| 18-1185 |
Charter Communications, Inc. v. National Association of African American-Owned Media, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (5) |
1981 but-for but-for-causation causation civil-rights civil-rights-act editorial-decisions editorial-discretion first-amendment hurley hurley-v-irish-american motivating-factor section-1981 |
Whether the implied cause of action under section 1981 imposes a but-for standard of causation or a motivating factor standard |
| 18-1255 |
Reynaldo Angeles v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 18-1454 |
Carlos Alberto Londono-Gonzalez v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 19-1030 |
Karen Bishop v. Palm Beach County, Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
-animal-seizure -due-process -judicial-discretion -property-rights -statutory-interpretation #NAME? animal-welfare due-process evidence-suppression judicial-discretion property-rights suppressed-evidence vague-definition-of-fitness vagueness |
How can a definition or determination of fitness be assessed when the Florida Statute 828.073(4)(a) provides a vague description of fitness, puts the … |
| 19-1050 |
Kyle Brooks v. Colorado |
Colorado |
Denied |
Response Waived |
allocution criminal-procedure due-process essential-element guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error plea-bargaining voluntary-plea |
Was the plea valid? |
| 19-1055 |
Dustin Moss v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-procedure criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation illegal-search package package-description particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant tracking-number |
Whether the search of a package that was solely referenced by its tracking number in the warrant's caption, but was not otherwise described in the war… |
| 19-1060 |
Victor Thomas v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-defendant criminal-procedure garza-v-idaho jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent waiver waiver-of-appeal |
Whether a provision in a waiver of appeal that forbids a criminal defendant from filing a notice of appeal, and in so doing also strips superior court… |
| 19-1071 |
Gerald Claude Carlson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure delay due-process inconvenience judicial-discretion motion-to-terminate right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review supervisory-powers |
Whether the Carlson Court's Memorandum Opinion conflicts with other Ninth Circuit opinions |
| 19-1073 |
Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-112 35-usc-282 clear-and-convincing-standard enablement inoperability non-enabled-claims patent-law patent-validity presumption-of-validity statutory-interpretation unpredictability |
Whether patent claims that cover a class may be invalidated as non-enabled under 35 U.S.C. § 112 based on a finding of high unpredictability in the ar… |
| 19-23 |
Rockwood Casualty Insurance Company v. Director, Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-procedure-act agency-regulations agency-rulemaking black-lung-benefits-act burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidentiary-standards regulatory-amendment standing |
Does requiring a wrongly-named Responsible Operator to issue benefits to a Claimant with normal pulmonary function and normal arterial blood gas testi… |
| 19-311 |
Al Cannon, Sheriff, Charleston County, South Carolina v. Broderick William Seay, Jr. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
appellate-review deference double-jeopardy fact-finding federal-habeas manifest-necessity mistrial strict-scrutiny trial-court-deference trial-court-discretion |
Whether the required strict scrutiny applied to the legal determination of manifest necessity constrains the deference accorded a trial court's fact-f… |
| 19-442 |
Otto Anael Perez Castillo v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
None |
|
| 19-546 |
Douglas Brownback, et al. v. James King |
Sixth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
bivens-claim bivens-claims civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-tort-claims-act government-liability judgment-bar sovereign-immunity state-tort-law |
Whether a final judgment in favor of the United States in an action brought under Section 1346(b)(1) bars a claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Ag… |
| 19-5526 |
Frances W. Lake v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure appeals civil-rights compassionate-release disability due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-prisoner financial-hardship first-step-act government-benefits medical-expenses sentence-reduction |
Whether the VA pension was properly denied after medical expenses were incurred, despite the widow's disability and financial hardship |
| 19-557 |
Cedric L. McDonald v. United States |
Armed Forces |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bodily-harm consent court-martial criminal-law due-process mens-rea military-justice sexual-assault |
Whether Congress's omission of a mens rea for the offense of sexual assault by bodily harm means mere negligence as to the lack of consent suffices |
| 19-5676 |
Jerel Leon Jordan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment giglio-impeachment giglio-v-united-states good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon |
Whether a district court may consider evidence outside the warrant affidavit in determining good-faith exception |
| 19-6062 |
Priscilla Daydee Valdez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924d 21-usc-853 28-usc-2461 28-usc-2461c ammunition civil-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture firearms firearms-offense procedural-law statutory-interpretation substitute-assets |
May a defendant be required to forfeit substitute property in lieu of the firearms and ammunition subject to forfeiture under 18 U.S.C. § 924(d)? |
| 19-608 |
Mark Elster, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
campaign-finance civil-rights compelled-subsidy constitutional-review first-amendment free-speech property-levy rational-basis speech-funding standing |
Whether a levy that forces property owners to fund other individuals' campaign donations implicates the First Amendment's compelled-subsidy doctrine |
| 19-6215 |
Twila Haynes v. Assets Protection, Inc. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion americans-with-disabilities-act breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process error-of-law in-forma-pauperis pro-se-plaintiff rule-240 standing |
Under Pa. Rule 240, were the petitioner's constitutional rights violated? |
| 19-6273 |
Henry Cyrus Lucas v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process liberty qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 19-6328 |
