
18-1431 Frank G. v. Renee P.-F., et al. New York Denied Amici (8)Response Waived best-interests-of-child best-interests-of-the-child custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges parental-rights same-sex-marriage same-sex-partner Whether a state violates a biological parent's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when it strips the parent of custody in favo…
18-1434 United States v. Pablo Lovo and Joel Sorto District of Columbia Denied 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-1435 Matthew Wayne Minard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Taylor Police Officer v. Debra Lee Cruise-Gulyas Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion discretionary-action discretionary-enforcement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest traffic-stop Whether a police officer can immediately initiate a second traffic stop in response to a driver's offensive speech to change the original discretionar…
18-1437 Winston & Strawn LLP v. Constance Ramos, et al. California Denied Amici (6) arbitration arbitration-agreements armendariz civil-rights contract-law employment employment-arbitration federal-arbitration-act preemption severability unconscionability Whether California's Armendariz requirements and arbitration-specific unconscionability rules are preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act
18-1439 Shanker Patel v. California California Denied Response Waived accomplice-testimony cautionary-instruction circumstantial-evidence corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-rights Whether a trial court violates the jury trial guarantees of the Sixth Amendment and U.S. Const. art. III, § 2, cl. 3 by refusing to grant a defendant'…
18-1440 Marby Hogen, et al. v. Steven C. Hogen, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Arline H. Hogen, Deceased, et al. North Dakota Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure north-dakota probate property-rights state-action takings vested-interests Does the decision of the Supreme Court of North Dakota deprive the Petitioners of established property rights in violation of the due process and equa…
18-1441 Presbyterian Church U.S.A. v. Brian Edwards, Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, et al. Kentucky Denied Relisted (2) church-autonomy church-constitution civil-rights defamation ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment free-speech ministerial-role religious-doctrine supremacy-clause Whether the First Amendment requires state courts to dismiss suits immediately upon a showing that the claim turns upon the interpretation or applicat…
18-1442 Reema Consulting Services, Inc. v. Evangeline J. Parker Fourth Circuit Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law gender-bias hostile-work-environment sex-discrimination title-vii workplace-harassment workplace-rumors Whether a false rumor that a female employee received a promotion because she slept with a supervisor is 'based on sex' under Title VII
18-1443 Nicholas Young v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-activity constitutional-rights criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense free-speech material-support predisposition predisposition-evidence prior-activity similar-crime terrorist-organization thought-crime white-nationalism Whether evidence of a criminal defendant's prior, constitutionally protected activity may be admitted to prove the predisposition element of the entra…
18-1445 Theresa Seeberger v. Davenport Civil Rights Commission, et al. Iowa Denied Amici (2) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-law civil-rights-ordinance commercial-speech content-discrimination discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech landlord-tenant viewpoint-discrimination Was the imposition of liability for the landlord's speech a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
18-1448 Glasswall Solutions Limited, et al. v. Clearswift Ltd. Federal Circuit Denied 35-usc-101 berkheimer berkheimer-standard conclusory-legal-assertions federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-infringement patent-specification pleading presumption-of-validity rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 twombly Whether the claimed invention improves computer function by eliminating a then-conventional method
18-1449 Harold Lee Harvey, Jr. v. Florida Florida Denied arbitrary-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision denying retroactive application of the Hurst decisions to Mr. Harvey violate the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendm…
18-1450 Horacio Sequeira v. Gate Safe, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived ada-amendments-act-2008 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure due-process eeoc employment employment-discrimination false-statement medical-restrictions procedural-rules scheduling-order summary-judgment Whether a request to amend a complaint and to modify a scheduling order should be granted whenever a plaintiff complies with Fed. R. Civ. P.15 (c) (1)…
18-1452 Jose A. Perez v. Physician Assistant Board, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 amendment civil-procedure constitutional-amendment constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-rules-civil-procedure pro-se-litigant statute-of-limitations takings williamson-county Whether Mr. Perez can amend his complaint to allege that a State cannot exclude a person from the practice of medicine in a manner that contravenes th…
18-1456 William Mauldin, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Pauline Gibson, Deceased v. Allstate Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consent-to-removal deception diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction removal rule-interpretation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts must dismiss a case for lack of jurisdiction under FRCP 12(h)(3) when diversity jurisdiction is lacking, even after improper re…
18-1457 Joseph Allen May v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived 26-usc-7431 civil-rights discovery discovery-denial-authority discovery-rights due-process federal-courts irs irs-disclosure perpetrator-liability standing tax-law taxpayer-information title-26 Under what authority do the Federal Courts deny Discovery when the IRS and IRS officers have all of the documents and the United States' employees wer…
18-1458 Charles J. Vernier v. Debra Gallegos New Mexico Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search burden-of-proof circuit-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law consent consent-burden fourth-amendment implied-consent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Did the state appellate court err in failing to apply the standards set forth in federal case law regarding 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the qualified immunit…
18-1459 Carlos Augusto Flores Anyosa v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Response Waived None
18-1460 Stephen Russo, Interim Secretary, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals v. June Medical Services L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (4) abortion abortion-providers abortion-regulations civil-rights due-process health-and-safety-regulations health-regulations health-safety-law legal-standing patient-relationship patient-rights patient-standing prudential-standing standing third-party third-party-standing Can abortion providers have third-party standing to challenge health and safety regulations?
18-1462 Nadejda Rozanova, et vir v. Rafael S. Uribe California Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-omission fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment grannis-v-ordean judicial-fairness judicial-procedure legal-procedure omission omission-of-facts omission-of-laws state-court-conflict Whether the California courts violated petitioners' due process rights by omitting numerous relevant and probative facts and laws in their decisions, …
18-1465 County of San Diego, California v. Mark Mann, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied child-welfare due-process fourth-amendment medical-examination municipal-liability parental-consent parental-notice parental-rights shocks-the-conscience special-needs special-needs-doctrine substantive-due-process Does a parent have a substantive due process right to notice and consent before a child's medical examination in protective custody?
18-1466 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Rafael Mateos Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment constitutional-rights continued-detention detention due-process fourth-amendment lawful-seizure monell-liability municipal-liability property-rights property-seizure public-safety section-1983 seizure vehicle-impound Whether the Fourth Amendment can be violated by the government's mere continued detention of property even though its full-blown seizure satisfied the…
18-1470 Jim Feehan v. Rick Marcone, et al. Connecticut Denied bush-v-gore constitutional-rights due-process election-integrity election-law equal-protection equal-protection-clause retroactive-standard right-to-vote voting-rights Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court erred in disregarding the equal protection principles applied in Bush v. Gore and requiring proof of intentional…
18-1471 Christopher Hall v. Securities and Exchange Commission Eleventh Circuit Denied anti-fraud appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law rule-50 securities securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-fraud standing Whether an appellate court has authority to consider challenges to issues of law raised in a pre-verdict Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50(a) motion …
18-1474 Sunoco, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1) congressional-intent excise-tax federal-circuit renewable-fuels statutory-interpretation tax-credits tax-incentives tax-liability tax-system Whether the Federal Circuit properly held that tax credits operate as a reduction of tax liability rather than as a payment of taxes owed
18-1476 Randy Lee Carney v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived alternative-sentence alternative-sentencing appellate-review career-offender circuit-split collateral-consequences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error judicial-discretion judicial-error legal-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error united-states-v-vonn When sentencing defendants, some district courts announce that they would impose the same length of imprisonment even if their conclusions of law and …
18-1479 Jason P. Stinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 26-usc-7402 burden-of-proof disgorge disgorgement due-process due-process,tax-preparation,26-usc-7402,permanent- evidence injunction internal-revenue-code litigation-conduct permanent-injunction tax-preparation tax-preparer Whether issuing a permanent injunction and an order to disgorge $949,000 against the owner of a tax preparation business under 26 U.S.C. § 7402 violat…
18-1480 Jason Caissie, aka Jason Cullen Caissie v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment cheek-v-us constitutional-rights due-process right-to-counsel state-prosecution state-statute state-statutes traffic-ticket traffic-violation uniform-traffic-ticket Whether the State of Mississippi is in direct conflict of the due process protections provided in the 14th, 5th, and 6th Amendments
18-1481 Eric S. Strohmeyer v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived abandonment administrative-law federal-agency-decision jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss rail-line-acquisition standing surface-transportation-board third-circuit transportation-board-jurisdiction united-states Whether the Surface Transportation Board had jurisdiction to render a decision in the underlying proceeding
18-1482 Semyya Lanise Cunningham v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied circumstantial-guarantees circumstantial-guarantees-of-trustworthiness credibility credibility-of-witnesses district-court district-court-discretion evidence-law evidence-rule-807 federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-exception hearsay-rule judicial-discretion residual-hearsay-exception rule-807 trustworthiness witness-credibility Whether a finding of 'circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness' may be premised on a district court's belief in the truth of the hearsay statement…
18-1484 Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc., et al. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied atlantic-marine convenience-of-parties district-court-discretion federal-courts federal-policy forum-selection forum-selection-clause judicial-precedent mandamus mandamus-relief public-policy state-policy transfer-of-venue Whether a district court's disregard of Atlantic Marine is sufficient grounds for mandamus relief
18-1485 Michael Kansler, et ux. v. Mississippi Department of Revenue Mississippi Denied Response Waived commerce-clause double-taxation due-process income-tax internal-consistency internal-consistency-test interstate-commerce residency state-tax-law state-taxation statute-of-limitations tax-statute-of-limitations Whether Mississippi's income tax refund statute of limitation is immune from Commerce Clause scrutiny under Complete Auto Transit and the internal con…
18-1486 Zachariah J. Marshall v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment federal-precedent fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion speeding traffic-stop vehicle-movement vehicle-speed warrantless-stop Whether the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable suspicion of speeding based on an officer's ability to provide actual or estimated vehicle speed or o…
18-1487 Mercer County Board of Education, et al. v. Elizabeth Deal, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) case-or-controversy circuit-split civil-procedure exposure imminent-injury injunctive-relief mootness ripeness school school-program standing voluntary-cessation Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that Jessica Roe has standing to seek an injunction against a school program to which she has no ongoing e…
18-1488 John S. Cammalleri v. Florida Florida Denied Response Waived confession confession-involuntariness criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary involuntary-confession law-enforcement leniency Whether a 'specific' and 'direct' promise of leniency by a law enforcement official renders a defendant's confession involuntary pursuant to the Fifth…
18-1489 Curtland H. Caffey, et al. v. Brenda K. Bowers, Chapter 7 Trustee Sixth Circuit Denied automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate chapter-7 civil-procedure civil-rico good-faith good-faith-defense property-of-estate rico rico-action statutory-interpretation Whether a state RICO action for injuries to a Chapter 7 debtor that arises five years after the filing of the Chapter 7 petition is property of the ba…
18-1491 Kaitlyn Nguyen v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-admission fifth-amendment inflammatory-evidence medical-clinic patient-deaths prejudicial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Whether petitioner's right to due process of law under the 5th Amendment, U.S. Constitution was violated by the prosecution's introduction of highly i…
18-1492 Katherine Miller v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) associational-freedom childcare-providers civil-rights compulsory-representation due-process exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association labor-relations mandatory-representation public-policy state-mandated-representation state-policy union-representation Whether Washington's compelling nonmember providers to accept a private organization as their exclusive representative for dealing with the State over…
18-1493 Brittany Montrois, Class of More than 700,000 Similarly Situated Individuals and Businesses, et al. v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-record agency-action chenery-corp civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tax-return-preparers user-fees voluntary-act Whether a U.S. court of appeals can decline to follow U.S. Supreme Court precedent on user fees, and instead apply its own test
18-1494 Michael Steven Beeman v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining pre-trial-motion pre-trial-motions prejudice reasonable-counsel reasonable-performance Whether jurists of reason could debate that a district court must evaluate the merits of a potential motion to suppress where the defendant pled guilt…
18-1495 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Charles Christopher Williams Fourth Circuit Denied aedpa aedpa-review aedpa-standard capital-case capital-punishment capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence double-edged-sword fetal-alcohol-syndrome future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a state court is objectively unreasonable under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) in concluding a capital defendant was not prejudiced by counsel's failu…
18-1497 In Re Minor L. McNeil Denied administrative-commission article-iii article-iii-judicial-issue article-iv article-iv-court due-process hayburns-case judicial-proceeding jury-trial mandamus war-crime Whether Mandamus shall issue to an Article IV Court to close its judicial side, and open an Administrative Commission to supervise a jury trial procee…
18-1502 Brian Mark Burmaster v. Eli Lilly and Company Sixth Circuit Denied 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights drug-marketing due-process free-speech government-action government-intervention government-overreach government-regulation medical-ethics pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-liability pharmaceutical-litigation sixth-amendment If a company's manufactured and marketed product is cited by the US Government as a 'miracle drug' to restore a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment r…
18-1503 Nagel Rice, LLP, et al. v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived attorneys-fees circuit-split class-action class-action-litigation class-action-settlement conflict-of-interest constitutional-infirmity counsel-fees due-process equal-protection lead-counsel pre-appointment-work unequal-plaintiff-classes Whether non-class counsel is entitled to an award of counsel fees and costs for pre-appointment work, whether a class action settlement agreement prov…
18-1504 Bruce Giles v. Salvador A. Godinez, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-cases civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-appointment court-discretion due-process inherent-authority judicial-power legal-representation mallard-v-us-district-court standing statutory-authority Do federal courts have the inherent authority to make coercive appointments of counsel in civil cases?
18-1505 C. S. v. L. S. New Jersey Denied 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights custody due-process family-court family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court-hearing state-court-procedure visitation Where a state family court finds that the father has violated the mother's constitutional right to the care, custody, and management of her children, …
18-1507 Augustin Zambrano v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-court appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability coa-standard court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-standard procedural-ruling standard-of-review Should this Court grant certiorari to make explicit that in ruling on a request for certificates of appealability, an appellate court must apply the a…
18-1508 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit Denied claim-construction de-novo-review due-process JMOL jury-fact-finding jury-fact-findings jury-findings jury-trial patent-infringement procedural-due-process remand seventh-amendment standard-of-review teva-v-sandoz Whether the Federal Circuit can construe a claim limitation de novo, disregarding the jury's implicit fact findings on the plain and ordinary meaning …
18-1510 Fredesvindo Rodriguez-Garcia v. Fior Pichardo de Veloz, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention-facility due-process forfeiture gender-identification gender-identity medical-examination medical-treatment procedural-error qualified-immunity Whether the court of appeals erred in denying qualified immunity to Dr. Rodriguez-Garcia without identifying precedent clearly establishing the violat…
18-1511 Ajay S. Ahuja v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law article-iii-standing civil-penalties controlled-substances-act opioid-epidemic record-keeping-requirements rule-of-lenity standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Does 21 U.S.C. § 842(c)(1)(B)(i) permit cumulative fines for technical violations of 21 U.S.C. § 842(a)(5)?
18-1512 Michael McClain, et al. v. California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, et al. California Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process escheat private-property property-rights standing statutory-scheme takings-clause Does a State violate the Due Process Clause and trigger a right to just compensation under the Takings Clause when it permanently escheats private pro…
18-1513 Michigan v. Michael Frederick, et al. Michigan Denied consent-to-search constitutional-trespass fourth-amendment implied-license knock-and-talk law-enforcement predawn-visit search search-and-seizure trespass Whether the Fourth Amendment applies to knock and talk encounters
18-1517 Mehrdad Hosseini v. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act civil-rights first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law material-support national-security overbreadth political-advocacy standing terrorism tier-iii-terrorist-organization Whether independent, non-violent political advocacy constitutes material support for terrorism under the Immigration and Nationality Act
18-1518 Save Tacoma Water v. Port of Tacoma, et al. Washington Denied Response Waived ballot-access content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech initiative-power judicial-veto political-speech prior-restraint vagueness Whether the First Amendment prohibits a state court from enjoining a qualified initiative from appearing on the ballot because the court believes that…
18-1520 Michael A. Tricarichi, Transferee v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 9th-circuit federal-income-tax fraudulent-transfer internal-revenue-code irc-6901 state-law tax-court third-party-conduct transferee-liability Whether a tax court must apply the fraudulent transfer law of the state where the taxpayer lived, or can apply fraudulent transfer law from any state
18-1523 Michael Gannon v. City of Eugene, Oregon Oregon Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment free-speech liberty-interest proportionality public-forum public-university Do the First Amendment's protections to public streets as the archetype of a traditional public forum extend to city and state public streets and publ…
18-1524 Michelle MacDonald Shimota, et vir v. Bob Wegner, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech probable-cause retaliation retaliatory-arrest retaliatory-prosecution Does the district court's dismissal of claims, including First Amendment retaliatory-arrest and prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 based on probable c…
18-1525 Jose Andrade v. City of Hammond, Indiana, et al. Indiana Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel ineffective-representation property-rights sixth-amendment Whether the Indiana Supreme Court decided an issue without determining the effect of ex post facto law, which affected petitioner's property and due p…
18-1526 Patrick J. Tobin v. City and County of San Francisco, California Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-courts federalism forum-shopping government-code-911.3(b) judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits legal-interpretation preemption rule-10(a) state-law supervisory-powers Whether the federal court erred in exercising pendent jurisdiction over state law claims and failing to follow state supreme court precedent on the in…
18-1527 Rattan Nath v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied civil-rights criminal-liability due-process equal-protection ordinance-enforcement property-rights racial-discrimination revenue-generation selective-enforcement takings vague-ordinance Can New Jersey courts provide cover to racial discrimination by imposing strict criminal liability under a vague ordinance used for revenue generation…
18-1528 Jake Paul Heiney v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response Waived criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-finding-of-guilt jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana winship Improper-jury-instruction-on-element-of-offense
18-1529 Louis R. Koerner, Jr., Individually and as Assignee of Jean McCurdy Meade v. CMR Construction & Roofing, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit Denied certification civil-procedure declarations erie-doctrine evidence material-issues-of-fact non-moving-party procedural-protections rule-54(b) rule-54b rule-59(e) rule-59e standard-of-consideration summary-judgment Did the Fifth Circuit Court apply an incorrect standard of consideration by not considering the declarations of a non-moving party sufficient to estab…
18-1532 Timothy J. Johnston v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction privity rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars a plaintiff from suing in federal court by claiming it was not a party to the earlier state court litigation,…
18-1533 William Henry Starrett, Jr. v. City of Richardson, Texas Fifth Circuit Denied civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 civil-rights-42-usc-1985 civil-rights-statute conspiracy conspiracy-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction municipal-liability pleading-standards pleading-sufficiency pleadings section-1983 texas-tort-claims-act Whether allegations are sufficient to support claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1985(2)-(3)
18-1535 Letica Land Company, LLC v. Anaconda-Deer Lodge County, Montana Montana Denied 5th-amendment claim-of-right due-process fifth-amendment government-liability inverse-condemnation mistaken-claim-of-right physical-invasion property-rights takings takings-clause takings-clause-5th-amendment Whether the Montana Supreme Court erred in holding that the government can avoid Fifth Amendment liability when it continually physically invaded and …
18-1537 Youras Ziankovich v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding due-process federal-agency federal-agency-practice federal-preemption free-speech interstate-practice legal-ethics license-suspension preemption professional-conduct professional-misconduct standing state-licensing supremacy-clause Whether Colorado violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by suspending his New York law license for alleged violations of Colorado's professio…
18-1539 Domino's Pizza, LLC v. Guillermo Robles Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (5) accessibility ada ada-title-iii americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights digital-accessibility disability-discrimination mobile-app-accessibility mobile-application public-accommodation statutory-interpretation website website-accessibility Whether Title III of the ADA requires a website or mobile phone application that offers goods or services to the public to satisfy discrete accessibil…
18-1540 VHT, Inc. v. Zillow Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived automated-systems circuit-split copyright-infringement direct-liability exclusive-rights fifth-circuit fourth-circuit proximate-causation statutory-construction third-circuit volitional-conduct Whether a defendant's volitional conduct is required to establish direct copyright infringement
18-1541 Yassine Baouch, et al. v. Werner Enterprises, Inc., dba Werner Trucking, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied circuit-conflict employee-reimbursement employment-law fair-labor-standards-act internal-revenue-code minimum-wage per-diem per-diem-payments reimbursement wage-classification wages Under what circumstances do per diem payments to an employee constitute wages, rather than reimbursement, under section 207(e)(2) of the FLSA?
18-1542 Bobby Johnson v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied Response Waived admissibility admissibility-of-statements constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation due-process law-enforcement law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warnings self-incrimination timing timing-of-warnings Whether an officer violates a defendant's constitutional privilege against self-incrimination or due process rights by delivering Miranda warnings at …
18-1544 Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County Washington Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights court-appointed-guardian due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment guardianship predeprivation-rights professional-guardians property-interest property-rights state-action sua-sponte Whether a court-appointed professional guardian has a property interest in the business expectation of continued fees, and a pre-deprivation right to …
18-1546 Century III Mall PA LLC v. Sears Roebuck & Co. Third Circuit Denied 9-usc-10a4 arbitration-award arbitration-review arbitrator-authority binding-arbitration civil-litigation contract-interpretation contractual-rights dispute-resolution judicial-restraint lease-valuation prudential-restraint scope-of-authority statutory-interpretation At what point does an arbitrator's exercise of his or her authority to interpret a contract cross a boundary into an impermissible re-writing of that …
18-1547 Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. v. Shawn Jensen, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied 28-usc-636 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-violation federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-rights magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-selection magistrate-jurisdiction prison-litigation-reform-act prospective-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in allowing parties to choose their own magistrate judge and in permitting prospective relief in a prisoner case witho…
18-1548 Miguel Alcantar v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response Waived third parties for the pretrial production of rele compulsory-process criminal-defendant documentary-evidence documentary-production pretrial-evidence sixth-amendment subpoena-duces-tecum subpoenas-duces-tecum third-parties Whether the Compulsory Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment guarantees to a criminal defendant the right to issue subpoenas duces tecum to private, t…
18-1549 Zimmer, Inc., et al. v. Stryker Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit Denied enhanced-damages federal-circuit halo-v-pulse objective-recklessness patent-damages patent-law seagate-test subjective-intent willful-infringement willfulness Whether enhanced patent damages can be awarded without regard to whether there was an objectively high risk of infringement based on a finding of negl…
18-1550 Gilberto Ramos v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process federal-sentence-enhancement federal-sentencing habeas judicial-review legal-remedy post-conviction-remedy prior-state-sentence proposition-64 resentencing retroactive-relief sentence-enhancement state-conviction state-post-conviction-remedy state-sentence successful-attack When does a state post-conviction remedy qualify as a 'successful attack' on a prior state sentence, such that a subsequent federal sentence enhanceme…
18-1551 Joseph Q. Mirarchi v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived attorney-disbarment constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence mitigation-evidence neuropsychological-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the state supreme court order for attorney disbarment is inconsistent with the standards set forth in Selling v. Radford and In re Ruffalo, an…
18-1553 Cheri Marie Hanson, as Trustee for the Next of Kin of Andrew Derek Layton v. Daniel Best, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force excited-delirium fourth-amendment police-practices police-restraint police-training positional-asphyxia qualified-immunity use-of-force Was the use of prolonged prone restraint with compressive force on an individual who was already handcuffed and hobble-tied a clearly established cons…
18-1555 Scott A. Boyler v. City of Lackawanna, New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived aggravated-harassment constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech free-speech,civil-rights,retaliation,qualified-imm malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity retaliation social-media summary-judgment Whether retaliation chilled free speech under an objective or subjective test
18-1556 Peggy Edwards, et al. v. Louisiana Workforce Commission, et al. Louisiana Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-adjudication agency-decision burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidence-standard medical-claims medical-treatment standing workers-compensation Does the Louisiana administrative system for adjudicating medical claims by injured workers violate due process
18-1557 William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rico copyright-act copyright-infringement creative-rights due-process fair-use first-amendment intellectual-property licensing plagiarism Whether literary works are protected under copyright law similarly to music sampling
18-1558 Marshall Spiegel v. Corrine McClintic, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-expression law-enforcement-liability municipal-liability public-photography qualified-immunity standing Does the First Amendment protect a person's right to photograph or videotape in public?
18-1559 Velma Brooks v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, et al. Colorado Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-rights conspiracy due-process evidence falsification judicial-oversight judicial-review legal-conspiracy medical-evidence worker's-compensation workers-compensation Why did the Colorado courts refuse to seek the truth in this case?
18-1560 Richard Leland Neal v. B. Marc Neal, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-rules motion-to-dismiss ninth-circuit pleadings rule-12(b)(6) standing Whether the Arizona District Court and the Ninth Circuit created a split by holding that defendants timely responded to Plaintiff's amended complaint …
18-1561 Armament Services International, Inc., et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived 18-usc-923-f-3 de-novo-proceeding due-process federal-firearms-licensing firearms-licensing gun-control-act standard-of-review statutory-interpretation statutory-review statutory-safeguards third-circuit willful-violation willfulness Whether the Third Circuit applied an improperly deferential standard of review in a de novo federal firearms licensing proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 92…
18-1562 Lisa Fisher v. Bessie Huckabee South Carolina Denied Response Waived civil-rights conservatorship constitutional-rights due-process elder-abuse equal-protection fifth-amendment property-rights standing standing-civil-procedure-due-process-elder-abuse-f takings will-reformation Whether petitioner had standing to assert the due process rights of the decedent
18-1563 Ronald Bias v. Tangipahoa Parish School Board Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law chapter-13 chapter-13-bankruptcy constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights debtor-standing disclosure-requirements due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-estoppel post-confirmation-claims standing Does the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal's precedent that all Chapter 13 debtors have a continuing duty to disclose all post-confirmation claims offend …
18-1564 LAJIM, LLC, et al. v. General Electric Company Seventh Circuit Denied citizen-suit consent-order environmental-law federal-court-discretion federalism imminent-and-substantial-endangerment injunctive-relief rcra-citizen-suit resource-conservation-and-recovery-act state-consent-order statutory-interpretation Whether a district court has discretion to deny an injunction when it is the only statutory remedy after plaintiffs prove an imminent and substantial …
18-1567 Alexander A. Benzemann v. Houslanger & Associates, PLLC, et al. Second Circuit Denied circuit-split civil-litigation civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-procedure standing statute-of-limitations Whether the discovery rule applies to toll the one-year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, et seq…
18-1568 Cheryl Lynn Hager-Reilly v. Thomas Reilly New York Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights custody custody-proceeding due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment natural-parents parental-rights standard-of-proof supervised-visitation visitation-rights Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require a certain quantum of proof before a state court, in a custody proceeding between the t…
18-1569 Richard Chamberlain, et ux. v. New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, et al. New York Denied comptroller-of-treasury-of-maryland-v-wynne constitutional-challenge domicile dormant-commerce-clause double-taxation intangible-income interstate-taxation state-taxation tax-credits tax-jurisdiction tax-residency wynne-precedent Whether a state tax scheme that taxes the intangible income of individuals who are domiciled in the State and certain individuals not domiciled in the…
18-1570 Samuel Edelman, et ux. v. New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, et al. New York Denied Amici (5) double-taxation due-process residency state-taxation tax-credits ' domicile' comptroller-of-treasury-of-maryland-v-wynne constitutional-challenge domicile dormant-commerce-clause intangible-income interstate-taxation state-taxation tax-credits wynne-precedent The issue being raised is whether a state tax scheme that taxes the intangible income of individuals who are domiciled in the State and certain indivi…
18-1571 Steve Kelly Moyer v. Kansas Kansas Denied Response Waived automatic-reversal chapman-v-california constitutional-error constitutional-errors credibility-assessment due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel neder-v-united-states overwhelming-evidence stare-decisis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Kansas Supreme Court failed to consider the prejudicial constitutional errors committed by trial counsel and applied an incorrect standard…
18-1574 William Henry Starrett v. Department of Defense, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-allegations federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss patent pleading pleading-standards standard-of-review standing takings technology-law Whether a complaint can survive a motion to dismiss when its factual allegations and claims involve one or more technologies, or capabilities of combi…
18-1575 Jerry Preston McNeil v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-state-relations judicial-duty property-tax real-property standing state-government supremacy-clause takings treason Whether the Supremacy Clause will be given its controlling effect in this extraordinary instance?
18-1576 Adriano Kruel Budri v. Daniel M. Humphreys Texas Denied Response Waived civil-rights defamation due-process employment-dispute free-speech legislative-interpretation private-communication private-employment-dispute snyder-v-phelps statutory-construction texas-citizens-participation-act Does the TCPA apply to a private employment dispute involving allegedly defamatory statements in a private intended audience and location?
18-1578 Pfizer Inc. v. Alida Adamyan, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2) cafa-removal civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act diversity-jurisdiction federal-court joint-trial mass-action products-liability removal state-court state-court-proposal Whether a state court's proposal to try jointly the claims of more than 100 plaintiffs can qualify for 'mass action' removal under the Class Action Fa…
18-1579 Ronnie Ricks, Jr. v. Texas Texas Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation defendant-rights due-process evidence miranda right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence video-evidence Whether showing a videotape containing testimonial actions is proper, after an accused has invoked his right to counsel?
18-1580 Craig Ross, et al. v. Board of Trustees of California State University Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process duplicative-actions eeoc-investigation free-speech individual-capacity-suit preliminary-injunction sovereign-immunity standing title-vii Can an earlier-commenced Title VII case against the State of California be foreclosed as duplicative of a later-commenced 42 USC §1981 / 42 USC §1983 …
18-1582 Bryan A. Krumm, CNP v. Drug Enforcement Administration District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-law cannabis-scheduling controlled-substances controlled-substances-act dea federalism mandamus-relief medical-marijuana medical-use scheduling witness-testimony Can the Attorney General and DEA continue Schedule 1 placement of Cannabis now that it has 'accepted medical use' in 33 States, the District of Columb…
18-1584 United States Forest Service, et al. v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association, et al. Fourth Circuit Judgment Issued administrative-authority appalachian-trail federal-agencies federal-land-management land-management mineral-leasing-act national-forest national-forest-system national-park national-trails-system-act rights-of-way Whether the Forest Service has authority to grant rights-of-way under the Mineral Leasing Act through lands traversed by the Appalachian Trail within …
18-1587 Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association, et al. Fourth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (1) appalachian-trail federal-agency-authority federal-land-management federal-lands forest-service-authority mineral-leasing-act national-park-system national-trails-system-act pipeline-right-of-way rights-of-way Whether the Forest Service has the authority under the MLA and National Trails System Act to grant rights-of-way through national forest lands that th…
18-1588 Norma L. Cooke v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company Seventh Circuit Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-fees civil-rights district-court-award due-process federal-rules-of-procedure federal-rules-procedure fee-award insurance judicial-bias judicial-discretion litigation-conduct sanctions seventh-circuit state-insurance-law state-law unreasonable-litigation-conduct Where the district court awarded fees to Petitioner under state insurance law for Respondent's unreasonable litigation conduct, did the Seventh Circui…
18-1589 James Doyle Collins, Jr. v. Texas Texas Denied contraband contraband-possession criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-possession criminal-procedure destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction intent intentional-possession mens-rea possession possession-law statutory-interpretation Whether the act of deleting or destroying contraband evidences a lack of knowing or intentional possession
18-1590 Corey Lamar Smith, et al. v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-test danger due-process helling-v-mckinney incident-rate-statistics ninth-circuit plata-receiver prison-conditions qualified-immunity standing state-officials Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied the clearly established test's generality principles by analyzing the issue too specifically, whether the Ninth C…
18-1591 R. F., a Minor Child, By and Through Her Parents and Next Friends, E. F. and H. F., et al. v. Cecil County Public Schools Fourth Circuit Denied administrative-law due-process educational-benefit educational-rights fape free-appropriate-public-education hearing-officer idea individuals-with-disabilities-education-act-idea parental-participation procedural-safeguards special-education Whether a violation of the IDEA's procedures that significantly impedes parents' opportunity to participate in the decisionmaking process regarding th…
18-1593 Jose Gracia-Cantu v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived aggravated-felony circuit-split collateral-consequences crime-of-violence criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-consequences mootness retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction for assault under a state statute that does not require physical force is categorically a crime of violence under 8 U.S.C. § 16(a…
18-280 New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc., et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (46)Relisted (4) 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-rights handgun handgun-transport handgun-transportation licensed-firearms public-safety right-to-travel second-amendment transport Whether the City's ban on transporting a licensed, locked, and unloaded handgun to a home or shooting range outside city limits is consistent with the…
18-7201 Mark Isaac Snarr v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-3599 ake-v-oklahoma appellate-review ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-defendant circuit-split due-process expert-services federal-funding fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fifth Circuit disregarded this Court's precedent when it required petitioner to show that an expert was 'critical' to his case before fund…
18-7262 Artak Ovsepian and Kenneth Wayne Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-u.s.c.-1028a 18-usc-1028a apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-fines criminal-restitution double-counting identity-theft sentencing-guidelines u-s-code u.s.s.g.-2b1.6 Should the rule of Apprendi apply to the imposition of criminal restitution?
18-7277 Shannon D. McGee, Sr. v. Joseph McFadden, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (13)IFP bagley brady brady-material civil-rights disclosure-of-evidence due-process post-trial standing warowe-v-illinois Did the courts err in finding that petitioner failed to state a claim of the denial of a constitutional right where the state failed to provide Brady …
18-7300 Michael L. Millis v. Stephen Kallis, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-USC-2241 28-usc-2255 custodian custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue prisoner-petition savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 transfer-of-venue What is the correct interpretation of the savings clause in 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)?
18-735 Maricopa County, Arizona v. Manuel de Jesus Ortega Melendres, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (7) 10th-amendment 42-usc-1983 contempt-powers county-authority-under-state-law federal-courts federalism federalism-limits-on-federal-courts final-policymaker guarantee-clause mcmillian-precedent rizzo-v-goode sovereign-prerogatives tenth-amendment Are sheriffs 'final policymakers' under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for their counties with regard to law enforcement?
18-7482 Edgar Baltazar Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3599 capital-case criminal-procedure due-process expert-expenses expert-fees global-cap investigative-fees legal-compensation reasonably-necessary statutory-interpretation Whether, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f) and (g)(2), a global cap may be imposed on investigative and expert fees and expenses in a capital case in an…
18-7485 Marcus Noel v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction hostage-taking international-law jurisdictional-elements mens-rea nationality necessary-and-proper-clause treaty-power Whether the federal Hostage Taking statute requires proof that the defendant knew the victim was a U.S. national
18-7489 Jurijus Kadamovas v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-1203 bond-v-united-states capital-case due-process-clause federal-authority hostage-taking international-terrorism recusal-standard statutory-interpretation treaty-power Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1203 should be interpreted in accordance with its underlying treaty and the principles in Bond v. United States, 572 U.S. 844 (201…
18-7572 Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States Eighth Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP alternative-means armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process generic-burglary generic-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Wisconsin's burglary statute defines alternative means, making it broader than generic burglary and not a qualifying prior conviction under th…
18-7694 Raymond Crespo v. New York New York Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process faretta-v-california judicial-discretion legal-timeliness pro-se-representation right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation self-representation timeliness How soon in the criminal proceeding must a defendant decide between proceeding by counsel or pro se?
18-7739 Gonzalo Holguin-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente…
18-7785 David Derringer v. Isidro Saenz New Mexico Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct rico rico-acts standing supremacy-clause Whether any court can deprive Constitutional rights and violate the Supremacy Clause, and use RICO racketeering acts to stop legal court filings
18-7835 Iouri Mikhel v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP burden-of-proof competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-judiciary hostage-taking judicial-discretion mental-health recusal standard-of-proof treaty-power trial-procedure Where significant evidence of competency is susceptible to conflicting inferences, what standard of proof is required for a competency hearing and wha…
18-8055 Kevin Ventura v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Is Mr. Ventura is serving two life sentences imposed in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey?
18-8064 Fernando Luviano v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute document-falsification evidence federal-investigation obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-standard statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1519 requires the government to prove a 'reasonable likelihood' that the falsified reports were written in contemplation of a poss…
18-8076 Elijah Loren Arthur, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1 18-usc-16 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) define one or two crimes?
18-8128 Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct South Carolina Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech frivolous-proceedings seventh-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
18-8132 Anthony D. Phillips v. Bonita Hoffner, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adjudication-on-the-merits AEDPA aedpa-standards constitutional-error due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a constitutional error reviewed under plain error standards is an adjudication on the merits; and whether AEDPA deferential standards of revie…
18-8148 Johnathan Hawthorne v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation due-process first-step-act new-law pipeline resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the 'New Law' of the First Step Act made this an appeal 'Pipeline' case with First Step Act legal protections
18-8173 Ruben R. Herrera v. Brandon Price Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement pre-trial-detention Whether petitioner's pre-trial detention violates his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights against double jeopardy and due process
18-8301 Michael Daniel Cuero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review court-of-appeals court-of-appeals-interpretation district-court due-process judicial-review mandate plea-agreement remand rule-21 sentencing sentencing-consequences state-court supreme-court-mandate writ-of-mandamus What was the import of the Court's prior decision?
