Conference: 2020-03-20

234 cases — 0 granted, 234 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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18-8804 Carlos Antonio Raymond v. Martin Joseph Roy, et al. Texas Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion manifest-injustice plea-bargain standing trial-procedure waiver waiver-consent Did the District (Trial) Court err in Allowing trial to proceed without first obtaining a written WAIVER consent from Petitioner/Plaintiff?
18-9645 Victor J. Black v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit had jurisdiction to adjudicate Petitioners' Appeal
19-1007 Zaid Abdul-Aziz v. National Basketball Association Players' Pension Plan Second Circuit Denied Response Waived accrued-benefit actuarial-equivalent anti-cutback-rule breach-of-contract circuit-split civil-procedure denial-of-benefits erisa erisa-benefits retirement-benefits statute-of-limitations Whether the Second Circuit legally erred in its application of ERISA by holding that the statute of limitations on a player's ERISA denial-of-benefits…
19-1011 Eric F. Kelly v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response Waived appellate-review court-martial court-of-appeals-for-the-armed-forces court-of-criminal-appeals courts-martial criminal-appeals due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction military-court military-courts remand Whether a military Court of Criminal Appeals must review the results of a court martial anew when the court previously reviewed the case but its judgm…
19-1015 Jeremy J. Walker v. Ameriprise Financial Services, Incorporated Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 9-usc-10 arbitration-agreement arbitrator-powers federal-arbitration-act finra finra-code industry-code industry-dispute judicial-review mandatory-arbitration nasd securities-regulation Does the FINRA Industry Code supply the terms of the arbitration agreement governing a mandatory arbitration between a member and associated person?
19-1017 Solutran, Inc. v. Elavon, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived alice-test alice-v-cls-bank bilski-v-kappos business-method-patent business-method-patents claim-construction patent-eligibility prior-art subject-matter-eligibility Does Alice's step one require that the claims be viewed as a whole and that consideration be given to the claimed advance over the prior art?
19-1025 City of Ferguson, Missouri v. Keilee Fant, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal required-entity rule-19 section-1983 sovereign-immunity standing state-law Whether an interlocutory appeal lies from a refusal to dismiss for failure to join a required-entity sovereign
19-1027 David Caswell v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived child-pornography computer-search federal-investigation fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction network-investigative-technique search-warrant Did the FBI act in good-faith when it indicated to a magistrate judge that property to be searched pursuant to a search warrant application was locate…
19-1032 Alphonso I. Waters, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process government-burden-of-proof government-evidence intent-to-harm jury-charge target-deception wire-fraud Whether petitioner's due process rights were violated
19-1068 Keith Inchierchiere v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender retained-attorney sentencing-exposure seventy-year-term trial-rights Does a defendant receive ineffective assistance of counsel where his retained attorney fails to appear on the first day of trial, and, after receiving…
19-484 John Doe 1, et al. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia Denied Relisted (2) administrative-enforcement confidential-investigation constitutional-avoidance disclosure disclosure-limitations federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission first-amendment rulemaking-power statutory-interpretation Whether the FEC may disclose records of an investigation it declined to pursue
19-493 James J. Maksimuk v. Connor Sport Court International, LLC Federal Circuit Denied Relisted (2) cafc corporate-representation court-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause legal-counsel legal-representation overturning-decisions supreme-court-rulings trademark-cancellation trademark-law Did the CAFC, District Court, 10th Cir., TTAB orders and judgments and referenced Supreme Court rulings—that required corporations to be represented b…
19-497 The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. v. Lincoln Property Company, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) causation disparate-impact fair-housing-act pleading pleading-requirements policy-challenge prima-facie-claim racial-discrimination racial-segregation robust-causality standing texas-v-icp Whether the pleading of an FHA prima facie disparate impact claim must show the identified policy not only has caused the adverse effects on the racia…
19-500 Ameer Siddiqui v. NetJets Aviation, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) but-for but-for-test causation-standard civil-rights comparator-analysis comparators employment-discrimination pretext pretext-evaluation reasonable-inference retaliation retaliation-claims section-1981 summary-judgment title-vii Are plaintiffs who bring retaliation claims under Title VII or Section 1981 subjected to the 'but for' test, or is a reasonable inference sufficient?
19-5421 Charles Earl Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-standard legal-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review procedural-review standard-of-review Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
19-5487 Martin Anthony Nino v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP violate due-process|civil-rights|8th-amendment|ba without an individualized determination of necess bail-reform-act civil-rights competency-restoration confinement due-process eighth-amendment mental-health Does automatic confinement for competency restoration, without an individualized determination of whether confinement is necessary, violate due-proces…
19-552 William A. Salzwedel v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-challenge disability-rights due-process equal-protection rehabilitation-act rooker-feldman-doctrine standing third-party-standing title-ii-ada Does an attorney have standing to challenge a state's adult conservatorship/guardianship practices?
19-582 Sara Ann Edmondson v. Lilliston Ford Inc., et al. Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-formation due-process federal-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-admission judicial-admissions oscanyan-v-arms-co standing summary-judgment Whether the Third Circuit and District Court are acting in opposition to long standing, controlling law
19-5926 Refugio Quintanar v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines timely-objection Whether the defendant has the burden to deny and discredit the factual allegations of a Presentence Report that increase his or her sentence?
19-597 Morris Reese v. Sprint Nextel Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-framework alice-v-cls-bank federal-circuit mayo-v-prometheus patent-eligibility patent-ineligible-concept patent-law section-101 Whether the claims at issue are directed to an abstract idea under 35 U.S.C. § 101
19-5995 Jason L. Clark v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-review plea-bargaining statute-of-conviction Does a guilty plea bar a criminal defendant from later collateral attack on his conviction on the ground that the statute of conviction violates the c…
19-604 Ernest L. Francway, Jr. v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Amici (2) administrative-law burden-of-proof department-of-veterans-affairs due-process federal-circuit judicial-presumption medical-examination medical-examiner medical-expertise presumption-of-competency pro-claimant va-medical-examiners veterans-benefits Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the VA enjoys a presumption that its medical examiner is competent in every veterans-benefit case
19-607 Woodcrest Homes, Inc. v. Carousel Farms Metropolitan District Colorado Denied Amici (1) 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-taking private-benefit property-rights public-use takings Is the Fifth Amendment's restriction of eminent domain to 'public use[s]' satisfied even if a condemnation is undertaken 'for the purpose of conferrin…
19-6113 Jose Armando Bazan v. United States Fifth Circuit GVR Relisted (4)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review cocaine-conspiracy criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing downward-adjustment fact-question guidelines plain-error plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a defendant's claim for a minor or mitigating role downward adjustment under the Sentencing Guidelines…
19-6236 Christina Marie Eichler v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP buyer-seller-rule circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law distribution drug-sales due-process end-users evidence-admissibility jury-instruction Is evidence of drug sales admissible to prove a conspiracy to distribute when the person charged with the conspiracy only sold drugs to end users and …
19-6282 Aldo Salazar-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offenses drug-statute due-process federal-criminal-code flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether the 'knowingly or intentionally' mens rea in 21 U.S.C. § 960(a) applies to the drug type and quantity elements in 21 U.S.C. § 960(b)
19-6296 Michael Holmes v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act bright-line-rule burglary-statute curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure implied-license knock-and-talk no-trespassing-sign property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-person-test Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated this Court's Fourth Amendment precedence and committed reversible error by endorsing a bright-l…
19-6329 Jackie Lee Boyd v. Carol Monroe, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-treatment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment incarceration medical-care prison-conditions Is a constitutional right to be free of the wanton infliction of sei pain rendered void upon incarceration?
