| 18-1461 |
Dawn Marie Delebreau v. Cristina Danforth, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 bivens civil-rights constitutional-equality domestic-dependent-nations due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction native-american-rights section-1983 sovereign-immunity territorial-jurisdiction tribal-law tribal-sovereignty |
Are tribal laws considered territorial laws under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 such that Native Americans must also have an equal § 1983 remedy when Indians are c… |
| 18-1472 |
In Re Christopher Hadsell |
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Denied |
Relisted (2) |
access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct jurisdiction mandamus standing unauthorized-practice-law unauthorized-practice-of-law vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes |
Whether the trial court's actions violated the petitioner's equal protection rights by entering a judgment without personal jurisdiction, subject matt… |
| 18-1573 |
Zsolt Petko, et al. v. Carelton Courtyard |
Texas |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process justice-of-peace justice-of-the-peace legal-action probable-cause property-rights texas-law texas-rules-of-civil-procedure towing towing-law |
Does towing a person's car constitute a legal action? |
| 18-1583 |
Lewis F. Carter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
7th-amendment article-i-powers civil-procedure constitutional-taxing-power direct-tax due-process judicial-estoppel standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax tax-enforcement tax-power |
Can the district court violate the doctrine of judicial-estoppel |
| 18-9018 |
Jupiter Dennell Wilson, Sr. v. City of Chesapeake, Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
age-discrimination age-retaliation certiorari-review circuit-court-conflict civil-rights fraud fraud-allegations fraud-on-the-record judicial-discretion race-discrimination race-retaliation retaliation |
Whether the United States Supreme Court can affirm the Fourth Circuit's certification of the consolidated case |
| 18-9134 |
Joe Clopton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
amending-indictment brady-violation burden-of-proof child-support cps-records criminal-procedure defense-strategy double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence false-allegations grand-jury ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense medical-records nolo-contendere plain-error sixth-amendment social-worker-testimony |
Whether the medical records were improperly excluded from evidence |
| 18-9147 |
Donald G. Flint v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment boykin-admonishments constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea judicial-precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Was the federal district court's finding and the Fifth Circuit Court's finding contrary to the precedent of the Supreme Court, as well as a violation … |
| 18-9489 |
Aaron J. Bressi v. John Gembic, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
amendment appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-process legal-claims procedural-rules remand standing supervisory-power writ-of-certiorari |
Why the Honorable United States District Court ordered the case closed without granting a 30-day order to amend the complaint |
| 18-9540 |
Clifton D. Harvin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence actual-innocence-exception aedpa district-court due-process federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations |
When a Petitioner relies upon the McQuiggin V Perkins 133 S.Ct. 1924 miscarriage of justice actual innoccence exception to overcome the AEDPA one year… |
| 18-9593 |
Faye Beatrice Hayes v. Terri Gorman, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment employment-discrimination internal-complaint retaliation title-vii |
Whether excluding internal complaints for the plaintiff's retaliation claim on the ground that the claim was administratively barred because it was no… |
| 18-9783 |
Nasser Ghelichkhani v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-validity coram-nobis criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-error fundamental-rights guilty-plea immigration immigration-consequences plea-bargaining |
Whether a conviction, with tremendous adverse consequences, is constitutionally valid, when it is obtained through a plea (that does not waive appeali… |
| 19-177 |
Agency for International Development, et al. v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6) |
civil-rights federal-funding first-amendment foreign-policy free-speech funding-conditions hiv-aids overseas-affiliates prostitution speech-restriction standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Amendment bars enforcement of Congress's directive that respondents 'have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution and sex traffick… |
| 19-181 |
Lance Patterson v. Indiana Family and Social Services Administration |
Indiana |
Denied |
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administrative-interpretation agency-deference federal-law federal-regulation garnished-income garnishment income-calculation income-received medicaid medicaid-liability nursing-home nursing-home-payment state-agency-deference |
Whether a state Medicaid agency must include garnished income in 'income received' when calculating a nursing home resident's liability |
| 19-202 |
Solomon McLemore v. City of Shoreline, Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking due-process fourth-amendment free-speech obstruction obstruction-of-justice probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-entry warrantless-search |
Whether it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment for States to charge and convict a person of obstruction for passively refusing to open the door to … |
| 19-223 |
Janice Smyth v. Conservation Commission of Falmouth, et al. |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
character-of-government-action character-of-governmental-action economic-impact investment-backed-expectations investment-expectations land-use-regulation penn-central penn-central-test property-rights property-value regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings-clause-5th-amendment |
