| 18-1162 |
P. Swaney, et al. v. Hector Lopez |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care prisoners-rights qualified-immunity |
Denial of qualified immunity to correctional officers for alleged deliberate indifference to prisoners' medical needs |
| 18-1203 |
Courthouse News Service v. Dorothy Brown, Clerk, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
from hearing First-Amendment-access on the basis of general principles of comity and access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine court-access federal-courts federalism first-amendment younger-abstention |
Whether Younger and its progeny permit federal courts to abstain from hearing First Amendment challenges seeking access to state court filings |
| 18-1276 |
Andrew Levert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
28-usc-2255 appellate-court-split constitutional-law criminal-defendant district-court-judgment due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus record-silent retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactivity second-or-successive-2255-motion second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is entitled to relief under a retroactive constitutional de… |
| 18-1438 |
Caleigh Wood v. Evelyn Arnold, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
1st-amendment compelled-speech curriculum establishment-clause First-Amendment free-speech Lemon-Test lemon-v-kurtzman preferential-treatment public-school Public-School-Curriculum public-schools religion Religious-Freedom religious-practices |
Whether public schools may require students to assert religious beliefs and recite prayers that offend their religious convictions |
| 18-1509 |
Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Rahinah Ibrahim |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-procedure bad-faith civil-rights due-process foreign-national government-lists government-misconduct national-security ninth-circuit no-bad-faith no-fly-list standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in vacating the district court's finding of no bad faith in the government's conduct |
| 18-1522 |
Doe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
adverse-spousal-testimony adverse-testimony compelled-testimony criminal-investigation document-authentication document-compulsion document-production fifth-amendment grand-jury spousal-privilege witness-testimony |
Whether a grand jury witness may invoke the privilege against adverse spousal testimony where the target of the grand jury investigation is the witnes… |
| 18-1531 |
South Carolina v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law civil-procedure department-of-energy environmental-law environmental-policy federal-jurisdiction nuclear-energy ripeness separation-of-powers standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that South Carolina lacked standing to challenge the DOE's final ac… |
| 18-1534 |
Staci Harrington, et al. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
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None |
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| 18-1545 |
Tracy Guerin v. Mickey Fowler, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
constitutional-law due-process eleventh-amendment pension-transfer property-rights public-pensions retrospective-application state-authority state-immunity statutory-benefits takings takings-clause |
Whether employees have a constitutional right to a particular method for calculating interest on their accumulated pension contributions when transfer… |
| 18-277 |
Urvashi Bhagat v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
Rehearing |
Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
' '35-usc-101" ' 'administrative-procedure-act' ' 'funk-brothers" ' 'myriad-genetics" ' 'patent-eligibility" ' 'patent-system" 35-usc-101 administrative-procedure-act Funk-Brothers Myriad patent-eligibility USPTO |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in finding petitioner's patent application claims unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 101 due to conflicting standards of… |
| 18-7647 |
Lynn Smith, et vir v. Manasquan Savings Bank |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
association codes-of-judicial-conduct first-amendment judicial-conduct new-jersey new-jersey-state-court political-speech revised-code-of-judicial-conduct rules-governing-the-courts-of-the-state-of-new-jer standards-of-behavior state-courts |
Whether the New Jersey Code of Judicial Conduct violates the First Amendment rights of judges and others within the New Jersey state court family by r… |
| 18-8422 |
Johnny M. Young v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-law standing state-courts supremacy-clause |
Whether denial of in forma pauperis by the Alabama Supreme Court is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court precedent on federal rights of ac… |
| 18-8739 |
Armando Lopez v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ammunition burden-of-proof burden-shifting constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-possession unauthorized-possession |
Does the Due Process Clause permit the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to shift the burden to criminal defendants charged with unauthorized possession o… |
| 18-8826 |
Omar Christopher Miller v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury juror-bias jury-impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury is violated |
| 18-9038 |
Scott Peters v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ada appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights courtroom-access disability-accommodation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion reasonable-accommodation standing trial-procedure |
Whether the trial court erred in denying petitioner's rights as a disabled individual, including his right to reasonable accommodations and equal acce… |
| 18-9273 |
Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
adequate-state-ground adequate-state-procedural-ground capital-case capital-habeas capital-habeas-case-appeal certificate-of-appealability due-process-right-to-present-evidence federal-habeas fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-procedural-ground texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the standard for determining a Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-9277 |
Melvin Scott Morman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
§-2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure enumerated-offenses-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony |
When the record is silent as to which enhancement clause applied, what showing is a § 2255 movant required to make to prove he is entitled to relief o… |
| 18-9343 |
Joe Carroll Ziglar v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split gatekeeping-requirement johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony |
When the record is silent as to which enhancement clause applied, what showing is a § 2255 movant required to make to satisfy the requirements of § 22… |
| 18-9359 |
Emmanuel Diaz v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process fourth-amendment pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison prison-security recordings search-and-seizure telephone telephone-recording telephone-recordings warrant-requirement |
Whether absent a warrant, notice, or suspicion the Fourth Amendment permits the government to obtain recordings of telephone conversations from pretri… |
| 18-9360 |
Lazaro Veliz v. John V. Flournoy, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness |
| 18-9399 |
Paul Johnson, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ammunition ammunition-seizure eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-original-meaning original-meaning pat-down police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a police officer to seize a freestanding round of ammunition identified during a pat down conducted pursuant to T… |
| 18-9564 |
Brian Suniga v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions mitigation-evidence moral-blameworthiness tennard-v-dretke tex-code-crim-proc-art-37-071-section-2-f-4 |
Whether the Texas death penalty statute, which limits the scope of mitigating evidence to that which reduces the defendant's 'moral blameworthiness,' … |
| 19-147 |
Michael Baraka Mason v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
certificate-of-appealability federalism-and-comity habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-based-standard merits-standard plainly-meritless procedural-complexity reasonable-probability reasonable-probability-of-different-outcome rhines-stay |
Whether a habeas petitioner who seeks a Rhines stay to exhaust a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel must establish a 'reasonable probability o… |
| 19-155 |
Lenard Johnson v. Megan Winfrey |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware immunity-analysis law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
When a claim is brought under Franks v. Delaware, does the Fourth Amendment alone fully define the dimensions of a law enforcement officer's qualified… |
| 19-165 |
Daniel T. Morgan v. Sheri A. Morgan |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
alimony-contract appellate-court contract contract-interpretation due-process en-banc judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation overrule same-case |
Whether it is due process of law for an intermediate appellate court, not en banc, to overrule its decision in the same case |
| 19-167 |
Galen J. Suppes v. Curators of the University of Missouri |
