Conference: 2019-12-06

250 cases — 0 granted, 249 denied/dismissed, 1 pending

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18-1519 Jason Correa v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) electronic-devices fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protections law-enforcement multi-unit-buildings privacy privacy-rights search-incident-to-arrest secured-common-areas warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to conduct a warrantless search of an individual's garage door remote, key fob, and seized key to…
18-1538 Dartmond Cherk, et al. v. Marin County, California California Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (4) development-exactions development-fees dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process essential-nexus koontz-v-st-johns-river-water-management-district land-use legislative-exactions nollan-v-california-coastal-commission permit-conditions property-rights rough-proportionality takings takings-clause unconstitutional-conditions Whether permit conditions are exempt from review under the unconstitutional-conditions doctrine when their intended purpose is not to mitigate adverse…
18-1552 Henry P. Alfano and William Hird v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federalism mail-fraud property property-rights statutory-interpretation traffic-tickets unadjudicated-charges unadjudicated-tickets wire-fraud Whether unadjudicated traffic tickets constitute 'property' under the mail- and wire-fraud statutes
18-1572 Matthew D. Priset v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence mental-illness sentencing Does a mandatory minimum life sentence for one convicted under the guilty-but-mentally-ill designation constitute cruel and unusual punishment?
18-1581 Michael Lowry, Robert Mulgrew, and Thomasine Tynes v. United States Third Circuit Denied 18-usc-1623 ambiguous-questioning ambiguous-questions bronston-rule bronston-v-united-states false-declaration false-statements grand-jury grand-jury-testimony literal-truth perjury perjury-statute prosecutorial-questioning statutory-interpretation Responses to fundamentally ambiguous questions or literally truthful answers to unambiguous questions can constitute false declarations before a feder…
18-1586 Scott Lynn Gibson, aka Vanessa Lynn v. Brian Collier, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment individualized-medical-evaluation life-threatening-medical-need life-threatening-need medical-treatment new-treatment prison-healthcare prisoner-rights transgender-rights universal-medical-acceptance Whether an Eighth Amendment claim for deliberate indifference to a prisoner's life-threatening medical need can be disposed of without any individuali…
18-8341 Louie M. Schexnayder, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP aedpa-deference judicial-federalism judicial-proceedings judicial-review pecuniary-interest prisoner-rights pro-se-petition pro-se-prisoners state-court-decision statutory-interpretation supervisory-power writ-application writ-applications Could jurists of reason debate whether to apply AEDPA deference to a state court decision arising out of a secret, thirteen-year-long policy to deny a…
18-8862 Roderick White v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-v-washington cross-examination due-process evidence memory-loss testimonial-hearsay united-states-v-owens Whether the rule of United States v. Owens, 484 U.S. 554 (1988), as used by courts to admit testimonial hearsay from witnesses not amenable to cross-e…
18-9014 Jamaal A. McNeil v. Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-probable-cause civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-clerk-failure-to-forward-record district-court-judgment-dismissal-stay due-process ecclesiastical-court ecclesiastical-court-letter-of-rogatory-registered exhaustion expand-record habeas-corpus standing writ-of-certiorari Can the Ecclesiastical Court, Letter of Rogatory, Registered Deed Poll be admissible and applied in this Writ of Certiorari
18-9017 Ronald R. Myles v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction review standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
18-9090 Virginia Howard v. San Diego County Counsel, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption homestead homestead-exemption lis-pendens mechanic-liens municipal-liability property-recording real-property supremacy-clause supremacy-of-federal-law title-42 title-42-section-1983 Are the Recorders failure omissions to register, record, docket or index documents (regarding real property) make offices, counties, parish, and munic…
18-9190 Parnell Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure court-appointed-counsel direct-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-denial unlawful-imprisonment Whether review should be granted because state court's summary denial of petition for writ of habeas corpus, seeking belated direct appeal or reinstat…
18-9209 H. F. v. Board of Education of the Township of Teaneck New Jersey Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-review due-process free-appropriate-public-education homeless-student homelessness idea-act individuals-with-disabilities-education-act special-education stay-put-provision Is the District of residence legally required to 'stay-put' and not TERMINATE a multi-handicapped and homeless students legal right to a 'Free Appropr…
18-9254 Larry B. Rubin v. Hector Sanchez, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment qualified-immunity standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's civil rights claims
18-9261 Calmer Cottier v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP constitutional-rights cooperating-witness due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-deliberation prosecutor-stipulation prosecutorial-misconduct stipulation truthfulness witness-credibility witness-testimony Does the use of a prosecutor's stipulation that a cooperating witness is testifying truthfully violate the constitutional guarantees of a fair trial, …
18-9263 Luis Felipe Valencia v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process international-law jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts stateless-vessel vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the MDLEA is unconstitutional due to lack of minimum-contacts requirement
18-9283 Constance F. Russell v. First Resolution Investment Corporation Alabama Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-judicial-act-of-1925 independent-action ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-act no-opinion-ruling rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 standing state-and-federal-constitutional-rights Did the Alabama Supreme Court violate petitioner pro se' State and Federal Constitutional Rights of due-process, when they refuse to adjudicate a case…
18-9328 Diego Portocarrero Valencia v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process high-seas-offense jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing stateless-vessel Is the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) unconstitutional because no minimum contacts between the accused and the United States are required t…
18-9354 Donald Reddick v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-2113(a) alamendarez-torres-apprendi apprendi categorical-approach constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery mathis mathis-doctrine prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines Whether federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. §2113(a) is categorically a crime of violence
18-9374 Bruce Duane Walton v. Tracy Ray, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Was the Tor of inlentonad, mbeteverce won Ale Greece with oreurzalment oP MONET
18-9390 Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff New York Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-divorce civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery civil-rights court-jurisdiction court-order discovery divorce divorce-proceedings document-access due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure order-of-separation separation-agreement standing Can NYS Kings County Supreme Court Judge Eric I. Prus block me from seeing a critical document? Can Susan's lawyer, Myla Serlin, block me from seeing …
18-9412 Amin A. Rashid v. United States Third Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-act criminal-act-concealment due-process evidentiary-hearing exoneration fundamental-defect judicial-misconduct mail-fraud miscarriage-of-justice neutral-judge section-2255 standing Whether Undisputed Evidence Suggesting That The Trial Judge Was Acting To Conceal A Criminal Act Committed By Prior Judges In The Case Which Act If Ad…
18-9426 Paul Duriso v. West Gulf Maritime Association, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cba civil-procedure civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process employee-rights grievance-process ila-constitution labor-law legal-jurisdiction maritime-law statute-of-limitations texas-civil-practice-and-remedies-code texas-code Whether the laws of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code regarding statute of limitations have been disregarded in the cases of Rhonda Stelly v.…
18-9631 Erickson Meko Campbell v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states seizure-doctrine traffic-stop united-states-v-griffin Whether the exclusionary rule should apply when the only precedent the officer could rely on was not directly on point, explicitly rejected a bright-l…
18-9706 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-concealment evidence-disclosure fair-trial judicial-access judicial-procedure mandamus material-facts rules-and-regulations standing state-procedure transparency Whether the state violated the Constitution and deprived petitioner of due process rights by concealing exculpatory evidence and witness statements fr…
18-9709 Angie Walker v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious due-process judicial-review legal-accountability obstruction-of-justice standard-of-review When Justices obstruct the law and legal proceedings by not adhering to the legal standards of review, who will hold them accountable?
