Conference: 2020-01-10

462 cases — 0 granted, 461 denied/dismissed, 1 pending

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18-1140 Avco Corporation v. Jill Sikkelee, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Sikkelee, Deceased, et al. Third Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) aircraft-design aviation-safety design-defect federal-aviation-act federal-preemption field-preemption impossibility-preemption preemption product-liability state-law Whether the Federal Aviation Act preempts state-law design-defect claims
18-1222 Christopher Andre Vialva v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied capital-case certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure habeas-corpus integrity-of-proceedings judicial-misconduct rule-60(b) rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b successive-habeas-petition successive-petition Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability to review whether Petitioner's Rule 60(b)(6) motion challenging a procedural…
18-415 HP Inc., fka Hewlett-Packard Company v. Steven E. Berkheimer Federal Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-framework civil-procedure claim-construction inventive-concept judicial-exception patent patent-eligibility question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 standing Whether patent eligibility is a question of law for the court based on the scope of the claims or a question of fact for the jury based on the state o…
18-540 Leslie Rutledge, Attorney General of Arkansas v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Eighth Circuit Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (20)Relisted (2) circuit-split drug-reimbursement eighth-circuit erisa-preemption health-care-law pbm-regulation pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation state-regulation Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that Arkansas's statute regulating PBMs' drug-reimbursement rates, which is similar to laws enacted by a s…
18-6992 Brandon Bernard v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-misconduct-allegations standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its reading of Gonzalez v. Crosby, allowing Rule 60(b) motions to remedy procedural defects in habeas proceedings
18-7571 Gabriel Cervantes Valencia v. Dave Davey, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction Whether the Civcurh, Districk and Strode Courts denials and akesmissals of Petihwners BRADY VIOLATION Claim violate pebbroners bye Process Rights Guav…
18-817 Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. Federal Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) generic-drugs inventive-concept medical-patent medical-treatment method-of-treatment natural-law patent-eligibility routine-and-conventional section-101 Whether patents that claim a method of medically treating a patient automatically satisfy Section 101 of the Patent Act, even if they apply a natural …
18-8818 Cornell D. Reynolds v. Randall Hepp, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeal appellate-rights appointed-counsel attorney-client attorney-compensation conflict-of-interest due-process indigent-defendant indigent-defense statutory-provisions Should the conflict of interest doctrine be extended to include financial conflicts between attorney and client; and/or whether a state creates a fata…
18-9153 Albert Randolph v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-review prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-provisions supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying Petitioner a new trial?
18-9203 Leslie E. Thomas v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Union County Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appeals-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-authority court-hierarchy district-court due-process federal-courts jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction procedural-standing standing state-court Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit have jurisdiction?
18-9247 Hitoshi Ombe v. Susana Martinez, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP autism-disability civil-rights cognitive-ability competency competency-ability disability due-process emotional-damages executive-function instrumental-aggression knowledge-of-disability legal-competency pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing Does the depressed autism minority have adequate competency or ability to litigate on his own (pro se) without any help or support?
18-926 Putnam Investments, LLC, et al. v. John Brotherston, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. First Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (2) active-management burden-of-proof circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty index-funds investment-options loss-causation Whether an ERISA plaintiff bears the burden of proving loss causation
18-9269 Darrell Reynolds v. Circuit Court of Kentucky, Laurel County Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
18-9285 Dean A. Schwartzmiller v. California California Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech overbreadth penal-code sixth-amendment vagueness void-for-vagueness Is California Penal Code § 288 void for vagueness and overbreadth and contrary to the First, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments
18-9308 Clarence Scranage, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner waived his Fifth and Sixth Amendment Rights
18-9317 Lena Lasher v. Naomi Reice Buchwald, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure code-of-federal-regulations due-process federal-appeals-court federal-courts injunctive-relief judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal subject-matter-jurisdiction Should an injuctive relief be granted to address a federal appeals court's violation of the Code of Federal Regulations of Reconsideration Panel, 38 C…
18-9325 Davion L. Jefferson v. United States Tenth Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c constitutional-rights crime-of-violence directed-verdict due-process jury-trial jury-trial-clause sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the district court violated the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's Jury Trial Clause by directing a verdict on 18 …
18-9338 Noah F. Corbitt v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas-corpus standing state-remedies time-limits Has a state or federal court made a decision on the violations of the constitution?
18-9345 Billy Gene Drake v. Les Parish, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals due-process findings findings-of-fact judicial-review lower-court lower-court-decisions procedural-rights standing Was the petitioner's procedural due process violated by the U.S. Court of Appeals decision to adopt the lower court's findings?
18-9439 Danea M. Addison v. Indiana, dba Family and Social Services Administration Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction medicaid standing statutory-interpretation Whether the state of Indiana's 'Indiana Medicaid' program violates the ADA and the U.S. Constitution against the petitioner
18-9441 Regina Lewis v. Newburgh Housing Authority, et al. Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP accommodation accommodation-rights ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process housing-authority judicial-improvement-act judicial-procedure notice rehabilitation-act standing Did the Newburgh Housing Authority violate the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 § 112 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
18-9443 Arthur L. Campbell v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review statute-of-limitations Whether the Sixth Circuit committed plain error in considering the merits of Campbell's appeal without issuing a certificate of appealability first
18-9447 QuintIn Irving Brown v. Virginia Virginia Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-boundaries jurisdiction jurisdictional-overreach procedural-error reversal state-law territorial-jurisdiction venue When a conviction occurs in any state of the United States where a county's jurisdiction occurs over 2,200 yards beyond its 300-yard permissible juris…
18-9455 Scott William Dummert v. Renee Ngo Nevada Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process expert-affidavit financial-hardship medical-expert medical-malpractice reasons-for-granting standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions Whether the Nevada Supreme Court erred in dismissing petitioner's medical malpractice claim against respondent for lack of standing despite petitioner…
18-9486 Clifford Abshire v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest property-interest sandin-v-conner Are prison disciplinary hearings considered 'communicative acts,' entitled to the protections of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution…
18-9491 William A. Trudeau, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquitted-conduct article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process further-review procedural-default sentencing Whether petitioner raised substantial showing of denial of constitutional right
18-9495 Jason Jones v. Martha Underwood, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-remedy intervening-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-construction Whether petitioner is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241
18-9506 Kenyon Raheen Gadsden v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is timely under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3) when it claims that Johnson v. United States invalidates the residual c…
18-9508 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. I. Jimenez Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment appeals civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process internal-bleeding medical-care medical-indifference ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment triable-issues Deliberate-indifference-to-medical-needs
18-9516 Starquineshia Palmer v. Florida Florida Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 12-person-jury 6-person-jury constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-size sixth-amendment trial-by-jury williams-v-florida Was Petitioner denied her right to a trial by jury as contemplated by the Sixth Amendment
18-9582 In Re E. Edward Zimmermann Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights due-process employment-conditions federal-preemption federalism government-regulation labor-law labor-relations labor-rights national-labor-relations-act statutory-interpretation workplace-governance Are 'terms and conditions of employment and working conditions' as defined by The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), subject matter left to free peo…
18-9623 Robert William Wazney v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-relief asset-freezing constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidence indigent-defendant Whether the courts have abridged the defendant's 14th Amendment due-process, equal-protection rights by disregarding evidence and barring appellate re…
18-9624 Robert William Wazney v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for X
18-9715 Johnny Curtis Bedgood v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure critical-stage evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pre-trial-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancements whether-the-us-district-court-abused-its-discretion
18-9736 Darius Kinney v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrant warrantless-search Were Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights violated?
18-9741 Quintin Irving Brown v. City of Richmond, Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct misdemeanor-reduction probation-violation prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial void-judgment When a trial occurs over a defendant's expressed objections to a violation of that state's statutory right to speedy trial, when should the conviction…
18-9750 John G. Curry v. Mark Joseph Lopez, Associate Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act civil-rights-violations constitutional-deprivation due-process federal-forum federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity mandamus mandamus-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Whether John G. Curry or someone similarly situated can be denied a federal forum, contrary to standards, by misapplication of doctrines, such as Rook…
18-9751 Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa brady-violation castro-v-us constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance non-successiveness panetti-v-quarterman Does the Appellate Court's obscure Panel denials violate the 1996 A.E.D.P.A. Constitutional Due Process question in conflict with the Certiorari decis…
18-9766 Raymond Tyrone Lewis v. William O. Farmer, Sheriff, Sumter County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit essential-requirements-of-law motion-for-reconsideration standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal abused its discretion and deviated from the essential requirements of law
18-9807 Robert Wilson, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enumerated-offense-clause acca-statute criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove sentencing court relied on residual clause
18-9814 Robert Wazney v. Sharon Wazney Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process government-action jurisdiction standing takings Has the government's action violated the petitioner's constitutional rights?
19-102 Leroy Baca v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 18-usc-1503 consciousness-of-wrongdoing constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-willfulness jury-anonymity mens-rea obstruction-of-justice public-trial specific-intent Whether the term 'corruptly' in 18 U.S.C. § 1503 requires the government to prove that the defendant had a 'specific intent to obtain an unlawful adva…
19-156 Diego Baldemar Islas v. Texas Texas Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) blood-seizure fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware misleading-by-commission misleading-by-omission probable-cause schmerber-v-california search-and-seizure warrant-requirements Does the holding of Franks v. Delaware forbid misleading by omission as well as misleading by commission?
19-166 Matthew J. Rosenwasser v. Fordham University, et al. Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process federal-funding statute-of-limitations title-ix university university-liability Whether a federally-funded university's consistent, deliberate, and intentional denial of a Title IX investigation tolls the statute of limitations fo…
19-199 Manfredo M. Salinas v. United States Railroad Retirement Board Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued administrative-law agency-decision-making benefits-determination final-decision judicial-review railroad-retirement-act railroad-retirement-board railroad-unemployment-insurance-act statutory-interpretation Whether the Railroad Retirement Board's denial of a request to reopen a prior benefits determination is subject to judicial review
19-208 Mark A. Beckham v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-review When is it constitutionally permissible for an appellate court to conclude that a district court's refusal to instruct the jury as to two elements of …
19-25 Irma Rosas v. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago Seventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2) accepted-and-usual-course certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights due-process erickson-v-pardus judicial-proceedings legal-standard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing supreme-court-review Whether the lower court, in conflict with this Court's holding in Erickson v. Pardus, 551 U.S. 89 (2007), so far departed from the accepted and usual …
19-252 Michael Adam Booth v. Nissan North America, Inc. Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) ada-amendments ada-amendments-act-of-2008 americans-with-disabilities-act disability-definition judicial-precedent legislative-intent major-life-activity reasonable-accommodation rules-of-construction statutory-construction sutton-v-united-air-lines toyota-v-williams work-restrictions workplace-accommodation Whether the 2008 Amendment to the Americans Disability Act extends the definition of disability to permanent work restrictions precluding manual tasks
19-266 Seantrey Morris v. Joseph Mekdessie, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-estoppel pretrial-diversion section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a § 1983 claim when criminal charges were dismissed through a pretrial diversion program
19-268 Park Properties Associates, L.P., et al. v. United States Federal Circuit Denied breach-of-contract contract-administration contract-jurisdiction court-of-federal-claims federal-circuit federal-claims-court government-contracts privity privity-doctrine third-party-administrator tucker-act Whether the Court of Federal Claims has jurisdiction over a breach-of-contract claim against the government, where the government signs a contract tha…
19-288 Javier Sanchez, Gregory Casorso, and Michael Marr v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust antitrust-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions per-se-rule presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment Whether the operation of the per se rule in criminal antitrust cases violates the constitutional prohibition against instructing juries that certain f…
19-312 Ali Ekhlassi v. National Lloyds Insurance Company Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1) administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure exclusive-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fema flood-insurance national-flood-insurance-act private-insurers statutory-construction Whether Section 4072's provision of 'exclusive' federal jurisdiction applies to suits against private insurers
19-329 Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind v. PDS Consultants, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (6)Response Waived ability-one agency-acquisition bid-protest bid-protest-jurisdiction court-of-federal-claims government-contracts mandatory-source-directive statutory-interpretation tucker-act veterans-preference Whether the Tucker Act's grant of bid protest jurisdiction extends to challenges to federal agency acquisition policies and practices outside a specif…
19-331 Sequoia Capital Operations, LLC v. Jessica Gingras, et al. Second Circuit Denied arbitrability arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract contract-interpretation contract-law court-jurisdiction delegation-provision federal-arbitration-act jurisdiction Whether Section 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act requires a court to decide any challenge to a delegation provision's validity before the court may pr…
19-332 Steven E. Davis, et al. v. Bank of America Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1915 civil-litigation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forma-pauperis judicial-access legal-costs pro-se pro-se-litigants standing Do pro se litigants have any 'CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS'
19-337 Regents of the University of Minnesota v. LSI Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (3) administrative-proceeding civil-procedure federal-agency federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-validity sovereign-immunity state-university university Whether the inter partes review proceedings brought by private respondents against the University of Minnesota in this case are barred by sovereign im…
19-343 New York Republican State Committee v. Securities and Exchange Commission District of Columbia Denied administrative-law first-amendment free-association free-speech investment-advisers political-contributions sec sec-rule-2030 Whether Rule 2030 of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, which imposes a two-year ban on political contributions by investment advis…
19-35 Brandon Lee Mojica v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-statute habeas-corpus heightened-pleading post-conviction-relief sentencing standard-of-proof united-states-v-davis Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand this case to the Eleventh Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Davis
19-352 Robin Brindle, et al. v. Delta Airlines, Inc., et al. Rhode Island Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) airline-deregulation airline-deregulation-act civil-procedure federal-law federal-preemption labor-law local-wage-regulation preemption state-regulation state-wage-regulation transportation transportation-law wage-regulation Whether the preemption provision of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 exempts airlines from state and local wage regulation
19-358 Lesbia Nineth Perez-Cazun, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eighth Circuit Denied None
19-361 Renado Smith and Richard Delancy v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (3) confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure custody-release deposition-testimony due-process good-faith-effort investigative-steps prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-procedure sixth-amendment testimonial-statement unavailability witness-unavailability Whether the government makes a good-faith effort to obtain a witness's presence at trial
19-376 Dennis Thomas Thompson v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Eighth Circuit Denied None
19-385 Abdifatah Gaas Qorane v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied None
19-386 Monroe County Commission v. A.A. Nettles, Sr. Properties Limited, et al. Alabama Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption interim-trail-use interim-use national-trails-system-act rail-line-abandonment railroad-abandonment railroad-right-of-way surface-transportation-board trail-conversion Whether federal law preempts state law on railroad right-of-way abandonment
19-387 Ambac Assurance Corporation v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 11-usc-904 11-usc-922 48-usc-2165 automatic-stay bankruptcy-code debt-enforcement municipal-bankruptcy municipal-debtors special-revenues statutory-interpretation Whether 11 U.S.C. § 904 and 48 U.S.C. § 2165 prohibit a bankruptcy court from enforcing the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code against municipal debtor…
19-391 Assured Guaranty Corp., et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bond-debt debt-enforcement municipal-bankruptcy municipal-bond-market special-revenues Whether 11 U.S.C. § 922(d) mandates that there is no automatic stay of debt enforcement actions with respect to pledged special revenues
19-400 Garmin USA, Inc., et al. v. Cellspin Soft, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 35-usc-101 civil-procedure claim-construction eligibility inventive-claims inventive-concept judicial-review legal-question motion-to-dismiss patent patent-eligibility patent-law pleadings question-of-law subject-matter-eligibility Whether patent eligibility is a question of law for the court that can be resolved on a motion to dismiss, notwithstanding allegations in a complaint …
19-403 Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas v. Texas Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (2) agency-interpretation federal-indian-law fifth-circuit gaming gaming-prohibition gaming-regulation indian-gaming indian-gaming-regulatory-act multi-circuit-conflict national-indian-gaming-commission statutory-interpretation tribal-lands tribal-sovereignty trust-lands trust-statutes Whether IGRA authorizes gaming on tribal lands previously governed by trust statutes that prohibited gaming
19-409 City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Ricky Jackson, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 federal-law municipal-liability personal-injury personal-injury-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 section-1988 state-law state-law-survival-rule survival Whether §1988 requires the survival of §1983 claims to be determined using the state-law survival rule for the most closely analogous state cause of a…
19-414 Medtronic, Inc. v. Mark A. Barry Federal Circuit Denied Amici (2) burden-of-proof experimental-use federal-circuit patent-law patent-law-35-usc-102-b reduction-to-practice statutory-bar supreme-court Whether a process invention is reduced to practice when all of its elements are successfully performed or must also be determined to work for a furthe…
19-428 Ryan Courtade v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied 18-usc-2252 18-usc-2256 appellate-review child-pornography child-pornography-statute circuit-split due-process lascivious-exhibition standard-of-review statutory-interpretation subjective-intent When reviewing a district court's conclusion that an image depicts a 'lascivious exhibition' under 18 U.S.C. 2256(2)(A), must the appellate court revi…
19-43 Power Analytics Corporation v. Operation Technology, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 35-usc-101 alice-standard alice-v-cls-bank federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-law patent-litigation rule-36-affirmance section-101 Has the Federal Circuit correctly implemented the standards for patent eligibility set forth in 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Alice v. CLS Bank?