Missouri |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment invention-rights Jurisdiction Patent-Law patent-misuse standing takings university-ownership |
Was the Judgment's demand of perpetual (no limit in time or geography) and unconditional payment of remunerations of sixteen years of Defendant Suppes… |
| 19-171 |
In Re Jack R. Finnegan |
|
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment goldberg-v-kelly government-redress judicial-procedure |
Was Petitioner denied his Constitutional guaranteed rights, power, privilege, or immunity |
| 19-176 |
R. David Weisskopf v. Jewish Agency for Israel, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting anti-filing-injunction circuit-split civil-rights domestic-injury extortion extraterritorial hobbs-act mail-fraud rico rico-act |
Whether the appellate court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of this Court, and in a three-way split with the Third Circuit and … |
| 19-187 |
Kalim A. R. Muhammad v. AT&T, Inc., et al. |
Alabama |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitrability civil-procedure civil-rights contract-construction contract-immunities due-process equal-footing equal-protection federal-arbitration-act judicial-bias jurisdictional-challenge state-courts |
Does the Federal Arbitration Act allow state courts to construe the Congressional policy to incorporate or accommodate inherent inequality to parties … |
| 19-188 |
Ikechukwu Hyginus Okorie v. Virginia M. Crawford, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-search arrest arrest-without-probable-cause detention detention-standards fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant standard-of-review tolan-v-cotton |
Whether the allegations establish a Fourth Amendment violation and qualified immunity defense |
| 19-189 |
Miles Christian-Hart v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Florida |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering foreclosure foreclosure-fraud fraud judicial-procedure mortgage-litigation standing summary-judgment trial-rights |
Whether due process can abide a system in which one level of due process is accorded the bank and another level of due process is accorded the borrowe… |
| 19-190 |
Bernard McLaughlin v. National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan Board of Trustees |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
benefits-withholding discovery erisa erisa-plan erisa-plan-benefits indebtedness legal-relief lien money-judgment set-off third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in affirming the ERISA plan's misuse of a court order to docket it under state law for money judgments, contrary to ER… |
| 19-195 |
Robert Ryan Snyder v. California |
California |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deprivation-of-necessities due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-deference lockdown lockdown-procedures prison-conditions retaliation |
Has California's justice system forgotten what was taught by this Court's holding in Wilson v. Seiter |
| 19-198 |
Adriano Kruel Budri v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
commercial-motor-vehicle fifth-circuit-guidance logging-time on-duty-not-driving on-duty-time protected-activity surface-transportation-assistance-act transportation-regulations |
Whether the Panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for 5th Circuit has provided legal guidance about the safety related issue of logging time for repair a… |
| 19-212 |
Hanh Thai Williams v. Succession of Fred Langford Houston |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-witness campaign-contributions civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-ethics procedural-fairness recusal standing |
Whether Armand Roos' participation as Plaintiff's attorney and primary witness was procedurally and evidentiary concern a violation of Due Process |
| 19-219 |
Joan Demarest v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Trustee for the Registered Holders of Nomura Home Equity Loan, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
citizenship citizenship-determination court-jurisdiction diversity diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-removal mortgage-investment-trust real-estate-investment-trust real-estate-trust removal trustee |
When a mortgage investment trust removes a case from federal court based on diversity, is its citizenship determined by the citizenship of each of its… |
| 19-244 |
Isaacson/Weaver Family Trust v. Fresno County Employees' Retirement Association, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure class-action common-fund common-fund-settlement fee-shifting lodestar lodestar-method securities securities-law |
Do this Court's decisions defining 'a reasonable attorney's fee' in fee-shifting cases also constrain a district court's discretion in awarding 'reaso… |
| 19-249 |
Kevin Lampkin, et al. v. UBS Financial Services, Incorporated, fka UBS Painewebber, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cendant-cases civil-procedure employee-compensation employee-stock-options fifth-circuit sale-definition sale-of-securities securities securities-act securities-act-of-1933 securities-regulation standing stock-option supervisory-powers |
Is the grant of an employee stock option a 'sale' of a security under the Securities Act of 1933? |
| 19-260 |
Candice Lue v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination racial-discrimination racial-retaliation retaliation section-1981 title-vii workplace-harassment |
Do Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 protect a Black employee from retaliation for taking a stance against being stereoty… |
| 19-271 |
Catherine Stouffer, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference federal-agency-deference federal-highway-administration federal-preemption federal-railroad-administration federal-regulations railroad-safety regulatory-interpretation state-federal-agreement state-law-claims state-railroad-agreement state-railroad-agreements warning-time |
Should FRA regulations be interpreted in concert with FHWA regulations to enforce safety standards in 'State-railroad agreements,' rather than 'suppla… |
| 19-275 |
Frederic C. Schultz v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-suffrage international-law international-treaties presidential-election treaty-law voting-rights |
Do citizens of the United States of America have the right to 'equal and universal suffrage'? |
| 19-30 |
Zoe Spencer v. Virginia State University, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
bona-fide-job-evaluation circuit-split civil-rights equal-pay-act job-evaluation prior-salary salary-discrimination seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether and under what circumstances prior salary may constitute 'any other factor other than sex' under the Equal Pay Act |
| 19-301 |
Republic of Kazakhstan v. Anatolie Stati, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration civil-procedure confirmation-proceeding due-process foreign-arbitral-award foreign-arbitral-awards foreign-sovereign-immunity fraud fraud-defense new-york-convention public-policy sovereign-immunity |
Whether a district court may confirm a foreign arbitral award that violates the long-established public policy of the United States, merely because th… |
| 19-310 |
Kroma Makeup EU, LLC v. Kimberly Kardashian, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split false-association lanham-act lexmark-international lexmark-test reasonable-interest rights-in-the-name standing standing-doctrine trademark-infringement |
Whether the proper analytical framework for determining standing to pursue trademark infringement claims under § 43(a) of the Lanham Act |
| 19-313 |
Neringa Venckiene v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
atrocious-procedures-or-punishments constitutional-limitations due-process extradition extradition-law extradition-law-political-offense-exception international-law judicial-review political-offense political-offense-exception state-department terrorism war-like-insurrection |
Whether the Seventh Circuit has correctly construed the 'political offense' exception to extradition by limiting the term only to offenses committed i… |
| 19-321 |
James Mills v. City of Covina, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey legal-tolling plaintiff-rights section-356 standing statute-of-limitations |
Does section 356 of the California Civil Procedure Code, which tolls a statute of limitations during any period that a plaintiff is legally prevented … |
| 19-322 |
The Medical Center at Elizabeth Place, LLC v. Atrium Health System, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust antitrust-jurisprudence antitrust-law competitive-restraint competitive-restraints joint-venture joint-ventures per-se-rule per-se-violation procompetitive-rationale rule-of-reason sherman-act sherman-act-1 summary-judgment |
When assessing the legality of competitive restraints imposed by joint ventures |
| 19-326 |
Melinda Mitchell, et al. v. City of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights fourth-amendment malice material-facts objective-reasonableness perjury police-misconduct qualified-immunity trespass wrongful-seizure |
Did the Second Circuit err in applying District of Columbia v. Wesby to grant qualified immunity to the police defendants who arrested the plaintiff p… |
| 19-327 |
Jaonte Hairston v. Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
aggregate-facts constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-reasonableness law-enforcement limited-search police-conduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop |
Whether facts that do not individually show or permit an inference of a connection between a person and a crime that had been committed nearby may, in… |
| 19-328 |
David Brennan v. White County, Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alcohol-regulation civil-rights due-process governmental-purpose highway-system local-option-law private-clubs rational-basis-review social-science-evidence substantive-due-process |
Is Arkansas' local option law rationally related to controlling alcohol's ill effects? |
| 19-336 |
Keith Chester Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
capital-sentencing discretionary-sentencing fifth-circuit glover-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, to demonstrate that counsel was ineffective at a state, non-capital, discretionary sentencing proc… |
| 19-341 |
Augustine Pacheco, et al. v. Honeywell International Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-65-promise collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation contract-law explicit-terms federal-common-law healthcare-vesting implied-terms industry-practice retirement-healthcare vesting |
Whether the Eighth Circuit conflicts with this Court's holding that retirement healthcare vesting may be proved by 'explicit terms', 'implied terms', … |
| 19-41 |
Keith A. Tucker, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
circuit-split due-process economic-substance-doctrine judicial-doctrine judicial-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tax-avoidance tax-law tax-provisions |
May the judge-made 'economic substance doctrine' be invoked to supplant any tax results that a court deems abusive, even when those results stem from … |
| 19-42 |
North Carolina Utilities Commission v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
|
article-iii article-iii-standing federal-agency-orders federal-energy-regulatory-commission natural-gas-act parens-patriae procedural-rights quasi-sovereign-interests standing state-litigant state-standing |
Whether a state litigant has standing to challenge FERC orders under Massachusetts v. EPA when a federal statute provides the state procedural rights … |
| 19-5014 |
Ricardo Donate-Cardona v. United States |
Third Circuit |
GVR |
IFP |
affidavit appointed-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review court-filing defendant-dissatisfaction due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-redress poverty-affidavit sixth-amendment standing substitute-counsel |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a court to appoint substitute counsel when a defendant expresses dissati… |
| 19-5025 |
Isaac Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
GVR |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute firearm-possession firearms rehaif rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
Whether the Court should grant the petition, vacate the judgment, and remand for further proceedings on Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) conviction … |
| 19-5027 |
Eddie David Cox v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
GVR |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rehaif-v-united-states,sentenci double-jeopardy eighth-circuit guidelines-calculation procedural-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states resentencing section-2241 sentencing sentencing-review |
Should the Court GVR the judgment of the Eighth Circuit so the appeals court may consider, whether Cox is entitled to relief from his conviction in li… |
| 19-5298 |
Kendrick Antonio Simpson v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-review certificate-of-appealability double-deference federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-deference prejudice-prong standard-of-review strickland-analysis strickland-standard |
Does the AEDPA require federal courts to apply a doubly-deferential standard of review to the prejudice prong of the Strickland analysis? |
| 19-5383 |
Christopher Stacy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
GVR |
IFP |
case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-5423 |
Antonio Rashawne Carr v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal arraignment arraignment-hearing criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury grandjury-indictment indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-assault |
Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the trial court's judgment that this was an actual arraignment/indictment proceeding rather than a tri… |
| 19-5424 |
Terry James Sullivan v. City of Missoula, Montana |
Montana |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction disorderly-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech |
Does Petitioner's conviction for disorderly conduct by allegedly uttering the word 'effing' violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 19-5428 |
Herron Kent Duckett v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure deadly-weapon deadly-weapon-finding evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-conviction judicial-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the decision of the court is in conflict with Supreme Court ruling concerning ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 19-5438 |
Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 anti-flyspecking-rule circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-law eleventh-circuit federal-court-deference federal-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review section-2254 standard-of-review state-court-decision state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its 'no-grading-papers-anti-flyspecking-rule' is incompatible with Wilson-v-Sellers |
| 19-5439 |
MacKendy Strachan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-sanctions due-process federal-review judicial-review legal-mail legal-procedure prison standing |
Whether the Court should review the question of a Departure from the usual rules of judicial proceedings on an order of denial of a motion for reconsi… |
| 19-5440 |
Lena McCollum v. Hubert Peterkin, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accrual civil-procedure civil-rights concealment constitutional-rights due-process executive-knowledge illegal-entry law-enforcement procedural-violation search-and-seizure search-warrant standing |
Whether the accrual date for a claim alleging illegal search and seizure is the date of execution for a defendant, who did not directly participate bu… |
| 19-5442 |
Shanta G. Phillips-Berry v. Kenner Police Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process due-process evidentiary-requirements fair-trial judicial-discretion jury jury-trial legal-standards standing trial-procedure |
What if district court abused its discretion by not relying on the erroneous legal premise that a citizen(s) of the state of Louisiana and this great … |
| 19-5443 |
Kent Vu Phan v. R. Brooke Jackson, Judge |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5452 |
Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Banco Santander Puerto Rico |
First Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-weighing fair-credit-reporting-act judicial-misconduct pro-se pro-se-plaintiff standing |
Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment without weighing the evidence, disregarding interrogatories and evidence, and committing… |
| 19-5454 |
Melinda Scott v. Andrew Carlson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech information-disclosure online-publication privacy privacy-act standing state-action state-actor |
Are private citizens, who take over functions normally left to the state, by publishing information, on the Internet, about others from (a) courts not… |
| 19-5456 |
Ibrahim McCants v. United States |
Third Circuit |
GVR |
IFP |
anonymous-tip categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility-of-state-statutes domestic-violence due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms fourth-amendment mathis-v-united-states mens-rea police-stop-and-frisk reasonable-suspicion rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation stop-and-frisk supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court-of-appeals |
Whether the government established the knowledge-of-status element under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) |
| 19-5462 |
Wayne Pettaway v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-prejudice magistrate-bias |
Was there grounds for a lawful warrant for my arrest? |
| 19-5467 |
Tyrone Murray v. Wanda Collins, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process factual-allegations grievances motion-to-dismiss prison prisoner-rights pro-se retaliation standing |
Whether a Pro Se inmate Complaint in a Conspiracy to Commit Murder lawsuit must Contain Specific facts and/or is Subject to a Heightened Pleading Stan… |
| 19-5470 |
Spencer Tracy Holloway v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-claim due-process federal-question liberty-interest michigan-state-law post-conviction prosecutorial-disclosure sixth-judicial-circuit state-law supreme-court-rule-10 |
Whether the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court for Oakland County decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the decision of Brady v… |
| 19-5471 |
J. A. M. v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment ambiguous-request appellate-division appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel |
Did the Appellate Division err by ignoring the fact that petitioner-defendant was denied his Fifth Amendment right to have counsel present during inte… |
| 19-5473 |
Samuel Benzant v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) |
| 19-5476 |