19-633 Edwin Arthur Avery v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (3) 28-usc-2244(b)(1) 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 federal-custody federal-prisoners habeas-corpus jurisdictional-limitation post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief second-or-successive-motion state-custody statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to federal prisoners seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
19-6361 Gregory Alan McKown v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights commitment competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-commitment liberty liberty-interest mathews-factors mathews-v-eldridge mental-health procedural-safeguards substantive-due-process Does mandatory, involuntary commitment of an incompetent defendant to the Bureau of Prisons for the sole purpose of evaluating whether he can attain c…
19-6363 David Pearson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-rights armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis drug-offense drug-offenses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Did the court of appeals erroneously dispense with the requisite categorical analysis of predicate prior convictions?
19-637 Emma Serna v. Margette Webster, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration arbitration-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights contract-dispute default-judgments deprivation-of-rights due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure mandamus misconduct standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether a writ of mandamus should be issued to obtain a written judgment to execute, which has money issued with it, after the state supreme court had…
19-6370 Troy Bennett v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense elements-clause florida-statute-843.01 florida-statutes resisting-with-violence violent-felony Whether a Florida conviction for resisting with violence is a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-6381 Anthony Tyrone Brown v. Michigan Michigan Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-activity-evidence witness-testimony Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to a fair trial and effective assistance of counsel were violated
19-6382 Manuel Aurelio Martinez-Covarrubias v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
19-6431 Jose Armando Bazan v. United States Fifth Circuit GVR Relisted (4)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fact-question guidelines plain-error role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a district court's failure to apply a minor or mitigating role adjustment under the Sentencing Guideli…
19-6438 Jose Luis Tapia-Fierro v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-diligence due-process evidence-removal federal-jurisdiction innocence-claim procedural-limitations removal standing statute-of-limitations Whether the State of Arizona's statute of limitations found in Arizona Revised Statute (ARS) §12-542 applies to a Federally created cause of action in…
19-6439 Arthur Lopez v. MUFG Union Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions deception due-process fraud jurisdiction legal-procedure pro-se religious-beliefs standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims alleging fraud, deception, and due process violations despite Petitioner's status as …
19-646 Alaina Adkins, et al. v. Jesse Michael Collens Alaska Denied bmw-v-gore civil-damages civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-judgment fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages state-farm-v-campbell statutory-damages treble-damages Whether the factors identified by BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore should be used to analyze excessive statutory civil damages
19-6464 Alejandro Garcia-Jacobo v. Marion Feather, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-convictions due-process habeas-corpus immigration jurisdiction suspension-clause Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(5) eliminates jurisdiction over § 2255 / § 2241 claims challenging criminal convictions
19-6465 Quintin Phillippe Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3599 6th-amendment death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-funding martinez-v-ryan meaningful-representation sixth-amendment When has a qualifying prisoner been denied meaningful representation informed by investigation to prepare a federal habeas corpus application?
19-6495 Brent Curtis Schwertz v. Richard Jennings, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP accidental-discharge americans-with-disabilities-act brady-disclosure brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness firearms-examination ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial right-to-counsel strickland-standard Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
19-6498 Andrea Rene'e Tootle v. Beaux Art Institute of Plastic Surgery, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abscess cellulitis civil-rights duty-of-care informed-consent medical-malpractice patient-harm plastic-surgery radiation-treatment standard-of-care surgical-consent tissue-expander Is defendant liable for harm, maime, disfigurement, misuse patient trust, use extreme care, practice outside the realm of plastic surgery, fail to per…
19-6541 Star Fortes v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, et al. Texas Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
19-6563 Robert William Wazney v. South Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process federal-courts in-forma-pauperis judicial-immunity ministerial-duty standing state-court Whether federal citizens have standing when federal courts ignore their claims
19-6575 Dorothy Williams Elliott v. Florida Florida Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-proceedings criminal-procedure due-process expungement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing Whether the state court erred in denying petitioner's motion to vacate conviction and sentence, given the ineffective assistance of counsel and due pr…
19-6579 David Lee Smith v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights copyright criminal-procedure due-process habitual-felon habitual-offenders in-forma-pauperis legal-publication punitive-law standing statutory-law Are pro-se petitioners entitled to Supreme Court leave to proceed as pauper in 55/983 complaint, when circuit court cited only (2) frivolous dismissal…
19-6589 Alicia Norman, Kendra Brantley, and Deenvaughn Rowe v. United States District of Columbia Denied IFP attorney-client-relationship criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules judicial-interference plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Was the D.C. Circuit's affirmance of Petitioner Brantley's convictions erroneous and in conflict with other federal jurisdictions on the requirements …
19-6651 Shawn A. Thompson v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attempted-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment standard-of-review third-degree-murder Did the Trial Court err in failing to provide the jury with the entirety of the Third Degree Murder instructions?
19-6694 Tim Sundy v. Martha C. Christian, Judge, et al. Georgia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-court civil-rights constitutional-rights court-officer criminal-activity due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants property-rights state-court-officers takings Whether pro se litigants are immune from criminal activity by State court officers
19-6698 Amon Rweyemamu Mtaza v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-consent plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment venue-defense wire-fraud Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an unlawful arrest, unlawful search and seizure, and involuntary coerced consent
19-6702 In Re Ricardo J. Calderon-Lopez Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process judicial-misconduct mandamus mandamus-writ pro-se-litigation social-security standing transfer Whether Petitioner has a Right for direct appeal to this court?
