Conference: 2019-10-18

95 cases — 0 granted, 95 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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18-1386 Dan M. Lipschultz, In His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, et al. v. Charter Advanced Services (MN), LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) brand-x brand-x-test communications-act fcc-regulation federal-communications-commission information-services preemption state-regulation telecommunications-services voice-over-internet-protocol voip-classification Whether VoIP service is a telecommunications service or an information service under the appropriate functional test from Brand X
18-1432 Nidal Khalid Nasrallah v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-review asylum deportation due-process immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation torture-convention withholding-of-removal Whether, notwithstanding Section 1252(a)(2)(C), the courts of appeals possess jurisdiction to review factual findings underlying denials of withholdin…
18-1446 Lettie Sexton, ex rel. Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. v. Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. Kentucky Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) beneficiary-rights due-process fair-hearing federal-regulations medicaid medicaid-benefits medicaid-program medical-coverage personal-liability standing state-agency statutory-interpretation statutory-right Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(3) requires a state participating in the Medicaid program to provide a 'fair hearing' to a beneficiary when coverage of h…
18-1506 Julian Martin v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay reliability-of-evidence right-to-confront-witnesses sixth-amendment Whether the District Court's express reliance on an out-of-court statement of a non-testifying co-defendant as a basis for finding the defendant guilt…
18-1515 Eli Lilly and Company v. Erfindergemeinschaft UroPep GbR Federal Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-112 ariad-pharmaceuticals claim-construction enablement functional-claiming halliburton-oil-well-cementing halliburton-oil-well-cementing-co-v-walker halliburton-precedent patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-law point-of-novelty single-step-claim written-description Whether a single-step patent claim that describes its point of novelty solely in functional terms violates the rule against functional claiming
18-1543 Michael A. Katz, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon Wireless Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-act arbitration-stay article-iii civil-procedure consent constitutional-rights due-process federal-arbitration-act federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-review standing voluntary-consent waiver wellness-international-network-v-sharif Whether Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) § 3 requires the district court to stay the action after it compels arbitration of all claims and a stay is requ…
18-1554 Lawrence W. Blessinger v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1) circuit-split completed-misdemeanor fourth-amendment investigatory-stop law-enforcement-efficacy misdemeanor police-detention privacy-interests reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to detain a suspect under Terry v. Ohio to investigate a completed misdemeanor
18-8369 Arthur J. Lomax v. Christina Ortiz-Marquez, et al. Tenth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (5)Response RequestedRelisted (4)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal-without-prejudice due-process prison-litigation-reform-act standing Whether a dismissal without prejudice for failure to state a claim under Rule 12(b)(6) counts as a 'strike' under 28 U.S.C. 1915(g)
19-161 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (2) administrative-law constitutional-challenge due-process expedited-removal habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review suspension-clause Whether Section 1252(e)(2) is unconstitutional under the Suspension Clause as applied to respondent
19-170 The E Company, et al. v. Trustees of the Suburban Teamsters of Northern Illinois Pension Fund Seventh Circuit Denied administrative-notice control-group due-process erisa mullane-standard mullane-v-central-hanover mullane-v-central-hanover-bank notice pension-fund slotky-standard withdrawal-liability Are Mullane's due process standards limited to notice in lawsuits and Petitioners' objections to the plan sponsor notice of withdrawal liability unfou…
19-201 Roger S. Hanson v. Jennifer Allert California Denied attorney-fees california-evidence-code civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process evidence evidence-code-1402 property-rights property-titles real-property standing Whether the ruling made by the state trial court granting the motion under California Evidence Code 1402 foreclosed Respondent's efforts to seek attor…
19-204 Paul M. Carrick v. Tamyra Ann Rice, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied california-statehood civil-rights fees homestead-act homestead-act-1862 public-domain settlers state-subsidiary takings Whether California's requirement that settlers pay a fee to secure a homestead on public lands violates the Homestead Act of 1862 and the conditions o…
19-207 David Grober, et al. v. Mako Products, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-procedure discovery due-process expense-sanctions federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion litigation-compliance reasoned-decision rule-37 sanctions Whether the mandatory expense sanctions of FRCP Rule 37 can be circumvented by a court ignoring, or reducing them, including to zero, absent the losin…
19-210 Lizette Olaechea, aka Lizette Simmonds v. Grace Olaechea Florida Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-decisions indispensable-party personal-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether the lower Courts disregarded the Fourteenth Amendment and erred by not declaring a judgment void, wherein the Court lacked personal jurisdicti…
19-217 DaVinci Aircraft, Inc. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived bivens-claim bivens-v-six-unknown-named-agents civil-asset-forfeiture civil-asset-forfeiture-reform-act civil-rights discretionary-action espionage-act federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the exception for forfeitures created by the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA) apply to goods seized in violation of the Fourth A…
19-218 Xiu Jian Sun v. Wu Hua Jing, et al. New York Denied civil-procedure civil-rights divine-messenger due-process governor judicial-intervention jurisdictional-claim legal-petition mandamus mandarin-chinese registered-mail religious-doctrine religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation Whether the messenger sent by Jehovah, the Lord of host, through the angel, has the authority to bring the case before the judge
19-220 Lee Chatfield, et al., Appellants v. League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al. Michigan Denied None
19-226 Noel L. Smith v. Diane Smith Carusos Second Circuit Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process judicial-procedure legal-ethics procedural-due-process remand remand-order removal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a U.S. District Court have subject-matter jurisdiction to grant a motion that admittedly has never been served?