Anthony L. Williams v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law corporate-defense default-judgment due-process equal-employment-opportunity equal-employment-opportunity-commission standing supreme-court-precedent |
Did the lower courts make an exception in this case in denying statutory default judgment to the petitioner in support of a corporate defendant and vi… |
| 19-5477 |
Brian Keith Waugh v. MedStar Georgetown University Hospital |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
IFP |
amended-complaint civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review interests-of-justice medical-malpractice mental-capacity notice notice-pleading rule-15c statute-of-limitations |
Can the filing of a claim(s) in an Amended Complaint serve as Notice characteristic of State and Federal Rules and Civil Procedures' Rule 15(c) Notice… |
| 19-5482 |
Joann Jefferson v. OneWest Bank, FSB |
New Jersey |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation discovery due-process equal-protection estate-rights fair-trial foreclosure foreclosure-proceeding pro-se-representation procedural-due-process property-rights standing trial-procedure |
Can Pro Se Legatees, Heirs, Executors, Estate Representatives, Devisees, successors be denied the procedural due process right to discovery and still … |
| 19-5484 |
Geoff Edwin Murphy v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
attempted-homicide constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process federal-claims forfeiture jury-instructions legal-procedure state-court-rule state-trial-court |
Whether the state trial court deprived the petitioner of his right to due process by instructing the jury on justifiable attempted homicide |
| 19-5485 |
Justin James Thrasher v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
IFP |
arizona-supreme-court brown-v-plata brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-oversight prison-reform prisoner-rights standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Arizona Supreme Court's decision violates the Supreme Court's holding in Brown v. Plata, 131 S. Ct. 1910 (2011) |
| 19-5492 |
Brian Jermaine Washington v. Jennifer Saad, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa civil-procedure counsel-error diligence extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance limitations-period pro-se procedural-default statute-of-limitations |
Is it an extraordinary circumstance if counsel filed a motion three months after the AEDPA's limitations period expired? |
| 19-5494 |
Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. Dean Borders, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-of-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-reconsideration newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standing |
Whether Mr. Iskander's constitutional rights were violated when he was denied the opportunity to testify with new information and knowledge about his … |
| 19-5495 |
David Gray v. Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts assault civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process excessive-force federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-procedure prisoner-rights retaliation standing |
Whether petitioner's civil rights were violated when his in forma pauperis application was denied, resulting in the dismissal of his civil rights laws… |
| 19-5502 |
David Anderson v. Jackie T. Strode, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force inmate-rights law-enforcement prison-conditions prisoner-treatment qualified-immunity restraint-chair tasing-in-restraints |
Why was I tased in a restraint chair with only one arm loose out of the restraints? |
| 19-5503 |
Patricia Gill v. Mercy College, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bad-faith civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech harassment judicial-misconduct pro-se-representation standing state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the prosecutions undertaken by state officials were in bad faith with the intent to harass the defendant/Plaintiff and discourage her from exe… |
| 19-5506 |
Darrel R. Fisher v. J. Doe |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity jurisdiction standing |
Can a federal court's judge make up his own rules that violate civil, constitutional and legal rights and privileges protected by the laws of the Unit… |
| 19-5507 |
David Fennell v. Charles Munger, et al. |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment assembly civil-rights due-process election-interference first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-assembly petition-for-redress political-speech |
Does arresting Republican opponents and banning Republicans from running for office or attending Republican political events for life in California vi… |
| 19-5511 |
Robert Hill v. Dave Jassen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the dismissal of a civil case by a district court for lack of jurisdiction over an incarcerated petitioner violates the Eighth Amendment's pro… |
| 19-5518 |
Muamar A. Sayyed v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
§2254 §2254-petition civil-procedure district-court district-court-authority due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion-correction procedural-error successive-petitions void-judgment |
Does the district court have the authority to dismiss §2254 habeas corpus petition as successive when it was clearly not successive? |
| 19-5520 |
Terry G. Watson v. Nathan B. Stewart, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 42-usc-1986 civil-rights due-process ethnic-discrimination ethnic-origin federal-statutes human-rights political-prisoners religious-conscience |
Did the USCA8 err by not addressing civil-rights, 42-usc-1981, 42-usc-1982, 42-usc-1983, 42-usc-1985, 42-usc-1986, bivens, federal-torts-claim-act |
| 19-5525 |
Erika Jacobs v. Atlanta Police Department, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-offense cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment homeless-rights judicial-conspiracy malice police-misconduct standing state-law |
Is there an issue of judicial conspiracy and malice to overtly conceal offenses of police officers against honest citizens fit the description, for th… |
| 19-5533 |
Juliet Baird Alexander Aubain de Sabrevois v. Alan J. Perry, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-district free-speech judicial-conduct legal-issue libel libel-law maine maine-jurisdiction standing |
Has judicial conduct in the federal district of Maine reached a cellarage to be gazed at only across the barriers of libel law? |
| 19-5534 |
James W. Royster v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing state-courts statutory-interpretation |
Did the Henrico County Circuit Court err in determining that it did not have jurisdiction to consider such motions for Virginia Supreme Court Rule 5:1… |
| 19-5537 |
Benjamin Escobedo v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects-indictment due-process indictment jurisdiction motion-to-close motion-to-quash sixth-amendment trial-court |
Did the Trial Court err when it overruled Appellants Motion to Quash the Amended Indictment? |
| 19-5542 |
Robert Maloy v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legal-assistance post-release-supervision sentencing state-court unusual-punishment |
Did the Auton Couty Supreme Court violate Petitioner's right to the due process of the law and right to the equal protection of the law by failing to … |
| 19-5544 |
Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review barker-default constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process fundamental-right lower-courts presumption-against-waiver procedural-default speedy-trial texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in refusing to grant Mr. Thompson's petition for discretionary review, and therefore, sanction the lower c… |
| 19-5545 |
Todd Allen Wheeler v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error severance sixth-amendment trial-joinder |
Whether Mr. Wheeler was denied his constitutional right to due process and effective assistance of counsel |
| 19-5546 |
Kevin Lyndell Yates v. Amy M. Harper |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights consent-to-search constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation inventory-of-seized-items miranda-warnings plea-agreement police-questioning search-warrant |
Does a defendant have a constitutional right to be read Miranda warnings? |
| 19-5547 |
Ronny Lee Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abandonment-of-claim abandonment-of-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim counsel-statement-of-guilt counsel-statements criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel right-to-autonomy right-to-counsel |
Whether COA should have been granted based on petitioner's right to autonomy when his counsel abandoned petitioner's claim of not guilty when counsel … |
| 19-5552 |
Kevin Devon Sutton v. Nevada |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-rights sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Whether Section 5 actually violates the First Amendment? |
| 19-5555 |
Reginald Lacey v. David Gomez, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-authority unreasonable-search void-order warrant-validity warrantless-search |
Whether the police department's use of a 'void order' to conduct a warrantless search violated the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights |
| 19-5557 |
Josiah English, III v. Theodore Campagnolo, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-jurisdiction irreparable-harm ninth-circuit standing state-officials younger-abstention |
