Conference: 2019-10-11

221 cases — 0 granted, 221 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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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 None
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