18-9713 Steven Allen Brende v. Darin Young, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appeal civil-procedure civil-rights due-process south-dakota standing state-court-appeals supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court of South Dakota erred in its July 17, 2013 decision
18-9800 Barton Joseph Adams v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment civil-contempt civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-incarceration section-2255 supervisory-powers Whether the district court and the appeal court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
19-109 Giovanni Montijo-Dominguez v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (2) 18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking fact-finding judicial-discretion jury-findings jury-verdict mandatory-minimum preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof Whether a district court's findings of fact under 18 U.S.C. 3553(f) are constrained by the findings of fact implied by the jury's verdict
19-13 Tennessee v. Tamarin Lindenburg, Individually and as Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children ZTL and SML Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention certification diversity-jurisdiction federal-court first-impression judicial-procedure state-constitution state-constitutional-issue state-law state-statute Whether a federal court exercising its diversity jurisdiction should certify an important state constitutional issue of first impression to the State'…
19-152 Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. Federal Circuit Denied false-advertising federal-circuit food-drug-cosmetic-act international-trade-commission lanham-act pom-wonderful-v-coca-cola tariff-act tariff-act-1930 trade-practices unfair-competition unfair-trade-practices When a manufacturer files a Lanham Act claim under the Tariff Act for competitive injuries caused by unfair trade practices, is the claim barred as a …
19-158 Marcus Turner, Sr., et al. v. Alva C. Hines, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) church-dispute church-governance coercive-intrusion first-amendment judicial-inquiry neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law religious-doctrine state-interference Does the First Amendment require courts to consider whether a judicial inquiry intrudes coercively into church governance even when there is no religi…
19-159 Carlos Tapia v. New York New York Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence memory-loss sixth-amendment testimonial-statement Whether a witness's total memory loss prevents him from testifying about his prior out-of-court testimonial statement, and whether the witness's mere …
19-163 Margaret A. Norton v. Colgate Palmolive Company New Jersey Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-judgment due-process fairness judgement judicial-mistake legal-procedure mistake-of-fact precedent right-of-fairness standing supreme-court-precedent Whether the New Jersey Supreme Court failed to apply Supreme Court Precedent, when an acknowledged mistake by the court resulted in an improper judgem…
19-174 Jeri Lynn Rich, Representative for Gavrila Covaci Dupuis-Mays, an Incapacitated Person v. Michael Palko, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights clearly-established collateral-order collateral-order-doctrine excessive-force fourth-amendment material-facts qualified-immunity seizure When courts are deciding qualified immunity in Fourth Amendment cases, shouldn't they recite the trial court's identification of the disputed issues o…
19-215 Darrel Conell Nevels v. Piggly Wiggly Corporation, et al. Alabama Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process gross-negligence interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction premises-liability qualified-immunity In qualified liability cases, whether an Appellate court has jurisdiction to hear a Rights to Due Process, Gross Negligence, and Premises Liability in…
19-257 California Trout, et al. v. Hoopa Valley Tribe, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (1)Response Waived certification certification-request circuit-conflict clean-water-act environmental-protection forum-shopping project-licensing section-401 state-authority waiver water-quality Do states waive their authority under section 401 of the Clean Water Act if they do not approve or deny a certification request within one year, even …
19-261 Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel due-process informal-notice statute-of-limitations sua-sponte-sanction tax-appeal tax-assessment tax-assessment-statute-of-limitations tax-code tax-court tax-return valid-return Whether the court below erred in holding that Petitioners' timely-filed tax return did not start the running of the 3-year statute of limitations on a…
19-262 Xiao-Ying Yu v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment-immunity ada-title-vii civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-jurisdiction employment employment-discrimination federal-diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction pleadings retaliation right-to-sue standing Whether the lower courts' refusal to consider EEOC's right-to-sue letter and her statements as part of pleadings, and her request and leave for amendm…
19-263 Cody Ross v. Johnnie Rochell, Jr. Eighth Circuit Denied 4th-amendment 8th-circuit assault-weapon civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-violation eighth-circuit excessive-force kisela-v-hughes law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Kisela v. Hughes, __ U.S. _, 188 S. Ct. 1148 (2018) (per curiam) and numerous other cases …
19-276 Jose Luis Garza, et al. v. City of Donna, Texas Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights detainee-mistreatment due-process episodic-act-or-omission evidentiary-standard fact-question free-speech legal-interpretation municipal-liability municipal-policy qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment Did the panel err in determining that the signs posted by Respondent were too 'inexact' and 'nebulous' in meaning to constitute municipal policy for §…
19-283 City of Trinidad, Colorado v. Stephen Hamer Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (1) ada ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights public-entities rehabilitation-act repeated-violations repeated-violations-doctrine statute-of-limitations Whether the repeated violations doctrine extends the statute of limitations for claims under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the R…
19-285 Jerud Butler v. Board of County Commissioners for San Miguel County, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (5) such that it is entitled to protection under the civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-speech judicial-proceeding judicial-system judicial-testimony public-concern public-employee speech-protection Whether a government employee's truthful testimony at a judicial hearing qualifies as speech on a matter of public concern, such that it is entitled t…
19-286 Cranston Police Retirees Action Committee v. City of Cranston, Rhode Island Rhode Island Denied constitutional-rights contracts-clause municipal-law police-power public-purpose retirement-benefits takings-clause vested-rights Whether the City's self-interested impairment of the retirees' contractually vested COLA benefits is a violation of the Contracts Clause of the United…
19-287 Jorge L. Medina v. William P. Barr, Attorney General District of Columbia Denied Amici (1) 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights false-statement felony-conviction felony-firearm-dispossession firearm-dispossession lending-institution second-amendment second-amendment-rights Whether the Second Amendment secures Jorge Medina's right to possess arms, notwithstanding his conviction for making a false statement to a lending in…
19-291 Anne K. Block v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived bar-association civil-rights constitutional-rights disassociation due-process first-amendment janus-v-afscme judicial-bias judicial-bias-recusal judicial-disqualification motion-on-pleadings retaliation standing Did the trial court err when the district court judge and the reviewing judge refused to disqualify themselves due to their membership in the defendan…
19-293 TKC Aerospace Inc. v. Charles Taylor Muhs Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-intent bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split intent-requirement malicious-injury objective-certainty objective-standard substantial-certainty willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury Whether a debtor's conduct qualifies as causing a 'willful and malicious' injury under Section 523(a)(6)
19-304 Ranger American of the V.I., Inc., et al. v. Frederick J. Balboni, Jr. Virgin Islands Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bill-of-rights congressional-power due-process equal-protection federal-legislation federal-statute guam-v-guerrero judicial-interpretation kepner-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent territorial-courts territorial-law Is the Virgin Islands Supreme Court bound by this Court's Equal Protection decisions where Congress explicitly applied the Equal Protection Clause to …
19-309 John C. Carney, Governor of Delaware v. James R. Adams Third Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (20)Relisted (4) civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-appointments judicial-independence judicial-qualifications judicial-selection party-affiliation political-balance political-party standing state-constitution state-sovereignty Does the First Amendment invalidate a longstanding state constitutional provision that limits judges affiliated with any one political party to no mor…
19-323 Charles V. Schneider v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-court-ruling circuit-court-rulings circuit-split constitutional-authority constitutional-authority-of-courts federal-law inferior-courts judicial-conflict judicial-hierarchy judicial-review judicial-supremacy legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (or any other inferior court) has the Constitutional authority to rule in conflict with rulin…
19-359 In Re The Law Offices of Nina Ringgold, et al. Denied Response Waived certificate-of-service civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-carrier due-process first-class-postage judicial-bias mandamus penalty-of-perjury recusal service standing supreme-court-rule third-party-carrier writ-of-mandamus Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying the petitioners' request for a writ of mandamus to compel the district court to recuse itself from the unde…
19-4 Jackson National Life Insurance Company v. Tamarin Lindenburg, Individually and as Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children ZTL and SML Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) certification consistent-application-of-state-law constitutional-interpretation cooperative-federalism judicial-efficiency sixth-circuit state-law tennessee-constitution tennessee-supreme-court Do principles of cooperative federalism, judicial efficiency, and concern for the consistent application of state law compel the Sixth Circuit to cert…
19-417 EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C., et al. v. Adam Meier Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (3) abortion circuit-conflict circuit-split compelled-speech constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech informed-consent medical-consent physician-autonomy ultrasound ultrasound-law Whether compulsory display-and-describe ultrasound laws abridge physicians' freedom of speech in violation of the First Amendment