Did the U.S. District Court err in invoking the Younger Abstention Doctrine and not allowing the Plaintiff to state a claim in his Civil Rights action… |
| 19-5558 |
Frank Stephon Johnson v. Correct Care Solutions, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-conditions punishment |
Whether the defendants' deliberate indifference to the petitioner's serious medical needs violated the Eighth Amendment |
| 19-5560 |
Cecil McDonald Davis v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment bivens bivens-action bivens-claim certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-claim |
Whether the District Court in denying the Petitioner's medical claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 38… |
| 19-5564 |
Montye Benjamin v. Lynn Thomas |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights disputed-facts due-process federal-court federal-courts law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 standing summary-judgment |
Whether a defense of qualified immunity raised by a law enforcement officer in a § 1983 action is a valid basis for a Federal court to resolve dispute… |
| 19-5565 |
Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
GVR |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Perez's 18 U.S.C. §922(g) conviction should be reversed and remanded in light of Rehaif v. United States |
| 19-5572 |
Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-922g armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach circuit-precedent fourth-amendment guilty-plea north-carolina-breaking-or-entering rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than the enumerated offense of burglary in the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-5573 |
Monte Whitehead v. Greg Marcantel, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1997e civil-rights court-access due-process equal-protection first-amendment grievance-process physical-injury prison-litigation-reform-act redress-of-grievances standing |
Do Federal Statutes 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) & (e) abridge the First Amendment rights of prisoners by requiring them to meet certain standards before they… |
| 19-5576 |
William Taylor v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion boone-county constitutional-rights hearsay hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-effective-counsel sentencing |
Whether the additional sixty (60) years Taylor received at trial when attorney Allen Lidy failed to communicate the Boone County twenty (20) year plea… |
| 19-5583 |
Evgeny Ryzhov v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 19-5584 |
Christopher Isaac Simmons v. Grissom, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-waiver due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure prisoner-rights standing vexatious-litigant |
Did the Ninth Circuit impermissibly revoke Appellant's In Forma Pauperis (IFP) status under 28 U.S.C. 1915(g) where a 'high risk' prisoner clearly mad… |
| 19-5585 |
Aljulah Cutts v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment carpenter-retroactivity carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jones-v-united-states procedural-default real-time-tracking retroactivity stored-communications-act warrant-requirements |
Whether Congress intended for an order under the Stored Communications Act to be sufficient to authorize real time tracking of cell phone generated Ce… |
| 19-5591 |
Kirk Saintcalle v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the district court's denial of Kirk Saintcalle's petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that the s… |
| 19-5593 |
Elven J. Swisher v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 19-5594 |
Tina Davis v. Texas Children's Hospital |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process eeoc-rights employment-discrimination employment-law judicial-disqualification recusal standing summary-judgment ten-amendment |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in granting summary judgment under Rule 60(b) and denying the appellant's motion for summary judgment… |
| 19-5599 |
Lisa J. Gillard v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine judicial-review jurisdiction state-courts |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution apply in the Illinois State Courts? |
| 19-5602 |
Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaratory-relief due-process exclusionary-rule exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that the petitioner's federal habeas corpus claim under 28 U.S.C. Section 2241 rather than under Titl… |
| 19-5604 |
Robert Linzy Bellon v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
None |
|
| 19-5607 |
Felix Summers v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Denial of Sixth Amendment right of confrontation |
| 19-5610 |
Richard Felton v. Colette M. Goguen, Superintendent, North Central Correctional Institution |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure counsel-interference court-closure cronic-v-united-states due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment standing waller-v-georgia |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit contravened this Court's holding in Terrell v. Morris, 493 U.S. 1 (1989) (per curiam)… |
| 19-5612 |
Steven Wayne Isbel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review document-production due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions separation-of-powers standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion |
Whether the district court and the 5th circuit were correct that Isbel did not properly preserve and exhaust his ineffective assistance of trial couns… |
| 19-5619 |
Leonardo R. German v. Jerry Goodwin, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
competency constitutional-rights consular-assistance consulate-assistance criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus mental-health miranda-rights sanity-hearing |
Did Mr. German possess a Constitutional right to a SANITY-COMMISSION-HEARING, after his new lawyer raised issues as to his competency prior to the sta… |
| 19-5620 |
Damien Hyde v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights coerced-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence non-defendant-witnesses substantive-evidence witness-testimony |
Whether the admission of coerced statements by non-defendant witnesses deprives a defendant of due process of law when used as substantive evidence of… |
| 19-5621 |
David Green, Jr. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cat's-paw-negligence cats-paw civil-rights due-process eeo-retaliation eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure merit-systems-protection-board retaliation title-vii |
Whether the court of appeals erred when it upheld a district court opinion that conflicted with decided Supreme Court case law for EEO retaliation and… |
| 19-5625 |
Clyde M. Jones v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
None |
|
| 19-5655 |
Chadwick N. Barner v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial illinois-supreme-court-rule-431(b) impartial-jury jury-selection post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Whether the trial court violated the defendant's constitutional rights by failing to properly administer the jury selection process under Illinois Sup… |
| 19-5656 |
Armando J. Mena v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy presumption presumption-of-regularity silent-record standard-of-review |
Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied Henderson v. Morgan, 426 U.S. 637 (1976), in concluding that a state court could reasonably presume from a silent… |
| 19-5658 |
Eric C. Burgie v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel standing state-collateral-review state-post-conviction-proceedings state-proceeding |
Whether the due process clause requires appointment of counsel for indigent prisoners where state collateral review is the first opportunity a prisone… |
| 19-5681 |
Raphael Person, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, when a district court imposes a sentence based on several factors, one of which is improper, the court of appeals should affirm the sentence … |
| 19-5688 |
L. D. R., a Minor, By His Mother and Guardian, Roshonda R. Wagner v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 19-5690 |
Seth DiSanto v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
campbell-v-state constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-withdrawal rule-3.172(g) strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred |
| 19-5702 |
Tony D. Walker v. Green Bay Correctional Institution Health Services Unit, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies frivolous-claims prison-conditions prisoners-rights procedural-hurdles standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a) is unconstitutional, when courts have denied prisoners past relief for their grievances merely because the prisoners have … |
| 19-5705 |
Leighton Martin Curtis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure collateral-proceeding counsel-objection due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review magistrate-report martinez-v-ryan procedural-default record-preservation standard-of-review |
Does Counsel's failure to expand on the record and file pre and post hearing briefs for the petitioner's arguments, and make specific objections to th… |
| 19-5714 |
Dianne Michele Carter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-supremacy due-process federal-rules internal-revenue-code judicial-procedure legislative-interpretation separation-of-powers service-of-process standing takings |
Is the Constitution or an ordinary act of the legislature superior? |