Whether the loss of all developmental use of property and a 91.5% decline in its value is a sufficient 'economic impact' to support a regulatory takin… |
| 19-235 |
Richard Jordan, et al. v. Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
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burden-of-proof civil-rights corrections-department death-penalty discovery discovery-rights due-process eighth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection method-of-execution section-1983 standing |
Whether the burden of proof demanded by Glossip in method-of-execution challenges requires commensurately broad discovery rights to provide plaintiffs… |
| 19-236 |
Achashverosh Adnah Ammiyhuwd v. Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine dred-scott due-process equal-protection foreign-sovereign-immunity functional-immunity habeas-corpus standing state-action-immunity yick-wo |
Whether orders denying state-action-immunity, functional-immunity, foreign-sovereign-immunity, are immediately appealable under the collateral-order-d… |
| 19-247 |
City of Boise, Idaho v. Robert Martin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (20)Relisted (2) |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment homeless-rights homelessness local-government-powers local-government-regulation public-camping public-health-and-safety |
Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating public camping and sleeping constitute 'cruel and unusual punishment' prohibited by the E… |
| 19-267 |
Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Agnes Morrissey-Berru |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
civil-court-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-religion-clauses free-speech hosanna-tabor hosanna-tabor-precedent ministerial-exception religious-employer religious-employment religious-freedom religious-functions standing |
Whether the Religion Clauses prevent civil courts from adjudicating employment discrimination claims brought by an employee against her religious empl… |
| 19-281 |
Capital Associated Industries, Inc. v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-speech first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association legal-assistance legal-services non-profit non-profit-organizations professional-licensing strict-scrutiny |
Do the North Carolina statutes prohibiting the Association's attorneys from providing legal assistance to its members violate the freedom of associati… |
| 19-292 |
Roxanne Torres v. Janice Madrid, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
apprehension circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment physical-force police-force seizure |
Is an unsuccessful attempt to detain a suspect by use of physical force a 'seizure' within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 19-348 |
St. James School v. Darryl Biel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kristen Biel |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4) |
civil-courts civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-speech hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception religion-clauses |
Whether the Religion Clauses prevent civil courts from adjudicating employment discrimination claims brought by an employee against her religious empl… |
| 19-357 |
City of Chicago, Illinois v. Robbin L. Fulton, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
11-usc-362 affirmative-obligation automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure debtor-trustee property-retention property-rights |
Whether an entity that is passively retaining possession of property in which a bankruptcy estate has an interest has an affirmative obligation under … |
| 19-438 |
Clemente Avelino Pereida v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General |
Eighth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5) |
ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach circuit-split conviction-record federal-offense immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether … |
| 19-462 |
A Top New Casting Incorporated v. Bodum USA, Incorporated |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
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apple-v-samsung circuit-split cost-advantage design-simplicity functionality manufacturing-cost manufacturing-costs manufacturing-process materials product-design trade-dress |
Whether the Seventh Circuit departed from TrafFix in its trade dress functionality analysis |
| 19-469 |
John Hsu v. City of Berkeley, California |
California |
Denied |
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arbitrary-enforcement california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness |
Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 19-471 |
Frederick Collins Fermin v. Priest of Saint Mary-Marfa, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
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baptism civil-rights constitutional-law due-process evidence exodus fourteenth-amendment jesus-christ religious-freedom standing |
Were petitioner's civil rights violated upon being baptized illegally? |
| 19-473 |
Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Dasler |
Vermont |
Denied |
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14th-amendment 5th-amendment best-interest-of-the-child child-custody domestic-violence due-process due-process-14th-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-14th-amendment parental-rights |
Is it a violation of 14th Amendment right of equal protection when a single self-serving accusation is used as the basis to permanently award sole par… |
| 19-476 |
Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud housing-dispute judicial-discrimination judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant retaliation sanctions standing state-officer-misconduct |
Can state officers discriminate against pro se litigants? |
| 19-477 |
Arletta J. Kurowski v. Estate of Kenneth H. Kurowski, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
