Conference: 2020-02-21

478 cases — 0 granted, 478 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
18-349 Darrell Patterson v. Walgreen Co. Eleventh Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hardison-v-twi reasonable-accommodation religious-accommodation title-vii undue-hardship Whether an accommodation that merely lessens or has the potential to eliminate the conflict between work and religious practice is 'reasonable' per se…
18-921 Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan, Puerto Rico v. Yali Acevedo Feliciano, et al. Puerto Rico GVR CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (16) church-autonomy church-hierarchy church-structure civil-courts civil-rights ecclesiastical-rights ecclesiastical-structure establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech religious-organization Whether the First Amendment empowers courts to override the chosen legal structure of a religious organization and declare all of its constituent part…
18-9699 Jose Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether the 'knowingly or intentionally' mens rea in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) and 960(a) applies to the offense elements of drug type and drug quantity in …
18-9711 David Meyers v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fail-to-strike-testimony fair-trial false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intrinsic-fraud perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Did attorney Paul Roskins violate due-process, fail-to-strike-testimony, false-testimony, compulsory-process, ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
19-107 Vincent Asaro v. United States Second Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which t…
19-123 Sharonell Fulton, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (87)Relisted (7) circuit-split civil-rights discrimination employment-division-v-smith first-amendment foster-care free-exercise general-applicability government-neutrality neutral-and-generally-applicable neutral-laws religious-discrimination religious-liberty unconstitutional-conditions Whether free exercise plaintiffs can only succeed by proving a particular type of discrimination claim
19-224 Bryan James Strother v. David S. Baldwin, Adjutant General, California Army National Guard, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) accrued-benefits civil-rights contractual-entitlements due-process federal-tort-claims-act federal-torts-claim-act feres-doctrine military-benefits military-pay military-pay-and-bonuses property-rights repetition-evading-review vested-property-interests vested-property-rights Whether accrued military pay and bonuses are vested property entitlements or unilateral gratuities
19-273 Michael Binday v. United States Second Circuit Denied constitutional-vagueness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel mail-fraud property-rights right-to-control vagueness wire-fraud Is a trial lawyer constitutionally ineffective when he embraces a legal argument directly contrary to existing circuit law?
19-282 Manuel Olivas-Motta v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied None
19-284 Jose Jesus Mercado Ramirez v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied None
19-344 Qihui Huang v. Ajit Varadaraj Pai, Chairman of Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-rights compensation constitutional-amendments discrimination due-process retaliation standing supreme-court-precedent Whether lower court could not comply rulings of Supreme Court
19-347 AER Advisors, Inc., et al. v. Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC First Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) annunzio-wylie-anti-money-laundering-act anti-money-laundering bank-secrecy-act choice-of-law civil-immunity criminal-disclosure diversity-jurisdiction federal-transfer financial-institutions forum-selection good-faith-reporting immunity immunity-defense Whether Section 5318 of the Bank Secrecy Act confers absolute immunity or only immunity for good-faith, truthful disclosures about possible criminal v…
19-389 Jay Anthony Dobyns v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1) breach-of-contract civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law duty-of-good-faith fair-dealing federal-circuit federal-contracts federal-government good-faith good-faith-and-fair-dealing government-contracts undercover-agents Whether the duty of good faith and fair dealing implied in all contracts, including contracts between private parties and the United States, permits a…
19-402 Howard L. Baldwin, et ux. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (6)Relisted (4) administrative-law agency-deference brand-x-doctrine common-law common-law-mailbox-rule stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tax tax-refund Should Brand X be overruled?
19-411 Rodney Reed v. Texas Texas Denied Amici (2)Relisted (8) brady-materiality brady-v-maryland confrontation-clause due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment materiality self-incrimination suppressed-evidence witness-testimony When assessing under the Brady materiality standard whether 'disclosure of the suppressed evidence to competent counsel would have made a different re…
19-433 Patrick Emanuel Sutherland v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied 18-usc-1512 false-statements grand-jury nexus-requirement obstruction-of-justice obstruction-of-justice-18-usc-1512-c-2 plain-error plain-error-review prosecutorial-misconduct When does the 'nexus' requirement for obstruction of an official proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) apply when false statements are made to a U.S…
19-440 Northern Trust Corporation, et al. v. Lindie L. Banks, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split class-action covered-securities federal-securities-law fiduciary-duty preemption private-securities-litigation-reform-act securities-fraud securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act statutory-interpretation trust-assets trust-law trustee-misconduct uniform-standards-act Does a trust beneficiary's allegations that a trustee used trust assets to buy and sell the trustee's own proprietary securities for the trustee's own…
19-447 Keith Puntenney, et al. v. Iowa Utilities Board, et al. Iowa Denied Response Waived common-carrier eminent-domain fifth-amendment incidental-benefits kelo-precedent kelo-v-city-of-new-london public-purpose public-use takings takings-clause Does a state's exercise of eminent domain satisfy the 'public use' requirement of the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause if the only benefits experience…
19-475 Serah Njoki Karingithi v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1) None
19-481 In Re R. C. "Rick" Lussy Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-code elections extraordinary-circumstances free-speech judicial-procedure misconduct non-delegation-doctrine public-office standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions regarding his candidacy in the 2016 and 2020-2024 elections
19-486 Donnett M. Taffe, Personal Representative of the Estate of Steven Jerold Thompson, Deceased v. Gerald E. Wengert, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-claims findings-of-fact interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-ruling material-facts pendent-jurisdiction qualified-immunity qualified-immunity,civil-rights,civil-procedure,ap standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether an appellate court may review disputed material facts and substitute its own findings when deciding qualified immunity
19-494 David Zachary Morgan v. Washington Washington Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-search plain-view-doctrine plain-view-exception probable-cause property-seizure search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether a government official who would like to seize someone's personal property, and has both probable cause and the time to obtain a warrant, must …
19-5158 John Higgins, Jr. v. Federal National Mortgage Association First Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions takings Whether the lower court erred in its decision
19-527 Paul Huskisson v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied direct-appeal exclusionary-rule first-step-act fourth-amendment independent-source independent-source-doctrine police-misconduct retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform Does the independent source exception to the exclusionary rule take into account the flagrancy and deliberate nature of the underlying Fourth Amendmen…
19-5293 Frank Le'Dell Owens v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offense pardon-power plea-bargaining right-to-counsel Does pretrial counsel's failure to advise accused of favorable plea offer constitute denial of effective assistance of counsel?
19-5299 Samuel Rivera Rosado v. Lucid Energy, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights copyright-infringement copyright-ownership copyright-protection design-theft due-process intellectual-property patent patent-infringement patent-registration standing takings Whether the U.S. Supreme Court can allow a company to steal a person's copyright ownership, design, drawing and blueprints and secure a patent for the…
19-5346 Jose Martinez v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP acquitted-conduct burden-of-proof buyer-seller-defense criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether this Court's decisions to allow district courts to use acquitted conduct in imposing sentence violate the Constitution
19-5350 Stevie Elbert Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP career-offender crime-of-violence federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states texas-robbery ussg-4b1.1 ussg-4b1.2 Whether the Texas offense of robbery satisfies the definition of 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2
19-541 Michael Lambert v. Estate of Kevin Brown, by its Successor in Interest Rebecca Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied cold-case criminal-investigation criminal-procedure dna-evidence exigent-circumstances false-statements fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violations murder-case probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant third-party Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant to search a home based on probable cause and exigent circumstances when the home is owned by a third p…
19-545 Jean Coulter v. Gerri Volchko Paulisick, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-procedure conflicting-decisions domicile due-process judicial-bias jurisdiction procedural-error standing third-circuit venue Has the Third Circuit improperly determined that domicile of Plaintiff can be based exclusively on the determination of domicile in a subsequently fil…
19-5535 Julius Omar Robinson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP capital-indictment circuit-split death-penalty death-penalty-cases due-process juror-interview juror-interviews post-conviction-relief post-verdict racial-bias structural-error Whether district courts may validly prohibit death-sentenced inmates from interviewing their trial jurors post-verdict concerning racial bias during d…
19-5539 Nicholas Gilbert Beattie v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP breach-of-contract contract-law criminal-procedure due-process ethics plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-recommendation Whether the prosecutor's conduct in speaking out of both sides of his mouth with respect to a sentencing recommendation they had agreed to make is a b…
19-5563 Ian Alexander Bowline v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions timeliness waiver Whether an appellate court can review a defense, objection, or request that is not timely made under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12 for plain e…
19-5568 Keith D. Nelson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP brain-damage capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability childhood-abuse childhood-sexual-abuse ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-sentence mental-illness mitigating-evidence prejudice-analysis strickland-prejudice strickland-prejudice-standard strickland-standard Does it violate the Strickland prejudice standard to conclude that never before presented evidence of brain damage, severe mental illness, and childho…
19-560 Jennie Nicassio v. Viacom International, Inc., et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) actual-copying circuit-split copyright-infringement fair-use fairness idea-expression-dichotomy originality plot-elements scenes-a-faire wrongful-appropriation Whether the scénes-à-faire evidence exclusion for actual copying should extend to all plot elements naturally flowing from a simple formulation of the…
19-564 Michigan v. Eric Lamontee Beck Michigan Denied acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuit-courts preponderance-of-evidence presumption-of-innocence sentencing Whether due process permits a sentencing court to consider conduct underlying an acquitted charge
19-5650 James Michael Williams v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-violations certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct second-jury-trial Whether the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erred in denying Certificate of Appealability to Petitioner
19-568 Jose Susumo Azano Matsura v. United States Ninth Circuit GVR 18-usc-922 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process firearm-regulation mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness Should the Court grant review, vacate the judgment below, and remand to the Ninth Circuit based on this Court's holding in Rehaif v. United States, 13…
19-569 Carlos Manuel Ayestas v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied capital-case capital-case-mitigation-evidence ineffective-assistance mental-health mitigation-evidence mitigation-investigation professional-norms rompilla-v-beard sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington substance-abuse wiggins-v-smith Whether 'prevailing professional norms' required counsel in a capital case to investigate potential mitigation evidence, including red flags for menta…
19-5693 Harlow Hutchinson v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
19-5784 Michael Villecco v. Daniel W. Stark, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure appointed-counsel appointment-of-counsel civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine counsel-appointment district-court-order due-process interlocutory-appeal standing Whether the collateral order doctrine permits the immediate appeal of a district court order denying the appointment of counsel in civil cases
19-5805 Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)IFP civil-rights criminal-intent due-process federal-contracts fraud free-speech mail-fraud property-interest property-rights restitution-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud Is a mail or wire fraud conviction based on a sufficient property interest when a victim receives the full financial benefit of its bargain but, throu…
19-5829 Yoni Castro-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt 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 …
19-5860 T'Challa Rhashaed Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflict-among-circuits court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jackson-virginia-standard judicial-review legal-standard standard-of-review strickland-washington-standard Whether the district state court of appeals rendered a decision in conflict with decisions of this court and other courts of appeals, when unreasonabl…
19-5865 Pablo Sauste Balderas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights 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 …
19-5869 Jaime Enriquez-Hernandez, aka Jaime Enriques-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-5875 Alfredo Gonzalez-Terrazas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-5905 Ricky Davis v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP fairness-integrity federal-sentencing guideline-calculation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proportionality sentencing-uniformity statutory-maximum substantial-rights uniformity-proportionality USSG-5G1.1(a) When this Court held in Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897 (2018) that a failure to correctly calculate the guideline range, which anch…
19-5906 Mitchell Taebel v. Douglas A. Ducey, Governor of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-5907 Luis Castaneda-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights 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 …
19-5934 Bruce Randol Merryman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence AEDPA-statute-of-limitation constitutional-claim equitable-tolling evidence-insufficiency evidence-sufficiency federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence right-to-be-present statute-of-limitations Whether petitioner can establish a gateway claim of actual innocence based on a constitutional claim of insufficiency of evidence
19-5946 Anthony Carl Spence v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritoriality federal-sentencing foreign-conduct guidelines offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a federal sentencing court can enhance a defendant's offense level based on conduct occurring entirely in a foreign country and not a crime ag…
19-5972 Dimitri Bernard Robinson v. Michigan Michigan Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights federal-courts jurisdiction pen-register petition privacy probable-cause supreme-court trap-and-trace writ-of-certiorari Was petitioner's Fourth Amendment right to privacy and protection violated without probable cause, when law enforcement obtained an unreasonable order…
19-5979 Rodrigo Pablo Lozano v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey conspiracy conspiracy-offense criminal-restitution deliberate-avoidance due-process hester-v-united-states mental-state ninth-circuit sentencing sixth-amendment Whether Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000) applies to the imposition of criminal restitution
19-5981 William James Truesdale v. Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdictional-issue legal-standard patent procedural-question standing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-rule transfer Whether the United States District Court deliberately denied Petitioner Jraesdole's February 26, 2019 'PETITION FOR CHANGE OF VENUE' and 'PATENT PETIT…
19-600 Jon Krakauer v. Clayton T. Christian, Montana Commissioner of Higher Education Montana Denied Amici (1) civil-rights due-process ferpa free-speech gonzaga-v-doe higher-education judicial-discretion privacy privacy-rights public-interest public-records student-privacy student-records university-athlete Does FERPA confer an individual right to privacy sufficient to block a court from ordering the release of personally identifiable information about a …
19-6015 Roque Arias-De Jesus v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-603 Mark Silguero, et al. v. CSL Plasma, Incorporated Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination place-of-public-accommodation plasma-donation-center public-accommodation title-iii Is a plasma donation center a 'place of public accommodation' subject to the requirements of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act?