18-8309 Darwin Zoch v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acca-interpretation armed-career-criminal-act due-process due-process,sentencing,acca,johnson-v-united-state habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove the sentencing court relied on the residual clause to be entitled to relief under Johns…
18-8314 Jose Nino-Carreon v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion guidelines plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain Guideline error should ordinarily find an effect on the defendant's substantial rights if the district c…
18-8419 Fabian Hernandez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-review reasoned-decision standard-of-review state-court-decision state-courts statutory-interpretation unreasonableness-test Whether, in the face of a reasoned state court decision, a federal habeas court applies the unreasonableness test of 28 USC §2254(d)(1) to the specifi…
18-8429 Tracy Lane Beatty v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-60b6-martinez-v-ryan-conflict-amon federal-courts federal-habeas martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan procedural-default rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) standing timeliness Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve a conflict among the federal courts of appeals as to whether petitioners may ever prevail on a Fe…
18-8431 David Kelly Brewster v. Florida Florida Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof compensation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent restitution wrongful-incarceration Whether the Victims of Wrongful Incarceration Compensation Act, §961.03, Fla. Stat. is unconstitutional as a violation of due process and equal protec…
18-8441 Gaetan Dinelle, aka Gates v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender marijuana-trafficking non-violent-offender non-violent-offense proportionality sentencing Whether a life-sentence for a non-violent, first-time offender, who trafficked in marijuana, is unreasonable, disproportionate, and amounts to cruel a…
18-8462 William James Truesdale v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence fabricated-evidence fabrication-of-evidence fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-error Whether the erroneously admitted evidence reviewed objectively in light of the entire record before the jury was sufficiently material to provide the …
18-8466 Gregory Hunt v. Alabama Alabama Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-vs-maryland capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony false-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct strickler-v-greene strickler-vs-greene May the presentation of false evidence in a capital case be excused for want of diligence, when the evidence was challenged only after the State's exp…
18-8472 James Allen Eapmon v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act life-imprisonment mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation whether-the-petitioner-was-denied-due-process
18-8561 Jeffery Lee Wood v. Texas Texas Denied IFP culpability death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness law-of-parties tison-v-arizona Whether the petitioner is categorically ineligible for the death penalty because he lacked the requisite minimal culpability under the Eight and Fourt…
18-8604 Ivan Vazquez-Gonzalez v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 appeals criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel rule-35 sentence-modification sentencing statute-of-limitations Whether a district court's modification of sentence under Rule 35, Fed. R. Crim. P., resets the one-year clock under 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(1) for a timel…
18-8636 Brian Hoskins v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states federal-guidelines federal-sentence federal-sentences federal-sentencing-guidelines habeas-corpus plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-convictions Whether a defendant who succeeds in vacating a state conviction that enhanced a federal sentence may apply for resentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
18-8642 DeJuan Leshae Hill v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense habeas-corpus hobbs-act post-conviction-relief sentencing tenth-circuit unconstitutionality Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in failing to address the unconstitutionality of use and carry of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenses, in rela…
18-8670 Demetrius Terrence Frazier v. Alabama Alabama Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-fact-finding jury-fact-finding jury-sentencing jury-trial retroactive-rule retroactivity sixth-amendment Does Alabama's capital sentencing statute violate Hurst v. Florida?
18-8677 Patrick Lloyd v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error plea-bargaining rule-11 standing united-states-v-dominguez-benitez Whether Dominguez Benitez's harmless error rule applies to Rule 11(b)(1)(G)'s requirement that before a guilty plea can be accepted the district court…
18-8682 Sean Carter v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma cullen-v-pinholster due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-proceedings fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel organic-brain-damage organic-brain-impairment state-court-proceedings state-court-review When the state court denies a petitioner's claim that his counsel were ineffective for failing to present his organic brain impairment, without afford…
18-8692 Jerry Adams, Jr. v. Robert Neuschmid, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review batson-challenge batson-claim equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review state-court-review Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to a Batson claim when the California courts' decisions relied upon legal principles in…
18-8712 John Hummel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP character-and-record death-penalty future-dangerousness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence pretrial-incarceration sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether a death penalty defendant received ineffective assistance of trial counsel for failing to investigate and present evidence of the defendant's …
18-8719 Ciaran Paul Redmond v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-conflict criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jurisdictional-element jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing standards-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether, after a jury trial, a federal court of appeals can take judicial notice of evidence submitted by the government for the first time on appeal …
18-8723 Miles Sterling Bench v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP 8th-amendment affidavit civil-rights competency costs criminal-appeals death-penalty declaration due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis indigent indigent-status mental-illness oklahoma-law supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a person with severe mental illness
18-8735 David Meyers v. Walter Swiney, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights custody-status due-process mail report retaliation standing Did the U.S. District Court violate my due process rights?
18-8737 Mario Bachiller v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit johnson-retroactivity mandatory-minimum residual-clause retroactivity section-924c vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s residual clause is unconstitutionally vague under Johnson v. United States
18-8742 Trenton R. Birchette v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP None
18-8745 Louis Alfred Piccone v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure pa-rde-216 patent selling-v-radford administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-procedure patent patent-attorney-discipline professional-discipline reciprocal-discipline statutory-interpretation Does Mr. Piccone's Pennsylvania reciprocal suspension, based upon the USPTO action conducted in violation of 35 U.S.C. § 24's mandated discovery and d…
18-8753 Carl Devon Powell v. California California Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-fact-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c…
18-8773 Emmanuely Germain v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error essential-elements harmless-error jurisdiction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence uncharged-offense venue venue-error Is the omission of an essential element of an offense from jury instructions harmless if there is sufficient evidence to support a conviction of a rel…
18-8785 Temarco Sartorio Pope, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-powers reasonable-suspicion terry-stop Whether law enforcement can presume any concealed carry of a firearm is unlawful and conduct a Terry stop when the state statute does not criminalize …
18-8802 Eli Vernon, III, aka Eli Mims v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP counsel-objection criminal-procedure due-process duren-analysis duren-v-missouri equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges strickland-standard strickland-v-washington systematic-exclusion Does the first prong in Duren v Missouri establish a systematic exclusion for counsel to object?
18-8806 Marguerite Dutton v. Nikkisha P. McCrea Pennsylvania Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection frivolous-litigation medical-malpractice pa-constitution pennsylvania-constitution us-constitution-14th-amendment Whether Pa. Rule 231.1 (frivolous litigation) violates Article I Section 26 of the Pennsylvania Constitution (No discrimination by commonwealth and it…
18-8835 Sabrina D. Davis v. Kia Motors America, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation discriminatory-ruling discriminatory-rulings due-process federal-law fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion judiciary-act judiciary-act-of-1925 poverty standing statutory-construction unconstitutional Are the lower courts abusing the Judiciary Act of 1925 to ignore fraud on the court?
18-8845 Abel Revill Ochoa v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-punishment death-penalty due-process federal-funding funding habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation procedural-standard statutory-interpretation Whether, in light of Ayestas v. Davis, 138 S. Ct. 1080 (2018), a court applies an overly burdensome standard for funding under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f) whe…
18-8872 In Re Samuel Lewis Surles Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment Whether petitioner was denied his unwaivable constitutional right of due process of law when the Michigan Supreme Court failed to rule on the merits o…
18-8874 Anthony Jerome White, aka Dean Braithwaite, aka Carlos Valentine, aka Anthony Brown v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach deadly-weapon elements-clause second-degree-aggravated-assault second-degree-assault third-circuit-court-of-appeals violent-felony Whether Whites Pennsylvania Conviction For Second Degree Aggravated Assault With A Deadly Weapon Is Categorically Qualify As A Violent Felony Under Th…
18-8892 Carlos Hernandez Machin v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mandatory-minimum residual-clause samuel-johnson sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability is in conflict with this Court's precedent when reasonable jurists are current…
18-8906 De'Angelo Wilson v. Marilyn Russell, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claim for lack of standing
18-8907 In Re Samuel H. Williams Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights declaration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis incorporation poverty redress Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
18-8911 Gerald Humbert v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11th-circuit acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense eleventh-circuit florida-statute florida-statute-893-13 mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-smith Whether a Florida drug offense qualifies as a 'serious drug offense' under the ACCA without mens rea
18-8925 Charles Reginald Cooks v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing Whether the complaint named the defendant in their true names, with statements that are true
18-8927 Lisa J. Gillard v. Illinois Illinois Denied Relisted (2)IFP bench-court-relationship brady-v-maryland brady-violation complaining-witnesses constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct state-government Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) standard, is suppressing evidence by the state government on bench court's relationship with two complaini…
18-893 West Virginia House of Delegates v. West Virginia, ex rel. Margaret L. Workman, et al. West Virginia Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-law federalism guarantee-clause house-of-delegates legislative-standing motion-to-intervene standing west-virginia west-virginia-supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia's decision in this case violates the Guarantee Clause of the United States Constitution
18-8938 Elza Budagova v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-procedure criminal-fines criminal-restitution judicial-discretion jury-findings sentencing sentencing-exposure southern-union-co Should Apprendi's rule apply to the imposition of criminal restitution?
18-8941 Sheldon Lamont Jackson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history elements-clause florida-statute johnson-v-united-states leocal-v-ashcroft mens-rea possession-with-intent-to-sell sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously affirmed Mr. Jackson's sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)
18-8945 Lorraine Black v. Life Unlimited, Inc. Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection retaliation standing appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights due-process sixth-amendment standing Whether the legal standard for appointing counsel in civil rights cases violates the Sixth Amendment right to counsel?
18-8973 Joshua Mitch Johnson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process earned-sentence-credits fourteenth-amendment good-time-credits liberty-interest mandatory-language sentence-credits state-law statutory-interpretation wolff-v-mcdonnell Has the petitioner been validly sentenced under the Virginia statute on earned sentence credits?
18-8977 Scott E. Schmidt v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-review unreasonable-application wilson-v-sellers Whether this Court should summarily reverse or, at a minimum, grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Wilson v. Sellers
18-8987 Michael Wainaina Kariuki v. Washington Washington Denied IFP assault constitutional-law conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-error second-degree-assault sexual-assault standing victim Whether the defendant, Michael Kariuni, is entitled to reversal of the second-degree-assault conviction with instructions to dismiss
18-8988 Airrington L. Sykes v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry due-process firearm-possession fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop Whether law enforcement can presume any concealed carry of a firearm is unlawful and conduct a Terry stop when the state statute does not criminalize …
18-8993 Frederick R. Cote v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability false-evidence false-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance life-without-parole third-party-culpability Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability (COA) met on a freestanding claim of actual innocence"
18-9005 Frank J. Cummins, Jr. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
18-9007 Nicholas D. Weir v. Montefiore Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 district-court employment-discrimination frcp-rule-60(b) frcp-rule-61 frcp-rule-62.1 harmless-error retaliation retaliation-claim rule-60b substantial-rights Does a district court judge's misunderstanding of the initial timeline that establishes a retaliation claim (under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e) not considered a…
18-9011 Anthwaun Jordan v. Texas Texas Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel Was the petitioner denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel
18-9013 Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment coerced-confession constitutional-claim due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review miranda-rights procedural-bar statute-of-limitations substantive-evidence Whether the use of a coerced confession as substantive evidence at trial violates due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-9019 Lony Tap Gatwas v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-law felony mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in interpreting 18 U.S.C. § 1028A's prohibition on the 'use' of another's identity without lawful authority
18-9021 Valerie Arroyo v. Daniel J. Zamora, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP bill-of-rights civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-conduct deprivation-of-rights due-process federal-court federal-questions judicial-interference sovereign-immunity state-agencies state-court Did the lower tribunal's actions deprive the plaintiff's civil rights and due process?
18-9023 Keith Clayton Brooks Jr. v. David Gabriel, et al. Tenth Circuit Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-collateral-order-doctrine collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-violations due-process enlargement-of-time federal-relief habeas-corpus magistrate-judge prison-litigation prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-prisoner standing Whether the collateral order doctrine can be invoked when a party is deprived of an opportunity to preserve issues for appellate review
18-9025 Phillip Newton v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requirement be required in state…
18-9029 Tyron James v. Kansas Kansas Denied IFP appeal apprendi civil-rights constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment unconstitutional-error upward-departure Whether a conviction based on an unconstitutional sentencing enhancement can be overturned under this Court's decisions in Apprendi and Alleyne
18-9030 Juan Reyes Rivera v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP confrontation-rights constructive-amendment due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment ineffective-assistance Did trial counsel render ineffective assistance for failure to quash or dismiss Constructive, Amended Indictment, amended by the court on third day af…
18-9034 Norman Lee Shillings v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP alias-name civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence fourteenth-amendment identity tampering-with-evidence Can the presentation of an (Alias) or Gender specific name used during arrest, booking, and bonding procedures be charged as Tampering with Evidence, …
18-9035 In Re Clifford E. Avery Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure-rules due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-9039 Kent Vu Phan v. National Jewish Health, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP ada ada-violation civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process environmental-contamination medical-malpractice racial-discrimination standing state-actor Whether the petitioner's disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act was violated by suppression instead of protection
18-9040 Valerie Arroyo v. Joseph Colbert, Jr., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 1985 1988 and 18 U.S.C. §§ 241 242? 18-usc-241-242 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 42-usc-1988 civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation-due-process-42-usc-1983-1 color-of-law constitutional-violation due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Did the lower tribunal, federal or state court, federal or state agencies, or employees' actions, conduct or interference were unconstitutional throug…
18-9051 Quintonius B. Golston v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-conflict conflict criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression federal-question fifth-circuit important-question prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit has decided an important federal question that conflicts with this Court in Brady v. Maryland…
18-9054 Sandra Forquer v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Maryland Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts court-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection legal-remedy maryland-court-of-appeals replevin replevin-action writ-of-certiorari Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petition for Writ of Certiorari regarding the improper dismissal of the Petitioner's Verifi…
18-9059 Geary Gilmore v. Shirlee Harry, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-adjudication sixth-circuit standard-of-review supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit violated the procedure prescribed by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) and imposed an improper b…
18-9064 Adonijah Lindsay v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP §-2255-motion §-924(c)-conviction 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b certificate-of-appealability supreme-court-rule-10 third-circuit vagueness writ-of-certiorari Does the Supreme Court's grant of writ of certiorari on the same question of law establish a per se ground for obtaining a certificate of appealabilit…
18-9066 Peter B. Rojas v. Jay Lane, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP does 42 U.S.C. § 2254 (e) obviate the need for fe 42-usc-2254 constitutional-provisions due-process federal-hearing habeas-corpus state-court statutory-interpretation supreme-court undeveloped-facts Where the State Court conducted a hearing and the party was 'denied due process of law in the proceeding
18-9067 Sharma Ross v. Christopher Miller, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing Was petitioner denied his due process rights as enumerated under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-9068 Dennis Rydbom v. Lisa Boggs, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-information catalog-ban censorship civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech mail-censorship penological-objectives prisoner-rights Is the ban against West Virginia prisoners' receipt of catalogs and of internet documents excessive and overly broad under the First Amendment's free …
18-9070 Gabriel Urzua Sanchez v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure direct-appeal district-court fifth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum privilege sentencing witness-testimony Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to properly determine that Mr. Sanchez's proposed witnesses had a valid Fifth Amendment pr…
18-9073 Maurice Grayton v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-proceedings third-party Whether the state bar examination process violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by discriminating against a disabled veteran-examinee
18-9075 Ponce D. Howard v. Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure conflict conflict-of-evidence declaration-conflict declarations investigation investigation-findings magistrate-judge procedural-review summary-judgment workplace-policy Did the Magistrate Judge, District Court, and Eleventh Circuit misapply summary judgment principles by not addressing the conflict between the declara…
18-9076 Bobby Glenn v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition herrera-v-collins mcguiggins-v-perkins mcquiggins-v-perkins newly-discovered-evidence procedural-bar procedural-default Whether petitioner's untimely first habeas petition for actual innocence claim is procedurally barred despite reliable proof of innocence
18-9077 Cecelia D. Walton v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Disability Determination Services Fourth Circuit Denied IFP admissibility civil-rights eeoc eeoc-determination eeoc-reasonable-cause-determination employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence-403 pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination With regards to EEOC Reasonable Charge Determinations issued pursuant to the EEOC investigation conducted, is the Reasonable Cause Determination autom…
18-9080 Joseph Carter v. Florida Florida Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-habeas-review federal-review graham-v-florida habeas-corpus habeas-review judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision miller-v-alabama parole state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-9087 Donald Durrant Farrow v. Erik A. Hooks, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech government-overreach jurisdiction standing Was the Perini & Denim Menswear denied access to the courts when Perini was described as a 'Domestic Terrorist'?
18-9088 Charles W. Gray v. Indiana Indiana Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment indiana-constitution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the State of Indiana has erred whether Petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel
18-9093 James M. Ferguson v. Pelicia E. Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel indictment notice preliminary-hearing right-to-notice-of-charges right-to-prepare-defense Whether the defendant received effective assistance of counsel when his attorney failed to request a preliminary hearing, which would have exposed the…
18-9094 Marty J. Hebert v. Louisiana Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-findings autopsy-testimony constitutional-error criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder sixth-amendment Has the State of Louisiana committed Constitutional Error in its refusal to Order production of Dr. Laga's grand jury testimony to petitioner?
18-9095 Michael Hall v. Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-jurisdiction hospital-status medical-negligence mental-health mental-hygiene-law new-york-state section-1915-review standing Clarification of the factual, exact and/or precise status of Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center as a 'Private Hospital?
18-9096 Douglas A. Glaser v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-9098 Joel Marvin Munt v. Eddie Miles, Warden Eighth Circuit Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus mootness prison-discipline retaliation standing Should a COA have been issued?
18-9099 Jean-Gespere Pierre v. Alliance Security Services, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure-standing-due-process-takings-pate ' 'civil-procedure" ' 'civil-rights" ' 'due-process" ' 'patent' ' 'standing" ' 'takings" administrative-law civil-procedure due-process jurisdictional-challenge property-rights tax-assessment Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims related to due-process, civil-rights, standing, civil-procedure, takings, patent
18-9100 Corry Mency v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington blakey-v-washington constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum trial-judge Whether the First District erred in deferring to the Circuit Court's finding that section 775.084 is not unconstitutional as applied to the facts of M…
18-9102 Michael Bazan v. Robert Whitfield, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process evidence excessive-force qualified-immunity standing Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's Excessive-Force claim
18-9108 Milton Mitchell v. Glen Johnson, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-of-law equal-protection equal-protection-of-law grand-jury guilty-plea habeas-corpus indictments ineffective-assistance Whether the lower courts erred in failing to order the respondent to show cause and provide indictments, trial transcripts, habeas corpus, and all pro…
18-9110 Darius T. Murphy v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard legal-claim misidentification totality-of-circumstances What spectrum of evidence is required to prove actual innocence claim?
18-9113 Glen Moore v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts double-jeopardy due-process liberty-interests parole parole-revocation retroactive-law retroactive-punishment standing Do Texas Board of Parole have the constitutional authority to change laws or to take away a prisoner's liberty interests without due process of law?
18-9114 Nolan George v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-commitment contract-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-promise plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations Is it a violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to ignore, alter or reinterpret commitments not to charge or prosecute individuals over time?
18-9118 Emanual Deleon Fields v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination standing Whether the U.S. Constitution's equal protection clause was violated when the trial court denied the petitioner's motion to dismiss due to the prosecu…
18-9119 Kirby Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody-control double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause evidence full-faith-and-credit-clause full-faith-credit judicial-review liberty-interest parole prosecution re-imprisonment retrospective-forfeiture statutory-interpretation Whether the Full Faith & Credit Clause, Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the State of Texas from re-prosecuting & re-imprisoning petitioner for an exp…
18-9122 Don Nell Hawkins v. Patricia A. Gaughan Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-access due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-procedure section-2255 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-2255-motion Whether the doctrine of Heck v. Humphrey applies to denial of access to court claims?
18-9125 Luzetha Wardrick v. Brooks Benton, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court-decision civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-circuit-court federal-court legal-dispute patent procedural-irregularities standing supreme-court-review takings Does the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over this case?
18-9126 Alan L. Doering v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-standing-due-process-medical-trea 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rules medical-records medical-treatment prison-conditions security-concerns standing Whether the denial of the petitioner's request for medical treatment violates his constitutional rights
18-9127 Kathleen C. Hampton v. PROF-2013-S3 Legal Title Trust, et al. Virginia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights consent-orders constitutional-standards due-process equal-protection foreclosure fraud loan-auction property-rights standing takings Whether Virginia courts have violated the constitutional standards of due-process,equal-protection
18-9128 Shawn R. Erpelding v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska Denied IFP 14th-amendment arbitrary-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights privileges-and-immunities standing state-action Does the State of Nebraska violate the 14th Amendment's privileges and immunities clause by arbitrarily denying committed offenders the privilege of a…
18-9129 Delroy T. Booth v. Trevonza Bobbitt, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs court-fees dismissal docketing-fees due-process eleventh-circuit fees in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant standing Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal by stating 'Failed to Pay the Docketing & Filing Fee…
18-9135 Joseph Malcomb v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing felony-classification judicial-discretion judicial-review legislative-amendment legislative-changes offense-gravity-score sentence-modification sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Was the Petitioner entitled to a sentence Modification / Reduction
18-9137 Michael D. Hickingbottom v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material civil-procedure civil-procedure-filing-deadlines due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal post-conviction-relief prison-mailbox-rule prosecutorial-misconduct standing Does the prison mailbox rule announced in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988) excuse the late filing of the notice of appeals which were filed in the…
18-9140 Michael Ray Ingram v. Frank Clements, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment injunctive-relief qualified-immunity standing supervisory-liability Whether dismissal of claims for injunctive relief requiring state officials to obey the Eighth Amendment pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 was error?
18-9141 Matthew James Griffin v. Unknown Gregoline, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Did the court of appeals err in holding that the petitioners lacked Article III standing to challenge the government's action?
18-9142 Joshua Neil Harrell v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-9144 Delbert Heard v. John R. Baldwin, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-protect inmate-safety prisoner-rights standing substantial-risk Whether the risk of inmate-on-inmate assault became sufficiently substantial to trigger 8th Amendment protections under Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 82…
18-9145 John Patrick Fletcher v. Inmate Bank, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process prisoner-complaint prisoner-rights pro-se rule-8 standard-of-review standing supervisory-power Whether the lower courts' failure/refusal to follow this Court's standard of review for pro se prisoner complaints under Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2) as he…
18-9146 Kenan Ivery v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection heat-of-passion homicide state-judiciary sudden-provocation Is a petitioner denied due process and equal protection when a state judiciary refuses to acknowledge that 'fear' is a passion that deprived the petit…
18-9152 Gary Reid v. Florida Florida Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-9156 Joseph Vincent Sisneros v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing state-court-review Was the State Court and District Courts rulings based upon an unreasonable application of U.S. Supreme Court precedence, or contrary to U.S. Supreme C…
18-9157 Israel Arce v. Chicago Transit Authority Seventh Circuit Denied IFP affidavit civil-rights costs court-fees declaration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines financial-hardship fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis income-limitation incorporation litigation-expenses poverty redress social-security Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-9158 Robert B. Lynn v. Theodore A. McKee, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bias bias-standard circuit-court-procedure due-process ex-parte-proceedings federal-courts judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal legal-standard precedent recusal recusal-standard supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals use the wrong legal standard; in conflict with the precedents of The Supreme Court and the Other Courts of Appe…
18-9159 Freddy Brown v. Florida Florida Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-review legal-interpretation merits-decision merits-determination state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci…
18-9160 Radomysl Twardowski v. Bismarck Police Department, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process jury-trial mental-health right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-sentencing defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion mental-health psychological-treatment right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations Whether the civil commitment of a person based solely on a mental health evaluation violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
18-9162 Kurtis D. Worley v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal case-caption civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements legal-document petition-formatting procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions supreme-court Whether the cappelare Cound erred by not aptly ine
18-9165 Robert Warren v. Bobbette Ramage, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process prison prison-rulemaking rulemaking state-law Whether or not prison authorities' failure to follow state law procedures for rulemaking denies due process
18-9166 Travis Michael Ortiz v. David Baughman, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing state-action takings Can California violate my freedom of the Double Security Clauses of the 4th Amendment and 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution?
18-9167 Michael J. Pendleton v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset Pennsylvania Denied IFP 14th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights contract-clause conviction-resentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto non-existent-crime state-federal-government state-legislation state-legislature substantive-due-process Whether the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violated the petitioner's substantive due process rights by convicting and resentencing him for a non-existen…
18-9170 Cynthia Ortiz v. Charles Perry, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1292 abuse-of-discretion ambiguity appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court injunctive-relief interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-dispute objections transfer venue-transfer Whether the Tenth Circuit has jurisdiction to consider for Interlocutory Appeal, under 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (a)(1) and (b), denial of Injunctive Relief
18-9171 John Priestley, Jr. v. Two Houses, in Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-1962 beneficiary campaign-misconduct electronic-communication estate estate-property fiduciary fiduciary-duty judicial-immunity racketeering-statute rent rent-collection rental-contract violation Is a fiduciary's collection of rent from a beneficiary at approximately one hundred times the rental value of an estate's property a violation of 18 U…
18-9173 Paul Hillard Posey, Sr. v. Texas Texas Denied IFP counsel-on-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Should the Sixth Amendment's constitutional guarantee to counsel on appeal extend to habeas corpus when habeas corpus is the first opportunity to revi…
18-9174 Warren Myles v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry criminal-history due-process federalism law-enforcement marijuana-search probable-cause reciprocity state-reciprocity state-rights welfare-check Does the State of Nebraska have the option to respect some but not other states' concealed carry permits?
18-9175 Corey Milledge v. Gray English, Assistant Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP bowen-v-warden civil-rights due-process evidence farmer-v-brennan harm prison standing threat united-states-v-white Whether a threat to inflict physical or other harm constitutes a substantial risk of serious harm in light of principles set forth in United States v.…
18-9176 Gregory T. Pierce v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus limitations-period mandamus mandamus-application post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-review state-post-conviction Should Petitioner's state collateral review requests be considered as pending to toll the AEDPA 1-year limitations period?
18-9177 Robert Murphy v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz…
18-9178 Matthew Oliver Alford v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction grand-jury habeas-corpus indictment jurisdictional-constraints procedural-limitations standing state-court-conviction Did the district Court (WDNC) and the 4th Cir. Court violate petitioner's right to access a federal court & right to due process by applying the wrong…
18-9179 Tony B. Thomas v. C. Blake, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech standing Why did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT overlook petitioner arguments pertaining to First-Amendment, Fourth-Amendment, Eighth…
18-9182 Aziz Mateen-El v. W. Robert Bell, Judge, Superior Court of North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-law due-process fraud government-benefits immunity social-security Whether defendants under suspension can be criminally liable for fraudulently obtaining social security benefits
18-9184 Michael B. White v. Collene K. Corcoran, Trustee, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-code-11-usc-506-c bankruptcy-code-11-usc-506(c) bankruptcy-conversion chapter-11 chapter-7 debtor-in-possession debtor-recovery debtor-rights preservation-costs recovery statutory-interpretation trustee-duties Did the 6 Circuit Court of Appeals err when it determined that a Chapter 11 debtor-in-possession loses all rights to recover under 11 USC 506(c) upon …
18-9185 Bobby Martin v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP 18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent void-for-vagueness Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether Sessions v. Dimaya and Johnson v United States invalidated the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3…
18-9186 Briand Williams v. California California Dismissed IFP ada ada-discrimination cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-consideration proposition-57 retroactive-credits sentencing time-credits Did the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) policies and procedures violate the Petitioner's U.S.C.A. 14 Amendment and the …
18-9187 Jason Brooks v. Matthew Hanson, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP adequate-appellate-review appellate-court appellate-review due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-precedent prior-judgment procedural-grounds state-procedural-rules Whether a federal appellate court can substantially change its prior judgment to intentionally sabotage a petitioner being able to file a subsequent h…
18-9189 Vernell Conley v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process evidence hicks-v-oklahoma jury jury-trial sentencing Did the refusal to order re-sentencing on the remaining conviction, limited to evidence supporting that conviction, violate Conley's right to due proc…
18-9191 Jerome Allen Bargo v. Raymond Naylor, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP contradictory-evidence cruel-punishment cvsa cvsa-test disciplinary-action due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights prison-conditions prison-discipline unsupported-evidence Did the Eighth Circuit err in holding that Bargo's CVSA tests results constituted 'some evidence' to support disciplinary action, even though the resu…
18-9194 Noah Espada v. Texas Texas Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process federal-law perjury reversal Whether a Brady violation, that results in the reversal of a death sentence because of perjury stemming from the Brady violation, implicates the Doubl…
18-9195 Keith Walter Bullard v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection index-of-authorities jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-certiorari standing statement-of-case statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese…
18-9198 John Naasz v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sudden-passion sudden-passion-defense Whether a Texas prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral review proceedings
18-9199 Peter Alfred Perez v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure crosby-hearing due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-impartiality mistrial resentencing Did the trial court abuse its discretion in denying relief from judgment based on a violation of the right to an impartial jury and ineffective assist…
18-9204 Devon A. Brown v. Florida Department of Revenue, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights contract contract-enforcement due-process original-jurisdiction social-security-act state-action state-expenditure title-iv-d Can a state or its agency violate Appellant's constitutional rights to enforce upon him an obligation that is contractual in nature?
18-9206 Mitchell Felix Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-compliance rule-11 sentencing supervisory-powers supervisory-powers-of-lower-courts Whether the District Court Judge abused its discretion in violation pursuant to Rule 11
18-9207 Leon Markel Winston v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus legal-assistance one-year-filing-deadline prison-access prison-law-library Should a criminal defendant that can demonstrate that he has been diligently pursuing a writ of habeas corpus be afforded Equitable Tolling of the One…
18-9210 Curtis Solomon v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach collateral-review constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity successive-petition vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the 'crime of violence' definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-9211 Leon Escourse-Westbrook v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence residual-clause retroactivity vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the 'crime of violence' definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-9214 Jessie Livell Phillips v. Alabama Alabama Denied IFP autopsy-photograph capital-murder capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment reliable-conviction reliable-sentence Whether the admission of a gruesome and unnecessary internal autopsy photograph, lacking probative value and showing post-crime mutilation by the medi…
18-9216 Klark Deziray Hopkins v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance liberty plea-agreement presumption-against-waiver property right-to-appeal Do the presumption against waiver of fundamental constitutional rights and the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause's guaranty against deprivations…
18-9220 Earl C. Handfield, II v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury immunity legitimate-source self-incrimination use-immunity witness witness-rights Who or what is a 'legitimate source' under use immunity?
18-9222 Michael Owen Harriot v. Robert Waizenhofer, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure mclaughlin-violation notice-and-opportunity standing statute-of-limitations sua-sponte Whether the Court of Appeals exceeded its authority to affirm a judgment as time barred
18-9223 Michael R. Gamble v. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Sixth Circuit Denied IFP ada-claims americans-with-disabilities-act animus civil-rights disability disability-discrimination disability-discrimination-claims due-process employment-termination federal-jurisdiction intentional-discrimination standing termination workers-compensation Whether Plaintiff's sustained muscular atrophy rendered him disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act
18-9225 Michael Otho Raihala v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-detention due-process pre-accusation-detention probable-cause state-agent-liability Whether it is constitutional for state and local agents to detain a citizen indefinitely without probable cause or process as a pre-accusation detaine…
18-9229 Matthew DeRyan v. East Valley School District Washington Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-protections ada-rights-violation administrative-investigation civil-rights disability disability-rights due-process false-allegations false-arrest federal-jurisdiction fraud-by-court k-12-classrooms social-security-disability standing wrongful-termination Whether the Lower courts, if in violation of Petitioner's Disability-Rights, disregarding attempts at asserting Federal-ADA-Rights, denials of motions…
18-9232 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Officer Banicki, et al. Ninth Circuit Dismissed IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-error judicial-remedy standing Whether the court below committed reversible error in dismissing the pro se appellant's complaint for failure to state a claim
18-9234 Rudy Mendoza v. United States Second Circuit GVR IFP constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-procedure jury-determination second-amendment section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-davis vagueness Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-9235 Richard McMillan, III v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence inconsistent-evidence inconsistent-testimony judicial-discretion motion-for-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal petitioner-defense state-evidence trial trial-court trial-court-evidence Can the Trial Court forbid Submission of Evidence at trial that supports Petitioner's Defense, when in fact, there's a dispute?
18-9237 James Barksdale v. United States Executive Branch Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Question not identified.
18-9238 Reshaud Todd Brown v. Washington Washington Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habitual-offender habitual-offender-statute life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-court youthful-adult youthful-offender Whether imposition of a mandatory sentence of life without parole under a habitual offender statute violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition against …
18-9239 Dale Shoop v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing right-to-testify sixth-amendment victim-testimony witness-impeachment witness-presence witness-testimony Was the Petitioner's Constitutional Sixth Amendment Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel violated
18-9244 Danny Herrera v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP and whether a conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robb 18-usc-924 conspiracy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-9249 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit-rules answering-brief appellate-procedure brief-filing civil-procedure deadlines judicial-sanctions motion-for-sanctions notification pro-se-litigation procedural-deadlines sanctions Whether the 9th Circuit erred in denying Plaintiff-Appellant's motion for sanctions against Defendant-Appellee for failure to file an answering brief …
18-9251 Willie James Atkins v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-legislation civil-procedure constitutional-provisions discovery-rule equitable-tolling fraudulent-concealment materially-indistinguishable standing Does the Doctrine of 'Equitable Tolling' due to claims of 'Fraudulent Concealment' of obviously important facts, extend to AEDPA legislative cases?
18-9252 Kevin Foster v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-findings jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt unanimous-verdict Whether Mr. Foster's death sentence is unconstitutional because it violates the Eighth Amendment and the Due Process Clause
18-9253 James Saylor v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-9258 Bernard Roosevelt Shaw v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge Whether the lower court(s) erred in its interpretation as to the 'vagueness challenge' of Section §924(c)(3)(B), and the meaning as to what is conside…
18-9262 David Wood v. Texas Texas Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments tolerate the execution of a person whose claim of intellectual disability has been expressly decided under an …
18-9265 Juan Ramon Meza Segundo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa capital-case circuit-split extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-defect rule-60(b) rule-60b section-3599 Whether the denial of Section 3599 representation services under the wrong legal standard constitutes a defect in the integrity of the federal habeas …
18-9266 Daniel Rodriguez v. United States Third Circuit GVR IFP 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) categorical-approach conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause in Section 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness
18-9267 John Loveman Reese v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-9268 Manuel Antonio Mejia Rivera v. Donna Kay McKinney, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel self-defense sixth-amendment void-conviction witness-testimony Whether the 5th Circuit erred in denying Mr. Rivera's procedural request for a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in violation of Supreme Court preced…
18-9270 Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida Florida Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-murder capital-murder-elements-as-sentencing-factors due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court foster-v-state fourteenth-amendment precedent sentencing-factors Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rationale in Foster v. State mirrors the overruled rationale of Hildwin v. Florida and reveals that Florida contin…
18-9271 Eteri Kholost, et al. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP consumer-reporting-agency due-process fair-credit-reporting-act federal-trade-commission interstate-litigation national-security reseller standing statutory-interpretation Must Real Page, Inc. in interests of national security define itself as a Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA) and be responsible in that number under Fair…
18-9272 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Nancy Dahlstrom, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections Alaska Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction juror-bias jury-bias no-impeachment-rule right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment Does the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require courts to apply a Sixth Amendment constitutional exception to a no-impeachment ru…
18-9274 William Lee Thompson v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection retroactivity sentencing-procedure teague-v-lane Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-9280 Miguel A. Jusino, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining if a plaintiff has standing to bring a claim
18-9281 Randy Burke v. Diane Prosper, Acting Warden, et al. Virgin Islands Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law expert-testimony ineffective-assistance jury-instructions right-to-confrontation trial-counsel Whether the counsel's failure to cross-examine the main witness Beatrice Lawrence constituted ineffective assistance of counsel
18-9282 William Kimble v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-9286 Prentis Rupert v. Keith Bowers, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights class-action deliberate-indifference due-process hepatitis-c medical-care prison-conditions settlement-agreement standing summary-judgment Whether the petitioner's claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs should proceed without summary judgment
18-9287 Carole L. Scheib v. James Rozberil Pennsylvania Dismissed IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte federal-question fifth-amendment foreclosure property-law real-property statute-of-limitations Whether an appellate court must apply established state rules and laws pertaining to real-property, statute-of-limitations, due-process, but continue …
18-9290 Albert J. Hamilton v. Jurban, RN, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP amendment-interpretation civil-rights constitutional-conflict criminal-law disability due-process equal-protection legal-classification rational-basis sentencing standing state-interest takings Does the State of California create a conflict under the U.S. Const. 5th and 14th Amend. by not providing a rational relationship between a legitimate…
18-9294 Andre Derrell Lee v. Jerry Goodwin, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction right-to-counsel standing Did the Circuit Court err in not granting a COA?
