| 18-1343 |
Princeton Digital Image Corporation v. Adobe Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure consent-final-judgment consent-judgment cross-appeal federal-circuit final-judgment interlocutory-ruling jurisdictional-dismissal standing third-circuit |
Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with a decision of the Third Circuit, that it may vacate a district court's consent final judgme… |
| 18-1490 |
Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, et al. v. Jason Piasecki |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
circuit-split custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody probation sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-conviction state-criminal-convictions third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously concluded that the respondent, who was no longer serving his state sentence of probation at the… |
| 18-1500 |
Jonsha Bell v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-expectancy nonhomicide-offense sentencing sentencing-proportionality |
Does the Eighth Amendment forbid an aggregate sentence that exceeds the life expectancy of a juvenile nonhomicide offender? |
| 18-1501 |
Charles C. Liu, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (19)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
agency-enforcement disgorgement equitable-relief judicial-review kokesh-v-sec lower-court-precedent penalty sec-enforcement securities-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the SEC may seek and obtain disgorgement from a court as equitable relief' for a securities law violation even though this Court has determine… |
| 18-1530 |
Enplas Display Device Corporation v. Seoul Semiconductor Company, Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-271(b) extraterritoriality global-tech global-tech-appliances induced-infringement inducement microsoft-v-att patent-infringement presumption-against presumption-against-extraterritoriality rjr-nabisco statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in view of the presumption against extraterritoriality, a foreign defendant's foreign sales of components to a foreign company qualifies as i… |
| 18-1565 |
Matt A. Rogers v. SWEPI LP, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitrability arbitration-provision arbitration-validity contract-formation contract-validity delegation-of-arbitrability federal-law federal-preemption first-options-standard prima-paint-doctrine severability severability-doctrine state-law |
Whether the severability doctrine applies to determine arbitrability in the absence of clear and unmistakable evidence that the parties delegated that… |
| 18-1566 |
Charles D. Scoville v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-procedure criminal-prosecution dodd-frank-act due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-reach extraterritoriality federal-jurisdiction sec-enforcement securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-law securities-regulation statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether Section 929P(b)'s jurisdictional amendments conferred substantive extraterritorial reach upon Sections 10(b) and 17(a) in SEC enforcement acti… |
| 18-7806 |
George Berka v. City of Middletown, Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal-rights appeals civil-procedure due-process judicial-review notice notice-of-rights public-health-law state-law |
Did the Connecticut Department of Public Health act improperly, and deny the Petitioner his right to due process, by failing to inform him on how to p… |
| 18-8890 |
Carl Lee Jones v. Willie Smith, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection medical-treatment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent transgender-rights |
What is the appropriate medical treatment for individuals with gender dysphoria? |
| 18-8901 |
Daniel H. Jones v. James F. Goodwin, Judge, Criminal Court for Sullivan County, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-review sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying the petitioner's absolute right in filing as well as to appeal his civil action in forma pa… |
| 18-8951 |
Terrance Proctor v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure discretion due-process eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mitigation proportionality sentencing-mitigation |
Are consecutive, fixed term sentences for juveniles unconstitutional at the outset when they amount to the functional equivalent of life without parol… |
| 18-8972 |
Wardell Nelson Joiner, Jr. v. John Sutton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-error due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial false-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus schlup-standard schlup-v-delo time-of-death wrongful-conviction |
Did the courts below err in applying Schlup v. Delo to hold that Petitioner's compelling new evidence was insufficient to establish reasonable doubt? |
| 18-9024 |
Michael J. Littles v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction standing |
Whether the court has a duty to review each case impartially, and whether the court's failure to do so violates the petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 18-9043 |
Bryan Binkholder v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights due-process plea-bargaining sentencing victim-rights victims-rights writ-of-mandamus |
Did the Crime Victims Rights Act, 18 USC 3771 (CVRA), and its 72 hour review requirement for a petition of Writ of Mandamus violate the Constitutional… |
| 18-9062 |
Derek Ray King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process indictment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing supervised-release |
whether-violations-of-supervised-release-require-jury-proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt |
| 18-9389 |
Antonia Shields v. Juda Klein |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-action civil-rights constitutional-review court-fees due-process fees-and-costs fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-access standing unconstitutional |
Is 28 U.S.C. § 1915 unconstitutional, discriminatory, based on a person's ability to pay fees and costs and/or to give security for fees and costs for… |
| 18-9407 |
Humberto Verduzco-Magana v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-waiver circuit-court conformity judgment-correction oral-pronouncement sentence-modification sentencing written-judgment |
Whether a written appellate waiver giving up the right to appeal any portion of the sentence waive the right to ask the Circuit to conform the written… |
| 18-9411 |
Steven Douglas Rockett v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
