| 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 |
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| 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 |
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