Conference: 2020-01-24

152 cases — 0 granted, 151 denied/dismissed, 1 pending

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18-9526 Jimcy McGirt v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedRelisted (11)IFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus indian-country indian-major-crimes-act major-crimes-act state-jurisdiction state-law Whether Oklahoma courts can continue to unlawfully exercise criminal jurisdiction over Indians accused of major crimes in Indian Country
19-248 Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split common-law-test darden employee-classification employee-status employment-status erisa standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's finding that a worker is an employee under the common-law test should be reviewed for clear error, hybrid standard, or de…
19-353 Trading Technologies International, Inc. v. IBG LLC, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived abstract-idea civil-procedure computer-implemented-invention computer-implemented-inventions federal-circuit innovation patent-act patent-act-1952 patent-eligibility standing Whether computer-implemented inventions that provide useful user functionality but do not improve the basic functions of the computer itself are categ…
19-383 Joseph Raimondo v. Denise Page Hood, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-action political-affiliation political-discrimination taxation Can the United States Federal Government single out citizens and demand taxation and then deprive the citizens of Constitutional Equal Protections bec…
19-406 Marilu F. Touma v. The General Counsel of the Regents, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) abuse-of-power ada ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights conspiracy-to-interfere-with-civil-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process jurisdiction medical-discrimination medical-treatment Whether UCLA Medical Center violated the ADA and Civil Rights when it denied medical treatment to a disabled woman, provided substandard services, and…
19-410 In Re Richard J. Fields Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-distribution fraud judicial-discretion legal-ethics mental-health probate probate-procedure standing testamentary-capacity will-forgery wills witness-testimony Should we ignore a forged initial because our law does not require an initial to make a Will valid? How about people falsifying a will by switching it…
19-510 Jose Javier Banegas Gomez v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied None
19-515 Baldassare Amato v. United States Second Circuit Denied adverse-effect automatic-reversal conflict-of-interest cuyler-v-sullivan evidentiary-hearing holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Sixth Amendment analysis under Cuyler v. Sullivan applies to both successive and concurrent conflicts
19-517 Daniel Barbosa, et al. v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-transparency civil-procedure discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception express-statement-requirement foia foia-publication-requirements freedom-of-information-act judicial-review mandatory-publication secret-law stafford-act statutory-interpretation Whether the Stafford Act bars review of claims that FEMA uses secret law in violation of FOIA's mandatory requirements
19-521 ChargePoint, Inc. v. SemaConnect, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (2) 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-v-cls-bank diamond-v-diehr innovation judicial-interpretation machine-or-process patent-eligibility patent-law section-101 Whether a patent claim to a new and useful improvement to a machine or process may be patent eligible even when it 'involves' or incorporates an abstr…
19-522 Trading Technologies International, Inc. v. IBG LLC, et al. Federal Circuit Denied abstract-idea civil-procedure computer-implemented-invention computer-implemented-inventions federal-circuit innovation patent-act patent-act-1952 patent-eligibility standing Whether computer-implemented inventions that provide useful user functionality but do not improve the basic functions of the computer itself are categ…
19-534 Lahim Kadria v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied None
19-551 Ronald Calzone v. Eric Olson, Superintendent, Missouri State Highway Patrol Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-discretion civil-rights closely-regulated-industry constitutional-rights fourth-amendment search-and-seizure seizure warrantless-search Does the 'closely regulated industry' exception to the Fourth Amendment apply to persons who have not chosen to involve themselves in any business con…
19-5638 Jeffrey E. Lee v. Florida Florida Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP betterman-v-montana constitutional-rights criminal-procedure delay due-process indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-delay standard Does the due process clause create an entitlement to a reasonably prompt sentencing hearing, and what is the analytical standard to determine when del…
19-574 Sheila J. Poole, Commissioner, New York State Office of Children and Family Services v. New York State Citizens' Coalition for Children Second Circuit Denied Amici (1) adoption-assistance-act adoption-assistance-and-child-welfare-act child-welfare federal-department-of-health-and-human-services federal-reimbursement foster-care foster-care-maintenance-payments private-right-of-action spending-mandate state-administration state-funding Whether the CWA's criteria for partial federal reimbursement unambiguously confer on foster parents a private right of action to compel States to cove…
19-5885 Olufemi S. Collins v. Mark Gonzalez, et al. California Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure california-appellate-law california-law california-rule-of-court civil-procedure court-rule due-process motion-to-recall parties procedural-dictate remittitur standing Whether the Appellant's motion to recall remittitur and reinstate appeal should be denied contrary to California Rule of Court 8.54
19-5889 Jonathan Torres-Arroyo v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure judicial-findings jury-trial mandatory-minimum ring-v-arizona sentencing sentencing-court state-v-kiriakakis Did the New Jersey Courts make an invalid distinction from Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), in holding that the defendant's right to a ju…
19-5914 Lena Lasher v. Roger Stavis, et al. Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence best-evidence-rule civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-defense due-process in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-malpractice Should a civil action be granted to correct the District Court's error in misrepresenting a precedent?