| 19-5729 |
Joseph Flowers v. F. Foulk, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence alibi-evidence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel |
Whether Flowers's trial counsel was prejudicially ineffective for failing to present alibi evidence,whether Flowers presented sufficient proof of actu… |
| 19-5731 |
Angel Mesa Madueno v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent fourth-amendment independent-contractor privacy property-rights search-and-seizure standing trespass warrantless-entry |
Whether an independent contractor legitimately working in another's back yard has standing to contest a warrantless and non-exigent entry onto the pro… |
| 19-5739 |
Duane Pope v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto privileges-and-immunities separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-doctrine |
Does the 'separate sovereigns' doctrine permit multiple punishments that are exempted from the constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual p… |
| 19-5741 |
Jose Marin Saldana-Reyes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure sentencing-standard |
Whether an appellate court may affirm as procedurally reasonable a sentence imposed where the record contains no indication the sentencing judge consi… |
| 19-5742 |
Robert Gene Rand v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion factual-findings ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-application sentencing-reductions standard-of-review |
Whether a circuit court errs by affirming a district court's decision regarding the applicability of the United States Sentencing Guidelines based on … |
| 19-5744 |
Johnny Ellery Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assimilative-crimes-act criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law major-crimes-act state-law tribal-sovereignty |
Did the federal government's prosecution of an Indian for violation of state law in Indian country violate federal statutes and tribal sovereignty ret… |
| 19-5746 |
Howard Griffith v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-appellate-procedures state-appellate-review |
Whether the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division/Fourth Department, erred in allowing Defendant/Petitioner to take a direct appe… |
| 19-5747 |
Jamall Gibson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether Petitioner Gibson's counsel provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 19-5757 |
Fulvio Flete-Garcia v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-identity-theft conspiracy conversion-of-government-property evidentiary-hearing government-as-victim government-property identity-theft loss-calculation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement tax-fraud tax-fraud-conspiracy victim-enhancement |
Whether the court may apply a two-level enhancement for crimes involving ten or more victims when the victim is the Government |
| 19-5758 |
Peter J. Hanson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence |
Whether out-of-court statements offered for purposes 'other than their truth' ever implicate the Sixth Amendment right to Confrontation? |
| 19-5761 |
Javon Laren Martin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence jury-selection mistrial peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
Whether the court erred in allowing the prosecution to use a peremptory strike without a race-neutral basis |
| 19-5766 |
Tham Bui v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-location-data cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search gps gps-tracking location-data privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy telecommunications |
Did petitioner have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the contemporaneous Global Positioning System coordinates transmitted by the petitioner's c… |
| 19-5767 |
Virgil Lee Bailey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-standard plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency sullivan-v-louisiana |
Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review |
| 19-5770 |
Danny Lee Banks v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-precedent residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment unconstitutional unconstitutional-sentencing |
Did the appeals court and district court violate bank's fifth, sixth and fourteenth amendment rights by upholding a sentence that was based on the unc… |
| 19-5771 |
Eric Allen Haensgen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252a age-of-consent child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation unconstitutional |
Whether amendments to the child pornography law set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2)(A) have rendered the current version of the statute unconstitutio… |
| 19-5772 |
Sergio Saldivar Gutierrez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act assault-statute california-penal-code conscious-disregard-of-risk criminal-intent force-clause general-intent physical-force specific-intent statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether an offense that does not require, at a minimum, a conscious disregard of a risk of harm, lacks an element of the 'use of physical force agains… |
| 19-5774 |
Patrick O. Neiss v. Montana |
Montana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment holland-v-united-states jury-instruction jury-instructions net-worth-prosecution particularity presumption-of-innocence probable-cause reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure |
Should this lack of clarity be resolved by this Court? |
| 19-5777 |
Donielle Rashi Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law domestic-violence legal-precedent mens-rea misdemeanor-crime physical-force recklessness recklessness-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation use-of-force voisine-v-united-states |
Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v. United States extends beyond the definition of 'misdemeanor crime of violence' |
| 19-5778 |
Hosam Maher Husein Smadi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel equal-protection manifest-injustice plea-agreement right-to-effective-counsel rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Smadi in this Case would suffer a manifest injustice and an extreme hardship by serving several extra years in prison |
| 19-5780 |
Marvin Robinson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner's trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution? |
| 19-5781 |
Yong S. Cha, aka Edward Cha v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-testing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-waiver federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence plea-bargaining proffer-statements prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
When the Government may use a defendant's statements from plea negotiations to rebut the defense at trial |
| 19-5782 |
Tyrone Dexter Christian v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-the-circumstances vague-affidavit vague-and-conclusory |
Whether the lower court erred in finding probable cause to search petitioner's home when the court viewed the search warrant affidavit as a whole and … |
| 19-5785 |
Raul Zapata-Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home-search indictment jury-trial liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-maximum statutory-reasonableness supervised-release supervision vagueness |
Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit him at any time at home or elsewhere is unreasonabl… |
| 19-5788 |
James Nunley, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law ussg-4b1.2 violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 19-5791 |
Marcus Jackson v. Vance Laughlin, Warden, et al. |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-review discretionary-relief discretionary-review error-of-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel irrational-strategy legal-sufficiency sixth-amendment state-appeals sufficiency-of-evidence thirteenth-juror thirteenth-juror-review |
Did the Georgia courts err by refusing to remedy appellate counsel's professionally deficient, and prejudicial, waiver of a claim for discretionary re… |
| 19-5793 |
Anton Jevon Alexander v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c bank-robbery constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness supreme-court-precedent underlying-crime vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Alexander's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction must be vacated in light of United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019) |
| 19-5794 |
Dazzle Young v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing |
Whether Mr. Young's conviction violated due process and his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights due to the use of tampered evidence |
| 19-5795 |
Jacob D. Lickers v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split exclusionary-rule federal-search-warrant fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when an affidavit supporting a search warrant had been tainted by evidence obtained … |
| 19-5796 |
Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split confrontation-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
Whether the Court should require de novo review (or at a minimum, review for clear error) of sentencing fact-findings based entirely on uncorroborated… |
| 19-5798 |
Lonnie Bernard Davis v. John Hancock Mutual Funds Accounts |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights confinement-conditions constitutional-violation due-process federal-review habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing |
Did the federal court render a proper decision or abuse its discretion in the prisoner's case? |
| 19-5801 |
Emory Chiles v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Chiles' motion to suppress evidence? |
| 19-5810 |
Daniel Lopez DeJesus v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error in-re-winship ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption winship |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in applying the harmless error analysis to a jury instruction that implicitly included critical elements of the crime charge… |
| 19-5811 |
Joe Edger v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguity conflict constitutional-rights contract-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-process due-process government-discretion plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct |
Does the phrase 'cited in the defense of conviction' have a specific legal definition? |
| 19-5812 |
Mitchum Pastor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) bank robbery qualify as a 'crime of violence' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(1)'s elements clause? |
| 19-5813 |
Alejandro Plaza-Montecillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 aggravated-robbery appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-law violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. §16? |
| 19-5814 |
Luis Armando Mesta v. John Myrick |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-advocacy appellate-procedure constitutional-rights counsel-performance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel state-court-deference state-court-review strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's opinion deferred to the state court's finding that counsel was not ineffective under Strickland, despite counsel's failure… |
| 19-5818 |
Joshua Wayne Riley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confession-reliability corroboration-requirement criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment miranda-rights parole-revocation supervised-release |
Whether the Fifth Amendment requires the district court to apply the exclusionary rule in a supervised release revocation hearing |
| 19-5819 |
Arthur Rathburn v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-issues fair-notice jury-instructions reasonable-doubt right-to-jury-trial right-to-present-defense sufficiency-of-evidence vagueness |
Whether the government failed to present sufficient evidence to support the convictions beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 19-5825 |
Mario Garcia-Zavala v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment booking-exception booking-information-exception constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-of-identity fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration-crimes miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings stop-and-identify |
Does the booking information exception to the warnings required by Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), apply to evidence of identity in prosecuti… |
| 19-5831 |
Lorenzo Davis, Jr. v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illinois-constitution. 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus illinois-constitution legal-procedure state-detention |
Whether it is unconstitutional to hold a person in prison without a valid court order or due process of law |
| 19-5833 |
Wesley G. Copeland, Sr. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-law, equal-protection harmless-error speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
Did the Kansas Court of Appeals err in their analysis of the undisputed violation of a criminal defendant's Constitutional Due Process right to be pre… |
| 19-5835 |
Josue Martinez-Hernandez and Oscar Carcamo-Soto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1101 california-penal-code categorical-approach criminal-law deportation-grounds immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense |
Does a conviction under California Penal Code § 211 categorically qualify as a generic 'theft' offense for purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(48)(G)? |
| 19-5837 |
Terri McGuire Mollica v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
detention-cell Evidentiary-Hearing Exclusionary-Rule Fourth-Amendment Fruit-of-the-Poisonous-Tree Fruits-of-Poisonous-Tree ineffective-assistance Ineffective-Assistance-of-Counsel Reasonable-Expectation-of-Privacy section-2255 unreasonable-search Unreasonable-Search-and-Seizure Warrantless-Search |
Was Petitioner's guilty plea sustained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, Unreasonable-Search-and-Seizure, where law enforcement conducted a warran… |
| 19-5838 |
Glenn Ray Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,supervised-release,probation,four home-search liberty liberty-interest probation probation-supervision search-and-seizure supervised-release whether-this-court-should-grant-certiorari-vacate- |
Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit him at any time at home or elsewhere is unreasonabl… |
| 19-5842 |
William Sim Spencer v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actus-reus counsel-effectiveness due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel irrebuttable-presumption sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations |
Where it can be shown that the order to register as a sex offender is not limited in scope to stand on a valid guilty plea supported by the effective … |
| 19-5844 |
James Arthur Ross v. John Myrick, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit-ruling civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-error due-process evidence expert-testimony precedent pro-se-litigant standing summary-judgment |
Did the District Court error in determining that a 9th Circuit Appellate ruling from almost two decades ago in Bahrampour v. Lampert, 356 F.3d 969, 97… |
| 19-5847 |
Dennis White v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hospital-records ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-evidence pre-indictment-delay reasonable-probability sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Was the State Appellate court decision contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law, Strickland-v-Washingt… |
| 19-5853 |
Jambulat Tkhilaishvili v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process extortion judgment-of-acquittal physical-possession property-transfer scheidler sekhar statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent takings |
Whether the defendant is entitled to a judgment of acquittal for extortion when the defendant directed the victim to transfer property to third partie… |
| 19-5854 |
Sabrina D. Davis v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company |
South Carolina |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and SCRCP(South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-bias precedent standing state-courts supreme-court-precedent time-for-service |
Can the South Carolina courts ignore precedent set by the US Supreme Court that clearly states that time for service cannot be reduced and produce con… |
| 19-5856 |
Amando Villarreal Heredia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c2 drug-quantity fed-r-crim-p-11 federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines-range modification-proceeding plea-agreement sentence-recalculation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification |
In a Modification Proceeding pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2), may a district court make new findings of fact to recalculate drug-quantity beyond th… |
| 19-5857 |
Jonathan P. Flom v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittance civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-violation deliberation due-process fundamental-error government-misconduct material-disclosure sentence-enhancement vacatur |
Whether the Sense of Remized Plea Bargaining Acceptance provides exclusive Sixth Amendment right, requiring VACATUR |
| 19-5861 |
Louise K. Saine v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-denial appeals career-offender court-of-appeal crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-law due-process federal-case federal-classification federal-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure prior-convictions rehabilitation-programs rule-35 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-officer |
When can Rule 35 be used error? |
| 19-5866 |
Jason Loera v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split circuit-courts electronic-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence fourth-amendment-protections inevitable-discovery search-and-seizure state-courts technological-advances warrant-requirement |
Are the federal circuit courts and state courts of last resort analyzing and applying the inevitable discovery doctrine in a manner eviscerating the F… |
| 19-5870 |
Shakeem Heratio Crawford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto first-step-act parole retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Did the judge abuse discretion by categorically denying career offenders benefits under the First Step Act? |
| 19-5871 |
Patrick Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-crime federal-law guidelines-interpretation mandatory-minimum offer-to-sell preparatory-action sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantial-step tenth-circuit-precedent |
Did the district court err in increasing the defendant's sentence based on the Guidelines definition of 'controlled substance offense'? |
| 19-5872 |
