Conference: 2019-11-22

140 cases — 0 granted, 140 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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18-1374 Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights controlling-law due-process erickson-v-pardus federal-courts federal-question interlocutory-appeal pleading-standard pleading-standards statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the Third Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law and different from other circuits by implementing a heightened pleading standard?
18-1407 Anita M. Barrow v. B. Grant Willis, et al. First Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights civil-rights-act congressional-intent constitutional-violation discrimination due-process equitable-tolling fair-housing-act federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant Should the First Circuit Court have applied the doctrine of equitable tolling regarding Appellant's tardy brief and heard the merits of the case with …
18-1427 Marie Laventure, et al. v. United Nations, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) civil-procedure common-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure immunity jurisdiction legislative-enactment liability tort tort-action tort-claims un-general-assembly un-immunity un-liability un-secretary-general Whether the term 'liability' can be used in an unenforceable, non-obligatory context
18-1444 Wilson J. Soto Nieves, et al. v. Department of the Family of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. Puerto Rico Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment administrative-action administrative-process commonwealth-of-puerto-rico constitutional-rights due-process liberty-interest public-information puerto-rico-law state-courts Whether the courts of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico can obviate the mandate of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibiting a state to de…
18-1451 National Review, Inc. v. Michael E. Mann District of Columbia Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) defamation first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern opinion-speech provably-false provably-false-factual-connotation public-concern public-policy-debate scientific-controversy scientific-misconduct subjective-opinion Whether a statement contains a 'provably false' factual connotation is a question of law for the court, not a question of fact for the jury
18-1473 Zelma Rivas v. New York State Lottery Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion civil-rights continuing-violation discrimination due-process eeoc-charge employment-discrimination harassment hostile-work-environment prima-facie-case racial-discrimination retaliation statute-of-limitations Title-VII Continuing violation exception to Title VII limitation period
18-1477 Competitive Enterprise Institute, et al. v. Michael E. Mann District of Columbia Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) constitutional-law defamation first-amendment free-speech opinion provably-false public-concern public-figure question-of-law-or-fact subjective-commentary Whether the First Amendment permits defamation liability for subjective commentary on true facts concerning a matter of public concern
18-1499 Umesh Kaushal v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea immigration-consequences jury-trial plea-bargaining reasonable-probability resident-alien sixth-amendment When a resident alien pleads guilty to a crime while ignorant of the immigration consequences, then demands a trial before sentencing, does his demand…
18-1592 Allstate Insurance Company v. Daniel Rivera, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure defamation fair-credit-reporting-act fcra federal-jurisdiction standing state-law-claims supplemental-jurisdiction trial-court-discretion Whether a federal court may exercise supplemental jurisdiction over state-law claims when it determines after trial that a plaintiff lacks standing to…
18-6852 Arnold Bennett Caldwell v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (7)IFP 34-usc-20913 administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-law constitutional-nondelegation criminal-law due-process nondelegation-doctrine notification-act separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act's delegation to the Attorney General in 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) violates the constitutional no…
18-8191 Marianne E. Burke, Mother of Abigail E. Caudle, Deceased v. Raven Electric, Inc., et al. Alaska Denied Relisted (3)IFP death-in-the-workplace death-in-workplace employee-death employer-liability gross-negligence justice-for-victims legal-remedy workers-compensation workplace-safety Should America's Workers' Compensation laws continue to allow all employers 'no liability' in all accidents and all injuries including death?