19-231 Wes Perkins v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied 5th-amendment 5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronic-filing fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure parties-to-proceeding pro-se-petition standing state-respondent Was DAVIS improperly included?
19-232 New Mighty U.S. Trust, et al. v. Robert Shi, as Executor of the Will of Yueh-Lan Wang, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (2)Response Waived burden-of-proof choice-of-forum choice-of-law circuit-split civil-procedure conflict-of-laws forum-non-conveniens jurisdiction jurisdictional-doctrine standing venue Whether a forum resident bears a heightened burden to establish that a suit brought by a foreign plaintiff should be dismissed under the doctrine of f…
19-246 Massood Jallali v. Florida Florida Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense brady-rule brady-violation-claim criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence theory-of-innocence Whether the trial court's discovery rulings deprived petitioner of evidence under Brady that would support an affirmative defense and petitioner's the…
19-258 Richard Lewis Katzin, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment deed-dispute due-process fifth-amendment government-action government-taking just-compensation land-ownership property-rights remand takings takings-clause title-claim unsalable-property Whether the Government can claim title to privately owned land and actively work to make that property unsaleable, without triggering the Fifth Amendm…
19-270 Patricia Rodriguez v. LPP Mortgage Ltd., LP Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-procedure client-advocacy credible-arguments due-process legal-ethics rule-11 sanctions zealous-representation Whether rule-11-sanctions-against-attorney-should-be-reversed
19-274 Teresa Buchanan v. F. King Alexander, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived academic-freedom constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth public-university sexual-harassment tenure title-ix vagueness Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by foreclosing Petitioner's ability to challenge the constitutional validity of a public university's speech regulatio…
19-316 Larry Drake Hansen v. Salt Lake City Corporation Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived 10th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process monell-claim municipal-liability Question not identified. standing state-law takings access-to-the-courts
19-334 Norman Douglas Diamond v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights document-retention due-process government-accountability government-liability jurisdictional-challenge non-resident-rights standing takings tax tax-refund unauthorized-collection Whether US non-resident citizens have any right to recovery of illegally retained tax overpayments, and to compensation for unauthorized collection ac…
19-338 In Re Peter Appel, et al. Denied Response Waived 24th-amendment 26th-amendment all-writs-act all-writs-act-28-usc-1651a congressional-certification congressional-jurisdiction constitutional-review electoral-certification electoral-college justiciability presidential-election standing stare-decisis voter-disenfranchisement voter-injury Whether this Court has the 'other jurisdiction' (pursuant to Rule 20 of Part 4 of the Supreme Court rules) to grant the within petition for an appeal …
19-349 Swisher International, Inc. v. Trendsettah USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law competition-harm duty-to-deal jury-instructions market-output monopolist monopoly monopoly-liability refusal-to-deal sherman-act short-term-sacrifice single-firm-output Whether a jury verdict finding a defendant liable under Section 2 of the Sherman Act for refusing to deal or cooperate with a competitor may be upheld…
19-364 Dwayne Lamar Williams, Sr. v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury incorporation jurisdiction state-criminal-procedure state-indictment Does the Fifth Amendment grand jury right apply to state indictments via the Fourteenth Amendment?