18-9295 Juan Aurelio Sanchez v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP arizona-rules-evidence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud-upon-court judicial-misconduct judicial-process prior-judgment-preclusion standing takings Can Arizona courts refuse to afford relief for fraud upon the court that is deeply embedded in the justice system?
18-9298 Anthony Barry and Brian Cahill v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-information fundamental-fairness jury-trial post-conviction-evidence witness-testimony Whether intentional pre-trial withholding of exculpatory information violates the Confrontation Clause
18-9299 Frankie Karen Washington v. Deborah Johnson, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split constitutional-review harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether Apprendi error at sentencing is harmless based on the entire record or only whether the sentence exceeded the statutory maximum
18-9302 Xing Lin v. United States Second Circuit GVR IFP 18-usc-924 appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Is the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) void for vagueness?
18-9307 Carl Lynn Scott v. Jerry Goodwin, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
18-9309 Valentin Spataru v. Harmony Healing Center Florida Denied IFP access-to-justice appellate-rules civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-assistance legal-dismissal standing Whether a County or State Court may dismiss a complaint without due process
18-9310 Roberto Nieto Cruz v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process extraneous-evidence extraneous-offense-testimony fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the Court of Appeals erred in misapplying the Strickland standard and depriving the Appellant of his constitutional rights to due process and …
18-9311 Octavius Matthews v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-9316 Walter Alberto Banegas Hernandez v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-9318 Darnell Dunlap v. Michigan Michigan Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-illinois indigent-appellant right-to-appeal standing statutory-interpretation 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
18-9319 Robert Gray v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability?
18-9320 Domenick James Howard v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-state-relations lockhart-v-united-states mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states ninth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty Whether a prior sexual assault conviction should be used to increase the statutory penalty where the prior state conviction is over-inclusive vis-a-vi…
18-9321 Jesus Cornelio Dolmo-Alvarez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit…
18-9322 Edward Ray Crosby v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law disability judicial-review senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states united-states-sentencing-commission ussg-4b1.2 Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery by inflicting injury against a senior or disabled victim satisfies the definition of 'crime of violenc…
18-9323 Donald Duhart v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is the residual clause definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague?
18-9324 Robert Gordon Johnstone v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-retardation ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief retrial-proceedings standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause requires a new trial for a mentally retarded criminal defendant whose original trial counsel was…
18-9326 David Marshall v. Wisconsin Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling seventh-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred in failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability
18-9327 Aceshunn Brown v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act attempt force-clause new-york-law new-york-penal-law second-degree-robbery violent-felony Whether an attempt to commit a violent felony is a violent felony under the ACCA force clause
18-9330 Thomas Anthony Hammond v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-law-sentencing due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether New York's Robbery Statute § 160.15 qualifies as a Crime of Violence under the Career Offender Guideline § 4B1.2
18-9331 Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts appeals appellate-review capital-counsel capital-habeas civil-rights collateral-review counsel-substitution due-process habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings mandamus right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation statutory-right Whether the Court of Appeals failed to apply the existing basis of (a) Potential, (b) Pendent, (c) 28 U.S.C.S. § 1651(a) review by Mandamus, (d) 28 US…
18-9332 In Re Nawaz Ahmed Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus mandamus prohibition standing Whether the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's request for an extraordinary writ of mandamus and/or prohibition
18-9333 Gustavo Gomez v. California Ninth Circuit Denied IFP appeal case-law constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction motion-to-amend sixth-amendment standing Were this Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights according to the United States Constitution violated by the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth …
18-9334 In Re Phillip S. Grigalanz Denied IFP access-to-courts access-to-process appellate-process civil-rights due-process prisoner-rights state-action state-actors unlawful-interference writ-of-certiorari Do State actors possess an inherent responsibility to protect a prisoner's right of access to process against unlawful interference?
18-9339 Anthony Dajuan Yates v. California California Denied IFP batson batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure disparate-impact equal-protection juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges race-neutral-explanation racial-profiling Does a prosecutor's peremptory challenge of a prospective African-American juror based on the juror's perception of racial profiling by law enforcemen…
18-9341 Antwon G. Whitten v. William A. Gunter, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment free-speech standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-9342 Thomas Tiner v. Danella Cockrell, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondent's actions
18-9344 Samuel J. Yarber v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g 18-usc-924c 21-usc-841a conviction-grouping criminal-statute federal-courts federal-law grouping judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines united-states-code Whether counts of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) should be grouped under the United States Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G.…
18-9347 Sherrick A Sims v. Kansas Kansas Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-violation conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jury limine limine-orders prejudicial-testimony violation Was Mc. Sims denied due process of law when the District Court and Kansas Supreme Court upheld a conviction obtained by the State's violation of Three…
18-9348 Willie Joe Williams v. Stephen Welch, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing Whether or not the Stote Court And Federol Courhis) error in sending Petitioner to prison after dismissing Crime (sd and Charge ls)
18-9349 Robert Lee McConnell v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Nevada Denied IFP 8th-amendment aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing constitutional-requirement due-process jury-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt Whether the Constitution requires—in a state in which a jury is required to find that mitigating circumstances do not outweigh the aggravating circums…
18-9350 Russell Rafael Whitehead v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP assault-battery constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-law deadly-weapon ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge jury-instructions legal-standard standard-of-review use-of-force Can a fist be considered a deadly weapon in and of itself?
18-9351 Craig Bassett v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-act court-rule due-process federal-courts federal-law respondeat-superior section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-law statutory-interpretation Can a rule of court contradict an act of congress without violating due process?
18-9353 Trista Rodriguez v. Nationwide Homes, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law damages due-process evidence standing When does token for lawfulness purpose constitute evidence that constitutional and civil rights were violated by the defendants in establishing an inj…
18-9361 Jordan Alexander Clemons v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP affidavit appellate-procedure civil-rights court-access criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-proportionality in-forma-pauperis indigence indigent-status juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing legal-representation life-imprisonment pro-bono Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentence of life imprisonment without parole for a crime committ…
18-9363 Michael Lee Robinson v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-waiver due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-constitutional-rights hurst-rule penalty-jury retroactivity waiver Can a defendant waive a federal constitutional right that was unknown and unrecognized at the time?
18-9364 Javontae Tyree Street v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing mobile-structure nonpermanent-structure overnight-accommodation predicate-offense statutory-interpretation Whether breaking or entering a nonpermanent or mobile structure that is not adapted or used for overnight accommodation qualifies as the predicate off…
18-9365 Jose Antonio Ramirez-Jaramillo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-range substantial-rights Whether an error in selecting the defendant's statutory range of imprisonment affects his or her substantial rights within the meaning of Federal Rule…
18-9366 Michael T. Rivera v. Florida Florida Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-statute due-process eighth-amendment judicial-interpretation procedural-rule retroactivity substantive-law Whether the Federal Due Process Clause requires a state to apply a new interpretation of a state criminal statute retroactively to cases on collateral…
18-9367 Michael F. Ramsey v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-punishment consecutive-sentences criminal-possession criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy firearm-law intent-of-legislature johnson-v-morgenthau judicial-precedent legislative-intent misapplied-decisions penal-law single-continuous-possession weapon-possession Whether New York, by allowing consecutive sentences for the single continuous possession of the same firearm, ignored its own precedent in Johnson v. …
18-9370 Mark A. Blankenship v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court district-court-determination fed-r-crim-p-35(b) federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review reduced-sentence sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factor sentencing-factors Does appellate jurisdiction lie from a district court's determination that a particular sentencing factor is relevant to the imposition of a reduced s…
18-9372 Quisi Bryan v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-interpretation federal-constitutional-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus panetti-v-quarterman procedural-bar retroactive-law retroactivity state-court Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244 prevents a federal habeas court from reviewing a state court's voluntary and independent retroactive application of a new rul…
18-9373 David Shu v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination-claim due-process jury-trial-right pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-dismissal standing title-vii Whether a Title VII discrimination case drafted by a pro se US citizen has been improperly dismissed for length despite the viability of the claims?
18-9375 Saleem Elamin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment armed-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation Can the government charge the minimum sentence of 2 years for an agreed offense of carrying a firearm during a robbery?
18-9376 Charles A. Davis v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-review jurisdictional-defect jurisdictional-defects legal-standing lower-courts procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by their failure to address the jurisdictional defects that deprive them of subject-matter-jurisdicti…
18-9377 John Patrick Donohue v. Virginia Virginia Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parole probation sentencing standing Whether the Conditional release of an individual violates due process
18-9379 Paul A. Light v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias non-contact-offenders reasonableness recusal second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the child pornography Sentencing Guidelines can be deemed reasonable when the Sentencing Commission has deemed …
18-9380 Miguel Daniel Leal v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel marital-communications-privilege marital-privilege ninth-circuit-review sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights state-courts supervisory-power supreme-court-dicta Is SCOTUS dicta authoritative?
18-9381 Hubert Youte v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP border-search civil-rights fourth-amendment living-quarters maritime-law reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure vessel vessel-search Whether the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable suspicion to enter and search the living quarters on a vessel docked at the border
18-9382 Joshua Wofford v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-construction harmless-error prosecutorial-evidence standard-of-review Whether the federal court of appeals failed to effectively apply the Chapman v. California harmless-error standard
18-9384 In Re Freya Pearson Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel legal-standards mandamus pro-se standing takings writ-of-relief Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when the district court dismissed her hab…
18-9385 Cargil Nicholson v. Rollin Cook, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certification-of-appeal criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court erred by denying the petitioner certification to appeal from the Appellate Court?
18-9387 Mary Elizabeth Schipke v. Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act civil-gideon civil-rights constitutional-rights disability due-process equal-protection extension-of-time homelessness inheritance inheritance-rights speedy-trial Whether the 2nd Circuit Court erred in refusing Petitioner's motion for assistance of counsel and an extension of time under the Americans with Disabi…
18-9388 In Re Ramsey Randall Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-remedy free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-provisions Whether the federal abstention doctrine restricts federal courts from providing relief to state criminal defendants who seek to challenge their convic…
18-9391 Josephine McGowan v. Walmart Stores Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing takings Whether the petitioner was treated in an unconstitutional manner by various officials
18-9392 Brent Edward Lovett v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure arbitrary-enforcement constitutional-rights debatable due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-counsel jurists-of-reason slack-v-mcdaniel Whether courts should be required to state reasons and indicate evidence relied upon to protect against arbitrary enforcement
18-9393 Tarell McIlwain v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP 2nd-circuit 4th-amendment circuit-split custodial-arrest fourth-amendment new-york-court-of-appeals officer-safety probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search Can the warrantless search of a person be justified as incident to arrest where, at the time of the search, no arrest has been made and none would hav…
18-9395 Larry Brown v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-9397 Miguel Angel Barron v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fair-trial fourth-amendment jury-instructions probable-cause relevance search-and-seizure self-defense warrantless-search Whether a state trial court's jury instruction that reduces the burden of proof or violates a principle of fairness contained in the due process claus…
18-9398 Ali Cisse v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2511 circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-rights consent fourth-amendment mitchell-v-wisconsin privacy privacy-rights statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretapping wiretapping-consent Does knowledge of wiretapping establish 'consent' to wiretapping under 18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(c)?
18-9400 Charlie Russell Martin v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission false-testimony fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury legal-standard miranda-warnings procedural-due-process state-procedure trial Did the knowing use of false testimony at defendant's second trial rise to a denial of due process that likely affected the jury's judgment?
18-9402 David Lester Jackson v. California California Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probation probation-search search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement warrantless-search Were-appellates Fourth Amend. rights violated
18-9404 Devon Lona Lunn v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondent's actions
18-9405 John Willie Mack, Jr. v. Kenneth Nelsen, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial Was the defendant denied effective assistance of counsel?
18-9406 Ricky Carlos Grant v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony standard-of-review telephone-evidence witness-qualification Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to find that the United States District Court for Western District …
18-9408 Freddie J. Hennington v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-review procedural-error sentencing standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Hennington's appeal without considering the merits of his arguments
18-9409 Fermin Guerrero v. Martin Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-errors criminal-trial-errors cumulative-error cumulative-prejudice due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informant-testimony strickland strickland-standard strickland-violation Does the Constitution require a cumulative assessment of multiple constitutional errors at a criminal trial?
18-9410 Morris Sanders v. Walmart Stores East, L.P. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility-determination employment-discrimination evidence-weighing jury-trial retaliation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination Where the federal courts below decided for themselves every triable fact issue crucial to petitioner's workplace discrimination and retaliation claims…
18-9414 Donald Stewart Royce v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence impeachment law-enforcement witness witness-testimony Whether a trial court abuses its discretion, within the confines of procedural due process in the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, by limiting cros…
18-9415 Michael Don Neely v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation illegal-sentence johnson-v-united-states judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional Whether a district court can vacate an illegal sentence enhanced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) if it finds that the record established th…
18-9416 John O. Williams v. Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense Whether the district court judge's order of denial, denying the petitioner's habeas petition and claim, was contrary to or involved an unreasonable ap…
18-9417 Wade Lay v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP available-state-corrective-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction government-misconduct habeas-corpus standing state-court-determination wainwright-v-sykes Whether the government's actions in filing a Wainwright motion for a prisoner in state custody present a constitutional dilemma, and whether such acti…
18-9418 D. M. Indika Bandara v. Dan Mann, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment cab-companies civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment due-process equal-protection fort-jackson-base fourteenth-amendment immigrant-owned-businesses standing Whether the termination of non-white immigrant-owned small cab companies by the CAE airport based on alleged lack of access to Fort Jackson base, whil…
18-9419 Mario Laron Waiters v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment Whether the Virginia Statute 19.2-72 violates due-process, equal-protection, 1st-amendment, 4th-amendment, 5th-amendment, 6th-amendment
18-9420 Le'Ardrus Burris v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility divisibility-analysis felonious-assault mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states ohio-law ohio-revised-code-2903a sixth-circuit state-v-harris statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Circuit's divisibility analysis ignores this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States and Ohio Supreme Court precedent in State v…
18-9421 In Re Ronald D. Veteto Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-penalty civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-misconduct due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandamus-petition notice-pleading prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights sanctions Whether the district court and Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Veteto's civil rights claims and petitions for mandamus relief
18-9422 Davaus L. McCown v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment controlled-buys criminal-pattern criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-enterprise drug-sales fourth-amendment ongoing-activity ongoing-criminal-activity probable-cause probable-cause-search search-and-seizure search-warrant stale-information Whether two police-orchestrated, controlled buys demonstrate an ongoing pattern of drug sales sufficient to support probable cause for an otherwise-st…
18-9423 Ayanna Angle v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-procedure equal-protection harmless-error judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination Whether a court of appeals should grant a new trial when it finds that the district court failed to complete all three steps of the Batson analysis
18-9425 Kevin Contreras v. United States Fifth Circuit GVR IFP 18-usc-924(a) aggravated-assault criminal-law criminal-liability due-process equal-protection generic-offense interstate-movement physical-force recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-physical-force vagueness voisine-v-united-states Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault is equivalent to the 'generic' form of that offense?
18-9427 Willie Anthony Saxby, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution dual-sovereignty due-process fair-notice federal-jurisdiction federal-state-jurisdiction pending-charges state-jurisdiction supervised-release Did the Federal Government violate the 'Doctrines of Dual Sovergeinship' which exist between Federal and State jurisdictions for prosecuting an 'alleg…
18-9428 Robert L. Jenkins v. Pelicia E. Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction bullcoming-v-new-mexico civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law forensic-evidence judicial-review melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts testimonial-statements Whether the testimonial statements of witnesses about forensic testing may be admitted only where the declarant is unavailable, and only where the def…
18-9429 Susan Washington v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-9430 Bobby Ray Turner v. Texas Texas Denied IFP conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-misconduct sentencing standards-of-review Whether a state judge's personal conviction from personal experience is legally sufficient to set aside a felony conviction
18-9432 Joseph Frank Rowe v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-crime Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § …
18-9433 Timothy J. Stubbs v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-activity financial-records financial-transparency fraud fraud-or-deceit kawashima-v-holder sentencing-enhancement sophisticated-means tax-assessment tax-evasion Does the Government meet its burden of proof in a tax evasion case (as opposed to failure to file) where the financial records of the accused are trut…
18-9434 Juan Carlos Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b) 4th-amendment co-defendant-consent consent-search consent-to-search fourth-amendment jury-instructions prior-bad-acts prior-bad-acts-404(b) rule-404b search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-variance standing-4th-amendment-search-and-seizure standing-to-suppress variance warrantless-search Whether the trial and appellate court erred in adjudging that Petitioner had no standing to request suppression of evidence obtained from a warrantles…
18-9435 Steven Jacob Seibert v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Georgia Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel interstate-communication jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge restraining-order retroactivity. stalking-statute standing Whether the petitioner's conviction for aggravated stalking was unconstitutional due to lack of jurisdiction, ineffective assistance of counsel, and r…
18-9436 William Edward Branham v. Isidro Baca, Warden Nevada Denied IFP criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states Whether the federal constitution requires states to retroactively apply a narrowing interpretation of a substantive criminal statute
18-9438 Nathaniel Woods v. Cynthia Stewart, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,ma ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining plea-negotiations trevino-exception trevino-v-thaler Could reasonable jurists disagree with the district court's rejection of Mr. Woods' claim that Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), and Trevino v. Tha…
18-9440 Earl Lee Dixie v. Kenneth Harrington, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intoxication-defense mental-health-defense mental-health-evidence specific-intent strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether Dixie's trial counsel was prejudicially ineffective for failing to present evidence that Dixie suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, which wou…
18-9442 Donald Loston v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-efficiency judicial-integrity reversible-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether a state trial court denial of counsel of choice is reversible error when no threat against the interest of judicial integrity and efficiency w…
18-9444 Gregory Greer v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP 922(g) 924(a)(2) commerce-clause congressional-authority criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez whether-congress-may-criminalize-intrastate-firearm-possession
18-9446 Davon Kelly Bennett v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination custodial-interrogation daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-witness-testimony motion-to-suppress rule-404b sixth-amendment Whether the District Court deprived Petitioner of his right to confront witnesses
18-9448 Darren Brady v. Sandra St. Pierre, et al. New Hampshire Denied Response WaivedIFP city civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-denial due-process false-arrest government government-immunity impersonation-of-judges judicial-misconduct state-court-procedure state-law-officials witness-statements Whether impersonation of judges, government, city, state law officials is wrong and should not apply
18-9449 Nicole R. McCrea v. District of Columbia Police and Firefighters' Retirement and Relief Board District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-preemption americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-law disability-discrimination disability-law employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity equal-employment-opportunity-commission family-medical-leave-act federal-preemption federal-statute fmla police-and-firefighters-retirement-and-disability- state-law wca workers-compensation workman's-compensation-act Does the ADA supersede a state Workman's Compensation Act?
18-9450 Angela Pizzarelli v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-relief jurisdiction notice notice-requirement procedural-default standing state-court time-limitation Does the failure of the state court clerk's office to notify petitioner of the court's decision on appeal constitute grounds for equitable tolling of …
18-9451 Denzel Pittman v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process illinois-law judicial-mandate juvenile-justice mental-health petition-for-leave-to-appeal second-amendment self-regulation standing supreme-court takings Whether the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual's right to possess firearms for self-defense outside the home
18-9452 In Re Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. Dismissed IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-authority clerk-discretion court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts filing-requirements habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-authority procedural-compliance standing title-28 title-28-usc-1915 Does the United States District Court have the authority to gather and review civil service records & complaints to determine whether the party is a p…
18-9453 Vincent Pisciotta v. D. J. Harmon, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review buck-v-davis due-process due-process,equal-protection,habeas-corpus,buck-v- equal-protection federal-prisoners fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoners Did the Fifth Circuit Court of appeals err when it denied Mr. Pisciotta's appeal in violation of The Supreme Court decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct…
18-9454 Daniel Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-questions coram-nobis custody error-coram-nobis habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation pcra post-conviction-relief writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether 42 Pa. C.S. § 9542 of the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) operate under the Antiterroism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA…
18-9456 Gary Giovon Lynn v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-sentencing nunc-pro-tunc procedural-error sentencing sentencing-authority sentencing-procedure-error separation-of-powers setser-v-united-states ussg-5g1-3c When the district court failed to follow the Court's ruling in Setser v. United States, 566 U.S. 231 (2012) at sentencing did it engage in an impermis…
18-9457 Edwin D. McMillan v. Ron Rackley, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 28-u.s.c.-2244(d)(1) 28-usc-2244 constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-impediment statutory-interpretation Does strict calculation of timeliness after finding of extraordinary circumstances created by a state impediment to filing 28 U.S.C. section 2244(d)(1…
18-9458 Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-relief federal-procedure injunctive-relief mandamus-writ standing writ-of-mandamus Whether the District Court improperly violated Petitioner Musa's constitutional right
18-9459 Trinidad Nanez-Rivera v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-common-law mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness tenth-circuit within-guideline-sentences within-range-sentence Have the length of within-guideline sentences become effectively unreviewable in practice, and is Mr. Nanez-Rivera's sentence near the top of the rang…
18-9460 Quentin Perry v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness Does the judicial determination of crimes 'committed on occasions different from one another' under the Armed Career Criminal Act violate the Sixth Am…
18-9461 Antonio Tillmon v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-amendment fourth-circuit-review insufficient-evidence judicial-review right-to-a-fair-trial sufficiency-of-evidence undercover-agent undercover-operations Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming Mr. Tillmon's convictions on certain counts
18-9462 Daniel H. Kilgore v. Ronda J. Pash, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus missouri-law plea-bargaining sentencing sex-offender Is Mr. Kilgore entitled to appeal the district court's decision that Missouri did not violate Mr. Kilgore's right to due process of law when he was or…
18-9464 Charles William Finney v. Florida Florida Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-murder capital-sentencing death-penalty florida-constitution jury-trial jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment Whether Florida's capital sentencing scheme violates the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial by requiring the jury to find only aggravating factors …
18-9465 Beth Galloway v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-sufficiency financial-transaction financial-transactions insurance-fraud judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial new-trial Whether a judgment of acquittal should have been granted
18-9466 Paulito Govea-San Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law disability senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2l1.2 statutory-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states texas-robbery ussg-2l1.2 Whether the Texas offense of robbery by inflicting injury against a senior or disabled victim satisfies the definition of 'crime of violence' under US…
18-9467 Koran McKinley Allen v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-2113a-d 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § …
18-9468 Melvin Bonnell v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-conviction capital-punishment federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect magwood-v-patterson nunc-pro-tunc second-or-successive statutory-interpretation Whether a state court's nunc pro tunc judgment cures a jurisdictional defect in a capital defendant's conviction, and whether the first federal habeas…
18-9469 Paul Melvin Watson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-4a1.2 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u-s-s-g-4a1-2 Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) or U.S.S.G. § …
18-9470 R. Jay Thompson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP confrontation-clause evidence hearsay hearsay-statements sane-nurse sexual-assault sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-evidence Whether statements made to the SANE nurse are testimonial for Sixth Amendment purposes
18-9471 Joseph John Viola v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactivity self-representation state-supreme-court Whether the order promulgating the 1992 amendments to Rule 32 constituted violations of guarantees against ex post facto law and due process under the…
18-9472 Reginald Donell Rice v. Carey D. Cockell, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-question due-process federal-law federal-question jurisdiction precedent standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the court of appeals decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court
18-9473 Jose Antonio Contreras v. Washington Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings Why is the petition of Holleads Court wrongly being denied by the District Court?
18-9475 Darrell Kennedy v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins pro-se schlup-v-delo statute-of-limitations Whether Mr. Kennedy was denied due process by the Court of Appeals' improper evaluation of Mr. Kennedy's actual-innocence claim to establish cause to …
18-9476 In Re Anthony K. Anderson Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing state-court state-court-proceedings Whether the Nevada District Court erred in denying petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus despite the court's lack of subject matter jur…
18-9477 Arnold Roberts v. DuPage County Circuit Court Illinois Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment innocence state-attorney Was the Petitioner's Due Process Rights violated under the United States Constitutional 14th Amendment?
18-9478 David Rothenberg v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mens-rea plea-bargaining probable-cause probable-cause-affidavit probation prosecutorial-misconduct Is the use by the prosecutor of a 'probable cause affidavit' containing averments contradictory to the alleged victim's own sworn statement to charge …
18-9479 In Re Percy Allen Stucks Denied Response WaivedIFP castle-doctrine civil-rights due-process florida-law imminent-danger property-rights residential-defense self-defense stand-your-ground Does a resident have the right to stand their ground in their residential property in Florida?
18-9481 Jerry Eugene Shrubb v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence appeal cerebellar-degeneration constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-counsel miranda-violation petition-for-allowance-of-appeal sixth-amendment warrantless-search Has the Appellant been denied Due Process of Law in that no Court has reasonably observed the actual claims raised by the Appellant?
18-9482 Jorge J. Rubio v. Tina Raburn, et al. Sixth Circuit Dismissed IFP 28-usc-1291 28-usc-1915 appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court of appeals has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 1291 to review an order denying leave to proceed in forma pauperis under 28 U.S.C.…
18-9483 Brian Alford v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP burglary burglary-allegation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder legal-sufficiency probable-cause prosecution-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Whether it is permissible for a state criminal court to predicate felony murder liability on an allegation of burglary that lacks sufficient bases in …
18-9484 Paris Taylor v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-constitution trial-court Whether Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States C…
18-9487 Willie Lee Johnson v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation jury-selection legal-ethics oregon-state-bar presumption-of-innocence Whether the Oregon State Bar and the Oregon Supreme Court's Chief Justice's approved adoption of the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Profess…
18-9488 Nasedra K. Lumpkin v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights default-judgment dismissal due-process equal-protection federal-court procedural-default standing Whether the Fifth Amendment's due process clause requires a hearing before dismissal of a civil complaint for failure to prosecute
18-9492 Valentin Spataru v. Rick Ramsay Florida Denied IFP 8th-amendment battery civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment detention due-process eighth-amendment intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress law-enforcement-detention Whether ~30' transportation to jail in a law-enforcement hyperthermic, 'cooking' car is cruel and unusual punishment
18-9493 Jose Santillan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether factual findings in a Presentence Report must be proven by the government or disproven by the defendant
18-9494 Matthew Mounir Awad v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling sentencing Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals correctly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
18-9496 Darren Deon Johnson v. Barbara Hoober, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-among-circuits due-process environmental-law federal-question standing takings Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the decision of the district court in Loggerhead Turtle v. County Council of Volus…
18-9497 Lloyd E. Austin, IV v. Bridgitte Amsberry Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Why would the petitioner accept a plea agreement to the worst case scenario without being of sound mind?
18-9498 Mark Alan Lane v. Cynthia Swain, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights disciplinary-code due-process first-amendment free-speech inmate-communication ninth-circuit prison-regulation prison-regulations procunier-test procunier-v-martinez standing Is Section 203's prohibition against threatening another with any offense a close fit to a legitimate penological interest?
18-9499 Chad Austin v. Timothy Stewart, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal bureau-of-prisons civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-bar How can the Bureau of Prisons make petitioner's federal sentence, where petitioner was sentenced of violating 18 USC 3581(b), 18 USC 3553, USSG § 5G1.…
18-9500 Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Tri-County Metropolitan Transit District of Oregon Oregon Denied IFP bus-accident carrier-liability civil-rights due-process duty-of-care evidence medical-evidence negligence public-transportation substance-impairment summary-judgment tort Issues being raised
18-9501 Bruce Mayo Ennis v. Nevada Nevada Denied IFP criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states Whether the federal constitution requires a state court to retroactively apply a new interpretation of a substantive criminal statute that narrows its…
18-9502 Christian Vazquez Capistran v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
18-9503 Donald M. Boswell v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP §2254-petition certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-created-impediments statute-of-limitations Did the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err when they …
18-9504 Rahmat Jevon Barrett v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protection criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,due-process,sixt post-conviction-relief To what extent does the Constitution prohibit conviction and punishment of an accused whereby trial counsel failed to raise exculpatory evidence durin…
18-9505 Antonio Parra Perez v. Texas Texas Denied IFP character-evidence criminal-procedure due-process prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence sex-crimes unconstitutional-as-applied unfair-prejudice Is Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 38.37 §2 unconstitutional?
18-9507 Theon Smith v. Charleston County Domestic Relations, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law child-support-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-government parental-rights sovereign-immunity standing title-iv-d Does the United States unequivocally wave its sovereign immunity when it does business with its citizens?
18-9509 Robert Lehmann v. Scott Kernan, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-v-youngblood bad-faith-exception brady-v-maryland due-process evidence evidence-preservation fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct scientific-evidence scientific-testing strickland-v-washington With the advancement of scientific testing methods of biological evidence, is the 'bad faith' exception to the failure to preserve evidence carved out…
18-9510 Rasaq Aderoju Raheem v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure conviction criminal-procedure defendant-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming Defendant's Raheem conviction
18-9511 Christopher Stepp v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-claims federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye wilson-v-sellers Whether a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to § 2254 habeas relief
18-9512 Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conspiracy criminal-culpability double-jeopardy dry-conspiracy due-process guilt indictment jury reasonable-foreseeability subject-matter-jurisdiction Who does the jury have to be in order to establish guilt or criminal culpability in all dry conspiracy crimes?
18-9513 Rhonda Reid v. Walter Donnelly, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination sentencing standing Why did the trial judge, Meares, decide on my case under OCGA 16-11-37(b), why didn't he provide me a hearing, why did he fail to allow me to present …
18-9514 John R. Polgar v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-9515 Brandon Christopher Pierre v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights conviction-and-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment federal-jurisdiction malicious-prosecution probable-cause Under what circumstances can a federal court falsely and wrongfully indict, arrest, imprison, convict, and sentence an individual under the 'color of …
18-9518 Blayne D. Williams, Sr. v. City of Austin, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process employment federal-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure municipal-employer municipal-government property-interest rule-12b6 seventh-amendment state-law Whether the City of Austin, as a municipal government employer violated the Appellant's federal and state law rights secured by the United States Cons…
18-9519 Michael Wesley v. New York New York Denied IFP alvarez-v-united-states constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-witness-perjury griffin-v-united-states petitioner's right to have newly-discovered-eviden sixth-amendment united-states-v-biberfeld washington-v-texas witness witness-perjury Does a petitioner have a right to have a witness in their favor protected by the Due Process Clause and the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-9520 Alan Bartlett v. Susanna Pineda, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona Dismissed IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure electronic-surveillance fourteenth-amendment-due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure legislative-authority search-and-seizure state-constitution statutory-interpretation unlawful-search warrantless-search Whether in light of Bollinger v. New Hampshire, 390 U.S. 1020, the Arizona based conviction of petitioner violates his Fourth Amendment rights where t…
18-9521 Christopher Anthony Jones v. Nevada Nevada Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-statute due-process montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-exception welch-v-united-states Whether due process requires the states to retroactively apply a decision narrowing the interpretation of a substantive criminal statute
18-9522 Renee Lopez-Galvan v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 92…
18-9523 Amnon Ami Levi v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP custodial-interrogation isolation language-abilities miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona neutral-location police-domination police-isolation totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances voluntariness Whether factors of police domination and isolation can result in custodial interrogation within the meaning of Miranda v. Arizona
18-9524 Michael Deangelo Lowery v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-report rehabilitation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the AEDPA was violated
18-9525 Mark A. Harris v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the standard for reviewing a petitioner's allegations of special circumstances is subjective or objective, and whether an evidentiary hearing …
18-9527 Thomas Branagan v. Isidro Baca, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-victim civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-issues ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault standing testimony-inconsistency witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether the defendant's constitutional rights were violated due to ineffective assistance of counsel and prosecutorial misconduct
18-9528 Edward Faye Parks v. Bruno Stolc, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Dismissed IFP civil-procedure-standing-due-process-takings-pate civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its decision
18-9529 Anibal Del Valle-Hiraldo v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining rosemond-v-united-states sixth-amendment Whether an attorney's advice to a defendant to plead guilty to aiding and abetting the carry, use and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crim…
18-9530 Terry Margheim v. Kenneth Buck, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP favorable-termination fourth-amendment innocence legal-process malice probable-cause supreme-court-precedent unlawful-seizure Are malice and favorable termination indicative of innocence, necessary elements to prove a violation of the Fourth Amendment?
18-9531 Lan Deyerle v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources West Virginia Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court-rules Whether the court should grant an out-of-time petition for writ of certiorari
18-9533 Shua Tilahun v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment successive-post-conviction Whether Martinez v. Ryan allows a case to be overturned if the plaintiff can show a high probability of a substantially different outcome at the trial…
18-9534 Femi Alexander Mewase v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jury-selection due-process federal-rules-of-evidence jury-selection sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the improper removal of Juror 20
18-9535 Alexander Ocasio v. William Perez, et al. Ninth Circuit Dismissed IFP access-to-courts citizens-arrest constitutional-rights due-process Fifth-Amendment-violation First-Amendment-violation fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-violation inter-local-agreement judicial-bias jurisdictional-limitations liberty-interest nev-rev-stat-289-350 Ninth-Circuit police-powers property-interest unlawful-arrest warrantless-arrest Is it a violation of the Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution where it is clear to every reasonable police officer that …
18-9536 Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel resentencing second-amendment sentencing-guidelines upward-variance witness-tampering Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously denied Certificate of Appealability
18-9537 Stephen S. Henry v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP assistant-united-states-attorney due-process federal-district-court fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60 section-2254 section-2255 standard-of-review state-court-review whether-fraud-on-the-court-can-be-reviewed-in-a-§-2255-habeas-proceeding
18-9539 Keenan Brown v. Walmart Stores, Inc. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction retaliation standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment whistle-blower Did the Illinois Northern District Court erred its decision by not properly exercising Rule 56 Summary Judgment with all evidence being examined as a …
18-9541 Darius Leigh Gilkey v. DeWayne Burton, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment adequate-provocation attorney-client-relations attorney-client-relationship consensual-sex criminal-law due-process felony-murder homicide provocation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Should this Court grant Certiorari to determine if consensual sex that later turned into a homicide, resulting from adequate provocation amounts to fe…
18-9542 In Re David Roland Hinkson Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Question not identified
18-9543 Lonnie Haney v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel time-constraints Are the lower court rulings in direct conflict with the spirit of this Court's holding in Lafler v. Cooper?
18-9544 Ronald Ray Henry v. Terema Carlin, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None
18-9545 Robert Hercenberger v. Kathy Proctor Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-action state-jurisdiction Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all
18-9548 Kevin Terrell Tatum v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure-summary-judgment civil-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence newly-discovered-evidence recantation sufficiency-of-evidence summary-judgment witness-recantation Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment against the appellant when there are material, unresolved facts in dispute
18-9549 Mauricio Lucas-Lopez v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment federal-court-decisions federal-courts guidance-needed mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines Is petitioner's twenty-five year mandatory minimum sentence disproportionate to the offense committed violating the Eighth Amendment prohibition again…
18-9550 Jerome L. Grimes v. Avis Budget Group Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process framed-up pro-se-plaintiff sixth-amendment standing statute-of-limitation theft Whether a plausible claim for relief was asserted in the plaintiff's amended complaint, and whether tolling the statutes of limitation to file and/or …
18-9551 Antoaneta Iotova, et al. v. McCabe, Weisberg and Conway, LLC Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-jurisdiction standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
18-9552 Patricia Gill v. Nyack College, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process harassment in-forma-pauperis judicial-misconduct poor-person-status prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-officials Whether the prosecutions undertaken by state officials in bad faith with the intent to harass the defendant/Plaintiff and discourage her from exercisi…
18-9553 Marvin Eugene Jones v. California California Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-9555 Kenneth Thomas v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington cross-examination fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sixth-amendment strickland-standard testimonial-evidence Whether the introduction of an autopsy report which was presented as substantive evidence but not testified to by its author violates the Sixth and Fo…
18-9556 Charles R. Willard v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness prejudice prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-mitigation trial-counsel witness-credibility witness-impeachment Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability (COA) met on a claim that trial counsel provided prejudicially deficient performance when coun…
18-9557 Charles C. Brewington v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure custody due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct legal-standard sixth-amendment standing wrongful-conviction Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the state court proceedings
18-9558 Oladimeji Ayelotan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-selection sentencing shackling Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred
18-9559 Aracelis N. Ayala v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-judges civil-rights criminal-defendants criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-amendment individualized-determination judicial-tenure presumption revised-organic-act shackling shackling-policy virgin-islands-court whether a blanket policy of shackling criminal defendants without an individualized determination of need violates due process?