beyond the objective meaning of those words misconstrued the plain language of the statute an child-pornography constitutional-overbreadth constitutional-vagueness definitional-overbreadth definitional-vagueness dost-factors due-process judicial-construction lascivious-exhibition ninth-circuit-precedent overbreadth statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the judicial construction of 'lascivious exhibition' of the genitals or pubic area of a minor in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) to include consider… |
| 18-9431 |
William Maurice Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-retroactivity,sentencing-reform drug-distribution due-process first-step-act griffith-v-kentucky ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Does Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, (1987) apply to First Step Act of 2018? |
| 18-9485 |
Dante Taylor v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cell-site-location cell-site-location-information exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment privacy-interest reasonable-expectation-of-privacy secure-communications-act statutory-violation suppression-remedy warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless acquisition of cell site location information from a cell phone provider violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-9567 |
Daniel De Leon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process indictment jury-trial reasonable-doubt supervised-release |
Whether violations of supervised release require proof to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 18-9571 |
Willie Carl Jones v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fourteenth-amendment juror-influence search-and-seizure |
Whether the denial of petitioner's motion to suppress bullets conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court in violation of petitioner's Fourteenth … |
| 18-963 |
Terrence Hill v. City of Jackson, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
demolition demolition-notice due-process government-action government-policy municipal-liability notice opportunity-for-hearing parratt-v-taylor procedural-fairness property-rights |
Does due process require the City of Jackson and Jackson County to provide notice and opportunity for hearing appropriate to the nature of the case? |
| 18-9648 |
Jamelle Edward Armstrong v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
african-american batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection federal-question jury-selection peremptory-challenges race-neutrality supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Did the California Supreme Court improperly decide the issue of the race-neutrality of respondent's exercise of its trial peremptory challenges to exc… |
| 18-9664 |
Lilron Ravon Jones v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-procedure Descamps due-process jury-trial jury-trial-right juvenile-adjudication Mathis prior-conviction-exception sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether it is constitutionally permissible to use a prior juvenile adjudication to enhance a sentence regardless of whether the juvenile had a right t… |
| 18-9791 |
Luis David Moreno-Pena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leniency preservation-of-error sentencing-argument sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review |
Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence rooted in a court's failure to address arguments for leniency must be preserved by specific obj… |
| 18-9801 |
RaShawn Long v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech political-speech retaliation standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's First Amendment free speech rights were violated by the respondents' suppression of his political speech and expression |
| 18-9832 |
Patrick H. Murphy v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
civil-rights death-penalty death-row due-process establishment-clause free-exercise free-exercise-clause pastoral-accompaniment religious-liberty rluipa |
When a death-sentenced inmate informs prison authorities a month in advance of his scheduled execution date of his desire to be accompanied during the… |
| 19-119 |
Staples, Inc., et al. v. Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
apportionment commerce-clause constitutional-taxation due-process franchise-fees income-apportionment income-tax interstate-commerce royalty royalty-fees royalty-income state-courts state-taxation |
When an out-of-State business receives royalty fees, franchise fees, or similar payments from in-State businesses, may a State imposing income taxes c… |
| 19-138 |
First State Community Action Agency v. Tamra N. Robinson |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure invited-error jury-instructions plain-error trial-court waiver |
Whether a party that first raises an issue on appeal has per se waived plain error review |
| 19-139 |
Delmar Hardy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
cheek-v-united-states criminal-tax good-faith good-faith-reliance jury-instruction jury-instructions professional-reliance reliance-on-accountant specific-intent tax-fraud tax-law tax-professional willfulness |
Whether a subjective standard must be applied in determining whether there was evidence of full disclosure to support a reliance on a tax professional… |
| 19-211 |
Time Warner Cable, Inc., et al. v. Sprint Communications Company, L.P. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
35-usc-112 35-usc-112a 35-usc-284 apportionment federal-circuit garretson-v-clark patent-claims patent-damages patent-infringement patent-validity reasonable-royalty written-description |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred by affirming a damages award based on unapportioned end-user service revenues |
| 19-222 |
Paul Anthony Valderas v. City of Lubbock, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonable-force reasonable-inference use-of-force |
Whether an officer on the scene constrained by what he observes to use any force creates a reasonable inference that deadly force is excessive? |
| 19-230 |
Douglas Prade v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
|
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence state-courts state-criminal-procedure trial-rights |
Does Ohio's uniquely elevated burden of proof for new trials based on newly discovered evidence violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause? |
| 19-233 |
Eryon Luke v. CPlace Forest Park SNF, L.L.C., dba Nottingham Regional Rehab Center |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights comparator comparator-standard due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas pregnancy-discrimination pretext prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii |
Whether the analysis applied by the Fifth Circuit as articulated in the Pre-Young decision of Brady vs. Office of the Sergeant at Arms 820 F.2d 490 (D… |
| 19-237 |
James R. LaFrieda, et ux. v. Nancy A. Gilbert |