19-426 Pennsylvania v. Michael J. Hicks Pennsylvania Denied Amici (1) 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-analysis due-process element-or-defense-test firearm-possession innocent-scenarios law-enforcement police-officer police-stop reasonable-suspicion stop totality-of-circumstances Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision is contrary to SCOTUS precedent on reasonable suspicion analysis
19-432 All American Check Cashing, Inc., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1) administrative-law agency-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-defect consumer-financial-protection-bureau due-process enforcement-action meaningful-relief seila-law separation-of-powers standing unconstitutional-agency Whether the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violates the separation of powers
19-436 T. R. C. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response Waived due-process familial-integrity fourteenth-amendment guardian-ad-litem parental-rights strict-scrutiny termination-of-parental-rights Is Wis. Stat. §48.415 unconstitutional as applied when it was used to terminate the Fourteenth Amendment fundamental right of familial integrity of a …
19-439 CTIA - The Wireless Association v. City of Berkeley, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (6) commercial-speech compelled-disclosure compelled-speech consumer-protection disclosure-requirements first-amendment government-regulation intermediate-scrutiny zauderer zauderer-standard Whether Zauderer's reduced scrutiny of compelled commercial speech applies beyond the need to prevent consumer deception
19-448 Glen Plourde v. Jane Doe Maine Denied assassination-attempts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-surveillance harassment international-law standing surveillance torture Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to harassment, surveillance, and alleged torture by government agents
19-451 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Jeff McCord, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 1st-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules-of-appellate-procedure-due-p court-clerk-duties default-judgment due-process electronic-filing pro-se-litigation Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit incorrectly dismissed the civil action in conflict with existing rules of appellate p…
19-452 Gregory Clark v. Austin Clark Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived excessive-force fourth-amendment police-encounter reasonable-suspicion seizure voluntary-interaction Whether a voluntary interaction with police becomes an unconstitutional seizure when the officer runs the subject's ID
19-457 Xia Bi, et al. v. Terry McAuliffe, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-pleading misrepresentation pleading reliance reliance-element rule-9b standing Whether Rule 9(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure imposes a particularity requirement for pleading the reliance element of common law fraud cl…
19-458 John Schickel, et al. v. George C. Troutman, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied campaign-finance campaign-speech civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech legislative-ethics standing strict-scrutiny Whether incumbents and candidates for political office have standing to assert First and Fourteenth Amendment claims
19-459 Texas Brine Company, LLC v. Florida Gas Transmission Company, LLC Louisiana Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-bias political-sensitivity random-assignment recusal When a litigant presents a colorable claim of judicial-bias, does due-process entitle that litigant to an evidentiary-hearing
19-460 Alexander Y. Usenko, Derivatively on Behalf of the SunEdison Semiconductor Ltd. Retirement Savings Plan v. MEMC LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied asset-valuation context-sensitive-scrutiny erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty heightened-pleading-requirement pleading-requirements pleading-standard prudence prudence-standard publicly-traded-assets retirement-plan Whether Dudenhoeffer's 'context-sensitive scrutiny of a complaint's allegations' can be met where a court presumes an asset must be prudent if it is p…
19-463 Wilbur-Ellis Company LLC v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied appellate-review comity comity-federalism comity-federalism-state-judicial-functions federal-court federal-court-override federalism interlocutory-orders judicial-function sealing-order state-court state-court-sealing state-court-sealing-order state-law-interpretation Whether a district court may override the order of a state court sealing a court filing necessary to resolve a motion in the state court, by compellin…
19-467 Chixapkaid Donald Michael Pavel v. University of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived confrontation cross-examination due-process employment-rights public-university sexual-harassment tenure termination union Do due-process rights include confronting and cross-examining accuser?
19-468 Keesha Elayne Frye v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-redaction jury jury-deliberation jury-instructions meaningful-review redaction standard-of-review Whether the criminal defendant was denied meaningful appellate review when the district court destroyed the only copy of a redacted indictment used by…
19-47 Jeryme Morgan v. Minh Schott, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights criminal-sentence disciplinary-proceedings due-process edwards-v-balisok heck-bar heck-v-humphrey mixed-sanctions non-durational-sanctions section-1983 Whether Heck bars § 1983 claims for damages in mixed-sanctions cases where the inmate challenges only the non-durational elements of the sanction, exp…
19-470 Darin Jones v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-procedure-time-limits civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-circuit federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board mixed-cases rule-60(b) time-bar Whether the 120 day time bar of 5 U.S.C. § 7702(e)(1)(B) is nonjurisdictional
19-474 Respect Washington v. Global Neighborhood, et al. Washington Denied Response Waived agenda-setting ballot ballot-access civil-rights first-amendment free-speech initiative initiative-process injunction sanctuary-city standing voting voting-rights Whether the First Amendment protects citizens' interests in voting on an initiative that has met all time, place and manner requirements for an initia…
19-478 Amadou Sowe v. Pall Corporation Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1746 affidavit affidavit-substitution age-discrimination civil-procedure due-process federal-procedure local-rule-violation local-rules owbpa perjury-statute summary-judgment sworn-declaration unsworn-declaration Whether plaintiff's counter statement sworn under 28 U.S.C. § 1746 can be used to show lack of compliance with OWBPA statute despite local rule violat…
19-482 ASAP Copy and Print, et al. v. Canon Solutions America, Inc. California Denied Response Waived civil-procedure-28-usc-1446 civil-rights-act-of-1866 due-process judicial-immunity law-of-the-case recusal recusal-requirement removal-procedure removal-statute state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether in conflict with the clear authority of this court California's common law concept of 'law of the case' may defeat the command of 28 U.S.C. § …
19-485 Juan Perez, et al. v. City of Sweetwater, Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 city-of-canton-v-harris civil-procedure civil-rights due-process municipal-liability police-misconduct reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing section-1983 seventh-amendment single-occurrence-rule Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment rights were violated
19-492 Eduardo Adame-Hernandez v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
19-501 Shawn C. Rutland v. Warden, Smith State Prison Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived aedpa aedpa-tolling assistance-of-counsel discretion-of-district-courts district-court-discretion equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly created a new bright-line rule that equitable tolling of AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations automatically…
19-5040 Jennifer Lu v. Stanford University Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-amendment complaint-amendment dismissal district-court-procedure due-process judicial-guidance leave-to-amend legal-notice pleading pleading-deficiencies pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness Whether when granting a pro se litigant leave to amend the complaint, a district court must identify the complaint deficiencies so that the pro se lit…
19-5047 Cathy L. Toole v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process equal-justice equal-protection federal-courts judicial-independence separation-of-powers standing Whether federal judges employed in the federal courts are required to obey federal laws and the Constitution
19-5059 Paul A. Viera v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process excessive-punishment federal-statutes florida florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment state-sentencing Whether the right to due process of law guaranteed by the United States Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment is denied by Florida's imposition of a nat…
19-5066 Jordon Louis Dongarra v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3161 constitutional-claims double-jeopardy due-process federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement prisoner-rights pro-se speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Whether the dismissal of the first indictment under 18 USC 3161(b) and the subsequent untimely indictment without an alignment violates due process an…
19-5072 Troy Lee Bridges v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel peremptory-strikes prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review voir-dire Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the Federal court finding that Mr. Bridges was not prejudiced by his trial counsel,findings and the prosecut…
19-5090 Frances Du Ju v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2283 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment absolute-immunity judgment-on-the-pleadings malicious-prosecution quasi-judicial-immunity re-examination-clause amendment-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judgment-on-pleadings judgment-on-the-pleadings judicial-immunity malicious-prosecution rooker-feldman Whether the District Court's Rooker-Feldman doctrine, Judgment on the Pleadings, and 'copy and paste' to dismiss this Malicious Prosecution case commi…
19-5156 Theresa A. Logan v. Town of Windsor, New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 1st-amendment civil-rights conclusion constitutional-provisions content-discrimination free-speech jurisdiction public-forum reasons-for-granting statement-of-case statutory-provisions viewpoint-discrimination Whether the First Amendment protects the right of a public access television channel to exclude a speaker based on the content of their speech
19-5179 Susan E. Pattishall v. Vinton G. Cerf, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech intellectual-property statute-of-limitations takings Whether intellectual property should be treated differently from physical property under a statute of limitations
19-5190 Steven Williams v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of his civil-rights, due-process, and free-sp…
19-5200 In Re Isidro Roman Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Was petitioner denied effective assistance of counsel below the standard mandate of the United States Constitution Amendment Six?