19-6037 John Anzures v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach commercial-burglary generic-burglary johnson-motion johnson-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach residual-clause sentencing-enhancement stitt-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states Whether a commercial burglary conviction under New Mexico law categorically does not qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's…
19-6042 Gerardo Tajonar Cortes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights 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 …
19-6058 Guy Philippe v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-analysis civil-procedure-standing constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process extradition international-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent res-judicata standing Whether the Court's conclusions in United States v. Rauscher, 119 U.S. 407 (1886) in conjunction with Kirkpatrick & Co., Inc. v. Environmental Tectoni…
19-6063 William Alexander v. New York New York Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chambers-v-mississippi confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility eyewitness-testimony misidentification photographic-evidence Whether Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284 (1973), and its progeny require the admission of reliable photographic evidence of what an accused was w…
19-6073 Glen T. Jones, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-interpretation plain-error structural-error Whether the state court's harmlessness determination is subject to habeas corpus review under Brecht v. Abrahamson
19-6086 Luis Alberto Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review Does the government meet its burden to prove that a sentencing error is harmless under Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(a) if it shows that it is more probable tha…
19-6087 Atif Babar Malik v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure charged-statute circuit-split cotton-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge scope-of-statute statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-cotton Do courts lack subject matter jurisdiction when alleged conduct falls outside the scope of the charged statute?
19-609 Erin J. Shepherd, et al. v. Angela Studdard Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (3) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force Whether police officers are entitled to qualified immunity for shooting a knife-wielding suspect on open ground based on a case involving a shooting-t…
19-6095 Charles Devan Fulton, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment cellphone-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-good-faith-exception predicate-illegality probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-leon warrant-requirement Whether the Government can whitewash, via United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), its predicate illegal seizure of a citizen's cellphone and salva…
19-6096 Jerry Simmons v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP biased-judge constructive-denial constructive-denial-of-assistance-of-counsel criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-bias right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment structural-error structural-error-doctrine Whether the decision by the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals contrary to, or involve an unreasonable application of, clearly established F…
19-6104 Freya D. Pearson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1001 district-court due-process duty-to-speak false-statement government-knowledge government-misconduct jury-determination jury-instruction jury-instructions materiality prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Can a conviction stand under 18 U.S.C. 1001 (2) without a 'Materiality' determination, and should that Determination come from the District Court or f…
19-6110 Abimael Ayala-Gonzalez v. New York New York Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification federal-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-representation-standard performance-prejudice-test prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-appellate-court strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does a state appellate court have a duty to resolve a federal claim of ineffective assistance of counsel claim under the Federal performance/prejudice…
19-6157 Clara Lewis Brockington v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Fourth Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
19-6160 Reggie D. Caswell v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment pro-se-appeal sixth-amendment 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
19-6184 Chavalier Dwayne Johnson, Sr. v. Lars Severson, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-619 Cisco Systems, Inc. v. SRI International, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied 35-usc-101 abstract-idea computer-automated-method computer-automation computer-network data-analysis data-collection patent patent-eligibility patent-law standing statutory-interpretation Whether patent claims that recite only the abstract idea of collecting and analyzing data are patent-ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Alice
19-6199 Emeterio Espino Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights 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 …
19-6200 Michael Scott Smith v. Florida Florida Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-statutes habeas-corpus indictment jurisdiction lesser-included-offenses post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Can a State Court indict an accused on one charge and take him to trial on another in the case of the same crime merely because a theory of prosecutio…
19-6229 John Joseph Douglas v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP acca aggravated-robbery aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law overbreadth-doctrine predicate-offense sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation stokeling sudden-snatching Whether a state's aiding and abetting statute that is broader than the federal generic definition can qualify as a predicate offense under the ACCA
19-6246 Shafia M. Jones v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alford-plea bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether state law interferes with and conflicts with the Federal Bank Robbery Act and Federal Statute 18 USCS § 2113
19-6248 In Re Warren Parks Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure sanction-hearing sanctions standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the sanction imposed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit complied with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
19-6252 Edinson Herrera Ramirez v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review biased-jury criminal-procedure discretion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-standard maryland-court-of-appeals peremptory-challenge peremptory-strike prejudice Whether the Maryland court erred in holding that petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel but failed to prove prejudice
19-6257 Lamar Lovett v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial jurisdiction public-trial sixth-amendment standing takings Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to voir dire proceedings
19-6263 Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-hearing appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Were the constitutional claims barred by Rooker-Feldman doctrine?
19-6264 Orane Nelson v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the judgment should be vacated and the case remanded to the Second Circuit for consideration of whether § 403 of the First Step Act of 2018 ap…
19-6265 Alex Knight v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and/or Sixth Amendments are violated when a district court increases a criminal defendant's sentence based upon conduct for which a …
19-6277 Mario Ruvalcaba-Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split daubert daubert-standard evidentiary-reliability expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-gatekeeping make-initial-daubert-decision relevance-and-reliability remand remand-for-new-trial standard-of-review When a trial court errs by failing to exercise its 'gatekeeping' role of determining whether expert testimony is relevant and reliable under Daubert v…
19-6290 Servando Pineda-Castellanos v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights 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 …
19-6343 Antoine Richmond v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure felon-in-possession fourth-amendment home-entry home-privacy probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search Did law enforcement's suspicion that a firearm would be found just inside the threshold of the home justify their search?
19-6345 William N. Lucy v. Mary Cooks Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy-proceedings certiorari-petition civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process eviction habeas-corpus judicial-error post-conviction-relief property-rights standing trial-court-discretion Whether the Mobile County Circuit Court abused its discretion in granting an eviction order while the petitioner was in bankruptcy
19-6400 Robert W. Wazney v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. South Carolina Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP borrower-protection civil-rights contract-law default due-process foreclosure lender-misconduct mortgage mortgage-foreclosure property-rights standing takings Whether the Respondent's actions in refusing mortgage payments from Petitioner's wife, defaulting on the property mortgage, and then pursuing Petition…
19-6432 Michael Anthony Thibodeaux v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Minnesota Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process government-regulation liberty-interest predatory-offender-registration procedural-due-process procedural-safeguards sex-offender-registration split-authority Whether a person has a protectable liberty interest in not registering as a sex offender if he has not been convicted of a sex offense
19-6481 Harold B. Rotte v. United States Eleventh Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct illegal-immigration irs judicial-review reputation standing tax tax-dispute Whether the laws protect Plaintiffs reputation, due process, and are real, or a front, discretionary as if friend or foe
19-6484 In Re John Harry Steele Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment arrest constitutional-violation conviction-review criminal-statute due-process procedural-fairness prosecution unfairness Was the petitioner denied due process of law in violation of the 14th Amendment?
19-6496 David Elijah Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit GVR IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute haymond-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum Did the petitioner's sentence for 18 U.S.C. 922(g) violate the statutory maximum?
19-6517 Lynden Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-922g 2nd-amendment bond-v-united-states commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-statute firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea nfib-v-sebelius rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no …
19-6531 Demetrius Frazier v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus second-or-successive-petition sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have issued a certificate of appealability
19-6536 Patt McGuire v. St. Louis County, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights pro-se Should a Petitioner/Pro Se be granted the fundamental right to counsel which is essential to fairness in a civil case?
19-6540 Howard Grant v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure civil-procedure clay-v-united-states criminal-procedure extraordinary-circumstances final-judgment-rule forgery habeas-corpus indictment standing Is a 28 USC SEC. 2255 MOTION premature if filed less than 90 days after the appellate court enters its judgment in accordance with the holdings in Cla…
19-6559 Robert W. Johnson v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
19-6562 Carlos J. Avena v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability cronic cronic-standard death-penalty due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit per-se Whether the Ninth Circuit's refusal to address the uncertified Cronic claim despite a strong showing of per se ineffective assistance constituted an i…
19-6582 Roberto Carlos Martinez-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights 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 …
19-6586 Shane Inghels v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute divisibility indiana-code indiana-code-35-48-4-1.1 serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction for dealing in methamphetamine under Indiana Code § 35-48-4-1.1 is improperly considered a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed…
19-6607 Robert Allen Stanford v. Jay Clayton District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discretionary-function due-process extraterritorial extraterritorial-jurisdiction fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sec-enforcement securities sovereign-immunity Whether the SEC's civil enforcement action against Stanford International Bank, Ltd. in Antigua violated the claimant's due-process rights
19-6618 Delvin Deon Tinker v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-provision criminal-motion elements-clause federal-statutory-provision mens-rea resisting-arrest retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactive-decision section-2255 Question not identified
19-6639 Anthony Andrews v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process habeas-corpus new-judgment one-year-time-period statute-of-limitations successive-motions Under 28 USC 2255(h), does the denial of a second or successive motion constitute a 'new judgment' restarting the one-year time period for filing 2255…
19-6662 Shane E. Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right statutory-interpretation Does the judicial determination of crimes 'committed on occasions different from one another' at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.…
19-6671 Kyle Dwayne Boleyn v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina…
19-6672 Erwin Keith Bell v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina…
19-6677 Justin Scott Vasey v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment eighth-circuit legal-interpretation lowest-level-of-conduct state-law statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-6683 Emilio Trevino v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied IFP None
19-6685 Scott McLaughlin v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit Denied IFP capital-case capital-cases capital-cases-habeas-corpus certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability confrontation-clause eighth-circuit giles-v-california habeas-corpus pro-forma-denial procedural-due-process standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit's pro forma practice of issuing unexplained blanket denials of COAs in capital habeas cases conflicts with 28 U.S.C. §2258 …
19-6687 Demetrius Marcellus Green v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP categorical-approach controlled-substances-act criminal-law eighth-circuit felony-drug-offense fifth-circuit legal-uncertainty state-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether the categorical approach is required to determine if a State conviction qualifies as a 'felony drug offense' under the Controlled Substances A…
19-6688 Robert Joseph Fisher v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-669 Matthew T. Watkins v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
19-6693 Chris Rayvon Starks v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge-finding jury jury-decision jury-determination predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-penalty Is the fact that the defendant committed three predicate offenses 'on occasions different from one another' an element of the ACCA for the jury to dec…
19-6772 Luis Alberto Nunez v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
19-6785 Bobbie London, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-petition johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender-guideline residual-clause statute-of-limitations unconstitutionally-vague vagueness-doctrine Are habeas petitions challenging sentences fixed by the mandatory career offender guideline timely if filed within one year of Johnson v. United State…
19-6789 Joseph Jasman v. DeWayne Burton, Warden Michigan Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-oath jurisdiction legal-detention standing takings void-judgment Question not identified
19-6803 Carmieshra Gorman v. Regina Cole California Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-authority due-process insurance-law insurance-regulation intentional-tort judicial-discretion standing state-regulation takings Does the Court Exceed Constitutional Authority in Defending the State's Regulation of Insurance vis a vis the Court's Predatory Treatment of Personal …
19-6805 Hajes Rabaia v. Gubir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-review sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Does the holding of Brady v. Maryland apply to the petitioner?
19-6807 Marcus Robinson v. Les Parish, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure patent standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court takings Could Ana Makerck Couck' of Xe Sara Couck make A@ decrarorn ko JaaY Ane Versrraaes'S ANeEFACKAVA Assskaace oF Caunset Clacm wased On U.S. Svtcame Couc…
19-6810 Duane Gregley v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-specification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict res-judicata sentencing sixth-amendment Whether there is pretense that the statutes and laws of the state under which Mr. Gregley is convicted of, are repugnant to the Constitution and laws …
19-6811 Lamont Bernard Heard v. Rick Snyder, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-rule developmental-characteristics eighth-amendment fixed-character life-without-parole mature-adults mitigating-factor national-census transitional-stage youth-offenders youthful-offender Should this Court afford Eighth Amendment protection to youthful offenders based on this Court's own precedent and national census that youth is a mit…
19-6812 Steven Kurt Baughman v. Michael Seale, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment brain-damage burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference due-process hyperglycemia insulin medical-treatment prisoner-rights retaliation serious-medical-needs Whether injecting a prisoner with insulin without knowing his immediate blood sugar level constitutes deliberate indifference to serious medical needs
19-6814 Issac Efren Jimenez v. California California Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege attorney-ethics attorney-representation conflict-of-interest criminal-law criminal-procedure ethics former-client legal-ethics leniency prosecutorial-discretion witness-testimony Whether an attorney in a criminal case may subsequently represent a client who seeks leniency in exchange for testimony in a pending case against that…
19-6815 Blake Wingate v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-application pro-se pro-se-representation Where the right to proceed pro se is constitutionally even on appeal or a post conviction application, is it a violation of due process and or the equ…
19-6816 Michael J. Warner, II v. Maine Maine Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit burglary cell-phone-data criminal-evidence nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant Whether an affidavit in support of a search warrant that contains neither specific allegations that a burglary suspect's cell phone data contain evide…
19-6818 John D. Ward v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson v. United States applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines
19-6821 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Co., et al. Georgia Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment takings Whether Petitioner Tim Sundy, without a meaningful remedy, has immunity, as provided by the due process clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments …
19-6823 Michael Dean Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP brain-dysfunction certificate-of-appealability competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness pate-v-robinson procedural-bar state-waiver Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals's waiver bar is an independent and adequate state procedural ground that forecloses federal habeas review
19-6827 Wesley Dorcelus v. Chris Brannon, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability certiorari-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-denial standing Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit denied Dorcelus' motion for issuance of a certificate of appealability
19-6832 James Henry Lacy, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines 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…
19-6835 Dennis David Antwine v. Branch Circuit Judge Michigan Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deprivation due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure liberty-interest state-court state-law Whether the Fourteenth Amendment was violated when the state court deprived petitioner of his liberty interest created by state law?