Nevada |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-50-b judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-verdict professional-negligence proximate-cause punitive-damages standard-of-care statutory-interpretation trial-court-fact-finding |
Whether the Nevada Supreme Court erred in disregarding past Supreme Court decisions and declaring a state procedural rule ambiguous |
| 19-238 |
In Re Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. |
|
Denied |
|
appellate-review article-iii-standing civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction en-banc-review proposition-65 remand-order removal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supplemental-jurisdiction |
Whether the remand order constitutes an appealable abuse of discretion for failing to reach or resolve the jurisdictional issues raised below |
| 19-240 |
Noah Thomas Ballard v. Vicky Lynn Ballard |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-malpractice attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights damages divorce-decree due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-malpractice punitive-damages standing supreme-court-review |
Can the No. 2016DV97 decree be overruled and $77K awarded to the petitioner? |
| 19-254 |
Jorel Shophar v. Kansas, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights discrimination domestic-abuse false-allegations fathers-rights judicial-fairness legal-discrimination parental-rights procedural-justice strategic-legal-defense |
Are parental rights of fathers being treated as inferior to mothers? |
| 19-269 |
Harold A. Flores v. Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
adverse-employment-action burden-of-proof civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law evidence prima-facie-case quantum-of-evidence retaliation summary-judgment title-vii |
What quantum of evidence is sufficient to survive summary judgment on a Title VII retaliation claim? |
| 19-280 |
Judy Long v. Alameda Unified School District |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
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appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial motion-dismissal standard-of-review standing summary-judgment |
What is the appropriate standard of review when a trial court improperly grants a motion for summary judgment dismissing the right to a jury trial? |
| 19-290 |
Jay Nolan Renobato v. Bureau of the Fiscal Service |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust antitrust-law authority-under-section-636-rule-72 bill-of-rights-excessive-government-power civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitution-application-judicial-proceedings-prop constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction government-power judicial-procedure judicial-transgressions-conflicts-miscarriages rule-12b1-subject-matter-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction treasury-regulations |
Whether Acts of Congress and the Constitution require their corrected application to judicial proceedings, property ownership, and interstate commerce… |
| 19-297 |
H&M Hennes & Mauritz, LP v. Malibu Textiles, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
access access-requirement copyright-infringement copyright-ownership copyright-registration copyright-validity plausibility-standard pleading-standard striking-similarity |
Whether conclusory statements of 'striking similarity' are sufficient to plead copyright infringement under the 'plausibility' standard |
| 19-298 |
Fernando Juarez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
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criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-without-parole eighth-amendment ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama sentencing-hearing sentencing-law |
Does an automatic life-without-parole sentence for juveniles violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 19-3 |
Ryan Begay v. New Mexico |
New Mexico |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
blockburger-test blockburger-v-united-states constitutional-protection double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment reckless-abuse reckless-child-abuse self-defense |
Whether the 'same elements' test adequately protects against multiple punishments for 'the same offence' |
| 19-306 |
Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. v. Yury Rinsky |
First Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts legal-standards punitive-damages standard-of-proof state-courts state-law state-law-certification subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether federal courts sitting in diversity should exercise their discretion to certify questions to state high courts when a state's courts are silen… |
| 19-318 |
Francis A. Bottini, Jr., et al. v. City of San Diego, California, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
due-process first-english first-english-precedent investment-backed-expectations penn-central penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings single-family-housing takings takings-clause temporary-takings |
Should the investment-backed-expectations test of Penn Central be construed to totally bar recovery whenever the purchaser of a single-family lot is u… |
| 19-324 |
Technology Properties Limited LLC, et al. v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process standing supreme-court-precedent the-patent-act federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law prosecution-history-disclaimer separation-of-powers supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's development and application of the doctrine of 'prosecution history disclaimer' i… |
| 19-346 |
Andrzej Madura, et ux. v. BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
15-usc-1635 due-process foreclosure mortgage-rescission non-purchase-money-mortgage rescission subject-matter-jurisdiction tila-disclosure truth-in-lending-act |
Whether the lender may decline to follow the prescribed procedure under the Truth in Lending Act after receiving notice of rescission |
| 19-381 |
Rainbow Ridge Resort, LLC, et al. v. Branch Banking and Trust Company |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defense civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process examination-limitations first-amendment petition petition-rights pleading standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Is Tennessee Code Annotated Sec. 35-5-118 unconstitutional as applied? |
| 19-393 |
Estelle Stein v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure district-court due-process due-process-clause evidence evidence-submission federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure summary-judgment |
Does a party have a right under the Due Process Clause to file evidence in opposition to a motion for summary judgment? |
| 19-394 |
Sergio Mejia-Duarte v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process extradition-treaty fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fre-403 fre-404(b) hearsay-evidence international-extradition international-law treaty unrelated-murder |