19-5925 Kavin Maurice Rhodes v. Peter C. Swarth, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment assets civil-procedure civil-rights court-fees due-process excessive-fines financial-disclosure financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis incorporation indigent-status liabilities poverty pro-se-petition standing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
19-6074 Gerald Nelson v. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181-1061, AFL-CIO, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights complete-preemption due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction federal-statute fourteenth-amendment labor-management-relations preemption removal removal-procedure state-common-law subject-matter-jurisdiction well-pleaded-complaint-rule Whether the United States Court of Appeal and District Federal Court can sua sponte a case when plaintiff has not had a chance to file a complaint and…
19-6094 Andres Herrera-Segovia v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
19-6121 In Re Matthew Lee Staszak Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandamus prosecutorial-misconduct Should this Supreme Court issue the writ of mandamus to compel the district court to adjudicate petitioner's 28 USC § 2255 habeas corpus petition
19-6189 Lewis Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure clear-error due-process judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation sixth-circuit standing structural-error Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when it committed clear error of judgment, by relying on clearly erroneous findings of fac…
19-6191 K. N., et ux. v. Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services Montana Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process fifth-amendment freedom-of-religion parental-rights religious-discrimination self-incrimination state-action state-overreach Did the state's demands that the parents admit guilt violate their Constitutional rights under the 5th Amendment?
19-6214 Luis Fuquen v. Trina Everitt Maryland Denied Relisted (2)IFP best-interest-of-the-child child-custody divorce due-process family-privacy family-privacy-rights family-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-religion parent-child-rights parental-rights Whether Luis and his children are entitled to due process protections for their individual intimate and expressive, close family, parent-child speech,…
19-6231 William Dean Chapman v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing fraud-upon-the-court habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart holland-v-florida kyles-v-whitley lemaster materiality miller-v-united-states plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct raines-v-united-states rule-11 standing strickland supreme-court-precedent Is equitable tolling warranted when access to legal files and resources is severely hampered?