19-6710 Thomas Franklin Bowling v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review case-mootness due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mootness munsingwear-doctrine parole parole-board vacatur Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's unopposed motion to vacate its published opinion after respondent's unilateral action rendere…
19-6740 Glendal Rhoton v. Richard Brown, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process e-filing extraordinary-circumstances fraud fraud-upon-court habeas-corpus notification-delay rule-60-b rule-60b Does the legal librarian's 7-month delay in notifying Rhoton of the District Court's Order denying his Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus warrant reli…
19-6786 Carol Johnene Morris v. United States Fifth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-action habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review property sentencing standing takings Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's decision affirming the district cou…
19-6887 In Re Brad K. Edmonds Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit carpenter-v-united-states civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gps-tracking probable-cause retroactivity search search-and-seizure suppression warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless GPS tracking of a vehicle, and whether the retroactive application of the Supreme Court's decision …
19-6901 Alonso Barrera-Montes v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure department-of-state due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay hearsay-rule jurisdiction jury-trial Whether the court of appeals erred in upholding the admission of evidence that violated the hearsay rule and the defendant's confrontation rights
19-6906 Datanya Damon Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States
19-6918 Michael Wade Nance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-strategy record-evidence strickland-v-washington stun-belt trial-counsel Whether courts must consider the record evidence in determining the reasonableness of trial counsel's actions, or can deem them strategic and reasonab…
19-6934 Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP buck-doctrine buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit gonzalez-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b)(6) successive-petition successive-petitions Whether the Fifth Circuit has misinterpreted Buck by requiring Mr. Johnson to plead a meritorious claim for habeas relief in his Rule 60(b)(6) motion?
19-6938 Gabriel Garcia-Solar v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP congress-power congressional-power constitutional-interpretation extraterritorial-jurisdiction felonies-clause felony-definition foreign-nationals high-seas maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act nexus-requirement nexus-to-us sentencing-discretion Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act exceeds Congress' power under the Felonies Clause
19-6942 Savon Germain Carter v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP buyer-seller-rule circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process end-user jury-instruction jury-instructions methamphetamine-distribution Whether the buyer-seller rule applies to all participants in a drug conspiracy, not just end-users
19-6965 Vondale Lamar Kincaide v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-sentencing gvr-order sentencing 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…
19-6991 Lei Ke v. Drexel University Pennsylvania Dismissed IFP contract-clause dual-proceedings-waiver due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-power res-judicata Did the Superior Court of Pennsylvania violate the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to recognize the d…
19-7011 Carl Golden v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea intent knowledge-of-elements mens-rea plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states Does the Constitution require that the accused know the elements of a crime in order to validly plead guilty?
19-7021 Otis Hunter and Deshawn Evans v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied IFP bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination jury-instructions jury-nullification mandatory-minimum nullification sentencing sixth-amendment witness-cooperation Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause is violated
19-7022 Jesus D. Cruz v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehaif-v-united-states search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing toxicology-report Whether Counsel was ineffective for not showing the Petitioner and or verifying to the Petitioner, that the officers never producted a valid search wa…
19-7045 Michael Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense guidelines ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense Whether the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the Guidelines requires the same categorical approach used in the determination of…
19-7047 In Re Antwoyn Spencer Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process pro-se sentencing Question not identified
19-705 John F. Sharpe v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion federal-claims military-pay separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation treasury-disbursements Whether the acts of officials of the Departments of Defense and of the Navy are bound by statute and regulation
19-7222 Timothy Richardson v. Edward Thomas, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law Whether the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant whose death sentence stands due to a federal court's misinterpretation of state law gove…
19-7224 Cheryl Jones v. Stephen Goldberg, et al. Maryland Denied IFP borrower-rights civil-procedure civil-rights document-falsification due-process foreclosure fraud legal-rights lender-fraud lender-practices property-law standing When a lender presents false documents and wins a final judgement, does this violate the rights of the borrower?
19-723 Oliver Lee White v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment incompetence incompetency liberty-interest sexually-dangerous sexually-violent-conduct Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause forbids the civil-commitment trial of an incompetent person whose prior conduct is disputed
19-7233 Jameice Nash v. James Kenney, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP Article III-right civil-rights due-process federalism Heck-doctrine Prison Litigation Reform Act prison-litigation-reform-act prosecutorial-immunity Racially-tainted procedural-violations Sovereign state-police powers sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations Tenth Amendment-principles Tenth Amendment-rights tenth-amendment Did the lower courts violate Petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process rights and Tenth Amendment rights
19-7254 John Garrett Smith v. Washington Washington Dismissed IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-trial martial-law military-justice sixth-amendment Whether the absence of a grand jury indictment violates due process and the right to a jury trial under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
19-7262 Danilo Mallari v. Tracy Vessigault, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment first-amendment free-speech standing state-immunity Whether the petitioner has standing to bring the case
19-7263 Praveen Kevin Khurana v. Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Idaho Denied IFP bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-law-11-usc-362 civil-procedure due-process fraudulent-transfer governmental-unit medicaid-recovery probate property-rights property-tax property-transfer real-estate real-estate-transfer supremacy-clause voidable Whether pre-petition probate charges/claims by a governmental unit against a real property of a debtor are treated the same as property tax charges, r…
19-7279 Charlotte Oliphant-Johns v. Good Deal Remodeling Pennsylvania Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-records court-system due-process jurisdiction legal-filing municipal-court procedural-error record-keeping standing What laws of Gwil Court jurisdiction were applied in this Municipal Court; why were the defendants barely questioned concerning my complaint; why did …
19-7280 David Everett Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP despite Petitioner's diligent efforts to timely f -civil-procedure aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether Jones' successful Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.850 motion created a new judgment, sufficient to restart the one-year AEDPA filing deadline, so as to mak…
19-7281 Clifton A. Grant v. MTGLQ Investors, L.P. District of Columbia Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment access-to-courts due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition Whether the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denial of Petitioner's timely and duly filed Appeal, without any lawful judicial reasoning o…
19-7282 John Anthony Arnold v. Virginia Virginia Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress ninth-circuit search-warrant standing warrantless-arrest Did the Virginia Supreme Court err in upholding petitioner's warrantless arrest?
19-7286 Leah S. Caldwell v. Doris Downs, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-jurisdiction petition-for-certiorari pro-se standing summary-judgment Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims against Respondents for lack of standing and failure to state a clai…
19-7290 Tamarkqua Garland v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial Defendant's speedy trial rights violated
19-7295 Robert W. Johnson v. Nationwide Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-crimes corporate-policy discrimination driver-records due-process federal-crimes federal-insurance-crimes insurance insurance-claim investigative-misconduct irs-tax-fraud monetary-relief standing Did Nationwide Assurance Clemency revoke eligibility of Corporate Policy #658029-GE (020560) for Progressive Corporation?
19-7299 John Joseph Barrera v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process false-information fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-accuracy sixth-amendment townsend-v-burke Where a state criminal defendant has been sentenced on the basis of inaccurate/false information used by the sentencer to increase his punishment, fol…
19-7301 Michael Goodrum v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions
19-7303 Michael W. Smith v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency plea-agreement plea-bargaining sexually-violent-person sixth-amendment Does the Petitioner have a legal right to be admonished about indefinite involuntary civil commitment before accepting a plea agreement?