19-5211 Anyiam Anyanwu v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
19-5225 In Re Jonathan E. Brunson Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights confidential-records constitutional-review discovery due-process judicial-review minor-protection pennsylvania-v-ritchie records sexual-abuse social-services social-services-records standing Whether petitioner has a constitutional right to in camera judicial review of confidential social services records
19-5265 Benjamin E. Schreiber v. Nick Ludwick, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-remedies appeals bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation dismissal due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-courts parties section-1983 standing Did the Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's Due Process Rights when it 'ADDED' extra Defendants not in the original lawsuit and in which the U.S. Di…
19-530 James Kerr Schlosser v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-denial judicial-misconduct mens-rea reasonableness religious-beliefs restitution right-to-a-complete-defense state-of-mind statutory-authority willfulness Whether the lower courts erred regarding the denied evidence, violating the defendant's constitutional right to a complete defense
19-5313 Thomas Arthur Kahlow v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment capital-punishment constitutional-limits due-process excessive-punishment federal-statutes fourteenth-amendment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment state-constitutional-law state-governments Whether the right to due process of law is denied by Florida's imposition of a capital life imprisonment sentence
19-533 River Birch, Incorporated, et al. v. Waste Management of Louisiana, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived antitrust burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure civil-rico evidence evidentiary-inference federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure matsushita-standard precedent rule-56 summary-judgment Whether the holding in Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp. that 'ambiguous' circumstantial evidence does not support an inferen…
19-536 Bocilla Island Seaport, Inc., fka Highpoint Tower Technology, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived basis-adjustment deficiency-determination due-process partner-level partner-level-penalty partner-level-proceeding partnership-basis penalty penalty-imposition reasonable-cause statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-procedure united-states-v-woods Should partner-level basis be adjusted before penalty imposition?
19-538 Albert S. N. Hee v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-court-precedent constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process fabricated-evidence habeas-corpus stare-decisis substantive-constitutional-rights Does the Doctrine of Stare Decisis require the Federal Courts to follow its prior Circuit Decisions of substantive constitutional rights although this…
19-5391 Dan Carmichael McCarthan v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process notice-of-predicate-convictions retroactive-constitutional-decisions retroactivity section-2255 sentencing statutory-maximum Whether a criminal defendant can satisfy burden of proof for 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a fed…
19-5413 John Thomas Rooney v. Georgia Georgia Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-jurisdiction unconstitutional unconstitutional-conviction Can convictions and sentences imposed by a State Trial Court without Constitutional or statutory subject-matter jurisdiction be used to enhance a 24-y…
19-5510 Maurice Patrick Fortune, III v. Virginia Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-prosecution grand-jury indictment magistrate-warrant sentencing substantive-due-process Whether a fatico hearing or sentencing hearing can substitute for the qualifications of a formal trial
19-5587 In Re Levar Lee Spence Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment federal-courts federal-habeas-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction liberty-rights Whether the courts can refuse and/or feign review of habeas corpus claims asserting constitutional violations, would warrant habeas corpus relief?
19-5632 T. A., et al. v. Howard B. Leff, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations domestic-relations-exception due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity quid-pro-quo racketeering rooker-feldman standing sua-sponta-fiduciaries Is it error to impose judicial immunity when the pleadings detail that NYS Judge and sua sponta appointed Part 36 Fiduciaries acted without jurisdicti…
19-5643 Raymont Wright v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP double-jeopardy indictment-dismissal inherent-power inherent-power-of-courts judicial-integrity jury-deadlock mistrials prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers trial-court-discretion trial-court-power Whether a trial court possesses inherent power to dismiss an indictment with prejudice following serial mistrials for jury deadlock or whether the exe…
19-5657 Heather Rogero, et vir v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP autism disability-discrimination encephalopathy federal-programs medical-causation national-childhood-vaccine-injury-compensation-act preponderance-of-evidence rehabilitation-act sequela vaccine-injury vaccine-injury-compensation Whether the child's encephalopathy was caused by his DTaP vaccination and entitled to compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Prog…
19-5664 Curtis Lee Sheppard, Jr. v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-motivation criminal-procedure Does the application of the 'enterprise profits' t double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction pecuniary-gain rico-enterprise standing standing-issue statutory-interpretation vcar-statute Whether the trial court lacked the authority to set aside the conviction and dismiss the cause
19-571 Intel Corporation, et al. v. Continental Circuits LLC Federal Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response Waived claim-construction claim-interpretation claim-scope disclaimer disclaimer-doctrine federal-circuit ordinary-meaning patent patent-construction specification specification-analysis written-description Whether courts should construe a patent's claims in light of the written description of the invention disclosed in the patent's specification
19-5721 In Re Craig Melvin Schafer Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-accountability judicial-performance mandamus mandamus-writ standing state-liability takings tort-law Is a state allowed to violate the 7th Amendment and deny civil hearings?
19-5756 In Re James Bryant Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder felony-murder-doctrine-retroactivity habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-jurisdiction jurisdiction retroactive-application retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness Whether the state trial court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction by convicting Petitioner in 1971 under a vague first-degree murder statute
19-576 Interior Glass Systems, Inc. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing due-process hearing irs iRS-collection penalties seizure statutory-interpretation tax tax-penalties vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is the collection of tax penalties an exception to the requirements of due process, or does a citizen have a right to a hearing before the IRS seizes …
19-579 William Boateng v. BP, P.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court federal-rules motion-to-dismiss rule-12(b)(6) rule-12(d) summary-judgment Can a Court of Appeals treat a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss as a converted motion for summary judgment under Rule 12(d) when the district court its…
19-5790 Ronald Frank Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit Dismissed Response RequestedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation-supervision statutory-reasonableness supervised-release vagueness warrantless-search 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…
19-5804 Jesse Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the appellate court's reliance on the unconstitutionally vague definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) requires remand f…
19-5816 Gabriel A. Maalouf v. Praetorian Insurance Company Nevada Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-impact contract contract-breach insurance-coverage insurance-guarantee-association negligence negligence-claim uninsured-motorist Whether financial liability should have reverted back to the motorist's uninsured/underinsured motorist policy after the Tortfeasor became uninsured d…
19-5822 Ronald Tuttle v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-issues standing supervisory-powers supreme-court-review the-supreme-court Did the United States Supreme Court err in denying the petition for writ of certiorari
19-585 Robert Leigh Stoltz v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response Waived age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-belief statutory-interpretation undercover-operations Is due process violated where the judge instructs the jury such that even if the jury finds that the defendant knew the alleged victim (an undercover …
19-5852 Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2…
19-5931 Darryl Allen v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-rights collateral-relief collateral-review constitutional-rights counsel-consultation due-process garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal roe-v-flores-ortega waiver Did the Pennsylvania courts err in denying collateral relief where prior counsel was ineffective for failing to consult fully with the petitioner, Dar…
19-594 Mahmoud Thiam v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived american-constitutional-limitations american-court constitutional-limitations criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process foreign-statute official-act predicate-offense predicate-prosecution vagueness-doctrine Where a foreign statute is used as a predicate for prosecution in an American court, must that statute be construed in accordance with American consti…
19-6090 Taylor Wells v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP amended-judgment case-law-precedent civil-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-modification magwood-v-patterson new-judgment scrivener's-error serivener's-error statutory-interpretation Whether an amended judgment which does more than correct a mere scrivener's error in the original judgment constitutes a 'new judgment' within the mea…
19-6091 James L. Toney v. Heath Dickson, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review cover-up discovery due-process evidence fair-trial federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance marshals ncic procedural-default standing state-court-review Whether the exposure of cheating by the State of Arkansas and the concomitant collusion to cover up cheating evidence violates due process and the rig…
19-6092 Jonothan E. Prather v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana petition-timeliness retroactivity timeliness Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the Petitioner's petition as untimely and in finding that the newly recognized constitutional right set f…
19-6097 Clarence Duke Reynolds v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law appointment-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hearing-procedure parole parole-board selection-process separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation victim-impact Is §53.1-134, the law used for the selection of parole board members, unconstitutional?