19-6251 In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process extrinsic-fraud fraudulent-conviction habeas-corpus impeaching-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct suborned-testimony witness-tampering wrongful-conviction Whether newly discovered evidence of fraudulently concealed impeaching evidence and constitutional violations warrants reversal of petitioner's convic…
19-6289 Brian Thomas Mohr v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure case-review circuit-court-case criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration jury-instructions legal-probability rehaif-v-united-states remand standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Rehaif v. United S…
19-6306 Jonathan Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act interstate-commerce ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Hobbs Act requires an actual impact on interstate commerce or merely a potential/probable impact
19-6320 Nalen Pierre Williams v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-922g1 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession legal-status mens-rea plain-error reasonable-doubt rehaif-precedent rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2…
19-6372 Kelby Germaine Parson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
19-6487 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-921a20b 18-usc-922g1 civil-rights civil-rights-restoration constitutional-infirmity cumulative due-process firearms-disabilities firearms-disability jurisdictional-authority misdemeanor-conviction pennsylvania restoration-of-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does treating 'civil rights' as cumulative render the enforcement of 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) and 18 U.S.C. §921(a)(20)(B) to be constitutionally infirm w…
19-651 John P. DeRose v. Village of Orland Park, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-requirements rule-11 safe-harbor safe-harbor-provision sanctions service-of-motion May a party satisfy the safe-harbor provision of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11
19-654 Kaleida Health, dba Buffalo General Medical Center v. Kathleen Biondo Second Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process eleventh-circuit gebser-standard gebser-v-lago-vista intentional-discrimination monetary-damages official official-decision rehabilitation-act second-circuit standing Whether the Gebser standard applies to the Rehabilitation Act
19-658 J. G., By and Through His Parents, Howard Greenberg, et ux. v. Hawaii Department of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-proceedings burden-of-proof circuit-split florence-county-school-district-four-v-carter individuals-with-disabilities-education-act placement-change private-school-placement public-placement schaffer-v-weast special-education Whether the burden of proof shifts when the public agency seeks to change the educational placement of a child with a disability
19-660 David Silver v. Hamrick & Evans, LLP California Denied attorney-accountability civil-procedure due-process false-statements judicial-integrity legal-ethics professional-conduct standing tribunal-misconduct tribunals Does a lawyer or a law firm deserve to be given a free pass by the lower courts when the lawyer and the law firm make false statements of material fac…
19-6655 Terrence Leonard Mathis v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP certiorari criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights detention due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus interrogation rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand right-to-counsel Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 189 S. Ct. 2…
19-6658 Booker Terry Simmons v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-6660 Ronald Fay Schermerhorn, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause court-of-appeals due-process ex-post-facto fair-trial habeas-corpus statutory-law Question not identified.
19-6670 Michael Bridge v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure brief-formatting career-offender constitutional-rights due-process johnson-v-united-states judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines procedural-fairness residual-clause sentencing-guidelines timeliness Whether Pennsylvania Superior Court can dismiss an Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-6681 Louis Milton Willis v. Territory of the Virgin Islands Virgin Islands Denied IFP 48-usc-1612 district-court exclusive-jurisdiction gross-receipts-tax income-tax organic-act revised-organic-act statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction virgin-islands Whether the plain language of § 22 of the Revised Organic Act of 1954 vests exclusive jurisdiction over gross receipts taxes in the District Court of …
19-6684 Rakeem Asaad Davis v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP 18-usc-922g 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-right-to-jury-trial charged-theories-of-prosecution criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felon-in-possession jury-unanimity knowledge-element rehaif-v-united-states richardson-standard richardson-v-united-states sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict uncharged-theories-of-prosecution Does the failure to require a unanimous jury verdict on either charged or uncharged theories of prosecution violate the Sixth Amendment right to a ver…
19-6686 Darren Kevin Hunter v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-6689 Frank Fernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines pre-booker residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-purposes Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-6690 Molly Ann Mahany v. City of Buffalo Police Department, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process false-evidence favorable-termination section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations for a Section 1983 false-evidence claim begins to run upon the favorable termination of the ensuing proceedings or …
19-6713 Derek Tyler Horton v. Sam Cochran Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-error writ-of-certiorari Is there a remedy when the Habeas corpus proceeding fails to protect a citizen from Double Jeopardy violation because of an incorrect procedural rulin…
19-6714 Keith D. Goodman v. Eddie Pearson, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus procedural-rule section-2254 sentence-aggregation sentencing sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation Is a federal district court (or a § 2254 petitioner) permitted to disregard or evade Rule 2(e) (of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the Unite…
19-6722 Robin Leach, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-922 constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession firearms legal-status mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Did the Petitioner know that finding mens-rea of knowing in a gun or firearm statute, 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1)
19-6724 Lorie Anne Gunderson Zarum, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Theodore Lee Gunderson v. Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty harmless-error Question not identified. statute-of-limitations constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud federal-rules fiduciary-duty judicial-review state-judiciary statute-of-limitations united-states-v-throckmorton Where through breach of the fiduciary; no cause has ever been tried on the merits, no adversary trial has ever been provided, no decision has ever bee…
19-6726 In Re Billie Byrd Denied IFP aedpa-filing-limitations aedpa-limitations constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law habeas-corpus indian-treaties subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties-with-indians treaty-supremacy-clause Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked of subject-matter-jurisdiction in criminal-cases due-to-provisions in tr…
19-6727 Tyrone Marvin Andrews v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate an alibi defense at trial
19-6728 Jose Anthony Heredia v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower court's decision
19-6730 Cameron A. Harinarain v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus standing Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims alleging violations of his constitutional rights
19-6731 Travell Henry v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment trial-strategy witness witness-testimony Was Mr. Henry's trial counsel, Patrick Nyenhus, failed to provide constitutionally effective assistance of counsel?