18-8930 Amy Rebecca Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-1295 28-usc-1338 attorney-misconduct conflicts-of-law constitutional-access federal-circuit patent-appeal-jurisdiction patent-appeals patent-conflicts-of-interest patent-damages patent-infringement patent-jurisdiction patent-statutes pro-se-litigation Whether the Second Circuit was void of jurisdiction to adjudicate the instant appeal and improperly defied US patent statutes and Federal Circuit law
18-9009 Mirella Landi Adelman v. Lawrence Root, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-planning false-information guardianship legal-document mental-capacity personal-estate petition probate standing Whether the request or petition for guardianship for the person and estate of Daniel Lindsey Adelman was submitted under false information and should …
18-9115 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Pazuniak Law Office, LLC, et al. Delaware Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process medical-accommodation property-rights standing takings Question not identified
18-9138 Taquan Rahshe Gullett-El v. Timothy J. Corrigan, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese…
18-9346 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP bias civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction patent patent-prosecution procedural-fairness Whether preclusive effect should not be given to agency/court determination where a financially conflicted agency/court lacked jurisdiction to adjudic…
18-9355 Sheila Robinson v. Rental Maintenance, Inc. Maryland Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections
18-9369 Wade Travis Webb v. County of Pima, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process government-accountability grand-jury grand-jury-system legal-accountability prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the grand jury system is inherently flawed by allowing the government to damage citizens without consequences for constitutional violations
18-9383 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection erroneous-decisions first-amendment judicial-misconduct patent-law patent-rights Whether the lower court vacating hearings and arbitrarily ordering Petitioner to amend her complaint and the Judge acting as attorney to Defendants or…
18-9386 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights contract contract-law due-process judicial-bias judicial-inquiry patent-grant patent-rights standing unbiased-judge Whether the lower courts denying a citizen due process — a Hearing and an unbiased Judge, voids their Orders and no preclusive effect attaches
18-9480 Gregory Stanley Roberts v. Inservco Insurance Services Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP act-534 administrative-determination administrative-law agency-determination benefits-denial disability-benefits due-process employment-law injury-claim light-duty workers-compensation workplace-injury youth-development-center Whether the Insurance Service's denial of Act 534 benefits and light duty work for the petitioner's second injury was proper under the relevant worker…
18-9517 Kenneth R. Isom v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Relisted (7)IFP adversarial-history bias coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-procedure Whether Pope and Isom's significant adversarial history created an unconstitutional risk of bias under the due process clause when Pope later sat as t…
18-9660 William T. Windsor v. Delaware Delaware Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence newly-discovered-evidence standing Did The DeLaroate Stnle Courts, Violate Windsor's Sthandjdth amendments and Duc Proaess Rughts, When *t Red to Consider newly ds dovered evidence onda…
18-9669 Floyd M. Chodosh, et al. v. Palm Beach Park Association California Denied Relisted (2)IFP adr-employment appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal standing Whether the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Div. 3 justices should have recused themselves from the appeal of a judgment against the peti…
18-9679 Gary Raymond Harvey, et ux. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP in conflict with Chevron and Section 6325(f)(2) administrative-law administrative-procedure chevron-deference irs-fiduciary-duty irs-lien lien-validity limitation-period statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tax-debt tax-lien-reinstatement-validity tax-procedure Whether the courts' below, in conflict with this Court's ruling in Chevron, erroneously held the lien valid even though when it was erroneously releas…
18-9710 Lee Turner, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis discrimination due-process equal-protection johnson-v-california jury-selection prima-facie-case prima-facie-discrimination prosecutorial-strikes racial-bias racial-discrimination standard-of-proof Whether mere statistics are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination
18-9761 John Givens v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-liability cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process felony-murder irrebuttable-presumption mental-state proximate-cause third-party-liability Whether Illinois' proximate cause theory of liability for felony murder violates the Due Process Clauses and the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause
18-9762 Kwame A. Insaidoo v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-666 5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-benefit jury-determination jury-trial second-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI, when it held that the government need not prove to a jury the…
18-9793 Timothy Dale Gould v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c categorical-approach criminal-law divisibility statutory-interpretation violent-crime Is 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) divisible for purposes of categorical analysis?
19-122 David Thompson, et al. v. Heather Hebdon, Executive Director of the Alaska Public Offices Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) campaign-finance contribution-limits electoral-law first-amendment ninth-circuit procedural-history randall-v-sorrell regulatory-background standing supreme-court-precedent Whether Alaska's $500 individual-to-candidate and individual-to-group contribution limits violate the First Amendment
19-132 Lawrence I. Fejokwu v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-delegation civil-rights due-process regulatory-enforcement regulatory-investigation self-regulatory-organization strict-liability willfulness Willfulness & Good-faith
19-133 Vidya Sagar v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure age-discrimination employment-discrimination federal-employment-law harassment mixed-case mixed-case-complaint probationary retaliation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-retaliation whistleblowing wrongful-termination Whether the Petitioner can be terminated by committing acts of perjury?