19-430 Athena Diagnostics, Inc., et al. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC, dba Mayo Medical Laboratories, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (11) 35-usc-101 chemical-process chemical-steps diagnostic-method federal-circuit medical-diagnostics medical-innovation molecular-detection novel-molecules patent-eligibility patent-protection precedent subject-matter-eligibility Whether a new and specific method of diagnosing a medical condition is patent-eligible subject matter
19-435 SIH Partners LLLP, Explorer Corporation v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Third Circuit Denied administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference circuit-split irs-regulation revenue-ruling statutory-interpretation tax-liability tax-regulation Whether the Third Circuit erred in deferring to the IRS regulation under Chevron
19-44 Raul Molina Deocampo v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) None
19-464 Veterans Contracting Group, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit Denied unlawful act by the agency is shielded from judic administrative-law agency-action civil-procedure due-process government-contracts judicial-review service-disabled-veterans small-business small-business-set-aside standing statutory-compliance va-procurement veterans-affairs veterans-contracts Whether agency action based on an earlier, unlawful act by the agency is shielded from judicial correction based on an individual employee's alleged l…
19-479 Carol M. Kam v. John B. Peyton, Jr. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) associate-judge judicial-authority judicial-misconduct probate-court probate-law rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction state-court-rulings state-law void-orders Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two Void 'proposed' State Court Rulings?
19-490 Jonathan S. Metcalf v. Michael Fitzgerald, et al. Connecticut Denied adversary-proceeding adversary-proceedings bankruptcy bankruptcy-code civil-procedure federalism judicial-interpretation legal-claims preemption standing state-law state-law-claims vexatious-litigation Does the Bankruptcy Code preempt state-law vexatious-litigation claims arising from adversary actions in bankruptcy proceedings?
19-5016 Michael A. Salazar v. HEB Grocery Company, LP, et al. Texas Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fraud judicial-procedure petition-clause right-to-petition right-to-sue standing Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in affirming the lower court's dismissal of the petitioner's case, which violated the petitioner's due process r…
19-502 Richard Baatz, et al. v. Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC Sixth Circuit Denied certificate-of-public-convenience due-process eminent-domain federal-energy-regulatory-commission land-use natural-gas-act property-rights regulatory-authority takings Whether the Natural Gas Act requires the holder of a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to obtain by easement, contract, or eminent domai…
19-503 Apache Corporation v. Bigie Lee Rhea Tenth Circuit Denied administrative-feasibility ascertainability class-action class-actions class-certification class-membership class-notice due-process rule-23 Whether Rule 23 and due process require district courts to undertake a rigorous analysis to determine whether the plaintiff has established that class…
19-505 William Rupert v. Susan Bond, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived antitrust circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process frcp-12b6 judicial-expediency noerr-pennington personal-jurisdiction rico rico-statute sham-litigation standing Should the circuit splits over the use of FRCP-12(b)(6)-motions,to-rule-upon-a-disputed-issue-of-fact-(the-sham-litigation-or-fraud-exception-to-claim…
19-509 Jane Doe v. Dardanelle School District Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights damages-liability deliberate-indifference due-process educational-discrimination educational-opportunities federal-funding sexual-harassment student-harassment student-on-student-harassment title-ix Whether a recipient of federal funding may be held liable where it takes any action in response to complaints of sexual harassment
19-51 Ben Branch, et al. v. Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations, et al. Massachusetts Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bargaining-representative civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-rights due-process exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech political-activity political-autonomy public-employee state-action union-representation Whether a public employee union's use of its government-granted authority as exclusive bargaining representative to compel employees to choose between…
19-5109 Wayne English v. Roadhouse Holding Inc., et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure first-amendment-rights mail-delivery notice notice-of-appeal usps Whether the actions of the Bankruptcy Court in intercepting and redirecting only USPS mail delivery prevents litigants from the timely filing of their…
19-5117 Antonio Hudson v. Denise Page Hood, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
19-5129 Kendell Lee Starks v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-relief-28-usc-2255,retroactive- florida-conviction-resisting-with-violence,violent retroactive-constitutional-decision sentencing statutory-maximum Whether a Florida conviction for resisting with vi Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can satisfy his burden of proof by showing his sentence may have been based on a…
19-5140 Vinodh Raghubir v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for lack of standing and failure to state a claim under the First Amendment, Fif…
19-5148 Vinodh Raghubir v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standing procedural-irregularities standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-5154 James Wardell Quary v. N. C. English, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review circuit-precedent circuit-split detention-challenge erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to raise arguments foreclosed by erroneous circuit precedent
19-516 Nolan Espinda, Director, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Royce C. Gouveia Ninth Circuit Denied appellate-deference appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review custody federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus Hawai'i-sovereign-right manifest-necessity mistrial-declaration rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgments Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine is categorically not applicable to § 2241 petitions?
19-5174 William C. Lewis, Sr., et al. v. Estate of Robert A. Lewis, et al. District of Columbia Denied Relisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment asset-transfer civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment standing takings Whether the decision affirming the denial of a trial by jury on Petitioners' claims violated their 7th Amendment to the US Constitution
19-52 Alfred J. Walker v. N. C. English, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-procedure federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to challenge an unlawful conviction or sentence foreclosed by binding …
19-5206 Christine Sawicky v. AMC Networks Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-rights copyright-law due-process pro-se pro-se-litigant How can a plaintiff win a copyright lawsuit when circuit splits exist throughout the 13 appellate courts? Additionally, how can a circuit split exist …
19-5219 Bobby G. Pullen v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing guidelines-interpretation habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines successive-habeas-petitions successive-motion vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause of the mandatory guidelines, USSG §4B1.2(a)(2) (2004), is void for vagueness
19-5226 Patrick Demon Caldwell, II v. Arizona Department of Public Safety, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP arizona-court-system civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief rule-of-law standing Whether the court erred in not recognizing the presented evidence
19-5229 Saldy Marzan v. CoreCivic Correctional Center, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review dismissal documentary-evidence due-process federal-courts frivolous habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Can the hintk Cireuid Courd of App esle dismissed My Lake US Frivelsus With 647. having given Ine opperrutedy 6 presentis documentary evidenze to demo…
19-523 Victor Bernard Williams v. Baptist Health, dba Baptist Health Medical Center, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived 2014 revocation of a medical license by the Arkan adverse-negative-reports adverse-reports civil-action civil-rights federal-cause-of-action federal-claims medical-license medical-license-revocation qualified-immunity res-judicata state-board Whether the April 8, 2014 revocation of Plaintiffs Arkansas medical license gave rise to a new federal cause of action not barred by res judicata
19-5241 Zack Zafer Dyab v. Nicole English, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2241-petition 2255-motion 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-discretion circuit-split detention-challenge foreclosure habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause section-2241 section-2255 united-states-v-wheeler Does the Petitioner have to test the legality of his detention in the initial 2255 motion, even though the argument would have been rejected on the me…
19-5248 Garry Randall West v. Jason Bryant, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-pornography double-jeopardy due-process fourth-amendment free-speech miranda-rights miranda-warnings right-to-privacy search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence Question not identified
19-525 Steve Cooley, et al. v. National Abortion Federation Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights contempt contempt-sanction criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel effective-counsel preliminary-injunction sanctions sixth-amendment younger-abstention Whether a state court criminal defendant can enjoy his Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel when his state court criminal counsel have been held…
19-526 Dexter Edwards, dba Edwards Land and Cattle v. Genex Cooperative, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied cattle-reproduction choice-of-law civil-procedure contract contract-law diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federalism oral-agreement state-law Did the court of appeals violate Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) and the pragmatic federalism it represents by refusing to apply establish…
19-5276 Marvin F. Taylor v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection standing Question not identified
19-529 Robert Sanchez Turner v. Al Thomas, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived actual-knowledge-of-danger affirmative-act civil-rights constitutional-rights cut-off-all-avenues-of-recourse due-process law-enforcement public-safety qualified-immunity racial-violence shock-the-conscience specific-individual-or-public state-created-danger What analytical framework applies to the state-created danger doctrine?
19-5307 James D. Brigman v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines
19-531 Ofra Levin v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. New York Denied Response Waived appellate-review case-merits civil-procedure due-process injury judicial-review legal-standing merits procedural-timing standing Whether a party who lacks standing at the commencement of the action can obtain, or be granted, standing, four and a half years after the action start…
19-5315 Raymond Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-U.S.C-§-2244 28-U.S.C-§-2255 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 court-of-appeals district-court habeas-corpus johnson-rule residual-clause section-2244 section-2255 successive-motion successive-petitions void-for-vagueness When a court of appeals grants authorization to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(4) permit a district c…
19-5316 Abelee Bronson v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines-mandatory habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidelines
19-5337 Arthur Shermaine Bussey v. Marty Allen, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
19-537 Jeffrey G. Thomas v. Norman Solomon, et al. California Denied 501(c)(3)-preemption bankruptcy-automatic-stay bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process frivolous-appeal monetary-sanctions new-york-times-v-sullivan public-interest standing state-court-judgment Whether a Judgment of a State Court Violates the Automatic Stay in Bankruptcy
19-5384 David Rothenberg v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP causal-process child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution disaggregation paroline-v-united-states victim-losses When calculating restitution for a mere possessor of child pornography, must the victim's losses caused by the initial abuse be disaggregated from the…
19-539 Office of Recovery Services v. John R. Latham Utah Denied ark-dept-of-health-v-ahlborn civil-litigation future-medical-expenses liens medicaid-reimbursement medical-expenses past-medical-expenses settlement settlement-allocation state-recovery third-party-liability third-party-tort third-party-tortfeasor Whether a State may seek reimbursement for its medical expenses from the portion of a settlement that represents all medical expenses—past and future—…
19-542 Robert L. Jarrett, Jr. v. State Bar of California California Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction attorney-misconduct civil-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction legislative-intent precedent recusal-standards standing supreme-court-review vexatious-litigant How does this Court resolve the absence of appellate jurisdiction in the proceedings in which the attorney misconduct is alleged to have occurred, eve…
19-543 Jeffrey Wills Lusk, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Dorothy Jean Ross Lusk, Deceased v. Crown Pointe Care Center, et al. Ohio Denied beneficiary beneficiary-status civil-procedure creditors estate estate-representation executor executor-rights legal-standing pro-se pro-se-representation probate-law standing May the executor and sole beneficiary of an estate without creditors represent the estate pro se?