19-6732 Martin Stanley Ivie v. Washington Washington Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process evidence-tampering false-arrest false-evidence perjury police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct state-misconduct wrongful-conviction Whether state officials can use forged evidence to convict a U.S. citizen
19-6733 George R. Durham v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Third Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence change-in-relevant-decisional-law civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstance federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b)(6) habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-precedent mcquiggin-v-perkins rule-60b6 Whether the Court's decision in McQuiggin v. Perkins constitutes a change in relevant decisional law that justifies relief under Federal Rule of Civil…
19-6734 Arthur Lopez v. Cheryl Lopez California Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction domestic-relations due-process equal-protection family-law habeas-corpus indigent right-to-counsel standing Whether a petitioner who is indigent and unable to afford private counsel is entitled to a court-appointed attorney for a civil proceeding under the D…
19-6737 Leonard L. Little, Jr. v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure jurisdiction legal-standards privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause standing supreme-court-precedent Did the Second District Court of Appeal apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and undermines its holdin…
19-6738 William Ardas Sarringar v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-competence procedural-default statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment When does the fundamental constitutional right to be tried by a court of competent jurisdiction cease to operate as a right, or is forfeited by a part…
19-674 James L. Martin v. National General Assurance Company Delaware Denied appellate-review civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal standing state-court Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause guarantee a civil litigant, in a state court, an appellate justice who did not oversee the same issue…
19-6741 Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Jeffrey C. Bloom, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction incompetence incompetency incompetency-determination judicial-discretion mental-health section-1983 standing state-action title-42-usc-1983 Is a Governmental Paid - Governmental Mandated Lawyer that is forced upon an individual against will without consent acting as a Governmental Agent?
19-6742 Jorge Prieto v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process finality judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-court Did the state trial court have jurisdiction to vacate petitioner's sentence and re-impose a life sentence, violating double jeopardy?
19-6743 Kenneth Dewayne Nelson v. Texas Texas Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection plea-change right-to-jury right-to-trial sixth-amendment texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-constitution trial-by-jury venire-panel Was Nelson entitled to a new venire panel after changing his pleas from guilty to not guilty?
19-6745 Joseph S. Paul v. Florida Florida Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
19-6749 Bryan Keith Johnson v. Florida Florida Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-liability standing Question not identified
19-6750 Ronnie R. Ceasar v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct protected-class racial-animus Whether the prosecution of a case by a local district attorney violates due process and equal protection rights when the prosecution is motivated by r…
19-6754 Cesareo Vizcarra Medina v. California California Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to prosecutorial misconduct that violated petitioner's constitutional rights under the 6th…
19-6755 Frederick Garcia-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's 'debatable among jurists of reason' standard for a certificate of appealability
19-6759 James A. Lackey v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's 'debatable among jurists of reason' standard for a certificate of appealability
19-6763 Anthony D. White v. Florida Florida Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process hearsay judicial-misconduct judicial-obstruction open-courts pro-se-litigation prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-officials Whether it is constitutionally lawful to deny a pro se litigant access to the courts when obstructed by state officials
19-6765 Anthony Lee McNair v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief standing state-court-procedure Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the state court's dismissal of his motion under the All Writs Act
19-6768 Cary VanDerMeulen v. Thomas L. Leclaire, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment abuse-of-authority civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-abuse law-enforcement-misconduct property-rights standing takings When are the Federal Courts going to take-up the cause concerning the violation(s) of Constitutional Law and abuse(s) of authority by the States of th…
19-6769 Steven Hicks v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason johnson-v-united-states jurists-of-reason mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2(a)(2) vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's 'debatable among jurists of reason' standard for a certificate of appealability
19-6770 Vinca S. Chiu v. First Group America, et al. Oregon Denied IFP civil-procedure claim-dismissal due-process judicial-order legal-remedy motion-practice scope-of-relief standing strict-liability summary-judgment trial-court trial-court-authority ultrahazardous-activities Is a trial court authorized to expand the scope of a legal remedy that was not requested in a motion for summary judgment before the court?