19-6098 Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Puerto Rico Department of Education, et al. First Circuit Denied IFP appeal-rights appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct promesa-act standing supreme-court-review Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in staying the appeal and requiring the appellant to seek relief from the automatic stay in the Title…
19-6099 Khalil Stafford v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied IFP appeals appellate-review due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error time-barred Whether the courts erred in failing to grant the defendant a partial evidentiary hearing on challenges to the fourth and fifth convictions, particular…
19-6103 Farid John Popal v. New York New York Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence government-misconduct jurisdiction law-enforcement skype-testimony witness witness-coaching witness-testimony Whether law enforcement's coaching the witness violated petitioner's due process rights
19-6105 Avram Moshe Perry v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention amendment-of-pleadings bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination due-process equitable-powers federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion pro-se-plaintiff procedural-due-process standing Whether Congress had provided that in an American civilized federal court system a judge can use an unlimited discretion to outrageously discriminate …
19-6106 Alexander William Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review summary-denial summary-order Whether a 1'4-page order that summarily denies a certificate of appealability satisfies the requirement of Buck v. Davis
19-6112 In Re Larry Pouncy Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appellate-review breach-of-fiduciary-duty civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty fraud intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress legal-malpractice mandamus-remedy pro-se-plaintiff rooker-feldman-doctrine stay-on-state-judgment writ-of-mandamus Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's state law claims against the defendants for legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary dut…
19-6118 Aaron Brent v. Ashley Workman Michigan Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-consequences due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review law-enforcement-database mootness personal-protection-order takings Whether Michigan's personal protection order statute unconstitutionally deprives the accused of meaningful due process
19-612 Hassan Abpikar v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-court-conflict circuit-split conflict-with-other-circuits criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process original-indictment sentence-increase sentencing sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation superseding-indictment Whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling on petitioner's claim to his Rights under the Speedy Trial Act is IN CONFLICT WITH OTHER CIRCUITS
19-6122 Jermaine Stevenson v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence presumption-of-innocence state-court-judgment void Can a habeas corpus petitioner that is presumed guilty pursuant to a state court judgment make a showing of actual innocence with newly discovered evi…
19-6126 Adelbaset A. Youssef v. Bill Schuette, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights doe-v-univ-of-ky due-process federal-courts judicial-review motion-to-dismiss sprint-communications-inc-v-jacobs standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent younger-abstention Whether the Six Circuit Court of Appeals' decision affirming motion to dismiss on Younger-Abstention conflicts with the Supreme-Court's-decision-in-SP…
19-6129 Hariz Belt Guzman Pena v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
19-613 W&T Offshore, Incorporated v. Apache Deepwater, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-procedure conflict-of-laws federal-courts precedent state-courts civil-law court-procedure federal-court highest-court judicial-methodology jurisdiction jurisdictional-interpretation legal-precedent methodology precedent Whether a federal court applying the law of a civil-law jurisdiction should follow the methodology that the jurisdiction's highest court would apply o…
19-6130 George W. Fisher v. John Gregory Mermelstein, et al Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection free-speech media-access medical-treatment prison prisoner-rights state-liability Whether the denial of media treatment at a state prison violates the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press
19-6136 Thomas A. Bias v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-sentencing,eighth-amendment,fourteenth-am life-imprisonment miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana supreme-court-precedent Is the state of Oklahoma unconstitutionally imposing continued imprisonment on juvenile's sentenced to life, in disregard of the United States Supreme…
19-6139 Jermaine Stevenson v. Connie Horton, Warden Michigan Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-court juvenile-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court-procedure transfer void-ab-initio waiver-hearing Has due process of law been violated where a child within the permanent custody and jurisdiction of the state juvenile court is charged as an adult in…
19-6145 Anthony Mark Smith, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial hearsay precedent standard-of-proof victim-testimony Whether the Virginia Supreme Court and Court of Appeals erred in refusing to set aside the petitioner's conviction and sentence, which violated his ri…
19-6147 James Sardakowski v. Mike Romero, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights disabilities disability-rights due-process equal-protection housing-assistance mental-health mental-health-disability non-discrimination parole parole-hearing reoffending-risk Does Mr. Sardakowski have a constitutional right to non-discrimination at a parole hearing with regards to a mental health disabilities?
19-6158 William A. White v. Todd Sloop, et al. Seventh Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment free-speech hate-speech judicial-circuit-split judicial-interpretation prison prison-regulations religion Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in ruling that the statement that Judaism is a 'doctrine of hate' is equivalent to 'violence and murder' such that l…
19-6161 John Connolly v. Florida Florida Denied IFP adjudication civil-procedure due-process federal-claim judicial-reasoning procedural-requirements reasons state-court Whether the due process clause requires a state court adjudicating a federal claim to set forth the reasons for its adjudication?
19-6163 Julissa Olivares Polanco v. Lincoln Community Healthcare Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
19-6165 Ricky G. Davis v. Virginia Virginia Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process pro-se pro-se-representation probation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment standing Can Virginia constitutionally hale a person into its criminal courts and there force a lawyer upon him, even when he insist that he wants to conduct h…
19-6166 Sean Lee Strandberg v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure defense-mechanism due-process evidence evidence-conflict judicial-proceedings polygraph polygraph-evidence presumed-land sixth-amendment sixth-circuit state-lien strickland-v-washington united-states-supreme-court washington-v-hovey Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision on the important matter of whether the prosecutor's use of polygraph evidence conflicts with or departs from acce…
19-6168 Edward Robinson v. DeWayne Burton, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
19-6171 Jorge Sanchez-Rodriguez v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied IFP appeal appellate-review child-interview criminal-procedure due-process evidence insufficient-evidence judicial-error standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-error witness-testimony Did the state appellate court and the Louisiana Supreme Court err in denying petitioner's appeal because the evidence presented at trial was insuffici…
19-6172 Samantha Delane Rajapakse v. Credit Acceptance Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP auto-lenders auto-lending consumer-protection consumer-protection-laws credit-reporting fair-credit-reporting fourth-amendment fraud payment-histories payment-history repossession wrongful-repossession wrongful-seizure Does the courts have jurisdiction to give auto lenders immunity from the Consumer Protection Laws enacted by congress when evidence in the court recor…
19-6174 David Anthony Lee v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights state-court-proceedings Whether Mr. Lee's conviction was obtained in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights
19-6175 K. S. v. Contra Costa County Children & Family Services Bureau California Denied Relisted (2)IFP california-welfare-and-institution-code civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment santosky-v-kramer sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent welfare-code Whether the application of California Welfare and Institution Code violated petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth A…
19-6180 Dannie Joe Farnum v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP child-competency confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial hearsay prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-confrontation right-to-fair-trial Whether the trial court violated a defendant's right to due process by admitting the prior statements of a 4 year old child without any inquiry into t…
19-6181 Mark Robertson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3599 6th-amendment death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus investigation judicial-review meaningful-representation representation representation-services sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Did the district court deny Mr. Robertson the meaningful representation informed by investigation to prepare a habeas corpus application to which he i…
19-6183 Reginald Chatman v. Florida Florida Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida-law plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing state-prosecution Whether the State of Florida violated the Defendant Reginald Chatman's 14th Amendment Constitutional right to due process?