19-151 United States v. Dominic Ladale Walton Fifth Circuit GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition criminal-law criminal-statute due-process dwelling-offense intent-to-commit-crime statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states unlawful-entry Whether a state offense that criminalizes continued unpermitted presence in a dwelling following the formation of intent to commit a crime qualifies a…
19-153 Yasmeen Daniel, Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Zina Daniel Haughton v. Armslist, LLC, et al. Wisconsin Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 47-usc-230 circuit-split civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-regulation section-230 state-civil-liability third-party-content tort-liability website-liability website-owners Does the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. §230's prohibition on treating providers of interactive computer services as publishers or speakers of …
19-169 Jane Doe v. Iowa Iowa Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) court-fees criminal-record due-process equal-protection expungement indigent-rights poverty Whether Iowa violates the Equal Protection Clause by denying expungement to people who have not been convicted of any offense, solely because they are…
19-172 Edina Harsay v. University of Kansas Kansas Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) academic-deference academic-freedom civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review Whether a rule-like application of federal case law that accords a nearly-insurmountable level of deference to academic administrators in breach-of-co…
19-225 United States, ex rel. Stephanie Strubbe, et al. v. Crawford County Memorial Hospital, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) billing civil-procedure false-claims-act medicare medicare-billing motion-to-dismiss pleading protected-activity qui-tam whistleblower Must these employees, Relators in a suit brought under the False Claims Act, have seen and therefore pled the exact content of billings sent to Medica…
19-227 Adnan Syed v. Maryland Maryland Denied Amici (3) constitutional-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-disbelief jury-evaluation prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review state-case-presentation state-prosecution strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a court evaluating prejudice under Strickland v. Washington must take the State's case as it was presented to the jury or may hypothesize that…
19-228 United States, ex rel. Michael Ray Perry v. Hooker Creek Asphalt & Paving, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure false-claims-act insider-knowledge particularity-pleading personal-knowledge pleading-requirements qui-tam rule-9(b) rule-9b Whether a relator in a qui tam action under the False Claims Act must be an insider with personal knowledge of the contractor's claim submissions to m…
19-234 Libertarian National Committee, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia Denied Amici (3) campaign-finance content-based-restrictions deceased-donor federal-election-commission first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech political-contributions political-parties testamentary-bequest testamentary-bequests Whether limiting the size of a deceased donor's uncoordinated testamentary bequest to a political party violates the party's First Amendment right to …
19-241 UMB Bank, N.A., et al. v. Landmark Towers Association, Inc. Colorado Denied ad-valorem-property-tax ad-valorem-tax ad-valorem-taxes due-process infrastructure-taxing-district local-government municipal-bonds myles-salt property-tax public-finance special-benefit takings Should the Court remove the cloud over local governments and the national public finance industry by overruling or clarifying Myles Salt to confirm th…
19-26 Darlene Collins, et al. v. Charles W. Daniels, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bail-reform constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment judicial-immunity legislative-immunity new-mexico-constitution sovereign-immunity Was the application of legislative immunity to actions of the New Mexico Courts to legislate policy outside of the authorities granted to them by the …
19-278 Pfizer Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, et al. California Denied Amici (1) bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law forfeiture jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a defendant's efforts to establish federal subject matter jurisdiction can result in forfeiture of an otherwise fully preserved challenge to p…
19-31 Carol M. Kam v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) associate-judge dallas-county judicial-authority judicial-misconduct probate-court probate-court-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-jurisdiction state-law void-judgment void-rulings Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two void 'proposed' State Court rulings produced by a former Associate Judge, employed solely by Dallas Coun…
19-345 Dorian Johnson v. City of Ferguson, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment move-on-order police-encounter public-space reasonable-person-standard seizure totality-of-circumstances use-of-force Whether a person can be 'seized' when he is not confined to a particular space
19-367 Shambria Necole Smith v. Kansa Technology, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit Denied appeal district-court district-court-procedure due-process due-process,jury-tampering,jury-taint,trial-procee evidence-admissibility jury-taint jury-tampering trial-proceedings workers-compensation Whether the District Court violated the Due Process Clause by disallowing the interview of the jurors
19-377 Kraig Rudinger Kast v. Erickson Productions, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied capacity-to-be-sued civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process erisa frcp-17(b) inter-vivos-trust jurisdiction probate probate-law standing tenth-amendment Whether the district and appellate courts have jurisdiction over a person if the person lacks capacity to be sued under FRCP 17(b)
19-382 John Teets v. Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company Tenth Circuit Denied civil-rights disgorgement due-process erisa fiduciary-duty harris-trust party-in-interest plan-assets tenth-circuit May an ERISA plan participant or beneficiary seek disgorgement of unreasonable profits derived from a plan contract from a nonfiduciary party in inter…
19-388 Mimi Korman v. Julio Iglesias Eleventh Circuit Denied where a district court dismisses the action on th civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment intent judicial-estoppel pleading-stage pleadings property-rights standing takings Is a civil plaintiff deprived of property without due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment where a district court dismisses the action on …
19-405 Nicholas Schiano, dba HotWireMedia.com, et al. v. Matt Friedman, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-law defamation due-process eleventh-circuit federal-law first-amendment free-speech legal-defense motives substantial-truth Whether substantial truth is a complete defense to defamation under the First Amendment, regardless of the motives of the speaker?