Philip Hugh Wentzel v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-rights conviction criminal-charge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error |
Were petitioner's double jeopardy and due process rights violated? |
| 19-5874 |
David Kirkland v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-claim evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing-reduction sixth-circuit strickland-standard third-circuit trial |
Whether the petitioner's attorney was ineffective for withholding information |
| 19-5876 |
Joachim Dressler v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
censorship civil-rights content-seizure criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech freedman-v-maryland judicial-review prior-restraint procedural-safeguards southeastern-promotions-ltd-v-conrad |
Do this Court's First Amendment 'prior restraint' holdings that command 'strict procedural safeguards' designed to obviate the dangers of a freewheeli… |
| 19-5877 |
Damion D. Faulkner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion proportionality proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sex-offense sex-offenses substantive-due-process |
is-it-substantively-unreasonable-to-impose-an-effective-sentence-of-life |
| 19-5878 |
Darries Leon Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-reasonableness criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether sentences imposed upon Petitioner are unconstitutionally unreasonable or greater than necessary to satisfy the ends of justice |
| 19-5883 |
Richard Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment franks-challenge franks-v-delaware gall-standard search-warrant search-warrant-challenge-standard sentencing-variance substantial-preliminary-showing substantive-reasonableness veracity |
Whether this Court Should Clarify the Quantum Necessary for a Finding of a 'Substantial Preliminary Showing' That Entitles Defendants to a Hearing in … |
| 19-5884 |
Kevin Carson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth pornography pornography-prohibition supervised-release vagueness |
Whether the lifetime supervised release condition prohibiting Kevin Carson from possessing or having under his control any matter that is pornographic… |
| 19-5888 |
David Tkhilaishvili v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extortion hobbs-act interstate-commerce legal-nexus property-rights property-transfer third-party |
Whether the government may sustain a Hobbs Act extortion charge based on evidence that the defendant 'obtained' property for the benefit of a third pa… |
| 19-5890 |
Fernando Cabral-Varela v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights courtroom-access courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error witness-intimidation |
Did the judge deprive the Petitioner of his right to a public trial under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? |
| 19-5891 |
Donte Island v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment release-conditions split-circuit statutory-interpretation supervised-release tolling |
Whether a term of supervised release may be tolled for periods of noncompliance with release conditions |
| 19-5895 |
Lavar Eady v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chemical-composition confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony forensic-evidence lab-testing substitute-analyst testimonial-hearsay truth-of-the-matter |
Whether the Confrontation Clause prohibits a substitute state analyst from testifying at trial as to the composition of a seized substance obtained as… |
| 19-5897 |
Carlos German Lema Nogales v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 4th-circuit-precedent 6th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-violations criminal-informant due-process eavesdrop effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance multiple-conspiracies search-and-seizure warrant warrant-reliability |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL |
| 19-5909 |
Blake Clinton Talman v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blood-draw criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance warrantless-search |
Whether the 'good faith' exception applies to a warrantless blood draw obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 19-5911 |
Paul R. Butts v. Eric D. Wilson, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence congressional-intent congressional-interpretation federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause statutory-interpretation |
Does the 'saving clause' of 28 U.S.C. §2255 provide an avenue of judicial review for a federal prisoner to claim his actual innocence due to a congres… |
| 19-5918 |
Brandon Kyle Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§-2255-motion appellate-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal idaho-v-garza ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-rule prejudice-standard presumption-of-prejudice roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Was counsel's single statement that 'if you appeal you will get more time' adequate advice or deficient performance? |
| 19-5922 |
Pedro Munoz, aka Pedro Munoz Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-5928 |
Marcos Santiago v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress' decision to make the retroactive application of the First Step Act fully retroactive creates a significant risk that thousands of pr… |
| 19-5938 |
Jason Bo-Alan Beckman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
asset-forfeiture asset-freezing civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights criminal-counsel criminal-procedure due-process errors-and-omissions errors-and-omissions-policy forfeiture-rights luis-v-united-states right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Can the Government circumvent Luis v. United States protections |
| 19-5941 |
Roger Cha v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation law-enforcement miranda-rights miranda-waiver self-incrimination waiver |
Is a Miranda waiver invalidated when the law enforcement officer providing the advisal involves himself in the waiver process by asking the subject of… |
| 19-5943 |
In Re Nathan Wayne Smith |
|
Denied |
IFP |
antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act congressional-power constitutional-convention constitutional-limitations federal-criminal-statutes habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause |
Whether the federal criminal statutes charged are unconstitutional |
| 19-5944 |
Jerry D. Scott v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-circuit appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-justice criminal-procedure domestic-assault due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-standard missouri-robbery sentencing violent-crime |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not granting a certificate of appealability |
| 19-5953 |
Jose Juan Vallejo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
border-patrol constitutional-seizure eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops |
Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops? |
| 19-5961 |
Mark Whitehead v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-due-process constitutional-law criminal-contempt due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal jury-trial recusal trial-procedure |
Whether a trial judge that has had a significant hand in the accusatory process of a criminal contempt jury trial should be recused from presiding ove… |
| 19-5964 |
In Re Dwight Carter, Sr. |
|
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c 2255-motion constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-2255-habeas-corpus davis-rule due-process habeas-corpus hobbs-act-robbery merits-analysis prima-facie-standard retroactivity second-or-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether Petitioner met his burden under 28 U.S.C. 2244(B)(3)(C) and 2255(h)(2) to file a second or successive 2255 based on United States v. Davis |
| 19-5975 |
Juan Jose Tull-Abreu v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-identity-theft compulsory-process confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment health-care-fraud identity-theft sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner participated in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud |
| 19-5983 |
Alejandro Llamas-Delgado v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the lower court's decision conflicts with Supreme Court and other circuit precedent concerning the government's burden to prove the evidence w… |
| 19-6008 |
David W. Tippens v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity |
Does the Leon good faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply when the police search and seize property pursuant to a warrant that is void ab init… |
| 19-6014 |
In Re Lee R. Comier, Jr. |
|
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process jurisdiction reparations slavery 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus slavery state-law |
Whether the State of Arizona can legally apply a 'slave' label to a person of African descent after 1865, in violation of the 13th Amendment and due p… |
| 19M52 |
Michael E. Goynes, Jr. v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M53 |
Louis B. Parron v. Michael Herbert, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M54 |
John Doe 1, et al. v. Federal Election Commission |
District of Columbia |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M55 |
Derron Ronzay Pittman v. DAL Global Services, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
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