Whether a crucial mandate of the international extradition treaty was violated |
| 19-398 |
LMP Services, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment competition due-process food-truck-regulation fourth-amendment gps-tracking licensure municipal-ordinance privacy-rights restaurants search unreasonable-search |
Whether Chicago's requirement that licensed food trucks install GPS devices that create comprehensive records of their movements in order to protect r… |
| 19-407 |
Alexander Christian Miles v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-the-writ abuse-of-writ aedpa contract-law criminal-charges criminal-procedure plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief |
Whether the abuse of the writ doctrine or the AEDPA precludes a successive petition for post-conviction relief |
| 19-412 |
Peggy A. Cianchette, et al. v. Tucker J. Cianchette, et al. |
Maine |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-review judicial-rules legal-precedent punitive-damages remand-standard stare-decisis tort-law |
Whether the Constitution requires remand when an appellate court overturns its own precedent |
| 19-427 |
Durant Brockett, et al. v. Matthew E. Orso, as Receiver for REX Venture Group, LLC, dba ZeekRewards.com |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absent-defendants adequate-representation circuit-court civil-procedure class-action defendant-class due-process error-correction fifth-amendment hansberry-v-lee |
Is the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment violated by the entry of a final judgment against a class of absent defendants, if the absent defenda… |
| 19-441 |
In Re Dimitri Patterson |
|
Denied |
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28-usc-2254 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-documentation standing state-custody |
Should a Petitioner raising a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 Habeas Corpus remain in State custody without constitutional rights? |
| 19-450 |
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., et al. v. Perrigo Company, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review budinich-v-becton-dickinson compensatory-damages enhanced-damages exceptional-case jury-verdict merits-ruling patent-infringement punitive-enhancement reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing |
Whether the punitive enhancement under 35 U.S.C. § 284 is collateral to, and therefore not a merits ruling necessary for final judgment |
| 19-5010 |
Andrew Nelson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) appellate-review continuance criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-52a federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-error prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing substantial-rights trial-continuance vagueness-doctrine |
Where the district court erroneously premises its denial of a meritorious, unopposed motion for continuance of the trial on a mistaken belief that the… |
| 19-5098 |
Ronald F. White, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-intent criminal-law evidence-requirement firearm-registration mens-rea national-firearms-act staples-v-united-states |
Whether the government must prove that a defendant knew the specific characteristic of a firearm that subjected it to registration under the National … |
| 19-5114 |
Jovanny Rodriguez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi due-process evidence fifth-amendment indictment indictment-variance interstate-commerce jury-finding jury-instructions sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent trial variance |
Petitioner was convicted and sentenced without having an opportunity to establish an alibi due to a variance between the indictment and evidence at tr… |
| 19-5172 |
Jesus Hilario-Bello v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence due-process economic-loss fair-trial hobbs-act intangible-asset judicial-intervention physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is not a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. §924(c) because it can be committed without using physical force, by causing the … |
| 19-5308 |
Oscar Minaya v. United States |
Second Circuit |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c civil-rights conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentence sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness |
| 19-5312 |
Kenneth H. Burke, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms-offense hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review violent-crime |
Whether Mr. Burke's § 924(c) conviction is invalid in light of United States v. Davis |
| 19-5333 |
Charles York Walker, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
GVR |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion case-specific-factors criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 discretion district-court district-court-discretion felon-in-possession grand-jury incorrect-assumptions opioid-crisis plea-agreement plea-bargaining policy-disagreement rehaif-standard rule-11 |
Whether a district court abuses its discretion in rejecting plea agreements based on policy disagreements |
| 19-5343 |
Amoire Dupree v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree incident-to-arrest law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search |
Can the warrantless search of a person be justified as incident to arrest where, at the time of the search, no arrest has been made and none would hav… |
| 19-5392 |
Kurt J. Myrie v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-371 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-retroactivity due-process federal-conspiracy retroactivity violent-crime |
Does the ruling in United States v. Davis apply retroactively to defendants raising motions to vacate their § 924(c) convictions? |
| 19-5405 |
Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights dismissal-order due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review mandamus pro-se-litigation sanctions sovereign-immunity standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims against the United States government and its officials, in violation of the pet… |
| 19-5430 |
Christopher Devon Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-health mental-health-mitigation mitigation wiggins-v-smith |
Whether the Fifth Circuit applied an overly restrictive standard for granting a certificate of appealability (COA) where the district court found that… |
| 19-5436 |
Martin Araiza-Jacobo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-sufficiency standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the standard for assessing the harmlessness of an erroneously submitted deliberate-ignorance instruction turns only on the legal sufficiency o… |
| 19-5665 |