19-413 Robert W. Mauthe, M.D., P.C. v. Optum, Inc., et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived advertisement circuit-split commercial-communication commercial-fax fax-advertisement fcc-interpretation legislative-history statutory-interpretation tcpa telecommunications-law telephone-consumer-protection-act-tcpa Did the Third Circuit err by holding that a commercial fax cannot be an 'advertisement' as defined by the TCPA unless it promotes a direct sale of the…
19-415 Oscar Ernesto Melendez v. Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 8-usc-1255 adjustment-of-status circuit-court-split circuit-split immigration-law lawful-admission national-importance statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status Whether Temporary Protected Status constitutes an admission for purposes of adjustment of status under 8 U.S.C. § 1255(a)
19-418 Benoit Brookens v. Patrick Pizzella, Acting Secretary of Labor District of Columbia Denied Response Waived appeal civil-rights district-court due-process federal-circuit jurisdiction merit-systems-protection-board mixed-appeal non-discrimination Whether the Federal Circuit has jurisdiction over non-discrimination issues in a mixed appeal filed within 60 days of the decision by the Merit System…
19-420 Alfred Risien Hamman v. University of Central Florida Board of Trustees Florida Denied Response Waived carey-v-piphus civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-guarantees dual-enrollment due-process educational-rights extraordinary-cause extraordinary-process institutional-responsibility procedural-compliance procedural-due-process standing substantive-due-process whistleblower whistleblower-protection May we be denied procedural due process, including extraordinary process, guaranteed through the Constitution?
19-445 Neology, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process federal-circuit filing-date notice patent patent-claim patent-validity procedural-due-process validity written-description Whether a patent can be invalidated without notifying the patent owner about the specific invalidity challenge and giving the patent owner an opportun…
19-461 Eleazar Corral Valenzuela v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-denaturalization civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-issues denaturalization discovery due-process equal-protection laches-doctrine procedural-due-process rule-12c standing summary-judgment Whether the equitable doctrine of laches applies in civil denaturalization proceedings?
19-472 City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Charles Hunt, et al. Ohio Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion bifurcation civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-procedure-bifurcation discretion emergency-vehicle-immunity expert-witness-testimony juror-misconduct manifest-weight-of-evidence motion motion-to-bifurcate trial trial-court-discretion trial-procedure Whether the Trial Court abused its discretion when it denied Petitioners' Motion to Bifurcate the trial
19-5033 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP antitrust antitrust-violation bias civil-procedure-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel constitutional-challenge corporate-infringement due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge patent patent-rights rico standing Whether due process requires jurisdiction must be proven when challenged, when none existed to begin with
19-5065 Chester Ray Crank v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alibi-defense confrontation confrontation-clause conviction criminal-procedure due-process illegal-recordings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence intoxication police-misconduct prejudicial-evidence Is a petitioner provided due process of law when he is convicted on evidence insufficient to sustain a conviction when said evidence was wholly based …
19-513 Aivaras Mardosas v. Florida Florida Denied Response Waived bare-bones-affidavit collective-knowledge-doctrine fellow-officer-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant suppression-of-evidence Whether the 'fellow officer rule' can justify a search warrant with flawed probable cause
19-5151 Jeffrey T. Maehr v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 16th-amendment due-process findings-of-fact grand-jury-access income-definition irs-actions standing standing-precedent stare-decisis tax-assessment tax-assessments tax-levies Can the IRS/United States government Respondent and lower courts consistently call U.S. Supreme Court standing case precedent (stare decisis) on the d…
19-5173 Johnny Kirkland v. Huntington Ingalls, Incorporated Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights digital-privacy due-process electronic-device fourth-amendment patent probable-cause standing takings unreasonable-search warrantless-search Whether Hunks nian 'EM As Kncocpyehion Was Ned h\\igence Under Nesse\\ Quoner +
19-5252 Jonathan Thomas Wright v. West Virginia West Virginia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arraignment criminal-complaint de-novo-appeal essential-elements hearsay-doctrine oath personal-knowledge physical-evidence police-officer Whether it is a violation of the Hearsay Doctrine for one police officer coming on duty who has no personal knowledge of the events which occurred to …