19-6771 Larry Wayne Parr v. Simon E. Rodriguez Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-definition bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-procedures business-trust chapter-11 chapter-11-conversion chapter-7 corporation debtor-status homestead-exemption statutory-interpretation Is the LARRY W. PARR LIVING TRUST a 'business trust' and 'corporation' under the Bankruptcy Code?
19-6777 Iris Lamar Anderson v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-court-procedure Was Jae Trois SuPR EMME Loves \\WPLEMENTED Penenites Tor Fiowak's Supiual Sygrem THAT LowTRADICTS He U.S. ConsTtTuT/ONS 1% LE ann \\N™ AMENDMENT RENTS…
19-6779 Mitchell Stevens v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction free-speech procedural-standards retaliation standing Did the district court err in dismissing the petitioner's claims, and did the appeals court err in overlooking key facts?
19-6780 Darius Kinney v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel ineffective-counsel mail-box-rule ohio-appellate-rules sixth-amendment time-limitation time-limits Were Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights violated?
19-6787 Robert Lee Mitchell v. Miller, Magistrate Judge, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process jurisdiction patent standing statutory-provisions takings Is the order of the U.S. district court dated 11-19 valid?
19-6788 Eber Roblero v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition jurisdiction standing takings Whether the Gallina doctrine applies to a criminal defendant who has been extradited to the United States
19-681 Andrew W. Shalaby v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit Denied attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-procedure civil-rights disbarment due-process free-speech judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-recusal professional-conduct recusal standing Whether a Federal Court can deny an attorney admission to the bar for allegedly impugning the integrity of a judge in violation of ABA Model Rule 8.2(…
19-6817 Anthony Wheeler v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expungement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the Seventh Circuit err under Miller-El v. Cockrell and Buck v. Davis when it determined Petitioner had not made a substantial showing of a denial…
19-6822 Guy Cozzi v. American Stock Exchange, et al. New York Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law article-8-a due-process equal-protection judicial-review rb-89 separation-of-powers stare-decisis workers-compensation Were the Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) rulings denying my Article 8-A claim and RB-89 rehearing request arbitrary, capricious and an abuse of disc…
19-6829 Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court appeals civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-procedure federal-rules in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure procedural-rules recusal due-process,civil-rights,access-to-court,federal-procedure,recusal,civil-rico
19-683 Jermaine Lenard Moss v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied retroactive change in the statutory rule that ori 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review conviction-challenge federal-prisoner federal-prisoners federal-prisoners-collateral-review inadequate-or-ineffective-remedy retroactive-effect retroactive-statutory-changes saving-clause statutory-rule Whether a federal prisoner may proceed through § 2255(e)'s saving clause to seek collateral review under § 2241 when that prisoner has demonstrated a …
19-684 Darrell Saunders, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Virginia Denied Response Waived appeal article-xiv civil-procedure commercial-carrier constitutional-rights due-process legal-procedure mail-delivery Whether an individual is denied due process of law when a commercial mail carrier's policies result in a late delivery of an appeal, despite the indiv…
19-6861 Tony L. Henderson v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process equal-protection jury-selection race-conscious venire Does a discretionary, race-conscious selection process for the venire called in a particular criminal trial violate the 6th and 14th Amendments to the…
19-6867 Jose Luis Maya v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law asylum civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process immigration jurisdiction parole standing statutory-provisions Whether the Department of Homeland Security's policy of denying parole to asylum seekers violates the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Due Proc…
19-6900 Aldon Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-fees attorneys-fees buckhannon civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-access-to-justice-act government-litigation judicial-determination mootness prevailing-party standing voluntary-change Does Buckhannon apply in fee determinations under the Equal Access to Justice Act?