19-544 In Re Todd C. Bank Denied affidavit affidavit-requirement article-iii-court bar-admission civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-1746 due-process federal-courts legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation unsworn-declaration Whether an applicant to the bar of an Article III court may, under 28 U.S.C. Section 1746, submit an unsworn declaration where such court requires tha…
19-5458 Samantha Winter v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation evidence evidence-admission harmless-error miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress rule-404b search-and-seizure warrantless-search whether-miranda-rights-were-violated
19-5461 Anthony L. Pierce v. Lisa Garrett, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights conclusion constitutional-provisions dismissal due-process frivolous jurisdiction magistrate opinions-below reasons-for-writ standing statement-of-case Did the court erred in allowing the magistrate to use non-meritorious issues to dismiss petitioner's action without prejudice, barring appeal
19-5463 Jesse Dean v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa-restrictions anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-v-maryland criminal-jurisdiction criminal-offense due-process federal-procedure fraud habeas-corpus jurisdiction kyles-v-whitley Whether the District Court had jurisdiction
19-5475 Mitchell Taebel v. Maricopa County Attorney's Office, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing unreasonable-seizure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
19-548 Joseph R. Mullins v. Joseph E. Corcoran, et al. Massachusetts Denied civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-dispute first-amendment minority-shareholder-rights noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine petition right-to-petition sham-litigation Whether, under the First Amendment, a court may award damages against a party for the act of filing suit in a commercial dispute without finding that …
19-5488 Loretta Jackson v. Joseph Barla, et al. Delaware Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment animal-rights civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights state-action state-actor Whether The Supreme Court of the State of Delaware deprived Loretta Jackson of her Due Process rights under the 4th and 14th Amendment of the United S…
19-5490 Dario Miguel Aceituno v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
19-553 Moussa Diarra v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process judicial-bias monell-claim monell-liability police-procedure probable-cause substantive-due-process summary-judgment Is the Second Circuit's refusal to apply the 'totality of circumstances' test for probable cause in a Monell suit constitutional?
19-554 50 Murray Street Acquisition LLC v. John Kuzmich, et al. New York Denied Amici (2) due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-takings lower-manhattan-revitalization-plan property-rights rent-stabilization section-421-g takings-clause Whether courts can eliminate established property rights without just compensation
19-555 R. Ray Fulmer, II v. Fifth Third Equipment Finance Company, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived asset-valuation bankruptcy-auction bankruptcy-code-section-363 bankruptcy-sale chapter-7 collateral-attack creditor-rights fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty jurisdictional-error non-jurisdictional-error priority-distribution priority-violation priority-violations Whether a final 11 U.S.C. §363 sale order that distributes assets in violation of priority is unenforceable due to jurisdictional error
19-5556 Regina Lewis v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-magistrate federal-state-balance procedural-violation rule-of-lenity standing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-115 Did United States Magistrate Gabriel Gorenstein violate the Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 4 (b)
19-556 Lucas Allen Newnam v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied bad-faith-inquiry bright-line-test continuance continuance-request counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-delay Should this Court establish a bright-line test for determining whether a criminal defendant's right to retained counsel of his choice is violated, whe…
19-558 Montville Township Board of Education v. Zurich American Insurance Company Third Circuit Denied civil-procedure coverage-evaluation diversity-action duty-to-defend four-corners-rule insurance insurance-coverage new-jersey-law sl-industries state-law third-circuit Has the Third Circuit correctly applied the law as set forth in SL Industries, and should this Court now establish a uniform standard of coverage eval…
19-5582 Tuan Duc Lam v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split custodial-detention fourth-amendment knowles-v-iowa ninth-circuit probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-search Can a warrantless search of a person be 'incident to arrest' where, at the time of the search, no arrest has occurred, and the objective evidence fail…
19-559 John E. Reardon v. Noel Hillman, et al. Third Circuit Denied absolute-immunity administrative-acts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity notice notice-and-hearing notice-of-hearing right-to-be-heard standing standing-order void-judgment Is the court's failure to set aside a void judgment due to lack of prior notice and right to be heard a fatal defect?
19-5590 Levar Lee Anthony Spence v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-courts legal-document petition pro-se standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Was your petitioner, being without any assistance of an attorney denied due process and equal protection of the law when the federal courts refused de…
19-5606 Ndokley Peter Enow v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment plea-bargaining probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing Did the trial court err by admitting into evidence the illegally obtained wiretap recordings of the defendant's phone conversations with an undercover…
19-561 Gail Rosier v. Jeffrey Strobel Arizona Denied Response Waived child-support contempt contempt-proceedings due-process imprisonment incarcerated-obligors indigent-obligors interstate-enforcement procedural-safeguards uniform-interstate-family-support-act What minimum procedural safeguards are required to ensure due process for incarcerated and indigent obligors who face child support proceedings under …
19-5616 Russell Rope v. Facebook, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fraud judicial-integrity legal-standing pro-se-litigation standing Whether the law extends to all citizens & corporations in modern times
19-562 Brian Burke v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation defamation due-process fair-labor-standards-act first-amendment leave-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-statute title-vii unconstitutionality Pleading standards for pro se parties in Title VII, 42 U.S.C. 1983, and ADA cases
19-5626 In Re Vinodh Raghubir Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower courts' rulings
19-5627 In Re Vinodh Raghubir Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be g…
19-5633 James F. Johnson v. Richard S. Tischner, Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-authority due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review parole public-records sex-offender-registration standing Whether the court below waived its policy of not reviewing or overturning decisions from the D.C. Appeals Court
19-565 Antonio Passaro, Jr. v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied civil-procedure federal-court federal-jurisdiction lapides-v-board-of-regents litigation removal sovereign-immunity state-court waiver Whether, in the context of a federal claim brought in state court where the state would enjoy sovereign immunity, a state's voluntary removal to feder…
19-5653 Edward Lee Busby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 adjudication-on-the-merits atkins-claim due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standard-of-review state-court state-court-review When a state habeas court denies a petitioner relief on a federal constitutional claim by imposing a higher burden than is required by federal law, sh…
19-5662 Carter Stephens v. Marcelo Britto Gomez, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process henderson-factors judicial-intervention legal-ethics legal-malpractice sanctions standing state-bar state-bar-regulation Why was plaintiff Carter Stephens not informed by the State Bar of the neglectful attorney's record he retained?
19-567 Gertrude J. Pierre v. Macy's, Inc., et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived None
19-5671 James Lyle v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP byrd-v-united-states community-caretaking driver's-license exclusive-possession exclusive-possession-and-control fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure non-criminal-control reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rental-vehicle trunk-access vehicle-search warrant-exception Whether a person operating a rental vehicle without a valid driver's license has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the vehicle's locked trunk com…
19-5684 In Re Kendall Dean Mitchell Pending Relisted (3)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act criminal-procedure habeas-corpus indian-law subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties treaty-jurisdiction treaty-with-indians Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked of subject matter jurisdiction in criminal cases due to provisions in tr…
19-5692 Larry Dean Cochrun v. Bob Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation court-flexibility criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection error-correction habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice standing statutory-authority wrongful-conviction Has US Congress constrained or given flexibility for USA Judges or Courts to deny or delay a miscarriage of justice as surfaced within a reach to be c…
19-5697 Felipe Vinagre-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure detention detention-motion federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure indictment judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-timing pretrial-motion speedy-trial-act Whether a motion for detention filed before an indictment or information charging a person has been obtained is a pretrial motion within the meaning o…
19-570 Greg Steven Elofson v. Stephanie Bivens, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split clayton-act judicial-economy nationwide-service nationwide-service-of-process process rico rico-statute rico-venue-process standard-oil standard-oil-co venue venue-process Does the RICO venue and process statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1965, provide for nationwide service of process?
19-5708 Relonzo Phillips v. DeKalb County Assistant Public Defenders, et al. Georgia Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process federal-question-jurisdiction prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner property-rights standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining standing to bring a claim under the Takings Clause of the Fifth…
19-5719 Robert Keith Ray v. Colorado Colorado Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey boyde-standard boyde-v-california capital-case due-process jury jury-instructions sixth-amendment Whether the Court should revisit the 'reasonable likelihood' test adopted in Boyde v. California and instead return to the previous standard where app…
19-5725 Charles Rochester v. The Fortune Society Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-act civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest document-tampering due-process eeoc-review equal-employment fraud-upon-the-court jurisdictional-challenge obstruction-of-justice professional-responsibility retaliation tampering-with-documents whistleblower issues being raised
19-5748 Seth Mitchell v. Macy's, Inc., et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-motion disability-accommodation due-process employment-discrimination erisa federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment hipaa magistrate-judge motion-to-amend timeliness title-vii When, if ever, can a magistrate judge intentionally violate FRCP 15(a)(1)(B) in denying a timely motion to amend a complaint?
19-5759 Travis Lavoy Jenkins v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights conviction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Whether a petitioner can bring a habeas corpus petition challenging a conviction based on a claim of actual innocence, even if the petitioner is not i…
19-577 Tamra L. Lamprell v. Rex E. Stuckey New Mexico Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard best-interests-standard child-custody due-process due-process,child-custody,parental-rights,pre-depr imminent-harm parental-rights post-deprivation-hearing pre-deprivation-hearing Can a court temporarily remove a child from her parent's custody without a pre-deprivation hearing whenever the court deems it in the child's best int…
19-578 Sandra G. Hale v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law chemical-burns chemical-exposure expert-testimony federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice pesticide-regulations pesticide-usage veterans-affairs Whether an expert Toxicologist can testify regarding chemical burns
19-5806 John Bradham v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-transaction due-process evidence evidence-admission sixth-amendment Whether the district court's erroneous admission of a video of an alleged drug-and-firearm transaction between the CI and the defendant violated the c…
19-581 Paul Dovin, et ux. v. Kenneth L. Sweitzer, et al. Pennsylvania Denied appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine collateral-orders collateral-orders-doctrine due-process judicial-review pennsylvania-supreme-court procedural-doctrine right-to-appeal standing Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Erred in Denying Petitioners Right to Appeal Under the Collateral Orders Doctrine?
19-5817 Kendrick Taylor v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unanimous-verdict Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requirement be required in state…
19-5820 Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-split habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence prima-facie-showing reasonable-juror standard-of-review statutory-interpretation successive-petition Whether a court of appeals can reach fact issues when ruling on a motion for authorization to file a successive habeas petition based on newly discove…
19-583 Estate of Robert Cunningham, et al. v. Mark McGuire First Circuit Denied facts-underlying false-claims-act first-to-file-bar judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-provision legal-standing pleadings procedural-analysis qui-tam statutory-interpretation Whether Section 3730(b)(5) of the False Claims Act is a jurisdictional provision that permits courts to consider all of the 'facts underlying the pend…
19-584 Nuvo Pharmaceuticals (Ireland) Designated Activity Company, et al. v. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 35-usc-112 enablement federal-circuit innovation patent patent-law pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-composition prior-art written-description Whether the Federal Circuit erred by holding that, whenever the prior art teaches away from a pharmaceutical composition, the written description of a…
19-5848 Saquawn Harris v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-review federal-rule-35 federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-statute judicial-procedure majority-vote recusal statutory-interpretation Whether recused judges are excluded from the count of a majority of judges in regular active service for purposes of granting en banc rehearing under …
19-5850 Yurie Yamano v. Hawaii State Judiciary, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-vi civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law court-rules due-process judicial-misconduct procedural-irregularity rules-of-court separation-of-powers standing stare-decisis Whether the Court should resolve the issues of treason and anarchism by state judges
19-588 Lori Madden-Grammer v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, et al. Colorado Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-review colorado-revised-statutes due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-utilization-review property-interest statutory-rights workers-compensation Whether Colorado's Medical Utilization Review process deprives claimants of their statutorily-created property interest without due process
19-5880 Andrew Joseph Larson v. Michael Pacheco, Warden Wyoming Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction name-change personal-jurisdiction presumption-of-guilt presumption-of-innocence standing state-department subject-matter trial-jurisdiction What are the necessary components for the trial court to be complete and hold jurisdiction over a case and was Avitabile's trial court complete?