18-9560 Anthony Wright v. Kenneth E. Lassiter, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure,civil-rights,due-process,free-spee civil-rights discovery due-process evidence standing summary-judgment Whether the court erred in ruling against the plaintiff
18-9562 Shawn Michael Simms v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statute, 42 Pa.C…
18-9563 Cody Shane Sorrels v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is 'not greater than necessary' to achieve…
18-9565 Casey Stoermer v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP consent drug-possession exigent-circumstances fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search of Stoermer's apartment was justified despite the lack of exigent circumstances
18-9566 Jason Brady Sain v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP closing-arguments credibility due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment theory-of-the-case witness-credibility Was petitioner's sixth and fourteenth amendment rights to a fair trial violated?
18-9568 Roderick Mullins v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process imprisonment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment life-sentence sentencing sentencing-scheme state-constitution Does the Florida 'Life Means Life' sentence scheme violate the State Constitution's ban on indefinite imprisonment and the 14th Amendment Due Process …
18-9569 Joel Marvin Munt v. Tom Roy, et al. Eighth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-recusal petition-for-appeal plra pro-se-litigation recusal standing three-strikes tro Can denial of a Rule 5 Petition for Permission to Appeal be a strike under the PLRA?
18-9570 Cody Joseph Morgan v. Texas Texas Denied IFP appeal double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce retrial sentencing sentencing-package texas-v-mccullough Whether Texas v. McCullough created a bright-line rule that the presumption of judicial vindictiveness under North Carolina v. Pearce is inapplicable …
18-9572 William Paul Cox, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922(g)(1) 18-usc-922g county-jail criminal-evidence criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guilty-plea jail-phone-calls stored-communications-act suppression-of-evidence suppression-of-phone-calls Whether petitioner had an enforceable claim under the Stored Communications Act
18-9573 Ernesto Betancourt-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit…
18-9574 Fayez Abu-Aish v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent distribution drug-distribution mcfadden-precedent specific-knowledge statutory-interpretation Whether the Government must prove that a defendant had specific knowledge of a controlled substance identified as XLR-11 in order to convict the defen…
18-9575 In Re Phillip Love Denied IFP commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-power federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation Can the federal government punish felonious crimes under the constitutional Interstate Commerce Clause within the 50 compact states of the Union?
18-9576 Alvin Weekly v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence blockburger-v-united-states cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy eighth-amendment extraordinary-circumstances rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing-review Does the Court of Appeals commit clear error when declining to hear a defendant's claim of serving an unlawful sentence in violation of the Constituti…
18-9577 Jose Pena v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion opportunity-to-appeal procedural-remedy relief-from-judgment rule-60(b) standing Should this court grant certiorari to determine whether federal civil rule 60(b) may be used to restore the opportunity to appeal?
18-9578 James Jacob Parrish, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-conviction procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether Parrish's sentence was procedurally and substantively unreasonable
18-9579 James D. Tench v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty' 'When a reviewing court independen due-process evidence-admission guilty-verdict hurst-v-florida jury jury-verdict mitigating-factors prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment Does the admission of improper and prejudicial evidence violate a capital defendant's right to due process?
18-9580 Bobby Ray Devers v. Iowa Iowa Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-procedure post-conviction-relief pro-se-claims procedural-due-process state-public-defender-system statutory-rights summary-judgment uniform-procedure Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process are violated by the denial of participation in the statutory right to a uniform post …
18-9581 Marcus Arenell Evans v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-rights booker booker-remedy booker-v-us constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-interpretation Does a sentence-appeal waiver frustrate the remedy fashioned by this Court in U.S. v. Booker, thereby rendering the waiver unconstitutional or void as…
18-9583 Alfredo M. Vasquez v. California California Denied IFP constitutional-law due-process evidence federal-constitution jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sexual-assault sexual-contacts state-constitution victim Was the exclusion of evidence regarding the alleged victim's prior sexual contacts with her boyfriend a denial of due process under the Federal and St…
18-9584 William Earl Miller v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment forfeiture fourteenth-amendment statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Arizona Revised Statutes, section 13-2313, violates the due process clause under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-9585 Roy Williams v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas Fifth Circuit Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the Slables Covell of Hygoees Cntet 4 betan is constitutional
18-9586 Jovan Watkins v. Robert Green, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-need policy-procedures prison-conditions standing Did the court of appeals err in not reviewing the lower court's decision by finding that the petitioner lacked standing to appeal
18-9587 Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied IFP 5th-amendment administrative-suspension attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial legal-ethics professional-conduct property-rights we-the-people Can license to practice law be suspended only on the basis of remaining silent without considering the merits of alleged violation?
18-9588 Reginald Lacey v. David Gomez, Warden Illinois Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus illinois-supreme-court standing state-court state-court-review supreme-court Was the Petitioner denied his Constitutional right to a full and fair hearing, where the Supreme Court of Illinois denied his Petition for Writ of Hab…
18-9589 Nicholas Bradley Gilbert v. United States Fifth Circuit GVR IFP appellate-review criminal-penalties criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion felon-possession interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to 'substantively second guess' the district court and/or to 'rewe…
18-9590 Stephen Mayer v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-33-b-1 criminal-procedure-33-b-2 federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure giglio giglio-violations napue napue-violations new-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether evidence of Giglio/Napue violations can be utilized as new evidence under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 33(b)(1) or if it is limited to …
18-9591 Brandon Wayne Taylor v. Texas Texas Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit interstate-evidence standing state-law-conflict texas-law When evidence is illegally obtained in violation of California laws can Texas legally benefit from this illegal act by allowing this evidence in a Tex…
18-9592 Gene T. Favors, Jr. v. Michigan Michigan Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the law
18-9594 Brian L. Davis v. 7-Eleven, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury jury-trial standing How can a jury not determine if a defendant is guilty of a crime and still deny due process?
18-9595 Mike Du Trieu v. Michael Martel, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-bar state-court state-court-error Whether a federal court reviewing a state habeas decision must determine whether the state court erred in its application of a procedural bar when the…
18-9596 Marc Groah v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP campfire campfire-restrictions criminal-citation criminal-liability due-process fair-notice federal-property fire-regulations national-park-service notice park-regulations Whether Marc Groah had fair notice under the Due Process Clause that he could be held criminally liable for lighting or maintaining a campfire on Rode…
18-9597 Jose Berrum, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington May This Court Grant Certificate Of Appealability Or Overturn Conviction Where The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals Sanctioned District Court's Misappli…
18-9598 James W. Guy v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech jury-bias jury-selection prejudice religion religious-discrimination religious-freedom sixth-amendment Did the trial court violate a Muslim defendant's Constitutional Rights under the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitut…
18-9599 D. R. v. M. R., et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-9600 Patricia Diane Smith Sledge v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence-rules evidentiary-ruling federal-rules-of-evidence procedural-error sufficiency-of-evidence summary-evidence witness-tampering Did the district court prejudicially err when admitting Exhibit 1 as a summary pursuant to Fed Rules of Evidence, rule 1006?
18-9601 Lawrence J. Strickland v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment Does it violate the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment for the district court to make a finding that two 'armed career crimina…
18-9602 Colby L. Simmons v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination Did the district court violate petitioner's Fifth Amendment right as set forth in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 (19…
18-9603 Michael Anthony Steel v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment arizona-constitution civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process speedy-trial state-v-vasko state-vs-federal-law Whether the court abused its discretion in denying the appellant's motion for a speedy trial under the 6th Amendment and Article 2, Section 24 of the …
18-9604 Reitilly Fuentes Ramos v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon enhancement pellet-gun sentencing-guidelines ussg-2d1.1 Whether the District Court calculated Mr. Fuentes-Ramos's Sentencing Guidelines when it applied a two-level enhancement pursuant to USSG §2D1.1(b)(1) …
18-9605 Don Ferguson v. Florida Florida Denied IFP 7th-amendment compelled-speech content-neutrality criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech government-regulation jury-instructions private-entities Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from requiring private entities to host speech they disagree with
18-9606 Curtis Wayne Givens v. Virginia Virginia Denied IFP 4th-amendment Arrest criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure Fifth-Amendment Jury-Selection motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Voir-Dire witness-examination Whether the trial court properly overruled the Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence seized without probable cause
18-9607 Milton Hemans v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-9608 Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court and was the decision incorrect when it stated that Garc…
18-9609 Charles L. v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia Denied IFP collateral-acts collateral-acts-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense limiting-instruction sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Does the failure of trial counsel to request a limiting instruction related to unindicted collateral acts evidence constitute ineffective assistance o…
18-9610 Keith Wromas, Jr. v. Florida Florida Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law data-protection due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech privacy standing Whether the petitioner's alleged unlimited access to any and all modal and personal data under Florida law violates federal constitutional rights
18-9611 Nicholas D. Weir v. United States, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-analysis de-novo-review factual-allegation frivolous frivolous-claim frivolous-claims judicial-discretion legal-standard standing sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal How does the lower courts rigorously determine if a factual allegation is baseless or frivolous when there is no argument in fact or law to dispute th…
18-9612 Gregory Rayford v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing Whether the Illinois state court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment
18-9613 Matthew L. Smeltzer v. Audrey King Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment complete-defense due-process erroneous-standard expert-testimony legal-standard section-2254 volitional-impairment Whether the petitioner was denied his due process right to present a complete defense during his civil commitment trial when the trial court precluded…
18-9614 Rick Allen Rhoades v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment capital-murder due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions mitigating-evidence punishment-phase structural-error trial-procedure Is the exclusion of relevant mitigating evidence during the punishment phase of a capital murder trial structural error, when the wrongfully excluded …
18-9616 Rocky Riojas-Ordaz v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
18-9617 Randolph Harris Austin v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cocaine cocaine-base constitutional-rights constitutional-safeguards democratic-constraints due-process grand-jury grand-jury-indictment indictment jury-instructions procedural-rights procedural-safeguards Whether the grand jury's indictment for cocaine base and the jury's instruction that it did not matter whether it was cocaine base or cocaine, which r…
18-9618 Rafael Mata-Jimenez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach deportation immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status record-of-conviction relief-from-removal removal-proceedings Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether …
18-9619 Henry James Lagi v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech government-power liberty-interest standing takings Whether the government is allowed to interfere with acts of its citizens that are protected by the Constitution
18-9620 Christopher J. Miller v. Joel Martinez, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-abuse civil-rights criminal-law due-process emotional-harm legal-precedent mental-health non-sexual-touch prosecutorial-misconduct restitution Is being a pedophile criminal?
18-9621 David Onafeko v. Great Britain, et al. District of Columbia Denied IFP civil-rights discrimination discrimination-prohibition due-process human-rights human-rights-declaration international-body international-law non-citizen-rights treaty-compliance treaty-obligations united-nations Does the United States still accept the United Nations as an international body?
18-9622 Essie McDaniel v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP causation civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination personnel-practices retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Whether the summary judgment in McDaniel's retaliation claim was proper
18-9625 Lawton Frederick Tyson v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial grand-jury habeas-corpus jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct Were petitioner's due process & equal protection rights violated when trial court lacked proper jurisdiction?
18-9626 In Re Rexford Tweed Dismissed IFP capital-punishment constitutional-violation due-process due-process,eighth-amendment,florida-constitution, eighth-amendment habeas-corpus indefinite-sentence life-sentence minimum-mandatory parole parole-eligibility sentencing-statute Whether petitioner's Florida capital life prison sentence with a 25-year minimum mandatory followed by eligibility for parole under Florida Statute §7…
18-9627 Jeffrey Dean Tucker v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility jurisdiction standing witness-testimony Whether due process was violated in convicting a North Carolina state citizen pursuant to general jurisdiction?
18-9628 Ella W. Horn v. CRC Health Group, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process employment-law equal-protection race-discrimination retaliation section-1981 sexual-harassment Question not identified
18-9629 Matthew Hale v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-exercise-clause free-speech religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act standing whether the Tenth Circuit's usage of a factor-driven test for determining whether a particular belief system qualifies as a 'religious' group for purp…
18-9630 Michael Mancil Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment 6th-amendment,effective-counsel,mistrial,closing-a closing-arguments constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel mistrial sixth-amendment trial trial-rights Was the Petitioner's 6th Amendment Rights to effective counsel violated when Petitioner's Attorney refused a mistrial offer by the Court without consu…
18-9632 Major Hudson, III v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance laches liberty-interest miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Where a procedural default is the result of ineffective assistance of counsel and the state's responsibility, can the state use laches to avoid correc…
18-9633 Manuel Gonzalez-Reyes v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship citizenship-status constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination immigration marital-status morales-santana-precedent statutory-interpretation Whether the distinction drawn within the former Section 1432(a)(3), based on marital status and the gender of his father, violates the equal protectio…
18-9634 Destyn David Frederick v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-challenge right-to-counsel sentencing Whether the United States District court and the Fifth Circuit court of appeals have denied Petitioner his rights to challenge the Government convicti…
18-9635 Carlos Antonio Flores v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-deference co-defendant-sentences deference due-process just-punishment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparities substantive-reasonableness Whether the sentence is substantively unreasonable due to unwarranted sentencing disparities and failure to provide for just punishment and adequate d…
18-9636 Donald Furtys v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment artificial-intelligence automated-technology criminal-conviction double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment video-voyeurism Whether the Fifth Amendment Double Jeopardy Clause bars multiple convictions of video voyeurism stemming from a camera that has new automated technolo…
18-9637 Robert Travis Jenkins v. Kansas Kansas Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights compliance-burden constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-regulations judicial-review jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether the trial court erred in denying Jenkins' Batson challenge during jury selection
18-9638 Jose Luis Barboza, Jr. v. Texas Texas Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-tampering free-speech gang-membership patent prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines standing trial-fairness Whether the defendant was improperly called a 'n****r lover' by the victim's attorney, resulting in a violation of due-process, free-speech, civil-rig…
18-9640 Paul Eugene Lawson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process fair-warning in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction legal-sequestration legal-work prison prison-discipline standing Can a district court dismiss petitioner's lawsuit based upon the State's attorney's waiver of reply to complaint?
18-9641 Clifford Brigham v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness Whether imposition of the statutory maximum, 60-month term was substantively unreasonable
18-9642 Jeffrey Benton v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal class-v-united-states criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy face-of-the-record guilty-plea indictment united-states-v-broce waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant who enters an unconditional guilty plea and waives appeal can raise a double-jeopardy argument on direct appeal
18-9643 Herichie Paul v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-9644 Jeffrey Castleberry v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-disabilities mental-disability reasonable-accommodations retroactive-application sentencing state-courts Does the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) require State trial courts to make reasonable accommodations for persons with mental disabilities?
18-9646 Max Edward Webb v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation When the text has no mandatory interpretation - the right to due process of law
18-9647 George Edward Tustin, Jr. v. Brad Livingston, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-review medical-treatment prison prison-conditions Whether the district court erred in determining that the delay in treatment was not caused by deliberate indifference
18-9649 Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process free-exercise halal-diet prison religious-freedom rluipa substantial-burden Whether RLUIPA prohibits the Defendants from placing a substantial burden upon Petitioner's religious exercise
18-9650 Shawn Pinson v. Texas Texas Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing testimony When be Bate Krouingt, used Se benany, a was, bogan be
18-9651 Carlos Arturo Patino-Restrepo v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-discretion civil-procedure due-process foia freedom-of-information-act government-transparency judicial-review mandatory-regulation summary-judgment Does a district court abuse its discretion in granting an agency summary judgment in a FOIA proceeding where the agency has failed to comply with a ma…
18-9652 Cedric McDonald v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective counsel in failing to object to district court's use of a video in voir dire, which was designed to get jur…
18-9653 Todd Ricks v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th…
18-9654 Carl Javan Ross v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process public-trial public-trial-rights self-incrimination speedy-trial Was the petitioner's 6th Amendment right to a speedy trial violated as well as public trial rights?
18-9655 Sylvester Ekwunife v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment affidavit affidavit-accuracy civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure detective-misconduct fourth-amendment groh-v-ramirez probable-cause warrant warrant-preparation Whether the dictates of Groh v. Ramirez were violated when the Detective in this case did not have all the correct facts when preparing a probable cau…
18-9656 In Re Lexter K. Kossie Denied IFP character-evidence character-witness constitutional-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence mitigation right-to-testify sentencing sentencing-phase Can a trial counsel render constitutionally performance and not prejudice the defense
18-9657 Joseph Howard Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-dealer drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-circuit hearsay informant methamphetamine-offense non-testifying-witness second-circuit Is an out-of-court statement by a non-testifying informant which identifies the defendant as a drug dealer hearsay?
18-9658 Eric Daniel Doyle v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grouping guidelines judicial-discretion legal-calculation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum total-punishment Whether due process requires the correct calculation of Doyle's Guidelines sentencing range
18-9659 In Re Quisi Bryan Denied IFP constitutional-law death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus hurst-claim hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether the Ohio Supreme Court's merits denial of Bryan's Hurst claim was erroneous insofar as appellate reweighing cannot cure the errors that affect…
18-9661 William Kostopoulos v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1512 criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-nexus law-enforcement mens-rea misdemeanor obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's general denial to state law enforcement officers that he committed a misdemeanor offense is sufficient to meet the federal nexus…
18-9662 Mark Alan Lane v. Josias Salazar, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons due-process first-amendment penological-interests prisoner-speech prisoners-rights procunier-v-martinez prohibited-act-code-203 true-threats void-for-vagueness Whether the Bureau of Prisons' broad construction of Prohibited Act Code 203 to punish statements in outgoing mail that are not true threats violates …
18-9663 In Re Lorcan Kilroy Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act disabled-plaintiffs employment-discrimination equal-protection mixed-motives nassar nassar-test protected-class retaliation title-vi title-vii Whether the retaliation protection provision of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 should continue to require non-disabled plaintiffs to prove t…
18-9666 Jose Hernandez v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment prejudice-standard prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-impeachment Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated
18-9667 Loretta J. Alford v. Tina Ballard, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights federal-employment general-services-administration government-employment inspector-general personnel-practices prohibited-personnel-actions prohibited-personnel-practices retaliation timecard-fraud whistleblower-protection Does the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act indicate that the General Services Administration handles personnel actions for the AbilityOne Commission?
18-9668 Miguel Angel Arias v. Ashley B. Moody, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud fraud-abuse government-immunity government-misconduct judicial-ethics official-immunity official-misconduct qualified-immunity takings Does a government official maintain immunity after using their position to commit fraud and enrich themselves?
18-9670 Charles L. Trice v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 9th-amendment conflict-in-circuits constitutional-rule due-process due-process-interpretation eleventh-circuit-conflict griffith-v-kentucky ninth-amendment second-amendment self-defense self-defense-right weiand-decision Whether the Florida post-conviction court unreasonably applied Griffith v. Kentucky in determining that Trice's convictions were final when the Florid…
18-9671 In Re Frank J. Ashley Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its decision regarding the petitioner's constitutional rights
18-9672 Jill Andras LeBlanc v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-procedure statutory-rights Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement?
18-9673 George Djura Jakubec v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery hobbs-act legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-9675 Tommy Dean Bullcoming v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights credibility-determination de-novo-review due-process evidence law-enforcement-testimony qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standard-of-review summary-judgment video-evidence Should a video recording of the actual events that clearly contradicts the sworn testimony of an officer support de novo review of the district court'…
18-9676 Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254(d)(2) aedpa aedpa-deference capital-punishment-eligibility certificate-of-appealability enmund-v-florida habeas-corpus lockett-v-ohio merits-review procedural-default tison-v-arizona Whether the Fifth Circuit contravened this Court's precedents in Buck, Miller-El, and Slack by first deciding the merits of Mr. Halprin's claims befor…
18-9677 Martin Arreola Zavala v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility contested-cases criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-determination federal-courts federal-sentencing legal-sufficiency quantity-determinations sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether this court should grant certiorari to address the proper application of law to fact relating to sufficiency of the evidence for quantity deter…
18-9678 Binika L. Hankton v. Frederick Boutte, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,evidence,jackson-v- evidence evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourth-amendment jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Is a conviction constitutionally suspect when the evidence used to convict does not meet the standards of Jackson?
18-9680 Elester Middlebrook v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeals certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings reopening rule-60b statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction unresolved-claims Does a corroborated claim of actual-innocence constitute an extraordinary-circumstance that justifies reopening the habeas-proceedings to adjudicate t…
18-9681 Tracey Godfrey v. United States District Court for the District of Montana Ninth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment montana-supreme-court sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Montana Supreme Court's imposition of a 10-year sentence pursuant to MCA § 46-18-502 violates the Double Jeopardy Clause
18-9682 Andre Forbes v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review motion-denial standing unconstitutional Whether 'rubber stamping' defendant's motion with a order of 'Denied' by an Court of Appeals are unconstitutional when Appeals Courts have not reviewe…
18-9684 David Prien-Pinto v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § …
18-9685 Desroy A. Clarke v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
18-9686 Bobby Bordelon v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-conflict constitutional-issue criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment habeas-corpus manifest-necessity mistrial mistrial-standard texas-courts Whether the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bars a retrial on one pending count since manifest necessity was not shown for the grant of a mis…
18-9688 Emanuel Rivera-Martinez v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment habeas-corpus standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state's actions
18-9689 Robert Joseph King v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP accessibility-law ada civil-rights disability-access disability-rights due-process equal-protection federal-buildings public-buildings public-facilities reasonable-accommodation Must State and Federal Buildings be required to provide readily and reasonable access to restroom facilities to those who have a physical disability?
18-9690 Curt M. Lockett v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-writ actual-innocence carrier-standard constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus innocence-claim post-conviction-review procedural-error successive-petitions Should 4 habeas petitioners' claims of actual innocence, supported by the facts of the record, be subject to doctrines of abuse or successive use of t…
18-9691 Dwayne Lee Stallings v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32-violations criminal-rule false-statement false-statements federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure obstruction-of-justice plain-error plain-error-analysis sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review structural-error Whether the Court's plain error analysis is properly applied to violations of Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(1)(A), and, if so, whether such violations are st…
18-9694 Oliver Douce v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights false-arrest fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-self-incrimination first-amendment-free-speech fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illegal-arrest illegal-search jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Whether fingerprints obtained from John Doe appellant should have been excluded from evidence as the product of false arrest and illegal search under …
18-9695 Robert A. Wagner v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-representation expert-testimony eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell reasonable-probability trial-outcome Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling denying a certificate of appealability conflicts with the 'debatable' standard from Miller-El v. Cockrell
18-9696 Jerry Louis Hughes v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § …
18-9697 Dennis Gordon v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983-action 28-usc-2254 civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process ex-post-facto federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing parole-release-hearings section-1983 section-2254 Does Dennis Gordon's ex post facto challenge to the eight-year increase in the interval between his parole release hearings fall within the Federal Co…
18-9698 Ruben Perez Gomez v. California California Denied IFP constitutional-requirement death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sentencing-standard sixth-amendment statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-punishment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior co…
18-9700 Daniel Gatson v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2518 aggrieved-person cell-phone-records criminal-procedure Does the District Court have the authority to sent electronic-interception electronic-surveillance expert-testimony expert-testimony-federal-rule-of-evidence-702-scie fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-cell-phone-records-probable-cause sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-upward-departure-district-co standing standing-aggrieved-person-electronic-interception- Whether acquiring a person's past movements throug Whether an expert's testimony that has never been Whether the 'target' of an electronic interception, whom voice was heard in intercepted conversations have 'standing' as an 'aggrieved person' under 1…
18-9701 Antoine Gause v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing supervised-release Whether the lower courts fundamentally erred through a miscarriage of justice, by unconstitutionally sentencing the Petitioner to a longer sentence an…
18-9702 Cathrin Funk-Vaughn v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-overreach child-custody child-jurisdiction child-removal diversion-plea document-fraud due-process evidence-suppression federal-funding first-amendment food-recall free-speech interstate-custody jurisdiction kidnapping law-enforcement parental-rights rescission unreasonable-search Does the Department of Children Services have the legal right to remove a child from a parent/legal guardian while the parent/legal guardian was on va…
18-9703 Milton Terry Kelton v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Whether the Honorable Judge Brian C. Wimes and the U.S. Attorney James Bohling utilized two inapplicable statutory enhancements enacted after the offe…
18-9704 Andre Javion Portee v. Department of Agriculture, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights contract contract-breach contract-law discrimination due-process equal-protection government-agency-misconduct governmental-agency standing takings title-insurance Did the lower courts erroneously decide in favor of a governmental agency that broke a contract between a Black American citizen and that agency?
18-9705 Leonard Moore v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §1959(a)(3) qualifies as a crime of violence for the purpose of §924(c)(3)(A) element clause
18-9707 Blair Cook v. United States Seventh Circuit GVR IFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-rights due-process facial-challenge facial-vagueness fifth-amendment rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation threshold-question vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether § 922(g)(3) is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-9708 Brad Smith v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attenuation-doctrine brown-v-illinois consent-search consent-to-search curtilage exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause Was petitioner's consent to search following law enforcement agents' unconstitutional entry into the curtilage of his home sufficiently attenuated fro…
18-9712 Noe Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence evidence-404(b) evidence-rule-404b jury-instructions new-trial propensity propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct What is the proper framework for determining whether a prosecutor's improper propensity-based arguments related to 404(b) evidence warrant a new trial…
18-9714 John Stephen Routt v. Latanya Howard, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights disciplinary-segregation due-process eighth-amendment elder-v-holloway pretrial-detention qualified-immunity standing Is a Defendant entitled to qualified immunity when a Petitioner cites the 'squarely governing' case through a quote of a case with similar facts?
18-9716 Andrew J. Hunter, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure defense-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel subpoena-power Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's favoritism toward the victim, denial of the defense's right to subpo…
18-9717 Kenton G. Findlay v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. Florida Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-violation disqualification due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fraud fraud-on-court impartiality judicial-impartiality Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendment …
18-9718 Antoanet Iotova v. Gary Farmer, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process government-agency jurisdiction passport standing takings Whether the Department of State's denial of a passport application violates the petitioner's constitutional rights
18-9719 Jason M. Lund v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act burrage-v-united-states federal-habeas federal-prisoner habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations summary-relief summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent Does the Seventh Circuit's decision directly conflict with the holding of McQuiggin v. Perkins? And does the error warrant summary relief?
18-9720 Frederick H. Banks v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine due-process jurisdiction standing timeliness Whether the District Court erred in committing federal law to the State Burner
18-9721 Frederick H. Banks v. Dennis Walker, U.S. Marshal, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-courts Whether federal courts have 'pretrial' habeas corpus jurisdiction to review state court convictions
18-9722 Jonathan Edward Meier v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights fourth-amendment investigative-stop law-enforcement law-enforcement-detention pat-down probable-cause prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure unreasonable-search weapons-search Whether law enforcement violates the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure when it holds an individual for a prolonged period…
18-9723 Jennifer Cardenas v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment due-process false-statements indictment indictment-specificity jury-instruction statutory-interpretation variance visa-fraud Whether an indictment charging visa-fraud must specify the allegedly-false-statements and include factual-allegations to establish their-falsity
18-9724 Clifford Marcus Winkles v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing statute-of-limitations successive-habeas Whether the lower court erred in denying petitioner's request for additional time to file a successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion
18-9725 Jose Munoz v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-rule hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement vagueness Whether the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-9726 Lorenzo Hale v. United States Fifth Circuit GVR IFP 2nd-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea prior-occasion recent-past state-lines statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no …
18-9727 Shanta G. Phillips-Berry v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy due-process government-overreach medical-implants privacy standing technology Whether the petitioner's civil rights were violated by imprisonment without a fair trial, sentencing, or due process, and the use of unauthorized medi…
18-9728 Sung Ho Park v. Tammy Foss, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confession due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance interrogation involuntary-confession lesser-included-offense physical-incapacitation police-interrogation prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel whether-park-could-make-a-voluntary-statement
18-9729 Odell Lameche Overby v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 3553(c) appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-obligation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning nonfrivolous-arguments sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision
18-9731 Youval Geringer-Ganor v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-conduct judicial-review outrageous-government-conduct sting-operation sting-operations Whether government sting operations may constitute outrageous government conduct warranting dismissal of the charges?
18-9732 Bejan David Etemad v. North Dakota North Dakota Denied IFP appeals certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause federal-certiorari federal-jurisdiction jury-trial jury-verdict state-court state-courts state-supreme-court Can any State Court of last resort or specifically the North Dakota Supreme Court completely abrogate due process to the point that no process existed…
18-9733 Bobby F. McReynolds v. Preston Glenn, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus medical-treatment prisoner-rights procedural-default scheduling standing state-court-review surgery Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case
18-9734 Hector Dominguez-Gabriel, aka Kinko, aka John Richard Bellefleur v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court(s) abused its discretion when it denied appellant Section 3582(c)(2) relief?
18-9735 Carlton Darden v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing dillion-v-united-states district-court-authority due-process evidence judicial-discretion judicial-review new-evidence offense-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-adams ussg-1b1.10 Does 18 USC 3582(c)(2) after Dillion give a district court authority to make additional finding as to offense conduct attributable to a defendant base…
18-9737 Laquan L. Kellam v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights procedural-error search-and-seizure sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights statutory-interpretation warrantless-arrest Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretionary, broadly-based authority of interpretation, thus, violating petit…
18-9738 Francisco Gonzalez Jose v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-juror criminal-procedure deliberations due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation jury jury-deliberation jury-instructions mistrial third-circuit united-states-v-sotelo When a juror cannot continue deliberations and an alternate juror is empaneled, does the Third Circuit's decision in United States v. Sotelo conflict …
18-9739 Timothy Paul Malone v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility application-note application-note-2 chapter-5 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation offense-level sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court has misconstrued and misapplied U.S.S.G. Chapter 5, Part A, Application Note 2 by failing to limit the offense level to a leve…
18-9740 Myron Gregory Jessie v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-error life-imprisonment prior-misconduct resentencing sentencing Was the evidence insufficient to convict defendant of first-degree murder and also to support the sentence of life imprisonment, and did the resentenc…
18-9742 Mikle Anthony Butler v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion mental-health mental-illness sentencing sentencing-guidelines Issues being raised
18-9743 Hollins Tizeno v. Gerald Janda, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-default standing sua-sponte waiver Whether a district court may sua sponte raise a waived procedural default defense and, if so, under what circumstances is it appropriate to do so.
18-9747 Glenn Damond v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP bills-of-credit civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extortion financial-instrument fraud fraud-on-court judicial-function judicial-misconduct natural-rights plea-agreement trespassing Is it constitutional for the trial court to disguise an investment instrument into a criminal plea agreement, use it to extort the rights of an americ…
18-9748 George Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-procedure discovery due-process fair-trial guilty-plea informant plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-disclosure withdrawal-of-plea Does the 'fair and just reason' standard for withdrawal of a guilty plea properly encompass the post-plea, pre-sentence acquisition of information abo…
18-9749 Gamaliel Japhia Joseph El v. All Local Law Enforcement in General Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP citizenship civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract contract-law due-process indigenous-rights involuntary-servitude motor-vehicle-statutes right-to-travel standing travel Is Title XXIII MOTOR VEHICLES of the Florida Statutes binding on or applicable to a private natural person who is an aboriginal indigenous inhabitant …
18-9752 Paul Curtis Pemberton v. Robert A. Layden, Chief Judge, 18th Judicial District Court of Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP None
18-9753 Jason Brooks v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-access-to-courts,first-amendment,four court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lewis-v-casey pleading-standard prisoners-rights section-1983 standing Whether a federal district court's 30-page limit on unrepresented prisoners' § 1983 complaints violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments
18-9754 Daniel Teitelbaum v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-violation dna dna-evidence due-process fbi-codis-database guilty-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-unanimity new-evidence prejudice procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct Did flaws in the FBI's CODIS DNA database prejudice the defendant and lead to a guilty verdict?
18-9755 Sammy Redi Araya v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP business-records due-process fourth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence identification insufficient-evidence perjury perjury-challenge standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the trial court's failure to investigate and conclusively determine if perjury infected the trial
18-9756 Hector Guadalupe Lozano v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights drug-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement lawful-possession odor-detection probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Whether a drug dog's alert, standing alone, is sufficient to establish probable cause to search when the dog is known to react to the odor of a substa…
18-9757 Shanta G. Phillips-Berry v. Patricia Blackwell Scurlock, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fraud kidnapping technology-abuse civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process human-rights implant-technology justice-system kidnapping standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims without a trial or hearing, in violation of the petitioner's civil rights and d…
18-9758 Lavell Conerly v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,self-incrimination,miranda-warnings,cl inculpatory-statement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-warnings right-to-counsel self-incrimination Was it reversible error to introduce defendant's inculpatory statement obtained without Miranda warnings?
18-9759 Juan Rodriguez v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-defects due-process fundamental-rights kennedy-v-mendoza-martinez punishment-analysis rational-basis rational-basis-review sex-offender-registration strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process unfit-defendant Does Illinois's SORA scheme constitute punishment that impinges the fundamental right of unfit defendants to be free from trial or sentencing, thus fa…
18-9760 Andrew D. Dixon v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acca acca-sentence-enhancement acca-statute armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-clause johnson-precedent post-johnson precedent predicate-prior residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement Did the court error denying claims that the residual clause didn't apply to defendant by using Post-Johnson precedent claims and raising elements clau…
18-9763 Stirling Michael Heaton v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion federal-guidelines federal-jurisdiction federal-plea-agreement judicial-discretion modification retroactive-amendment retroactive-guidelines-amendment sentence-concurrency sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification sentencing-reform-act Whether a sentencing court has discretion to adjust a federal sentence to achieve concurrency with another criminal sentence in § 3582(c)(2) proceedin…
18-9764 Adnan Ibrahim Harun A. Hausa v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-court-conflict circuit-split faretta faretta-inquiry pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver waiver-of-counsel Should a defendant be found to have waived his right to counsel and proceed pro se even if he declines to answer the district court's questions?
18-9765 Joseph Kinard v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP bar-membership civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence jurisdiction oath-of-office prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review supreme-court-jurisdiction vagueness Whether a United States Attorney must be a member of the bar in the city or state to prosecute cases in the United States District Court and Superior …
18-9767 LaShawn Johnson v. Randy L. White, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-factors constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-instruction jury-instructions Does submitting aggravating factors of a crime in a jury instruction that wasn't charged in the indictment violate Due Process
18-9768 Keith Talbert v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-amendments due-process eminent-domain. standing takings civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-9769 Ishmael Wahid v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process equitable-relief preliminary-injunction remand standard-of-review standing Whether the Court of Appeals erred in not applying the correct standard for granting a preliminary injunction
18-9770 Lionel Toye v. Steven Racette, Superintendent, Great Meadows Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining plea-negotiations right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-exposure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether this court should revisit the claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel during plea negotiations
18-9771 Dennis William Robinson v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-suppression fair-trial iada-violation jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial suppression-of-evidence Did State Court violate Petitioner's constitutional rights?
18-9773 Arie Robert Redeker v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment coercion coercive-detention coercive-tactics constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree involuntary-confession law-enforcement-tactics self-incrimination Whether fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine applies to a custodial interrogation that has been tainted
18-9774 Hsiu Ying Lisa Tseng v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence federal-due-process fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence propensity-evidence state-trial Whether the admission of irrelevant prior act evidence in a state trial that amounts to propensity evidence violates Fourteenth Amendment due process
18-9775 Dustin Washington v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure drug-weight forfeiture fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-error standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to find that the trial court erred in denying Mr. Washington's motion to suppress the search of the BMW
18-9776 Irineo Ponce-Recendiz v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(…
18-9777 Earnest S. Harris v. E. McCumsey, et al. Ninth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Did respondent E. M'Cummsey, Senior Law Librarian at SMU, deny petitioner Earnest S. Ware access to the court?
18-9778 Xue Jie He v. Office of the New York City Comptroller Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1985 civil-rights conspiracy discrimination due-process equal-protection immigration national-origin-discrimination racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-act Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides Petitioner relief for discrimination in a US visa application
18-9779 Xue Jie He v. Trinity Church, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy defamation discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment personal-injury racial-discrimination standing visa-status US visa: 0187, legal short-term stay, Personal Injury, can Petitioner get The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States…
18-9780 Christopher Hannigan v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3551 component-parts criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment judgment-parsing judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing sentencing-rules statutory-interpretation Does the language of Rule 32(k) and 18 U.S.C. §3551 allow for the court to parcel the judgment into component parts?
