| 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 |
|