19-589 Rimini Street, Inc. v. Oracle USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived conscious-disregard copyright-infringement ebay-inc-v-mercexchange ebay-inc-vs-mercexchange ebay-v-mercexchange equitable-framework equitable-relief injunctive-relief jury-finding mental-state reexamination-clause seventh-amendment Whether courts must take into account a jury's finding of an infringer's mental state in considering injunctive relief under the Copyright Act
19-5896 Mitchell Dinnerstein v. Burlington County College Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-misconduct seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial Whether the application of Rule 56(d) to quickly end proceedings and deny a petitioner's right to trial violates the First and Seventh Amendments
19-5898 Danny Howell v. Duane Southerland, et al. Tennessee Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prison-conditions racial-discrimination standing Whether the court erred in denying petitioner's claim that the conditions of his confinement violated the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
19-5899 Willie Harold House, et ux. v. Eileen Egland, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure fraud-upon-the-court judicial-procedure misprision-of-felony misprision-of-treason oath-of-office treason void-ruling Did the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overlook potential indication of treasonable actions in the District Court record, condoning a series of m…
19-590 Michael Anthony Deem v. John P. Colangelo, et al. New York Denied child-custody child-custody-rights custody-dispute due-process equal-protection family-law first-amendment forensic-evaluator free-speech parental-rights right-to-privacy Whether a court appointed FE's examination of a fit parent's children over that fit parent's objection violates that fit parent's right to control the…
19-591 Chestnut Hill Sound Inc. v. Apple Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-transparency patent reasoned-opinions rule-of-law summary-affirmation summary-affirmations Can a court ever choose to write reasoned opinions for one class of losing appellants and not another under the Due Process and Equal Protection Claus…
19-5924 James Hennessee v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Is the different-occasions requirement an element for the jury to decide, or can the sentencing judge decide it?
19-5929 Abisai Ramirez-Anguiano v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses mens-rea methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether scienter is required before the two-level increase under Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines may be applied
19-593 City of Camden, New Jersey v. Alanda Forrest Third Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process legal-standard monell-doctrine monell-liability monell-v-department-of-social-services municipal-liability policy-custom policy-or-custom policymaker-notice untrained-or-unsupervised-employees What constitutes a pattern of similar constitutional violations by untrained and/or unsupervised employees under Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs.?
19-5935 Rachel C. Brown v. Civil Service Commission Michigan Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appeals civil-rights civil-service civil-service-commission due-process hearing long-term-disability procedural-rights property-interest Is Petitioner, and All Others Similarly Situated, entitled to a hearing and due process in long-term disability (LTD) appeals?
19-5936 Cesar Rosario Lopez-Ramos v. Minnesota Minnesota Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination foreign-language-interpreter police-interrogation sixth-amendment testimonial-statements translation-evidence Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce testimonial statements in the form of an unidentified foreign …
19-5948 Maria Margarita Valdez-Araiza v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review conflicting-evidence criminal-procedure-review evidence evidentiary-error harmless-error harmless-error-review judicial-precedent jury-factfinding sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-credibility Is the Ninth Circuit's decision consistent with this Court's precedents?
19-5949 Marcelino Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rule-11 substantial-rights when-district-court-violates-rule-11(c)(1)-of-federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure
19-5958 Thomas Ritter Helm v. Lisa Lorraine Hauser Texas Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP divorce-decree divorce-decree-amendment-state-laws-disregard-stat federal-regulations federal-regulations-disregard-state-court-systems- judicial-discretion precedent-setting precedent-setting-cases precedent-setting-cases-disregard-state-court-syst property-division qualified-domestic-relations-order qualified-domestic-relations-order-disregard-state texas-court-system Whether court systems throughout the United States will be allowed to disregard or ignore federal regulations and precedent setting cases based on act…
19-596 Sandra G. Hale v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-claim civil-procedure continuing-tort-doctrine dismissal-with-prejudice federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice standing statute-of-limitations Whether the continuing tort doctrine was misapplied to the statute of limitations set under the Federal Tort Claims Act
19-5967 Cameron Thomas v. Nevada Nevada Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness sixth-amendment trial-court-narrative Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it failed to address Thomas' contention that his right to fundamental fairness was violated when…
19-5968 Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez v. Mike Carpenter, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP capital-case capital-defendants direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction procedural-bar public-defender trevino-v-thaler Where a state, through operation of its laws, requires some capital defendants to be represented by the same public defender at both trial and on thei…
19-5973 Wilfred Warren Sheppard v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-trial sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent united-states-constitution Whether the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals has ruled in a manner which conflicts with the Fifth and Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
19-598 Joy Spurr v. Melissa L. Pope, Chief Judge, Tribal Court of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction non-tribal-member personal-protection-order sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty violence-against-women violence-against-women-act Whether a tribe can invoke sovereign immunity to end a federal case challenging the tribe's jurisdiction over a non-tribal member
19-5998 Eric Matthew Frein v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP criminal-procedure harmless-error police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-integrity When the Sixth Amendment right to counsel has attached, do efforts by police and prosecutors to physically prevent counsel from intervening in his cli…
19-6003 Patrick Christian v. William H. Dadmun, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-law due-process legal-procedure pro-se-litigation property-deprivation property-rights standing What constitutes any type of deprivation and what constitutes a conspiracy to do so?
19-602 Chesley Eugene Saunders v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship confidential-information criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-bias judicial-recusal professional-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment Whether the Due Process Clause and the Constitutional Guarantees of a Fundamentally Fair Trial permit a criminal trial to be presided over by a judge …
19-6039 Camilo Andres Landazuri Vargas v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP congress-powers-limits congressional-power criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment foreign-national international-law international-waters jurisdiction jurisdictional-element maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution Whether the prosecution of Mr. Vargas - an Ecuadorian national with no ties to the United States - for trafficking controlled substances in internatio…
19-6045 Scott H. Summerhays v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-counsel change-of-plea criminal-procedure critical-stage effective-assistance-of-counsel faretta faretta-waiver ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Does a criminal defendant have a right under the Sixth Amendment to reassert his right to counsel at a critical stage (a change of plea hearing) after…
19-6054 John Hemby v. United States Third Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine welch-precedent Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch apply to the residual clause of the career-offender provision of the former mandatory Sentencing Gui…
19-6056 Michael Renee Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP §-2255 28-U.S.C-2244(b)(4) 28-U.S.C-2255(h) 28-usc-2244b4 28-usc-2255h armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner gatekeeping-standard johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-hurdle sentencing successive-motion Whether a federal prisoner must satisfy a second jurisdictional hurdle under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(4) after securing appellate-court authorization to fi…
19-606 Ukraine v. Pao Tatneft District of Columbia Denied arbitration-agreement arbitration-enforcement arbitration-exception foreign-sovereign-immunity international-arbitration new-york-convention sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-exception Whether the D.C. Circuit correctly held that: (1) all 160 signatories to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards …
19-6076 Tamela M. Lee v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied IFP constituent-contacts constitutional-limits criminal-conviction federal-officials government-contact hobbs-act honest-services mcdonnell-v-united-states municipal-officials official-act Can a county official be convicted of Honest Services and Hobbs Act violations for contacting federal and municipal officials on behalf of constituent…
19-61 Maritime Life Caribbean Limited v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appointment attorney-general attorney-general-power civil-procedure department-of-justice district-court-discretion federal-government harmless-error harmless-error-review litigation-authority representation separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation united-states-code Whether a district court's usurpation of the Attorney General's power to appoint a private attorney to represent the interests of the United States—ov…
19-610 Mushkin, Inc. v. Anza Technology, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-15c-relation-back clear-error conduct-transaction-occurrence federal-circuit federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice relation-back standard-of-review Whether the appropriate standard of review for a 'relation back' determination under Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(c) should be
19-6100 Melvyn Perry Sprowson, Jr. v. Nevada Nevada Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ashcroft-v-free-speech-coalition child-pornography constitutional-limits facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech new-york-v-ferber obscenity obscenity-standards overbreadth sexual-abuse state-regulation Whether a state regulation of child pornography that fails to satisfy all four requirements set forth in Ferber and that criminalizes conduct that is …
19-6108 Corey Kidd v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting controlled-substances crime-of-violence criminal-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation Whether aiding and abetting robbery of controlled substances qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)
19-6120 Raul Rodriguez v. United States Third Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process gvr sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-ruling third-circuit vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether this petition should be granted, the vacated, and the case remanded (GVR) to the court of appeals for a determination in the first instance of…
19-6125 Francis G. Hernandez v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review child-abuse criminal-procedure diminished-capacity habeas-corpus head-injuries ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness ninth-circuit prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was counsel's failure to investigate and present a diminished capacity defense prejudicial under Strickland v. Washington?
19-6127 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest counsel-concession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings law-of-the-case mootness plain-error presumption-of-prejudice substantial-rights What effect does a concession on ineffective assistance of counsel have on the court's ability to adjudicate the merits?
19-615 Elaine Ward v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection municipal-liability service-of-process state-court-proceedings transparency Is there a violation of due process and equal protection under the 5th and 14th amendments as related to 42 U.S.C. 1983, when a municipality fails to …
19-6150 Chad M. Cutler v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules expert-testimony hearsay hearsay-statements prosecutorial-misconduct standards-of-review supreme-court-conflict Whether the Illinois Appellate Court and Illinois Supreme Court erred in their rulings on the admissibility of hearsay statements, the proper standard…
19-6190 Jermaine Gerald Cook, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination racial-quotas sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioners' Batson claim conflict with the Second Circuit and Sixth Circuit?
19-6195 Alejandro Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-924c3b civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure equal-protection federal-appeals pro-se-petition retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-review unconstitutionally-vague united-states-courts united-states-v-davis vagueness Whether the retroactive application of the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Davis, 588 U.S. ___, 139 S.Ct. 2319 (2019) holding 18 U.S.C. §…
19-62 Michelle Carter v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitrary-enforcement assisted-suicide common-law criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech involuntary-manslaughter suicide-encouragement Whether Carter's conviction for involuntary manslaughter, based on words alone, violated the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment
19-620 Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine v. Kevin C. Doyle, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure common-law copyright criminal-conviction damages prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-criminal-conviction state-common-law statutory-damages visual-artists-rights-act Is a plaintiff prevented from collecting statutory damages under the Visual Artists Rights Act as well as under state common-law for damages to the sa…
19-6233 Alshaqah Tariq Powell v. United States Third Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure consent consent-search consent-to-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment involuntary-consent traffic-stop vague-consent-form vagueness Whether Petitioner had the Fourth Amendment rights as a United States Citizen to be advised of his rights to the 'expectation of privacy' during a det…
19-625 Rita Guerrero, Individually and as the Special Administrator of the Estate of Celso N. Guerrero v. BNSF Railway Company Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived federal-employers-liability-act interstate-commerce interstate-rail-service jury-trial negligence scope-of-employment seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the decision by the Seventh Circuit panel conflicts with provisions of the Federal Employers' Liability Act, and the uniform precedents of thi…
19-6271 Gary Patrick Lewis v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP affidavit-of-indigency appointed-counsel arson-conviction criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis indigency indigent-defendant michigan-court right-to-counsel state-appellate-defender state-court-appeal Gary Patrick Lewis
19-628 Michael Cetta, Inc., dba Sparks Restaurant v. National Labor Relations Board District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights discharge due-process employee-discharge employer-statements employment labor-dispute labor-relations mutual-understanding national-labor-relations-act permanent-employment prudent-employee prudent-employee-standard replacement-workers standing unconditional-offer-to-return Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding striking employees had been discharged in violation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
19-6284 Jose L. Cabrera-Cosme v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquitted-conduct due-process jury-trial mcmillin-v-pennsylvania sentencing sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct united-states-v-watts Whether a reasonable jurist could find debatable Petitioner's Sixth Amendment was violated
19-6285 Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Stan the Hot Water Man Oregon Dismissed IFP civil-procedure employer-liability intentional-torts material-fact material-facts property-damage respondeat-superior scope-of-employment summary-judgment tortious-conduct Did the trial court err in granting summary judgment when there were disputed issues of material fact?
19-6286 Vara Birapaka v. United States Army Research Laboratory, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict civil-procedure due-process fraud impartiality judicial-review plausibility prima-facie procedural-fairness professional-conduct rights rule-60-motion standing Whether a federal court may write off a Rule 60 motion without analyzing the elements
19-6287 Seferino Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-sentencing-guidelines johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidelines
19-6291 Josephat Mua v. The O'Neal Firm, LLP District of Columbia Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination retaliation standing summary-judgment title-vii tortious-interference Whether District of Columbia court of Appeals can ignore instances of retaliation under Title VII and other serious violations
19-6298 John Steven Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability federal-court-review federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard state-court-deference state-habeas strickland-v-washington wilson-v-sellers Whether in denying a COA, the Fifth Circuit's methodology in the Gardner opinion is in conflict with Wilson v. Sellers and Miller-El
19-630 Kyle Ray Hurst, Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst and on Behalf of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst Deceased and the Statutory Wrongful Death Survivor of Andrew James Hurst v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-area commercial-use due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisprudence federal-lands-management fee-charged liability public-access standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment takings Whether the Eleventh Circuit wrongfully absolved Respondent of liability when it determined that Moore Lake was not an 'area' where a fee was charged,…
19-6300 John Patrick Stokes, et ux. v. LSF 8 Master Participation Trust Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction mortgage-foreclosure standing statement-of-reasons statutory-provisions takings Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioners' claims against respondents for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
19-6304 Martin Nava Lara v. Texas Texas Denied IFP constitutional-protections due-process federal-supremacy foreign-national miranda-rights self-incrimination state-law supremacy-clause treaty-rights Whether State law supercedes the Supreme Law of the Land in regards to the rights, of a foreign national, established by the treaties between two coun…
19-631 William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (19) automated-call-restriction constitutional-remedy first-amendment free-speech government-debt-exception political-speech severability statutory-interpretation tcpa telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the government-debt exception to the TCPA's automated-call restriction violates the First Amendment, and whether the proper remedy for any con…
19-6319 Antonio Bogan v. Jeffrey German, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement owner-knowledge probable-cause stare-decisis vehicle-seizure warrantless-search Whether probable cause to effect a warrantless seizure of a vehicle is equivalent to officers' knowledge of an arrestee being its owner?