Antonio Leonard Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection federalism habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue jury-selection mandatory-minimum state-criminal-procedure |
Whether the same conduct can constitute both a state constitutional violation and a United States Constitutional violation |
| 19-6389 |
Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief |
| 19-645 |
Arizona v. Hector Sebastion Nunez-Diaz |
Arizona |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-procedure deportation immigration immigration-law lee-v-united-states legal-prejudice padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unauthorized-alien |
Whether unauthorized aliens can establish Strickland prejudice for Padilla/Lee claims |
| 19-6577 |
John Garrett Smith v. Ronald Haynes |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
accomplice-to-felony civil-procedure civil-rights computer-fraud-abuse-act constitutional-accountability criminal-concealment due-process due-process-violation equal-protection government-misconduct judicial-misconduct judicial-usurpation misprision-of-felony official-crimes standing |
Whether state and federal officials, including judges, can lawfully commit crimes, legally cover up their commission, and repeatedly usurp their own c… |
| 19-6578 |
John Garrett Smith v. Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction probable-cause standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 19-6598 |
Robert Hercenberger v. Gary A. Martin |
Oregon |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-government state-jurisdiction |
Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all |
| 19-661 |
Mynor Abdiel Tun-Cos, et al. v. B. Perrotte, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law-enforcement federal-tort-claims-act immigration-enforcement law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether victims of an unconstitutional search and seizure may bring a civil action against rogue agents under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of th… |
| 19-667 |
Michael Baker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
circuit-split common-law-definition criminal-code criminal-law fraud fraud-statutes honeycutt-v-united-states obtain-property property-rights sekhar-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statutory phrase 'obtain property' has the same meaning in the federal fraud statutes as it does in other federal criminal statutes |
| 19-6720 |
James Dwayne Myers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
May a court properly apply the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016), without considering the question o… |
| 19-6747 |
Josue Emmanuel Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default sentencing |
Whether allocution error is subject to plain error review in the absence of objection? |
| 19-6757 |
Jamal Bowens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-6782 |
Adrienne Mallard v. Next Day Temps, et al. |
Virginia |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal appeals civil-procedure court-appeal court-orders discovery document-withholding due-process evidence evidence-disclosure judicial-review workers-compensation |
Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia erred in requesting all documents from the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission on the petitioner's appe… |
| 19-6916 |
Sherri Jefferson v. Supreme Court of Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
attorney-discipline disbarment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent professional-responsibility self-incrimination |
Does this Court's opinion in Spevack v. Klein, 385 U.S. 511 (1967), In re Ruffalo, 390 U.S. 544 (1968), and North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v… |
| 19-7071 |
Joseph A. Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certification criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-certification sentencing serious-drug-offense state-convictions statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's 'serious drug offense' definition is limited to only those state convictions that are the same or narrower tha… |
| 19-7074 |
Victor J. Stitt, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing generic-burglary rehaif rehaif-standard sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tennessee-law |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States |
| 19-7097 |
Juan Sanchez v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process out-of-court-statements prior-testimony testimonial-statements trial-evidence witness-memory witness-testimony |
Whether a defendant in a criminal case is denied the opportunity for full and effective cross-examination in violation of the Confrontation Clause |
| 19-718 |
James King v. Douglas Brownback, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 bivens civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law due-process federal-law law-enforcement section-1983 state-law task-force |
Does a law enforcement officer's membership in a joint state-federal police task force managed, in part, by a federal agency preclude him or her from … |
| 19-7401 |
Dumisai H. Hockaday v. Helene Christner, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-regulations civil-procedure confrontation-clause constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference double-jeopardy due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process medical-care prison-conditions standing summary-judgment |
Whether the underlying activity of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is ethical or not |
| 19-7406 |
Bartholomew Antonio Guzman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction first-amendment freedom-of-information government-transparency habeas-corpus public-records standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-court-proceedings |
Whether the United States District Court erred in dismissing a pro se habeas corpus petition due to the lack of jurisdiction because the habeas per pe… |
| 19-7418 |
Jody Gifford v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole proportionality resentencing |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d… |
| 19-7419 |
Timothy Shayne Hardin, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals arrest charge civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process dismissal due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause probation revocation search-and-seizure sentencing |
Whether the trial court abused its authority by revoking a community supervision because of a new honest mistake charge which was ultimately dismissed… |