19-7306 Dmitry Pronin v. Charles Wright, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights credibility district-court due-process legal-construction procedural-interpretation standing summary-judgment Whether the district court properly construed the legal argument for a party in a civil rights lawsuit, and whether the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals i…
19-7308 Jerry Lynn McGavitt v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process jury-charge jury-instructions law-of-parties mens-rea murder murder-prosecution Whether the failure to limit the definitions, in the abstract portion of the jury charge, of 'Intentionally' and 'Knowingly' to the nature of the cond…
19-7311 Alphonso Vernell Frazier, II v. City of Omaha Police Department, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment search-and-seizure section-1983 unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure Whether the authorities of the Municipal Government of the City of Omaha failed to properly train their officials and employees
19-7317 Florence R. Parker Chailla v. Navient Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP anti-retaliation-law civil-rights due-process false-claims-act government-fraud higher-education-act motion-to-dismiss nonparty-intervention qui-tam relator retaliation standing Can an illegal decision be upheld that granted a nonparty' motion to dismiss after it refused to intervene in a False Claims Act lawsuit filed by a pr…
19-7321 Piper Lakay Ellis Snowton v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process government-misconduct governmental-misconduct informed-consent mandamus mandamus-action medical-experimentation medical-information-withholding standing Whether the United States Supreme Court will review the evidence in this case and recognize and acknowledge that the respondent, the United States of …
19-7328 April Taylor v. City of Colonial Heights, Virginia Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-filing court-rules due-process equal-access equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction legal-procedure state-courts Does the federal Court of Appeals or Eastern District Court of VA erred and had conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court Rule 29.2, and U.S. Constitution …
19-7338 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-charging same-conduct same-victim sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines Should two charges for the same episode of conduct and the same victim with no temporal break whatsoever be sentenced to consecutive prison terms even…
19-7340 Junior Vazquez-Suarez v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process fourteenth-amendment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance police-misconduct Whether police officer's failure to disclose impeachment evidence to the defense prior to trial violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause u…
19-7342 Ray Turner v. Veronica Cadney, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP 1983-complaint 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-act-1983 dismissal due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment section-1983 standing temporary-restraining-order Did the U.S. District Court error by not applying the Fourth Amendment equal protection to the petitioner's case when he applied for a temporary restr…
19-7344 John L. Williams v. Jackson County, Missouri Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing summary-judgment turner-factors Should the District Court apply the Turner Factors to the summary judgment analysis?
19-7345 Roberto Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-status judicial-conflict legal-interpretation precedent prejudice prejudicial-evidence procedural-review Did the Fifth Circuit's opinion conflict with its own precedent in Rojas v. Richardson regarding the prejudicial nature of a party's immigration statu…
19-7346 Peggy Jean Clark v. Department of the Army, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-action-review administrative-law benefits-revocation due-process federal-circuit-court judicial-review military-benefits procedural-error property-rights retroactive-determination statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Whether the Appeals Court err in its judgment affirming the retroactive revocation of benefits on the premise that the initial determination granting …
19-7347 Broderick Marshall v. Texas Texas Denied IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-appeal right-to-counsel right-to-jury-trial standing Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for writ of habeas corpus challenging his conviction and sentenc…
19-7348 Raymond Alston, aka Raymond Austin v. New York New York Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury indictment judicial-discretion malicious-prosecution sentencing-standards standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims related to due process, double jeopardy, and malicious prosecution
19-735 William Tong, Attorney General of Connecticut v. Tweed-New Haven Airport Authority, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-aviation-act federal-preemption political-subdivision preemption runway-length standing standing-to-sue state-regulation state-sovereignty supremacy-clause Does a political subdivision of a State have standing to sue its creator State under the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution?
19-7350 Billy Battenfield v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP aedpa appeal-waiver criminal-procedure critical-stage garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-sentencing retroactivity statute-of-limitations Whether Garza v. Idaho adopts a new watershed rule of procedure that applies retroactively on state collateral review
19-7351 In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey Denied Response WaivedIFP 13th-14th-15th-amendments 14th-amendment-property 8th-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment amendment-interpretation black-negro-colored-citizenship citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-questions-28-usc-1331-1332 jurisdiction moorish-american-national property racial-identity-rights standing Whether the United States Constitution, the United States Congress, and/or the Constitution of the State of North Carolina have jurisdiction over a Mo…
19-7353 Enamiden Celestine Okon v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied IFP brecht-standard constitutional-error due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review magwood-v-patterson procedural-default sanders-v-united-states standing successive-petition successive-petitions Whether Petitioner filed 'a second or successive' application by re-raising a claim in his second habeas petition that was not fully addressed and/or …
19-7355 Herman L. Gaines v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-collusion judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Was the petitioner denied due process and effective assistance of counsel?
19-7358 Joshua Neil Harrell v. Fairfield Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-7360 Terry Simonton, Jr. v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claim constitutional-substance federal-constitutional-substance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Did a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in denying Mr. Simonton a Certificate of Appealability
19-7362 John Alfred Regalado v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-authority civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-investigation due-process federal-investigation free-speech government-conspiracy government-misconduct government-overreach judicial-identity-protection national-security presidential-misconduct standing witness-protection Whether the President and federal government have engaged in unconstitutional conduct, including abuse of authority and violations of civil rights and…
19-7373 Sanjay Tyagi v. Marc D. Smith, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-abuse-registry child-seizure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation medical-self-defense parental-rights privacy search-and-seizure Does seizure, physical examination, privacy and interrogation of minor children at public school without parental consent, exigency, or court order vi…
19-7377 Gerald Adger v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument procedural-error right-to-counsel trial-counsel weight-of-evidence Was the appellate attorney ineffective assistance of counsel?
19-7378 Octavio Diaz v. San Bernardino County, California, et al. California Denied IFP 2nd-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-conflict civil-rights civil-rights-violation discriminatory-arrest due-process free-speech manuel-v-city-of-joliet probable-cause second-amendment self-defense Was the California Court of Appeal in conflict with other circuits on the issue of probable cause and Second Amendment rights?
19-7379 Lee Samuel Capers v. California California Denied IFP constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether California's death penalty scheme violates the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior…
19-7380 Dino Constance v. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-relief ninth-circuit post-conviction-review tenth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit's unique five-part test for Mandamus relief cause a Fourteenth Amendment 'Equal Protection' violation?