19-6844 Fabian Santiago v. Arthur F. Hill, Associate Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County Illinois Dismissed Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-adjudication ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-representation right-to-counsel Whether the refusal of the legal representative of the Petitioner to disclose a conflict of interest and the judge's failure to address this issue con…
19-6845 David Steward v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment substantive-decision supreme-court-precedent Whether the newly established constitutional right announced in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct. 1500(2018), created a substantive decision that applies …
19-6847 Lawrence Keith Johnson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discovery-rights due-process due-process,civil-rights,standing,civil-procedure, equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review standing witness-testimony Does any court that does not follow the well established law violate an individual's Constitutional rights by denying a motion or petition without sta…
19-6852 Matthew Tassone v. Zephynia Tassone Ohio Denied IFP 28-usc-1257a collateral-judgment constitutional-notice due-process extrinsic-fraud fair-notice fraud judicial-procedure state-action Are the Due Process requirements of the Constitution violated when the state defrauds a litigant of fair notice and a meaningful opportunity to be hea…
19-6853 Nhuong Van Nguyen v. Jackson Lucky, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure court-judgment court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-misconduct legal-remedy motion-to-vacate rule-60 standing Whether the District Court and the court of Appeals correctly rejected petitioner's claim that the United States committed 'FRAUD UPON THE COURT?
19-6857 Clarence Rozell Goode, Jr. v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP brady-and-progeny brady-claim brady-claims-review constitutional-error due-process fair-presentation fair-presentation-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus judicial-duty pervasive-effect-of-errors prejudice-analysis preservation preservation-doctrine preservation-of-issues totality-of-evidence totality-of-the-evidence Should questionable application of the fair presentation and preservation doctrines allow a circuit court to neglect duties such as the duty to determ…
19-6866 Sheila Jackson v. Garda CL East, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeco employment-discrimination fair-labor-standards-act gender-discrimination overtime-pay retaliation standing workplace-rights How can I be terminated for something that wasn't even at work when it occurred and the lower court say isn't discrimination?
19-6870 Kenny Brown v. Mental Health Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus standing Did the Petitioner's First Amendment rights get violated by the repeated refusal to address his critical remarks, thus prejudicing the Petitioner's ca…
19-6871 Justin Vazquez v. United States Second Circuit GVR IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance jury-selection professional-conduct sentencing speedy-trial trial-procedure Whether assigned counsel were ineffective in violation of the 6th Amendment
19-6872 James Ray Clark v. UNC Hospitals, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights cover-up criminal-act criminal-law due-process healthcare-liability institutional-cover-up medical-malpractice medical-misconduct medical-negligence negligence patient-rights Has the surgeon committed a second criminal act by concealing the mistaken incision location and performing a second corrective surgery?
19-6879 Salim Abdul-Malik v. City Government Office of Court Administration, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-accessibility due-process immigration-procedures judicial-reform pleading-standards prisoner-litigation-reform-act pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation state-action What is the proper treatment of pro se litigants in the federal court system to ensure their constitutional and judicially-recognized rights to a fair…
19-6886 Sean M. Donahue v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-infirmity coram-nobis equal-rights federal-preemption foreign-policy immigration-law post-conviction-relief Does Commonwealth v. Descardes, 136 A.3d 493 (Pa. 2016) violate federal preemption in foreign policy and immigration law?
19-6888 In Re Roger A. Libby Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2244-b-3-a jurisdiction jurisdictional-issues standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Does the Pre-Diath Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to circumvent the statutory commands of 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(3)(A), established by Congress…
19-6892 John R. Van Orden v. Mark Stringer, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split civil-commitment due-process fundamental-rights liberty-interest mental-health-confinement sexually-violent-predator shocks-the-conscience substantive-due-process What is the proper analysis to review a substantive due process claim? Is it the conjunctive or disjunctive analysis?
19-6893 Michael Wayne Nelson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process patent prison-conditions retaliation standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state's actions
19-6894 Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP ashe-v-swenson blockburger-v-united-states brown-v-ohio compounding-charges constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment pro-se-appellant successive-prosecution Whether State prosecuting an accused under pretense of successive prosecution based upon temporally distinct conduct from prior prosecution, and compo…
19-6895 John William Williams v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-bias due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-elections judicial-independence separation-of-powers state-judicial-elections state-judiciary supremacy-clause Has the external influence of state judicial election politics upon the state judiciary come to represent a constitutionally intolerable risk of bias …
19-6897 Obaydul Hoque Bhuiyan v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure federal-tort-claims-act government-liability jurisdiction plaintiff-burden prima-facie prima-facie-showing private-party-analogue standing statutory-interpretation What prima facie showing is it necessary and sufficient for a plaintiff to make, in order to establish the existence of a private-party analogue suppo…
19-6903 Alvin R. Barney, II v. Escambia County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure failure-to-prosecute final-judgment judicial-discretion jurisdiction notice-of-appeal premature-appeal sanction sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit had the authority or subject matter jurisdiction to dismiss a premature notice of appeal as a sanction for failure to pro…
19-6905 John Alan Conroy v. Cliff Harris, Sheriff, Pecos County, Texas, et al. Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court-consideration-of-evidence appointment-of-counsel brady-v-maryland brady-violation continuing-duty-of-federal-government criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules dismissal-with-prejudice due-process evidence-withholding federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure in-camera-review michael-morton-act plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-16-federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure state-law-enforcement state-law-enforcement-compliance Whether the withholding of recorded statements by the government violates due process and Brady v. Maryland
19-691 Arthur Lawton Clark v. Georgia Georgia Denied Response Waived 404b-evidence circuit-court-split circuit-split d.c.-circuit-precedent due-process evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence georgia-supreme-court intrinsic-evidence intrinsic-evidence-rule prior-bad-act-evidence prior-bad-acts Were petitioner's due process rights violated by the Supreme Court of Georgia's overly broad application of the 'intrinsic evidence' rule?
19-6911 Father v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidence-standard fourteenth-amendment texas-constitution Does Article V, Section 6 of the Texas Constitution violate Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution when its distincti…
19-6912 David Abara v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal competency competency-exam criminal-procedure faretta-canvass irreconcilable-conflict right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court Whether a trial court violates the Sixth Amendment right to counsel by forcing a defendant into self-representation when the defendant and his appoint…
19-6914 Levi Rockefeller v. California California Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights collusion conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-ethics sixth-amendment trial-procedure Did the court err by failing to inquire, explore, and/or avoid potential conflicts of interest by creating a scenario equivalent to collusion or couns…
19-6917 In Re Sherri Jefferson Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment professional-conduct self-incrimination Whether the order of disbarment should be reversed, remanded, or vacated and set aside for violation of the Due Process and Self-Incrimination Clause …
19-6919 Michael Allen Channel, Sr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-fines incorporation jurisdiction standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
19-692 Sunil Deo v. California California Denied Amici (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process federal-law fifth-amendment penal-code property-rights state-law takings takings-clause Does California's application of Penal Code section 115 to deprive lienholders of their property constitute an uncompensated taking in violation of th…
19-6924 William D. Thomas v. Mark McCullick, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bail civil-procedure confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification indictment officer-activity police-conduct preliminary-hearing warrant-inquiry whether a state's failure to meet the reciprocal r Whether an identification resulting from a show-up confrontation during a preliminary hearing raised by prior police activity is sufficient to warrant…
19-6929 Steven D. Lisle, Jr. v. James Diercks, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-procedure district-court due-process notice standing appeal civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing Whether Petitioner was denied access to the courts
19-693 Peter Balov v. California California Denied Response Waived blood-alcohol-content blood-draw coercion consent dui fourth-amendment officer-authority probable-cause search-and-seizure Is a motorist's consent to a blood draw, for purposes of determining blood-alcohol content, voluntary within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment where…
19-6937 Scherrieto Little v. Janis Nau, as Administrator California Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power attorney-ethics civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-fraud fraud judicial-misconduct legal-ethics probate probate-law rule-8.4 When a violation of CA Rule 8.4 (c) occur, should the heir's of an estate have to pay for the fraud, corruption, and lie's that have been committed ag…
19-694 Heather Baker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kyle Baker, Deceased v. City of Trenton, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment home-invasion police-conduct police-procedure search-and-seizure second-amendment self-defense standing warrantless-search Whether the Second Amendment right to bear arms precludes warrantless home searches based on lawful firearm possession
19-6943 Sheila Annette Cunningham v. Florida Credit Union Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights curtilage discrimination due-process employment equal-protection fourth-amendment investigative-authority law-enforcement search-and-seizure standing summary-judgment Whether the Jistia Couvt Cured Mol ding | Heat Curnningham Failes to prvite evidence of racial diSciminaton
19-6944 Bahman Khodayari v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights damages discovery due-process nominal-damages rule-26 rule-26(a)(1)(A)(ii) rule-37 rule-37(c)(1) rule-41 rule-41(b) sanctions section-1983 Does the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's dismissal of a Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 41(b) due to Ru…
19-6945 Kevin Dameron v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence eyewitness-identification judicial-review legal-error neil-v-biggers standing state-court-interpretation state-court-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the Illinois state court erred in its application of well-established United States Supreme Court precedent declared in Neil v. Biggers, 409 U…
19-695 Dean Browning Webb, et al. v. Deere Credit, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived beck beck-v-prupis civil-liability civil-rico co-conspirator-liability conspiracy-law mediate-causation pinkerton-doctrine procedural-sanctions rico-1962-d salinas salinas-v-united-states Does the Pinkerton Doctrine, Salinas v. United States, and Beck v. Prupis apply to the imposition of civil RICO § 1962(d) co-conspirator liability?
19-6951 Ruben S. Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 28-U.S.C-2244(d)(1)(D) coerced-plea coercion collateral-review federal-courts guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation Whether the lower federal courts erred in determining that newly available evidence, in the form of affidavit of co-defendant's attorney, did not meet…
19-6954 Jerry Scott Camp, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP coa department-of-corrections disability due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus medical-condition medical-disability procedural-barriers sec-2254 section-2254 statute-of-limitations Should an inmate be entitled to equitable tolling due to extraordinary circumstances?
19-6955 Shondell J. Paul v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-question due-process federal-constitutional-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent stare-decisis state-court state-court-precedent state-court-procedure Does the Fourteenth Amendment place an obligation on the New York Court of Appeals to address a federal constitutional question when its prior precede…
19-6956 Thomas H. Outland v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied IFP confrontation-clause credibility criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-impeachment due-process evidence evidence-rules fair-trial impeachment jury-instructions prior-convictions right-to-present-a-defense Did the New Jersey state court endorse the use of N.J.R.E. 806 to impeach non-testifying criminal defendants with their prior convictions
19-6957 Venise Metayer v. Florida Florida Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-hearing Did the trial/lower court create a manifest injustice when it allowed the petitioner to plea to charges that violated double-jeopardy laws, when the t…
19-6958 Renee L. McCray v. Samuel I. White, P.C., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP bona-fide-error civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa federal-appeals federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit jerman-v-carlisle rehearing standing summary-judgment Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it denied the Petitioner's petition for rehearing, when the United States District Cour…
19-6959 Jasmine F. v. Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona Denied IFP civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-deficiency court-appointed-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights Whether the State of Arizona failed to terminate mother's parental rights by at least clear & convincing evidence as required by the due process claus…
19-6962 Tom S. Mourning, II v. Honorable Gayle L. Crane Missouri Denied IFP civil-rights commitment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus hearing judicial-circuit mental-health notice notice-and-hearing state-court state-department state-detention Whether a state judicial circuit court's refusal to provide notice and a hearing pursuant to the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution …
19-6964 David Russell Posey v. Scott Middlebrooks, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kidnapping-statute standing trial-rights Issue being raised
19-6966 Kyle A. Keys v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-requirement fair-presentation federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-remedies statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the 'fair presentation'/exhaustion requirement of 28 U.S.C. § 2254
19-6969 Leviticus A. Swift v. Georgia Georgia Denied IFP 4th-amendment arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment indictment probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the probable cause for the issuance of an arrest warrant was insufficient to justify the petitioner's arrest?
19-6971 Comfort Delando Roberts v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
19-6974 Wilfredo Torres v. Bellevue South Associates LLP, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process federal-judiciary judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-recusal statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 455(a) is unconstitutionally vague, ambiguous, arbitrary, capricious, and violates due process of law
19-6976 James Clayton Johnson v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP arizona capital-punishment constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-findings meaningful-opportunity standing Does a court deprive a capital defendant of his due process right to a meaningful opportunity to be heard when the defendant challenges the constituti…
19-6977 Samuel T. Pitts v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP adult-victims character-evidence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection propensity-evidence sexual-battery sexual-offenses Whether constitutional equal protection and due process principles require that a defendant charged with a sexual offense on an adult alleged victim b…
19-6978 Isaac Naranjo v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurists-of-reason merits notice-of-charges post-conviction-review procedural-default Whether to make a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right a habeas applicant for a C.O.A. need not show that he will prevail on th…
19-698 Wendy Alison Nora v. Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility Minnesota Denied administrative-law civil-procedure disciplinary-proceedings due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-speech interpretation lower-court political-speech regulation standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections as applied to the regulation of political speech
19-6981 Vladik Bykov v. Steven G. Rosen, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights compensatory-damages declaratory-relief discriminatory-motive Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities A section-1983 standing Is absolute immunity a bar to declaratory relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983?