19-366 Walter C. Lange v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process eighth-amendment excise fifth-amendment first-amendment income-tax indirect-tax tax-code title-26 vagueness Whether the income tax under Title 26 of the U.S. Code is an indirect tax and therefore exclusively an excise, duty or impost arising from the exercis…
19-372 William D. Jenkins, Jr., et ux. v. Corey Chance, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts judicial-power legislative-authority legislative-intent standing state-legislation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Does This Court possess verifiable Constitutional and Congressional power to interpret unwritten Congressional Law and alleged Legislative 'voids'
19-374 Floyd Hamilton Byrns, Jr. v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response Waived criminal-law criminal-record due-process ex-post-facto expungement forgery legal-remedy plea-bargaining post-facto-punishment retroactivity sentencing Should a person who pled guilty to forgery of a check less than $100.00 in 1987, be punished Post Facto and denied due process for an expungement 32 y…
19-419 Antonio L. Saulsberry v. Randy Lee, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-trial precedent retrial sixth-amendment verdict Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial of a defendant on a charge that was submitted to a jury at a prior trial but as to which that jury did…
19-421 In Re William Henry Hamman Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights-education dual-enrollment due-process education equal-protection florida-statute home-education procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process Does the 14th amendment's guarantee of equal protection extend to Florida's children here, or may the executive willfully break the black letter of la…
19-5181 Lamar Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit GVR IFP arrest-procedure circuit-split custodial-arrest felon-in-possession fourth-amendment probable-cause rehaif-v-united-states search-incident-exception search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search Whether a warrantless search may be upheld under the search-incident-to-arrest exception when the search precedes the arrest
19-5217 Lavares Detroen Watkins v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP ACCA-enhancement actual-innocence AEDPA armed-career-criminal-act due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-maximum time-bar Whether due process is violated when a court sentences a defendant to a term of imprisonment that exceeds the otherwise-applicable statutory maximum s…
19-5246 Jason Rosado v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-1203 924(c) certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' denial of a Certificate of Appealability should be vacated in light of the Supreme Court's decision in …
19-5592 Dawud Spaulding v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment defense-counsel due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-presumption post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings record record-evidence standard-of-review strategic-decision strategic-decision-making Should courts presume defense counsel acted strategically, even when the evidence in the record demonstrates a lack of strategy in their actions?
19-5615 Marc Remenar, Sr. v. Jamie Remenar, nka Jamie Solberg Oregon Denied IFP None
19-5623 Deshawn Legrier v. United States Second Circuit GVR IFP 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-possession indictment knowingly-element rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction where the indictment for violating § 922(g)(1) did not charge the defendant with any off…
19-5628 Charles Rochester v. New York State Division of Human Rights, et al. New York Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion abuse-of-power administrative-law anti-injunction-act civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination-claims due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction investigative-misconduct state-court-proceedings tampering-with-evidence Does the United States District Court and United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals have a duty to protect jurisdiction and join a state case, and…
19-5637 Karen Sue Wilson v. Marion Police Department, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Questions presented around the issues of Oy, S05 TL acrested, Sad —YaeE
19-5639 Kirby D. Crawford v. Georgia Georgia Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure deprivation-of-rights due-process evidence-of-proof evidentiary-standards fair-trial grand-jury indictment judicial-error legal-procedure petitioner standing trial-court Whether the trial court erred in charging my client with crimes not assessed by the grand jury prior to the trial
19-5644 Keith Stuart Cumbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure does-judicial-confession double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus indigent-defendant judicial-confession legal-assistance legal-assistance-clause sixth-amendment without-prior-appointment-of-counsel without-waiver Does judicial confession in this case, without a waiver and without prior appointment of counsel for an indigent defendant, violate the Legal Assistan…
19-5649 Terry Lee O'Brien v. Carla Hacker-Agnew, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-negligence national-uniformity obstruction-of-justice prison-conditions standing statutory-interpretation What degree of interpretation of a constitution, statute, or authority of law is a question of law where there is a crisis case?
19-5660 Alfonso Sanchez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-verdict mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reversal-of-conviction Does the Double Jeopardy Clause bar retrial when a prosecutor's misconduct, committed for the purposes of diminishing a defendant's chance of acquitta…
19-5674 Ed Teague, II v. Regent Financial Group, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure failure-to-state-a-claim failure-to-state-claim judicial-interpretation legal-principles motion-to-dismiss pleading-requirements standard-of-review Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up…
19-5680 Kenneth Taylor Curry v. Vancouver Housing Authority, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech goldberg-hearing hearsay housing-authority housing-choice-voucher reasonable-accommodation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction violence-threat Whether a Vancouver Housing Authority Hearings Officer without original subject matter jurisdiction is ultra vires and failed to provide a Goldberg pr…
19-5694 Craig Farley v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied IFP consciousness-of-guilt constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-trial exculpatory-evidence identification-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-identification-evidence phone-records sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel Is there any reasonable argument that trial counsel satisfied the Strickland standard when he failed to introduce crucial lack of identification evide…
19-5696 Adrian Francis Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights custody discovery due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-law Whether the petitioner's speedy trial rights were violated by the delay in bringing him to trial
19-5703 Eric Massey v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-effectiveness critical-stage effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was the real question before the court counsel's effectiveness?