Douglas Harold Doyle v. David Baughman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole retroactivity sentencing standing |
Whether the petitioner's conviction for a misdemeanor violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) should be vacated due to the unconstitutionality of the statute … |
| 19-5707 |
Sidney Jack Narciso v. Sandra V. Narciso |
Alabama |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process indigent-rights judicial-conflict judicial-review legal-services legal-services-act mandamus-petition parental-rights standing |
How the Unified Judicial System including the Judicial Inquiry Commission can deny a citizen any and ALL review, appeal, and Extraordinary Petitions f… |
| 19-5712 |
Ivan Lee Vasquez v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-rights content-based-messaging fair-trial fourteenth-amendment inherently-prejudicial sixth-amendment trial-spectator-conduct |
May trial spectator conduct, in the form of content-based messaging, be 'so inherently prejudicial as to pose an unacceptable threat' to the fair-tria… |
| 19-5713 |
Larael Owens v. Tamesha Saddlers, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-hearing due-process due-process' 'If a judge has a financial interest false-information financial-affidavit financial-interest fraud hearing judicial-bias judicial-ethics' 'Has the petitioner due process r lower-court lower-court' 'If a financial affidavit has false i procedural-due-process procedural-fairness recusal standing substantive-due-process void-judgment |
Is a judgment that was issued from a lower court void if the lower court did not offer a hearing for that matter? |
| 19-5716 |
Karl Heinz Dupuy v. Unknown |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-opinion fair-trial innocence medical-records mental-state post-conviction-discovery self-defense standing |
Whether the life of my pregnant companion & fetus was not being protected from imminent danger from real threat by two young men with burglary tools i… |
| 19-5720 |
Melinda Scott v. Joshua Moon, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
47-usc-230 civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process immunity internet-law invasion-of-privacy legal-standing privacy section-230 standing tort-liability |
Has Plaintiff Scott stated sufficient facts to support an Invasion of Privacy claim against Defendants Moon and Zaiger? |
| 19-5723 |
Melvin Bernard Thompson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
Almendarez-Torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stare-decisis |
Can a Florida Law permit a judicial discretion-upward-departure sentence beyond sentencing-guidelines without violating Sixth-Amendment Fourteenth-Ame… |
| 19-5726 |
Wingrove Robinson v. Raintree Tower Apartments, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process libel standing |
Question not identified |
| 19-5733 |
Latasha Boyd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection freedom-of-expression freedom-of-religion jurisdiction life-liberty-property standing |
What constitutional rights were violated? |
| 19-5734 |
Yolanda M. Williams v. Lisa A. Millard, former Judge, District Court of Texas, Harris County |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process immunity judicial-misconduct standing takings |
Whether the defendant forfeited her immunity: failed to comply with elementary principles of procedural process and rendered an unjust judgment enforc… |
| 19-5735 |
Yolanda M. Williams v. Shawna L. Reagin |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution demand-letter deprivation-claim due-process immunity judgment judgment-enforcement procedural-process sovereign-immunity standing |
Whether the defendant forfeited her immunity: failed to comply with elementary principles of procedural process and rendered an in just judgment enfor… |
| 19-5736 |
Khalida Jalaly Ahadzadah v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech police-conduct police-misconduct standing unlawful-arrest |
Whether the Concord Police Dept. violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by not providing proof of the alleged violations |
| 19-5740 |
Jeffrey L. Miller v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure deprivation-of-rights due-process false-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense wrongful-conviction |
Whether it is permissible to knowingly prosecute innocent non-criminal Americans |
| 19-5745 |
Mary Ryan v. Robert J. Connelly, III, et al. |
Rhode Island |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction parties self-represented-litigant standing |
Whether the Court has jurisdiction to proceed with a case without having the proper parties to a case |
| 19-5752 |
Jimmie Kyle Anderson v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment apprendi-rule cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences eighth-amendment public-safety sentencing sex-offender-law sex-offenders |
Does the public safety interest in incapacitating and deterring certain types of sex offenders with extremely long sentences run afoul of the 8th Amen… |
| 19-5760 |
Aly Toure v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure mental-health standing supreme-court-precedent waiver-of-rights |
Did the appellate division violate clearly established federal supreme court ratified law? |
| 19-5762 |
Stevrick Tavah Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus life-sentence parole sentencing twenty-one |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d… |
| 19-5764 |
Ola D. Dickens v. Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-procedure jurisdiction seventh-amendment standing surveillance |
Whether circuit court made a mistake on order filed 12/04/2017, finding no basis in documents or records filed 11/07/2017, to conclude that any of Pla… |
| 19-5765 |
Barbara E. Brown v. California Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct legal-proceeding recusal redress standing |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred |
| 19-5769 |
Daniel J. Whitt v. Michele Buckner, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification ineffective-assistance-of-counsel line-up-procedure lineup-procedures police-procedure trial-strategy |
Whether the trial attorney's pre-trial failure to secure an expert witness on eyewitness identification, which was the key piece of evidence that ulti… |
| 19-5773 |
John Franklin Kenney v. P. D. Brazelton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-discretion appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasoned-decision statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Whether a federal court can deny a habeas corpus petition without providing a reasoned decision, in violation of the Due Process Clause |
| 19-5775 |
Richard James Soldan v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