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collateral-estoppel court-of-competent-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rights full-and-fair-opportunity-to-litigate judicial-competency native-american-rights tribal-court-exhaustion tribal-court-jurisdiction |
Upon tribal court exhaustion must District Courts perform a threshold inquiry to protect the Indian Petitioners' federal 25 U.S.C. § 1302 rights? |
| 19-483 |
Elsie Marino v. Jeffrey Nadel, dba Law Offices of Jeffrey Nadel, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
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creditor debt-assignment debt-collection fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure foreclosure-action postjudgment-remedy standing statutory-interpretation trustee trustee-status |
Whether a trustee that receives assignment or transfer of a debt, as trustee for beneficial interest holders solely to bring a foreclosure action, can… |
| 19-496 |
DISH Network L.L.C. v. Thomas H. Krakauer, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
article-iii civil-rights class-action concrete-injury due-process judicial-jurisdiction spokeo-v-robins standing statutory-damages statutory-right telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether a bare violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act constitutes concrete injury for purposes of Article III standing |
| 19-5007 |
Jonathan Paul Sikes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence credibility-of-witnesses criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia juvenile-offender reasonable-doubt sexual-offenses standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-credibility |
Does the Northern District Court's decision conflict with the holding in Jackson v. Virginia as the Northern District Court misapplied the standard in… |
| 19-504 |
Kara Bowes v. Christina Melito, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees central-r-&-banking-co-v-pettus class-action common-fund incentive-awards litigation-expenses precedent precedential-force representative-plaintiffs trustees-v-greenough |
Do the holdings of Greenough and Pettus, which prohibit payments in common-fund cases to compensate representative plaintiffs for their service to the… |
| 19-519 |
Psara Energy Ltd. v. ST Shipping & Transport Pte. Ltd., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
admiralty-law admiralty-maritime admiralty-maritime-law civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction interpleader jurisdiction maritime-garnishment mootness supplemental-rules |
Whether the jurisdiction a court of appeals has over a district court's vacatur of a maritime garnishment under Rule B(1) of the Supplemental Rules fo… |
| 19-524 |
Roque De La Fuente, aka Rocky v. Alex Padilla, California Secretary of State, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
anderson-burdick anderson-burdick-framework ballot-access ballot-clutter constitutional-review election-law independent-candidates presidential-election presidential-elections signature-requirements voter-confusion |
When evidence is adduced that signature collection requirements to secure ballot access for independent presidential candidates exceed what is necessa… |
| 19-5253 |
Jonathan Thomas Wright v. Adam Holley, Acting Commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles |
West Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-process appellate-procedure due-process due-process-rights fifth-amendment mootness state-agency state-statute stay-order |
Whether it is a violation of a substantial due process rights for a State agency to proceed with punishments in violation of state statute and a Stay … |
| 19-5278 |
Duryane Lewis Chaney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca categorical-approach criminal-law davis drug-offense sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the determination of a serious drug offense under the ACCA requires the same categorical approach used in the determination of a violent felon… |
| 19-5282 |
James Odell Baxter, II v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ability-to-pay circuit-split civil-rights criminal-restitution due-process federal-tort-claims-act incarceration-damages medical-negligence mental-distress settlement-funds |
Did the D.C. Circuit err in affirming the order requiring payment of Federal Tort Claim settlement funds towards a criminal restitution order, when th… |
| 19-5302 |
Bryant Keith Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment damages due-process free-speech habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Whether the State of Florida can impose a life sentence on an individual despite a jury's recommendation of a lesser sentence |
| 19-540 |
Andre Jenkins v. City of Cleveland, Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights concurrent-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture forfeiture-procedure in-rem-jurisdiction property-rights seizure standing warrantless-seizure |
Whether the warrantless seizure of money for forfeiture can be justified |
| 19-5409 |
Brady Daniel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-constitution warrantless-search |
Whether the actions of Nawis County Sheriff's Department violate the constitutional and statutory rights of petitioner Brady A. Daniel under the Fourt… |
| 19-5459 |
Edward Lee Carter v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether a criminal defendant is constitutionally entitled to a fair trial from an impartial judge who is not corrupt to preside and rule over his tria… |
| 19-5574 |
Anthony Ray Welch v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-importation drug-offenses fifth-circuit listed-chemicals mens-rea methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense scienter scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether scienter is required for the two-level increase under USSG §2D1.1(b)(5) for the importation or manufacture of methamphetamine from imported ch… |
| 19-5722 |
Moses Shepard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
30-70-day-clock circuit-split constructive-amendment due-process grand-jury-clause indictment-clause plain-error speedy-trial-act subsequent-indictment superseding-indictment |