19-5262 Eulos Ceasar Knight v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error criminal-record due-process guidelines johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker welch-v-united-states Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in requiring more than evidence that the sentence 'might have been different' to establish a due process violation und…
19-5269 Reginald Christopher Gilbert v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction objection reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente…
19-5274 Anthony James Hill v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-relief constitutional-error criminal-record due-process misinformation ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth…
19-528 John Wayne Scantlebury, et al. v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii collateral-attack criminal-procedure cross-border-tort due-process federal-officer-liability final-judgment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction Whether criminal appeals from dismissals without prejudice are 'final' under 28 U.S.C. §1291
19-5334 Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence eyewitness-identification jury-instruction jury-instructions reliability-factors standing trial-error trial-procedure witness-identification Whether a district court commits error in a federal criminal case by failing to provide a specific eyewitness identification instruction
19-5351 Johnny Lee Johnson v. William Sperfslage Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error-review shackling sixth-amendment Whether the due process provisions of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require a plain error review when a defendant is shackled in view of a jury or if…
19-5429 Cantrell Lamont Burwell v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-procedure clear-error consent-search consent-to-search de-novo de-novo-review eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment standard-of-review totality-of-circumstances Whether an appellate court should review de novo or for clear error a district court's finding that a defendant did not voluntarily consent to a searc…
19-5437 Ekaterini Alexopoulos v. Steven Goldsmith, P.A., et al. Florida Denied IFP district-court-error duty-to-control duty-to-control-third-person ethics-violation expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence legal-malpractice rule-702 special-relation standard-of-care Whether the District Court erred in disallowing plaintiff's expert witness testimony regarding ethics violations and its irrelevance to this case whic…
19-5445 Ronald Lewis Coleman, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,curtilage,gps- gps-tracking police-intrusion private-property search-and-seizure Whether unauthorized police intrusion into a private condominium enclave to install a GPS tracking device on a vehicle constitutes a Fourth Amendment …
19-5562 Sekou Kouyate v. United States Customs and Border Protection Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court denied his claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and due proce…
19-5645 Thomas Potts v. California California Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions possession-of-stolen-property reasonable-doubt robbery robbery-murder theft Where a criminal defendant is charged with robbery (and thus death-eligible robbery-murder) and the jury must decide whether the prosecution proved ro…
19-5659 Anthony L. Viola v. Bradley Tate, Warden Third Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence circuit-split double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct simultaneous-prosecution Whether the government can use a joint task force and the same prosecution team to prosecute a citizen in state and federal court at the same time
19-5678 John T. Beyers v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-privacy due-process eighth-circuit-review habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-review sentencing-procedure standing supervised-release Whether the 28 USC § 2253 process unconstitutionally dilutes the writ of habeas corpus by removing even the modest review available under common law
19-5699 Robert Gray v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no …
19-5988 Tyrone Chalmers v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability iq-score moore-v-texas procedural-vehicle roper-v-simmons Whether a state can thwart the constitutional prohibition against executing intellectually disabled offenders by failing to provide a procedural vehic…
19-5999 Natasha Delima v. YouTube, Inc., et al. First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust censorship civil-procedure civil-rights digital-property due-process first-amendment platform-censorship retaliation standing virtual-property website-regulation Why did the judge issue a 'Motion for Leave' on all of the Petitioners pleadings? Why did the judge not issue a default ruling for the Respondents tha…
19-6002 Nicole Rena McCrea v. Mark S. Devan, et al. Maryland Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-conflict legal-sufficiency maryland-law maryland-rule standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Is the Maryland Court of Special Appeals' March 13, 2019 unpublished Opinion and Memorandum affirming the judgment of the Circuit Court of Charles Cou…