19-6321 Michael J. Prance v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-withdrawal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether there is a Sixth Amendment right to counsel during plea withdrawal proceedings?
19-6324 Taeng Yang v. Michael McNeill, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey leave-to-amend section-1983 statute-of-limitations wallace-v-kato Whether Yang's § 1983 claims begins to accrue on the date his conviction was 'vacated and overturned' in light of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 486-…
19-6325 Dewayne Barnes v. Sentry Management, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest discovery dismissal-order due-process in-forma-pauperis res-judicata speedy-trial standing trial-court Can defendants the St. Regis Apartments claim res-judicata
19-6326 Michael K. Verble v. City of San Diego, California Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights computer-software constitutional-rights copyright discretionary-process due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection patent patent-infringement standing state-review takings trade-secret volunteer-firefighter Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
19-6327 Lorenzo Lorta v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP amendments california-penal-code circumstances civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent modification-of-sentence parole sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the modification of a sentence and re-sentencing under the position 51 of the California Penal Code Section 1170(d) is valid due to the circum…
19-6330 Vicki Corona v. Mariyam Gasparyan California Denied IFP 1st-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-remedy malice petition-clause remedy standing Where actors of a Superior Court, including the Judge, defense attorney, and clerks, violate the rule of law as announced in the Due Process Clause, a…
19-6336 Eddie Jennings v. United States Third Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-law johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch apply to the residual clause of the career-offender provision of the former mandatory Sentencing Gui…
19-6338 Gerald Nelson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitration arbitration-award back-pay back-pay-settlement civil-rights due-process gross-income gross-income-taxation section-1983 tax tax-law tax-liability unemployment unemployment-benefits Whether gross income includes back pay settlements that deduct taxpayer's Unemployment Benefits in an Arbitration Award, and who is the taxpayer - the…
19-6339 Jackson Miles v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process healthcare-law informed-consent national-childhood-vaccine-injury-act-of-1986 regulatory-oversight regulatory-policy vaccine-injury-compensation vaccine-injury-compensation-program Where the special master of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) violates the 2017 Secretary of Health and Human Services' posted Rule that …
19-634 Republic of Sudan, et al. v. James Owens, et al. District of Columbia Denied chevron-oil circuit-court due-process foreign-sovereigns foreign-sovereigns-immunity,terrorism-exception,su landgraf retroactive-application sovereign-immunity substantive-liability terrorism-exception Whether the D.C. Circuit applied an unconstitutional rule of substantive liability
19-6342 Michael Shavers v. Lavern Sharp, Deputy Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process excessive-force excessive-use-of-force prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment Whether plaintiff is entitled to relief from dismissal of lawsuit - Shavers v. Bergh (excessive use of force claims dismissed on the nature of the sus…
19-6346 Paul Malone v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment aedpa aedpa-deference attorney-perjury due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disorders perjury plea-voluntariness strickland-v-washington trial-attorney-perjury Does deference provided from AEDPA and Strickland v Washington apply when there is evidence of trial attorney perjury before the court?
19-6349 Jarvas Jovon Brinkley v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Michigan Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper michigan-law sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does the decisions below conflict with the decisions of other U.S. circuit courts of appeals and state appellate courts, and misapply this court's dec…
19-6359 Stephen Nivens v. Maryland Maryland Denied IFP administrative-hearing administrative-law correctional-services double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review sentencing-credits special-project-credits standing statutory-interpretation venue Whether Judge Daniel P. Dwyer as the Administrative Judge was to preside over and hear Petitioner's hearing for Judicial Review instead of Judge Boyer
19-6365 Deontae Travohn Davis v. Duncan MacLaren, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process expert-witness handwriting-expert perjury preliminary-examination Can this court extend expert witness needed beyond psychiatrist specialist, because courts refused offer handwriting expert to assist petitioner defen…
19-6369 Kelly Dutton v. American Bankers Insurance Company Pennsylvania Denied IFP bad-faith bad-faith-claim breach-of-contract civil-procedure insurance insurance-contract jurisdiction municipal-court statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Does this rule exclude municipal court from statute of limitation?
19-6374 Kim Moss v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP appeal appeal-of-right appellate-procedure consolidation constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-to-appeal constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-delay right-to-appeal state-court-procedures state-procedures trial-court-error Was Petitioner Moss' constitutional right to appeal violated where the trial court failed to reinstate his appeal of right?
19-6379 Timothy Edward Holz v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP career-offender collateral-review crime-of-violence johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentence-enhancement mandatory-sentencing pre-booker pre-booker-mandatory residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.2a Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), invalidated U.S. Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(a)---the career offender guideline's residual…
19-6388 Cary VanDerMeulen v. Charles L. Ryan, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection judicial-access judicial-review legal-standing procedural-due-process remedies rights-enforcement standing Why is a citizen not allowed to bring a valid claim (claims) for civil rights violations before the court and have them heard?
19-6395 V. A. C. v. J. L. W. Texas Denied IFP civil-procedure confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance parental-rights prejudice termination-of-parental-rights trial-court-discretion If it can be proven that the relied upon convictions in a Termination of Parental Rights action are unconstitutional and unreliable, does deference & …
19-6396 Charles Jordan v. John H. Magill, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-law-enforcement due-process equal-protection jurisdiction just-compensation standing takings-clause Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the Takings Clause does not prohibit the government from taking private property without just compensa…
19-6398 Aretha Townsend v. National Labor Relations Board Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act article-iii case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights compliance contempt due-process frivolous judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-jurisdiction standing Whether District Judge violated Petitioner's due-process rights
19-6399 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis jones-v-bock jurisdictional-grounds procedural-grounds Whether the court of appeals for the eleventh circuit rendered a decision in conflict with the law of the U.S. Supreme Court
19-64 Heidi C. Lilley, Kia Sinclair, and Ginger M. Pierro v. New Hampshire New Hampshire Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech gender-discrimination intermediate-scrutiny public-exposure public-nudity Does an ordinance expressly punishing only women, but not men, for identical conduct—being topless in public, classify on the basis of gender?
19-6403 Davin D. Crenshaw, aka Davon D. Crenshaw v. Texas Texas Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony hearsay mental-health sexual-assault victim-impact Whether the statements made by the expert (SANE) beyond the scope of a SANE examination would be considered hearsay of the same examination from the S…
19-6406 Clifford L. Rush v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied IFP conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion nebraska-supreme-court pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment withdrawal-of-counsel Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court's denial of the petitioner's right to proceed pro se violated the Sixth Amendment
19-6407 Derran Smiley v. California California Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penal-code post-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing state-court-ruling Whether the retroactive application of California Penal Code Section 667(c)(2) violates the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. Constitution
19-6409 Sean Reilly v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-duty contract-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misunderstanding plea-bargaining sixth-amendment written-plea-offers Whether counsel for the accused has a constitutional duty under the Sixth Amendment to document and present the client plea offers (contracts) in writ…
19-641 Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation v. Dami Hospitality, LLC Colorado Denied 8th-amendment ability-to-pay civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation corporate-liability corporations due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines regulatory-enforcement state-law takings workers-compensation Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause applies to corporations as it does individuals and, if so, whether and to what extent it require…
19-6412 Dennis Jones v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure conflict-with-precedent constitutional-interpretation due-process essential-elements-of-crime federal-jurisdiction federal-question judicial-review precedent-conflict right-to-counsel standing state-court-decision supreme-court supreme-court-procedure Whether the state court decided a federal question in a way that conflicts with this Court's precedent on the right to counsel and due process
19-6416 Jurijus Kadamovas v. John F. Caraway, Warden, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment administrative-discretion administrative-law bureau-of-prisons civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process medical-care medical-conditions prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing torture-prevention Whether the Federal Bureau of Prisons can torture an inmate diagnosed with asthma by exposing them to oleoresin capsicum spray, toxic smoke, and tear …
19-6417 Doran Wilburn Walker v. Texas Texas Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing cumulative-sentences double-jeopardy due-process oral-pronouncement-of-sentence presence-of-defendant sentencing statutory-authority trial-court-authority written-judgment Whether a trial court must order sentence cumulation at the time of oral pronouncement
19-6422 Calvin Dunell Burns v. Florida Florida Denied IFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights competency constitutional-violations due-process evidence legal-procedure mental-competency mental-health standing trial-counsel trial-procedure Why did the First District Court of Appeals, State of Florida, not rule fairly on the merits of the issues in the Petitioner's Direct Appeal regarding…
19-6425 Andres Santana v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California Denied IFP 14th-amendment discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment innocence liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-discovery procedural-rights substantive-rights What amount of due process is owed to a Defendant who is seeking post-conviction discovery to prove himself innocent of the charges a jury found him G…
19-6430 Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review standing Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that…
19-6434 Lawrence T. Tyler v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act adverse-determination agency bureau-of-prisons civil-rights due-process human-trafficking national-origin-discrimination privacy-act record-accuracy standing Whether the challenged records used to make an adverse determination against me are indeed inaccurate and/or incomplete as a matter of this U.S. Supre…
19-6435 Iyang Peter Oduok v. Fulton DeKalb Hospital Authority, dba Grady Memorial Hospital, et al. Georgia Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-preemption constitutional-violation due-process federal-law georgia-supreme-court judicial-procedure preemption rule-13 rule-38 writ-of-certiorari Does Georgia Supreme Court Rule 38 conflict with federal law and preempt it?
19-6437 Lee E. Peyton v. California California Denied IFP confrontation-clause courtroom-protocol criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause farretta-v-california fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a trial court to deny a defendant's request to proceed pro se based on the judge's accusations of t…
19-6440 Mitchell Lavern Ludy v. James W. Mills, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process liberty-interest parole state-regulations state-requirements Whether Georgia prisoners would have a liberty interest in parole if the Georgia parole board would as mandated by state requirements for parole in it…
19-6443 Amro A. Elansari v. University of Pennsylvania Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-funding informed-consent research-ethics research-experiments standing Was summary dismissal appropriate?
19-6446 William L. Edwards v. Texas Texas Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Why was Willian, Cdwards Neyerallewed +e present the Vl avidenco that eXonerates him te a yery :
19-6447 Charles Donelson v. Darrise Hardy, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure-review-standard due-process hearing-requirement standing summary-judgment appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard ninth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation zipursky Whether the Power applied in this Case by Asserted Judicial Authority Was Contrary to Law and other Circuits in light of the whole Record
19-6449 Antwoine Marquise Bealer v. Kern Valley State Prison Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment administrative-decision administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-screening PLRA prison prisoner-rights standing Does the PLRA require the court to look beyond a prima facie showing when screening prisoner in forma pauperis complaints?
19-6451 Lori Zarlenga v. Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals Rhode Island Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure capable-of-repetition-yet-evading-review civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-impression mootness mootness-doctrine public-interest public-interest-exception Whether the Rhode Island Supreme Court erred by dismissing Petitioner's appeal on the grounds of mootness
19-6452 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery mandamus pro-se pro-se-litigant records standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement trial-court writ-of-court Should a writ of mandamus be automatically granted when the defendant has adequately shown an entity violated an earlier subpoena for records?
19-6453 James E. Lang v. Florida Florida Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fiore-v-white judicial-review pipeline-law precedent-interpretation retroactivity statutory-interpretation When a state's highest court corrects an erroneous interpretation of its statutory law committed by its lower appellate court, that has affirmed a con…
19-6454 Corey Morris v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel extended-sentences federal-review multiple-indictments plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel when contemplating plea offers
19-6458 Torrence E. Davis v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP conditional-demand constitutional-rights criminal-procedure equivocal-invocation equivocal-request faretta-right faretta-v-california judicial-discretion new-counsel pro-per right-to-counsel self-representation self-representation-right trial-court-advisement waiver-of-counsel Whether a conditional request to proceed pro per is automatically equivocal
19-6459 Kenneth K. DuVall v. Carlos Hernandez, Superintendent, Avery Mitchell Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-standards judicial-relief judicial-review state-imprisonment Did Judge Whitney's failure to rule on Petitioner's newly discovered evidence of Double Jeopardy issues deny Petitioner his 5th and 14th Amendment Rig…
19-6460 Daniel Paul Copple v. Pelicia Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-standards discovery discovery-limitations dismissal-standards due-process evidence-preservation evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus institutional-mental-health-records judicial-discretion mental-competency pro-se-defendant state-records Whether a defendant claiming mental incompetency should have the state court records reviewed prior to denying equitable tolling
19-6462 Stephen L. Bush v. David W. Gray, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
19-6463 Michael A. Albert v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment outrageous-conduct police-agent right-to-present-defense sexual-inducement voluntariness Whether the promise and delivery of sex by a police agent is sufficient inducement to trigger 5th and/or 14th Amendment protections
19-6467 Robert G. Pulley v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-court Whether the actual innocence exception to the procedural default doctrine applies to excuse the petitioner's failure to raise certain claims in state …
19-6468 Glenn Olson v. Shannon McCloud Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
19-6469 Kenneth N. McFall v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP and sole defense witness to testify at trial for appeal evidence sixth-amendment state-court-decision testimony abuse-of-discretion accomplice-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment state-bypass-sixth-amendment Whether the trial court's abuse of discretion in not allowing an alleged accomplice to testify violated the petitioner's due process and Sixth Amendme…
19-647 Jonathan Corbett v. Transportation Security Administration Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing certainly-impending chain-of-events constitutional-challenge eleventh-circuit future-injury speculative speculative-harm speculative-injury standing standing-article-iii substantial-likelihood supreme-court Does the Eleventh Circuit's 'substantial likelihood' test for Article III standing relating to future injuries comport with this Court's 'certainly im…
19-6472 Arthur Lopez v. California California Denied IFP child-custody civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-protective-orders due-process equal-protection family-law latino-fathers parental-rights Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses require the State to provide fathers, including Latino fathers, with proce…
19-6473 Gelu Topa v. Teofilo Melendez, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conciseness criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances facts fourth-amendment police-report relevance scotus-petition warrantless-search writ-of-certiorari Whether the police violated the Fourth Amendment by conducting a warrantless search of the petitioner's home without exigent circumstances?