19-6192 Lagenza Junious v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP criminal-procedure diminished-capacity ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-intoxication involuntary-plea mens-rea plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was the state superior court's decision contrary to or an unreasonable application of the Strickland v. Washington standard for ineffective assistance…
19-6194 William Edward Sneed v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-discrimination juror-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination third-circuit-court-of-appeals In light of the post-conviction court's finding of intentional discrimination—a finding that has not been challenged by any reviewing court—did the Th…
19-6198 Gonzalo R. Rubang, Jr. v. United Airlines, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction federal-money fraud labor-dispute labor-law negligence standing worker-compensation worker-endangerment worker-rights workplace-safety Whether the injured workers of United Airlines, Inc. were denied their right to be heard in court regarding allegations of fraud, negligence, and work…
19-6203 Eric Christopher Barrass v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP chambers-v-mississippi constitutional-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-review green-v-georgia habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-decision state-courts third-party-confession Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the state appellate court's unexplained decision, rather than 'looking through' …
19-6204 James Michael Biela v. Nevada Nevada Denied IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-amendments due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-impartiality jury-selection sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it applied the wrong standard in failing to grant Mr. Biela relief based upon an unfair and impa…
19-6206 Troy Davenport v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process eyewitness-testimony fair-hearing newly-discovered-evidence photographic-identification pre-trial-hearing pre-trial-identification reasonable-juror reasonable-juror-standard standing state-court-procedure suggestive-identification Whether the state court employed procedures that did not adequately afford a full and fair hearing?
19-6210 Marcus Jackson v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard case-by-case case-by-case-analysis circuit-split civil-procedure factual-circumstances federal-procedure judicial-review reasonable-time rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 Whether the appropriate application of Rule 60(b)(6) requires a full case-by-case analysis of the factual circumstances, or whether a less stringent r…
19-6212 Melissa Edwards v. Attorney Grievance Commission Michigan Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-investigation attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process disability-rights due-process equal-protection government-transparency judicial-review judicial-transparency standing state-court-procedure Is it unconstitutional for a state court to deny relief without explaining why relief was denied?
19-6216 Maxcium Herring v. L. S. McEwen, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission jury-instructions jury-misconduct sentencing standard-of-review trial-errors waiver Whether the trial court erred in allowing the defendant to take the witness stand in his own defense
19-6218 Timothy Milton Boone v. Maryland Maryland Denied IFP 14th-amendment assault burden-of-proof burglary constitutional-requirements criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-crime first-degree-assault first-degree-burglary maryland-code maryland-criminal-code reasonable-doubt Did the lower court err in failing to prove the first-degree assault and first-degree burglary elements beyond a reasonable doubt?
19-6219 C. B. v. Thomas N. Fischgrund Florida Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jim-crow judicial-fairness public-accommodation race-discrimination racial-discrimination res-judicata segregation standing Is it legally sound to hold de facto segregated evidentiary hearings?
19-6222 Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. K. Harrington, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-errors due-process extraordinary-circumstances free-speech judicial-oversight mandate-recall pro-se-prisoner public-policy standing Whether pro-se prisoner can be denied First Amendment right based on court errors?
19-6223 Kermit B. Harris v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment charging-offense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody-without-charge due-process equal-protection finality finality-of-sentence fourteenth-amendment police-officer police-shooting Can a state trial court disregard a defendant's constitutional right to due process of law under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution,…
19-6226 Supreme Raheem Ackbar v. Patricia S. Connor, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions takings Is the order of the U.S. District Court deed dated 17 Void?
19-6235 Scott Thomas Erskine v. California California Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection jury-trial jury-unanimity narrowing-requirement sentencing Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments?
19-6260 Craig Cross v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process juvenile-sentencing precedent retroactivity state-supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the Florida Supreme Court violate Graham v. Florida, Miller v. Alabama, and Montgomery v. Louisiana when deciding Franklin v. State and State v. M…
19-6261 Jeremiah Marion v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment due-process evidence-rule evidentiary-provision first-time-offender fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole petition-for-grievances sexual-battery uncorroborated-accusations Does the evidentiary provision of Florida's sexual battery statute violate the Fourteenth Amendment?
19-6274 Sergei Kovalev v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employee-immunity first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-information freedom-of-speech government-accountability government-liability municipal-liability public-access qualified-immunity Whether the First Amendment guarantees the right to enter public offices and seek information or petition the government
19-6299 Victor Lopez v. Sterling Correctional Facility, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit appeals case-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment ineffective-assistance innocence judicial-review sentencing-enhancement substantial-innocence Whether Mr Lopez should be in prison on a case that the 10th Circuit found substantial Innocence on and the Trial Court Dismissing 3 cases that were u…
19-6302 James Philip Douglas v. Margaret Gilbert, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-6303 Jeffrey Jason Cooper v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process evidence fifth-amendment hearsay sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the lower Courts erred in allowing multiple hearsay statements of five alleged witnesses and other non-testifying witnesses whom did not testi…
19-6323 Michael Taffaro v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidence evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance interests-of-justice judicial-review perjury perjury-claim post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules standing testimony witness-testimony Whether a decision affirming exclusion of evidence can be correct without addressing the unrefuted assertion that it was excluded on plainly erroneous…
19-6344 Spencer Altschuler v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process negligence reckless-driving vehicular-homicide Whether the Due Process Clause requires the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the driver was driving recklessly
19-6350 Maurice Antoine-Hake Dobson-El v. Michigan Michigan Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing speedy-trial standing Whether the Warden Sons Coase tooncd C) abe to a Speedy
19-6351 Geoffrey Elkington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard state-court-deference trial-counsel Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the State Court finding that Petitioner was not prejudiced by Petitioner's trial attorney failing to enter i…
19-6366 Spencer Kerry Curtiss v. North Dakota North Dakota Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation Can a state's duty to provide guarantee of counsel in a criminal action be duly fulfilled when supplied representation is in violation of conflict-of-…
19-6367 James Eugene Keiser v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing trial-errors Whether the 4th Circuit exceeded the limited scope of the COA analysis
19-6371 Wesley Jefferson v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1505 18-usc-1515 18-usc-1519 civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery documentary-evidence due-process federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice qualified-immunity summary-judgment Would a United States Federal Court be in error, if it granted qualified immunity to a Defendant in a case, where video and/or documentary evidence, c…
19-6380 Emerson L. Beverly v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fair-trial-14th-amendment fair-trial-6th-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct red-herring sentencing-review sixth-amendment Did the prosecutor's repeated reference to petitioner's defense as a 'red hearing' constitute misconduct thereby denying petitioner a fair trial in vi…
19-6383 Nelli Kesoyan v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Court of Appeals adopt an erroneous interpretation of U.S.S.G. § 251.3(b)(3)?