anders-brief anders-procedure appellate-counsel appellate-review court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process first-tier-review indigent-defendant michigan-court-of-appeals michigan-procedure plea-bargaining right-to-counsel |
Whether the trial court may refuse to appoint substitute appellate counsel to an indigent defendant convicted on his plea who seeks access to first-ti… |
| 19-5776 |
Benjamin R. Schwarz v. Erwin Meinberg, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit assets bivens-claim civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-inmate financial-disclosure free-speech in-forma-pauperis liabilities prison-conditions standing takings ziglar-precedent |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims for lack of standing |
| 19-5779 |
Eduardo Rodriguez-Lopez v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy right-to-defense sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard |
Whether the State may rely on a plea colloquy to adequately resolve a claim that counsel failed to advise the defendant of a particular defense, consi… |
| 19-5786 |
Joshua George Nowland v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction barker-v-wingo civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction prejudice pretrial-detention speedy-trial |
Is oppressive pretrial incarceration still an important aspect of the Barker balancing test? |
| 19-5787 |
Jorge Antonio Millan-Rodriguez v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 19-5792 |
Randall Turner v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
IFP |
bias-adjudicator capital-adversary-procedures conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations structural-defect term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 |
Whether the appellate court appeal process was fundamentally unfair and a denial of due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-5797 |
Richard Joseph Martin v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
association civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-association free-expression free-speech standing |
Whether the First Amendment's free speech, free expression, and free association rights were violated when the petitioners were denied the opportunity… |
| 19-5799 |
Jesse Lee Coddington v. John Davids, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-rule due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance privileges-and-immunities privileges-or-immunities procedural-default state-courts |
Can Michigan's Court Rule 6.508 (BD) (2) be used to procedurally default a Petitioner's claims from federal habeas adjudication? |
| 19-5800 |
Darren Denson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment was violated when the petitioner was denied access to legal materials and s… |
| 19-5803 |
Robert H. Johnson v. Drew Stanley, Superintendent, Warren Correctional Institution |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the 'effective compromise' doctrine |
| 19-5809 |
Lloyde Dubry v. Kansas |
Kansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-history descamps-v-united-states discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment state-v-wetrich |
Whether the petitioner was denied his remedy by due course of law due to disparate conclusions by Kansas courts on the retroactive application of Stat… |
| 19-5815 |
Antonio Demetrius Parker v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-imprisonment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement |
Did the Supreme court of Virginia err when it determined that the circuit court didn't have the jurisdiction to give the petitioner the relief sought … |
| 19-5821 |
Robert Earl Robinson v. Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state failed to disclose exculpatory evidence prior to trial |
| 19-5823 |
Jason Alston v. Arianna W. Eastman |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process eleventh-circuit in-forma-pauperis interested-parties judicial-discretion legal-procedure motion-for-leave recusal standing |
Whether United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit abuse its discretion in denying petitioner Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauper… |
| 19-5824 |
William Alan Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief habeas-relief-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err in its denial of a certificate of appealability to review the U.S. District Court's denial of … |
| 19-5826 |
Jerry Perez, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings |
Whether the 5 Great Lobsters of Spect on é a flab ed, (flee OitteS- ad Ggee table a og | tp iotees daw , a het si ance Ge She Syihan - wating Cnn YS c… |
| 19-5827 |
James Michael Peluso v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-proceedings constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claim procedural-bar right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing |
Whether a Prisoner in Texas has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a Claim of ineffectiv… |
| 19-5828 |
Dennis Andrew Ball v. City of Marion, Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 19-5830 |
William H. Danielson v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct regulatory-authority standing waiver-of-appeal |
Should judicial misconduct survive a waiver of appeal and guilty plea? |
| 19-5832 |
Daniel G. Durain v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law criminal-procedure due-process endangered-species-act environmental-regulation evidence federal-agency-discretion habitat-conservation judicial-interpretation jury-instructions mens-rea premeditation reasonable-doubt |
Can motive be used to establish premeditation? |
| 19-5834 |
Thomas David McWaters v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review standing |
Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel in his Arizona post-conviction proceedings, which prevented him from timely presenti… |
| 19-5836 |
Dennis Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error plea-bargaining prejudice reasonable-performance reasonable-probability sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-strategy |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to properly investigate a… |
| 19-5841 |
Shahram Shakouri v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause masterpiece-cakeshop religious-discrimination religious-hostility religious-neutrality scriptural-interpretation thirteenth-amendment |
Whether district court's lack of religious neutrality violated Petitioner's right to the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment or Free Exercise Cla… |
| 19-5846 |
Joshua Eric Townley v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-principles criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion new-trial sua-sponte supremacy-clause trial-court trial-procedure |
whether a trial judge violates the Supremacy and Double Jeopardy Clauses of the United States Constitution |