19-7385 Arthur Lee Kimbel v. Texas Texas Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-claims right-to-counsel When an Appellant files an Appellate Brief raising Pro Se claims after appointed counsel submits an Anders Brief, is the reviewing appellate court con…
19-7390 Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-material fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense newly-discovered-evidence procedural-bar sentencing sixth-amendment Is a defendant serving Life for Murder I entitled to newly discovered exculpatory material when that material would make it more likely that the defen…
19-7395 Jean Crump v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection false-arrest grand-jury-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether a defendant's constitutional rights were violated when their court-appointed attorney failed to request a new judge despite being advised that…
19-7397 Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole Pennsylvania Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-mandate due-process equal-protection free-speech life-without-parole sentencing separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation takings 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
19-7398 Andrew James Gibbons v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied IFP guilty-plea habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knaffla-bar mental-illness mental-illness-defense Opsahi-rule procedural-default Spears-rule state-procedural-rule Is petitioner (Gibbons) procedurally defaulted on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to investigate a mental illness defense?
19-7407 Paula Bennett v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP closeness-of-case constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns cumulative-errors cumulative-prejudice ineffective-assistance prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-likelihood sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard strickland-v-washington sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-counsel Whether a court may conduct a prejudice analysis that focuses solely on the sufficiency of the evidence presented, or must instead consider the closen…
19-7411 In Re Lionel McCray Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appeals circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-mandamus contempt contempt-proceeding due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus second-circuit sequestration writ-of-sequestration Whether Mandamus should issue to compel the Second Circuit Court to enter a Finding of Contempt
19-7414 Latray Whitley v. Texas Texas Denied IFP brady-disclosure-obligations brady-rule cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure due-process federal-inmates giglio-disclosure giglio-rule giglio-v-united-states impeachment-evidence materiality prosecutorial-misconduct state-prosecutors witness-testimony Whether the state district court's determination that written, 5K1 and Rule 35-based cooperation addenda, audio recorded communications, and audio rec…
19-7415 Dennis C. Davis v. Fayette County Appraisal District, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 adjudicate-merits erroneous-limitation-law federal-jurisdiction state-court-remedies state-law-remedies statutory-claims statutory-interpretation tax-case-litigation tax-cases tax-cases-1983-relief taxation-violation-claim tort-claims Whether state courts must provide relief under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in tax cases when adequate state law remedies exist
19-7428 Timothy O'Laughlin v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process personal-liberty pro-se pro-se-litigation pro-se-petition sixth-amendment standing standing-to-file Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4247(h) unconstitutionally deprives individuals of the right to litigate their personal liberty interests pro se
19-7429 Louis Mitchell, Jr. v. California California Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances aggravating-mitigating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se…
19-7436 Ruth Ellen Reeves v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
19-7443 Charles Milton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions takings Whether the government's actions violated the petitioner's civil rights
19-7449 Jack Robert Smith v. Harry Oreol Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-mental-health-commitment-due-process- constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment involuntary-hospitalization mental-health mental-health-commitment patient-rights supreme-court-review Whether the involuntary civil commitment of a non-dangerous individual violates due process and the Eighth Amendment
19-7463 Terrance A. Burlison v. David R. Ellspermann, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Clerk of Court for Marion County, Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure sec-1988 statutory-interpretation Whether the Florida Court of Appeals for the Fifth District abused its discretion in awarding defendant attorney's fees pursuant to sec. 1988
19-7484 Jose Candelario Perez-Cruz v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute jury-trial maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law mdlea pretrial-hearing stateless-vessel trial-procedure Whether the Court of Appeals clearly erred in upholding the District Court's conclusion that jurisdiction in a stateless vessel case under the MDLEA i…
19-7515 Andy Nguyen v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing stare-decisis Should the Court reconsider its majority opinion in Oregon v. Ice
19-7516 Mary Mosley v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Did the panel err by upholding the application of an enhancement for brandishing or possessing a firearm when Miss Mosley was acquitted by a jury of t…
19-7517 Mario Palacios-Cordero v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent sentencing supreme-court Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-7520 Edward Steven Feeney, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit judicial-precedent lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law state-law-interpretation 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…
19-7523 Micah L. Lawson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prison-discipline standing takings Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims alleging due process and equal protection violation…
19-7526 Gregorio Segura-Resendiz v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overrule precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-7528 David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration innocence-claim legal-release parole recidivism rehabilitation sentencing Whether TS Appellant is entitled to release on his own recognizance after demonstrating all conditions for release
19-7530 Orando Ricardo Thompson v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fairness fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-precedent outcome prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-review Whether Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), and its progeny adequately allows consideration of the fundamental unfairness of a trial absent…
19-7536 James Henry Simpson v. Martesha Bishop, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-liability criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution federal-rules immunity judicial-docketing prisoner-filing standing statutory-interpretation Should a U.S. District Court docket a Criminal Complaint as a civil action?
19-7543 Earl Osborn v. Christopher Williams, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-rights corrections-department disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process inmate-rights medical-treatment mental-disability mental-health prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment Whether the Supreme Court should eliminate the requirement for an individualized, fact-specific determination regarding the availability of administra…
19-7547 Phillip Boyd Cashion v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination trial-procedure Should the Petitioner's trial structure have been free from the fundamental unfairness of having the prosecutor tell the jury on two occasions that 'y…
19-7548 Rudy Orlando Cabrera v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1326 Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a prior conviction must be alleged in the indictment before a defendant is subjected to enhanced punishment under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)
19-7551 Donald Arthur Herrington v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-Amendment case-management case-management-system civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech public-trial separation-of-powers sixth-amendment Was Petitioner's conviction a result of a procedure that violates 1st-Amendment, civil-rights, free-speech, public-trial, due-process
19-7558 Freddie Lee Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction question-not-identified standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
19-756 Louis Taylor v. Pima County, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (4) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-damages due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct wrongful-imprisonment wrongful-incarceration Whether Heck applies to a former prisoner who lacked an opportunity to challenge his conviction through federal habeas while incarcerated
19-7562 Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach drug-offenses fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-categorical-approach mathis-v-united-states rehaif-v-united-states serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Does the Fourth Circuit's non-traditional definition of the categorical approach permit an overbroad definition of 'serious drug offenses' for career …
19-7571 Richard Williams v. Tony Mays, Warden Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-standard criminal-procedure due-process evidence murder murder-investigation presumption statutory-interpretation statutory-presumption venue Whether the statutory presumption comports with the constitutional standard
19-7574 Luis Beltran v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment brain-development due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment juvenile-defendants juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-imprisonment proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause provide defendants who were between 18 and 22 an opportunity to demonstrate they are similarly situated,…
19-7580 Constantine Gus Cristo v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 26-usc-7491 9th-circuit burden-of-proof credible-evidence federal-agent irs-restructuring-and-reform-act-of-1998 ninth-circuit statutory-interest tax-court taxpayer-rights unconstitutional-conduct Whether the Petitioner's production of 'credible' evidence in the form of written admissions of unconstitutional conduct by a federal agent, citing § …
19-7584 Vina Yazzie v. Mohave County, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection termination title-vii zero-tolerance When was Ms. Yazzie hired into the Mohave County?