19-5709 Sam Newman v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process firearm-discharge johnson-v-united-states reasonable-person-standard sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether Louisiana Revised Statute Annotated § 14:94(A) (1995) is unconstitutionally vague
19-5768 Steven Villalona v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-v-wingo constitutional-law criminal-procedure detainer due-process prisoner-rights rehabilitative-programs sixth-amendment smith-v-hooey speedy-trial What effect, if any, does the filing of a detainer have on a prisoner's right to a speedy trial under the Sixth Amendment?
19-5802 Travis Wade Matthews v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process identification jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia mccoy-v-louisiana victim-identification witness-identification whether-dna-testing-is-client-choice
19-5840 Andre Kenneth Stuckey v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP california-supreme-court civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial sentencing supreme-court-review Whether Andre Kenneth Stuckey Sr. is entitled to habeas corpus relief where his conviction and sentence were obtained in violation of his constitution…
19-5879 Timothy L. Joe v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment cross-examination due-process evidence evidentiary-law impeachment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel opioid-addiction police-misconduct sixth-amendment Can Florida's evidentiary laws constitutionally preclude impeachment evidence of opioid-addicted police officers?
19-5912 Jesus Oscar Meraz Leon v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence arizona-courts arizona-law civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing Whether the state courts' refusal to grant Leon's request for DNA testing because it violates his right to due process and equal protection of the law…
19-5913 Sammie Lee Smith, IV v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-crime aggravated-offense alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-charging criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sexual-felony Whether the facts triggering a mandatory minimum sentence under Florida's Dangerous Sexual Felony Offender Act, § 794.0115, Fla. Stat. (2016), togethe…
19-5917 Matthew A. Castro v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fact-finding federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit erred by unreasonably determining the facts based on a misreading of the state reco…
19-5919 Marlon Romaine Carter v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-possession criminal-conviction due-process felon-in-possession fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the State of Louisiana misapplied Jackson v. Virginia sufficiency of evidence test
19-5932 Chavez Myers v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights comprehensive-youth-justice-amendment-act criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana standing youth-reform-act Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals erred in denying Chavez Myers' § 23-110 motion
19-5951 Jeffrey L. Harris v. Judy P. Smith, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence recantation standing Is Jeffrey L. Harris entitled to a Certificate of Appealability?
19-5955 Dennis R. Heilman v. Randy Blades, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions rape variance Does a variance between the Information charging aggravated assault and rape, and (a) a conviction on non-conforming evidence submitted at trial, and …
19-5956 Adrian Apodaca v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-jurisdiction crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federalism interstate-action jurisdiction sentencing Whether the defendant's conviction and sentence can be upheld under the definition of 'crime of violence'
19-5959 Loretta Fergerson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals clear-error clear-error-standard federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-to-vacate plain-error plain-error-standard post-conviction-relief standard-of-review Did the Appeals Court err in applying clear error rather than plain error standard when deciding District Court's denial of Petitioner's 2255?
19-5962 David Tjader v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Seventh Circuit errantly disregarded the government's waiver of a waiver argument and disallowed relief for a supervised release condition…
19-5963 Jesus Yugopicio-Rojas v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-consistency criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-review molina-martinez non-calculation plain-error sentencing-guidelines Does failure to calculate the applicable Sentencing Guidelines attract the same protocol for plain error as set out in Molina-Martinez v. United State…
19-5969 Tawoine Aquil Frank Banks v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process revocation revocation-sentence section-3624e sentencing supervised-release Did the Court of Appeals err in affirming of a supervised revocation sentence that ran consecutively to other supervised release revocation sentence?
19-5970 Murad Razzaq v. Kansas Kansas Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-evidence criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process due-process-clause evidence evidentiary-rules prior-bad-acts prior-crimes propensity-evidence state-prosecution state-supreme-courts unrelated-crimes Does a state violate a defendant's due process rights by admitting evidence of a prior, unrelated crime to show his propensity to commit another crime…
19-5971 Darlene Schmidt v. Gary R. Herbert, Governor of Utah Tenth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court appeals-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation corporate-governance dismissal due-process facts judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction misrepresentation standing Does appeals court's dismissal finding 2 reliefs but no known cause show the appeals court is misrepresenting the facts?
19-5974 Duane L. O'Malley v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals circuit-operating-rule civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules criminal-procedure criminal-rule-33 direct-appeal due-process judicial-assignment motion-appeal newly-discovered-evidence panel-reassignment recharacterization standing Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals violate Circuit Operating Rule 6(b) when failing to reassign panels?