19-6012 Kevin Carroll Anderson v. Arthur B. Greene, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-procedure-standards equitable-tolling judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-litigant second-circuit statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supervisory-power Were the Second Circuit's decisions, approving the District Court's application of the summary judgment standard to all of the pro se and uneducated P…
19-6016 Devon Chance v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3) 18-usc-924c3 abrogation appellate-review case-law-abrogation circuit-court-decision criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ovalles-v-united-states section-2255-motion statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review united-states-v-davis Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision denying petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion should be vacated due to reliance on an abrogated opinion
19-6022 Angel Rodriguez v. Laura Heit, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-justice administrative-remedies civil-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation legal-remedy medical-privacy retaliation state-court statutory-construction Whether Petitioner's 14th Amendment Rights were violated by denying him the opportunity to work in food service
19-6023 Jeffrey Guy Ringle v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process false-testimony giglio-standard giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miranda-rights prejudice withholding-evidence Did the majority below err in applying this court's decision in Giglio v. United States to hold that Petitioner could not show prejudice, solely becau…
19-6024 Kenneth Allen Rogers v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-relationship civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fiduciary-duty legal-representation pre-trial-motion property-rights retainer-fee sixth-amendment Whether the State of California's denial of legal representation at a pre-trial motion deprived the petitioner of a fundamental right
19-6033 Christopher Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit GVR IFP claim-preservation claim-preservation-yee-v-city-of-escondido crime-of-violence federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-32 federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure moncrieffe-v-holder ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines yee-v-city-of-escondido Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously find Johnson forfeited his sentencing claim, disregarding this Court's claim preservation holding i…
19-6043 Larry Craig Cash v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process effective-assistance fourteenth-amendment jury-selection murder-trial racial-discrimination standing state-action trial-duty Whether the rights of a defendant under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment were properly utilized by the State of Georgia
19-6044 Janice Stevenson v. TND Homes I LLC Massachusetts Denied IFP anti-peonage anti-peonage-act civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process housing jurisdiction low-income-housing privileges-and-immunities statutory-interpretation summary-process supremacy-clause thirteenth-amendment Does Massachusetts General Law (MGL) c 239 Summary Process for Possession of Land subrogate IRC § 26 U.S. Code §42(h)(6)(B)(vi) (IRC §42) restriction …
19-6046 Steven Gary Sanders v. William Beck, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-seizure Issues being raised
19-6047 Happy Stompingbear v. Sergeant Brown, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-access legal-remedy legal-work petition-review standing takings Was the taking of my legal work a violation of my access to the Courts?
19-6061 Phillip Jones v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-investigation sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether trial counsel is ineffective in a capital case when counsel conducts their mitigation investigation after the trial begins, does not allow the…
19-6068 Michael S. Sites v. West Virginia West Virginia Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure critical-proceedings due-process harmless-error jury-deliberations right-to-be-present Did the West Virginia Supreme Court violate the Petitioner's Constitutional Rights to be Present at ALL Critical proceedings, including the answering …
19-6069 Kevin Dewitt Skaggs v. Ron Baker, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sixth-amendment cumulative-analysis evidence expert-consultation expert-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overwhelming-evidence pre-trial-investigation sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-strategy Whether defense counsel performs unreasonably under the Sixth Amendment
19-6070 Malcom McClenon v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appeals appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review sufficiency-of-evidence Is Recier DUE. To fr ConvicTioN 1 Devoid OF THE RUD MENTARY DEmAwos of FAIR Pacegouns ?
19-6072 Thomas Joseph Eppelsheimer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP age-of-consent criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea sexual-assault statutory-rape strickland-v-washington Is Texas Penal Code §§ 21.11(a)(1) and 22.011(a)(2) unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment right to Due Process?