| 19-7421 |
Lawyer J. Henderson v. Kevin Franklin, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abandoned-claim bankruptcy bankruptcy-petition chapter-7-trustee civil-rights claim-abandonment disclosure due-process inadvertent-disclosure intent-standard judicial-estoppel presumption-of-deceit pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether a debtor who has inadvertently failed to disclose the existence of a potential claim in a bankruptcy petition should be estopped from litigati… |
| 19-7423 |
Adam Lee Hamilton v. Eileen Ramey, Warden |
Missouri |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-property preemption property-theft robbery state-prosecution statutory-interpretation theft united-states-government |
Do the provisions of 18 U.S.C. §2112, 28 U.S.C. §2114, 28 U.S.C. §8 and 7 U.S.C. §2024(D) reserve jurisdiction for the prosecution of such a criminal … |
| 19-7424 |
Christine Ham v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-bias judicial-disclosure judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal public-confidence |
Does an intolerable conflict exist when the Supreme Court of California and the Ninth Circuit squarely address whether the appearance of partiality su… |
| 19-7431 |
Brandon J. Lofland v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus identification-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jury-trial miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-procedural-rules sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a 'mere modicum' of evidence is sufficient to sustain a conviction |
| 19-7441 |
Anthony Earl Ridley v. Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, Kansas, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation damages due-process exhaustion-of-remedies section-1983 sovereign-immunity standing state-employee |
Whether Petitioner's request for compensatory damages is barred by 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(e) |
| 19-7442 |
Andrew Lee Williams v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-article-38.41 due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment indefiniteness sixth-amendment vagueness |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' recent holdings regarding the construction and application of Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 38… |
| 19-7444 |
Ameen Abdullah Muhammad v. John Kozelski, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondents' actions |
| 19-7445 |
Maechel Shawn Patterson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search |
Are all stale prisoners being unlawfully held, where the evidence used to convict them involved state department officials from one county searching a… |
| 19-7448 |
Dennis Rydbom v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
West Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
Compulsory-Process Confrontation-Clause due-process Equal-Protection fourteenth-amendment-due-process fourteenth-amendment-equal-protection fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-probable-cause fourth-amendment-warrant-requirement sixth-amendment-compulsory-process sixth-amendment-confrontation state-sovereignty |
Questions Presented |
| 19-7452 |
Jeffrey R. Golin, et ux. v. San Andreas Regional Center, et al. |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation developmental-disability due-process government-officials governmental-duties governmental-immunity harmless-error jury-determination qualified-immunity standing |
Whether persons who are not government officials and not performing governmental duties can claim qualified immunity from suit in a civil rights actio… |
| 19-7453 |
Nancy Delaney v. San Andreas Regional Center, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation developmental-disability due-process government-officials governmental-duties harmless-error involuntary-confinement jury-determination qualified-immunity standing |
Whether persons who are not government officials and not performing governmental duties can claim qualified immunity |
| 19-7459 |
Christopher Peyton v. Ravonne Sims, Warden, et al. |
Kentucky |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion due-process familial-visitation family-bonds grievance-procedure incarceration-rights parole rehabilitation visitation |
Does incarceration sever a person's right to maintain familiar bonds through some form of visitation? |
| 19-7462 |
Carol Bangura v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals-court-review causal-connection civil-procedure civil-procedure-review-record-appeal-standard-of-r civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process employment prima-facie-evidence retaliation senate-employment-policy standing |
Did the Appeals Court conduct a full review of the record submitted to the panel? |
| 19-7464 |
Derrick Dewayne Davis v. Raymond Laborde Correctional Center, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights correctional-facility deliberate-indifference due-process medical-neglect medical-treatment standing writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Whether the 5th Circuit and the United States District Court violated plaintiff's constitutional rights by denying plaintiff's writ without reviewing … |
| 19-7465 |
Jose Antonio Contreras v. Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-deference civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review patent procedural-rights racial-discrimination standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 19-7466 |
In Re Ricardo Jose Calderon Lopez |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights corporate-structure discrimination due-process equal-protection harmless-error judicial-prejudice mandamus standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the district court erred in excessively delaying the case, engaging in discriminatory conduct, and refusing to recognize the corporate structu… |
| 19-7473 |
Milon Jarr Brown v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights discretion due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment hearsay judicial-bias photographic-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
Was the petitioner denied a meaningful opportunity to present a complete defense? |
| 19-7474 |
Rodney Banks v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights deliberation due-process evidence jurisdiction police-misconduct standing |
Whether my Miranda rights were violated |
| 19-7475 |
Douglas Edwin Ball, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appeal civil-rights conviction dna-evidence due-process evidence insufficient-evidence jury jury-instructions unanimous-verdict |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment was violated because it is impossible to determine whether the verdict was unanimous where there is insufficient evid… |