Whether a 'subsequent replacement indictment' restarts the Speedy Trial Act clock or if 'superseding' indictments are automatically excluded |
| 19-5808 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-anti-injunction-act retaliation retaliatory-prosecution second-amendment selective-prosecution standing takings |
Whether the actions described in the email are protected by the US Second Amendment |
| 19-614 |
Cesar Vizcarra, et al. v. Monica Ortiz, Individually and as Co-Successor in Interest to Decedent Christian Pena, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby armed-suspect civil-rights excessive-force interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones law-enforcement mitchell-v-forsyth qualified-immunity summary-judgment taser use-of-force |
Whether qualified immunity bars liability for officers' use of force against an armed, combative suspect |
| 19-617 |
Nekebwe Superville v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aggravated-felony attorney-misadvice deportation Padilla-v-Kentucky plea-agreement will equivocal-warnings 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure deportation-consequences immigration ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-warning plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
When conducting an analysis under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f) and Strickland v. Washington, will equivocal warnings given by a judge pursuant to Fed. R. Crim.… |
| 19-621 |
Thomas F. Sweeney v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure adverse-personnel-action agency-decision-making air-traffic-control civil-rights due-process employment-law federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board mspb personnel-action termination |
Is a final decision to terminate the training of a FAA Air Traffic Control Specialist — In Training employee by FAA management a reduction in grade or… |
| 19-6228 |
Anson Chi v. Andrew Stover, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus judicial-review medical-records post-conviction-review procedural-default torture |
Was the U.S. Court of Appeals intentionally delaying the mailing of its December 7, 2018 opinion |
| 19-6237 |
Terry G. Watson v. Chantay Godert, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred in not granting a certificate of appealability on the petitioner's claims of prosecutor… |
| 19-6239 |
Randell Glen Laws v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent jurisdictional-challenge merits-review procedural-due-process supervisory-power |
Whether a federal appellate court necessitates the exercise of the Supreme Court's supervisory power when it decides that a petitioner/appellant has n… |
| 19-6245 |
Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Stanislaus County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus immunity ninth-circuit parental-rights pro-se procedural-default standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether incarcerated pro se litigants' custody, parental rights, property, and financial matters are at issue in a bona fide civil action seeking acce… |
| 19-6250 |
Father v. Maternal Grandparents |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
adoption adoption-consent civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-law |
Whether incarcerated parents have a due-process right to consent to adoption of their children under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-6259 |
Keino S. Chrichlow v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abandonment-of-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-process civil-rights constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing |
whether-an-indigent-defendant-is-entitled-to-equitable-toll-where-he-was-denied-the-right-to-challenge-his-sentence-and-convictions-by-way-of-direct-a… |
| 19-635 |
Donald J. Trump v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of the County of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Response Waived |
article-2 article-ii article-two constitutional-law criminal-investigation executive-power grand-jury-subpoena immunity president presidential-immunity separation-of-powers subpoena supremacy-clause |
Whether this subpoena violates Article II and the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution |
| 19-6411 |
Tyler Joseph Barefield v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-perpetrator alternative-perpetrator-evidence constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence right-to-defense right-to-present-defense state-evidentiary-requirements state-evidentiary-rules |
To what extent may a State restrict the ability of a defendant to present evidence tending to establish that another person committed the offense? |
| 19-644 |
Melba L. Ford v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anomalies civil-forfeiture constitutional-rights doj due-process irs judicial-review legal-assistance right-to-counsel standing |
Does a defendant in an IRS/DoJ civil forfeiture proceeding have a constitutionally protected, due process right to counsel? |
| 19-6441 |
In Re Sherman Alexander Lynch |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the 'fundamental miscarriage of justice' exception under the Carrier standard |
| 19-655 |
In Re Dimitri J. Patterson |
|
Denied |
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civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus legal-documentation procedural-challenge standing state-custody |
Should a Petitioner raising a 28-U.S.C-2241-habeas-corpus petition remain in State custody without certified legal documentation in violation of his c… |
| 19-6581 |
Javier Leon v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance material-variance methamphetamine-charge search-and-seizure |
Whether counsel's failure to subject the government's case to strict adversarial testing, by reason of a fickle, bare-bones 'mere presence' theory of … |
| 19-6600 |
Barry Lernard Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion 60b-motion abuse-of-discretion coa-brief court-of-appeals due-process evidentiary-hearing manifest-injustice procedural-due-process psr psr-challenge section-2255 sentencing-claim sentencing-evidence sentencing-issue sentencing-review |