19-6983 Kwasi Andrade McKinney v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure de-novo-review discretionary-standard due-process hearing-requirement judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics mandatory-recusal objective-standard standard-of-review Whether the trial court was required to hold a hearing on McKinney's motion to recuse
19-6984 Mark A. Perez v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception post-conviction-relief procedural-default Does Martinez v. Ryan excuse a procedural default in Federal Habeas Corpus proceedings?
19-6985 Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Shelby County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appropriate-relief circuit-court-conflict first-amendment-free-exercise inmate-led-religious-services inmate-rights qualified-immunity rluipa rluipa-appropriate-relief-clause sixth-circuit trial-on-merits trial-on-the-merits Whether RLUIPA's 'appropriate relief' clause encompasses the requested relief of a trial on the merits
19-6986 Jarvis H. Neely v. John R. Baldwin, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 5th-amendment circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review jurisdiction pension-regulations property-rights standing statutory-analysis takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a portion of their property for…
19-6987 Darrell Wayne Bell v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-conflict habeas habeas-corpus judicial-precedent merits-analysis newly-discovered-evidence shulp-v-delo Did the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals exceed the limited scope of the Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard using a merits analysis to deny Petit…
19-6988 Marlon Jessie Blacher v. S. Johnson, Chief Deputy Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-litigation civil-procedure contract due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction fraud interstate-conflict jurisdiction jurisdictional-statute legal-standing non-resident-parties standing Whether the magistrate had valid jurisdiction when Congress has not conferred any jurisdiction by law
19-6989 George Calvin Belt v. Florida Florida Denied IFP administrative-law child-support federal-authority federal-legislation federal-preemption state-authority state-law-conflict state-legislation state-statute supremacy-clause unemployment-benefits How it is possible that the State of Florida, Department of Revenue, Child Support Program (DOR CSP) can enforce Fla. Stat. § 443.051 that became esta…
19-6990 King Bush v. Kannika Say Michigan Denied IFP benefits civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-procedure due-process false-documents fourth-amendment fraud green-card immigration immigration-fraud law-enforcement marriage money-laundering probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the marriage based on immigration fraud should be voided
19-6992 Trent Brown v. Mark McCullick, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-remedy administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion standing When are administrative remedies exhausted?
19-6996 Myron L. Johnson v. Darren Settles, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure constitutional-law court-disposition due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error legal-procedure lower-court-decisions standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation Did the lower courts err in their disposition of petitioner's case?
19-6997 Gary A. Bailey v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process honest-and-just judicial-integrity judicial-system justice-standards legal-system record standing truth-and-justice truth-in-law Does the integrity of our judicial system rely on truth and justice?
19-6999 Charles Alan Dyer v. Jim Farris, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-2254-d-2-e-1 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review state-court-fact-finding state-court-factual-findings state-court-findings unreasonable-determination Whether a federal court is required to review the state court's finding of facts to determine if it is 'unreasonable' or can the court simply presume …
19-7000 David Constance v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP crawford-v-washington fair-trial fourteenth-amendment hearsay-testimony impartial-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Constance was denied a fair and impartial trial due to the State Courts' denial of hearsay testimony
19-7002 Robert C. Denham, Jr. v. James Dzurenda, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-1332 42-usc-1983 amended-complaint amount-in-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction in-forma-pauperis jurisdictional-amount screening-order standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Is whether or not Plaintiffs Reply Motions Affidavit to Screening Order dated 01-09-19 was timely, and satisfied the $75,000 amount-in-controversy req…
19-7004 Mario Torres v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP blanket-policy brady-violations criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence federal-law ineffective-assistance plea-agreement policy right-to-counsel unreasonable-application Whether Contra.Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surro…
19-7009 Daniel Rosario-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice district-court judicial-authority jurisdiction prejudice procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court which had no jurisdiction over a case can dismiss it with prejudice
19-7010 Omar Folk v. Prime Care Medical, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure discovery-issues double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus mandate-stay rule-59(e) rule-60-motion standing third-circuit-appeal Whether Third Circuit Court of Appeal Judges applied the correct standard under Rule 60(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
19-7012 Robert Eugene Hardesty v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process due-process-fair-trial,evidence,michigan-rule-of-e due-process,insufficient-evidence,5th-amendment,6t effective-assistance-of-counsel,fair-trial,6th-ame fair-trial insufficient-evidence michigan-constitution-1963-article-1-section-17 michigan-rule-of-evidence-404(b) us-constitution-amendments-v-xiv Is the admittance of irrelevant and prejudicial bad acts evidence under the guise of Michigan Rule of Evidence 404(b) a violation of due process and a…
19-7013 Kenneth M. Gray v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confession criminal-procedure due-process false-confession false-promises ineffective-assistance interrogation no-merit-report parent-attorney post-conviction-counsel sentencing sentencing-error waiver waiver-petition Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to ineffective assistance of post-conviction counsel, false promises by detectives du…
19-7016 Matthew Terrell v. C. Armant, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment assault certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal due-process jackson-v-virginia oral-copulation substantial-evidence Should a certificate of appealability be granted to review whether there was a violation of Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 317 and the Due Process…
19-7019 Alvin Washington v. Justin Boder, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process property-rights section-1983 standing takings unlawful-eviction unreasonable-search-and-seizure Whether the extraordinary circumstances of a person being lawfully evicted by PFA order by the court one day after his unlawful eviction by state empl…
19-702 Alen Dean O'Bryant v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied credibility due-process evidentiary-bolstering minor minor-witness physical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault vouching witness-credibility Does Due Process prohibit a State from presenting multiple witnesses and the prosecutor from vouching for the credibility of a minor complaining witne…
19-7024 Germira Lamar Carter v. Michigan Michigan Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-test Where the state courts of Michigan has convicted a criminal defendant in violation of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel, is…
19-7025 Michael Feliciano v. George Miller, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Waymart, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP carrier due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eyewitness eyewitness-testimony in-re-winship ineffective-assistance investigation jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard Is the State court of last resort and U.S. Court of Appeals decision which denied petitioner's claim that he was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right…
19-7027 Patrick T. Hughes v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability confrontation-clause criminal-conspiracy criminal-homicide due-process eighth-amendment evidence reasonable-doubt Whether the evidence was sufficient to sustain a conviction of criminal homicide, criminal conspiracy to commit homicide
19-7028 Jess Lee Green v. Joe Errington Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing statutory-provisions Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims for lack of standing
19-7029 In Re Paul Fahring Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion prison-law-library prison-litigation pro-se-litigation right-to-counsel standing Whether an inmate has access to the state courts to address his constitutional issues in a guaranteed proceeding
19-7030 Margaret Guevara v. Mark Padin, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP child-support civil-rights commerce-clause commerce-clause-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce interstate-dispute judicial-procedure standing Whether the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office is breaching the Commerce Clause by deducting wrongly calculated child support from Guevara's paychecks…
19-7031 Allen James Hancock v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection land-use property-rights regulatory-takings standing statutory-interpretation takings-clause Whether the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a public easement as a condition of …
19-7032 Kevin Dion Gaddis v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-forms due-process habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its decision
19-7033 Ali Darwich v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 district-court district-court-discretion due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-review motion-for-reconsideration rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) sixth-circuit-appeal standing Whether the panel erred in construing Darwich's motion as a motion for reconsideration under local rule 7.1(h)(1) and remanding the case back to the d…
19-7036 Jeremy L. Dale v. Anthony Agresta, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-damages cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment was violated by the defendants' alleged deliberate indifference to the plai…
19-7037 Shannon Bradley v. Thomas A. Cox, Jr. Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure trial-court-jurisdiction unlawful-search unlawful-seizure Whether the trial court lawfully obtained its jurisdiction to be heard?
19-7039 Kevin Lee Beam v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fetal-dna miranda-rights right-to-fair-trial self-incrimination sentencing-statute Does the misguided destruction of exculpatory fetal DNA tissue evidence constitute a Brady violation?
19-7040 Dalia A. Dippolito v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process entrapment factual-disputes jury-trial objective-entrapment state-law trial-by-jury trial-court-proceedings Where state law recognizes objective entrapment as a complete defense to criminal liability, and that defense turns on disputed issues of fact, does r…
19-7046 Elvis Wayne Jones v. C. Overstreet, Commissioner, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing surveillance Question not identified
19-7048 Bernardo Costa v. Missouri Missouri Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-right due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-criminal-procedure Whether a defendant has a federal constitutional right to effective assistance of first post-conviction counsel
19-7050 In Re Charlene Rosa Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sanctions statutory-interpretation witness-testimony Whether the Koweth, Oortrick Covert 4 wypptooll abuse dy duration M Sombion Hh lod decmaye
19-7054 Philip Rogers v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure drug-use evidence foreseeability ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt trial-strategy vehicular-homicide Did the failure to introduce evidence that the pedestrian had cocaine in her system render counsel's assistance constitutionally ineffective?
19-7057 Johnny L. Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-penalty drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking fifth-amendment inchoate-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the 'death results' enhanced penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(C) apply to a prosecution for the inchoate crime of conspiracy to comm…
19-7060 Kent Glen Williams v. Brooks, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP due-process first-amendment free-speech rlulpa standing 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claim court-order due-process health-screening judicial-relief prisoner-rights religious-freedom standing Was prisoners constitutional and statutory right to petition and religious freedoms violated when the district court dismissed his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ci…
19-7063 Leeton Jahwanza Thomas v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Were Petitioner's rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution violated by a Pennsylvania statutory sch…
19-7066 Evaristo Toscano v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-tampering harmless-error judicial-bias prejudice-comments redacted-statement right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment Whether a violation of petitioner's right granted by the Confrontation Clause of the United States Constitution was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt
19-7068 Janice Baker v. Macy's Florida Stores, LLC Florida Denied IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing takings Whether the
19-7069 Lee Alvin Vincent v. Brian E. Williams, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment actual-bias co-defendant due-process evidence-presentation fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-jury implied-bias juror-bias jury-bias sexual-infatuation Whether a juror's love for an adverse party (co-defendant) constitutes actual or implied bias and thus violates the defendant's right to an impartial …
19-707 Irma Rosas v. San Antonio Housing Authority, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling erickson-precedent magistrate-transfer mental-illness pro-se pro-se-plaintiff standing tolling twombly-standard Whether the lower court erred in applying Twombly to pro-se plaintiff's complaint when Erickson controlled
19-7080 Stanley Jaboin v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,federal-law,supreme failure-to-render-aid federal-law florida-statute-316.193 judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Did the First District Courts of Appeals apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and undermines its holdi…
19-7082 Mark J. Lipski v. Maine Maine Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-protection conviction-consequences criminal-procedure due-process economic-disadvantage indigent-defense ineffective-assistance judicial-oath legal-ethics legal-representation liberty-interests right-to-counsel state-prosecution Was the right to counsel waived?