| 19-5851 |
Felix O. Brown Jr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
2254-habeas cause-and-prejudice cause-prejudice constitutional-claim federal-court federal-procedure federal-procedure-rule habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-petition procedural-default |
Is there a federal procedural rule that permits a court to refuse to acknowledge and determine a presentation of cause & prejudice in a habeas petitio… |
| 19-5855 |
Flenoid Greer v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-suppression government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct public-officials standing state-officials |
Whether Michigan public officials failed to perform their duties and deprived petitioner of due process of law? |
| 19-5858 |
Lamarr T. Crittenden v. Keith Butts, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application sexual-violent-predator sexually-violent-predator |
Did the Seventh Circuit fail to address an ex post facto violation and failure to issue a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 19-5859 |
Edward Wesby v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment miller-standard miller-v-alabama parole parole-eligibility |
Whether Florida's current parole system provides a meaningful opportunity for release to juvenile offenders sentenced to life imprisonment with eligib… |
| 19-5868 |
William Charles Burgess v. Chuck Bowers, Jr., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-finding district-court-findings expectation-of-privacy legal-precedent precedent prior-decisions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court improperly reversed the District Court's finding that Petitioner had an expectation of privacy in and around his busin… |
| 19-5882 |
Rome Richard Chacon v. Nevada |
Nevada |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states |
Whether the federal constitution requires a state court to retroactively apply a narrowing interpretation of a substantive criminal statute |
| 19-5900 |
David Earl Ison v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-v-alabama civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment plea-bargaining self-incrimination sentencing |
Whether the introduction of a defendant's involuntary plea or statements in violation of the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination is… |
| 19-5904 |
Travis Dennis v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether Mr. Dennis' conviction was obtained with insufficient evidence |
| 19-5910 |
Benjamin Carpenter v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights complicity constitutional-issue criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process error-analysis indictment jury-instructions standing supreme-court-review unchorged-crime |
Whether a theory of criminal liability based on complicity in an uncharged crime is constitutional |
| 19-5920 |
Michael Don Pogue v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated where trial counsel failed to investigate and present exculpatory ev… |
| 19-5930 |
Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurists-of-reason legal-standard standing |
Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that… |
| 19-5933 |
Julian Alejandro Mendez v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-amendments criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trier-of-fact |
Whether the California death penalty scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by permitting the trier of fact to impose a sentence o… |
| 19-5954 |
Ricardo Irive v. Jo Gentry, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-negligence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sixth-amendment |
Does it constitute ineffective assistance of counsel to allow a plea agreement the defendant wished to take lapse due to mistake or negligence? |
| 19-5966 |
Delbert Heard v. Andrew Tilden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process electronic-evidence medical-care medical-malpractice medical-negligence negligence ostrich-defense prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity surgical-delay |
Whether prison doctor can evade culpability for 8th Amendment violation for delay of prisoner's hernia surgery |
| 19-5986 |
Brian Whitaker v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment aedpa aedpa-standard arbitrary-governmental-action constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection postconviction-relief procedural-bar |
Do the guarantees of equal protection and due process of law extend to individuals seeking postconviction relief? |
| 19-5992 |
Demond Chatman v. Douglas Demoura |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability competency competency-to-stand-trial due-process first-circuit first-circuit-court-of-appeals genuine-issue right-to-trial standing |
Did the First Circuit Court of Appeals err in refusing to grant certificate of appealability where, contrary to their stated denial, petitioner presen… |
| 19-5993 |
Mabon Demetric James v. Marcus Pollard, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence robbery standing takings |
Was Mabon James convicted of the robbery of Marta Parfeta in violation of his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights despite constitutionally insuffi… |
| 19-6029 |
Frank Jeffs v. Michael Overmyer, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus jurisdiction premeditated-murder prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-order |
Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was required to vacate and set aside the judgment and discharge the prisoner when the Commonwealth refused to f… |
| 19-6031 |
In Re Keith E. Doyle |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-intent due-process habeas-corpus judicial-recusal montana-constitution preliminary-hearing recusal stare-decisis state-constitution unlawful-conviction |
Whether the Montana Supreme Court violated the petitioner's due process rights by denying the right to habeas corpus to challenge an unlawful convicti… |
| 19-6041 |
Ronald Thompson, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings |
Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has erred in its decision to conflict with its previous rulings and precedent decisions |
| 19-6048 |
Franklin Pillier v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights due-process government-intrusion motion-to-withdraw-plea plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal probation probation-condition probation-conditions strict-scrutiny withdrawal-of-plea |
whether-defendant's-constitutional-rights-violated-by-repeated-guilty-plea-questioning |
| 19-6049 |
Lawrence T. Tyler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-consequences coram-nobis criminal-sentencing deportation fact-finding fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fact-finding jury-trial loss-amount reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure sixth-amendment |