19-6075 Anthony Q. Kelly v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment. 1st-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower federal court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-6077 Ruben Moreno Herrera v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights compulsory-process conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the exclusion of all reliable and relevant material evidence, including the testimony of the defendant's first-hand witness, violated the defe…
19-6083 Michael M. Molinaro v. Bertha A. Molinaro California Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness content-based-restriction domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process family-law first-amendment free-speech overbroad separation-of-powers vagueness void-for-vagueness Is California's Domestic Violence Prevention Act's (DVPA's) severable residual clause defining 'abuse' (Family Code (F.C.) § 6203(a)(4)) unconstitutio…
19-6101 Raymond Eugene Johnson v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing death-penalty factfinder harm lockett-v-ohio mitigating-circumstances prejudice Should the Court recalibrate the frameworks for judging the prejudice or harm of capital sentencing errors in jurisdictions where the factfinder may d…
19-6140 Edwin P. Gant v. U. S. Bank Trust, et al. New Jersey Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-violation due-process foreclosure fraud fraud-in-lending legal-standing mortgage-assignment mortgage-foreclosure predatory-loan standing unclean-hands Whether the New Jersey Supreme Court violated the due process clause by failing to reconsider its original decision refusing to vacate summary judgmen…
19-6193 Franklin C. Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment incident-to-arrest judicial-review legal-procedure privacy search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation takings warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data incident to arrest when the phone is not immed…
19-6207 Kevin Henderson v. Don Bottom, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-question due-process federal-courts judicial-precedent legal-interpretation merits precedent standing supreme-court supreme-court-review Did the Sixth Circuit err when reaching conclusions arguably in conflict and inconsistent with this Supreme Court's decisions?
19-6279 Fernando Sanchez, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law due-process physical-force united-states-v-castleman violent-felony Whether the causation of physical injury or death necessarily requires the use of violent force
19-6288 Ron Christopher Whitley v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-case drug-offense drug-offenses judicial-discretion proportionality-review sentencing-departure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines Whether the 156-month sentence is greater than necessary to comply with the purposes of sentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)
19-6294 Alexander Mattei v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence expert-testimony hearsay sixth-amendment surrogate-analyst testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay trial-procedure Whether there is ability to cross-examine a surrogate analyst at a jury trial who had used another's certified and testimonial DNA results ipse dixit,…
19-6297 Aleisha O. Gray v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-transportation conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens and for transporting undocumented aliens…
19-6308 Ronald Detro Winder v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence curtis-johnson elements-clause injury injury-definition physical-force sentencing-guidelines Whether a state offense that includes as an element causing injury, but which also defines 'injury' broadly to include more than the 'physical pain or…
19-6314 Ralph Willard Savoie v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process haymond-v-united-states parole plea-agreement precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation suborned-perjury supervised-release supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-watts waiver-of-appeal Can United States v. Watts stand in light of recent holdings in Haymond v. United States?
19-6316 James Matthew Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability competency-evaluation competency-to-stand-trial evidentiary-hearing habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether the lower court erred in denying Shelton's habeas claim alleging ineffective assistance of counsel and abused its discretion in denying him an…
19-6318 Damon Tracy Locke v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-statute drug-statutes mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is the Eighth Circuit interpretation and application of drug statutes as qualifying offenses for career offender status in opposition to Mathis v. Uni…
19-6322 Kelvin Miles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne alleyne-vs-united-states apprendi confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors did-the-pre-trial-destruction-of-evidence-by-the-state-deny-the-petitioner-his-right-to-due-process-and-a-fair-trial
19-6332 Walter Glenn v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment leadership-role obstruction-of-justice rental-vehicle search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing standing-civil-procedure standing-doctrine traffic-stop Whether a relief driver of a rental vehicle had standing to challenge evidence seized from the car
19-6333 Juan Gabriel Angulo-Cabrera v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP codefendant criminal-procedure due-process effective-attorney evidence evidentiary-hearing false-accusations ineffective-assistance phone-records right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial trial-counsel Whether the District and Appellate Courts erred in denying Defendant an evidentiary hearing on his claim of ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
19-6340 Jonathon William-Durand Neuhard v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP comity criminal-procedure due-process evidence federalism integrity-of-state-proceedings statutory-construction statutory-construction-federal-question-due-proces statutory-interpretation Whether the federal court of appeals correctly found that the determination of whether a state adjudication qualifies as a prior conviction under 18 U…
19-6347 Rafael Alvarado v. Frank Lawrence, Warden Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment when the lower court dismissed his case without a hearing …
19-6348 Billy J. Griffin v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender controlled-substances divisibility drug-statute federal-sentencing felony-convictions missouri-law state-convictions statutory-interpretation Is the Missouri Controlled Drug Statute indivisible such that the Defendant's two distribution of marijuana felony convictions in state court would no…