19-7087 Anthony May v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances ineffective-assistance low-iq manifest-injustice mental-retardation Whether petitioner's 'mental retardation' and 'low IQ' constitute 'extraordinary circumstances' in which 'equitable tolling' should be applied to avoi…
19-7089 Jonathan Cruz-Ramirez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment first-amendment juvenile-evidence prejudice prejudicial-error sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not w…
19-7093 Oscar Ibarra v. Nick Ludwick, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance murder right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment permit an office to represent an indigent defendant in a First Degree Murder case if the office previously represented both a…
19-7094 Ernest Lawrence v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-review criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona police-interrogation prior-bad-acts prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard Whether The Lower Court's Decisions Were Contrary To Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966) and Whether the Lower Courts Unreasonably Applied Miranda…
19-7100 Damon Jones v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-presumption evidentiary-presumption fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment specific-intent transferred-intent Are the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments violated where in a case tried and presented under the transferred intent theory the jury is not instructed on…
19-7109 J'Veil Outing v. Miguel A. Cardona, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-record due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony ineffective-assistance precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether assigned counsel violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel and his right to due process
19-711 Missouri, ex rel. Darrin Lamasa v. Michael Wright, Associate Circuit Judge, 12th Judicial Circuit, Warren County, Missouri Missouri Denied Response Waived constitutional-law due-process federal-preemption marbury-v-madison medical-marijuana rational-basis-review statutory-interpretation Whether Missouri's medical marijuana law is preempted by the federal statute
19-7114 Joe Lewis Finley v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-habeas federal-sentencing habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender sentencing statute-of-limitations vagueness Under the statute of limitations applicable to federal habeas proceedings, are habeas petitions challenging sentences fixed by the mandatory career of…
19-7118 Calvin Buffington v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-fact-finding section-3582 section-3582(c)(2) sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3582(c)(2) statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's failure to find a drug quantity when adopting PSR in its entirety authorized it to select a new quantity as a basis for t…
19-7121 Jay F. Shachter v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-adjudication administrative-hearing administrative-hearings civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process employment-status judicial-independence municipal-ordinance municipal-ordinances state-supreme-court-split Whether the adjudication of municipal ordinance infractions in the City of Chicago violates due-process
19-7123 Sean Gregory Mitchell v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-sentencing intentional-causation omission physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another 'by any means,' including omissions, is a violent felo…
19-7125 Shane R. Dodge, et ux. v. Bonners Ferry Police Department, et al. Idaho Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process idaho-supreme-court jurisdiction police-misconduct standing statutory-provisions Whether the Idaho Supreme Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims against police officers for lack of standing and failure to timel…
19-7126 Ronald Damon v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 5th-amendment appeal appellate-waiver circuit-split due-process due-process-clause plea-agreement post-conviction-waiver sentencing supervised-release Whether an appellate and post-conviction waiver in a plea agreement barring challenges to the 'sentence imposed' precludes an appeal of the denial of …
19-7128 Mojisola Popoola v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment digital-evidence encrypted-devices encryption fifth-amendment miranda-warnings police-custody search-and-seizure self-incrimination standing suppression testimonial-conduct testimonial-evidence Whether the physical act of a person in police custody responding to a request to enter her passcode to unlock an encrypted cellphone is testimonial c…
19-7130 Fabio Morel v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-law circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-precedent plea-agreement plea-bargaining precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the lower court's decision is in conflict with Freeman v. United States, 564 U.S. 522 (2011) and Hughes v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1765 (201…
19-7132 Ric Thomason, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure defendant-presence defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure modified-sentence resentencing sentencing Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to hold a resentencing hearing, with the defendant present, prior to imposing a modified s…
19-7133 Angel Noel Guevara v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland cross-examination due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony independent-evidence police-lineup rule-403 sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-present-defense Whether excluding expert testimony on eyewitness memory and police lineup procedures violates the Sixth Amendment right to present a defense, or const…
19-7134 Jessie Carter v. Department of Agriculture Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing administrative-law administrative-law-judge arkansas-dept-of-human-services civil-rights declaration disqualification due-process federal-regulations national-disqualified-list usda usda-program usda-regulations What is the proper interpretation of CFR 7 226.6 (c) (v)
19-7136 Karen Lynn McClaflin v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit appeal appellate-procedure cja-appointment counsel-appointment criminal-justice-act criminal-justice-act-1964 criminal-procedure due-process fee-waiver in-forma-pauperis prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's denial of Ms. McClaflin's motion to dismiss the indictment on the b…
19-7137 Patrick Randell McIntosh v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-detention civil-commitment civil-rights commitment confinement constitutional-rights dangerousness due-process mental-health personality-disorder procedural-safeguards public-safety standing Whether the inmate's narcissistic personality disorder and alleged dangerousness due to exogenous factors justify his continued confinement since Nove…
19-7138 Michael Blankenship v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP clean-water-act criminal-procedure environmental-law evidence evidence-admissibility eyewitness-testimony fecal-coliform intent prejudice rule-404(b) rule-404b witness-testimony Whether a chart showing consistently high fecal coliform levels in a creek was relevant to show other potential sources of odors testified to by witne…
19-7139 Daryl Glenn Pawlak v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith outrageous-government-conduct rule-41 search-warrant warrant-violation Whether the Fifth Circuit's standard for determining outrageous government conduct violates the Fifth Amendment Due Process clause
19-7141 Fernando Oliveros v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-guarantee criminal-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto free-speech legislative-intent lenity standing statutory-ambiguity statutory-construction When the legislature has not spoken in language that is clear and definite and has affixed the punishment for an offense, can a state court limit the …
19-7144 James Brandon Strouse v. Warden, USP Coleman II Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 conviction-challenge federal-prisoner habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective post-conviction-relief section-2241 section-2255 sentence-challenge sentencing Can a federal prisoner challenge their sentence or conviction under 28 U.S.C. Sect. 2241 motion when their post Section 2255 motion is inadequate or i…
19-7145 Carlos E. Rodriguez-Milian v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion 2255-appeal appeals-court-discretion certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-motions procedural-default procedural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-response Can an appeals court disregard the district court's procedural error and decide a COA application based on the underlying merits?
19-7146 David Rapoport v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns death-penalty due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance life-without-parole plea-bargaining sentencing waiver-of-appeal-rights Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective in pre-trial stages?
19-7149 Guillermo Herrera v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility circuit-split daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow expert-testimony eyewitness-identification federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions scientific-evidence Whether expert testimony on eyewitness identification should be treated differently than other expert testimony
19-7151 Erick David Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit prejudice rap-poem sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not w…
19-7152 Allan M. Leavitt v. Cynthia A. Phillips, et al. Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract-enforcement contract-law declaratory-judgment due-process interstate-dispute judicial-procedure massachusetts property property-rights property-rights-deprivation standing state-interest vermont Did Massachusetts deprive a Vermont citizen the fundamental right to property without a compelling state interest by refusing to enforce its substanti…
19-7155 Russell DeFreitas v. Gregory A. Kizziah, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether Sixth Circuit's precedent supersedes and adoption of district court's arbitrary abuse of authority, prohibits petitioner's 28 USC 2241's statu…
19-7156 Robert E. Clayborne v. Brad Hansen, Warden Nebraska Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing unlawful-detention Whether the petitioner's allegations of set-up for a false arrest petition for writ of habeas corpus are valid
19-7159 Sir Giorgio Sanford Clardy v. Garth Gulick, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process service-of-process standing statute-of-limitations waiver Whether the appellate court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims due to lack of timely service of process and whether the district court abused…
19-716 Zhi Gang Zhang v. Dan Rasmus, et al. South Dakota Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment attorney-fraud attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fraud legal-malpractice Whether differences in the acquittal process between fraud committed by an attorney and fraud committed by a non-attorney in some but not all federal …
19-7161 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-protections criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing withdrawal-of-plea Whether third-party affidavits filed with a motion to withdraw a guilty plea before sentencing, claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, overcomes …
19-7163 Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-courts state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts have an affirmative duty to exercise jurisdiction over a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action challenging a state court rule
19-7164 Dominic Howard v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-circuit fourth-amendment in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Four…
19-7167 Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency first-degree-murder identity-of-defendant identity-of-perpetrator jury-instructions possession-of-weapon premeditation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia unreasonably affirmed the Petitioner's conviction on the charge of First-Degree Murder
19-7170 Dante Taylor v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-law constitutional-ruling due-process fourth-amendment griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent What is the appropriate appellate protocol for appellate counsel to follow when: (i) the Supreme Court has issued a new constitutional ruling affectin…
19-7171 Samuel Turner v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest civil-rights conviction-and-sentence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-possession due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure investigative-reports police-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure subpoena-duces-tecum supervisory-power Whether the lower courts erred by upholding the arrest of Mr. Turner?
19-7172 Larry Antonio Simmons v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-judiciary first-step-act judicial-ethics political-bias sentencing sentencing-reduction standing statutory-interpretation trump Whether the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina violated the judicial code of ethics when they refused to recognize a Cong…
19-7174 John H. Stewart v. William Honsal, as Public Administrator of Humboldt County, California, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP domestic-violence due-process evidence-admission fair-trial hearsay judicial-notice property-rights Was Petitioner's federal constitutional right to due process of law violated by an unfair trial?
19-7175 Curry Robinson v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment alibi alibi-claim federal-review fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance procedural-bar sixth-amendment Whether the federal question of ineffective assistance of trial counsel as the preserved claim of an alibi was vague and/or unexhausted thereby proced…
19-7176 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion bias due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief recusal trial-procedure Should recusal of a judge be allowed during the post conviction relief phase if the prejudice and bias of the trial judge is apparent on the face of t…
19-7177 Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-dismissal successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar Can District Courts continue to dismiss (numerically) second habeas petitions as 'successive' and hold the petitioner to the stricter AEDPA requiremen…
19-7178 Tracy Jarvis Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-precedent johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states robbery sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment south-carolina standard-of-review Whether the District Court erred in determining that Petitioner Allen's South Carolina Armed Robbery convictions are valid predicates under the Armed …
19-7180 Rafael Leonhard Wolfga Beier v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-impairment motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief rule-33 standard-of-review standards-for-new-trial trial-standard Does a criminal defendant's discovery of a recognized mental impairment after conviction at trial constitute newly discovered evidence under Federal R…
19-7183 Malcolm William v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP causation criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-arrest-of-judgment due-process elements-of-crime evidence evidence-sufficiency hearsay insufficient-evidence malice motion-in-limine murder murder-charge new-trial sixth-amendment third-degree Whether Appellant should be awarded an arrest of judgement on the charge of Murder in the Third Degree
19-7185 Stanley Brewer v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-rights district-court-review due-process facts-and-evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court violated long-standing precedent and misapplied 28-USC-2254-d-2, 28-USC-2254-e-1, and the facts and evidence presented by t…
19-7187 Tyree Miles v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights court-review due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge legal-interpretation post-conviction-relief pre-arrest-delay procedural-requirements speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial counsel failed to raise certain evidentiary clai…
19-7193 Charles Thomas Young v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
19-7194 Juan Carlos Vazquez v. South Carolina South Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea language-barrier sixth-amendment voluntary-plea Does the evidence in the record that petitioner does not understand English plainly show that any admission at the guilty plea hearing could not relia…
19-7197 Darryl William Young v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery colloquy constitutional-law constitutional-question-of-procedural-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 criminal-procedure-rule-20 direct-appeal district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-of-statutory-law federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-venue overbroad-interpretation plea-agreement plea-validity procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-law venue waiver Whether the district court had jurisdictional venue to accept the petitioner's plea agreement and sentence when the requirements of Federal Rules of C…
19-7198 B. T. D. v. Alabama Alabama Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer serious-physical-injury standing vagueness Does a child have due process rights to a judicial determination of whether his/her case should remain in juvenile court or should be transferred to a…
19-7201 Casey Lee Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of other Circuits on an important matter
19-7207 Mohamed Elshinawy, aka Mojoe, aka Mo Jo v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vcclea Did the Court violate the Separation of Powers and Due Process when the enhancement § 3A1.4 was applied without examining Congress' explicit directive…
19-7208 Gbenga Benson Ogundele v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-standard confrontation-clause due-process evidence fair-trial federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence government-evidence sixth-amendment Whether voluminous amounts of substantive evidence containing prejudicial opinions of government agents held to be erroneously admitted under Federal …
19-7209 Jurother Lee Alston, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-exclusionary-rule evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery nix-v-williams search-and-seizure What is the scope of the Inevitable Discovery doctrine originally set out in Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431, 444 (1984)?
19-721 W. A. Griffin v. Humana Employers Health Plan of Georgia, Inc. Georgia Denied Response Waived assignment-of-benefit assignment-of-benefits consent-requirement erisa georgia-law georgia-statute health-insurance insurance-contracts insurance-law medical-assignment preemption provider-assignment provider-rights Whether a medical provider who obtained a written assignment of benefit is required to obtain consent from the fully-insured plan
19-7216 Daniel A. Ramet v. Robert LeGrande, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper legal-malpractice plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington If a defense attorney advises a client to reject a favorable plea offer based on a grave miscalculation about the viability of a legal defense, has th…
19-7218 Oscar Amezcua Cabrera v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-principles crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington due-process dying-declaration-exception fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-exception hearsay-rule prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay whether-dying-declaration-exception-overrides-crawford-v-washington
19-722 Larry J. Hudack v. La Cresta Property Owners Association California Denied Response Waived anti-slapp anti-SLAPP-statute civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-statute first-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect right-to-petition standing state-statute void-judgment void-judgments Is a collateral attack on void judgments, on its face, an assault on the constitutional Right to Petition under any state or federal statute?
19-7221 Anthony Gray v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment,probable-cause,search-and-seizure,ma marijuana probable-cause recreational-marijuana search-and-seizure vehicle-search Does the faint smell of marijuana in a car, alone, give local police probable cause to search the car for contraband under the Fourth Amendment?
19-7223 Erik Bilal Khan v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arraignment counsel-duty criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance lesser-crimes plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-probability right-to-counsel Whether counsel was ineffective in misadvising and interfering with the defendant's choice of plea at the arraignment
19-7225 Michael Lara Salas v. N. Vazquez, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-issues constitutional-provisions due-process factual-background police-report standing 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the police conducted a warrantless search of their home and seized personal property…
19-7226 Tony Robinson v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment patent qualified-immunity standing takings Whether the Illinois Appellate Court erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claim
19-7227 Santos Reyes-Villatoro v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP consciousness-of-guilt due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial false-evidence giglio-v-united-states judicial-review napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial trial-fairness Whether a prosecutor's presentation of false or misleading evidence violates due process and requires vacating a conviction and remanding for a new tr…
19-7231 Joshua Andrew Monroe v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals habeas-corpus procedural-ruling statute-of-limitations Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in not issuing a certificate of appealability where petitioner demonstrated that jurist of reason could fi…
19-7234 Denzel Chisholm, aka Den, aka Din v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-drug-abuse-act anti-drug-abuse-act-1986 anti-drug-abuse-act-of-1986 congressional-intent criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense proportionality retail-level-manager sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Whether a 342-month sentence for a retail-level manager is substantively reasonable where it far exceeds a sentence that properly accounts for Congres…
19-7235 Trevon Gross v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP daubert due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay prosecutorial-discretion Should the Government be able to convert an expert witness into a summary witness?