19-6932 Dustin Larmon McDonald v. United States Fifth Circuit Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-objection reasonableness sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate 'reasonableness' objection in district court?
19-6935 Rickie James King v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-procedure united-states-v-haymond whether-challenges-to-procedural-reasonableness-of-sentence-must-be-preserved
19-6936 Pedro Vigio-Aponte v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech rico standing statutory-interpretation Whether the text of the RICO statute, this Court's case law, case law from other Courts of Appeal, the First Circuit's case law, and the importance of…
19-6940 Kevin James Petroske v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2251 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split criminal-intent due-process minor-protection production-of-child-pornography sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism Whether mere video voyeurism can constitute intending a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction u…
19-6941 Michael Collins v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process first-circuit massachusetts-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rulings violent-felony Whether the First Circuit holding that assault with a dangerous weapon as defined by Massachusetts law is a violent felony under the Armed Career Crim…
19-6947 Reinaldo Rodriguez-Martinez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-instructions rico rico-conspiracy-statute rico-enterprise sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-turkette Whether a jury instruction that directs the jury that it does not need to find an existing de facto 'enterprise' in a RICO conspiracy case is proper
19-6948 Michael Eugene Spry v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3553 criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release Whether the appellant Michael Eugene Spry's sentence was unreasonable as it was greater than necessary and as such, fails to comply with Title 18, Uni…
19-6953 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding critical-stage direct-appeal new-trial new-trial-motion right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Question not identified
19-696 Dan Haendel v. Anne Reed, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived alford-plea due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey interception-act law-enforcement suppression-motion virginia virginia-interception-act Does Heck v. Humphrey bar Appellant's federal court review of the constitutionality of actions by local Virginia investigative and law enforcement off…
19-6960 Ulriste Tulin v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-instruction Does an inaccurate Jury Instruction on the content of the indictment violate due process of law?
19-6968 Brian David Brumbach v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-sentencing entry-by-instrument entry-requirement generic-burglary sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law Whether Tennessee aggravated burglary qualifies as generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-697 James Dwight Pavatt v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (2) aggravating-factor aggravating-factors arbitrary-application capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-ruling Whether a State's application of an aggravating factor to justify the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it makes punish…
19-6970 Monty Dwayne Sullivan v. Wyoming Wyoming Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment access-to-courts brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct Was Sullivan deprived of his Constitutional rights?
19-6972 Tarsis Guillermo Sanchez-Mora v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice plain-error rico-conspiracy statutory-interpretation Should this Court grant certiorari to correct a miscarriage of justice and provide needed clarification of the RICO law?
19-6973 Taiwan Wiggins, et al. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment standing warrantless-seizure Where a DEA agent stops two air travelers, who had been cleared, to board their flights, and takes from them (in a warrantless seizure) a sum of money…
19-6975 Jason Lee Bennett v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2251 constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co…
19-6995 Richard Alan King v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice magistrate pro-se-pleading procedural-default remand reversal standard-of-review standing supreme-court-precedent Was the presiding magistrate's analysis so flawed as to warrant this court to reverse and remand so that a correct legal standard may be applied?
19-6998 Patrick Kofalt v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion conflict-of-interest due-process plea-agreement fourth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure judicial-shell-game nix-v-whiteside plea-agreement sixth-amendment Does controlling authority from the Supreme Court in Nix v. Whiteside, 475 US 157 (1986), hold that all ineffective assistance of counsel waivers are …
19-700 Luis A. Ramos González, et al. v. Scotiabank de Puerto Rico, et al. Puerto Rico Denied Response Waived banking-law court-sanction federal-regulations home-loan home-mortgage-loan mortgage-financing mortgage-loan-agreement null-and-void secondary-market unacceptable-site wastewater-disposal Whether mortgage financing can be granted for an 'Unacceptable Site' under federal regulations, whether such a mortgage loan agreement is null and voi…
19-7006 Alvin Andrae Drummond v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing misdemeanor-crime-of-violence physical-force predicate-offense probable-cause search-warrant statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether a misdemeanor crime of violence, not aggravated by any additional force, can properly meet the elements of an Armed Career Criminal Act predic…
19-7008 Abraham Hernandez-Zavala v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis Criminal-Conviction criminal-procedure custody custody-status deportation deportation-supervised-release due-process Habeas-Corpus immigration immigration-law supervised-release writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether deportation automatically ends an immigrant's imposed supervised release?