19-5976 Marquise Travon Dedmon v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), where the off…
19-5982 Alcadio Caballero De La Torre v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing data-analysis due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-commission sentencing-data sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness statistical-analysis When, if ever, Sentencing Commission statistical data may be used to evaluate the reasonableness of a defendant's sentence
19-5996 Michael J. W. Potter v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-imprisonment mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing Whether entry of a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment violated Appellant's rights under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution
19-6 New York v. Jahmarley Jones New York Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure gang-evidence police-investigation police-investigations sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements Whether statements made by individuals during routine police investigations — prior to the commission of a specific crime, the identification of a sus…
19-6018 Joey Little v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-authority congressional-oversight criminal-law judicial-review magazine-based-enhancement regulatory-interpretation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2k2.1 statutory-construction statutory-interpretation u.s-sentencing-commission unlawful-exercise Whether Application Note 2 of the commentary to U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 2K2.1 represents an unlawful exercise of agency authority by the U.S. Sent…
19-6019 Marco Antonio Murillo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-defendants indictment indictment-right mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-haymond Whether federal defendants enjoy the right to indictment as to some facts that alter the likely sentence within a mandatory range of punishment?
19-6020 Jose Romeu v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 amendment-599 amendment-782 drug-amount presentence-investigation-report sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals committed error in its affirmance of the District Court's denial of Petitioner Jose Romeu's 18 U.S.C. § …
19-6021 Ricardo Valles De La Rosa v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP braxton-precedent braxton-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit nelson-v-colorado plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' affirmance of the petitioner's guilty-plea sentence violated petitioner's due process rights
19-6027 Jordan Combs v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment child-pornography constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment possession sentencing Whether Jordan Combs' due process rights under the Fifth Amendment were violated when the district court sentenced him to 120 months on possession of …
19-6030 Craig Elias v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim due-process evidence evidence-promise ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-remedy sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Does Strickland apply to ineffectiveness claims vis-a-vis trial counsel's broken promise to produce evidence?
19-6035 Luis R. Espinal-Rivera v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review bail bail-hearing criminal-procedure detention-review due-process federal-jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention rebuttal statutory-presumption statutory-presumptions Whether bail should have been granted in this case as the petitioner rebutted the statutory presumptions
19-6052 Rafie A. Lee v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial federal-court fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review state-court state-court-proceedings Whether Petitioner was denied 'Fundamental Fairness' in the State Court Proceedings?
19-6064 Tommy Cole v. R. J. Rackley, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kelly-hearing sixth-amendment videographic-evidence Whether a Kelly hearing was required to test the reliability of the process used to create the videotape of still photographs originally recorded on a…
19-6066 In Re Jeffrey S. Collier Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure double-standard due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-system legal-precedent manifest-injustice precedent standing Does the violation of guaranteed constitutional rights and doctrine of precedents create manifest injustice?
19-6093 In Re Barbara Stone, et al. Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process elder-abuse equal-protection habeas-corpus retaliation state-detention unlawful-detention vulnerable-adults Whether the facts demonstrate willful violations of protected rights under the Constitution, including the right to life, liberty, property, due proce…
19-6134 In Re Recardo Wimbush, et ux. Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment habeas-corpus jurisdiction slavery speedy-trial state-remedies void-judgment Whether the petitioner's judgment of conviction should be vacated for lack of jurisdiction under the U.S. Constitution
19-7 Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (48)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-governance constitutional-law constitutional-structure consumer-financial-protection-bureau executive-authority independent-agency separation-of-powers single-director Whether the vesting of substantial executive authority in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency led by a single director, vi…
19-73 Michael W. Gahagan v. Citizenship & Immigration Services Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1) attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fee-award fee-award-interpretation fee-award-laws fogerty-v-fantasy foia-litigation freedom-of-information-act legal-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation textual-analysis Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that all federal fee-award laws must be read identically contravene this Court's decision in Fogerty v. Fantasy Inc.?
19-75 James Joseph Garner v. Colorado Colorado Denied Amici (2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification police-misconduct standing suggestive-identification suggestive-setting trial-procedure witness-testimony Whether the Due Process Clause imposes any check on an eyewitness's identification of a criminal defendant in the typically suggestive setting of tria…
19-76 Martin Marquardt, Deputy Sheriff v. William Fletcher Ninth Circuit Denied circuit-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force ninth-circuit pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether the use of force by a correctional officer against a pretrial detainee was reasonable
19M56 Marilis Yaneth Velasquez Perez v. Jose Candido Diaz Palencia Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M57 Jane Doe v. Dardanelle School District Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M58 Crystal Biton v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M59 Crystal Biton, et al. v. Donald B. Verrilli, et al. Second Circuit Presumed Complete None