18-9781 Adam J. Winarske v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a Johnson petitioner to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the residual clause provided the basis for his …
18-9782 Carlous Lindell Daily v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c constitutional-rights crime-of-violence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Johnson johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum USSG-4B1.2 Whether the lower court(s) erred in concluding that petitioner did not suffer ineffective assistance of counsel
18-9784 Antoaneta Iotova, et al. v. Dr. Demisa, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction opinions-below standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of due process and equal protection rights
18-9785 Wayne A. Hussar, II v. James C. Reynolds, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure self-defense sentencing standing warrantless-search Whether the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights were violated when the state court dismissed his criminal case despite evidence of se…
18-9786 Luis Francisco, et ux. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas Denied IFP appeal-fees appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights indigent indigent-litigant notice parental-rights poverty Whether a State may condition appeals from termination of parental rights on a parent's ability to pay appeal fees when the parent's income is half of…
18-9788 Sarah Denise Cardwell v. South Carolina South Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-search evidence-seizure fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Supreme Court of South Carolina erred in applying a standard of 'more likely than not' in concluding under the Fourth Amendment's plain vi…
18-9789 Dan Pizarro v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal drug-offenses drug-trafficking first-step-act prior-convictions prior-felony-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-minimum Whether Pizarro is entitled to the application of the First Step Act amendments to the statutory minimum sentences applicable to his drug trafficking …
18-9790 Alexander Monzoni v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-calculation guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review for Guideline error as set ou…
18-9792 Charles Mensah v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP character-evidence conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment severance witness-bolstering Does the trial court's refusal to grant a conspiracy defendant severance violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when the Government's c…
18-9795 Gregory A. Barto v. Mark Garmon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability cross-examination due-process effective-cross-examination evidence-tampering habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the court of appeals decision to deny a COA concluding that petitioner sufficiency of evidence claim was procedurally defaulted based on state…
18-9797 Mark Anthony Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review procedural-due-process right-of-appeal standing Was the petitioner improperly denied his right of appeal?
18-9798 Craig A. Lee v. United States District of Columbia Denied IFP circuit-court-conflict criminal-propensity drew-v-united-states due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-of-other-crimes federal-circuits legal-precedent precedent prior-sexual-conduct sexual-assault undue-prejudice Whether the DC Court of Appeals' decision directly conflicts with established legal precedent in federal circuits
18-9799 Benito Rivera v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof Should certiorari be granted to find that, while a district court need not define reasonable doubt, if it does so, it cannot employ a definition that …
18-9802 Rodney B. Benson v. Utah Labor Commission, et al. Utah Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-vi article-vi-paragraph-2 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process executive-branch fourteenth-amendment judicial-branch seventh-amendment utah-constitution workers-compensation Does Utah's Executive Branch and/or Judicial Branch have the power to deny constitutional rights
18-9803 Salvador Galvan v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process guidelines procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b1.1 victim victim-definition victim-impact Whether the district court committed procedural error by considering every resident of the City of Compton as a victim for purposes of its 18 U.S.C. §…
18-9804 Michael Zachariah Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-revocation plain-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether the standard of review in appeals of federal revocation sentences is limited to review for \'plain unreasonableness\'?
18-9805 Keith Wayne Carver, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-device circuit-split criminal-law legislative-intent loss-amount sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation usability Whether the statutory phrase 'can be used' contained in the definition of 'access device' at 29 U.S.C. § 1029(e)(1) requires the Government prove usab…
18-9806 Karlynn Romeo Tones, Donta Lyvoid Blackmon, and Arvin Terrill Carmen v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment indictment-specificity jury-instructions jury-unanimity trial-evidence unanimity Do federal criminal defendants have a constitutional right to a specific unanimity instruction requiring the jury to unanimously define the duration a…
18-9808 Manuel Reyes v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute statutory-vagueness vagueness Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and his conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 9…
18-9809 Willie Strong v. New York New York Denied IFP automobile-presumption burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions possession reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation statutory-presumption When is evidence sufficient to render the 'Automobile Presumption' N.Y. P.-L. §265.15 (3)(a) inapplicable?
18-9810 Erik Ward v. California California Denied IFP attempted-murder civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense physical-evidence premeditation standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel Whether trial counsel failed to provide effective assistance of counsel by not properly performing procedural and due process requirements, and not in…
18-9811 Eli Sloan v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction indian-law indigent-counsel native-american-rights sixth-amendment standing tribal-sovereignty uncounseled-conviction Are (Navajo Indians) Native American Indians U.S. citizens within the jurisdictions of 18 U.S.C.S § 1153 (Indian Country)?
18-9812 Chavez Spotted Horse v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP assault bodily-harm bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law dangerous-weapon statutory-interpretation weapon What is the correct definition of 'dangerous weapon' under 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3): (1) an object used in a manner likely to endanger life or inflict gr…
18-9813 Levar Brown v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy discovery due-process forma-pauperis free-speech indigency legal-correspondence patent petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Did the Supreme Court abuse its discretion by denying the right of the petitioners to discovery further and to rebut a conspiracy which infringes thei…
18-9815 Kazi Bowles v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions discretion district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction petition relief standing writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the district court erred in not applying a clear error standard of review when reviewing the petitioner's motion for relief from judgment for …
18-9816 Kabil Anton Djenasevic, aka Anton Genase, aka Kabil Genase, aka Kabil Kraja v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-notice sixth-amendment standing Whether petitioner was denied his Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights
18-9817 Deterryon Tyrell Kelly v. Texas Texas Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard inference-stacking jackson-v-virginia legal-sufficiency speculative-evidence sufficiency sufficiency-of-evidence Can evidence meet the legal sufficiency standard of Jackson v. Virginia if the evidence relied upon for conviction is primarily speculative and infere…
18-9818 Bruce Allen Echols v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court lacked jurisdiction, committing reversible error by entertaining a claim that had not been exhausted by the well-established p…
18-9819 Jose Francisco Rodriguez-Reyes v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion arrest-consideration arrests-without-convictions criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process excessive-sentence procedural-error sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology substantive-error substantive-review Whether the district court's sentencing methodology was procedurally and substantively sound and that the district court did not abuse its discretion …
18-9820 Jonathon Loyd Edick v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias legal-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-procedure Is petitioner entitled to relief where his constitutional rights are/were violated by receiving ineffective assistance of counsel at the trial court l…
18-9822 Bryan K. Noel v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th I cannot generate a meaningful question presented actual-innocence brady-violation due-process evidence-exclusion habeas-corpus penumbra wrongful-conviction wrongly-excluded-evidence Does the Privilege of Writ of Habeas Corpus entail a penumbra of the Due Process of Law protections when credible and reliable evidence is wrongly exc…
18-9823 Freddie Lee Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea manifest-injustice paid-informant procedural-grounds right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's sixth amendment right to the assistance of counsel
18-9824 Steven G. Patten v. California California Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection flight-instruction fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination self-defense Whether Petitioner can establish a prima facie case of discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
18-9825 Shepell Orr v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 14th-amendment-equal-protection 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-seizure 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-due-process 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-fair-trial 8th-amendment-cruel-punishment circuit-court-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sudden-heat Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision conflicts with another circuit court decision and a state court decision, and whether the petitione…
18-9826 In Re Ellis Keyes Denied IFP ballot-access bar-association bar-exam civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-candidates licensing open-government right-to-work standing state-licensing voting-rights Under what authority is license to practice law or not?
18-9827 Donald Wayne Lamoureaux v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fundamental-rights marriage-equality standing takings Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires States to license and recognize same-sex marriages?
18-9828 Dylan Magluilo v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflicting-decisions constitutional-law due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review public-interest reasonable-doubt Did Louisiana Courts err in denying Dylan Magluilo right to a fair trial and subsequent review when rejecting claims involving, Conflicting Decisions …
18-9830 Michael Franklin Einfeldt v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-petition burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to affirmatively prove the sentencing court relied on the residual clause
18-9831 Jacqueline C. Melcher v. John W. Richardson Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-court-orders bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-objections bankruptcy-orders bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-standing bankruptcy-trustee constitutional-rights due-process fees-and-expenses judicial-discretion prudential-standing retroactive-voiding trustee-fees trustee-wrongdoing Whether a bankruptcy trustee can retroactively void previous bankruptcy court orders that granted a debtor the right to object to the trustee's fees a…
18-9833 Sade Mone v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation constitutional-violations contract-dispute court-of-federal-claims executive-department federal-claims-court federal-jurisdiction federal-regulations implied-contract little-tucker-act monetary-claim tucker-act Does the United States Court of Federal Claims have jurisdiction over cases against the United States based on an implied contract with an executive d…
18-9834 Carlos Alberto Ochoa-Orozco v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error cumulative-error due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-18 sentencing sixth-amendment venue venue-challenge Whether the district court violated Appellant's right to due process and his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial
18-9835 Melvin Perez v. Florida Florida Dismissed Response WaivedIFP ambiguity commission-date ends-of-justice primary-offense prior-offense sentencing-scoresheet Can a trial court score an offense as a prior on a sentencing scoresheet if the time of the commission of that offense is subsequent to the time of th…
18-9836 Dwight Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge coercion coercive-instruction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberation jury-deliberations mistrial verdict-review Whether the district court erred or abused its discretion in reversing or rescinding its grant of mistrial
18-9837 Ernest Bustos v. Bexar Appraisal District, et al. Texas Denied IFP civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-code property-tax standing subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law Whether the Court of Appeals was correct in disregarding the clear language of Texas Property Code § 42.08 (d)
18-9838 Cedric Floyd v. Alabama Alabama Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fifth-amendment remorse right-to-remain-silent Whether the Fifth and Eighth Amendments are violated when the State argues for a death sentence based on the defendant's failure to express remorse in…
18-9839 Robert E. King v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP appeal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice post-conviction-relief racial-discrimination Did Oklahoma's Appellate Court deprive Robert E. King the right to equal protection
18-9840 Kevin Fernandez v. Nevada, et al. First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-compact interstate-corrections-compact liberty-interest minimum-custody-status pro-se-litigation property-interest settlement-agreement Whether a settlement agreement creates a liberty or property interest
18-9841 Charles Hines v. JTH Tax, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-oath due-process federal-courts judicial-accountability judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-oath justice-system legal-proceedings oath standing supreme-court Whether the district court and appeals court judges violated their oaths to support and defend the Constitution by denying the petitioner's constituti…
18-9842 Alpidio Gonzalez v. Ralph Hanson, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2241 2241-petition 2255 2255-motion habeas-corpus judicial-review mathis-v-united-states prior-conviction saving-clause savings-clause sentence-enhancement How can a person show that a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2241 is the proper way to demonstrate he is entitled relief when the lower courts deny a motion, wi…
18-9843 Freddie Lee Fountain v. Texas Texas Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant indigent-defense procedural-protections At what point does the absence of government protection breach the limits of constitutional boundary?
18-9844 Garner Wood v. Les Parish, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief postsentencing-motion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-error trial-counsel Whether the trial court denied Petitioner Wood's due process right under the Fourteenth Amendment by not granting his jail credit for 14-30 days after…
18-9845 Bradley Joseph Vanzant v. Keith Yordy, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error Did petitioner make an involuntarily unknown and unintelligent plea through ineffective assistance of counsel and violations of his 6th Amendment righ…
18-9846 Bradford Metcalf v. S. Kallis, Warden Fourth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice wrongful-conviction Must the Petitioner who is actually innocent be given the same constitutional consideration as citizens who succeeded him?
18-9847 Lawrence J. Petitta v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-limitations contract-clause contract-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy jurisdictional-conflict plea-bargain police-power sovereign-authority state-authority state-law supremacy-clause Is there a conflict when the state of California exceeded the United States constitutional limitations found in Article 4, clause 10 unnecessarily, wh…
18A718 Dwayne Stoutamire v. Christopher La Rose, Warden Sixth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19-1 Karen Khan v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-procedure plausibility-standard standing Federal Circuit's Application of the Plausibility Standard to Weigh Evidence Against Plaintiff Conflicts With This Court's Precedent In Twombly and Iq…
19-10 James W. Smith v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived assessment collection due-process internal-revenue-code mandatory-provisions notice payment sovereign-capacity statute-of-limitations tax-court-jurisdiction tax-deficiency transferee-liability The Meaning of 'Shall' in the Internal Revenue Code
19-100 Crown Asset Management LLC v. Mary Barbato Third Circuit Denied Amici (2) circuit-split consumer-protection debt-buyer debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act legal-standing passive-debt-buyer standing statutory-interpretation Whether a passive debt buyer is a debt collector under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
19-101 Imperium IP Holdings (Cayman), Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof credibility-determinations credibility-of-witnesses expert-testimony jury-trial jury-trial-rights jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-validity seventh-amendment standard-of-review Whether an appellate court may reverse a jury verdict based on its own view that expert testimony was credible, 'unrebutted,' and 'uncontradicted,' or…
19-103 StrikeForce Technologies, Inc. v. SecureAuth Corporation Federal Circuit Denied 35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test berkheimer-v-hp federal-circuit inventive-concept patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter step-two-analysis well-understood-routine-and-conventional well-understood-routine-conventional Whether the Federal Circuit conducted the proper analysis under step two of Alice, as this Court will explain it, should certiorari be granted in Berk…
19-105 Joseph A. Caramadre v. United States First Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance section-2255 strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Should a Writ of Habeas Corpus issue
19-106 R. S., et ux. v. Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Kentucky Denied Response Waived None
19-11 Lin Rountree v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure compliance dismissal district-court judicial-discretion mediation mediation-order motion-for-reconsideration motion-to-dismiss order procedural-error reconsideration standing Whether the district court erred in granting respondents' motion to dismiss when the respondents failed to comply with the district court's order to m…
19-110 Steve Chabot, et al., Appellants v. Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, et al. Ohio Denied Amici (1) None
19-111 Fernando I. v. Margarita O. Connecticut Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-restraining-order civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment parental-rights property-rights second-amendment Is it constitutional for the State of Connecticut to issue a civil restraining order with nationwide reach and under federal punishment, including an …
19-112 S. Bruce Hiran, et al. v. Jelinis, LLC Texas Denied appellate-court appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-of-texas temporary-injunction Whether Petitioners' Constitutional Rights of Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws are violated
19-113 William F. Holdner v. Katy Coba, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived agricultural-operation agriculture-operation-permit civil-rights due-process environmental-law environmental-regulation federal-environmental-regulations habeas-corpus patent patent-rights property-rights stormwater-permit water-pollution water-rights Whether a person engaged in an agricultural operation can be charged and convicted for failure to possess a stormwater permit
19-115 Frank J. Lawrence, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived Abuse-of-discretion Admission-to-practice bar-admission constitutional-rights Criticism-of-officials due-process expressive-activities First-Amendment free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-review law-practice-admission sixth-circuit standing uniformity-of-decisions Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with its own recent declaration that the petitioner is 'duly qualified' to practice law, and whether th…
19-116 Heather Marlowe v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived and whether a systemic failure to investigate rap 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 accrual civil-rights discriminatory-policy equal-protection monell Monell-claim rape-investigation statute-of-limitations When does a Monell-based equal protection claim accrue for statute of limitations purposes?
19-117 Inversiones y Procesadora Tropical INPROTSA, S.A. v. Del Monte International GmbH Eleventh Circuit Denied arbitral-award circuit-split federal-arbitration-act new-york-convention subject-matter-jurisdiction vacatur vacatur-grounds Whether Section 205 of the Federal Arbitration Act confers subject-matter jurisdiction over a petition to vacate an arbitral award rendered under the …
19-118 Intermessage Communications, Inc. v. Ameritech Mobile Communications, Inc., et al. Ohio Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process legal-remedy ohio-supreme-court remedy standing wrongful-conduct Whether the Ohio Supreme Court has violated Petitioners' due process rights
19-12 Kevin Sewell v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response Waived compelled-speech confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment-self-incrimination first-amendment first-amendment-compelled-speech overbreadth self-incrimination sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause Whether Maryland's law imposing a duty to report suspected child abuse or neglect on all persons in the State violates the First Amendment where it ma…
19-120 IBG LLC, et al. v. Trading Technologies International, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived america-invents-act covered-business-method federal-circuit federal-circuit-split patent-eligibility patent-review patent-validity statutory-interpretation technological-invention Whether a patent that does not satisfy the first prong of § 42.301(b)—that is, that does not recite a novel and non-obvious technological feature—clai…
19-121 Kenneth Miller v. Robert Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment 351 (1973) which satisfies the habeas-corpus 411 US. 345 civil-rights custody-requirement due-process standing 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process firearm-prohibition fundamental-rights habeas-corpus liberty-interest second-amendment self-defense severe-restraint-on-liberty standing Does the total prohibition on the exercise of a person's fundamental Second Amendment right to keep a firearm in one's home for purposes of self-defen…
19-124 Barry J. Smith, Sr. v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 13th-amendment civil-rights criminal-sentence criminal-sentencing dred-scott due-process emancipation involuntary-servitude judicial-relief thirteenth-amendment Does duly convicted include duly sentenced, and did petitioner's Thirteenth Amendment enslavement end when he discharged from his Thirteenth Amendment…
19-126 Gary A. Oram, Jr. v. City of Dillon, Montana, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1985 civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial judicial-resolution liability magistrate-jurisdiction private-citizen section-1985 standing Are the Courts able to find a judicial resolution in a §1985(3) claim against one private citizen, after all other individuals in the action are relea…
19-127 Anmarie Calgaro v. St. Louis County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived due-process due-process-clause emancipation local-government medical-providers minor-children parental-rights welfare-payments Whether parents' Due Process Clause rights apply to local governments and medical providers ending parental rights, responsibilities or duties over th…
19-128 Charles Daniel Maye v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived access-restrictions authorized-access circuit-split civil-procedure computer-fraud-abuse-act computer-fraud-and-abuse-act cybercrime-law information-access information-use legal-scope standing statutory-interpretation Whether 'exceeds authorized access' in the Computer Fraud Abuse Act (CFAA) is limited to violations of restrictions on access to information, and not …
19-129 Neil Feinberg, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights controlled-substances-act drug-policy drug-trafficking federal-preemption federalism interstate-commerce irs-tax-code marijuana-legalization preemption state-legalization state-rights tax-law Did the Tenth Circuit err in holding that the Controlled Substances Act superseded and preempted Colorado marijuana laws?
19-130 In Re Randolph George Denied Response Waived coram-nobis costs-of-imprisonment custody due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restitution section-2255 sentencing writ-of-error-coram-nobis writ-of-mandamus Whether a petitioner can challenge a restitution order or order imposing costs of imprisonment based on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim in …
19-134 Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation agency-reconsideration auer-deference chevron-deference civil-procedure due-process exhaustion jurisdiction jurisdictional-review statutory-interpretation takings universal-service-fund Whether Chevron and Auer required the appellate court to accord absolute deference to the Government's conflicting jurisdictional statements
19-135 Pamela J. Smith v. University of Maryland, Baltimore, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 1991-civil-rights-act 42-usc-1981 adverse-employment-action civil-rights employment mcdonongh-v-smith retaliation statute-of-limitations Whether retaliation claims under 42 U.S.C. §1981 should accrue at the date of the adverse employment action or the date when the adverse employment de…
19-136 Saban Rent-A-Car LLC, et al. v. Arizona Department of Revenue, et al. Arizona Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arizona-supreme-court maricopa-county nonresident-taxation rental-car-industry tax-discrimination car-rental-tax commerce-regulation discriminatory-design discriminatory-purpose dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce nonresident-burden nonresident-discrimination state-taxation tax-discrimination tax-incidence Whether a car-rental tax designed to foist a disproportionate share of the tax's burden onto nonresidents is nonetheless immune from dormant Commerce …
19-137 Vibe Micro, Inc. v. SIG Capital, LLC Ninth Circuit Denied bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-statute circuit-split damages federal-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy involuntary-petition non-debtor non-debtor-relief standing statutory-interpretation Whether 11 U.S.C. § 303(i) forbids non-debtors from obtaining relief from an improper bankruptcy filing
19-14 In Re Thomas F. Williams Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default prosecutor-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-by-jury trial-court-issues Whether the federal district & circuit court and the Florida State courts violated the Petitioner's 6th-&-14th-Amendment-rights
19-141 Jeffrey Fairbanks v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response Waived criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules ex-post-facto judicial-construction jury jury-instructions propensity-evidence reasonable-doubt vague-statute vagueness Whether the judiciary violated the Ex Post Facto Clause when it created a new evidentiary holding to excuse the impermissible use of propensity eviden…
19-142 Timothy C. Harry, et al. v. American Brokers Conduit, et al. First Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights document-fabrication due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment lending-transaction property-rights standing takings Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals was correct in denying Petitioners' Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments rights to Substantive and Procedural Du…
19-144 James Thomas Ryan v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process employment federal-circuit federal-circuit-court-of-appeals federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board notice-and-opportunity personnel-action whistleblower-protection Can the government sustain a specification without giving the employee notice?
19-145 Vincent Mastanduno v. National Freight Industries, et al. North Carolina Denied Response Waived civil-rights compelling-state-interest constitutional-rights due-process health-information informational-privacy privacy public-disclosure public-interest state-action state-agency state-disclosure transparency Does a person have a constitutional right to privacy over his personal health information; and where the State publishes a person's private health inf…
19-146 Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-review benefits-denial circuit-split disability-benefits disability-standard erisa futility futility-doctrine own-occupation remand retroactive-benefits Should this Court resolve the conflict among the Circuits about whether it would be futile to require an ERISA plan participant upon remand to retroac…
19-148 7 West 57th Street Realty Company, LLC v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived antitrust-standing clayton-act financial-instruments libor market-manipulation price-fixing privity-relationship Whether an antitrust plaintiff with a direct privity relationship to a price-fixer has antitrust standing under Section 4 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C…
19-149 Fort Bend Mechanical, Limited, et al. v. Gil Ramirez Group, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-review federal-rules-civil-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error rule-50 sufficiency-challenge sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to follow its own precedent when declining to conduct a plain error review of the sufficiency challenge due to incons…
19-15 Bank of Louisiana, et al. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-court federal-courts judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standing standing Where does one seek judicial review in a case alleging discrimination, neither on merits nor on a procedural ground, but for lack of jurisdiction?
19-150 Lynn Lumbard, et al. v. City of Ann Arbor, Michigan Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 5th-amendment federal-court-review fifth-amendment just-compensation loretto-v-teleprompter permanent-physical-occupation physical-occupation san-remo-hotel state-court-exhaustion takings takings-claim takings-clause Whether Petitioners' Takings Clause claim should be reinstated
19-157 Eric Baggett v. Oncor Electric Delivery Company, LLC Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived age-discrimination circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-standard Whether the sufficiency of a pleading should be held to a heightened pleading standard requiring facts of each element of the claim when the claim is …
19-160 Heather Singleton, et al. v. Mary Fairhurst, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Washington, et al. Washington Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-power pro-tem-judge supremacy-clause washington-state Whether the Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court can authorize a pro tem judge to exercise judicial power consistent with the Supremacy Claus…
19-162 Michael Richards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation pena-rodriguez pena-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Should this Court's decision in Pena-Rodriquez v. Colorado, 187 8, Ct. 855 (2017) be applied retroactively to Petitioner's collateral attack?
19-17 Alexander Collin Baker v. Clara Veseliza Baker California Denied civil-rights domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process federal-supremacy first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint right-to-petition separation-of-powers strict-scrutiny vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the DVPA's residual clause definition of 'abuse' is unconstitutionally vague and/or overbroad
19-173 Jonathan Quinn, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem for H. Q., a Minor Child, et al. v. Truck Insurance Exchange, et al. South Dakota Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
19-175 Brad S. Francis, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-misconduct appellate-procedure due-process jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency personal-jurisdiction reasoned-opinion statutory-notice subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction Does the Eighth Circuit's judgement and PER CURIAM AFFIRMANCE using Local Rule 47B AFFIRMANCE OR ENFORCEMENT WITHOUT OPINION of Case No. 18-2447 satis…
19-179 Naora Ben-Dov v. Shoshana Zelda Sragow, aka Stacy Suzanna Sragow, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal continuous-accrual court-discretion criminal-law criminal-offenses dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-review pleadings procedural-violation statute-of-limitations Should an action based on multiple civil and criminal offenses be considered from the first instance, the last known instance, or after evidence of nu…
19-18 Rosa M. Navarrette-Lopez v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
19-180 John Bucsek v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Second Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-court-error arbitrability arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreement-validity civil-procedure dispute-resolution due-process federal-arbitration-act henry-schein-precedent henry-schein-v-archer-white material-events merits-of-claim nsd-membership scope-of-arbitration standing Did the appellate court err by ignoring Henry Schein-Inc-et-al-v-Archer-&-White-Sales-Inc-139-S-Ct-524-US-Jan-8-2019-and-barring-arbitration
19-182 Francisca Guillen v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived california-labor-code california-law district-court-discretion electronic-records employee-protection employee-rights jury-instructions labor-code labor-law labor-standards-enforcement statutory-interpretation wage-statements Whether it was error not to instruct a jury on the law set forth in almost 20-years of opinions of California's Department of Labor Standards Enforcem…
19-183 Mark Douglas Robison v. Texas Texas Denied Response Waived criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-outcome Whether a criminal-defense attorney's deficient performance under Strickland v. Washington affects the trial's outcome or renders the trial fundamenta…
19-186 Leslie Moore Mira v. Argus Media, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law hostile-work-environment nonconsensual-dissemination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii workplace-harassment Does such misconduct by an employer constitute a Title VII violation and create a prima facie hostile and discriminatory workplace?
19-19 Sina Kianpour v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
19-192 Matthew Herrick v. Grindr LLC, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense communications-decency-act failure-to-warn fraud interactive-computer-services motion-to-dismiss negligence non-publication-torts product-liability publication-torts section-230 Does the Communications Decency Act § 230(c)(1) prevent well pleaded causes of action for non-publication torts?
19-193 Rodney Hogen, et al. v. Steven C. Hogen North Dakota Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure north-dakota personal-representative property-rights supreme-court Does the decision of the Supreme Court of North Dakota deprive the Petitioners of established property rights in violation of the Due Process and Equa…
19-194 Daniel Delacruz, Sr. v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine racial-discrimination rooker-feldman-doctrine Does a dismissal of claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and First Amendment rights under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine violate the equal prote…
19-196 Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Company, dba Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana v. Encompass Office Solutions, Incorporated Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived antiassignment-provision authoritative-guidance choice-of-law civil-procedure claim-processing clear-authoritative-guidance erie-doctrine erie-railroad erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins erisa erisa-antiassignment-provision erisa-benefits erisa-waiver federal-court federal-courts liability medical-provider standing state-law statutory-interpretation waiver Whether a federal court may choose the option that expands liability under state law, absent clear, authoritative guidance from the state's courts
19-2 Jackie Hosang Lawson v. FMR LLC, dba Fidelity Investments, et al. First Circuit Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expert-witness-testimony federal-securities-law federal-securities-laws fraud fraud-allegations jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-standards sarbanes-oxley-act securities Is the jury verdict just and proper on the two deciding questions where the jury was not made aware of what constitutes violation of Federal law relat…
19-20 William Andreoli, et al. v. Youngevity International Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied anti-SLAPP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine final-judgment final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal slapp standing Whether federal courts of appeals lack interlocutory appellate jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and the collateral order doctrine to review the den…
19-200 Billy F. Hawk, Jr., et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived 6901 circuit-split commissioner-v-stern creditor-rights federal-tax-doctrine statutory-interpretation strict-liability tax tax-cases transaction-collapsing transferee-knowledge uniform-fraudulent-transfer-act Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with the decisions of the First, Second, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits regarding whether an alleged transf…
19-203 David Greenberg v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court-review cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-of-sentence reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity Did the Second Circuit err in affirming Petitioner David Greenberg's sentence without addressing the sentencing court's failure to consider the proper…
19-206 In Re Melba L. Ford Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appellate-relief appellate-review appointment-of-counsel court-access due-process en-banc-circuit fraud judicial-procedure meaningful-access-to-courts separation-of-powers substantive-due-process unrepresented-litigants unsigned-orders When Circuits issue unsigned orders denying appellate relief to unrepresented litigants, which orders address no issue raised and provide no explanati…
19-209 Thomas W. McDonald, Jr., Chapter 13 Trustee v. Paul E. Wenzloff, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-law-standing-chapter-13-chapter-7-fraud case-conversion chapter-13 chapter-7 fraud legal-precedent malfeasance standing trustee-standing Did this Court's ruling in Harris v. Viegelahn overrule 134 years of legal precedent established in Barton v. Barber by denying standing to a Chapter …
19-21 Gregory Owens v. United States First Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure property property-rights search search-and-seizure standing warrant warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment protect a person's property from a search without a warrant?
19-213 Charles Fischer v. Texas Texas Denied Response Waived appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process propensity-evidence propensity-inference statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-appeals texas-statute Whether the Due Process Clause is offended by a statute that authorizes criminal convictions on the basis of character conformity and propensity
19-214 Michael R. Presley, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process financial-privacy internal-revenue-code notice-requirements preemption right-to-financial-privacy standing summons-enforcement tax tax-investigation third-party-summons Whether the federal Right to Financial Privacy Act was fully preempted by the Internal Revenue Code, resulting in the production of financial informat…
19-216 Harold Persaud v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure daubert-standard district-court-opinion district-court-review due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-conviction merits-review motion-to-vacate standard-of-review Whether Reasonable Jurists Could Debate the Denial of Petitioner's Motion to Vacate and Set Aside his Judgment of Conviction
19-22 Rickey Newsome v. RSL Funding, LLC, et al. Texas Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration arbitration-clause bill-of-review civil-rights contract-defenses contract-formation court-approval court-jurisdiction structured-settlement structured-settlement-protection-act texas-sspa texas-supreme-court Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in compelling arbitration and staying the bill of review proceeding
19-24 Jack Rose, et ux. v. David Reaves, Chapter 7 Trustee Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived or the broad definition of 'transfer' contained i -bankruptcy-code -circuit-split -discharge-objection -statutory-interpretation -transfer-definition #NAME? bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-727-a-2-a bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-transfer bankruptcy-trustee discharge in-re-adeeb section-101-54 section-101(54) section-727(a)(2)(a) transfer Whether courts considering an objection to discharge under Section 727(a)(2)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code should apply the narrowly tailored definition o…
19-242 Juanita Nichols v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split disability-benefits disability-insurance erisa erisa-disability-insurance insurance-interpretation job-duties long-term-disability occupation-definition regular-occupation statutory-interpretation Whether 'regular occupation' refers to a general category of employment in a broad and generic sense, or instead refers to a claimant's 'actual job du…
19-243 Richard M. Camacho v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel military-justice presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Army's Sexual Harassment Assault Response and Prevention Program (SHARP) reversed the constitutional presumption of innocence
19-245 GEFT Outdoor L.L.C. v. City of Westfield, Hamilton County, Indiana Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-unconstitutionality first-amendment free-speech injunction ordinance-validity prior-restraint speech-rights standing Whether a citizen who seeks to exercise core First Amendment rights must first seek and obtain an order from a court of competent jurisdiction invalid…
19-256 Yuzef Abramov v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-powers counsel-of-choice due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause necessary-and-proper necessary-and-proper-clause sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation treaty-power Whether it is constitutional to extend 18 U.S.C. § 2423(c) to noncommercial conduct allegedly committed by a foreign citizen and resident against othe…
19-272 Willie Lee Cooks v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived emergency-aid-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry home-privacy home-search probable-cause reasonable-belief warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the emergency-aid exception permits a warrantless, nonconsensual search of a private home based upon officers' inability to 'rule out the poss…
19-29 Troy Beemer v. University of Southern California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied curriculum-modification disability-rights educational-accommodation fundamental-alteration otherwise-qualified rehabilitation-act section-504 substantial-modification When does a modification or alteration to an educational program's curriculum become a substantial modification and a fundamental alteration for purpo…
19-295 Barbara Fawcett v. Citizens Bank, N.A. First Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-guidance agency-interpretation auer-deference fair-and-considered-judgment judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-construction regulatory-interpretation skidmore-deference statutory-construction Whether the court of appeals improperly afforded Auer deference to a federal agency's informal interpretation of a regulation
19-305 Lisa Wilkins, et al. v. James Soler, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement personal-jurisdiction third-party-interactions Whether a court can, consistent with the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, exert personal jurisdiction over an out of state law enforcem…
19-308 Blanca Arizmendi v. Patrick Gabbert Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-representation fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware hicks-v-oklahoma law-enforcement qualified-immunity texas-code-of-criminal-procedure warrant-affidavit warrantless-arrest Was the officer's arrest of Petitioner with a warrant based on clearly established law?
19-32 Gordon Scott Stroh v. Saturna Capital Corporation Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived cause-of-action civil-procedure dismissal evidence evidence-dismissal motion-in-limine standard-of-review summary-judgment trial-court What is the appropriate standard of review when a trial court improperly grants a motion in limine that has the practical effect of dismissing an enti…
19-325 Columbian Financial Corporation v. Tim Kemp, Bank Commissioner of Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-violations due-process fourteenth-amendment notice opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion property-rights res-judicata state-action Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the lower federal courts barred Petitioner's claim by applying preclusive effect to the ver…
19-33 Kevin Wallace v. Andeavor Corporation Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights employee-protection federal-prohibitions matter-of-law objective-reasonableness sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act trier-of-fact whistleblower whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation Should the determination under § 1514A(a) as to whether an employee's belief was objectively reasonable be made by the trier of fact, so long as reaso…
19-34 Paul Maravelias v. David DePamphilis New Hampshire Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process equal-protection extraordinary-sanction findings-of-fact first-amendment original-jurisdiction pre-deprivation-hearing retaliation rule-of-law standing supreme-court vagueness Did the NHSC violate the Due Process Clause to deny Petitioner's requested pre-deprivation hearing and by failing to make a single finding of fact in …
19-36 Lourdes Fontanillas Lopez v. Morell Bauza Cartagena & Dapena, LLC, et al. Puerto Rico Denied civil-procedure claim-preclusion due-process equal-protection federal-common-law res-judicata supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals erred in holding that federal claim preclusion principles bar subsequent state court claims previously dismis…
19-37 Matthew Freeman v. Texas Texas Denied acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-of-acquittal successive-prosecution successive-prosecutions Whether placing the Petitioner in a position to be twice tried for the same offense after a judgment of acquittal violates Petitioner's constitutional…
19-38 Malcolm McGee v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived california-law federal-sentence-enhancement felony-drug-offense recidivist-sentence-enhancement recidivist-sentencing resentencing retroactive-reduction sentence-enhancement state-post-conviction state-post-conviction-remedy state-prison-sentence successful-attack When does a state post-conviction remedy qualify as a 'successful attack' on a state prison sentence, such that a subsequent federal sentence enhancem…
19-39 Quintin Antonio Bell v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment categorical-match criminal-procedure custody due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-interrogation miranda-v-arizona officer-subjective-test police-conduct sentencing-enhancement state-court-prosecution Whether the court of appeals correctly applied a subjective, officer-focused test to determine whether a suspect was interrogated for purposes of Mira…
19-40 Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. J. W., a Minor California Denied church-governance civil-liability clergy-privilege first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intra-faith-communications religious-doctrine religious-freedom religious-practice Did California violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when it held the former national offices of Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower) responsible fo…
19-45 Nexus Services, Inc., et al. v. Donald Lee Moran, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Deputy Sheriff of Augusta County, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied christiansburg-garment civil-procedure court-order federal-statute fee-shifting legal-relationship prevailing-party rule-41 rule-41(a)(1) voluntary-dismissal Can a party qualify as a 'prevailing party' under a federal fee shifting statute when an adverse party voluntarily dismisses its claims under Rule 41(…
19-48 B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc. Eighth Circuit Denied bose disgorgement federal-circuit fraud fraud-standard lanham-act lanham-act-fraud patent rule-59-motion standard-of-review therasense trademark trademark-law uspto willfulness Whether the established precedent by the Federal Circuit for the determination of fraud on the USPTO should be adopted as the proper standard for all …
19-49 Michael Simons v. Boston Scientific, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla FMLA-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas pretext pretext-standard prima-facie retaliation summary-judgment temporal-proximity Whether the McDonnell Douglas framework applies to FMLA interference claims
19-5 Luis Arnaldo Baez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extraneous-evidence jury-instruction jury-trial limiting-instruction propensity-evidence Whether a jury instruction that permits conviction on proof of extraneous and propensity evidence, rather than on proof of all of the elements of a ch…
19-50 John DeRaffele v. United States First Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals fair-housing-act federal-district-court federal-question judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-verdict pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing tenant-standing writ-of-certiorari Does a Pro Se litigant have the right to request a Writ of Certiorari when the Court of Appeals has upheld a lower Court ruling on an important Federa…
19-5001 Melvin Dosdos Dulcero v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing takings Whether the issuance of a writ of mandamus is appropriate to compel the United States Court of Federal Claims to consider the merits of a takings clai…
19-5002 Jared Len Cruse v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment cell-phone-evidence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-sentence search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the cell phone evidence was the product of a warrantless search and seizure and/or an illegal detention; and thus, whether this evidence can b…
19-5003 Roberto Cruz-Olavarria v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process heightened-scrutiny judicial-discretion offense-seriousness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-maximum supervised-release Whether there is a need for extensive justification and heightened scrutiny when imposing and reviewing sentences at the statutory maximum
19-5004 Ivan Stamps v. Michael Miller Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP biggers-test concerted-action fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fraud-on-the-court fundamental-fairness governmental-conduct habeas-corpus hearsay-testimony jurisdiction oath-requirement-perjury-fraud-jurisdiction perjury perjury-fraud-jurisdiction verification-affidavit Whether State obtained conviction through perjury/fraud
19-5005 Ahmadou Sankara v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-review asylum-application burden-of-proof cardoza-fonseca country-conditions immigration-law persecution political-persecution reasonable-possibility well-founded-fear What is the reasonable possibility standard for establishing a well-founded fear of persecution for asylum applicants?