19-7014 Geoffrey Scott Gaffney v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals constitutional-provisions district-court due-process eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus procunier-v-atchley stare-decisis Should this court grant this petition to address the obvious failure of the eighth circuit court of appeals to require a district court to conduct an …
19-7015 In Re Michael F. Harris Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial judicial-misconduct malicious-prosecution presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-jury state-actors witness-tampering Whether malicious and vindictive prosecution threatens the criminal justice system
19-7020 Nahach Garay v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure training-and-experience warrant warrantless-search Whether a purported inventory search that produces no inventory can justify the warrantless search of an automobile
19-7026 James W. Guy v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material civil-procedure civil-rights continuance discovery-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial first-amendment free-speech self-representation self-representing-defendant standing untimely-discovery Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
19-7034 Charley Joe, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-vagueness eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines unusual-vulnerability vagueness victim-exploitation victim-vulnerability vulnerable-victim Does the vulnerable victim enhancement apply when the defendant did not exploit the victim's unusual vulnerability?
19-7035 Michael B. Lowry v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence Does the government bear the burden of proving that the attenuation doctrine applies to preclude suppression of evidence after an illegal search or se…
19-7038 Angela Maxine Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 3553-a-factors 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the above-Guidelines 84-month sentence ordered by the district court is substantively unreasonable under the § 3553(a) factors
19-7041 Pedro L. Ramirez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal Whether the United States Attorneys are obliged to disclose exculpatory evidence known to exist after the defendant has been convicted by trial by jur…
19-7042 Christian Rosado v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-law guidelines judicial-interpretation judicial-opinions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-law state-law-offense statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a state-law offense qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for purposes of the career-offender enhancement of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines even …
19-7044 Darmarcus Fisher v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence and erred by imposing a 4-level enhancement for aggravated assault
19-7049 In Re Antwoyn Spencer Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance personal-liberty pro-se-petition punishment standing strickland-standard undue-delay Whether petitioner is being deprived of his civil rights due to undue delay in appellate ruling
19-7051 Adan Reyes-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Reyes-Martinez waived the right to appeal his sentence
19-7053 Jason Dean Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-disclosure constitutional-infirmity digital-technologies good-faith-exception law-enforcement magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-infirmity Whether and in what circumstances the good-faith exception should apply in cases involving emerging digital technologies when law enforcement officers…
19-7056 Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court judicial-objection objection preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate 'reasonableness' objection in district court?
19-7059 John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the defendant's respect for the l…
19-7062 Florentino Villanueva, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act common-law common-law-principles criminal-law criminal-sentencing force force-element predicate-conviction robbery robbery-statute statutory-interpretation Does a robbery statute qualify as a predicate conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act when the force can be employed after the taking of the pr…
19-7070 Gary R. Tomey, II v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-instructions material-variance self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-hearing Whether a constructive amendment and/or material variance of the indictment occurs when a court instructs the jury for the first time — during its del…
19-7072 Tyrone Walker v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) actual-or-threatened-force crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act physical-force property-crime property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states Whether the substantive offense of Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a 'crime of violence' for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
19-7075 Matthew Rouse v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent child-pornography criminal-conduct first-amendment privacy sexual-conduct Whether the child pornography exception to the First Amendment applies to the private exchange of images depicting lawful, sexual conduct between indi…
19-7078 Braun Nathan Thompson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 aggravated-robbery armed-robbery-statute criminal-law criminal-procedure elements-clause federal-sentencing firearms-offense minnesota-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether aggravated robbery under Minnesota law is a violent felony within the scope of the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(e)(2)(b)(i)
19-7083 Leroy L. Perdue v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 851-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process enhancement federal-statute notice role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation Whether the sentence should be vacated for failure comply with the requirements of 21 U.S.C. § 851(b)