19-7237 Christopher L. Croom v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP admonishment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant judicial-admonishment jury-bias right-to-counsel trial-court trial-court-admonishment waiver Does a defendant knowingly waive the right to conflict-free counsel when the trial court merely admonishes the defendant that a conflict exists, witho…
19-7238 Jerry Reginald Burkes v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dismissal due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis indictment-dismissal mandatory-language money-laundering speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation tennessee-local-rule-10.03 tennessee-rules-of-criminal-procedure tennessee-rules-of-evidence trial-rights Whether the trial court's denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment for a violation of the Speedy Trial Act's 70-day time limit is subject to harmle…
19-7239 John Edwin Corn, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-remedy standing takings Whether the government's remedial actions in the court below were proper and lawful
19-7242 Bryan Whitehead v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 5th-amendment conviction conviction-and-sentence crime-of-violence due-process fifth-amendment jury-determination residual-clause sentence sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether the Petitioner was denied his Fifth Amendment right to due process of law by virtue of his conviction and sentence under the residual clause o…
19-7243 Joshua Wolf v. Cindy Griffith, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders mandatory-life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing resentencing sentencing-procedures sixth-amendment Whether Missouri's decision to order resentencing for juvenile homicide offenders with mandatory 50-year sentences but not for Joshua, a juvenile homi…
19-7245 Darren Lavald Bowie v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-relief constitutional-waiver habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sixth-amendment unknowing-waiver waiver Does a Plea Agreement which waives challenges to collateral relief forbid challenges to ineffective assistance in proceedings following the entry of t…
19-7246 Keith Harris v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-rule crawford-v-washington cross-examination hearsay informants law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the admission of law enforcement testimony that goes to whether a defendant was a participant in a conspiracy based on information provided by…
19-7247 Mark Linnear Hays v. Randy L. Tews, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus saving-clause second-or-successive second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation Whether a federal prisoner's challenge to his conviction or sentence under 28 U.S.C. §2255 is 'inadequate or ineffective' - and thus the prisoner may …
19-7248 Christopher Omar Hinton v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-robbery crime-of-violence dangerous-weapon federal-sentencing north-carolina north-carolina-law sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission united-states-sentencing-guidelines Whether North Carolina attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon qualifies as a crime of violence under Section 4B1.2 of the United States Sentencing …
19-7249 Herbert Evans v. J. Hollingsworth, Warden Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction parole revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether a district court has the authority to impose a new sentence of imprisonment after the original term of supervised release has expired
19-7250 Thomas Kevin Jenkins v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining standing to bring a claim
19-7251 William McNeal v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure degree-classification due-process essential-element essential-elements jury-trial reclassification sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether Florida's interpretation of 'essential element' is contrary to Apprendi v. New Jersey
19-7253 Fabrizio DeFrancisci v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-60(b)(6) due-process post-conviction-relief rule-60b-motion second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg Was the district court and appeals court wrong to deny the Rule 60(b)(6) motion and certificate of appealability, respectively, when this court has sp…
19-7255 Fernando Duran v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acknowledgment criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-standard jury narcotics-law reasonable-doubt Does the due process clause's requirement of proof beyond a reasonable doubt obligate the government in a drug possession case to present evidence of …
19-7256 Joseph Eugene Osborne v. Pelicia Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-statute-of-limitations civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-predicate habeas-corpus procedural-default statute-of-limitations timeliness Do suspicions trigger AEDPA's statute of limitations even if they would be insufficient to state a factual predicate for a claim under AEDPA?
19-7257 Dillon Mvuri v. American Airlines, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-reasoning pro-se summary-judgement summary-judgment Where the district court issues a summary judgement without giving reasons on the record contrary to Rule 56 of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and t…
19-7258 Jamal Marquise Collins v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez judicial-review legal-standard objections remand sentencing timeliness timely-objection Whether parties to a criminal proceeding must make timely objections to the unreasonableness of a sentence?
19-7259 John Afriyie v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-forfeiture due-process insider-trading jury-trial libretti-v-united-states sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming a criminal forfeiture judgment encompassing all potential trades despite a general jury verdict and th…
19-7261 Gibron Lopez v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator criminal-procedure criminal-relationship criminal-relationship-development evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-rule-404(b) hobbs-act inextricably-intertwined-evidence intimate-relationship narcotics-sales relationship rule-404(b) rule-404b sexual-relationship trust trust-relationship Where evidence of prior narcotics sales was introduced at trial to establish both a relationship of trust among co-conspirators, as well as how their …
19-7264 Lazaro Zapata v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment. 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process standing takings appeals appellate-review case-review civil-rights court-decision criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation Whether the Illinois Appellate Court erred in denying petitioner's request for a new trial based on ineffective assistance of counsel and due process …
19-7265 Joseph Totoro, II v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 scienter scienter-requirement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-access-to-courts speedy-trial Did the Court, the United States Attorney, and the former attorneys violate DOJ policy and Due Process
19-7269 James Patton Robertson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process federal-law frivolous frivolous-claim judicial-review statute-of-limitations summary-disposition transactional-immunity Whether summary disposition is appropriate when considering a petition for writ of coram nobis
19-7270 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-evidence due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process sexual-assault Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide Mr. Sayed with a procedural due process to have exculpatory (DNA) evidence tested
19-7271 Eric Hall v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute burglary-statutes categorical-approach conviction conviction-requirements criminal-plea entry entry-element firearm-possession generic-crime generic-crimes instrument plea-withdrawal rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic
19-7272 Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether the petitioner received constitutionally effective assistance of counsel at trial
19-7274 Gregory Bartko v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct wearry-v-cain witness-testimony Did the lower courts err in failing to properly review and conclude that the prosecution's withholding of exculpatory and impeachment evidence favorab…
19-7276 Ketut Pujayasa v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules due-process judicial-discretion prejudice prisoner prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-4a6 time-limitation timeliness Did the district court and appellate court err in concluding that the petitioner's Rule 4(a)(6) motion, which was sent on February 20, 2019, and recei…
19-7278 Terrance Cobb v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP confession criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether Mr. Cobb's right to due-process was violated by the Florida courts in denying him post-conviction-relief based on newly-discovered-evidence
19-728 Brian Davison v. Facebook, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived censorship civil-rights delegation-of-authority due-process first-amendment free-speech government-delegation private-forum public-forum standing standing-to-sue Whether a person has standing to sue the government for a delegation of censorship authority to a private party when his speech on a topic of public i…
19-7283 Fairly W. Earls v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b-motion Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit imposed an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability standard
19-7285 In Re Lawone Wilkinson Denied IFP auto-repair-laws business-dispute-criminal-case constitutional-conflict criminal-conviction deceptive-testimony diligence-and-cause habeas-corpus mandated-compliance new-evidence possession-property-interests pro-se-prisoner robbery robbery-elements state-federal-laws unconstitutional-error Under Habeas Corpus, can this Court take NOTICE of a previous UNconstitutional ERROR having a Substantial INjurious EFFECT
19-7289 Willis Shane Gordon v. Sam Cline, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation brady-evidence Brady-Violation burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy doyle-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial kansas-sentencing-guidelines post-arrest-silence prior-convictions procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines Issues being raised
19-729 Scott Howard Meyer v. Emily Peterson Minnesota Denied civil-procedure civil-rights custody-dispute due-process family-law first-amendment free-speech harassment-order parental-rights prior-restraint Does one parent have a First Amendment right to criticize the other parent's parenting style and threaten litigation without risk of arrest, prosecuti…
19-7291 Jose Abraham Guzman v. Kelly Santoro, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intoxication jury-instructions voluntary-intoxication Whether Guzman's failure to request instruction on voluntary intoxication was ineffective assistance of counsel
19-7292 Jerry Franks v. Emma Collins, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-review retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause supreme-court-retroactivity trevino-v-thaler Did Montgomery v. Louisiana announce a new watershed rule of criminal procedure that applies retroactively when ruling the Supremacy Clause applies to…
19-7293 Desmond Bowen v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) appellate-review booker-v-united-states federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-standard sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness What standard should appellate courts use to review claims of substantively unreasonable sentences under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)?
19-7294 Mohammed Kwaning v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error jury-trial material-evidence preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the Government officials conduct violated Petitioner's constitutional rights?
19-7298 James Lee Bell v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-precedent blakely-rule criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury jury-trial mandatory-minimum recidivism recidivist-treatment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Was the limitation of Almendarez-Torres and the dictates of Apprendi and Blakely violated?
19-7304 Anthony Michael Salazar v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure-appeal due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence incarceration judicial-review sentencing sentencing-error united-states-v-haymond Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability when the Petitioner is incarcerated on an illegally-imposed sentence in l…
19-7305 William James Springer v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-possession constructive-possession criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-possession foreseeability jointly-undertaken-activity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant's sentence can be enhanced under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) for possession of a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking offense …
19-7307 Julian Moz-Aguilar v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach conduct-based-inquiry crime-of-violence elements-clause force-requirement johnson-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach physical-force sentencing-court Whether a sentencing court may consider a defendant's actual conduct in determining if an offense qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 9…
19-731 Pancho's LLC v. James T. Hughes, et al. West Virginia Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-regulation notice-and-hearing paul-v-davis reputation stigma-to-reputation Does Paul v. Davis, 424 U.S. 693 (1976), establish a two-pronged test for a cause of action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983?
19-7312 In Re Mo Savoy Hicks Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure discarded-evidence due-process evidentiary-standard exculpatory-evidence forensic-fraud fundamental-injustice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review perjured-testimony post-conviction-relief state-court-proceedings Whether new evidence establishes the petitioner's actual innocence and his continued incarceration is fundamentally unjust
19-7313 Dalton Crutchfield v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statutes categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute entry entry-element entry-requirement generic-crimes generic-statutes predicate-offense sentencing state-conviction tennessee-law Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of 'e…
19-7315 Andrew Wright v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2255(f)(4) civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal retained-counsel standing statutory-interpretation Does equitable tolling automatically apply under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(4) where a defendant relies, to his detriment, on an oral order of a United State…
19-7323 Leo Stoller v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy chapter-13 civil-procedure criminal-law due-process false-statement fifth-amendment perjury seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit's holding that knowingly making a false statement under penalty of perjury in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy proceeding violates …
19-7324 Lonnie Greer, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure different-occasions generic-burglary recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-judge sixth-amendment sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation Whether Tennessee aggravated burglary qualifies as 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-7325 Hope K. Kantete v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-process post-conviction-relief right-to-trial section-2255 sentencing trial-strategy Whether the lower courts erred by failing to rule or even consider on the record whether Ms Kantete was advised of her 'risk factors' in proceeding to…
19-7326 Jimmy Lee Allred v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1513 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury categorical-approach modified-categorical-approach taylor-v-united-states violent-felony violent-force witness-retaliation when-to-use-categorical-approach
19-7327 Antonio Macli v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability claim-by-claim claim-determination constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists Does a federal habeas court have to determine the need for an evidentiary hearing on a claim by claim basis?
19-7330 Michael P. Haldorson v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-844h2 constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment statutory-interpretation stirone-v-united-states Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(2) for carrying an 'explosive, namely, smokeless powder' can be based on the prosecution's argument that…
19-7331 Lavorice Dondrell Cunningham v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard pending-resolution remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness What is the appropriate standard for the determination of substantive reasonableness claim?