19-5006 Peter J. Rosato v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure deposition deposition-testimony depositions due-process knowingly-intelligent-waiver right-to-be-present video-deposition waiver Does a waiver of a citizen's constitutional right have to appear on the record either written or orally in order to establish a knowing, intelligent, …
19-5008 Jamie B. Johnson v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP digital-age digital-data fourth-amendment gps gps-tracking location-data privacy privacy-rights probation probation-conditions search warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search, unsupported by any individualized suspicion of criminal wrongdoing, of a former probationer's historical GPS location …
19-5009 Keon Anthony Nixon v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP balancing-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-indictment-delay prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-right Whether a defendant's 'failure to invoke the right to a speedy trial would be weighed heavily against him,' despite 'his lack of representation,' and …
19-5011 Danny P. Phipps v. New York New York Denied IFP 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-property burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-selection pro-se-representation property-abandonment search-and-seizure standing Can Appellate Division develop a rule that shifts the burden from the People to a defendant to prove he or she did not abandon property making it subj…
19-5012 Frank Sarcona v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-issues constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct Did the District Court and the Court of Appeals err in relying on procedural bar instead of the underlying constitutional issues by blocking a federal…
19-5013 Hugo Santana-Dones v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-circuit-review intercept-standard necessity standard-of-review statutory-burden statutory-rights warrant-necessity wire-communications wiretap Whether the First Circuit's standard of review on the necessity of a warrant to intercept wire communications violates the defendant's constitutional …
19-5015 Michael D. Kelley v. Colette S. Peters, in Her Individual Capacity, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-segregation confidential-informant due-process ninth-circuit-standard prison-administration prison-administrative-hearing prison-hearing some-evidence some-evidence-standard standing superintendent-v-hill Whether the 'some evidence' standard announced in Superintendent v. Hill, 472 US 445 (1985), is satisfied in a prison administrative hearing setting w…
19-5017 Shanta Phillips-Berry v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process equal-protection evidence-presentation fair-trial judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying the petitioner a fair trial by jury and the opportunity to present evidence against the re…
19-5018 Gettus Leroy Mintz v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review conviction-standard criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct procedural-default reasonable-doubt Whether the willful and serial denial of attempts to demonstrate actual innocence, by the courts and counsel, presents at a minimum the debatable qual…
19-5019 Jennifer Perez v. Paul Grant Dwyer Florida Denied IFP child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process judicial-abuse judicial-bias parental-alienation parental-rights Are people with disabilities more likely to be protected or discriminated when regarding parental stigma
19-5020 Khaleefa Lambert v. Darren Settles, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure felony-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel murder-conviction prejudice premeditated-murder reasonable-jury sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying Petitioner's claim that his trial counsel's performance was so deficient as to prejudice the outcome of the trial…
19-5021 Oliver M. Boling v. United States Parole Commission, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights district-of-columbia due-process equal-protection federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure personal-capacity preclusion section-1983 Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia is in conflict with the circuit courts on the issue of preclusion
19-5022 Brian K. Banks v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b)-evidence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-error louisiana-supreme-court prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err in allowing the Fifth Circuit to contradict its own prior rulings by overruling the District Court's decision to n…
19-5023 Jason Keith Walker v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-united-states brady-violation due-process fifth-amendment giglio-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-v-illinois plea-bargaining plea-negotiations prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability
19-5024 William Thrower v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach elements-based-inquiry elements-clause new-york-penal-law realistic-probability-test robbery sentencing-enhancement violent-felony Whether robbery in the third degree under New York Penal Law § 160.05 categorically qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Ac…
19-5026 Melvin Lewis Andrews v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court crime-of-violence criminal-law guidelines johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-powers Should this Court exercise its supervisory powers where a circuit court of appeals continues to allow trial courts to apply 'crime of violence' analys…
19-5028 Osvaldo Vasquez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment fundamental-fairness gps-tracking gps-warrant sixth-amendment warrant-challenge wiretap-warrant Whether the Petitioner was denied his fundamental constitutional rights to Due Process and Fundamental Fairness
19-5029 Frederick Tyrone Calhoun v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain equal-protection just-compensation private-property standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the government's seizure of private property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
19-5030 Michael D. Mathew v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing Whether the twenty-one year sentence imposed by the state trial court violated the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishments?
19-5031 Efrain Ismael Conde v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-court appointment-of-counsel credibility-of-witness due-process due-process-materiality-standard fourteenth-amendment materiality-standard newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief witness-credibility Does the Due Process Clause entitle a convicted prisoner to appointment of counsel and opportunity to amend a notice of post-conviction relief asserti…
19-5032 Tyrone Felder v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication adult-conviction adult-convictions career-offender criminal-history criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation youthful-offender Whether New York youthful offender adjudications qualify as adult convictions for purposes of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines career offender provis…
19-5034 Leland Dudley v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP ' 'civil-rights" ' 'criminal-procedure" ' 'due-process" ' 'police-misconduct" ' 'post-conviction' ' 'sentencing" civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review grand-jury judicial-review police-misconduct post-conviction-relief sentencing wrongful-conviction Was the petition (by) the state's attorney's office denied by the lower court, and did the lower court err in denying the petition to vacate the convi…
19-5035 Calvin James v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing trial witness Do officers need consent to search private property without a search warrant?
19-5036 Craig Alan Toaz v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentencing criminal-conduct criminal-procedure federal-convictions habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review procedural-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-5g1.3 Whether the district and circuit courts erroneously dismissed petitioner's habeas petition under procedural grounds
19-5038 Donald Willems v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-protections contract-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial Does an Appeal Waiver which is contained within a Plea Agreement toll the filing of a Notice to Appeal under the Sixth Amendments right to a speedy tr…
19-5039 Carlos Ortiz v. Delaware Delaware Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation whether-the-lower-court-erred-in-its-interpretation-of-the-relevant-statute
19-5041 Matthew Jamison v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review conflict-with-other-states constitutional-law due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto federal-constitutional-rights federal-question retroactive-application vested-rights Did S.C. Supreme Court decide on an important federal question in ways conflicting with decision of other state?
19-5042 Charles Edward Jones, Sr. v. Josephine T. Griffin, Circuit Clerk, Chicot County, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy petition-filing standing Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's claim of denying access to the court and equal protection of law and due process under the Fo…
19-5043 Justin Panus v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-enhancement double-jeopardy due-process elemental-fact equal-protection offense-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether it violates the 14th Amendment for the same elemental fact to be used as an element of an offense and also to enhance that offense to a greate…
19-5044 Adrian Moon v. California California Dismissed IFP abortion civil-rights constitutional-law due-process precedent standing standing-civil-procedure-due-process-takings-civil Where did the Supreme Court rule that the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision overruled Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey?
19-5045 Donald Lee Hathorn v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 5th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process electronic-devices fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervised-release warrantless-search Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's requirement for Mr. Hathorn to submit his com…
19-5046 James Gregory Armistead v. David Millis, Superintendent, Hyde Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-documents prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-error Whether the circuit court judges erred when the petition was denied a certificate of appealability, for clear violations where petitioner presented le…
19-5048 Mark Anthony Dolph v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidentiary-standard interrogation legal-procedure miranda-warnings officer-testimony video-evidence Why does Geasoned Opinions of _jprist Thou out the federal system demonstrate that freminded ytist can disagree AS +o Whether the use of handtudfs jtu…
19-5049 Michael Wilson v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling sixth-amendment standing Whether jurists of reason would find it debatable whether the petition states a valid claim of a denial of a constitutional right, and whether jurists…
19-5050 John Asmodeo v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine Attenuation-Factors circuit-split civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule Finucan-Factors Flagrant-Misconduct fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search Intervening-Circumstances Purpose-of-Condon's-Interview suppression-hearing Temporal-Proximity Whether the attenuation doctrine applies when law enforcement officials deliberately discuss illegally seized evidence with a third party in order to …
19-5051 Armando Duarte Islas, Jr. v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence arizona-jurisdiction civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process federal-agencies federal-jurisdiction federal-organization habeas-corpus Whether Arizona had jurisdiction over events that occurred wholly, and investigated exclusively by agencies under exclusive federal organization?
19-5052 John P. Greiner v. Macomb County, Michigan, et al. Michigan Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-the-court retaliation administrative-hearing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment first-amendment fraud-on-the-court free-speech labor-law wrongful-termination Whether the termination of the plaintiff violated his First Amendment rights, given the alleged pretext, perjury, and fraud on the court involved in t…
19-5053 Brandon M. Hicks v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct plea-bargaining sentencing separation-of-powers sixth-amendment Whether the judge's extra language in the judgment of conviction, in context with his conduct at sentencing, is a violation of the Separation of Power…
19-5054 Jason Hendershott v. Kelly Strong, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuit-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-illness post-conviction Whether Hendershott was improperly denied time-credit for turning in his 2854 year old prison authorities to mail months before his deadline
19-5055 Isaac Decurtis Harris v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP arraignment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction court-rules criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest state-court transcript warrantless-arrest Whether the State Court had caused a conflict within the State Court ignoring its controlling governed caselaw
19-5056 Byron Randall Fisher v. Richmond, The American International University in London, Inc. Second Circuit Denied IFP binding-precedent civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-evidence judicial-procedure legal-precedent spoliation-of-evidence veterans-affairs Did the lower courts violate the constitutional rights of an Iraq War Veteran (Petitioner) by allowing the Respondent to utilize the same falsified ev…
19-5057 William Fletcher v. Corizon Health Services, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure grievance-procedures judicial-review prison-grievance standing Did the Plaintiff Exhaust All Administrative Remedies of Idaho Department of Corrections Prison Policy of Grievance and Informal Resolution?
19-5058 In Re Artur Tchibassa Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation extradition habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-discretion jurisprudence savings-clause statutory-interpretation structural-error Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by refusing to apply the Reyes-Requena savings clause jurisprudence
19-5060 Derrick Washington v. Carol A. Mici, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment anti-terrorism anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus incarceration life-without-parole sentencing Is Congress' 1996 Anti-Terrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) unconstitutional, as it unnecessarily snuffs out convicted persons' abilities to …
19-5061 Akeem Young v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-law-procedure fifth-amendment hobbs-act statutory-interpretation Whether the least culpable means of committing a violation under 18 U.S.C. 1951 qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B)
19-5062 Henry Lee Jones v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied IFP capital-punishment confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Hearsay sixth-amendment witness-testimony Did depriving the Petitioner of his ability to confront and cross-examination the key evidence at his capital trial violate the Sixth, Eighth, and Fou…
19-5063 Jose Thomas Barriera-Vera v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery attempted-armed-robbery attempted-crime criminal-law criminal-statute person-or-property physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether attempted armed bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) has as an element 'the use .. . of physical force against the person or property of another,' …
19-5064 In Re Reina S. C. Denied IFP None
19-5067 Jimmie Darnell Dixon v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-insanity-defense-due-process-si due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense insufficient-evidence Whether the lower court erred denying COA on the claim of insufficient evidence where petitioner sufficiently proved by a preponderance of the evidenc…
19-5068 Willie J. Trimble, Jr. v. Mathew Hansen, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 due-process federal-holidays fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus implicit-conclusion mailbox-rule party-presentation time-limitation Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeal(s) decision was in contrary with U.S. Supreme Court precedent
19-5069 Chapel Thompson v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation buck-v-davis civil-procedure co-defendant court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus incriminating-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard procedural-analysis standing Whether the court of appeals followed the dictates of this court's decision in Buck v. Davis, explaining that the COA stage is not coextensive with a …
19-5070 Carlos Lamar Mitchell v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 criminal-law criminal-statute demand-note intimidation physical-force physical-force-18-usc-924c3a sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) has as an element 'the use...of physical force against the person or property of another,' under 18 U.S.C. § 9…
19-5071 Erwin Burley v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power upward-variance Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power and grant review because the Eleventh Circuit has permitted an upward variance sentence almos…
19-5073 In Re Elvis Rivera Cruz Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-procedure federal-statutory-law-jurisdiction fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review obstruction-of-justice statutory-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari Did the United States Court of Appeals, For The Fifth Circuit, lack federal statutory law jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §2244(b),(3),(D), when more tha…
19-5074 Forge Dennis Mileham v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability claim-exhaustion exhaustion exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell state-court-proceedings vasquez-v-hillery Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery and Miller-El v. Cockre…
19-5075 Grace Makau v. Louise Meyer, Judge, District Court of North Carolina, Wake County, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-reunification family-rights federal-question first-amendment ncgs-50-13.5(d)(3) sibling-rights Issues being raised
19-5076 William J. Daugherty v. Randy L. White, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction pleadings standing Whether the judge had a sufficient basis to dismiss the complaint
19-5077 Carlton P. Cabot v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-findings olano plain-error rule-52(b) sentencing-variance standard-of-review Does plain error review apply to unobjected to factual determinations?
19-5078 Jamie Neil Capalbo v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-5079 Kenneth Blackwell v. Georgia Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review evidence issue-preservation judicial-discretion legal-sufficiency legal-theory prior-bad-acts prior-difficulties-evidence standard-of-review state-argument trial-court trial-court-discretion trial-procedure waiver Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred when it held that the trial court admitted Petitioner's sexual acts in Ohio as prior difficulties evidence …
19-5080 Reyes Vega, aka Ray Vega v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review section-1291 section-2255 unadjudicated-claims Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adju…
19-5081 David Morel, Jr. v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment computer-location computer-search digital-privacy expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment internet-activity-tracking ip-address law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search for personal IP address information related to images that Morel privately uploaded to Imgur, an image-hosting website,…
19-5082 Julisa Tolentino v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review pending-case published-opinion reconsideration remand standing united-states-v-leal vacate Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and the remand for reconsideration in the event that the defendant in the forth…
19-5083 Aaron Clayton McVea v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-vs-second-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline-a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric…
19-5084 Antoaneta Iotova, et al. v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower court's decision
19-5086 Iris McClain v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP bankruptcy-fraud civil-procedure district-court emotional-distress false-and-deceitful-misrepresentation fourth-circuit fraud-upon-the-court infliction-of-emotional-distress mail-and-wire-fraud mail-fraud wire-fraud Whether the Fourth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order Dismissing the Bankruptcy Fraud (Claim …
19-5087 Willie Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3559 categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing enumerated-list-of-offenses enumerated-offenses essential-nature federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-three-strikes-law prior-state-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-law Whether the categorical approach permits a court to compare 'the essence' of a prior state crime of conviction to the 'essential nature' of a specific…
19-5088 Quancidine Hinson-Gribble v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts attorney-representation civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Why was the case dismissed?
19-5091 Orrin Tyler Colbourn v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction patent standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-5092 Joseph Stephenson v. Connecticut Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence court-of-appeals district-court gateway-claims habeas-corpus house-v-bell Did the district court and the court of appeals misapply this Court's holdings concerning habeas petitioners' gateway claims of actual innocence as de…
19-5093 Jason Ellis Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 92…
19-5094 In Re Donna Sneller Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-iii-courts civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process government-structure judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power jurisdiction legislative-power separation-of-powers standing supreme-court tribunals Can the Congress only create tribunals inferior to the Article III section 1 one supreme Court?
19-5095 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining racial-discrimination retroactivity right-to-counsel school-desegregation supreme-court Whether Missouri v. Frye and Lafler v. Cooper apply retroactively
19-5096 Nicholas Rivera v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-law pennsylvania-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines Whether the categorical approach applies in determining a predicate offense for career-offender enhancement
19-5097 Danny Fabricant v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals declaratory-relief injunctive-relief judicial-recusal procedural-due-process recusal standing Whether a Court of Appeals may ignore an appellant's request to recuse itself in an appeal where the Court of Appeals is the only defendant and appell…
19-5099 James Thompson v. Florida Florida Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court-of-appeal due-process equal-protection florida-supreme-court fraud per-curiam-affirmance supreme-court-jurisdiction unelaborated-affirmance Whether the Florida practice and rule that do not permit litigants to seek review in the Florida Supreme Court when the district courts of appeal issu…
19-5100 Matthew Karahalios v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 28-usc-2255 armed-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation Does unarmed bank robbery serve as a predicate offense for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) of using or carrying a firearm during and in re…
19-5101 Darryl Puderer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling evidence-standard forcible-rape jurisdiction second-degree-kidnapping standing statute-of-limitations tolling Did the Federal District Court err in denying the petitioner's statutory or equitable tolling request when adequate record evidence was presented in s…
19-5103 Kenton G. Findlay v. Star Lakes Association, Inc. Florida Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights disqualification due-process foreclosure foreclosure-appeal impartiality judicial-impartiality service-of-process Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendments…
19-5104 Maurice Samuel Arrington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure certiorari-review civil-rights court-records due-process evidence-assessment factual-findings federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-standards legal-review standing state-courts supreme-court-precedent Does the Court of Appeals deny prisoners Due Process by Ignoring vital Facts necessary to determining their Pre-COA issues and Merely quoting Black v.…
19-5105 Rudy Espudo v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-justice criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-statute firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u…
19-5106 Janice A. Karella v. Green Tree Servicing, LLC Illinois Denied IFP assignment assignment-interpretation backdated-documents backdating civil-procedure document-validity evidentiary-standards fabricated-documents legal-memorialization memorialization summary-judgment Whether a backdated document with no date can actually be a 'memorialization of a prior assignment' that can be used for the entry of summary judgment…
19-5107 James C. Karahalios, Jr. v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c)(3) 18-usc-924c3 bank-robbery categorical crime-of-violence federal-bank-robbery force-clause johnson-v-united-states pharmacy-robbery statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states Whether federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. §2113 is a categorical 'crime of violence' under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)
19-5108 Donald Covington v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments standing statutory-claims Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in denying the Petitioner the ability to have his substantive constitutional, statut…
19-5110 Barry Bays v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance-analog controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fraud scienter scienter-requirement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's sentence for fraud offenses that applied 21 U.S.C. § 802(32), USSG § 2B1.1(b)(1), and USSG §2D1.1 and treated Bays as a 'control…
19-5111 Avery Blodgett v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-U.S.C.-§2113 18-U.S.C.-§924(c)(3) 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c3 crime-of-violence federal-bank-robbery force-clause johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states retroactivity statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states Whether federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. §2113 is a categorical crime-of-violence under the force-clause of 18-U.S.C.-§924(c)(3)
19-5112 Rafael Jacob Stoffel v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-victim mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-assault sexual-offense sexual-offenses Whether a minimum mandatory sentence of twenty-five years' imprisonment imposed for the offense of touching a minor's breast violates the prohibition …
19-5113 Sameer P. Sethi v. Securities and Exchange Commission Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-liability due-process fraud investor-protection sec-regulation securities securities-law standing summary-judgment Did the lower courts err in granting summary judgment against the defendant on securities fraud claims?
19-5115 Cordero Robert Seals v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof burrage burrage-test but-for-causation causation-standard causation-test circuit-split contributing-causation contributing-cause eighth-circuit government-burden judicial-interpretation legal-standard seventh-circuit Whether the Eighth Circuit misinterpreted the but-for causation test in light of the government's burden, and inappropriately applied the contributing…
19-5116 Tasheena V. Stewart v. Dartmouth Hitchcock Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employee-protection employment employment-discrimination human-resources-liability institutional-accountability retaliation title-vii wrongful-termination Whether employees can be protected when an institution can formulate a false narrative for violation of company policy, even when the employee is prov…
19-5118 Jason Paul Mathison v. Washington Washington Denied IFP collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing sentencing-conditions time-limits treatment-program vagueness Are constitutional rights of due process violated when a court imposes a condition that requires a defendant to 'successfully complete' a treatment pr…
19-5120 James Bedford Alford v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
19-5121 Ricky Daniel Wagoner v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
19-5122 David Alan Westerfield v. California California Denied IFP capital-trial de-novo-review due-process due-process-review fourth-amendment independent-review jury-sequestration polygraph-evidence pretrial-publicity probable-cause sheppard-v-maxwell standard-of-review Does the mandate announced in Sheppard v. Maxwell apply to the appellate assessment of the trial court's rejection of jury sequestration?
19-5123 Richard Parrish v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-support gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion legal-reliability reliability sentencing townsend-v-burke united-states-v-tucker united-states-v-watts Is resentencing required when a sentencing judge relied on an assumption that both parties agree is without evidentiary support?
19-5124 Arthur Durham v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process economic-harm federal-sentencing force-clause hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states retroactivity statutory-interpretation violent-crime welch-v-united-states Whether Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
19-5126 Jesus M. Garcia v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel wiretap wiretap-evidence Did the district court and appeals court err in denying appellant relief on ineffective assistance of trial counsel due to counsel's failing to object…
19-5127 William D. Dunne v. G. J. Bissett, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggregated-sentences consecutive-sentences federal-prisoner federal-prisoners habeas-corpus mandatory-parole mandatory-release parole parole-eligibility pre-SRA sentence-calculation sentencing sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation Does pre-Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA)-2 old law parole statute apply to petitioner's 1980 95 year aggregate federal sentence
19-5128 Robert Vincent Salcedo v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split direct-appeal discretionary-sentencing discretionary-sentencing-authority non-retroactive-amendment nonretroactive-amendment remand-for-resentencing resentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines When a non-retroactive amendment to the United States Sentencing Guidelines takes effect after a defendant is sentenced but while his direct appeal is…
19-5130 Tammie McConico v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-courts circumstantial-evidence equal-protection federal-circuit-courts reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Sixth Amendment requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt, even in a circumstantial case?
19-5131 Steven L. Rackley v. Brigham Sloan, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights dismissal due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-manslaughter notice post-indictment-delay probable-cause sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations statute-of-limitations
19-5132 Kenneth D. Sills v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights criminal-procedure flowers-v-mississippi ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether certiorari should be granted where trial counsel was ineffective in failing to object to the prosecution's pretextual explanation for exercisi…
19-5134 Kouwanii Brunstorff v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act assault attempt attempt-crime force-clause new-york physical-force second-circuit second-degree statutory-interpretation violent-felony Is an attempt to commit a categorically violent felony, in this case, assault in the second degree in New York, categorically violent under the force …
19-5135 Joseph Ballard v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts automatic-stay centralized-inmate-banking dismissal due-process equal-protection meaningful-access-to-courts prison-litigation-reform-act statutory-automatic-stay Is Louisiana obligated to implement and maintain a Centralized Inmate Banking System?
19-5136 Sha-Ron Haines v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights cross-examination due-process evidence evidence-rule-412 rape-shield rape-shield-law right-to-privacy victim-privacy Can the Government invoke Federal Rule of Evidence 412, the rape shield, over the objection of the victim, when doing so infringes upon a defendant's …
19-5137 Albert Duval Gray v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment revocation-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's revocation sentence violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
19-5138 Jesus Alonso Gonzalez Gonzalez, aka Jesus Gonzalez, aka Jesus Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Roberto Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error procedural-review rule-51b sentencing Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(…
19-5139 Alauna Gaye Morris v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment impound inventory-search investigative-stop law-enforcement policy pretext search-and-seizure unreasonable-search vehicle-impoundment Whether the Government meets its burden of proving the existence of a clear written policy for searching impounded vehicles
19-5141 William Wade v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 924c-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process johnson-dimaya physically-restrained-enhancement residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the 10th Circuit's declaration that the 924(c) 'residual' clause is unconstitutional requires resentencing when the sentencing court failed to…
19-5142 Charles Anthony Ball v. Mike Slagle Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-appeal federal-rule free-speech judicial-conflict meloy standing statutory-interpretation Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err on an important federal question by entering its decision/judgment, which is in conf…
19-5143 S. T. v. Washington Department of Social and Health Services Washington Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,mental-health,public-bene constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-agency mental-health mental-health-evaluation public-benefits standing takings Can a state agency require participation in mental health evaluation and treatment to qualify for public benefits when those diagnoses limit constitut…
19-5144 David R. Uribe v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment certificate-of-appealability due-process gang-evidence habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia underlying-charges Should a certificate of appealability be granted to review whether there was a violation of Jackson v. Virginia and the Due Process Clause?
19-5145 Victor Andrew Apodaca, Sr. v. John Does, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP None
19-5146 Isiah Edward Gilliam v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP discovery discovery-violation due-process fair-trial habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mistrial prior-convictions prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense Was Mr. Gilliam denied due process and a fair trial
19-5147 Flordeliza A. Hawkins v. SunTrust Bank, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech public-forum standing Whether the petitioner's First Amendment right to free speech was violated when the respondent restricted the petitioner's ability to post comments on…
19-5149 Luis Rojas-Marceleno v. Kansas Tenth Circuit Denied IFP 2nd-amendment case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue legal-review sentencing standing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioners' claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
19-5150 Irvin Junior Phillips v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924e apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process indictment-requirements prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States
19-5152 Daryll Keith Shumake v. Virginia Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights court-filing due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence hearsay ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-access legal-materials prison-litigation prisoner-rights prosecutorial-misconduct How did the law waive the petitioner's right to confrontation?
19-5153 Christopher B. Ramirez v. Washington Washington Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-circumstance criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure jury-instructions notice photographic-array police-misconduct sixth-amendment suggestive-circumstances suggestive-identification Whether the trial court should have excluded Carlton Hritsco's identification of Christopher Ramirez
19-5155 William M. Russell v. KS Ventures, LLC Montana Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process genuine-issues judicial-review legal-standard material-fact material-facts standing summary-judgment Did the findings of the lower courts result in a violation of certain rights of due process?
19-5157 Ronald Ray Horner v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-section-8 circuit-court-jurisdiction constitutional-amendment due-process enrolled-bill-rule enumerated-powers expansion-of-legislative-power house-concurrent-resolution-219 legislative-power standing stare-decisis Can Congress expand its legislative power beyond the Constitution's enumerated powers?
19-5159 Quinetta Grant v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP should this Court vacate and remand for reconside was Ms Grant denied her rights under U.S.S.G. § 1 binding-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-sentencing-right-to criminal-procedure-supervisory-power-conviction-se due-process judicial-discretion mail-fraud plain-error right-to-be-present sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-relevant-conduct-scope-of-cr sentencing-procedure Where Ms Grant's sentence was enhanced by attribut Where multiple additional errors affected petition Whether the Court of Appeals erred in failing to consider binding authority on a defendant's right to be present at a material sentencing proceeding
19-5160 Jamie D. Geer v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal appeal-procedure due-process equal-protection post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings prison-officials prisoner-rights Whether petitioner was denied due process, equal protection of the law, and right to access to the courts
19-5161 Antonio Vernon v. CBS Television Studios, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights contract-law due-process idea-submission implied-contract industry-standards intellectual-property Whether industry standards and customs should be considered as a factor during the analysis of perceived intent and duty of the implied contract parti…
19-5162 Frederick Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review plain-error plainly-unreasonable post-revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard supervised-release What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release?
19-5163 Michael A. Kelley, Jr. v. Phillip W. Gerth Ohio Denied IFP attorney-client attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Whether the termination of attorney-client relationship for purposes of R.C. 2305.11 Legal Malpractice is dependent upon the filing of motion to withd…
19-5164 Lamont Renard Stewart v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP conflict-with-precedent court-decision court-of-appeals federal-law federal-question important-issue judicial-review jurisdiction legal-conflict legal-settlement petition-for-writ settled-by-supreme-court standing Whether a State Court or a United States Court of Appeals has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled b…
19-5165 Michelle Stopyra Yaney v. Superior Court of California, San Bernardino County California Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection personal-liberty privacy privacy-rights procedural-due-process ssi-discrimination Should this court review this case because all citizens of our country must have the freedom to find their own individual way of accessing the constit…
19-5166 Henry Vazquez Valois v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power congressional-powers criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process enumerated-powers extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-national international-law international-waters maritime-law Whether the prosecution of Mr. Vazquez Valois — a Colombian national with no ties to the United States — for trafficking cocaine in international wate…
19-5167 Christian Don'tae Hood v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cellular-phone co-defendant compelled-testimony compulsory-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights jury-instruction post-arrest-interview search-and-seizure self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether the trial court erred in admitting the appellant's post-arrest interview when the government violated his Fifth Amendment rights by forcibly u…
19-5168 Stephenson Lamar Smith v. Ted Jackson, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects an individual from being tried on different charges related to the same offense
19-5169 Timothy Stratton v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP 107 325 U.S. 91 65 S.Ct. 1031 89 L.Ed. 1495 (1945) civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-instructions screws-v-united-states venue Whether the trial court failed to instruct the jury on the elements of the crime (venue) as according to Screws v. United States, 325 U.S. 91, 107, 65…
19-5170 Phillip J. Rosenblum v. Martin Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default reopening-deadline state-court-exhaustion successive-petitions Whether a petitioner with an 'actual innocence' claim can be barred from review and treated as if successive petitions that have not been adjudicated …
19-5175 Gregory Green v. Alan Wilson, Attorney General of South Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review standing Whether Couth Caralina Aye late Courd hile IYF Violates due fPOELS aad ogea / yrotedtisn ot Jad, by not entiblag Pethoner thE right th be heard on Gpp…
19-5176 Ernest L. Chambliss v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions standing Whether a defendant who has been charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon is entitled to an entrapment instruction when the evidence dem…
19-5177 James Alvin Chaney v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment impartial-jury inter-circuit-split juror-allegation juror-misconduct jury sixth-amendment trial-court trial-procedure Is a criminal defendant's Fifth Amendment right of due process and Sixth Amendment right to a trial by an impartial jury violated when the trial court…
19-5178 Howard Lester v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure essential-element expert-testimony firearms-examination fourth-amendment prosecutor-summation report-admission seizure substitute-analyst summation witness-testimony Whether the admission of a non-testifying firearms examiner's report and substitute analyst testimony violated the Confrontation Clause
19-5180 Lesa L. Chaney v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation government-agents probable-cause search-and-seizure unreasonable-search warrant Whether a generally worded warrant permitting government agents to rummage through and seize papers, documents and records for which no probable cause…
19-5183 Miguel Grado v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process firearm-use firearms multiple-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u…
19-5184 Kristopher Courtney v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel poverty sentencing standing Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Kristopher Courtney's motion to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
19-5185 William Eric Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure denial-of-certificate due-process factual-predicates fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-premises legal-reasoning procedural-due-process standing uncontested-application Should the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a certificate of appealability based the uncontested application submitted by the petitioner?
19-5186 Mauricio Warner v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-court appellate-procedure application certificate-of-appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-ruling procedural-error standing Did the Appeal Court err in making a merits ruling on Warner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability and for failure to even consider the app…
19-5187 Enoma Igbinovia v. James Greg Cox, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraudulent-concealment retaliation standing statute-of-limitations When does the statute of limitations begin to run where the injured party was unaware of the respondents' fraudulent concealment?
19-5188 Jermaine Tart v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights digital-access discovery discovery-limitations due-process employment-royalties ninth-circuit procedural-scope royalties standing state-rights statutory-interpretation takings Do the plaintiffs have a due process right to funds from existing or future employment royalties?
19-5189 Michael Tyler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence guidelines liberty post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Sentencing Court Erred in Calculating the Defendant's Sentencing Guidelines Range
19-5191 Kenneth Byron Davenport v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP age-determination criminal-procedure individualized-sentencing juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mental-disability mental-health mental-health-and-mental-retardation-act mental-illness miller-v-alabama post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act schizophrenia Does the legal 'right' recognized in Miller v. Alabama include all substantive components necessary to its creation, including the well-established ra…
19-5192 Brenda Massaquoi v. American Credit Acceptance Fourth Circuit Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination employment-law hostile-work-environment intentional-discrimination national-origin prima-facie-case retaliation title-vii Is a plaintiff's prima facie case of discrimination because of race, national-origin and retaliation, combined with sufficient evidence for a reasonab…
19-5193 Jonathan R. Burrs v. United Technologies Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-dismiss procedural-obstruction seventh-amendment standing summary-judgment Does a District Court Judge engage in a Fraud Upon The Court
19-5194 Edward Hector v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), where the off…
19-5195 Cleo Hines v. Cindy Griffith, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-of-appeal civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-case-law legal-uniformity Does the Equal Protection Clause require the law to treat identically situated persons in the same way, as required by the 14th Amendment, or only whe…
19-5196 Malcolm Omar Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit GVR IFP armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary criminal-law fourth-amendment fourth-circuit rehaif-v-united-states remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering is broader than Armed Career Criminal Act burglary
19-5197 Eric T. Roden v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal article-iii-judge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver Whether a criminal defendant can ever waive a correctly calculated guidelines range for use at a federal sentencing hearing
19-5198 Robert Rang v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-coercion attempted-enticement criminal-law due-process enticement-of-a-minor federal-criminal-statute interpersonal-physical-contact mens-rea minor-protection minors sexual-activity sexual-offense sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation Does a 'substantial step' under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require evidence of intended 'Interpersonal physical contact' in order to rise to the level, and/o…
19-5201 Kenneth Medenbach v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3561 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-authority district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction probation probation-term sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation substantial-rights supervised-release Did the District Court err in finding that it has authority under 18 USC §3561(a)(3) to impose a sentence of six months imprisonment and a 5 year term…
19-5202 Doroteo Zambrano-Ruiz v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-authority circuit-split federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of plain-error review in Molina-Martinez v. United States when…
19-5203 In Re Angel Ruiz-Rivera Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment debt-issuance due-process federal-law government-debt judicial-authority judicial-discretion legal-interpretation puerto-rico-government referendum standing statutory-interpretation takings Is Joint Resolution 87-121 of August 3, 1961 by the U.S. Congress and the amendment to the Constitution of P.R. approved therein and ratified by 82% o…
19-5204 Jesus Loya Quezada v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal citizenship civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error paper-foundation standing state-court uncorroborated-evidence Was the evidence allowed at my trial by the State court proper?
19-5205 Zachary A. Smith v. John A. Matthews, et al. Eighth Circuit Dismissed IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-motion medical-evidence prisoner-rights pro-se rule-706 summary-judgment Should a pro se prisoner be permitted to admit medical information from a reputable website as 'verifying medical evidence' to overcome a motion for s…
19-5207 Admassu Regassa v. Emily Cimino, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ftca ftca-claim judicial-review prison-conditions pro-se-prisoner Whether the district court erroneously dismissed the petitioner's Second Amended Complaint and the Seventh Circuit improperly affirmed the dismissal
19-5208 Ruth Torres v. Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth District, et al. Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-records due-process equal-protection inability-to-pay injunction judicial-misconduct mandamus pro-se-litigation prohibition Should US Supreme Court resolve denial of due process and equal protections when full release of requested clerk records was denied, then Writs of Man…
19-5209 Therian Cornelia Wimbush v. Willie Sue Mickens, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP conviction direct-appeal due-process federal-exhaustion habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentence speedy-trial state-court-remedy Does the timely and legally sufficient filing of a Notice of Appeal of a Directly Appealable post-conviction Statutory Speedy Trial motion preclude th…
19-5210 Therian Wimbush v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia, et al. Georgia Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights discretionary-appeal due-process georgia-court-of-appeals georgia-courts incarceration jurisdiction mailbox-rule parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-limitation Should the 'Mailbox Rule' be extended to all notices of appeal that must be filed in the trial court, filed by pro se incarcerated litigants?
19-5212 Larey Douglas Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-amendments due-process due-process-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings state-habeas Did the AEDPA's 28§2254(e) legislation do away with Supreme Court precedent regarding the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause's entitlement to a full an…
19-5214 Beatrice Downs v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 1964-civil-rights-act adverse-medical-treatment civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 due-process eeoc-claim employment-discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights harassment medical-treatment retaliation right-to-work state-agency title-vii Whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects against retaliation by a state agency
19-5215 Lowrell Neal v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion appellate-review circuit-court clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure habeas-corpus law-of-the-case manifest-injustice procedural-error sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit err by holding the district court properly applied the law-of-the-case to an issue presented in 2255 motion when prior appellate…
19-5216 Nicholas Pagliuca v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining rule-11 vonn-v-united-states Whether the plain error standard of Vonn/Dominguez Benitez applies in the context of violations of Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(b)(1)(N), where the defendant rais…
19-5218 In Re Teon Jamell Williams Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-evidence due-process exceptional-circumstances indictment indictment-challenge ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity search-and-seizure short-form-indictment Was the conviction obtained by use of evidence obtained by unreasonable search and seizure?
19-5220 Hernardo Medina-Villegas v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims due-process prejudice reasonableness sixth-amendment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard prejudice reasonableness-standard sixth-amendment standard-of-reasonableness Did the trial and appellate counsel's performance fall below an objective standard of reasonableness and prejudice the petitioner?