19-6385 Neil Grenning v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability consecutive-sentencing due-process habeas habeas-corpus notice oregon-v-ice sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review straw-man Mr. Grenning's life sentence upon post-trial allegation of aggravating elements
19-6390 Edward L. Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial miranda-rights self-incrimination sixth-amendment Was the Petitioner's right to due process and freedom from self-incrimination violated?
19-6391 Robert Chin v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-intent criminal-law due-process homicide malicious-act mens-rea third-degree-murder unintended-consequence unintentional-act Is the due process clause offended where a criminal defendant is found guilty of conspiracy to commit third degree murder, which is a homicide that oc…
19-6392 Jeffrey F. Evers v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-exercise habeas-corpus merits-based-decision new-trial procedural-default public-accommodation religious-freedom same-sex-marriage standing state-licensing Does federal law under A952(c) permit a civil justice system to respond to a No-Merits review of a procedural default that can only be waived as a mer…
19-6394 Jacques Paul Villafana v. Henry Thomas Padrick, Jr. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine conflict-with-supreme-court fourth-circuit interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge memorandum-order supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's opinions on collateral orders
19-6397 Jose Gomez-Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense Did the court of appeals err in holding that robbery in violation of D.C. Code § 22-2801 categorically qualifies as an aggravated felony theft offense…
19-6404 Donald Lee Curtis v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process kidnapping statutory-conduct whether Seconds degree kidnapping and Armed Robbery Violate the Condtikutional right of double Jeopardy Upon Convictions and Panes ment oe beth offens…
19-6408 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access discovery discovery-motion due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandamus mandamus-request pro-se-representation Question not identified
19-6415 Jose Eleuterio Nava v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference district-court due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-6418 Wayne Neville Morris v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constructive-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error due-process fatal-variance fifth-amendment modified-categorical-approach rule-of-lenity sixth-amendment Whether a conviction based on an erroneous legal theory can be sustained when the petitioner presents clear and convincing evidence that the accused, …
19-6420 Christopher Mark Heath v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the mere presence of a firearm at the scene of a drug trafficking offense constitutes possession of the firearm 'in furtherance of' the conspi…
19-6421 Ralph Herman Fox, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fairness government-misconduct judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentencing statutory-maximum supervisory-powers Whether the district court violated due process and public policy by imposing the statutory maximum sentence despite the government's plea agreement t…
19-6423 Halisi Uhuru v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation federal-jurisdiction incarceration legal-proceeding mens-rea obstruction-of-justice rico rico-organization Whether the appellant was improperly convicted of RICO participation and obstruction of justice
19-6424 Anthony Darnell Stokes v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review conviction court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute obstruction-of-justice sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals misapplied 18 U.S.C.S. § 1512(c)(1)
19-6433 Edward Anthony Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-courts indian-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue magistrate-court native-american native-american-law ninth-circuit pretrial-decision standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court may, pretrial, decide an Indian status jurisdictional question
19-6436 Bharanidharan Padmanabhan v. Drug Enforcement Administration District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment administrative-law agency-deference controlled-substances controlled-substances-act due-process federal-agencies individual-rights liberty-interest property-interest state-authority state-law tenth-amendment Are federal agencies exempt from complying with the Tenth Amendment such that they can deem State law 'irrelevant' and violate the individual rights o…
19-6445 Lewellyn Charles Cox, IV, aka Sho, aka Showtime, aka Showtyme v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance right-to-self-representation self-representation self-representation-at-sentencing sentencing structural-error Whether denial of a right to self-representation during sentencing is subject to harmless error analysis or structural error
19-6448 Garrett Dean Door, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment. civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence liberty Whether the defendant was deprived of due process and liberty rights under the 14th Amendment by being denied the opportunity to present a defense to …
19-6450 Sherif Sayed Mahmoud v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutionality content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech penal-code standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions texas-penal-code Whether Section 33.021 of the Texas Penal Code is a content-based restriction
19-6456 Geoffrey Baggett v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confession-suppression custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights police-interrogation police-tactics prejudicial-error prejudicial-evidence right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether petitioner's confession should have been excluded from evidence because petitioner was the victim of misleading tactics leading up to being ad…
19-6461 Vernon Allen Collins v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-jury-instructions civil-rights collateral-challenges coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-rule jury-instructions laches laches-defense structural-errors Whether a writ of error coram nobis petition can be barred under the two-prong test of the laches defense that challenges the constitutionality of a c…
19-6471 Diego Alonso Lozano-Perez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-determination constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 standing voluntariness voluntary-plea Whether the Court made the Constitutionally required determination that the guilty plea was truly voluntary
19-6474 Christopher Andrew Tank v. Michigan Michigan Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-violation constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-violation criminal-procedure due-process dying-declaration prejudicial-effect sixth-amendment testimonial-dying-declarations testimonial-evidence Whether testimonial dying declarations violate the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment
19-6476 Charles Blunt v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process equitable-jurisdiction equity fraud fraud-allegations habeas-corpus pro-se-pleadings rule-60 standing Question not identified
19-6478 Abdul King Garba, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony jackson-v-virginia kumho-tire ninth-circuit restitution sufficiency-of-evidence sufficient-evidence supreme-court-precedent weight-vs-admissibility Whether the Ninth Circuit Memorandum conflicted with this Court's decisions (e.g., Kumho Tire) regarding whether unreliability of an expert's testimon…
19-6485 Ryan Van Stevenson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver criminal-procedure discretion due-process due-process,appellate-waiver,abuse-of-discretion,s evidence-standard extrinsic-evidence judicial-discretion preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing-enhancement Did the Court abuse its discretion when it enforced an appellate waiver on an issue that was outside the scope of the appellate waiver's provisions?
19-6486 Eduard Bangiyev v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1963 21-usc-853 co-conspirator-liability conspiracy criminal-forfeiture federal-statute personal-possession-or-use proceeds-of-crime property-forfeiture statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-honeycutt Whether the elements that availed the Supreme court decision in United States v. Honeycutt also apply more broadly to the 18 U.S.C.S. 1963 statute
19-6489 Clifford Gene Wallace v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-criminal-law texas-law threat ussg-4b1.2 Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2
19-6490 Ali Al-Maqablh v. Kentucky Kentucky Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review capta capta-compliance child-abuse-reporting civil-immunity civil-rights criminal-liability due-process federal-funding immunity immunity-statute kentucky-law misdemeanor-prosecution Whether Kentucky's prosecution of individuals who report suspected child abuse violates the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) i…
19-6491 Matthew Shaffer v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exclusionary-rule firearms-expert-testimony-drug-activity law-enforcement-testimony multiple-conspiracies-sentencing-enhancements rule-29-motion-sufficiency-of-evidence search-warrant sentencing-enhancement standing Whether the trial court erred in failing to conduct an evidentiary hearing and suppress evidence obtained under a search warrant
19-6494 Sandra J. Staten v. D.R. Horton Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights credit-opportunity-act discrimination due-process fair-housing-act housing-discrimination racial-discrimination veterans-benefits veterans-rights Whether due process was afforded to the Petitioner
19-6497 David Morillo-Cruz v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the sentence imposed by the Court was reasonable?
19-6503 Pedro Jorge Moreno-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause deportation fifth-amendment fifth-circuit immigration supreme-court testimonial-hearsay warrant-of-removal Is an immigration officer's signature on a warrant of removal attesting that he witnessed the alien depart the United States testimonial hearsay subje…
19-6505 Michael Ingram v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 21-usc-851-enhancement 28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255-f-4 federal-law federal-procedure federal-sentencing geographic-disparities geographic-disparity habeas-corpus sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-report statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limit time-limitation Where the United States Sentencing Commission publishes a report summarizing the geographic disparities in the application of the 21 U.S.C. §851 enhan…
19-6509 William Gaudet v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2423(a) appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-sentencing district-court evidence-exclusion evidence-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines judgment-of-acquittal motion-in-limine prior-testimony sentencing standard-of-review whether-the-appeals-court-erred-in-upholding-the-d Whether the appeals court erred in upholding the district court's denial of the petitioner's motion in limine
19-6511 Roberto Trinidad Del Carpio Frescas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-circuit mandatory-victims-restitution-act preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence reliable-evidence restitution restitution-standard sentencing What is the meaning of 'reliable evidence' for establishing the amount of restitution under the Mandatory Victim's Restitution Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3663A?