19-7585 Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hurst, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard post-conviction standard-of-review standing trial-procedure Whether the district court erred in denying the appellant's claim of ineffective assistance of first instance trial counsel
19-7586 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service due-process employment-law free-speech mootness public-employment ripeness standing statutory-interpretation veterans-rights voluntary-cessation Is the underlying case moot?
19-7588 Aleksandr Bible v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction mental-incompetence standing statute-of-limitations takings tolling Whether the statute of limitations for filing a federal action should be tolled due to the petitioner's mental incompetence at the time the claim accr…
19-7589 Michael M. Monzel v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution paroline-factors proximate-cause restitution-methodology sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation What, if any, causal relationship or nexus between the defendant's conduct and the victim's harm or damages must the government or the victim establis…
19-7593 Young Yi v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure document-production due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct restitution standard-of-review Whether the government violated its Brady obligations by producing voluminous documents without identifying one document as Brady material
19-7594 Felix Lopez-Cabrera v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment age-of-culpability age-of-majority criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-sentences national-consensus neuroscience Whether Supreme Court jurisprudence finding mandatory life sentences for juveniles cruel and unusual under the Eight Amendment, and non-mandatory life…
19-7599 Tracey Smith-Kilpatrick v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP business-records confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington evidence-rule federal-rule-of-evidence-803(6) federal-rules-of-evidence government-use hearsay hearsay-exception record-reliability sixth-circuit testimonial-statement testimonial-statements Whether business records qualify as inadmissible hearsay
19-7602 Joshua Neil Harrell v. Michelle Belyea, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process eminent-domain jurisdiction legal-opinion procedural-grounds property-rights reasons-for-writ regulatory-takings statement-of-case takings What is the proper standard for determining whether a government regulation effects a taking under the Fifth Amendment?
19-7604 Richard Allen Lumpkin v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines
19-7608 Juan Perez-Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 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 …
19-7614 Jason Perry v. Richard Brown Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review standing state-court Whether the Courts violated Rule 2 (a) Governing Section 2Z84Y Cases?
19-7616 Fred Blajos v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline crime-of-violence elements-clause habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 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…
19-7617 Donato Amaya-Rivas v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-against-self-incrimination right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a defendant who raises for the first time on appeal that his plea is unconstitutional because it was entered unknowingly and involuntarily mus…
19-7620 Bradley Campbell v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judgment-of-acquittal kidnapping motion-for-acquittal motion-to-dismiss Whether Petitioner's motion for judgment of acquittal on the kidnapping charge should have been granted where there was no evidence that Petitioner us…
19-7623 Sinyo Silkeutsabay, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cannabis-regulation civil-rights controlled-substances court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-preemption federal-response medical-marijuana state-law state-legalization washington-marijuana-laws washington-state-law Did the Courts below err in their analysis of Washington State law governing growing and selling medical marijuana?
19-763 Richard C. Angino, et ux. v. TransUnion LLC Third Circuit Denied accuracy accuracy-of-reports attorneys-fees circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights credit-reporting credit-reporting-accuracy credit-reports credit-scores due-process fair-credit-reporting-act standing Whether the Supreme Court should accept and decide this case that affects hundreds of millions of individuals
19-7630 Paris Hollingshed v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fairness-integrity judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error public-reputation substantial-rights supreme-court-precedent trial-record Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense allows courts to review beyond the trial record
19-7631 Regina Wolgamott v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment garrison-v-hudson law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights probable-cause residential-search search-and-seizure search-warrant standing If when executing a search warrant of a single-family residence, officers discover multiple occupants with their own private rooms, are officers requi…
19-7634 Aimee Hankins v. Tim Lowe Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-remedy section-1983 state-federal-proceedings unlawful-detention When habeous corpus relief is unavailable to an inmate or parolee who has been held beyond their lawful release or termination date, does this Court's…
19-7635 Timothy Courtney v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the holding in Almendarez-Torres creating an exception for not having to prove the existence of prior convictions when used to enhance a defen…
19-7638 Rodrigo Cruz Perez v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment split-among-circuits Can a court count a defendant's constitutionally-protected-conduct against the defendant when determining whether the defendant qualifies for a 2-poin…
19-7640 Phillip Auston Carrier v. Billy Romero, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review congress-intent consent constitutional-law federal-appellate-court federal-prosecutor federal-prosecutor-consent gatekeeping-role gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255-motion prosecutorial-consent second-or-successive-petition second-petition section-2255 Whether the remedy by motion authorized by 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(2) is rendered inadequate or ineffective
19-7646 Davion Fitzgerald v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law due-deference federalism federalism-principles judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-subjectivity sentencing-guidelines state-court-deference state-courts state-criminal-statutes state-statute statutory-interpretation May a federal court dismiss state precedent interpreting the state's own criminal statute as an 'odd hypothetical' based on 'legal imagination' to sub…
19-7648 Otis Renaldo Harris v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-power district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-review sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the district court abused its discretion when it found that petitioner Harris was not eligible for a sentence reduction under Section 404?