19-6475 Burton Maurice Kahn v. Robert Ripley Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure merits res-judicata standing Whether res judicata or collateral estoppel should apply when the initial trial did not have a full and fair opportunity to litigate the merits
19-6480 Dario Rodriguez v. Rick Scott, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review legal-dismissal procedural-fairness qualified-immunity retaliation standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to free speech, due process, and equal protection were violated
19-6488 Javier Yebra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit continue to impose an improper Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard that contraven…
19-6492 Tylan Tremaine Autrey v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing-guidelines vagueness Does a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the mandatory career offender guidelin…
19-6493 Theresa Gail Scanlan v. Washington Washington Denied Response WaivedIFP accuser confrontation-clause criminal-procedure medical-evidence medical-personnel police-interrogation police-involvement prosecutorial-purpose prosecutorial-use sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-statements Are statements to medical personnel testimonial under the Confrontation Clause when the accuser is aware of their prosecutorial purpose?
19-6499 John Berman v. David Modell California Denied IFP benefit-analysis civil-procedure due-process forum-state intentional-tort long-arm-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Does a court err by requiring a plaintiff to show what 'benefit' the defendant derived from intentional and allegedly tortuous actions aimed at the pl…
19-6506 Joshua Jake White v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility credibility-contest criminal-procedure expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prevailing-professional-norm professional-norm sixth-amendment Whether a court evaluating the reasonableness of trial counsel's failure to make a meritorious challenge under the Sixth Amendment may disregard evide…
19-6507 Kenneth Michael Smith v. Melissa Sue Smith, nka Melissa Sue Graham Montana Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights disability-law domestic-relations due-process family-law guardian-ad-litem guardianship mental-capacity standing Does an overly-intrusive and nature-based constitutional violation justify appointing a guardian ad litem in domestic-relations cases?
19-6510 Timothy L. Douglas v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2255f3 career-offender criminal-law criminal-sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1-4b1.2 due-process guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson v. United States applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (200…
19-6512 Michael Allen Channel, Sr. v. John Brinker, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review legal-precedent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the defendants' warrantless seizure and search of the plaintiffs' home violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches an…
19-6513 Deyoe R. Harris v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review controlled-substances criminal-justice drug-policy due-process federal-law federalism free-speech sentencing-disparity standing takings Whether the federal prohibition on certain substances has resulted in more crime and violence, and whether it is best to regulate or decriminalize the…
19-6514 Alan M. Leschyshyn v. Dineshkumar Patel, et al. Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process genuine-issue-for-trial judicial-review legal-theory plausible-ground seventh-amendment statute-of-limitations summary-judgment trial-by-jury Does the judge(s) have to be convinced about legal theory which remains viable under the asserted version of facts that the Petitioner puts forth in d…
19-6518 Eric Burgie v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-robbery civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process jurisdiction mental-fitness mental-health parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-scheme Whether the petitioner's sentence violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
19-6519 Charles M. Ray v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-conclusion standing statutory-provisions takings writ-reasons Whether the constitutional and procedural due process rights of the petitioner were violated
19-652 Norman D. Cox, Jr. v. The Money Source, Inc. New Jersey Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-procedure-default-judgment default-judgment due-process excusable-neglect newly-discovered-evidence r-4-50-1-a service-of-process traverse-hearing Did the Trial Court err in or abuse its discretion by entering default judgment against Petitioner based upon the Respondent's defective Service of Pr…
19-6520 Pasqual Andres McMurry v. Nevada Nevada Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing wrongful-conviction Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state court failed to consider exculpatory evidence in his case
19-6521 Marcus T. Simmons v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied IFP career-offender criminal-justice criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson v. United States applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (200…
19-6522 William Smith v. Texas Texas Denied IFP blood-draw constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-interpretation mandatory-blood-draw missouri-v-mcneely probable-cause public-safety search-and-seizure texas-transportation-code warrantless-search Was the Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers' mandatory blood draw constitutional under the Fourth Amendment as interpreted by Missouri v. McNee…
19-6523 Pasqual Andres McMurry v. Nevada Nevada Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
19-6524 Franklin Elliott Benson v. Aimee Smith, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus civil-rights constitutional-rights corpus-delicti criminal-murder criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions standing venue venue-challenge Whether the element of 'causing the death' is an essential element of malice murder in Georgia under O.C.G.A. 16-5-1(a), and whether the burden was on…
19-6526 In Re David Paul Worthington Denied IFP 18-usc-1151-1153 aedpa aedpa-limitations article-1 article-6 criminal-procedure indian-law indian-treaties state-court-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties treaties-with-indians Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked subject-matter-jurisdiction in criminal-cases due-to-provisions-in-treat…
19-6528 Royce C. Gouveia v. Nolan Espinda, Director, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP acquittal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,criminal-procedure,jury,verdict,ac jury jury-verdict retrial verdict Does a jury's execution of a verdict form acquitting the defendant, and announcement that it has reached a verdict, suffice to erect a double jeopardy…
19-653 Theresa Ortloff v. Dave Trimmer, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived connick-v-myers due-process first-amendment first-amendment-speech-public-interest-connick-v-m free-speech procedural-due-process public-employee public-employee-speech public-interest speech whistleblower-protection Must the entire record, including motives, main thrust of the speech, and all instances of speech be reviewed under Connick v. Myers, 461 U.S. 1388 (1…
19-6534 Saad Bahoda v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure Bunkley-v-Florida conflict-of-interest effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing forged-affidavits ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions michigan-law People-v-Triplett plain-error self-defense sixth-amendment witness-conflict Whether petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel at trial
19-6535 Clarence Fry v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas self-representation sixth-amendment trial-counsel Is it unconstitutional for any Court to deny the Constitutional right to testify in one's own defense by placing the burden of making such desire know…
19-6543 Peter Gakuba v. Michelle Neese Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing structural-error structural-errors Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's denial of habeas corpus relief, involving issues of due-process, equ…
19-6544 Bradly M. Cunningham v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP actual-knowledge anti-SLAPP civil-rights civil-rights-violation defamation defamation-statute discovery due-process false-light media-liability state-actor-doctrine statute-of-limitations Whether the Court can stay this matter until final resolution of a related and dependent money damages case, or order the petitioner be allowed to obt…
19-6545 Bradly M. Cunningham v. Washington County, Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence parole-board section-1983 sentencing torture Issues being raised
19-6548 Julian Marcus Raven v. United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-disclosure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parties standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant legal principles
19-6553 Vicki Corona v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-filing deprivation-of-rights due-process filing-procedures in-forma-pauperis judicial-conduct judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct Question not identified. standing takings Whether the Mayor of Los Angeles and California courts have unlawfully and unethically ignored Supreme Court precedent and higher court rulings
19-6556 In Re Therian Wimbush, et vir Denied IFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus joint-petition judicial-review petition-denial procedural-barriers standing Whether co-convicted, co-tried, co-convicted and sentenced, even though the same co-defendant husband and wife, can file a joint federal 28 U.S.C. 225…
19-6558 Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP due-process federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-findings state-court state-court-deference strickland-v-washington trial-strategy wilson-v-sellers witness-investigation Whether Wilson v. Sellers requires faithful adherence to the last reasoned decision of a state court, or may federal courts bolster such a decision by…
19-6561 Maurice D. Joseph v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-interrogation right-to-privacy secret-recording self-incrimination unlawful-interrogation warrantless-recording Whether a detective's interrogation of a suspect at the suspect's home and secret recording of the suspect without consent, court authorization, or a …
19-6565 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure clerical-error constitutional-rights due-process estoppel exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine judicial-review sanctions work-product work-product-protection Whether the judicial officials and clerical employees of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in intentionally laching upon…
19-6566 Alexander Kates v. New York New York Denied IFP 2nd-amendment actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-possession-of-a-weapon criminal-possession-of-weapon criminal-procedure due-process home-exception ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loaded-firearm penal-law penal-law-265.15(4) standing void-for-vagueness Whether New York State residents are always actually innocent of felony and attempted felony criminal possession of a weapon offenses if they possess …
19-6567 Danny Lee Hill v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP bite-mark-evidence constitutional-rights conviction death-penalty death-sentence due-process expert-testimony fair-trial habeas-corpus scientific-evidence Whether a murder conviction and death sentence based on now recognized debunked unscientific evidence violates a petitioner's constitutional rights to…
19-6568 Kenisha S. Boyd v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice Fifth Circuit Denied IFP acceptance attorney-authority bona-fide-settlement conflict-of-interest contingent-contract contract-formation contract-rejection judicial-discretion mediation mediation-procedure rejection settlement-agreement Whether a bona fide settlement between the parties exists when the agreement is contingent in nature, and one party has the right to reject the offer …
19-657 Virgil Brewer v. Kristina Myers Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force graham-factors law-enforcement police-use-of-force qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force Whether there is a clearly established right not to be shot with a less than lethal beanbag projectile at close range
19-6574 Marco Gonzalez v. Panda Restaurant Group, Inc. California Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflicting-rulings constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure res-judicata standing vexatious-litigant Why doesn't there exist Vexatious Litigant laws or procedure that addresses Multiplicity of California's §391 Motion with Conflicting Rulings based on…
19-6580 In Re Marcus Simpson Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-system due-process judicial-power judicial-usurpation legal-remedy mandamus perjury power-abuse standing usurpation-of-power Whether perjury amounts to a judicial usurpation of power, therefore mandamus (Lie)
19-6592 Monir George v. Dana Metzger, Warden Third Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion for a new trial based on the defense counsel's failure to disclose exculpatory evidenc…
19-6595 Raymond Tavelle Holmes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP cell-phone civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-636 due-process fair-trial florida-statute-934.23 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel inevitable-discovery magistrate-judge objection procedural-error report-and-recommendation search-and-seizure severance similar-fact-evidence sixth-amendment standing third-party warrantless-search Whether the failure to sever counts deprived the P Whether the warrantless search and seizure of text williams-rule Whether the Magistrate Judge failed to file a report and recommendation as required, depriving the Petitioner the opportunity to file a written object…
19-6599 Walter D. Fairley v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-and-finality due-process finality fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus incarceration standing statute-of-limitations time-barred Whether the Magistrate for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when they issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the petit…
19-6603 Dijon Rasheed Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment anticipatory-warrant controlled-delivery drug-possession fourth-amendment jury-selection probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Whether the Fourth Amendment tolerates the mere placing of a package containing drugs on a person's property, then executing the warrant when any pers…
19-6605 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief short-sentence standing state-courts statutory-construction Are the following Pennsylvania statutes constitutionally infirm?
19-6608 Steve Romero v. Mike McDonald, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP de-novo-review fair-trial habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias procedural-history sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does the Ninth Circuit's decision contravene Strickland and this Court's Sixth Amendment jurisprudence?
19-6611 William Severs v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus petition section-2254 statute-of-limitations time-bar Was the District Court's decision to dismiss Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition as untimely correct?
19-6612 Jerome Small v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion brady-claim constitutional-procedure due-diligence judicial-discretion pcra-court-discretion plea-agreement prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct timeliness Is there four (4) prongs to establishing a Brady claim?
19-6613 Jaime Rodriguez, et al. v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review counsel-performance deliberate-misrepresentations due-process factual-predicates false-positions false-positions-and-deliberate-misrepresentations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-rule newly-raised-claims sixth-amendment Whether the mandate rule bars consideration and adjudication of newly raised claims under a Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claim
19-6614 Jerome Marshall v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health miranda-rights miranda-warnings post-conviction-relief procedural-default witness-credibility Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability
19-6617 Melissa Morton v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure-waiver due-process inter-circuit-conflict intra-circuit-conflict jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-procedure right-relinquishment right-to-appeal waiver Whether a defendant waives his right to challenge a jury instruction on appeal if he proposed the instruction below, even if the record contains no ev…
19-662 Thomas Sander v. City of Dickinson, North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights de-novo-review district-court due-process evidence seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury Whether a civil litigant's right to trial by jury is violated when a district court ignores the non-moving party's evidence and a court of appeals sum…
19-6622 Helene Tonique Williams v. Toni Preckwinkle, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-discretion patent procedural-dismissal standing state-court-procedure takings Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the case against Pliner Porgue A Mhams, et al.
19-6624 Andre D. Lee v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process hearing right-to-counsel sentence state-trial-court void waiver Was the petitioner's right to counsel violated in the state trial court, thereby making the conviction and sentence completely void?