19-5221 Richard Potts v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation Whether collateral review is available to obtain relief under 28 USC § 2255 in the circumstances presented
19-5222 James Arthur Meeks v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure-bar-rule civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review procedural-bar standing trial-counsel Whether the procedural bar statute was properly applied
19-5223 Bobby Minnis v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-modification state-sentencing Whether a federal district judge can amend a final sentence years later to a defendant's detriment
19-5224 Lee Chang v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation due-process evidence evidence-translation evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement sixth-amendment Was recorded evidence by law enforcement and presented by the prosecutor given in a timely manner as well as can it be considered a Brady violation du…
19-5227 John Francis Lechner v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power atf civil-rights criminal-investigation due-process explosives-permit false-testimony federal-agent-testimony government-misconduct perjury prosecutorial-abuse prosecutorial-misconduct Did ATF Special Agent Timothy DeClaire misrepresent himself when he testified that John Lechner forged the explosives permit?
19-5228 Stanley J. Caterbone v. Lancaster City Bureau of Police, et al. Third Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP None
19-5230 Stephen B. Wlodarz v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP alford-plea criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence parole plea-bargaining sentencing Whether Petitioner's Alford guilty plea resulting in a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole is legal?
19-5231 James D. Thomas, Jr., aka Wayne Thomas v. New York New York Denied IFP appeal burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial jury-instructions prejudicial-error prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court Whether the People failed to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Jones Thomas Knowingly Possessed the Cocaine?
19-5232 Ricky Ray Malone v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis federal-law harmless-error harmlessness-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-component Where plain error review includes a built-in prejudice component, is subjecting an acknowledged plain error to a second round of harmlessness review p…
19-5233 Martin Leyva Valdez, Jr. v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-court-proceedings habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-timeliness rule-4 section-2254 state-court-proceedings state-court-records state-court-review timeliness ylst-v-nunnemaker Is the Ninth Circuit's decision contrary to this Court's decision in Y/st v Nunnemaker and Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 cases?
19-5234 Stephen P. Dowdney, Jr. v. Washington Washington Denied IFP anders-procedure anders-v-california appellate-review direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection mccoy-v-court-of-appeals Does Washington state use the Anders v. California procedure to circumvent a meaningful direct (first) appeal, effective assistance of counsel, due pr…
19-5235 James P. Arlotta v. United States Federal Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure administrative-review board-for-correction-of-naval-records civil-rights due-process judicial-review medical-records military-justice naval-discharge procedural-due-process procedural-errors ucmj How the alleged 'behavioral problems' of this petitioner are of no comparison to those, (and the way the U.S. Navy handled the 'situation(s)',) of U.S…
19-5236 Seab Nolen v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprehension-of-physical-injury armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute immediate-physical-injury physical-force possession-of-weapon sentencing-enhancement violent-felony weapon-possession Is a prior conviction that includes as an element the possession of a weapon categorically a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
19-5237 Felix Lyle Cowan v. Eli Lilly, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP antitrust bad-faith civil-procedure class-action patent settlement antitrust appellate-jurisdiction bad-faith civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-standing patent standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging bad faith conduct by the respondents in a patent settlement agreement
19-5238 Arthur Lopez v. The Irvine Company Apartment Communities, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process fair-housing-act federal-jurisdiction federal-review jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction remedies standing state-court-jurisdiction state-law Whether the Plaintiff and the General Cable did B permitted to Pursue Relief from Violations of the Kou Hearing Act (1968) for Segregation and Hearing…
19-5239 Kenneth Traylor v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief Whether the petitioner's substantive claim should be heard on the merits as it could not have been raised in earlier proceedings
19-5240 James Butler v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act district-court-discretion due-process equity equity-jurisdiction fraud-on-the-court government-misconduct grand-jury rule-6(e) rule-6e-violation Did the district court abuse its discretion when it filed suit in equity under civil law docket
19-5242 Charles Clary v. Lynn Guyer, Warden Montana Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-5243 Larry Marvel v. Delaware Delaware Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-offense double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process legislative-definition multiple-punishments sentencing state-prosecution statutory-interpretation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits multiple punishments for the same offense
19-5244 Larry David Davis v. Brian Daniel, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection evidence-tampering habeas-corpus sentencing standing trial-fairness Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
19-5245 Michelle Renee Lamb v. Joe Norwood, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for violation of their civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
19-5249 George E. Kersey v. Herb Chambers 1186, Inc., et al. First Circuit Dismissed IFP appeal appeals civil-procedure complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals district-court due-process filing-fee frivolous in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation sanctions screening standing Whether the Court of Appeals properly affirmed the District Court's certification that the appeal was not taken in good faith
19-5250 Cynthia M. Yoder v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP amendment-violations civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ejectment judicial-duties judicial-misconduct mortgage-foreclosure power-of-attorney standing Has the Appellant, an appointed and authorized power of attorney and her elderly parents, as the Agent is equal to the Principal(s), been conspired ag…
19-5251 Thomas Cascio v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP below-guidelines below-guidelines-sentence criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process prison-time rehabilitation rehabilitative-needs sentencing sentencing-guidelines tapia-error tapia-v-united-states Should certiorari be granted to find that a Tapia error occurs anytime a district court considers rehabilitative needs in imposing prison time, even f…
19-5254 Jose Arroyo v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP corpus-delicti counsel-appointment criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-conduct witness-statement Did the State fail to prove the corpus delicti of charges alleging penetration and sexual conduct with Jose Arroyo's mouth where the only proof of tho…
19-5255 Frank Lobacz v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-error per-se-ineffectiveness procedural-default second-circuit section-2255 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in affirming the lower court's denial of Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition alleging ine…
19-5256 Anthony J. Livingstone v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process military-justice military-rules-of-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment special-victims-counsel Was the 6th Amendment right to confront witnesses violated due to a misapplication of MRE 412?
19-5257 In Re Vincent Johnson Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules-60-b-6 clerk clerk-filing due-process federal-appeals federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdiction motion motion-for-relief relief-sought rule-60-motion sixth-circuit standing Whether the clerk for the Sixth Circuit Debbrah Hunt should be order to file movant's R. 60(b)(6) motion
19-5258 Ernest Morris v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit Denied IFP 60(b)(6) change-in-decisional-law change-in-law civil-procedure constitutional-relief decisional-law due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus relief rule-60(b) search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing Should relief under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b)(6) be available to habeas corpus petitioners when a change in decisional law occurs?
19-5259 Edgar Armand Hernandez-Castillo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-minimum Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is 'not greater than necessary' to achieve…
19-5260 Michael Levon Jackson v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP 18-usc-922g acquittal constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process element-of-crime jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt sentencing Does an inaccurate jury instruction on an element of a crime violate due process of law?
19-5261 Jorge Baez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability conviction criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process due-process,vagueness,18-usc-924(c),criminal-proce eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-vagueness united-states-v-davis vagueness Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and therefore his conviction under 18 …
19-5263 Miah Stroud v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right-to-defense constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness felonious-assault insufficient-evidence misidentification police-influence prosecutorial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence witness-identification Did the courts erroneously deny Ms. Stroud's constitutional right to due process when she was convicted of second degree murder and three counts of fe…
19-5264 Joseph Hyungseop Shim v. Michael Sexton, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus standing Whether Petitioner has made a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right to authorize the granting of a certificate of appealability un…
19-5266 Clarence E. Scott, Jr. v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the district court ruling that Petitioner was not denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel, due process of the law and right to…
19-5268 Thomas Bois v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP assault-with-dangerous-weapon crime-of-violence enumerated-offenses federal-sentencing force-clause massachusetts-assault massachusetts-assault-with-dangerous-weapon massachusetts-law sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a prior conviction for Massachusetts Assault with a Dangerous Weapon qualifies as a crime of violence for sentence enhancement purposes under …
19-5270 Phyteaf Phequan McCormick v. United States Fourth Circuit GVR IFP case-remand criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether the Fourth Circuit's judgment should be vacated and this case remanded for further review in light of this Court's recent opinion in Rehaif v.…
19-5271 Demarko Deon Cooper v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review lower-court-decision state-court unreasonable-application Was the lower court's decision to deny habeas corpus relief to the Petitioner in this cause contrary to, and an unreasonable application of, clearly e…
19-5272 Pereneal Kizzee v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeals criminal-procedure-error-correction criminal-sentencing federal-appeals federal-law felony-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession guidelines-enhancement judicial-discretion judicial-integrity plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it refused to exercise its discretion to correct the forfeited error that seriously affected the f…
19-5273 Wendolyn Lee v. Amy P. Weirich, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech patent sentencing standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its ruling on the legal issues involved in this case
19-5275 Richard Michael Mathisen v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit erred in denying Mr. Mathisen's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion based on ineffective assistance of counsel
19-5277 Robert M. Kowalski v. Executive Committee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit Denied IFP administrative-action bankruptcy constitutional-safeguards contempt-proceeding criminal-contempt due-process ex-parte judicial-review u.s-trustee us-trustee Whether the Order of the Executive Committee for the Northern District of Illinois declaring that an attorney is 'loud and disruptive' and ordering hi…
19-5279 Miguel Esparza-Salazar v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure illegal-entry prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-factors sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether a criminal defendant charged with illegal entry under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2) is entitled to notice in the indictment of prior convictio…
19-5280 Charles D. Tuttoilmondo, Jr. v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 4th-amendment administrative-law administrative-search border-patrol checkpoint-search civil-rights commercial-vehicles constitutional-reasonableness criminal-procedure drug-interdiction fourth-amendment roving-patrol search-and-seizure special-needs-doctrine Does Texas' use of commercial motor vehicle inspectors combined with a roving drug interdiction task force unconstitutionally and unreasonably abuse t…
19-5281 Ronald Wesley Jiles v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-right jury-bias jury-instructions prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Whether a defendant's right to exercise his Fifth Amendment right was prejudiced by the prosecution's comments on it during closing arguments
19-5283 Kyle Jason Korte v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull improper-application judicial-precedent law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation valid-law Does the 'good faith exception' outlined in Illinois v. Krull extend to circumstances where the statute remains valid but was improperly applied?
19-5284 Salvatore J. Moretti v. Bergen County Prosecutor's Office New Jersey Dismissed Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process innocent-owner-defense jurisdictional-challenge opra police-misconduct political-corruption property-rights prosecutorial-misconduct standing Has Appellant Proven Liability in the Respondents, Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, Given the High-Profile Case Which Was Briefed by Deborah Poritz,…
19-5286 Adam Patton v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Whether a criminal defendant, who has not knowingly and intelligently waived his Sixth Amendment right to counsel and who clearly requests the assista…
19-5287 Robert Daley v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split coram-nobis deportation due-process judicial-review morgan-standard sound-reasons united-states-v-morgan writ-of-error Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously ruled, thereby deepening a conflict among the circuits, that excessive delay precludes federal coram nobis reli…
19-5288 In Re Otis B. Brascom Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the false complaint and indictment in violation of Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules …
19-5289 Pharoah Brazell v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process evidence forged-guilty-plea guilty-plea habitual-offender miranda-rights plea-bargaining right-to-attorney-during-questioning right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sentence-enhancement sentencing Can the State use a forged Guilty Plea form from a Florida predicate offense and used it to enhance his sentence as a Habitual Offender?
19-5290 Ryan Keith Mason v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review attorney-performance credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference deference-standard deference-to-trial-court evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-sufficiency plea-bargaining plea-offer standard-of-review Whether a court of appeals erred in finding that deference to a trial court's factual finding on an attorney's provision of a favorable plea offer was…
19-5291 Tyrone Jordan v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-review habeas-corpus habeas-proceeding iac-claim ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel procedural-default standard-of-review trial-counsel What is the District Court's duty and what standard is the Court to apply to a habeas proceeding presenting a substantial and meritorious IAC claim of…
19-5294 Abraham Asley Augustin v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-15a due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-notice federal-rules-civil-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus motion-to-amend pleading responsive-pleading section-2255 standing Whether the Fed. R.. Crim. P. 15(a) Motion's right to amend as a-matter of course' a 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2255 before a Responsive pleading is filed can be …
19-5296 Ozzie Davis v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-v-us criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial-rights jackson-v-virginia prosecutorial-misconduct state-trial sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent third-degree-murder Whether the Pennsylvania Superior Court's denial of the challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence resulted in an unreasonable application of Suprem…
19-5297 Esterlin Appolon v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction post-conviction second-amendment sentencing standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence unreasonable-application Whether the Arizona Supreme Court abused its discretion by dismissing the Petition for Special Action and Motion for Stay?
19-53 Branded LLC v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived descriptive-marks federal-circuit generic-marks lanham-act principal-register trademark-descriptive trademark-descriptiveness trademark-distinctiveness trademark-generic trademark-genericness trademark-infringement trademark-law trademark-protection trademark-registration trademark-trial-and-appeal-board Whether the Federal Circuit test impermissibly categorizes 'descriptive' marks as unprotectable 'generic' marks, on the basis of the mark describing t…
19-5300 Fremo Santana v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination guideline-range ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proceedings Whether defense counsel's performance was constitutionally ineffective for erroneously miscalculating petitioner's guideline range which was the decid…
19-5303 Mario Benitez-Pineda v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-law penalty-provision sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 et. seq., is unconstitutional because it contains no penalty provision?
19-5304 Michael Paul Puzey v. United States Fourth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 38-usc-7253 appellate-review article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process judicial-procedure jurisdictional-standard legal-interpretation procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Appellate Court committed a Manifest error by Failing to adhere to its obligations and duty under Article III, subsection 2, and 38 U.S.C.…
19-5305 Sherman Alexander Lynch v. Shane Nelson Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process fraud-on-the-court fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan procedural-default schlup-v-delo standing Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the 'fundamental miscarriage of justice' exception
19-5306 Born Murray v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights detention fourth-amendment investigation investigative-detention law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion seizure time-frame traffic-stop Where a police officer admittedly abandons the initial basis for a traffic stop to pursue a new investigation unsupported by reasonable suspicion, doe…
19-5310 Rodolfo Cantu, Jr., aka Lil Rudy v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-right crawford-v-washington due-process fifth-amendment hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-proceedings sixth-amendment Was the enhancement for a credible threat improper considering the district court's partial reliance on hearsay facts outside the record, which violat…
19-5311 Ivaylo Dodev v. Bank of New York Mellon Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review arizona-court-of-appeals arizona-rules-of-civil-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure,eviction,dismissal,arizona-rules-o criminal-law due-process eviction eviction-proceedings federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act judicial-discretion rule-41 second-amendment united-states-v-davis voluntary-dismissal Whether Mr. Burke's § 924(c) conviction is invalid Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One abused its discretion by not ruling on the applicability of Rule 41(a)(1) of the Arizona Rules of C…
19-5314 Aurora Barrera v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-petition 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adju…
19-5317 Alonzo Vernon v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial harmless-error jones-v-stinson sixth-amendment Whether the Second Circuit's decision in the instant case created a conflict with the Court's decision in Chapman, supra?
19-5318 Marilee Brown v. David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection federal-employment federal-jurisdiction hostile-work-environment personnel-actions retaliation standing suicide whistleblower workplace-discrimination wrongful-removal Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-5319 William J. Barnes Jr. v. New York New York Denied IFP appellate-review competency constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insanity-defense mental-capacity mental-competency structural-error trial-procedure Did the county court deprive the petitioner of his due process and constitutional right to a full and fair impartial determination of his mental capac…
19-5320 Romon Lamont Dobbins v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure Was Petitioner's Conviction Sustained With Insufficient Evidence Beyond A Reasonable Doubt?
19-5321 John R. Collins v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process factual-innocence mcquiggin-exception mcquiggin-v-perkins miller-el-v-cockrell no-trial-no-guilty-plea presumption-of-innocence procedural-rules Does the 'actual innocence' exception/gateway in McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383 (2013) require new evidence of innocence when there has never been…
19-5322 Ottis J. Cummings, Jr., aka Ottis Junior Cummings, aka Otis Cummings, aka Ottis J. Cummings, aka Otis J. Cummings v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-procedure right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing Whether Counsel's Ineffective Assistance Deprived the Petitioner of Some Substantive or Procedural Right to which the Law Entitles Him?
19-5323 Edwardo De Juan v. Florida Florida Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-jurisdiction new-trial post-conviction procedural-rights standing state-court statutory-provisions Whether the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights were violated when the state court denied his post-conviction motion for a new trial
19-5324 Roscoe Chambers v. Kris Schmidts, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bond civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fees prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing Whether the PLRA reform litigation track, Brace strike, rule regulates and judicial declaration of speculation/
19-5326 Sean Frederik Franke v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-draw blood-extraction civil-rights drunk-driving due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment missouri-v-mcneely probable-cause warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Court should resolve the question of whether law enforcement officers can rely on the exigent circumstance exception to the Fourth Amendme…
19-5327 Quitissica Y. Howell v. Social Security Administration Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-5328 Lyle R. Harrison v. Moultrie County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-subsidies indigency judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial state-jurisdiction usda-fsa-subsidies Whether due process allows the Illinois Courts jurisdiction over federal farm USDA/FSA subsidies, or federal courts jurisdiction over federal farm USD…
19-5329 James Lester Williams, Jr. v. Jamai F. Samuels Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-review due-process equal-protection family-law-dispute petition-for-redress pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition Whether Florida's Appellate Court(s) denial of Petitioner's timely and duly filed Petition's for Appeal, without any judicial reasoning or analysis to…
19-5330 Maurice Montrae Parks v. United States Fourth Circuit GVR IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-validity criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a new trial is warranted where the District Court failed to instruct the jury on a crucial element of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)
19-5331 Michael Lee v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process flawed-precedent prior-panel-precedent-rule stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal supreme-court-precedent violent-felony Does the Eleventh Circuit too rigidly apply its 'prior panel precedent rule?
19-5332 Todd J. Tibbs v. Randy Grounds, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa appellate-review factual-determination factual-determinations federal-court-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus prejudice-standard some-evidence standard state-court-deference Does federal habeas law allow the application of a 'some evidence' standard in upholding state court factual determinations?
19-5335 Patrick Brunette v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure disability-rating due-process effective-date lay-testimony material-evidence medical-evidence medical-records prescribed-bedrest reconsideration reopening-claims service-connected-disabilities veterans-affairs veterans-affairs-regulations veterans-claims Whether the VA incorrectly discharged its responsibilities under 38-C.F.R.-Section-3.156(c)
19-5336 John S. Benchick v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-reporting due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct mandatory-victims-restitution-act prosecutorial-misconduct restitution right-to-appeal trial-record trial-transcript unbiased-prosecutor witness-testimony Does the Defendant have a right to a true and correct record of his trial
19-5338 Anna Maria Agolli v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-misconduct due-process false-imprisonment government-liability government-misconduct immunity-defense qualified-immunity statute-of-limitations Should Courts allow qualified immunity to protect governments and their employees in spite of evidence?
19-5339 James Kenneth Ganzer, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP authority exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-authority magistrate-judge search-warrant void-ab-initio Can the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment's exclusionary rule apply to a search warrant that was void ab initio, and therefore without lega…
19-5340 Carl Prostell v. David Zook, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury post-conviction-relief reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was sufficient to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?
19-5341 Roshard Whitehead v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process federal-rule-3 fifth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-search-and-seizure search-and-seizure standing victim-rights Whether the courts overlooked federal law and the U.S. Constitution when they overlooked the 4th Amendment exclusionary rule, the 5th Amendment right …
19-5342 L. T. Tucker, Jr. v. Corizon Correctional Health Care, et al. Sixth Circuit Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process standing takings civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
19-5344 Felix Adriano Chujoy, aka Felix Chujoy Alvarado v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP corrupt-intent criminal-procedure false-testimony grand-jury human-trafficking immigration-violations intent plea-bargain plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation witness-tampering witness-tampering-18-usc-1512(b)(1) Witness-tampering
19-5345 Mustafa Kamel Mustafa v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP classified-information constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure defense-investigation due-process first-amendment national-security overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether Section 5(a) of the Classified Information Procedures Act, 18 U.S.C. App. 3, is unconstitutionally vague or overbroad due to its potential to …
19-5347 Joshua Frederick Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights dog-sniff due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop traffic-stop Whether the Court should revisit Florida v. Harris to clarify what the dog's 'alert' means and whether the dog is trained to display an alert for any …
19-5348 Stanley James Oliver v. Glenn Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability credibility credibility-challenge habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-reversal telephone-records trial-counsel Whether the Court of Appeals erred below in denying Mr. Oliver a COA on whether trial counsel was ineffective in not subpoenaing Mr. Oliver's telephon…
19-5349 Andrew Condon v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the law
19-5352 Hal Bernard Black v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-liability notice-requirement procedural-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the lower courts erred in holding that there is no 'fair trial' at all when a defendant is denied the right to present a complete defense by t…
19-5353 Frank Elroy Vennes, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 28-usc-section-2255 civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-rule-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus integrity-of-proceedings judicial-integrity motion-to-reconsider rule-60(d)(3) Does a motion filed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(d)(3) that does not attack the merits of a prior habeas decision, but alleges 'some defec…
19-5354 Raheem Brown v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-ruling eyewitness-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland strickland-standard strickland-v-washington subpoena Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err and abuse its discretion by refusing to grant Petitioner a Certificate of Appealabili…
19-5355 Benny Ray Regalado v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment hearing-neutrality judicial-procedure neutral-hearing-body parole plea-bargaining probation probation-revocation revocation-hearing waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant waives his right, under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, to a neutral and detached hearing body at his probation-rev…
19-5356 Rashad Washington v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied Response WaivedIFP black-codes class-v-united-states equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jim-crow procedural-default racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-application Was Mr. Washington convicted under a statute that is void on its face?
19-5357 Daniel Eugene Cookson v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights exclusionary-rule federal-magistrate federal-magistrates-act federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-judge search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction When a warrant authorizes a search beyond the issuing judge's territorial jurisdiction, does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply t…
19-5358 Victor Manuel Collazo-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-5359 Kent Vu Phan v. Colorado Legal Services, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 7th-amendment ada-discrimination ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection intentional-indifference judicial-misconduct racial-discrimination rehabilitation-act Whether defendants who have known about petitioner's disabilities status, but were intentionally indifferent and exploited the impairment of petitione…
19-5360 Curtis Nairn v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights counsel counsel-assistance due-process exhaustion-of-remedies florida-corrections florida-department-of-corrections futility-doctrine habeas-corpus prisoner-rights spencer-sanction spencer-sanctions standing state-court-exhaustion state-courts Whether it would be futile for a prisoner to return to State Courts to have unexhausted claims exhausted with the assistance of counsel Under Florida …
19-5361 Luis D. Cabrera Mejia v. Walmart Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights class-action court-procedure due-process employment federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-parties lower-court-error standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in violation of 4 U.S.C. § 4
19-5362 Kasine Deleston v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP and Ultimately Breached if it Contains an Unfulfi ambiguity breach-of-contract criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process government-breach government-misconduct plea-agreement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-stipulation withdrawal-of-plea Whether a Plea Can be Ambiguous, and Ultimately Breached if it Contains an Unfulfillable Sentencing Stipulation and the Government Fails to Offer the …
19-5363 Richard Curtis v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden Ohio Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review merger sentencing void-for-vagueness Whether separately imposed sentences prior to merge, constitutes multiple sentences in violation of the Double Jeopardy clause
19-5364 In Re Carl A. Courtright, III Denied Response WaivedIFP Abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines first-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant sanctions Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in ordering a $500 sanction against a pro se indigent petitioner?
19-5365 Michael Joseph DeMarco, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP color-of-state-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct prisoner-rights property-rights property-seizure retaliation witness-defense Whether a prisoner has due process and equal protection under the Constitution
19-5366 Robert Curry v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogatory patent post-conviction standing Whether petitioner was denied reasonable and/or adequate opportunity of assisting counsel during appeal process
19-5367 Ralph Arthur Duarte v. California California Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus hicks-v-oklahoma liberty-interest people-v-vargas retroactive-application retroactivity three-strikes three-strikes-law whether-petitioner-was-denied-due-process-of-law
19-5368 Eric D. Conner v. Stacey L. Hoem, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
19-5369 Willie Chambers v. Phil Hall, Warden Georgia Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure multiplicitous-indictment post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt right-to-fair-trial right-to-life-and-liberty state-court-review vindictive-prosecution Whether the petitioner has a valid claim of a constitutional right to be free from a vindictive and multiplicitous indictment that he now stands convi…
19-5370 Pedro Medina Castillon v. California California Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction harmless-error heat-of-passion jury-instructions penal-code preemption standing state-law-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness Whether the federal court had proper pendent jurisdiction over state law claims
19-5371 In Re Mary Capri Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice restitution supervised-release Can the District Court Deny to Abide with the Supreme Court rulings on Restitution?
19-5372 Mary Katherine Day-Petrano v. Charles D. Hall, et al. Florida Dismissed IFP ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-fees bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-amendment retroactive-application standing statutory-construction takings Whether the Florida Supreme Court's order requiring the petitioner to write a longer brief and award attorney's fees to the respondent violates the pe…
19-5373 Helga G. Suarez Clark v. Carlos Castellon Cueva, et al. District of Columbia Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-civil-procedure judicial-misconduct personal-injuries pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process res-judicata standing statute-of-limitations terrorism torture Whether the district court and appeals court erred in denying court-appointed counsel and dismissing the case despite the merits and evidence of terro…
19-5374 Benson Coriolant v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abandoned-claims actual-appeal actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-rules Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that the pro se litigant has abandoned any claim(s) not raised in an application for a certificate of appealabilit…
19-5375 Sean Daniels v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Was Mr. Daniels denied effective-assistance-of-counsel
19-5376 Alan Lewis Doering v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment
19-5377 Fairly W. Earls v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split circuit-splits civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 Whether the Criminal Justice System allows Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in Habeas Corpus Cases
19-5378 Arthur Ray Deere, Sr. v. California California Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether the California Supreme Court erred in denying petitioner's constitutional rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments, including the right to eff…
19-5379 Michael Boyd Crowley v. Texas Texas Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment miranda-warnings right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination,right-to-counsel,due-process,fi trial-procedure Was the information given by Dr. Dunham sufficient to warn the defendant of the danger of self incrimination?
19-5380 In Re Charles L. Cox Denied IFP community-supervision criminal-procedure deferred-adjudication due-process equal-protection jurisdiction separation-of-powers vagueness void-for-vagueness Is Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 42.1285(a) deferred Adjudication Community Supervision void for vagueness?
19-5381 Charles Quatrine, Jr. v. Mary Berghuis, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rules circuit-court circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-law federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure final-mandate final-opinion judicial-impediments mandate mandate-review procedural-due-process rule-60(b) rule-60b Did the Circuit Court issue a final mandate that was a conflict of law, established by its own court?
19-5382 In Re Solomon Roberts Denied IFP 28-usc-454 abuse-of-judicial-power district-court-function due-process federal-system judicial-administration judicial-administration-federal-system judicial-power magistrate-judge-neutrality mandamus section-2241 supervisory-control supreme-court-control u.s.-supreme-court Whether the supervisory control of U.S. Supreme Court is necessary to proper Judicial Administration in the Federal System?
19-5385 Darlene Rodgers v. Taura McDaniel, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP calumnious-decision civil-monetary-penalties civil-rights civil-rights,qualified-immunity,civil-procedure,du compensatory-settlement court-errors due-process judicial-misconduct legal-procedure miscarriage-of-justice qualified-immunity vicarious-liability Whether 8th Circuit Court is vicariously liable
19-5386 David Charles Sussman v. Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process habeas-corpus legal-representation prison-discipline right-to-counsel suspension-clause Whether a trial court violates the Suspension Clause of the U.S. Constitution by requiring a prison inmate to secure or pay for an attorney to file a …
19-5387 Shevaun E. Browne v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cautionary-instruction criminal-procedure evidence guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions plea-bargaining sixth-amendment third-circuit trial-counsel Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Third Circuit affirmed the district court's ruling that trial counsel was not ineffective for fa…
19-5388 Marquis Travell Edwards v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure discovery due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus pre-indictment-delay preindictment-delay prosecutorial-misconduct tactical-advantage Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals should have granted a certificate of appealability (COA)
19-5389 Mervin R. Barteaux v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-error habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default trial-counsel trial-court-error writ-of-certiorari Whether where the procedural default of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim is excused under Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), that in…
19-5390 In Re Francisco Narvaez Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-representation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel legal-representation procedural-error professional-conduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to his attorneys' failure to file a motion to suppr…
19-5393 Joanna M. Eiermann v. Lawrence R. Bowers, et al. First Circuit Denied IFP 9th-amendment civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process inheritance inheritance-dispute judicial-review ninth-amendment remains standing trust trust-litigation Is my 9th amendment right being violated by the Federal Appeals court by ignoring the fact that the State Court Justice dismissed my complaint with a …
19-5394 Michael Leon Bell v. California California Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment constitutional-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-fact-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory m…
19-5395 George Cleveland, III v. Jerry B. Adger Fourth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals case-and-controversy civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus procedural-limitations standing suspension-clause writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether Slack v. McDaniel requires the Court of Appeals to determine if a Habeas Corpus Petitioner's Appeal states a valid claim of the denial of a co…
19-5396 Vincent Anzalone v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception government-policy judicial-authority jurisdiction procedural-violation warrant warrant-application Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule is categorically applicable to a warrant issued in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Pro…
19-5397 Charles Donelson v. Q. Tanner, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP audit-standard circuit-split civil-rights class-action criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fraud fraud-on-the-market free-speech securities-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings Whether the Seventh Circuit's application of the 'dark web' doctrine creates a circuit split
19-5398 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-claims court-of-appeals dismissal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure internal-operating-procedures jurisdiction jurisdictional-claims local-rules pendent-jurisdiction procedural-rules standing Will the Court provide for questioning upon Fed. R. App. P. 27, L.R. 27(d), (g), (i) and L.R. 40.2 of the Local Rules and Internal Operating Procedure…
19-5399 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP cestui-que civil-procedure collateral-claims court-of-appeals dismissal dismissals federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure local-procedural-rules local-rules pendent-jurisdiction standing Whether the Court will provide for further questioning upon Fed. R. App. P. 27, L.R. 27(d), (g), (i) and L.R. 40.2 of the Local Rules and Internal Ope…
19-54 Karolyn Givens, et al. v. Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (4) condemnation condemnation-proceeding eminent-domain federal-judicial-power judicial-power just-compensation natural-gas-act preliminary-injunction property-rights Whether district courts have power, before the trial on just compensation, to issue a preliminary injunction granting immediate possession of property…
19-5400 Jason Alston v. Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc., dba Luvel Fifth Circuit Denied IFP admissibility civil-procedure dispositive-motion district-court evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-hearing evidentiary-hearing hearing judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-motion Whether the Respondent's Declarations submitted with their Dispositive Motion inadmissible evidence?
19-5401 Thomas Lewis v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-371 18-usc-924c ambiguous-record circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure-retroactivity due-process federal-conspiracy mandatory-sentencing retroactive-invalidation retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Does this Court's ruling in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019) apply retroactively to defendant's raising motions to vacate their sentence…
19-5402 Tatyana Ivanovna Mason v. John Arthur Mason Washington Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration-status indigent-parents indigent-status language-interpreter limited-english-proficiency parental-rights trial-language-interpreter Whether the State violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-5403 Randy Charriez-Rolon v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-ineffectiveness criminal-procedure defendant-silence due-process due-process,self-incrimination,plain-error,ineffec first-circuit-review free-speech plain-error prosecutorial-commentary rule-29-motion silence Whether the First Circuit's op/order affirming Petitioner's sentence and conviction finding no plain error when the United States commented on Petitio…
19-5404 Steven Hoff v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-first-degree-murder due-process due-process-clause evidence-code general-intent intent jury-instructions mistake-or-accident premeditation uncharged-misconduct uncharged-offense Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when a jury is instructed to consider evidence of an uncharged, general intent offense in determining guilt…
19-5406 Ronald Lee Coleman v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error petitioner-rights procedural-due-process standing takings Whether the District Court erred in failing to address Petitioner's constitutional claims
19-5407 Fabian Delgado v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-benefit due-process legal-principle plea-agreement sentencing Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement
19-5408 Gregory Daniels v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-error notice-of-appeal standard-of-review standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred as a matter of law by dismissing petitioner's notice of appeal
19-5411 Kirk Patrick Keshler v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency standard-of-review sullivan-v-louisiana Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review, or whether, under Sullivan v. Louisiana, 50…
19-5412 Jean Claude Phillip McKenzie v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 6th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court history-and-characteristics judicial-discretion nature-and-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance Whether the district court's upward variance in sentencing was proper
19-5414 Arthur Whitley v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone cell-phone-data cell-phone-search criminal-investigation evidence-nexus fourth-amendment murder-investigation nexus-requirement probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrant-precedent Whether the Fourth Court of Appeals' legal analysis of the nexus between evidence about a murder investigation and information in the Petitioner's cel…
19-5415 Darryl Dewayne Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review evidentiary-findings habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether Applicant is entitled to a certificate of appealability or review by the Supreme Court
19-5418 Walter Lee Brown v. James Deal, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment free-speech jurisdiction land-use-regulation property-rights regulatory-takings standing takings-clause Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment does not prohibit the government from requi…
19-5419 Raleigh D. Wiggins v. Eddie Pearson, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process medical-care prison standing takings Whether the Department of Corrections violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by failing to provide appropriate medical care and treatment
19-5420 Kendrick Terrell v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error prior-charges sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights were violated
19-5422 Michael A. Webb v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP adam-walsh-act adam-walsh-child-protection-and-safety-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
19-5425 Damien Riley v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process residual-clause sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-code united-states-v-booker Whether the district court's sentence is substantively unreasonable in reliance on the career offender guidelines residual clause
19-5426 Leonard Stansberry v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-review due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure police-misconduct racial-discrimination standing statutory-provisions takings writ wrongful-death Whether the cause and manner of death of Quastisa Ne was properly investigated and determined
19-5427 Danny Reaves v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 civil-procedure due-process final-order jurisdiction standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation unadjudicated-claims Whether the court leaves claims unadjudicated, is that considered a final order within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 1291?
19-5431 DeAndre Cherry v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search Was the petitioner's Fourth Amendment right infringed upon when the officers conducted an illegal search of his vehicle absent probable cause?
19-5432 Kevin Michael-Dorman Beltowski v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility-determinations criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error due-process evidence-sufficiency harmless-error instructional-error judicial-review jury-instructions newly-discovered-evidence right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sufficiency-of-evidence Whether instructional error occurred in a way that conflicts with the Supreme Court's clearly established harmless-error precedents
19-5433 In Re Steven Bleau Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-review death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment Whether Bleau was deprived of his constitutional rights under the Due Process Clause and Sixth Amendment when his newly presented exculpatory evidence…
19-5434 Juan Fletcher Gordillo v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirements constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-impression judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether this Court should review the decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether the decision in this case of apparent firs…
19-5435 Steven Eason v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process jurisdiction sexual-battery subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the defendant's constitutional rights against double jeopardy are violated when multiple identical sexual battery charges are brought based on…
19-5441 Louis Mercado v. Jacob Sorey, Warden, et al. Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process property-rights standing state-statute takings Whether the petitioner's right to the writ of certiorari was unconstitutionally denied by the Florida appellate court
19-5444 Andrew Blake Moorehead v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation network-investigative-technique void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity When a warrant is void ab initio, does the Good-Faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply?