19-765 Michael Faust, Director, Arizona Department of Child Safety v. B. K., By Her Next Friend Margaret Tinsley, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3) accountability civil-rights class-action commonality due-process federalism injunctive-relief rule-23 standing systemwide-failures Whether a state-run child-welfare system can be challenged as a class action based on alleged 'systemwide failures'
19-7650 D. W. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families Washington Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-appointed-counsel due-process ex-parte-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct parental-rights record-on-appeal recusal termination-of-parental-rights Whether the State violated the Due Process Clause by failing to provide a court-ordered domestic violence/anger management evaluation and treatment to…
19-7652 Steven Craig Whyte v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP common-sense common-sense-topics daubert daubert-standard drug-enforcement drug-experts evidence-admissibility expert-testimony jury-instructions kumho-tire Whether this Court's Daubert/Kumho Tire jurisprudence bars presentation of law-enforcement agent 'drug experts' testifying regarding plain-English exc…
19-7654 Jean Roussel Eloi v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-process appeal-stages closing-arguments conviction defenses government-misconduct ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection relationship-evidence sealed-records sentencing-guidelines Whether counsel was ineffective for not pursuing all the way through the appeal stages, the government's statement during closing arguments that it sh…
19-7656 Michael Huntoon v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit computer-privacy computer-search fourth-amendment franks-hearing magistrate probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the lower court can interpret the meaning of words to determine probable cause existed in a search warrant without the false information
19-7661 Redinel Dervishaj, aka Redi, aka Red v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)(3)(A) appellate-review crime-of-violence extortion federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-threat second-circuit title-18 title-18-924(c)(3)(a) Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in determining that the underlying offense of Hobbs Act extortion, threatening physical violence in …
19-7662 Juan Orellana v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-violation admissibility-of-statement criminal-procedure criminal-trial custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-admission fifth-amendment obstruction right-to-counsel unambiguous-request Whether Orellana's Fifth Amendment right to counsel was violated
19-7663 Ryan Douglas LaSalle v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review categorical-analysis congressional-definition criminal-procedure federal-regulations guidelines guidelines-miscalculation plain-error regulatory-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-categorical-analysis taylor-v-united-states Can a court of appeals successfully avoid undertaking plain error review of a Guidelines miscalculation by relying on a federal regulatory definition …
19-7664 Yervin Keith Barnett v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute categorical-approach criminal-law entry entry-element generic generic-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation 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…
19-7667 Robert Tremaine Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment coercion detainment due-process fourth-amendment k-9-search law-enforcement search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop video-evidence Whether the promise to be free to leave after clearance of driver's license, vehicle papers, and warrants with issuance of a warning traffic citation …
19-7675 Alonzo Lamar Johnson v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus incarcerated incarcerated-petitioner plain-error pro-se pro-se-litigant section-2255-motion standing Whether the US Court of Appeals for the Third circuit improperly denied Petitioner's request for a Certificate of Appealability
19-7677 Sandchase Cody v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca district-court due-process resentencing resentencing-hearing sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether Mr. Cody was denied due process when after the removal of his unlawful ACCA sentencing enhancement, following a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, the d…
19-7681 Howard Aron Washington, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-new-jersey guideline-departure procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rosales-mireles Rosales-Mireles-v-United-States sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the district court's methodology in imposing a substantial guideline departure was inconsistent with this Court's decision in Gall v. New Jers…
19-7682 Eric Beverly v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-application Whether Petitioner's rights under the Fourth Amendment were violated when the government used misleading information to seek a warrant for evidence it…
19-7695 Arturo Delacruz v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brandishing criminal-procedure group-one-robbery ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel otherwise-used plea-negotiation robbery-offense sentencing-guidelines weapon-enhancement Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to negotiate a five-level, rather than a six-level increase for Group One?
19-7698 Martin Calderon-Ortalejo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure extensive-scope extensive-scope-planning fifth-circuit-review judicial-abuse-of-discretion offense-level-enhancement plea-agreement sentencing-discretion substantial-interference substantial-interference-with-justice total-offense-level Did the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Lubbock Division, abuse its discretion in sentencing?
19-7705 Michael Roman Burghardt v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-waiver direct-appeal element-of-offense elements-of-offense indictment plain-error-review plea-colloquy rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent waiver Whether a criminal defendant has waived a claim that the indictment failed to charge an element of the offense
19-7707 Elijah Loren Arthur v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-fines criminal-restitution due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing-guidelines southern-union-co-v-united-states statutory-maximum Should the Court extend the rule of Apprendi to the award of criminal restitution?
19-7711 John Patrick Vescuso v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-factor apprendi apprendi-error circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment prejudice sentencing Whether a sentence greater than the maximum authorized by the charge in the indictment requires reversal without regard to the trial evidence
19-7713 Ronelle Lamar Oudems v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing Whether the burden of proof for factual findings in a Presentence Report should be on the government or the defendant
19-7718 Denny Reyes v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2a 8-usc-1324a aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent immigration-law mens-rea recklessness rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether the intent element of 18 U.S.C. § 2(a) can, consistent with this Court's decision in Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65 (2014), be satisfi…
19-7719 Adam Christopher Sheafe v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circumvent-obligations circumvention criminal-procedure detainer federal-government federal-state-relations federal-transfer habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-ad-prosequendum interstate-agreement-on-detainers judicial-discretion purpose-of-iad state-filed-detainer violate-purpose writ-of-habeas-corpus-ad-prosequendum Whether the Interstate Agreement on Detainers applies when the State, in which the federal district sits, filed a detainer and the federal government …
19-7720 Lamont Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-circuit-court abuse-of-discretion co-conspirator-hearsay co-conspirator-hearsay-exception criminal-association criminal-history district-court-conviction hearsay-exception mental-health racketeering-conspiracy racketeering-conspiracy-18-usc-1962(d) sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-mental-health-treatment sufficient-evidence uncorroborated-confession Did the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in upholding the District Court's conviction?
19-7730 Elizabeth Alexander v. Bloomingdale's, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination hostile-work-environment human-rights maryland-law montgomery-county montgomery-county-md-code-of-human-rights racial-discrimination retaliation statutory-rights title-vii Whether the petitioner's statutory rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Montgomery County, MD Code of Human Rights were unla…
19-7733 Gustavo Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal district-court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment pre-sentencing-waiver sentencing substantive-due-process waiver Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the United States Co…
19-7737 Charles Wolfe v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP advice-of-counsel compliance-officer controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substance-analogue-act controlled-substance-analogue-enforcement-act criminal-defense fair-notice federal-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence-403 industry-expert mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness When the 'advice of counsel' is an industry expert on the CSA and the Analogue Act, and was the petitioner's compliance officer, how can that defense …
19-7744 Partha A. Rai Chowdhuri v. SGT, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-request civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit-review material-adverse-action prima-facie-case record-amendment seventh-amendment temporal-proximity Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's request to amend records and assert rights under the Seventh and Fourteenth Amendments
19-7747 Christopher Robert Sueiro v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure due-process final-judgment interlocutory-appeal self-representation sixth-amendment Whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and the collateral order doctrine, a criminal defendant may appeal an interlocutory order denying the defendant's requ…
19-7750 Russell Patrick Brown v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-degree-murder constitutional-due-process constitutional-violation conviction criminal-conviction due-process insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia jury-instruction premeditation self-defense supreme-court-precedent Whether it's a U.S. constituion Due Process violation proscribed by this court in Jackson v. Virginia, for Mr. Brown's 1st degree murder conviction to…
19-7752 Daniel Ochoa v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation custody due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona pre-miranda-questioning public-safety-exception self-incrimination Whether Mr. Ochoa's Fifth Amendment rights were violated
19-7754 Erik Leonardus Peeters v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-safeguards extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause jurisdictional-limits non-commercial-conduct non-economic-conduct police-power united-states-v-al-maliki united-states-v-lopez united-states-v-morrison Does 18 U.S.C. § 2423(c)'s regulation of non-commercial, non-economic conduct of American citizens outside the United States exceed Congress's Foreign…
19-7757 Babatunde Popoola v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud consent criminal-law criminal-procedure financial-crimes identity-theft money-laundering predicate-crime statutory-interpretation Whether a person who with the consent of a bank account holder provides identifying information to a third party to deposit funds into the account whe…
19-7760 Jeremy Achey v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy due-process federal-drug-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties Whether the government must prove that a defendant conspired to distribute the specific controlled substance analogues charged in the indictment
19-852 Maxell, Ltd. v. Fandango Media, LLC Federal Circuit Denied 35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test content-access content-access-control digital-media network-transmission online-streaming patent-eligibility time-controls Whether the claims at issue in Maxell's patents are patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. 101
19-858 GemCap Lending I, LLC v. Quarles & Brady, LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied attorney-ethics civil-procedure commercial-loan commercial-transactions duty-of-candor fraud fraud-representation legal-misrepresentation professional-responsibility summary-judgment When an attorney's false and misleading representations in a commercial loan application can lead to summary judgment in the attorney's favor despite …
19-861 Mark Shumski v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prisoner-rights standard-of-review Is a prisoner entitled to a certificate of appealability (COA) on a claim for which other jurists have reached different conclusions from the district…
19-869 Nicole Weber v. Allergan, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied class-iii-device class-iii-medical-device current-good-manufacturing-practices fda-preemption fda-premarket-approval manufacturing-defect medical-device product-liability res-ipsa-loquitur Can a plaintiff use the res ipsa loquitur doctrine as evidence that a Class III product had a manufacturing defect?