Whether a Certificate-Of-Appealability should be granted |
| 19-6050 |
Jose Vizcarrondo-Casanova v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)(3)(a) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent plain-error puerto-rico-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether murder under Puerto Rico law categorical approach fails to qualify as a 'crime of violence' under remaining force clause of 924(C)(3)(A), unde… |
| 19-6053 |
Diosme Fernandez Hano v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-rulings indictment judicial-precedent jury-instructions statute-of-limitations united-states-code witness-testimony |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that the indictment was returned within the limitation period under 18 U.S.C. § 3297 |
| 19-6057 |
Shane Austin Peters v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights costs court-access due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-status juvenile-justice legal-proceeding parole poverty poverty-affidavit redress security sentencing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the imposition of life sentences on juvenile offenders convicted … |
| 19-6059 |
Serrah Arnold, aka Kristen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard supervised-release vagueness |
Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit her at any time at home or elsewhere is unreasonabl… |
| 19-6060 |
Vincent Scott Mathews v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment gps-monitoring parole parole-conditions reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Does U.S. v. Knights and Griffin v. Wisconsin still precedent to be relied on? |
| 19-6065 |
Emilio Fusco v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct article-iii article-three constitutional-rights due-process judicial-power sentencing standing |
Whether petitioner raised substantial showing of denial of constitutional right on the issue of whether acquitted conduct sentencing undermines due pr… |
| 19-6067 |
Francisco Suarez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict codefendant-comparison criminal-procedure-error eighth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict legal-standard public-safety sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-darden united-states-v-smith |
Whether the circuit and district court committed constitutional procedural error by failing to weigh the mandated public safety concern, violating the… |
| 19-6071 |
Demetrius Desean Morgan v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association impartial-jury ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence physical-characteristics reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment surveillance-video video-surveillance |
Was the evidence of Petitioner's identity as the shooter sufficient to sustain the first-degree murder conviction? |
| 19-6079 |
Guillermo Vega-Botello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-procedure limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 19-6081 |
Robert Wayne Gillman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-proceedings due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance initial-review standing statute-of-limitations |
Does a prisoner have a right to effective counsel in initial-review collateral proceedings? |
| 19-6082 |
Chase Matheny v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty liberty-interest overbreadth overbroad probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard 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… |
| 19-6084 |
Jair Mendoza Montoya v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court constitutional-power criminal-jurisdiction criminal-jurisdiction-territorial-principle-extrat district-court drug-enforcement extraterritorial-effect international-waters maritime-jurisdiction nicaragua-international-waters statutory-interpretation territorial-principle |
Was the criminal jurisdiction of the United States based upon territorial principle, and unlawfully conferred to the U.S.A. by implication given to ex… |
| 19-6088 |
Julian Madero-Diaz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship citizenship-classification citizenship-laws constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry immigration morales-santana morales-santana-precedent severability standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant … |
| 19-6137 |
William Trampas Widmyer v. David Ballard, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights police-interview right-to-counsel self-incrimination |
Were the Petitioner's Constitutional Amendment Rights violated when Petitioner's Police interview was used in trial although Petitioner requested Coun… |
| 19-6152 |
Marian Papacsi Owens v. Sue Mickens, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mental-illness right-to-counsel right-to-testify trial-counsel trial-judge trial-procedure |
Whether the trial court's refusal to allow the defendant to testify by narrative violated her right to effective assistance of counsel |
| 19-6154 |
Joanthony Deaundre Johnson v. Missouri |
Missouri |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone criminal-procedure digital-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure self-incrimination warrant-particularity |
Whether a warrant authorizing the search of a cell phone and describing the things to be seized as 'all data/software' pertaining to the crimes is off… |
| 19-6170 |
Lyndal D. Ritterbush v. Larry Benzon |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings |
Do the Sime Uloe the Ex Most facw Cisse AC Mabroodint, PETRUMels Ofer HAE) Dole? |
| 19-6173 |
In Re Karl David Kretser, Jr. |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-commitment competent-tribunal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-incompetence mental-illness tanner-v-united-states trial-judge wernicke-korsakoff-syndrome |
Can a conviction stand when the trial judge was civilly committed and later determined to be suffering from Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome? |
| 19-6247 |
In Re Donald Lee McDonald |
|
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-sexual-assault due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act habitual-criminal-statute pro-se sentencing seventh-circuit vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether Petitioner is being held unlawfully in state custody in violation of the Constitution |
| 19M60 |
Edna Mary Larson v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, dba Champion Mortgage Company of Texas, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M61 |
Tamra L. Lamprell v. Rex E. Stuckey |
New Mexico |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M62 |
Dorothy M. May v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
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