19-6515 Andre Verlin Anderson v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-eyewitness-identifi criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus-certificate-of-ap Did the district court commit reversible error whe Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eig due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus motion-to-suppress photographic-lineup reversible-error Did the district court commit reversible error by denying Petitioner's motion to suppress the unduly suggestive photographic lineup?
19-6525 Sean Trent Barnes v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-representation self-representation sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether Mr. Sean Trent Barnes' decision to waive counsel and represent himself was made voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently
19-6527 Ruben Patrick Valdes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-history evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sentencing-guidelines was-trial-counsel-constitutionally-ineffective
19-6529 James Tyson, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance rule-6-motion sealing-orders standing transparency Was the district court's denial of Petitioner's Rule 6 motion to unseal documents a denial of Petitioner's due-process rights?
19-6530 Vincent Williams v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924j concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-procedure davis davis-ruling davis-v-united-states habeas-corpus life-sentence life-sentences post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Vincent Williams' habeas corpus/post-conviction petition based on the Supreme Court's ruli…
19-6533 Kaleb L. Basey v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2703(f) digital-evidence digital-privacy email-privacy fourth-amendment government-request internet-service-provider search seizure warrantless-search Whether the warrantless preservation of private emails by an Internet Service Provider pursuant to a government request under 18 U.S.C. §2703(f) amoun…
19-6538 Levi Jermaine Griffin v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof child-pornography criminal-indictment criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea possession-of-child-pornography reasonable-doubt statutory-elements Whether the evidence was insufficient to satisfy the government's burden to prove the element of knowledge as to the possession of child pornography c…
19-6539 Dwayne Dumont Haizlip v. Joseph Valliere Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourteenth-amendment habitual-felon-law habitual-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing Whether the federal court erred in upholding the petitioner's mandatory sentence for a drug-trafficking conviction under North Carolina General Statut…
19-6547 Kevin Sterling v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmance appeal appointed-counsel cja-18-usc-3006 criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-44 federal-rules-criminal-procedure gideon-v-wainwright inability-to-pay legal-representation right-to-counsel writ-of-certiorari Whether defendant should have been appointed counsel
19-6549 Jose Laureano Salgado v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-appeal direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment ongoing-disclosure pending-appeal prosecutorial-misconduct Does this Court's holding in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) require the Government to disclose, while an appeal is pending, exculpatory or impe…
19-6550 Christian James Gieseke v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2255 28-usc-2255 6th-amendment counsel-misfeasance defenses duty-to-mitigate evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction pretrial-detainee When a post-conviction movant proceeding under 28-U.S.C-2255 raises claims which would entitle him to relief, does the lack of proffered evidence nega…
19-6551 Neil Timothy Aho v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure discovery guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines withdrawal-of-plea Whether the appellate court erred in not finding that the district court abused its discretion by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his guilty p…
19-6552 Darrell Tykwan Atkinson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi…
19-6554 Brandon Gregory Leal v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apportionment criminal-procedure judicial-procedure paroline-analysis paroline-v-united-states plain-error proximate-cause restitution victim-compensation Whether failure to conduct a proximate cause and apportionment analysis as required by this Court's decision in Paroline v. United States, 572 U.S. 43…
19-6555 Courtney Johnson v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ability-to-pay appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fine-imposition fines indigent-defendant judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a district court errs by imposing a fine upon an indigent defendant, represented by appointed counsel, without making any inquiry into the def…
19-6557 Steven Nygren v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-impairment competency-to-stand-trial forensic-evaluation malingering material-evidence obstruction-of-justice rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-3c1.1 u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 Whether a defendant's purported malingering during forensic evaluations to assess competency to stand trial, when the defendant had a medically docume…
19-6560 Matthew Joseph Lucio v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea habeas-corpus plea-agreement united-states-court-of-appeals Whether Mr. Lucio's plea agreement which extracted his guilty plea lacks consideration, and if so, whether his guilty plea violates the Fifth Amendmen…
19-6569 Keyon W. Carraway v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether there is a reasonable probability that the court of appeals would conclude that Rehaif v. United States requires knowledge of a firearm's inte…
19-6571 Francisco Illarramendi v. John J. Carney, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2462 civil-actions civil-procedure civil-procedure-statute-of-limitations-sec-28-usc- collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process pdvsa-venezuela sec sec-enforcement sec-receiver-parallel-criminal-proceedings statute-of-limitations summary-judgment summary-judgment-collateral-estoppel summary-judgment-standard-tolan-v-cotton supreme-court-doctrine Do lower courts have an inherent duty to properly apply doctrine of this Supreme Court that confirms the applicability of the Statute of Limitations -…
19-6572 Derrick Hills v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-proceeding coram-nobis criminal-matter federal-criminal-matter federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge united-states-v-morgan Whether Rule 12(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure is applicable to coram nobis civil proceedings that challenge jurisdiction in a feder…
19-6573 Garron Gonzalez v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probation probation-search search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence unreasonable-search Whether the Fourth Amendment required suppression of evidence found during warrantless interception of incoming calls on a jailed probationer's cell p…
19-6576 James Marvin Reed v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP blackledge-v-perry circuit-court-review district-court district-court-power eighth-circuit guilty-plea jurisdictional-challenge penson-review subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-cotton waiver Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in ruling that the defendant waived his jurisdictional challenge by pleading guilty, despite the well-settled princip…
19-6583 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit graham-v-florida gross-disproportionality proportionality sentencing statutory-limits Whether the proper analysis to determine a threshold showing of gross disproportionality on an Eighth Amendment claim
19-6584 Steven Williams v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cooperating-witnesses cooperation-agreement credibility-bolstering direct-examination due-process government-vouching prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching truth-telling witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether it is a violation of due process for the government to bolster the testimony of cooperating witnesses
19-6587 Jose Joel Helguera-Del Rio v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop Does an officer's seizure of an object only after crouching down, carefully examining it for several seconds, and obtaining another officer's second o…
19-6591 In Re Kenneth Uncapher Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury jury-bias jury-misconduct mistrial newly-discovered-evidence victim Was the Petitioner denied a fair trial?
19-6597 Thiodore Igorovich Galitsa v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility criminal-history criminal-procedure-due-process cross-examination dismissed-case dismissed-charges due-process fair-trial false-statements illegal-reentry prior-arrests prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness Was Mr. Galitsa denied his right to a fair trial?
19-6645 In Re Morgan Allen Armstrong Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process fabrication-of-evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing Did the state court fabricate the evidence used to convict the petitioner, violate his right to a fair trial, and deny him due process?
19A21 Monue Forkpayea Geimah v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M71 James McIntosh v. Mark Kirby, Warden, et al. Third Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M72 Jimmy Lee Sharbutt v. N. Vasquez, Warden Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M73 Jeffrey G. Carswell, et al. v. E. Pihl & Son, et al. Second Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M74 David Johnson v. Court of Claims of Illinois Illinois Presumed Complete None
19M75 Oliver Lee White v. United States Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M76 Solomon Upshaw v. United States First Circuit Presumed Complete None
22O151 Arizona, Plaintiff v. Richard Sackler, et al. Pending Amici (1) None