19-6628 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief short-sentence statutory-construction Whether the Pennsylvania statutes 42 Pa.C.S. §9542, 42 Pa.C.S. §9543(a)(1)(ii), 42 Pa.C.S. §9545(a), 42 Pa.C.S. §9545(b)(1), and 18 Pa.C.S. §2709(a)(4…
19-6629 Jacqueline M. King v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-charges driver's-license drivers-license due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement parking-tickets suspension Whether the District of Columbia violated Petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
19-663 Robert J. Wilson v. State Bar of Texas Texas Denied Response Waived access-to-courts constitutional-rights dent-v-west-virginia disbarment disciplinary-procedure due-process governmental-immunity in-re-ruffalo legal-ethics state-bar Can the State Bar of Texas disbar one of its members without affording him due process of law?
19-6631 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California, San Mateo County, et al. California Dismissed Response WaivedIFP anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights first-amendment free-speech limited-civil-case standing tenant-rights unlawful-detainer Can a Tenant who was being evicted by a Landlord for expressing a First Amendment right for a free speech file an anti-SLAPP Motion pursuant to the Ca…
19-6632 Samier Patrick Clark v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP adam-walsh-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines Was petitioner subjected to violations of his Constitutional rights throughout the criminal prosecution?
19-6634 Kathryn Woodin Markle v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-objection Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or instead, …
19-6636 Gregory Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-reasonableness Whether the government violated Mr. Williams' constitutional right to a fair trial
19-6637 Gregory Cooper v. Katy Poole, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-counsel judicial-discretion right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction takings Whether the 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides for due process when the State compels a defendant to testify against himself by threat of…
19-6638 Yannier Arias v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-counsel Whether conflicting affidavits require an evidentiary hearing for ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
19-664 Eugene H. Williams, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure destructive-devices firearms firearms-violations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea statutory-interpretation writ-of-coram-nobis Whether Petitioner is innocent of the charges resulting from a complete miscarriage of justice
19-6644 Darrell Freeze v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit judges to find the facts necessary to support an otherwise substantively unreasonable federal sentence
19-6649 Alfred L. Brooks v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment dismissed-allegations double-jeopardy due-process extrajudicial-proceeding extrajudicial-proceedings parole parole-hearing plea-agreement Can state District Attorney's Office and/or California Board of Parole Hearings utilize Parole Consideration Hearings as extrajudicial proceedings to …
19-665 John Doe v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-35 rule-35b sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factors substantial-assistance May a district court deny a government's Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for reduction of sentence based on substantial assistance wit…
19-6650 Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a 8th-circuit criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-variance guidelines judicial-discretion life-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines u-s-code Whether the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court for the Southern District of Iowa failed to adequately consider the sentencing factors set…
19-6653 Quinton Omar Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-statutes federal-criminal-law force force-and-violence intimidation legislative-intent mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation violence Whether Congress intended the phrase 'by force and violence, or by intimidation,' that appears in multiple federal criminal statutes to include the us…
19-6654 Tremaine Bernard Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-extradition due-process federal-authority federalism government-action interstate-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute legal-procedure reasons-for-granting-writ state-authority statement-of-case statutory-provisions uniform-criminal-extradition-act uniform-law Where does federal authority end and state authority begin when the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act is violated?
19-6656 Fernando Quintela-Galindo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapter-7-policy chapter-7-policy-statements criminal-procedure due-process presumption-of-reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing-guidelines Whether a presumption of reasonableness should be applied to a revocation sentence produced by Chapter 7 policy statements
19-6659 In Re Arturo Rodriguez Ornalez Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rule-11 sentencing structural-error Whether Constitution and statutory provisions and Rule 11 violations may have rendered Arturo Rodriguez Ornalez's sentence and conviction constitution…
19-6661 Jean Bernier, aka Charles Watson v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-encroachment congressional-intent general-savings-clause habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation judicial-powers mandate-recall sentencing-enhancement separation-of-powers statutory-clarification statutory-interpretation Is the principle of separation-of-powers, which prohibits judicial encroachment on the exclusive power of Congress to make laws, violated, when a cour…
19-6663 Jose Hernandez-Martinez, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582c2 28-usc-991b 28-usc-994 due-process equal-protection guidelines-policy rational-basis-scrutiny retroactive-amendment retroactive-sentence-reduction sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-authority sentencing-reform-act Is the Sentencing Commission's delegated authority over retroactive sentence reduction proceedings constrained by the general purposes of the Commissi…
19-6664 Steven Klikno v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit seventh-circuit-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony Is Illinois robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)?
19-6666 Christopher Thornton v. Patricia Anne Coyne-Fague, Director, Rhode Island Department of Corrections First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-court filing-fees habeas-corpus return-of-fees rule-60 Does the filing of a State prisoner writ of habeas corpus prohibit the federal court from returning a filing fees?
19-6667 James Anthony Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether a United States citizen shall be held in prison for an enhanced sentence that is constitutionally wrong, and whether there shall be a gross di…
19-6669 Donnie Berry v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-or-declaration appeals civil-rights costs due-process habeas in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel poverty redress security sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying habeas relief on petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
19-6673 Lashon Browning v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act illinois-armed-robbery illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit seventh-circuit-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States?
19-6674 Margarita Mora v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of other Circuits on an important matter…
19-6676 Christopher G. Waguespack v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography computer-evidence computer-forensics confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence law-enforcement sixth-amendment software-reliability Whether failing to call the law enforcement agent responsible for generating a computer report in the Government's case-in chief implicates the Sixth …
19-6678 Joseph Van Sach v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca circuit-split criminal-law illinois-armed-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)?
19-668 Courtney Bird v. Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived child-abuse-registry constitutional-challenge continuing-violation continuing-violations due-process erroneous-listing liberty-interest procedural-safeguards statute-of-limitations Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in affirming the dismissal of Courtney's § 1983 claim as untimely?
19-6680 Tony Lipscomb v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca illinois-armed-robbery illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court-review violent-felony Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)?
19-6682 Zhaopeng Chen v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence farmer-v-brennan jury-instructions knowledge-element legal-standard mens-rea Whether the rule of Farmer v. Brennan should be extended to criminal cases involving the defendant's knowledge as an element of the offense and the go…
19-6692 Kenneth Robert Simpson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion parole revocation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction supervised-release Whether the revocation of supervised release and imposition of additional imprisonment for a violation of the conditions of supervised release violate…
19-6700 Abid Naseer v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP advisement appellate-review district-court right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment standard-of-review waiver Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals applied an incorrect standard in concluding that Petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived his Sixth A…
19-6703 Shondor Janell Arceneaux v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2113(a) 924(c) aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting bank-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense generic-crime-definition generic-definition remand sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation If §924(c) applies to predicate crimes whose elements are no broader than a Federal Generic Definition of that crime, is remand required if a defendan…
19-6704 JB Foster McAfee v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court circuit-court-rejection civil-procedure-mail-box-rule due-process federal-rules-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus houston-v-lack mail-box-rule obstruction-of-justice prison-mail prisoner-appeals prisoner-petition sentencing-guidelines timeliness timely-filing Whether a prisoner's petition for rehearing is timely filed under the mail box rule
19-6706 Ramsin Jonathan Malek v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crimes federal-criminal-procedure force-clause ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit's decision because armed robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) does not categorical…
19-6707 Ricky Lee Tyndall v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process element-of-force federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-damage property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s force clause is unconstitutionally vague due to the inclusion of 'physical force against property' as a basis for a…
19-6708 Daniel Wert v. Ronnie R. Holt, Warden Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence administrative-remedy atypical-and-significant-hardship atypical-hardship civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sandin-v-conners section-2241 standing Whether the district court had jurisdiction over the actual-innocence claim, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 2241, even though no good time credit was t…
19-6709 Adam L. Acosta v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-35 disclosure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial new-trial prosecution rule-16 rule-16-disclosure rule-33 rule-33-motion-for-new-trial rule-35 Whether the Court of Appeals misconstrued Rule 35(c)(3)(VID, Colorado Rules of Criminal Procedure
19-671 Daniel A. Grover v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-deference administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-interpretation civil-procedure civil-service due-process federal-regulations regulatory-compliance statutory-interpretation ultra-vires Whether the deference standard regarding federal agencies' interpretation of their own regulations must continue in light of the admission by the Offi…
19-6711 Luciano Diaz-Contreras v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-power felon-in-possession firearms firearms-possession statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause?
19-6712 Adam Scott Caward v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-interpretation miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing Whether the Court should adopt the rule espoused in the First, Third, Fourth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits, which hold that an appellate court can decline…
19-6715 Brandon Lashon Ingram v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does Title 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) automatically require an evidentiary hearing when an affidavit presented by a defendant alleging a breakdown in communi…
19-6716 Israel C. Isbell v. Steven Merlak, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-mistake civil-rights consecutive-sentence due-process federal-government federal-jurisdiction interstate-transfer jurisdiction pardon primary-jurisdiction prisoner-custody prisoner-transfer sentencing-procedure sixth-circuit-precedent sovereign-immunity state-custody Does one sovereign lose or surrender its primary jurisdiction when it releases an inmate serving a consecutive sentence into the custody of another so…
19-6717 Jess Lee Green v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-proceedings trial trial-procedure trial-rights Is the right to due process of trial and/or during guilty plea process a fundamental constitutional right?
19-6718 James Douglas Pridgen v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery carjacking certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit section-924(c) section-924c unanimous-jury Whether the Ninth Circuit wrongly denied the request for a certificate of appealability
19-6719 Mauro Castaneda Palacio v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-supervised-release sentencing standing supervised-release vagueness Whether the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in upholding the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 3583(k) as applied to the petitioner
19-6721 Christopher Ray Parrish 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…
19-6723 T. B. v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography due-process first-amendment free-speech sexting sexual-exploitation teen-sexting teenager-rights Does Colorado's interpretation of what constitutes child pornography violate a teenager's First Amendment right to protected speech and conflict with …
19-6725 Richard A. Wellbeloved-Stone v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 19-usc-1509 agency-authority agency-procedure civil-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding customs-summons exclusionary-rule federal-law federal-policy ice non-customs-information Whether information having nothing to do with customs, obtained by an agency pursuant to a customs summons under 19 U.S.C. § 1509, should be suppresse…
19-6729 Cedric Gray v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion legal-standard mental-competency miranda-rights procedural-error sentencing suppression-hearing trial-rights Can my motion to suppress be denied even after I invoked my right to remain silent?
19-6735 Kwok Cheung Chow, aka Raymond Chow, aka Ha Jai v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-principles counsel-of-choice courtroom-closure government-interest governmental-interest harmless-error overriding-interest public-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether federal courts have undermined the constitutional principles of the right to a public trial by adopting a test that requires a lesser governme…
19-6739 Marshon Simon v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act,violent-felony,elements- attempted-offense canine-search criminal-procedure Does an attempted offense meet the requirements of florida-v-harris fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protections fourth-amendment,narcotics-detection,canine-search narcotics-detection residual-odor Does Florida v. Harris stand for the proposition that narcotics sniffing canines may be trained to alert to residual odor, i.e. the absence of narcoti…
19-6746 Michael Anthony Mitchell v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process equal-protection fair-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity sentencing-review unwarranted-sentence waiver-of-rights Does a waiver of direct appeal rights and collateral rights excepting claims premised on ineffective assistance of counsel violate a defendant's due-p…
19-6748 Steven A. Adams v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting ambiguity attempt conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference deference-doctrine sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-4b1.2b statutory-interpretation Whether the term 'controlled substance offense' defined by UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 4B1.2(b) is ambiguous
19-6752 Jemone Lawrence Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness curtis-johnson curtis-johnson-v-united-states elements-clause physical-force samuel-johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement stokeling stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause is unconstitutionally vague
19-6753 Benitez Auguarius Moody v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-challenge deliberate-falsehood due-process fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware intentional-falsehoods intentional-falsity probable-cause search-warrant Whether the characterization of deliberate falsehoods in a search warrant affidavit as mere imprecision eviscerates the right of a defendant as enunci…
19-6756 Rene Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellant-notification appellate-procedure civil-procedure counsel-notification dismissal due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure legal-procedure notice rule-42(b) rule-42b standing Does the plain language of Rule 42(b) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure require counsel, when retained, to notify Appellant of dismissal?
19-6758 Michael Tryance Anderson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing sentencing-review standing substantive-reasonableness Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their civil rights and due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendm…
19-6760 Ijaz Khan v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act constructive-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment indictment indictment-modification polygamy polygamy-charge Whether a constructive amendment occurred at trial when the court found defendant guilty of multiple marriages, a charge not on the indictment, and wh…
19-6761 Younes Kabbaj v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-115 18-usc-875 apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence elonis-v-united-states first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation subjective-intent true-threat true-threats Whether a conviction for issuing a 'true threat' requires proof of defendant's subjective intent to threaten injury upon the person (physical body) of…
19-6764 Nicole Rena McCrea v. District of Columbia Police & Firefighter's Retirement and Relief Board District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge disability disability-benefits disability-provisions due-process employment police-firefighters property-interest property-rights takings takings-clause Are the provisions of the United States Constitution, Amendment 5, Due Process Clause, compelled and/or implied as pertains to the expressed statutory…
19-6766 Miles Barton Nichols v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-hearing franks-v-delaware informant-credibility law-enforcement-procedure material-omissions probable-cause recklessness search-warrant Whether a finding of recklessness should be inferred where omissions are critical to probable cause
19-6774 Albert Allen, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mens-rea prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability
19-6775 James Marione Butchee v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender controlled-substance criminal-history due-process federal-sentencing ineffective-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony Do having one violent felony and one controlled substance conviction qualify citizens to be a career offender?