19-7084 Andrew Haley Morcombe v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process fair-trial international-kidnapping international-parental-kidnapping jury-instructions state-law state-law-definitions statutory-interpretation Whether the failure of 18 U.S.C. § 1204 to define 'domestic violence' violates due process and deprives defendants of a fair trial
19-7090 Warren Evans, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure attorneys-fees copyright-law copyright-registration effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure flores-ortega 19-708" ineffective-assistance-of-counsel infringement notice-of-appeal publication-status registration-accuracy right-to-counsel roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment Whether a court can invalidate a copyright registr Whether application of the deadline for filing a Notice of Appeal under the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure violates the appellant's right to cou…
19-7092 Laforest Carmichael, aka LaForrest Carmichael v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a circuit-split mandatory-revocation sentencing-factors statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether a sentencing judge must consider the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) sentencing factors when imposing a sentence for a supervised release violation that r…
19-7098 Antonio Shaw v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel objective-standard sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-testimony Whether defense counsel's performance fell below the reasonable standard of representation
19-7103 Edward Merritt v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is the definition of 'controlled substance offense' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) genuinely ambiguous such that the guideline commentary can be used to reaso…
19-7105 Miguel Jilberto Vazquez-Chavarria v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion remand sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness whether-substantive-reasonableness-review-requires-or-permits-the-courts-of-appeals-to-reweigh-the-18-usc-3553a-factors
19-7106 Peter Woodley v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent consent-to-search lawful-possession reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rental-car search-and-seizure standing Whether an unauthorized driver of a rental car maintains lawful possession and control of the car where there are modest violations of the rental car …
19-7107 Joseph Thor Perkins v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion booker-v-united-states criminal-sentencing downward-variance federal-sentencing-procedure gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a sentencing court can abuse its discretion by not varying downward further
19-7115 Alexander Faulkner v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acca burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court Does an Indiana burglary conviction qualify as generic burglary?
19-7117 Vance Edward Ingram, III v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process government-power plea-agreement plea-bargaining waiver Is a defendant's right to due process of law violated when the government requires an appeal waiver as part of a plea agreement?
19-712 Hamp's Construction, LLC v. Inland Marine Services, L.L.C. Louisiana Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-law civil-procedure due-process federal-courts industrial-justice judicial-review manifest-disregard statutory-interpretation statutory-law vacatur Is 'manifest disregard of the law' still a valid basis to vacate or modify an arbitrator's award?
19-7147 In Re Khayree Smith Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment chattel-property chattel-slavery civil-rights constitutional-rights denationalization due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-challenge racial-classification slavery slavery-abolition status What branch of law authorized States to apply abolished slave labels (Negro, Black, Colored) to any person of African descent after 1865?
19-724 Keith Y. Arakaki v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived adverse-action civil-procedure civil-rights employment-discrimination pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Whether the four discrete events Petitioner raised in opposing Respondents' Motion for Summary Judgment constituted adverse actions in accordance with…
19-762 Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc., et al. v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived actual-deterrence congressional-authorization congressional-silence constitutional-claim dormant-commerce-clause evansville-vanderburgh-airport interstate-commerce right-to-travel toll-fees user-fees Can courts find that Congress authorized states to impose burdens on interstate commerce that would otherwise violate the dormant Commerce Clause on t…
19-772 Albert Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process formal-charges grand-jury pre-indictment prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel sixth-amendment target target-designation Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches before formal charges are filed
19-809 Michael Bonin v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-law due-process false-identity federal-jurisdiction federal-statute first-amendment impersonation standing statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant violates 18 U.S.C. § 912's prohibition on falsely assuming or pretending to be an officer or employee acting under the authority o…
19A729 Comfort Delando Roberts v. Texas Texas Presumed Complete None
19M92 Julian D. Owens v. University of South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M93 Maechel Shawn Patterson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M94 Erasmo Santa, Jr. v. Maria T. Herr, et al. Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22O142 Florida, Plaintiff v. Georgia Pending CVSGAmici (8)Relisted (9) None