19-7332 Brian Dean King, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or instead, …
19-7334 Edgardo Diaz-Cestary v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) categorical-approach categorical-qualification criminal-statute elements-clause hobbs-act johnson-i johnson-standard physical-force statutory-interpretation Whether force required to commit Hobbs Act robbery satisfies the physical force standard of Johnson I to categorically qualify the elements clause of …
19-7335 Chad Prodoehl v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-law drug-conspiracy drug-crimes drug-trafficking due-process inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses overt-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a 'results in death' statutory enhancement can apply to a 21 U.S.C. § 846 conspiracy offense, and if so, whether that element must be agreed u…
19-7336 Francisco Pena, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-judge fifth-amendment judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal judge from imposing a sentence, based on a defendant's uncharged conduct found by the judge by a …
19-734 Trina R. Patterson v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 15-usc-1692a-6 circuit-court-split debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure ninth-circuit security-interest standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding consistent with the opinions in Dowers v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al and Obduskey v. McCarthy and Holt…
19-7341 Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-intent criminal-law drug-crimes drug-felonies drug-policy drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether Congress should re-evaluate the inequity in changing the enhancement level for prior drug felonies under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b)(1)(A)-(B) but not…
19-7352 Alfredo Godoy-Machuca v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver collateral-consequences criminal-procedure defense-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining voluntary-and-knowing voluntary-plea Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in concluding that material affirmative misdavice given by defense counsel regarding collateral conse…
19-7356 James H. Griffin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim criminal-procedure downward-departure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review law-enforcement procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-manipulation Did the lower federal courts err in denying Appellants Faasy Petrtita without affording a full and fair hearing concerning the claim that his counsel …
19-7359 Danny Guzman-Correa v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-consultant lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye prejudice public-trial public-trial-violation Whether reasonable jurist could find it debatable that Petitioner's public-trial violation warranted reversal at the minimum for an evidentiary hearin…
19-736 Andrew Clarke v. Russell R. McMurray, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Transportation Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights civil-suit due-process government-official individual-capacity legal-standing official-capacity pleading-defect sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity Whether the named defendant, Russell R. McMurry, can be sued in his individual capacity or if this suit is equivalent to suing the State of Georgia
19-7363 Richard Grady Romans v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-distribution felony-enhancement occasions-different predicate-offense serious-drug-offense substantive-offense violent-felony Whether a drug conspiracy committed on an occasion different from the drug distribution offenses committed during and in furtherance of that same cons…
19-7364 Ernest William Singleton v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-schedules drug-scheduling general-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-pain-clinic money-laundering surveillance-footage Whether the jury relied on an invalid conviction for distributing Ultram in finding the defendant guilty of money laundering
19-7365 Tyrone Terrance Roberts v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief standard-of-review Has the lower tribunal court denied Roberts due process and departed from the essential requirements of the law in denying him relief following his di…
19-7366 In Re Andrew J. Johnston Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing takings Whether the court of appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
19-7367 Adalberto Magana-Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP border-patrol confrontation-clause drug-smuggling expert-testimony hearsay prejudicial-error sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the district court committed prejudicial error under the Sixth Amendment when it permitted a DEA agent to tell the jury what a Border Patrol a…
19-7370 Mario Alberto Buenrostro-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment anonymous-tip border-patrol border-security civil-rights criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment investigatory-stop reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop Whether an individual's telephone call to law enforcement is sufficient to establish reasonable suspicion for an investigatory stop
19-7371 Larry Bentley, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment narcotics-detection prejudice retroactive-application retroactivity search search-and-seizure Question not identified
19-7375 Joaquin Mario Valencia-Trujillo v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington circuit-split constitutional-law contemporary-assessment criminal-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-foreseeability sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether Strickland's test for ineffective assistance of counsel incorporates an unsettled/foreshadowed exception
19-7381 Percy Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions-involved due-process equal-protection executive-authority executive-delegation judicial-review separation-of-powers standing Whether the appellate court's determination that the government has the final say on whether petitioner had the right to pursue his late-filed appeal …
19-7386 Jack Dowell v. Richard Hudgins, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions retroactivity savings-clause suspension-of-writ Where the district court dismissed Mr. Dowell's §§2241 and 2255(e) habeas petition claiming the savings clause does not apply to Mr. Dowell, in light …
19-7387 Travis Miles v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute criminal-sentencing entry entry-definition generic-burglary statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute violent-felony Does Tennessee's burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
19-7389 Nicole Rena McCrea v. District of Columbia Office of Human Rights, et al. District of Columbia Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights district-of-columbia due-process eeoc-obligations employment equal-employment-opportunity-commission equal-opportunity exhaustion-of-remedies human-rights judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Was the Petitioner adversely aggrieved by the actions of the District of Columbia Office of Human Rights and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commiss…
19-7392 Demetrius Darrell Davis, aka Meatman v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure abandonment abandonment-doctrine criminal-procedure disclaimer-of-ownership fourth-amendment incriminating-statement incriminating-statements police-questioning property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether a mere disclaimer of ownership in an effort to avoid making an incriminating statement constitutes abandonment
19-7394 Jeremias Guillen v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court jurisdiction notice notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings Where a Notice to Appear served on a noncitizen to initiate removal proceedings fails to state the date and time to appear, the noncitizen is never pr…
19-7396 Julio Mario Haro-Verdugo v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cronic due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's rejection of Petitioner's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim(s) …
19-740 Kayla Butts, Individually and on Behalf of Her Daughter, A. F., a Minor v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-52a evidence-consideration expert-testimony fact-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice standard-of-care standard-of-review trial-court-deference Did the Appellate court violate Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 52(a) when it failed to consider all of the evidence before the trial court, inserted…
19-7400 Christopher R. Glenn v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings pro-se-petition standing supervisory-power Did the Eleventh Circuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of this Court's superviso…
19-7404 Joseph James Roe v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement-factors essential-factor guideline-interpretation guidelines judicial-discretion leadership-role lower-court-guidance sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-3b1.1(a) Whether a district court may impose a sentence enhancement under USSG § 3B1.1(a) for leadership role based on a factor not mentioned in the Sentencing…
19-7408 Daniel Jay Bowman v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment government-prosecution parallel-construction standing Whether the Government's use of 'Parallel Construction' violates 4th-and-5th-amendment-rights
19-7412 Alford D. Embry, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (2000)
19-7416 James P. Griffin v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion calculation-error civil-procedure continuance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment financial-penalties forfeiture medical-hardship medical-issues restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment trial-continuance trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether the amount of restitution and forfeiture w Whether the trial court abused its discretion in denying a continuance due to medical problems
19-7417 Corey Michael Edwards v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering constitutional-challenge criminal-history effective-counsel predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Can a conviction in North Carolina state court involving the breaking and entering of outbuildings (storage sheds) that were visibly and actually padl…
19-7420 In Re Adrean Francis Denied IFP criminal-justice-reform criminal-justice-system drug-crime due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus second-amendment sentencing-enhancement state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation youthful-offender Whether the continued application of a vacated New York 'Youthful Offender' conviction constitutes an illegal sentence and creates separate classes of…
19-7422 Andre Antonio Fairley v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights colloquy constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction record self-incrimination sentencing waiver Whether the court committed reversible structural error by failing to consider unindicted conduct on the record colloquy with a waiver of course, besi…
19-7430 Richard L. Bryant v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne apprendi apprendi-alleyne apprendi-alleyne-rule drug-distribution-conspiracy fair-sentencing-act fair-sentencing-act-2010 first-step-act first-step-act-2018 relevant-conduct retroactive-sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-ranges Whether a defendant convicted of a drug distribution conspiracy involving multiple controlled substances is eligible for a sentence reduction under th…
19-7433 Anthony Russell Wilson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy federal-sentencing fifth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release united-states-v-haymond Whether the Fifth Amendment's protection against double jeopardy is violated when a defendant is prosecuted and punished for a firearm possession offe…
19-7434 Andrea Zambrano v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3b carjacking-statute crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)
19-7438 Javion Scott v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment griffin-v-wisconsin law-enforcement-action parole post-release-supervision probation probation-supervision search-and-seizure special-needs-search united-states-v-knights warrantless-search Whether a warrantless search of a North Carolina post-release supervisee is a special-needs probationary search or a law-enforcement search
19-7439 Saddam Samaan Daoud Samaan v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment hotel-guest-registration law-enforcement reasonable-search search-and-seizure third-party-doctrine warrantless-search Did Petitioner have a sufficient expectation of privacy in hotel guest registration information that a warrantless demand to the innkeeper for product…
19-744 Leslie T. Jackson v. District of Columbia District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-dismissal artis-v-district-of-columbia civil-procedure due-process final-adjudication jurisdiction precedent-binding precedent-binding-effect-of res-judicata statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Issues being raised
19-7440 Alan Strattan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2253 28-usc-2253 basis-for-denying-relief certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court habeas habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason merits-of-claims standard-of-review Whether a petitioner seeking the issuance of a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 is required to demonstrate that jurists of reason w…
19-745 Khalil Williams v. Housing Opportunities for Persons with Exceptionalities Eleventh Circuit Denied burden-of-proof burden-shifting circumstantial-evidence civil-rights comparator-evidence employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case racial-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii What test should courts use in evaluating motions for summary judgment in discrimination cases when the evidence needed to establish a traditional McD…
19-749 William S. Ritter v. John R. Tuttle, Warden, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-judicial-recognition new-york pennsylvania res-judicata sealed-documents Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution (Article IV, Section 1) attach to an order of a New York Appellate Court that …
19-7491 In Re William James Berry Sr. Denied Response WaivedIFP byford-v-state due-process habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity state-court-remedies welch-v-united-states Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in concluding that the Supreme Court cases of Montgomery v. Louisiana and Welch v. United States do not require retroa…
19-750 In Re The Law Offices of Nina Ringgold, et al. Denied civil-procedure-28-usc-1446 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1866 civil-rights-act-of-1886 due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity recusal-requirement removal-procedure removal-statute state-court-procedure supremacy-clause Whether in conflict with the clear authority of this court California local rules of court may defeat the command of 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (d) that a state…
19-752 Hawaii Management Alliance Association v. Randy Rudel Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived adjudicatory-procedure administrative-law civil-enforcement civil-procedure erisa erisa-preemption federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation Whether state statutes can provide the 'relevant rule of decision' in an ERISA § 502(a) action when the state statutes create an adjudicatory procedur…
19-7524 In Re Lexter K. Kossie Denied IFP 28-U.S.C.-§-2244 28-usc-2244 constitutional-performance due-process habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan Martinez-v.-Ryan mitigation-investigation procedural-default successive-petitions supreme-court-review trevino-v-thaler Trevino-v.-Thaler trial-counsel Whether the Court's 'equitable' ruling permits Texas prisoners to avoid the successive requirements found at 28 U.S.C. § 2244(a) and (b) regarding pri…
19-754 Estate of Norman Robert Knight, Jr., Deceased, et al. v. Beatrice E. Whitten, as a Special Administrator, et al. South Carolina Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-common-law judicial-qualification one-person-one-vote probate probate-court service-of-process standing voting-rights Whether lower courts erred by acting on a petition filed and served without summons as required
19-755 Robert C. Steiner, et ux. v. Utah State Tax Commission Utah Denied Amici (3)Response Waived dormant-commerce-clause double-taxation equal-protection foreign-commerce interstate-taxation state-residency state-tax-credits state-taxation tax-credit tax-credits Whether Utah's tax code discriminates against foreign commerce in violation of the dormant Commerce Clause
19-7555 In Re Eugene French Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations evidence-hearing evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction-question newly-discovered-evidence original-jurisdiction successive-petition Whether transfer to the district court for a hearing pursuant to this court's original habeas jurisdiction is warranted in this exceptional case where…
19-758 Kamal Anwiya Youkhanna, et al. v. City of Sterling Heights, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights consent-decree establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech local-government municipal-law public-forum religion religious-freedom zoning zoning-law Does a city council rule prohibiting private citizens from making disparaging comments about religion when speaking during the public comment period o…
19-759 Milo H. Segner, Jr. v. Cianna Resources Incorporated Fifth Circuit Denied avoidance-power bankruptcy bankruptcy-code burden-of-proof criminal-statute good-faith jury-instructions ponzi-scheme reasonable-commercial-standards transfer-liability Can a party who receives transfers that are the undisputed proceeds of a Ponzi scheme—and who admits committing a crime in connection with every trans…
19-761 KT Corporation, et al. v. ABS Holdings, Ltd., et al. Second Circuit Denied arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-awards contract contract-disputes due-process due-process-standards enforcement-actions foreign-government foreign-law-enforcement international-comity satellite-dispute tribunal-mandate Does the doctrine of international comity bar our courts from enforcing arbitration awards that are based on a tribunal's conclusion — in excess of it…
19-768 Sherard Martin v. Davis Marinez, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived attorneys-fees civil-damages civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process economic-loss exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search illegal-stop incarceration police-misconduct standing Whether a plaintiff whose fourth amendment rights have been violated may be automatically denied damages for subsequent incarceration, attorneys fees,…
19-769 Alaa Elkharwily v. Franciscan Health System Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived bright-line-rule civil-procedure claim-preclusion different-facts district-court due-process federal-courts fraud-on-the-court issue-preclusion ninth-circuit post-trial-relief res-judicata Whether federal courts must refuse to dismiss on res-judicata grounds a second claim against the same defendant that is based on different facts, evid…
19-770 Jason C. Underwood v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review trevino-v-thaler Whether the District Court properly interpreted Underwood's Martinez v. Ryan claims when his state post-conviction counsel and trial counsel were inef…
19-771 Gerald Sensabaugh v. Kimberly Halliburton, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights common-law due-process first-amendment free-speech personnel-file protected-speech public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation standing takings Whether the Court should reconsider its qualified-immunity jurisprudence to accord with the official's burden of establishing immunity entitlement at …
19-773 Ann Merlino, et al. v. Cara Buonincontri New York Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-investigation hearing investigation judicial-conduct state-court state-court-judge Is it a violation of the Due Process clauses of the United States Constitution, 5th Amendment and 14th Amendment for a State Court Judge to conduct a …
19-775 In Re Philippe Buhannic Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appeal appeal-rights bias constitution constitutional-rights due-process due-process-clause-of-the-14th-amendment equal-protection federal-court foreign-litigant judicial-bias prejudice pro-se-litigant pro-se-representation Whether the Federal court has the right based on an obvious prejudice and bias to refuse due process to a foreign pro se litigant
19-778 Edward A. Weinhaus v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split custody-decrees diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction frivolous-appeal fundamental-rights redress rule-38-sanctions Is There a Domestic-Relations Exception to Federal Question Jurisdiction?
19-781 Frank Condez v. Massachusetts Civil Service Commission, et al. Massachusetts Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech massachusetts-appeals-court petition-for-certiorari standing Does the Massachusetts Appeals Court decision constitute a forbidden intrusion of the petitioner's First-Amendment rights?