19-6352 James Byron Coon v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-death certificate-of-appealability exhaustion expert-opinion expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell state-postconviction vasquez-v-hillery Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery and Miller-El v. Cockre…
19-6356 Gary E. Larock, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,due-process,civil-rights,liberty, home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-reasonableness vagueness warrantless-search Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit at any time is unreasonable under the Fourth Amendm…
19-6357 James Alton Turner, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,sentencing,acca,joh elements-clause habeas-relief johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove the sentencing court relied on the residual clause
19-6358 In Re Morris J. Warren Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole-eligibility retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-regulations statutory-interpretation Does Daniel v. Fulwood, Case No. 12-5327/Citation 766 F. 3d 57 (D.C. Cir. 2014), apply to my parole-eligible sentence, where which was given December …
19-6360 George C. Pugh v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felony florida-law habitual-felony-offender habitual-offender precedent release-date sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation Is it lawful for the Petitioner to be deemed an Habitual felony offender whereas the Petitioner was one day outside of the time period of conviction o…
19-6362 Fernando Nunez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-diligence due-process evidence evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Are criminal defendants required to plead and prove their due diligence as an additional element under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and its …
19-6368 Richard Kalinowski v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-review due-process liberty liberty-interest pre-trial-detention speedy-trial standard-of-review Does the right to a speedy trial in a civil commitment case require the Courts to apply a more strict standard of review due to the loss of liberty in…
19-6373 Casey Dullea Peppin v. Washington Washington Denied Response WaivedIFP art constitutional-interpretation copyright court-determination due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence file-sharing jurisdiction legal-error prejudice sexually-explicit-material source-code Did the Washington State Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Washington err by granting as fact that the defendant shared files with the public?
19-6375 Giam Nguyen, Anna Bagoumian, and Donovan Simmons v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process deliberate-ignorance due-process harmless-error jury-instructions medicare-fraud reverse-404(b) reverse-404b-evidence Whether the petitioners were deprived of their Fifth Amendment right of due process to present a defense
19-6376 Josue Osvaldo Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal construction criminal-procedure due-process fairness fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentence-appeal sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant can knowingly waive the right to appeal his sentence before understanding the right
19-6377 Jerome Gaskin v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial trial-rights Does a defendant's right to the effective assistance of counsel during plea bargaining include being accurately advised by counsel of the potential fo…
19-6378 Raymond Gentile v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 criminal-justice-system due-process equal-protection federal-statute geographic-classification geographic-disparity geographic-location marijuana-legalization marijuana-offenses prima-facie prima-facie-claim prosecutorial-discretion selective-prosecution Is geographic location an arbitrary classification in the application of prosecutorial decisions for marijuana-related offenses under 21 U.S.C §§ 841 …
19-6393 Jean-Paul Gamarra v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health psychiatric-testimony trial-fairness Whether the Constitution permits the government to satisfy the Sell requirements based on testimony from a prison psychiatrist who did not examine, or…
19-6401 Anthony Viola v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Second Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure arkansas-v-sullivan civil-rights constitutional-ruling court-of-appeals due-process error-correction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lower-court-decision statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Title 28 U.S.C. § 2106 gives the court of appeals error correction power to set aside or reverse a lower court's decision that is clearly inco…
19-6402 Omar Villarreal Silva v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-prejudice collateral-attack criminal-procedure customs-and-border-protection deportation due-process immigration immigration-law prejudice removal-proceedings Must a defendant show actual prejudice to collaterally attack a removal order?
19-6414 Miguel Angel Vega-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict due-process eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops?
19-6419 Scott Wilson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining Whether the district court erred in denying Wilson's habeas claim alleging counsel's unreasonable failure to investigate law and misadvice, thereby re…
19-6455 Jowarski Russell Nedd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-filing state-court-proceedings statute-of-limitations statutory-tolling tolling Whether the decisions of the courts below ought to be summarily reversed and the case remanded to the court of appeals with instructions to remand the…
19-71 FNU Tanzin, et al. v. Muhammad Tanvir, et al. Second Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-liability due-process federal-employees free-speech religious-freedom rfra standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1998, 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seqg., permits suits seeking money damages against individual federal emplo…
19M66 John Doe v. United States Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M67 Levy Gardens Partners 2007, L.P. v. Lewis Title Company, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M68 Jody M. Johnson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M69 Xiao Qing Liu v. Matthew DeCagna, et al. Second Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M70 Johnathon Kelly v. United States Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None