19-884 Rick V. Caldwell, et ux. v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America Tenth Circuit Denied beneficiary-rights contra-proferentem discretionary-provision erisa fiduciary-duty insurance-policy judicial-deference trust-law Does construing ambiguous insurance policy terms against ERISA beneficiaries undermine the purpose of ERISA?
19-885 Jamie Swartz, et ux. v. Heartland Equine Rescue, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment livestock livestock-seizure post-seizure-hearing pre-seizure-hearing rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 seizure subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the 7th Circuit err by finding the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applied?
19-886 Israel K. Negash, et al. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-process civil-procedure discovery-rights due-process government-data judicial-review regulatory-enforcement snap-benefits standing statistical-analysis summary-judgment Should SNAP retailers accused of trafficking be permitted to conduct discovery on judicial review under 7 U.S.C. §2023 prior to summary judgment?
19-888 Eric A. Longmire v. Warshaw Burstein Cohen Schlesinger & Kuh, LLP New York Denied appellate-review civil-procedure due-process employment-discrimination legal-malpractice motion-to-appeal prima-facie procedural-due-process standing sua-sponte Whether the State Appellate Division wrongfully denied Petitioner's Motion for Leave to Appeal
19-890 Tom Jensen v. Hannah Blumenstiel, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct bankruptcy-court declaratory-relief due-process injunctive-relief judicial-immunity public-access Is a Bankruptcy Court judge absolutely immune from a complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief for denial of public access to the court?
19-895 R. Kirk McDonald v. Bellco Credit Union Colorado Denied case-removal civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-fabrication procedural-integrity removal standing state-court Whether a State judge can fabricate a lie into the Record attempting to prevent removal of a state case to federal court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1441-…
19-902 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1846 civil-conspiracy collateral-order collateral-orders constitutional-protection criminal-complaints defamation judicial-notice pa-constitution trial-court-discretion Does Exhibit F. The Hill School Conversations sufficiently represent the facts supporting civil-conspiracy,defamation
19-911 Ivon Castro v. Dina Simon, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Deputy Commissioner, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-service civil-service-law disciplinary-proceeding due-process employment-termination fourteenth-amendment probationary-period Whether the Second Circuit's holding that Ms. Castro's termination was based entirely on allegations of job-related misconduct is consistent with the …
19-913 Ghazala Siddiqui, et vir, Individually and as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Raheel Siddiqui, Deceased v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civilian-claims civilian-rights federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-discrimination military-nexus military-recruit pre-enlistment-negligence tort-claims Does the Feres doctrine bar civilians and the estates of military recruits from bringing tort claims under the Federal Torts Claims Act for wrongful a…
19-915 Donald Henderson Scott, et ux. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court jurisdiction jury-trial standing supreme-court Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the Eighth Circuit misapprehended its jurisdiction in a way that conflicts with decisions of the U.S. Su…
19-918 Anthony J. Lucero v. James R. Koncilja, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-bias legal-malpractice motion-for-default-judgment res-judicata state-action Did Respondents violate Petitioner's 14th-amendment-due-process rights
19-921 John M. Paz v. Director, New Jersey Division of Taxation New Jersey Denied Amici (1)Response Waived allocation apportionment commerce-clause corporate-income-tax due-process multistate-business state-taxation unitary-business unitary-business-principle Whether a state can allocate the entire gain from the sale of a unitary business's assets to itself for taxation purposes
19-932 In Re Julius Jerome Murphy Denied 2244(b) 28-U.S.C.-§-2244(b) circuit-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction prima-facie-showing statutory-interpretation successive-petition successive-petitions Does a circuit court exceed its jurisdiction by requiring a petitioner to satisfy the burden of actually establishing that his application to file a s…
19-938 Sean A. Clark v. New York Commissioner of Social Services Second Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-fraud civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine social-services standing statute-of-limitations Can a federal district court review a state court ruling, exempting the case via Rooker-Feldman preclusion, where the state court judgment was alleged…
19-961 Khashon Haselrig v. Stephanie Inslee Washington Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment armstrong-v-manzo beneficiary-rights constitutional-violation due-process in-terrorem-clause personal-representative public-policy Did the Washington Court err in finding that an infirmity in due process is cured by denial of a motion seeking to correct it and violate the 14th Ame…
19-964 Christopher Lawrence v. University Hospital, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity due-process federal-procedure interpleader interpleader-statute minimal-diversity pro-se-litigant standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the 11th Circuit violated petitioners' rights as beneficiaries to allow and select enjoining siblings as claimants and real parties in a negli…
19-979 Patrick S. Crick v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abandonment abandonment-doctrine aedpa criminal-judgment due-process fabricated-evidence finality negligence post-conviction-counsel procedural-negligence state-finality Whether a State's interest in a judgment's finality is forfeited when the state fails to elicit the truth or fails to correct evidence it should know …
19-989 Kathleen K. Johnson, Individually and as Trustee of the Annabell M. Palmer Family Trust, et al. v. UBS AG Second Circuit Denied Response Waived commercial-disputes corporate-presence forum-selection general-jurisdiction long-arm-statute long-arm-statutes non-domiciliaries non-domiciliary nonresident-corporation personal-jurisdiction tortious-conduct Should this Court address and resolve the conflicts and inconsistencies among the Federal Circuits and the State Courts on the issue of general jurisd…
19-991 Samson Primm v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment forfeiture forfeiture-case fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing suppression-hearing Whether one who has the requisite standing to move to suppress based on contentions, which if validated show his Fourth Amendment rights were violated…
19M110 John Doe v. United States Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M111 Tecumseh Mondez Mayes v. Mary Windom, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M112 Samuel Zuniga Medina v. United States Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M113 Tom Clowers v. Kelly Cradduck, et al. Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None