19-6778 Michael Daemon Blackburn v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-rights miranda-rights self-incrimination waiver Is a written-only advisement of Miranda rights -without time or silence to read it - a sufficient advisal allowing a knowing, intelligent and voluntar…
19-6784 Jermaine Whyte v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-victim criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mens-rea reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591(c) creates a strict-liability-offense-for-age-of-victim
19-6790 Mark Gerth v. Warden, Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reopened-appeal right-to-counsel Whether Petitioner had a constitutional right to counsel
19-6791 Bryan Lamon Burnett v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines Should this court grant certiorari to resolve the conflict between the circuit courts of appeal in the application of United States Sentencing Guideli…
19-6793 Quentin Herndon v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-court federal-courts physical-force sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(a) Whether a federal court must defer to a state court's interpretation of the elements of a state criminal statute to determine if that offense requires…
19-6797 Hal Mark Kreitman v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP business-expenses business-services criminal-activity criminal-liability criminal-offense criminal-procedure employee-liability employee-services employment federal-jurisdiction legal-culpability money-laundering payment-structure Does an employee's facilitation of a criminal offense, by providing services to a business engaged in criminal activity, make the employee guilty not …
19-6798 Corey Eugene Gill v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower courts erred in holding that the decision of this Honorable Court in Mathis v. United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016), could not be li…
19-6799 Aamir A. Hafiz-Thompson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acca appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether counsel's admitted inaccuracy, misinformation, and failure to make specific inquiry regarding the petitioner's prior predicates (ACCA) conflic…
19-6802 Gary Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification identification-process judicial-circuit jurisdiction precedent sentencing standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the state courts and federal courts err in determining that the identification process violated Supreme Court precedent?
19-6806 Anthony J. Stokes v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felony jurisdictional-conflict military-law predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trial-modification Whether the underlying felony is part of the crime charged to create a predicate felony that charge, cannot stand
19-6809 Jason Michael Strubberg v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process entrapment jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment undercover-operations Whether the Sixth Amendment and Due Process Clause allow a court to instruct the jury, over objection, that 'Undercover agents may properly make use o…
19-6813 Lenore Luann Albert v. State Bar of California California Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines legal-costs license license-suspension reinstatement state-bar state-bar-costs Whether the California State Bar's conditional suspension that conditions the time suspended to payment of State Bar costs and other amounts ordered d…
19-6819 Frankie Ovies v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-evidence cell-phones circuit-split criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence forensic-technology lay-testimony Whether using Cellebrite technology to download forensic digital evidence from a cell phone requires specialized or technical knowledge so that the ev…
19-6820 Rafael Leoner-Aguirre v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction first-circuit jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-conspiracy salinas-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court united-states-code Whether the jury must find the specific predicate acts committed under the RICO conspiracy statute
19-6824 Thomas Abdul Holcombe v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split circuit-splits ex-post-facto non-delegation-doctrine right-to-travel SORNA-prosecution sorna-violations venue venue-issue Whether the Court must resolve splits among and within the circuits because across the country there is no uniformity of prosecution of alleged SORNA …
19-6826 Jennifer Castro v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defenses age-of-consent criminal-law criminal-statute human-trafficking mens-rea minor minor-victims prostitution prostitution-law reasonable-belief sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability Is 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) a strict liability offense?
19-6828 Reginald Jerry Shaw v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review application-notes certificate-of-appealability commentary district-court-discretion ineffective-assistance legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Are the commentary and application notes in the Sentencing Guideline manual authoritative or left to the District Court's discretion?
19-6830 Don Emmery Wilson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment ambiguous-plea constitutional-rights criminal-matter cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus hearsay illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief profiling sentencing-guidelines Was petitioner subject to ineffective or deficient assistance of counsel in a criminal matter?
19-6831 In Re Fredrick Wroten Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-obligation petition petition-for-redress redress unilateral-contract when-the-state-and-federal-appellate-courts-ignore-and-or-refuse-to-respond-to-a-denial-of-a-fair-trial-claim
19-6834 Lee Hope v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g3 constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-rehaif-v-united-sta due-process federal-statute judgment-of-acquittal rehaif-v-united-states unlawful-user vagueness Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that defendant's motion for judgment of acquittal was properly denied by the District Court
19-6837 Anzara Brown v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland chain-of-custody civil-rights confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence forensic-evidence medical-examiners witness-testimony Whether the state of Delaware can withhold exculpatory evidence relating to the state's office of medical examiners officials, denying true evidence f…
19-6838 Joshua Smith v. Sandra Butler, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review caselaw federal-procedure guideline-range habeas-corpus incorrect-guideline-range mandatory-guidelines savings-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Courts of Appeals have incorrectly interpreted the 'savings clause' found in 28 USC 2255(e)
19-6840 Manuel Antonio Severino v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution legal-duty mens-rea statutory-interpretation tax-fraud willfulness Whether, in a prosecution for aiding and assisting in the preparation or filing of false tax returns under 26 U.S.C. § 7206(2), the government is requ…
19-6841 Adam Scott v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure delayed-sealing evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment sealing statutory-compliance suppression surveillance-law title-iii title-iii-intercept unforeseen-emergency wiretap wiretap-procedure wiretap-suppression Should a wiretap that was not sealed until 30 days after interception ended, and 21 days after the order expired, be suppressed where that delay was n…
19-6842 Vivek Shah v. Marcus Holmes Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-of-conviction collateral-review extortion factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition plea-agreement retroactive-statutory-interpretation section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether a federal prisoner claiming factual innocence as a result of a new, retroactively applicable statutory interpretation by the circuit court of …
19-6843 James Rice v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment barker-factors barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial unreasonable-application Was Petitioner James Rice denied the right to a speedy trial?
19-6848 Robert Matthew Wittal v. Montana Montana Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant-testimony credibility criminal-procedure criminal-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-objection sixth-amendment witness-credibility Whether petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel when his counsel objected to a jury instruction on the untrustworthiness of co-defendant…
19-6849 Cedric Sharrod Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review controlled-substance criminal-law drug-crimes due-process firearm-proximity firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the fourth circuit court of appeals erred in concluding that, despite the controlled substance [heroin] in this matter having been locked in a…
19-6850 Ledell Tyler v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-definition hobbs-act home-invasion interstate-commerce jurisdiction non-violent-conduct statutory-interpretation violent-conduct Whether The Meaning of The Word 'Force' Under The Hobbs Act Provision Encompasses Both Violent and Non-Violent Conduct
19-6854 In Re Alexander Palomarez Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-interrogation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-rights prisoner-rights standing state-court-review suppression-of-evidence Whether the 'prison mailbox rule' announced in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 101 L. Ed. 2d 245, 108 S. Ct. 2379 (1988) should be applied to this case…
19-6859 Michael A. Green v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment abandoned-vehicle community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search investigatory-motive law-enforcement-motive pretext search-and-seizure tow-policy vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search Whether an officer with a motive to search for incriminating evidence may impound a vehicle and inventory its contents in contravention of the standar…
19-686 Snodgrass-King Pediatric Dental Associates, P.C., et al. v. DentaQuest USA Insurance Co., Inc. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 blum-v-yaretsky civil-rights first-amendment government-contractor government-directive private-contractor section-1983 significant-encouragement state-action Whether a government directive made to a private contractor while the contractor is bidding on a lucrative and admittedly important government contrac…
19-6864 Cedis R. Martin v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach categorical-review crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process offense-of-violence sentencing-guidelines sentencing-predicate state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§4a1.1(e) vagueness vagueness-analysis vagueness-doctrine Does a state court conviction qualify as an 'offense of violence' for sentencing purposes if the state offense can be committed without physical harm?
19-6865 Delante L. Lunn v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP but-for-causation but-for-test causation criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-offenses drug-overdose mandatory-minimum overdose-causation sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the but-for test in Burrage v. United States should be re-evaluated for mixed drug overdoses that result in death where no drug distributed by…
19-6868 Leigh Laz LePon v. Iowa Iowa Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality partisan-advocacy privileges-and-immunities subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the state district-court judge violated the Fourteenth Amendment's privileges and immunities clause as well as the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendm…
19-6880 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-relief constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus prejudice prejudice-standard speedy-trial Is an affirmative demonstration of prejudice to the accused's ability to defend himself essential to prove the denial of his right to a speedy trial?
19-6881 April Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion parole probation reasonableness revocation sentencing supervised-release Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable revocation sentence upon Ms. Torres?
19-6883 Donald Brian Winberg, et ux. v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for lack of standing to challenge the constitutionality of the challenged statut…
19-6884 Glen B. Clay, aka Glenn B. Clay v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act district-court-review due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-motion Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's decision that it could not consider on the merits Mr. Clay's successive motion ba…
19-6885 Antonio Escobar v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states fourth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation traffic-stop Whether the mens rea requirement in 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) applies to drug type and quantity
19-6889 In Re Joel Law Denied IFP 18-usc-2422b 6th-amendment confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-6th-amendment,false-imprisonm constitutional-rights false-imprisonment habeas-corpus immediate-relief judicial-review section-2255 sixth-amendment Am I entitled to immediate relief from this Court, to protect myself and others similarily situated, from being falsely imprisoned pursuant to 18 U.S.…
19-6896 Jeffrey Antonio v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-action criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-element jury-determination land-claims preliminary-finding pueblo-lands pueblo-lands-act statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence Whether the federal criminal jurisdiction over the Pueblo of Sandia lands was terminated by the 2005 Pueblo Lands Act Amendment
19-6898 Demicko Billie Thomas v. Maggie Miller-Stout, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment musacchio-precedent musacchio-v-united-states ninth-circuit reasonable-doubt supreme-court-review washington-state-supreme-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires each and every element of a charged offense to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt
19-6899 Jose Luis Meza-Lopez v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP concealment constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cuellar-v-united-states due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel money-laundering transportation Does the Court's holding in Cuellar v. United States require more than a finding of concealing something for transportation to show money laundering?
19-6902 Samir Benamor v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP antique-firearm burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation Whether the Government bears the burden of proving that the defendant knew the charged firearm has the characteristics that make its possession illega…
19-6907 Robert Hendricks v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error criminal-trial due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-admission harmless-error racial-bias structural-error Isn't the erroneous admission of racially charged prejudicial evidence a structural error requiring automatic reversal or, at a minimum, one that requ…
19-6921 Brian H. Jones, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inherent-power legal-definition prosecution-standards same-transaction sovereignty sovereignty-doctrine tribal-sovereignty vagueness Is the legal definition of the term 'same transaction' unconstitutionally vague?
19-6946 In Re Michael Curtis Reynolds Dismissed IFP actual-innocence appeal civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten constitutional-void criminal-appeal due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus remand statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness Does Dimaya require all counts to be reviewed?
19-6993 In Re Augustus Larry Lundy Denied IFP constructive-denial-of-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus personal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment Did the trial court divest itself of personal jurisdiction of Lundy when it administered the law in an improper and unconstitutional manner?
19-709 Mako One Corporation, et al. v. Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust Company Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-remedy remand reversal structural-error When a Circuit Court finds opposing counsel has an actual and serious conflict of interest in a civil case, should the Court view the conflict as a 's…
19-719 Dami Hospitality, LLC v. Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation Colorado Denied ability-to-pay civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause proportionality sentencing Whether an offender's ability to pay is relevant in determining whether a fine is unconstitutional under the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amen…
19-727 Keepers, Inc. v. City of Milford, Connecticut Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights content-based content-based-speech first-amendment free-speech reed-v-gilbert reed-v-town-of-gilbert rule-60(b) rule-60b strict-scrutiny summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in refusing to grant Petitioner relief from summary judgment
19-733 Metro-North Commuter Railroad Co. v. Jamey Murphy Connecticut Denied Response Waived federal-railroad-safety-act passenger-platform preemption state-law-claim state-law-claims track-conditions track-safety train-speed transportation-regulation Does the Federal Railroad Safety Act preempt a state-law claim that a train may not travel on a track next to a passenger platform at the operating sp…
19-742 James Bailey-Snyder v. United States Third Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response Waived arrest-definition civil-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process liberty-restriction prisoner-rights prosecutorial-discretion solitary-confinement speedy-trial wilkinson-v-austin Does imposing solitary confinement on a prisoner while police and prosecutors investigate and consider new criminal charges amount to an 'arrest' givi…
19-776 James Wesley Amonett, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response Waived contract-enforcement contract-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-contract-enforcement due-process jury-trial law-enforcement plea-bargaining police-authority police-promises right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the police can promise someone who they have arrested a specific benefit in exchange for the arrestee's cooperation and whether that contract …
19-83 Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Staffing Now, Inc. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) adea employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie prima-facie-case staffing-agency temporary-employment title-vii How does the McDonnell Douglas framework apply in a Title VII and ADEA case involving temporary employment agencies?
19M81 Russell J. Fenstermaker v. Kathy Halvorson, Warden Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M82 DeAnna Morrow v. West Central Georgia Workforce Development Corporation Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M83 John Edward Roach, Jr. v. Washington Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M84 Vernell Harris v. Central States Southeast and Southwest Areas, Health & Welfare Pension Funds Seventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M85 Arthur Conner v. United States Seventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M86 Timothy Alan Marr v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M87 Donna Montgomery v. Walgreen Co. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M88 Eric A. Longmire v. Warshaw Burstein Cohen Schlesinger & Kuh, LLP New York Presumed Complete None
19M89 Dolores Lloyd v. Presby's Inspired Life, et al. Third Circuit Presumed Complete None