19-785 James Huff v. Telecheck Services, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit Denied article-iii-standing concrete-injury consumer-reporting-agency consumer-rights credit-determinations fair-credit-reporting-act procedural-rights substantive-information substantive-rights Whether a consumer has standing to sue a credit reporting agency for withholding substantive information in the consumer's file
19-786 Willie Kipyego Butia v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response Waived constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jury jury-instructions statutory-interpretation Is due process violated where the trial judge instructs the jury using words not found in the statute and in such a way that clearly expands the statu…
19-787 Michael Lynn Robertson v. Banner Bank Tenth Circuit Denied appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-appeal bankruptcy-appeals bankruptcy-procedure claim-processing-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdictional-requirement jurisdictional-requirements notice-of-appeal whether-an-untimely-motion-to-alter-or-amend-a-jud Whether the time prescription for filing an appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 158(c)(2) is a jurisdictional requirement
19-788 Erin Daly v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement blacklisting dodd-frank employment-law finra-form-u-5 retaliation sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act sec-violations whistleblower-protection Whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act protects whistleblowers from retaliation by former employers
19-790 Juan A. Martin-de-Nicolas v. AAA Texas County Mutual Insurance Company Texas Denied Response Waived automobile-liability-insurance civil-procedure duty-to-settle insurance insurance-duty insurance-law legal-liability liability negligence negligence-standard policyholder-negligence policyholder-rights settlement settlement-obligation third-party-claims Do automobile liability insurers have a duty not-to-settle third-party claims, when it becomes reasonably clear that the peril insured against—policyh…
19-791 Anderson Law Offices, et al. v. Common Benefit Fee and Cost Committee Fourth Circuit Denied appeal-rights appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure common-benefit-fund court-review due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-responsibilities standing waiver Whether federal courts can require waiver of appeal rights as a condition for receiving an award
19-796 Michael Cowels, et al. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. First Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-review arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights dna-profile due-process fbi-determination federal-bureau-of-investigation national-dna-index-system pretext pretextual-basis pretextual-determination Whether the FBI's determination that a DNA profile is ineligible for upload to NDIS is arbitrary and capricious
19-799 Streambend Properties II, LLC, et al. v. Ivy Tower Minneapolis, LLC, et al. Minnesota Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal-with-prejudice due-process equal-protection failure-to-state-claim jury-trial jury-trial-rights pleadings standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing with prejudice Petitioners' claims for failing to state a claim for which relief may be granted
19-800 Carlin Robinson, Individually, as Guardian and Next Friend of I. Y., M. Y., and A. Y., and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Veronica Williams, Deceased, et al. v. Daniel A. Lioi, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights deshhaney due-process fourth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger Which of the widely divergent approaches amongst the circuit courts of appeal, if any, appropriately applies the doctrine arising from this Court's pr…
19-801 Eddie N. Dela Cruz v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law eligibility-criteria federal-circuit filipino-veterans military-service pro-veteran-canon remedial-legislation service-determination statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits wwii Whether the Federal Circuit has erred in its narrow construction of ARRA Section 1002—a remedial veteran's statute providing a benefit for Filipinos w…
19-803 Xiu Jian Sun v. Michael P. Kelly, et al. New York Denied civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech freedom-of-conscience freedom-of-speech judicial-review legal-filing mandamus religious-freedom religious-petition separation-of-church-and-state standing state-court takings Petition for writ of certiorari
19-804 Xiu Jian Sun v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-law biblical-allegation civil-rights constitutional-claim divine-communication due-process first-amendment legal-standing presidential-liability religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-interpretation separation-of-church-and-state standing Whether the plaintiff's claims against the President of the United States and other government officials for alleged divine revelations and religious …
19-805 Ben Adam v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-statute due-process first-amendment prosecution-threat religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-practice standing standing-doctrine threat-of-prosecution Did the Second Circuit err in finding that petitioner lacked standing to challenge a criminal statute under the threat of prosecution doctrine
19-811 Christine Almas Rose, Individually and as Mother of Jessie Lee Rose, et al. v. City of Utica, New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force free-speech mental-health-intervention police-procedure qualified-immunity use-of-force Did the Second Circuit commit legal error when it granted qualified immunity to the police officer
19-812 Charles T. Marshall v. Federal Trade Commission Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt due-process fifth-amendment right-to-counsel self-incrimination summary-judgment Whether a civil defendant invoking the privilege against self-incrimination in his pleadings and discovery responses is unconstitutionally penalized
19-813 Loring Edwin Justice v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-law attorney-discipline civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment professional-conduct quasi-criminal self-incrimination Whether Tennessee violated the self-incrimination clause when it forced Justice to testify or suffer adverse inferences costing him his Tennessee law …
19-818 Jerry L. Carr v. William P. Barr, Attorney General District of Columbia Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order due-process evidence-concealment exculpatory-evidence judicial-misconduct legal-procedure standing torture Was Petitioner Jerry Lee Carr's constitutional and civil rights violated?
19-822 Laurie A. White, Judge, Section A of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, et al. v. Alana Cain, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest constitutional-conflict criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fines-and-fees judicial-disqualification judicial-impartiality state-court-funding state-court-jurisdiction Does the federal court have jurisdiction to disqualify state criminal court judges from adjudicating matters, over which they have exclusive jurisdict…
19-824 Lonnie Lee Owens v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived blakely-error compromise-verdict disputed-facts harmless-error judicial-fact-finding sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit-review subjective-assessment witness-credibility Whether a Blakely error is harmless when the jury returned a compromise verdict and the sentencing enhancement at issue required a subjective assessme…
19-826 The Estate of Swannie Her, et al. v. Craig Hoeppner, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights culpable-intent due-process fourteenth-amendment intent liability life-liberty-property reasonable-protection state-created-danger Whether the state-created danger doctrine provides a due process claim
19-828 Charles Garske, et al. v. United States First Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy government-misconduct manifest-necessity mistrial oregon-v-kennedy retrial united-states-v-perez Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a second prosecution when the government caused the mistrial and it was entered over the defendant's objection
19-829 Chrimar Systems, Inc. v. Juniper Networks, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure burden-of-proof due-process evidence inter-partes-review patent patent-challenge patent-law reply reply-evidence Did the Patent and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board violate 35-USC-312(a)(3) and 35-USC-316(a)(8)
19-830 Effex Capital, LLC, et al. v. National Futures Association, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived commodities-exchange-act federal-agency federal-preemption implied-conflict-preemption implied-preemption national-futures-association obstacle-preemption regulatory-obstacle self-regulatory-organization state-law-tort state-law-tort-claims Whether the Seventh Circuit wrongly expanded the doctrine of implied conflict preemption
19-832 Apple Inc. v. VirnetX Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) apportionment apportionment-rule federal-circuit innovation license-valuation patent-damages patent-infringement patent-invalidation pending-litigation prior-licenses Whether the Federal Circuit's reliance on prior licenses to ascertain infringement damages, without satisfying apportionment rules, conflicts with thi…
19-833 In Re Philippe Buhannic Denied Response Waived appeal bias civil-rights constitutional-rights corruption due-process judicial-bias pro-se-litigant right-to-appeal standing state-appeal-courts Whether the state appeal courts have the right based on an obvious prejudice and bias to refuse due process to a foreign pro se litigant
19-834 In Re Philippe Buhannic Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process foreign-litigant judicial-bias legal-discrimination pro-se pro-se-litigant state-courts Whether the state courts have the right to refuse due process to a foreign pro-se-litigant
19-836 Paul Ross Evans v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief prisoner-petition section-2255 statutory-interpretation successive-application successive-petitions Whether a subsequent amendment to a prisoner's first 28 U.S.C. 2255 proceeding may be considered a second or successive application under 28 U.S.C. 22…
19-838 Glenn N. Altschuld, Jr. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
19-845 Charles Huggins v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence perjury section-2255 sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was deprived of due process
19-846 George Artem v. King County Department of Adult & Juvenile Detention, et al. Washington Denied Response Waived civil-rights disability-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health procedural-due-process solitary-confinement Whether clearly established Eighth-and-Fourteenth-Amendment-and-Federal-Disability-Law-permits-jail-officials-to-sanction-inmates-with-mental-health-d…
19-848 Patrick Shin v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1001 coram-nobis decisionmaker-influence escobar-clarification false-statements fraud fraud-prosecution materiality materiality-standard universal-health-services-v-escobar Do Escobar's clarifications apply to the materiality requirement for False Statements prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(8)?
19-850 Mark Joseph Derrico v. Georgia Georgia Denied Response Waived arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Does the void-for-vagueness doctrine extend to cases where courts have rested on the authority of judges and juries to ratify arbitrary enforcement?
19-851 Manuel Lopez-Castro v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-default Does the actual innocence gateway to review of procedurally defaulted habeas claims apply only where new evidence shows the defendant did not commit t…
19-854 Universal Telephone Exchange, Inc. v. ZTE Corporation, et al. Texas Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-law federal-arbitration-act fraud fraud-standard legal-integrity revised-uniform-arbitration-act statutory-interpretation texas-civil-practices-and-remedies-code undue-means uniform-arbitration-act Does an admission by a party of contemporaneous illegal activity establish 'fraud, corruption or undue means' sufficient to vacate an arbitration awar…
19-856 Los Angeles County, California v. Trina Ray, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-preemption labor-law non-enforcement-policy overtime-wages sovereign-immunity state-action state-agency Whether a county, which acts as an agent of the state in administering a state social welfare program, is an arm of the state entitled to sovereign im…
19-860 Nikolai Bosyk v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ip-address probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the single click of a URL link to child pornography by someone using an individual's IP address can provide probable cause to support a search…
19-862 William Castro v. R. Fred Lewis, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process due-process-rights federal-constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars subject-matter jurisdiction in a federal district court over federal constitutional claims filed pursuant to …
19-865 Marian S. A. Tipp v. JPMC Specialty Mortgage, LLC Alabama Denied Response Waived door-closing-statutes due-process equal-protection foreign-corporation foreign-corporations jurisdiction legal-standing property-rights res-judicata Whether a decision with no opinion or legal authority depriving a person of property violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
19-870 Jeana K. Reinbold, Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of 180 Equipment, LLC v. First Midwest Bank Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-court-split circuit-split federal-court-interpretation federal-interpretation notice-of-collateral secured-creditor security-interest state-law state-law-interpretation uniform-commercial-code Whether the decision of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, that a secured creditor need not give any public notice of the collateral securing its s…
19-877 Asmerom Gebreselassie v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability counsel-of-choice due-process fifth-amendment right-to-counsel right-to-present-evidence self-representation sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to grant a certificate of appealability on fundamental Fifth and Sixth Amendment violations?
19-879 Heon Seok Lee v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law contract-law contractor-payment court-jurisdiction federal-funding federal-funds federal-jurisdiction municipal-jurisdiction municipality-customer sub-award sub-vendor sub-vendor-status whether federal court has jurisdiction to determine that (1) a municipality is a customer of its sub-vendor, and (2) a municipality sub-awards federal…
19-881 Joseph Smith, et al. v. Pamela Motley, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived anecdotal-evidence burden-of-proof civil-rights discriminatory-policing disparate-treatment equal-protection government-treatment ninth-circuit statistical-analysis Whether plaintiffs can establish an Equal Protection Clause violation based solely on anecdotal evidence of differential treatment, without statistica…
19-882 Shannon Dale Dukes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses punishment-exposure sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's trial counsel was ineffective
19-883 Jason Isaiah Robinson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived aedpa-limitations anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus miller-v-alabama montgomery-retroactivity retroactive-application substantive-rules suspension-clause Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit failed to conduct the requisite threshold inquiry and imposed an unduly burdensome st…
19-900 Jessica Vennie v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived conspiracy criminal-joinder criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure joinder legal-enterprise racketeering rico rico-act Whether Rule 8(b) permits joinder of defendants who participated in the same legal enterprise but were not alleged to have coordinated with one anothe…
19-907 Dejenay Beckwith, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-questions due-process fifth-circuit government-conspiracy motion-to-dismiss standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming a statute of limitations defense on a motion to dismiss
19-920 Boulder Young, aka Boulder Daniel McManigal v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-hearing sentencing waiver Whether the waiver of a right to appeal a judgment of conviction is controlled by the defendant's written waiver or the oral pronouncement of the cour…
19-925 Kebreab Zere v. District of Columbia District of Columbia Denied Response Waived compensation constitutional-rights due-process eminent-domain fourteenth-amendment prescriptive-easement public-prescriptive-easement taking-clause takings tax-sale Whether the due process law of the Fourteenth Amendment was violated
19-934 In Re Todd Britton-Harr Denied 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-review second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation successive-petitions supervised-release Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) applies to federal prisoners seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. section 2255
19-946 William Snowden, Jr. v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aggravated-felony evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default When a habeas corpus Petitioner is innocent of an aggravated felony, has proof of innocence beyond all reasonable doubt and the conviction occurred be…
19-960 Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company v. Steven R. Lilly Michigan Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure employment-law federal-employers-liability-act fela jury-instruction jury-instructions personal-injury preexisting-condition railroad-employee workplace-liability Whether a jury must be instructed about an employee's preexisting physical condition in a FELA personal injury action against an employer
19A721 Wayne Powe, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19A728 Henry Pratt v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Third Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M100 H. K. V. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida Presumed Complete None
19M101 H. K. V. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida Presumed Complete None
19M102 James Joseph Knochel v. Emily Noelle Mihaylo Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M95 Tyrone William Holland v. Brian B. Kemp, Governor of Georgia Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M96 Kaneka Corporation v. Xiamen Kingdomway Group Company, et al. Federal Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M97 Barton Joseph Adams v. United States Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M98 In Re TCT Mobile International Limited Presumed Complete None
19M99 Raminder Kaur v. Maryland Maryland Presumed Complete None
22O150 Arizona, Plaintiff v. California Denied CVSGAmici (6)Relisted (3) None