19-5446 Michael Thomas Balint v. Kelly Santoro, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instructions ninth-circuit right-to-be-present right-to-counsel Did the Ninth Circuit incorrectly determine that California's Dixon rule procedurally barred Balint's claim that he was denied his constitutional righ…
19-5447 Erbey Botello, aka Erbey Botello-Alanis, aka Javier Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plea-hearing plea-revocation reasonableness-of-sentence revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-review supervisory-powers Whether the constitutional right to due process on a plea at a revocation hearing is recognized
19-5448 Antolin Torres Abonza v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-5449 Richard Shelley v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-strike sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-fair-trial Whether the district court erred in finding that Shelley failed to object to the government's use of a peremptory strike, thereby causing a 5th Amendm…
19-5450 Paul Suarez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c appeal conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-offense jury-unanimity law-of-the-case legal-sufficiency manifest-injustice sufficiency-of-evidence Did the panel err by holding that the 'law of the case' governed its decision in holding that the evidence was legally sufficient to sustain the petit…
19-5453 Juan Pablo Revelo Salcedo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure criminal-procedure declaration financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance judicial-access motion motion-to-substitute-counsel poverty poverty-affidavit pro-se-litigation redress right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a court to appoint new counsel when a defendant expresses dissatisfactio…
19-5455 Jesus Rios-Garza v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
19-5464 Mark A. Ciavarella, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-assistance-of-counsel honest-services-mail-fraud ineffective-assistance jury-instructions mail-fraud mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act procedural-default statute-of-limitations Whether Petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel as a result of the deprivation of a viable statute of limitations defense with respect t…
19-5465 Isela Alejandra Campos v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to show prejudice under plain error review
19-5466 James Michael Farrell v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-defense criminal-defense-lawyer criminal-prosecution drug-distribution-organization due-process money-laundering willful-blindness Whether the use of a willful blindness instruction in place of actual knowledge improperly lowers the government's burden of proof to a level that inf…
19-5468 Tara Glass v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications fair-trial judicial-complaint judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct liberty-interest liberty-interests right-to-marry supervised-release Whether a Chief Circuit Judge should be required to notify a criminal Defendant once a non-party submits a pre-trial judicial misconduct complaint as …
19-5469 Brock Fay Fish v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
19-5472 Martin Avalos-Rico, aka Rolando Blanco-Garcia, aka Oscar Cruz-Tulum, aka Alejandro Tamayo v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split deportable-offender due-process geographic-disparity immigration immigration-sentencing reentry-offense sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act supervised-release Whether a district court that imposes supervised release on a deportable offender must specifically tie it to a need for deterrence or protection
19-5474 Terry Lee Carlson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-search district-court due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jurisdiction search-limitation search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction venue warrant-scope Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals disregard plain and unambiguous language in the search warrant limiting searches to the computers located in t…
19-5479 Gregory Waddell Hayes v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federalism fifth-amendment precedent separate-sovereigns sovereign-immunity Whether this Court should overrule the separate sovereigns exception to Double Jeopardy
19-5481 Jomo Williams v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-rule-of-evidence fifth-amendment jury sixth-amendment Were Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment due process rights obliterated
19-5483 Grant Thomas McAdams v. Washington Washington Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-review constitutional-protection due-process federal-constitution insufficient-evidence intent-to-commit-theft post-conviction-relief pro-se pro-se-petition standing state-court-procedure washington-state Does the Due Process protection of the federal Constitution apply to Washington State's collateral review procedures?
19-5486 Jarrell Williams v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-defendant constitutional-provisions criminal-prosecution district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-juvenile-delinquency-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction juvenile juvenile-delinquency juvenile-offenders rico rico-conspiracy Did the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act divest the district court of jurisdiction over the petitioner's prosecution?
19-5496 Salvatore Moretti v. Michael Mordaga Third Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process high-profile-case monell-liability patent standing takings Has Appellant Moretti Proven Monell Liability in the Respondent, Michael Mordaga, Given the High-Profile Case Which Was Briefed by Deborah Poritz, the…
19-5498 Qwindel Jerome Page v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review standards-of-review Whether the district court and the sixth circuit court of appeals erred in denying the petitioner a certificate of appealability
19-5499 Marvel Thompson v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 seventh-circuit standard-of-review standards-of-review timeliness Whether the district court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner a certificate of appealability
19-5500 Michael Woolls v. Virginia Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights code-of-law disability-rights due-process equal-protection mental-capacity mental-retardation political-concerns standard-of-review standing Am I entitled by law to a higher standard of review as a disabled person with mental retardation?
19-5504 In Re Joel Diaz-Hinirio Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing conviction-integrity criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review right-to-counsel Whether denial of appointment of counsel to petitioner would be tantamount to petitioner facing incarceration on a conviction that has never been subj…
19-5505 Jose Hernandez-Carbajal v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights to the Effective Assistance of Counsel Was Violated
19-5508 Carlin U. Powell v. Medical Department Cuyahoga County Correctional Center, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment ableism ambleism cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interstate-agreement-on-detainers medical-neglect Did the Medical Department of Cuyahoga County Correctional Center et al. violate Carlin U. Powell's 8th and 14th Amendment rights by acting with delib…
19-5509 Charles Randall Harrison v. Raul Maldonado District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review pro-se pro-se-complaint standing sua-sponte-denial Did the District Court violate Harrison's Due Process by sua Sponte denying his Pro-Se Complaint without serving the defendants or giving judicial rev…
19-5513 Charles Head v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defiance-of-request due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-remedy petition-filing petition-for-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-right statutory-rights timely-filing writ-of-certiorari What remedy is available for petitioner when court-appointed attorney failed to file timely petition for writ of certiorari in defiance of the petitio…
19-5514 In Re Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa Dismissed IFP civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction public-defender wrongful-conviction Whether the Blue Caste that rested on a Wrongful Conviction of an innocent person because of Ineffective Counsel Lack Knowledge and Understanding of t…
19-5515 Lester Leon Sanders v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2255 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict criminal-defendant district-court district-court-judgment federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision original-judgment retroactive-constitutional-decision second-successive-motion statutory-provision What standard governs a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28-U.S.C-2255, asserting relief pursuant to a retroactive-cons…
19-5516 Rayshawn Roshard Robertson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-relief federal-procedure retroactive-application retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can satisfy his burden of proof by showing his sentence may have been based on a…
19-5517 Eric Alan Sanders v. Lowe's Home Centers, LLC Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ada civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 eeoc eeoc-charge pleading-amendment pleadings right-to-sue rule-15 rule-15(d) title-vii Whether an aggrieved person can amend a complaint under Rule 15 or supplement a complaint under Rule 15(d) after the deadline for amending pleadings h…
19-5521 Steven Michael Cox v. Nevada Nevada Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-statute due-process montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-standard welch-v-united-states Whether the federal constitution requires states to retroactively apply a decision narrowing the interpretation of a substantive criminal statute
19-5522 Berson Marius v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process factual-proffer ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct judicial-fact-finding plea-bargaining rule-11 Whether the district court judge can elicit additional facts during a factual proffer
19-5523 Manuel Maldonado Aguilar v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion motion-reconsideration procedural-default procedural-ruling section-2255 standard-of-review successive-petitions Was petitioner's initial § 2255 Motion denied on the merit, for not demostrating or proving deficient performance or prejudice?
19-5524 Tong Lor v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa evidence-presented-in-state-court federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review judicial-procedure presumption-of-correctness state-court-finding-of-fact state-court-findings unreasonable-determination-of-facts Does the AEDPA require the presumption of correctness to be applied to the state court's finding of fact when the petitioner is challenging that fact,…
19-5527 Hasim Munir v. Rhode Island Rhode Island Denied Response WaivedIFP None
19-5528 Robert Anthony Chester v. West Virginia West Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant co-defendants constitutional-proportionality criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disparate-sentencing disproportionate-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection first-degree-robbery sentencing sentencing-disparity Was Petitioner's One Hundred Eighty Year Sentence For His Conviction Of Two Counts Of First Degree Robbery Disparate To The Twenty Year Sentence Impos…
19-5529 Kendrick Ledelle Dotstry v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges district-court-discretion divisible-elements divisible-offenses felony-enhancement felony-offense misdemeanor-elements sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-misdemeanor Whether the district court can enhance a sentence pursuant to U.S.S.G. provisions under Section 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) when the concomitant felony offense con…
19-5530 Leroy Lyons v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rights statutory-construction wrongful-conviction Question not identified
19-5531 Joseph Reinwand v. National Electrical Benefit Fund Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP authority disability-benefits disability-pension disability-pension-plan erisa erisa-disability-benefits judicial-authority pension-plan seventh-circuit verbal-modification vested-participant vested-rights Whether and to what extent does the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit possess the Authority to permit a Disability Pension Plan u…
19-5532 Timothy W. Sparrow v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defective-indictment,double-jeo due-process evidentiary-rulings indictment-defect ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct jury-representation jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence Was the indictment defective?
19-5536 Gabriel Vashon Seay v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel investigation legal-investigation plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where Strickland v. Washington serves as the current case law protecting an accused's right to fair and competent assistance of legal counsel, there a…
19-5538 Timothy Jamaras Burns v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Burns § 2255 claims are barred by the Waiver of Appeal provision in his Plea Agreement
19-5540 Thomas Edward Wright v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-interpretation Did the Fourth Circuit err in dismissing petitioner's constitutional, statutory, and other legal claims?
19-5541 Quianna S. Canada v. Texas Mutual Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law jury-trial retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii Can federal courts use summary judgment motions to divest the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial?
19-5543 Arnold Maurice Mathis v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment warrantless-search Whether trial counsel was ineffective in violation of the Sixth Amendment
19-5548 Andre Thomas v. William Woods, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit civil-rights due-process federal-detainer liberty-interest probation-bail Whether the federal detainer deprived the petitioner of his liberty interest in posting a set probation bail on January 22, 2008
19-5549 Anthony Dion Collins v. Francisco Lara, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum Whether a fundamental defect is sufficient to satisfy the saving clause where petitioner's erroneous sentence fell beneath the statutory maximum?
19-5550 Jackie Duncan v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-403 rule-404(b) rule-404b standard-of-review Whether the 10th Circuit erred in ruling the Western District of Oklahoma didn't abuse their discretion?
19-5551 Jeffrey R. MacDonald v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process federal-law federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest Is actual innocence a freestanding ground for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255?
19-5554 Andres Soto v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process fifth-amendment miranda-custody miranda-v-arizona police-encounter reasonable-person-test sixth-amendment Whether courts must give significant weight to whether an accused person reasonably feels free to leave a police encounter when determining if they ar…
19-5559 In Re Arnold King Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-power due-process extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus legal-standing memorandum-of-law standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court has the power to dismiss a case and discharge the relator where the case itself is against the law, as has been made by one …
19-5566 Reilies Wayne Miller v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-v-california closing-arguments darden-v-wainwright due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment Consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment and Chapman v. California, could the harmless error analysis applied by the State as to the self-defense jury…
19-5567 Delores Neely v. Georgia Department of Human Resources Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 amendment-xiv-section-5 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1871 congressional-power constitutional-immunity constitutional-provisions eleventh-amendment federal-courts fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity state-sovereignty Can Congress abrogate a State's immunity from being sued in Federal court without its consent, under authority granted to Congress by the Fourteenth A…
19-5569 Gary L. Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process judicial-review wrongful-conviction Whether the lower courts erred in denying the petitioner due process by prohibiting him from proving his actual innocence
19-5571 Carlos Eloy Garcia-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law deportation due-process federal-criminal-law illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether an alien may be 'found' within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres…
19-5577 Spencer Salcedo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP community-standards constitutional-protection due-process first-amendment free-speech hard-core-sexual-conduct obscenity obscenity-standard pornography sexual-content Whether a still image of an erect penis portrays the kind of 'patently offensive,' 'hard core sexual conduct' that qualifies as constitutionally unpro…
19-5578 Preston Shands, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-analysis civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process notice notice-requirement overbreadth overbroad statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness As applied to Preston Shands, Jr., is South Carolina's kidnapping statute, S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-910, vague and overbroad, in violation of due process…
19-5579 Sebastian Eccleston v. United States Tenth Circuit Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-delay post-conviction-relief post-conviction-statute statutory-interpretation supervisory-power Whether § 2244(b)(3)(D)'s 30-day deadline for deciding motions for authorization is binding or merely advisory
19-5580 In Re Sebastian Eccleston Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 appellate-jurisdiction court-of-appeals extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-writ federal-prisoner judicial-discretion mandamus post-conviction statutory-interpretation writ-of-mandamus Whether the exceptional circumstances of this case warrant the exercise of this Court's discretionary powers to issue a writ of mandamus pursuant to 2…
19-5581 William Henry Stephens, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-discretion knowing-and-intelligent plea-bargaining right-to-counsel right-to-jury-trial voluntariness Whether a Court can Rightfully Accept a Defendant's Guilty Plea when Such Plea was Not Made Knowingly and Intelligently
19-5586 Luis E. Morales v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
19-5588 Luis Ordonez-Vega v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process inadequate-representation-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merit-review section-2255 waive waiver Did conflict of interest arise when appellate counsel's failed to raise non-frivolous merit(s) 'ineffective assistance of counsel' on defendant's firs…
19-5589 Marlon Leroy Porch v. T. Watson, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fundamental-defect maximum-sentence saving-clause sentence-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether a fundamental defect is sufficient to satisfy the saving clause where petitioner's erroneous sentence fell beneath the statutory maximum
19-5595 Marcel Malachowski v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process false-evidence government-misconduct government-misrepresentations habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit Did the denial of COA violate due process
19-5597 Randall B. Lord v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-discretion agency-regulation bitcoin-exchange chevron-deference civil-procedure due-process money-transmission plain-error regulatory-deference statutory-interpretation Is it a plain error for the District Court to defer to an agency's regulation before identifying ambiguity in the plain meaning of a statute?
19-5598 Wade Hampton Bigelow, aka Ray Ford Gore v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competence-to-stand-trial competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense judicial-discretion mental-competency mental-health mental-health-records psychiatric-evaluation Whether the District Court failed to rule consistent with the Insanity Defense Reform Act
19-56 Mark Milner, et al. v. Vincent Mares, Executive Director, New Mexico Racing Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-accountability harlow-v-fitzgerald new-mexico qualified-immunity Did the lower courts err in dismissing Petitioners' cases on the basis of Qualified Immunity in the face of US Supreme Court precedent and New Mexico …
19-5600 Rafael Tello v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment border-patrol canine-sniff fourth-amendment free-air-sniff immigration-checkpoint martinez-fuerte-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure united-states-v-martinez-fuerte May a Border Patrol agent working in the primary inspection lane of an interior immigration checkpoint extend the immigration stop beyond the 'brief q…
19-5603 Jonathan Javier Aleman v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-counsel criminal-case-defendant-rights criminal-defense evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction Was defense counsel's advice constitutionally inadequate?
19-5605 Stephen Alan Macomber v. Kansas Kansas Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment state-action use-of-force Did the trial courts fail to give a specific use-of-force presumption, thereby lowering the burden of proof for the state and violating the defendant'…
19-5608 Christopher Joe Cantu v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acca-elements-clause certificate-of-appealability disagreement federal-prisoner judicial-disagreement post-conviction-claim postconviction-claim reasonable-judges statutory-interpretation texas-aggravated-robbery texas-burglary Whether a federal prisoner is entitled to a certificate of appealability when reasonable judges have disagreed about the legal issues governing his po…
19-5609 Marlin Chin and Patrick E. Lee v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP decades-old-case evidentiary-presumption judicial-discretion missing-evidence motion-for-new-trial new-trial presumption-of-impropriety trial-court-error witness-fees witness-vouchers Whether the trial court erred in denying a Motion for New Trial when witness vouchers issued for payment of witness fees in a decades old case could n…
19-5611 Johnny Lee Howze v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment. civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process property-rights standing takings Whether the government's seizure of private property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
19-5613 Luis Samayoa-Castillo v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines gall-v-united-states harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-error Whether the district court's reliance on a clearly erroneous fact in selecting the defendant's sentence was harmless error
19-5614 Robert Ricks v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure defense-witness due-process fifth-amendment immunity perjury perjury-threat prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-immunity witness-intimidation Whether the grant of use and derivative use immunity to a defense witness cured the government's misconduct when the case agent threatened the defense…
19-5618 Charles Singletary, Jr. v. Georgia Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Question not identified
19-5622 Cairo Lopez, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment booker cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process executive-power mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing separation-of-powers standing Whether combining in the Executive Branch the power to charge and the power to control sentences in statutory mandatory minimum cases violates the Fif…
19-5624 Zachary William Hicks v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process hicks-factors ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion Whether the Trial Court Imposed an Unreasonable Sentence by Failing to Adequately Consider Hicks' Factors and Whether Trial Counsel Rendered Ineffecti…
19-5629 Al-Malik Fruitkwan Shabazz v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-1984 categorical-approach connecticut-general-statutes-53a-133 connecticut-robbery florida-robbery force-clause resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states stokeling-vs-united-states supervised-release violent-felony Whether robbery under Connecticut General Statutes § 53a-133 categorically qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the force clause of the Armed Career …
19-5630 Roosevelt Stolden v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis Should the Court reconsider its majority opinion in Oregon v. Ice
19-5631 Joe Fernandez v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c aider-and-abettor aider-and-abettor-liability aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error-analysis harmless-error jury-instruction rosemond-standard rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the failure to give an instruction on aider and abetter liability for a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that comported with this Court's decis…
19-5634 Daniel Marquez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-adjustment minor-role ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-adjustment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 ussg-3b1.2 Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit erred in affirming the lower court's decision to deny a minor-role adjustment
19-5635 Shango Jaja Greer v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Did the District Court improperly condone the prosecutor's profligate misconduct?
19-5636 Roger Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver due-process first-amendment overbreadth-doctrine plea-bargain procedural-bar special-condition special-conditions waiver-of-appeal Does a waiver of appeal procedurally bar a petitioner's appeal arguing that a special condition prohibiting the viewing of sexual material is unconsti…
19-5641 David Anthony Gordon v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver due-process government-breach judicial-assignment judicial-procedure mandatory-minimum plea-agreement safety-valve sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously dismissed portions of the appeal based on an invalid plea agreement waiver
19-5642 John Emmett Brown, Jr., and Derrick Louis Carter v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process duress-defense exculpatory-evidence government-disclosure materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony In the context of a duress defense, is the government's untimely disclosure of exculpatory evidence material under Brady v. Maryland?
19-5646 Brian Caputo v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-capacity cognitive-impairment competency criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining due-process knowing-intelligent-waiver mental-capacity neurological-impairment neurology plea-agreement Does a defendant knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently enter into a plea agreement where he is neurologically incapable of understanding the futur…
19-5647 Kenneth Randale Door v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting crimes-of-violence criminal-statutory-provisions force-clause sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-offenses statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions substantive-criminal-offenses washington Whether a state aiding and abetting statute that is broader than generic aiding and abetting and incorporated within the state's substantive criminal …
19-5648 Desmond Justin Murray v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure basis-for-denying-relief certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason merits-of-claims standard-of-review Whether a petitioner seeking the issuance of a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 is required to demonstrate that jurists of reason w…
19-5654 Shederro Lemarc Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no …
19-5663 Clifford L. Robinson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP enterprise-profits federal-jurisdiction motive motive-element pecuniary-gain racketeering state-murder vcar-statute Does the application of the 'enterprise profits' theory stretch the application of the VCAR statute far beyond what Congress intended and federalize a…
19-5666 Roger Charles Day, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court dismissed the case on standing grounds
19-5667 John J. Blodgett v. Erin Gaffney, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-issue brady-violation certificate-of-appealability co-defendant co-defendant-statements co-defendant-testimony confrontation-clause due-process first-circuit-court habeas-corpus Did the First Circuit err by refusing to entertain Blodgett's two meritorious issues, and shut out the possibility of certificate of appealability; wh…
19-5668 Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hust, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights-counsel continuance due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-preparation appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-procedures habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing Whether the United States District Court for the District of Idaho erred in denying the petitioner's motion for counsel on post-conviction appeal
19-5669 Matthew Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions Whether Petitioner is entitled to further consideration on his initial motion under 28 U.S.C. 2255 that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing …
19-5670 Thomas James v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment byrd-doctrine exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment passenger-rights passenger-standing rakas-v-illinois reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search Does a passenger have standing to challenge the search of a vehicle in which they have no ownership or possessory interest?
19-5673 Dennis Calo v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fairness-doctrine judicial-discretion judicial-review ohio-constitution parole parole-board standing state-constitution state-courts Are Ohio's courts performing a 'front operation to shield Ohio's parole board and department of rehabilitation and correction from exposure for corrup…
19-5675 Stephen Jason Whitaker v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-counsel procedural-default sentencing-guidelines state-court-proceedings vasquez-v-hillery Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery
19-5677 In Re Alonzo May Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest sovereign-power Whether the State of Texas lawfully overrode the petitioner's final judgment and order of commitment, in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause, Double…
19-5679 Maria Aide Delgado v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit-court habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-standard-of-proof ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default schlup-standard standard-of-review Whether there is a sufficient likelihood that rational jurors would have credited the post-conviction evidence and, as a result, would have voted to c…
19-5683 Isaiah Jermale Legall v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-deadline appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion standing time-limit Whether equitable tolling applies to the time limit to appeal set forth in Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(b)(1)(A)
19-5685 Larry Brandon Moore v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i bill-drafting congress-authority congressional-power constitution-article-1 constitutional-interpretation law-making-authority legislative-delegation positive-law prior-laws statutory-codification third-party-codification title-18 title-18-usc Does Article I of the U.S. Constitution confer on Congress such authority as to have enacted 62 Stat 683 et seq into positive law thereby enacting, sp…
19-5686 Ronnie L. Payne v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt Was trial counsel's performance objectively unreasonable when he did not object to the trial judge's faulty reasonable doubt instruction directing the…
19-5687 In Re Luis E. Morales Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process due-process-rights mandamus obstruction-of-justice pro-se-prisoner procedural-rights rebuttable-presumption rebuttal second-successive-motion successive-habeas-petitions Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals created a rebuttable presumption in its order denying the petitioner's request to file a second/successive §…
19-5689 Benjamin Oshea Calhoun v. Tony Villa, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-12b6 civil-rights due-process false-statements federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-recusal judicial-supervision legal-authority motion-to-dismiss probable-cause standing warrantless-arrest Whether the Appellant court's ruling to uphold the District Court's order which granted defendants' motions to dismiss conflicts with the Supreme Cour…
19-5691 Roxanne Marie Carpenter v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rules duress-defense ninth-circuit-rule pinkerton-instruction pinkerton-liability pre-trial-disclosure work-product work-product-doctrine work-product-privilege Whether the Ninth Circuit's Vasquez-Landaver rule requiring pretrial public disclosure of defense strategy contravenes criminal-procedure rules and at…
19-5695 Riodejuonerol Hudson v. Charles Bradley, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-deference appellate-counsel appellate-procedure complete-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction sixth-amendment standard-of-review Does the denial of an 'application' alone constitute a decision 'on the merits' that warrants AEDPA deference?
19-5698 Eduardo Orozco v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights confession-elicitation custodial-interrogation due-process edwards-v-arizona law-enforcement-tactics miranda-rights pre-charge-investigation right-to-counsel undercover-agent May law enforcement use an undercover agent to elicit a confession from a suspect before charges have been filed but after a suspect has already invok…
19-57 Donald Dewees v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines international-tax international-taxation streamlined-filing-compliance-procedures tax-assessment tax-collection tax-compliance tax-convention tax-penalties Did the lack of a meaningful review of the assessment and collection of a tax under the Convention violate Dewees' right to due-process?
19-5700 Maximo Brito-Tejeda v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP client-request constitutional-right due-process garza-v-idaho habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-appeal sixth-amendment Whether Garza v. Idaho, 139 S. Ct. 738 (2019), applies to petitioner's claim that his defense counsel was ineffective by failing to file a notice of a…
19-5701 Daniel Brian Masson v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review child-abuse child-pornography child-sexual-performance constitutional-rights due-process falsified-transcripts motion-to-suppress search-warrant Whether the petitioner's conviction for violating Florida Statute 827.071 (5) (a) is illegal due to lack of evidence, falsified transcripts, and viola…
19-5704 In Re James Larry Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment mental-disease mental-disease-defect post-conviction rule-32 standard-of-review Does the Alabama State standard of review in Rule 32 Ala.R.Crim.P. post-conviction proceedings regarding the mental disease/defect issue as presented …
19-5706 James Gregory Armistead v. Laura P. Watson, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-state-relations standing takings workforce-investment Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioners' claim as time-barred
19-5710 Chidi Ezeobi v. Jamal Jamison, Warden Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP credit criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-incarceration incarceration international-law sentence-credit sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-credit statutory-interpretation Is Mr. Ezeobi entitled to seven months of credit toward his sentence for the time he was incarcerated in England awaiting extradition to the United St…
19-5711 Charles Fritsche v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings Whether this Court Should Grant this Petition, Vacate the Ninth Circuit's Certificate of Appealability Denial, and Remand the Matter for Further Recon…
19-5717 Ronnie C. Brown v. Jeff Macomber, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mental-capacity mental-illness pro-se pro-se-petition Is equitable tolling available for a late-filed pro se habeas petition due to mental illness?
19-5718 Alexander Lee Salazar v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility appeal criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-factors mitigating-role offense-level role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines Did the district court err when it declined to grant Mr. Salazar a mitigating role adjustment under the Guidelines?
19-5724 In Re Fox Joseph Salerno Denied IFP None
19-5728 Kristin L. Hardy v. Kelly Santoro, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel performance-prong plea-negotiations sentencing-exposure state-court Whether a federal appellate court fails to provide legitimate federal habeas review
19-5730 Lawrence Michael Lynde v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sex-offender-treatment sixth-circuit-appeal standing statutory-interpretation victim-restitution Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the petitioner lacks standing to challenge the constitutionality of the statute at issue
19-5732 Joel Luque-Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law federal-offense generic-offense gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez prosecutions realistic-probability state-statute statutory-interpretation To establish a 'realistic probability' that a state statute applies to conduct not covered by a generic, federal offense for purposes of the categoric…
19-5738 Carlos Manuel Perez-Crisostomo v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process identity name obstruction-of-justice plea-agreement puerto-rico sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 Whether the Sentencing Court erred in finding Petitioner obstructed justice, pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 3C1.1, when Petitioner did not correct the name un…
19-5743 Michael Dewayne Hegwood v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 binding-precedent career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing federal-jurisdiction first-step-act jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Does the First Step Act authorize a court to 'impose' a reduced sentence in accordance with such statutes as 18 U.S.C. §§ 3553(a) and 3582(a), or does…
19-5750 Felix A. Okafor v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment firearms-offense first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether petitioner's 3167 month sentence imposed as a result of this court's misinterpretation of the stacking provisions of 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(1)(A) is…
19-5751 Charles Massengill v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment interstate-compact parole parole-supervision parolee-rights reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure state-statute warrantless-search Whether reasonable suspicion is required for a law enforcement officer to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee or his residence in the absence of…
19-5753 Trayone Lefferio Bell v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1029 constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-law-mens-rea criminal-procedure due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states intent jury-instructions knowingly knowledge mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation To satisfy the 'knowingly' and with 'intent' in 18 U.S.C. § 1029(A)(3), do Courts have to prove precise 'mens rea' as set forth in Rehaif v. United St…
19-5754 Charmar Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cross-reference double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus magwood magwood-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether Magwood extended to challenges to the original undisturbed conviction, following a new judgment?
19-58 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit fifth-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud summary-judgment walker-process Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit?
19-59 Loop AI Labs, Inc., et al. v. Anna Gatti, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-sanctions due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure inherent-power national-hockey-league-v-metro-hockey-club nonmonetary-sanctions punitive-sanctions rule-37 standing Does Nat'l Hockey League v. Metro. Hockey Club authorize a court to issue punitive nonmonetary sanctions under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(b)(2) and its inhere…
19-60 Cora Kerton v. Society Hill at Droyers Point Condominium Association, et al. New Jersey Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure condominium-act condominium-law expert-report expert-testimony liability-coverage negligence net-opinion-rule new-jersey-appellate-court new-jersey-trial-court snow-removal standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether there was engagement in abuse of discretion and misapplication of the summary judgment standard
19-63 Murphy J. Painter v. Shane Evans Louisiana Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment government-speech new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure Does the First Amendment apply to government speech such that defamatory government speech is protected free speech?
19-65 Jonna Corporation, dba Premier Recycling Company v. City of Sunnyvale, California Ninth Circuit Denied 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading pleading-standards property-rights section-1983 standing Did Petitioner Premier Recycling adequately plead its Declaratory Judgment claim alleging a violation of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, pursuant to FCRP 8?
19-67 United States v. Evelyn Sineneng-Smith Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (11) civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute facial-challenge financial-gain first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in vi…
19-69 Diane B. Weissburg v. Los Angeles Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived anti-slapp civil-rights due-process educational-rights iep-meetings official-proceedings privacy-law public-interest recording recording-consent recording-rights retaliation Are Individual Educational Placement (IEP) meetings Official Proceedings?
19-70 Larry Householder, et al., Appellants v. Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, et al. Ohio Denied Amici (1) None
19-72 PennyMac Financial Services, Inc., et al. v. Richard Smigelski California Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement civil-procedure consent federal-arbitration-act legal-fiction preemption state-consent state-law state-party Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state-law rule that prohibits the enforcement of an arbitration agreement in a dispute covered by that …
19-74 Michael A. Willner, et ux. v. James Dimon, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-law constitutional-claims due-process fdic federal-deposit-insurance-corporation financial-institutions financial-institutions-reform-recovery-and-enforce firrea judicial-review jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the DC Circuit erroneously held that 12 U.S.C. § 1821(d)(6)(A) required claimants to have filed their constitutional claims against the FDIC i…
19-77 Caring For Montanans, Inc., et al. v. The Depot, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split conflict-preemption connection-with employee-benefits employer-liability enforcement-remedy enforcement-scheme erisa-preemption express-preemption insurance insurance-misrepresentation misrepresentation plan-terms reference-to state-law-claims Does ERISA preempt state-law claims alleging that an insurer's misrepresentations about an ERISA plan's terms induced an employer to create the plan?
19-78 John Doe, aka Cheyenne Moody Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-review conflict-among-courts constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof trial-court Whether a trial court in criminal proceedings must, upon request from the jury, explain the meaning of the 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard to the…
19-79 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-rights conflict-of-laws due-process federalism full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure jurisdiction marital-estate property-law sister-state Does this constitute a policy of 'hostility to the public Acts' of a sister State?
19-8 Jessie D. McDonald v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process judicial-conduct judicial-council judicial-discretion judicial-immunity judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct standing Whether the Sixth Circuit Judicial Council have supervisory powers over district court judges?
19-80 Shreveport Chapter #237 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy v. Caddo Parish Commission Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment monument-preservation standing treaty-rights Does the Court's ruling in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association afford the owner of a monument to have standing under 42 U.S.C. § 1983…
19-81 Vivian L. Rader, et vir v. Citibank, N.A., et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection foreclosure-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-judicial-foreclosure property-rights standing takings Is Colorado's system of non-judicial foreclosure unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses?
19-82 Paul V. Cannon v. Bank of America, National Association, et al. First Circuit Denied borrower-rights breach-of-contract civil-rights contractual-obligations due-process failure-to-state-claim loan-disclosure mortgage-securitization securitization standing unjust-enrichment Whether the district court properly dismissed the complaint for failure to state a claim
19-84 Lawrence Mulligan v. Bruce Jalbert, et ux. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process full-faith-and-credit state-court-record summary-judgment Whether the United States Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the granting of summary judgment based on collateral-estoppel without reference …
19-85 LC v. MG Hawaii Denied Response Waived child-parentage consent-rebuttal due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment marital-status marriage-equality parentage parental-presumption presumption-of-paternity spousal-rights Does the Fourteenth Amendment require that a spouse, who is presumed to be the parent of a child because she is married to the child's natural mother,…
19-86 Maria Jordan v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-adjudication appellate-procedure arbitrary-and-capricious constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review Whether the Administrative Procedure Act, as applied to Petitioner by the Fifth Circuit, is unconstitutional
19-87 Jerome Burgess v. Phil Hall, Warden Georgia Denied Response Waived appellate-counsel brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-appeal exculpatory-evidence georgia-supreme-court ineffective-assistance mental-competency plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Georgia Supreme Court err in failing to find that Petitioner's appellate counsel provided ineffective assistance?
19-88 Wadith Stockinger Nader, et ux. v. City of Papillion, Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances Can an unverified tip constitute probable cause for arrest?
19-89 Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert W. York Indiana Denied Response Waived appellate-fees constitutional-provisions due-process fourteenth-amendment indiana-court-of-appeals indiana-supreme-court legal-jurisdiction Whether the impositions of appellate attorney-fees by the Indiana Court of Appeals and Indiana Supreme Court violate the Fourteenth-Amendment's Due-Pr…
19-9 Miguel Villafana Quevedo v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
19-90 Lexington H-L Services, Inc., dba Lexington Herald Leader v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights driveway-delivery first-amendment free-press free-speech municipal-ordinance news-distribution print-news time-place-manner time-place-manner-restriction Whether a municipal ordinance flatly prohibiting driveway delivery of a community newspaper but specifying alternative methods of hand delivery repres…
19-91 Michele Buckner, Warden v. Robert W. Allen Missouri Denied consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-relief juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole parole-eligibility Whether a State may sentence a juvenile offender convicted of multiple crimes to multiple consecutive terms of years in prison under which the offende…
19-92 Ismael Alfaro-Alfaro v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
19-93 Deborah Walton v. First Merchants Bank, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-dockets due-process equal-credit-opportunity-act federal-court-docketing federal-rules-of-civil-procedure financial-privacy personal-information-disclosure procedural-due-process rule-12b6 statutory-authorization Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals neglected to apply Procedural-Due-Process to the Petitioners-Appeal in accordance with the Fifth-and-Fourteen…
19-94 Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corporation v. Ingram Barge Company Eighth Circuit Denied allision approved-design common-law-duty design-approval legal-standard-of-care navigable-waters negligence negligence-standard rivers-and-harbors-act May an owner's preservation of the approved design of a structure in navigable waters which is in compliance with its approved design, constitute negl…
19-95 Linda Bolton, et vir v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment government-misconduct grand-jury judicial-precedent perjured-testimony tax tax-prosecution Whether tax prosecutions can be authorized by the IRS Commissioner instead of the Department of Justice
19-96 Lincoln Rymer v. Robert Lemaster, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct sovereign-immunity standing void-judgments Whether lower court conduct and inadequate appellate review warrant a GVR with instructions
19-97 Mitchell Jay Stein v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel jury-trial offensive-collateral-estoppel securities-fraud seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether offensive collateral estoppel may be used to enter summary judgment on an alternative theory that was never presented to the trier of fact in …
19-98 Kyle D. Kennard v. Means Industries, Incorporated Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court procedural-due-process standing Did the lower courts commit and allow fraud upon the court?
19A102 Xiao-Ying Yu v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19A132 Rickey Newsome v. RSL Funding, LLC, et al. Texas Presumed Complete None
19A141 Therian Cornelia Wimbush v. Willie Sue Mickens, Warden Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19A143 Daniel T. Morgan v. Sheri A. Morgan Pennsylvania Presumed Complete None
19A56 Ahmadou Sankara v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M1 Sha-Ron Haines v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M10 Byron E. Adams v. Illinois Illinois Presumed Complete None
19M11 Dominique Beeks v. HMC Assets, LLC Florida Presumed Complete None
19M12 James Arthur Couture v. David Berkebile, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M13 Akash Dixit v. Karan Singh, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M14 Phillip Rawnsley v. United States First Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M15 Brian DeCoito v. United States First Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M16 James Nathaniel Douse v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M17 Gennaro Rauso v. United States Third Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M18 Seidy M. Tiburcio v. United States, et al. District of Columbia Presumed Complete None
19M19 Aaron Lee Smiley v. United States Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M2 K. S. v. Contra Costa County Children & Family Services Bureau California Presumed Complete None
19M20 Chikezie Ottah v. Fiat Chrysler, et al. Federal Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M21 Tom Domingo, Sr. v. Department of the Army, et al. Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M22 Rosemary Ida Mergenthaler v. Dean Osekavage, et al. Second Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M23 Karen Jean Rollins v. Institutions for Life Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M24 Dale Johnson v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M25 Bobbie Battles v. Daryl Rotz, et al. Third Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M26 Samuel E. Austin v. City of Oakland, et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M27 Diana C. Cherry v. Doyle R. Simons Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M28 Arris International, Ltd. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M29 Steven A. Herndon v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M3 Frank D. Monsegue, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M30 Terry G. Watson v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M31 John Gregory Alexander Herrin v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M32 William Sandlin McLaurine, II v. Elizabeth C. Bern, et al. Alabama Presumed Complete None
19M33 Michael Davis v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M34 Devi Porter v. Baltimore Washington Medical Center, Inc. Maryland Presumed Complete None
19M35 Reginald C. Sheftall, Jr. v. Aaron Joyner, Warden Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M36 Elizabeta G. v. Illinois Illinois Presumed Complete None
19M37 Collin S. Osbourne v. New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development New Jersey Presumed Complete None
19M38 Mark C. Jackson v. Florida, et al. Florida Presumed Complete None
19M39 Aldon Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M4 Patrick S. Crick v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M40 Brian Caputo v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M41 Keith Smeaton v. Alan Nelson, et al. Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M42 Richard Sullivan Benavente v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M43 Jeffrey Miller v. Harold D. Graham, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility Second Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M44 Howard Grant v. United States Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M45 Carolyn Barnes v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline of the State Bar of Texas Texas Presumed Complete None
19M46 Warren Sinceno v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M47 Gareth Evan Lomax v. Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M48 Senol Yilmaz v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. Virginia Presumed Complete None
19M49 Little Stone v. Magistrate Court of Troup County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M5 Vincent Curtis Conyers v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M50 Jermaine Gerald Cook, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M51 K. N., et ux. v. Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services Montana Presumed Complete None
19M6 Roger L. Richards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M7 DeAndre Armour v. United States Seventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M8 Carl D. Wells v. Ada Pressley, Warden, et al. New York Presumed Complete None
19M9 Mark Robertson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None