Where petitioner attacked evidence; State's Certified Motion to Dismiss allegation in his PSR, of R.D., to his 2255 Motion, and argued his evidence in… |
| 19-6601 |
Kevin Battle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-prosecution categorical-approach categorical-match circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction realistic-probability sentencing state-conviction state-court state-crime |
Whether a defendant must point to an actual state-court prosecution to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sent… |
| 19-6602 |
Carey Ackies, aka Boyd v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-tracking criminal-procedure direct-review drug-offense first-step-act law-enforcement-surveillance location-tracking search-and-seizure sentencing-thresholds surveillance |
Whether a cell phone is a 'tracking device' under 18 U.S.C. § 3117(b) |
| 19-6606 |
Ryan T. Root v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-errors double-prosecution due-process ineffective-counsel law-and-fact merger-doctrine miscarriage-of-justice money-laundering plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether cumulative errors led to a miscarriage of justice |
| 19-6610 |
Mario Alberto Rubi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-procedure door-doctrine evidence expert-testimony fingerprint-evidence fingerprints open-door-doctrine open-the-door precedent standard-of-review unknowing-courier |
Whether the court of appeals erred in finding Mr. Rubi opened the door to expert testimony regarding unknowing couriers |
| 19-6615 |
Jayvonne Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights appellate-rights appellate-waiver collateral-relief criminal-sentencing due-process involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-agreements statutory-entitlement statutory-rights |
Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement? |
| 19-6616 |
Alberino Magi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-procedure criminal-fines criminal-penalty criminal-restitution due-process jury-finding jury-findings jury-trial sentencing southern-union southern-union-v-united-states |
Should the rule of Apprendi apply to the imposition of criminal restitution? |
| 19-6619 |
Genesis Lee Whitted v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight fourth-circuit indictment relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-1b1.3 time-interval |
Whether the district court improperly expanded Guideline § 1B1.3 by including drug amounts associated with conduct occurring significantly outside the… |
| 19-6620 |
John Kevin Waldrip v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it refused to vacate the $15,000 special assessments |
| 19-6621 |
Jaquan Walters v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit criminal-law deadly-force due-process federal-common-law imperfect-self-defense manslaughter murder murder-mitigation self-defense unreasonable-belief voluntary-manslaughter |
Does 'imperfect self-defense' exist as a partial defense to murder at federal common law? |
| 19-6623 |
Mario Denane Fultz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
intentional physical force or by intimidation' to include the use of violent criminal-law criminal-statutes federal-crimes federal-criminal-statutes federal-robbery-statutes force force-clause force-definition intentional-force legislative-intent physical-force statutory-construction statutory-interpretation violence violent-crime |
Whether Congress intended the phrase 'by force and violence, or by intimidation' that appears in multiple federal criminal statutes to include the use… |
| 19-6626 |
Allen Dodson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
34-usc-20913(d) administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon… |
| 19-6627 |
Andre Williamson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-standard boykin-v-alabama due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness mental-health mental-health-defendant mental-health-defendants plea-agreement plea-agreements plea-bargaining sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Will the Supreme Court re-affirm Boykin v. Alabama and Strickland v. Washington for mentally challenged defendants? |
| 19-6635 |
Matthew Paul Borowski v. Kimberly Bechelli, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment judicial-remedial-structure judicial-remedies section-1983 section-2 standing ziglar-v-abbasi |
Is the judicial remedial structure created in Ziglar v. Abbasi constitutional under Article III, Section 2? |
| 19-6640 |
Ramelus D. Bradley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review civil-rights federal-law federal-law-violation fourth-amendment gps-tracking jones-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search |
Whether the circuit court erred when it failed to find that the state court had violated federal law and in doing so, violated petitioner Bradley's Fo… |
| 19-6641 |
Michael Anthony Clayton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
Must an Officer Tell a Criminal Suspect in Custody That He Has the Right to Have an Attorney Present During the Interview, in Order to Use the Suspect… |
| 19-6643 |
John Forrest v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactive-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-correction sentencing-review successive-motion supreme-court |
Can a successive §2255 motion under Johnson open the door and allow for collateral review of enumerated clause predicates invalidated under Descamps a… |
| 19-6665 |
Wesley Harlan Kingsbury v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-coercion section-2255 voluntariness |
Was the petitioner entitled to an evidentiary hearing on his motion to vacate his plea? |
| 19M77 |
John M. Wasson v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M78 |
Francisco Guerrero Hernandez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M79 |
William L. Robinson, Jr. v. Thomas P. Dore |
Maryland |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M80 |
Mohammed Keita v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
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