| 19-7483 |
Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeals appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias judicial-recusal jurisdiction procedural-due-process recusal standing |
Whether the District of California's rules satisfy the First Amendment's right to access the courts |
| 19-7499 |
Susan Skipp v. United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments discrimination due-process equal-protection fatherhood-initiative federal-funding multi-agency-agreement state-action |
Does the implemented Section 17b-27a - John S. Martinez Fatherhood Initiative, Objectives, Reports, Funding, Grant program, programming and tenacle(d)… |
| 19-7500 |
William Sim Spencer v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process finality-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment |
Does the omission of an exception to the finality rule in Michigan's sex offender registration act allow the prosecution to build its case against cri… |
| 19-7503 |
Michael Bernard Bell v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-trial ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus racial-bias retroactive-application strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Does the decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), which rejected the improper injection of racial animus, bias, or prejudice into a criminal t… |
| 19-7505 |
Lamar James Crump v. Tracy Beltz, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about the denial of relief on procedural grounds where other courts have… |
| 19-7511 |
Frank Deville, et ux. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure concealing-material-facts conflict-of-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law fraud-particularity hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure legal-standards liberal-amendment material-facts standing |
What is the liberal ability to amend a complaint? |
| 19-7534 |
Ricky Lee Scott v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights coram-nobis disclosure-violations due-process evidence-disclosure evidence-suppression judicial-jurisdiction kyles-v-whitley police-misconduct |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court's refusal to re-invest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider petitioner Scott's petition for writ of error co… |
| 19-7549 |
Gerard Cliston Ellis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct state-law |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-7550 |
In Re Alexander Guice |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process federal-courts florida jurisdictional-dispute legal-challenge south-carolina standing state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition |
Whether a writ of prohibition or mandamus is warranted |
| 19-7560 |
Michael Swain v. Florida Commission on Offender Review |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-action circuit-court-conflict constitutional-protections due-process federal-law government-agency habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief parole parole-board |
Did the judges of the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal err when they affirmed the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief to pet… |
| 19-7570 |
Deborah Ann Tierney-Young v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 19-7578 |
Ray Edward Barry v. Patrick Warren, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion binding-over brady-violation circuit-court criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel lost-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct quash-information |
Did The District Court Abused Its Discretion In Binding Over To Circuit Court And The Circuit Court Erred In Refusing To Quash The Information? |
| 19-7613 |
Wanda E. Smith-Jeter v. ArtSpace Everett Lofts Condominium Association, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights fair-housing-act prima-facie-case pro-se retaliation standing summary-judgment |
Does Petitioner, pro se, WANDA E.Smith-Jeter present a prima facie case for retaliation under the Fair Housing Act against the Respondents, ARTSPACE E… |
| 19-7618 |
Nathan Gale Woods v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 19-7639 |
Gregory Franklin Harris v. Willis Chapman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus prison-law-library unpublished-opinions certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus michigan-court-of-appeals standing supreme-court-review unpublished-cases unpublished-opinion writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's writ of habeas corpus and denying a certificate of appealability |
| 19-7651 |
Craig Keyon White v. Robert Fox, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eyewitness-identification ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the unduly suggestive pretrial identification procedure and resulting unreliable identifications admitted against White at his criminal trial … |
| 19-7657 |
Marion L. Sherrod v. Sidney D. Harkelroad, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity seizure seizure-disorder standing warrantless-search |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals committed a reversible error in dismissing Mr. Sherrod's pro se claims |
| 19-7665 |
Marvie Chapman, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-statute divisibility felony-drug-offense mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statute is indivisible for purposes of applying Mathis v. United States to 'controlled substance offense', 'serious drug offense', and 'felo… |
| 19-7690 |
Devell Short v. Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greensburg, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-rights castle-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct jury jury-contamination jury-misconduct |
Whether a miscarriage of justice occurred due to a mistake and breakdown in the judicial operation of the federal courts |
| 19-7694 |
Malcolm J. Sanders v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination stop-and-frisk voir-dire |
Whether qualified persons of color may constitutionally be stricken from juries based solely on prior experiences of being stopped for Driving While B… |
| 19-7722 |
Audrel Jack Watson, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-appeals due-process federal-procedural-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure standing state-court-rules state-statutes statutory-interpretation supreme-court-error |
Did the Virginia Supreme Court err in denying Audrel Una Weston Jr.'s petition for writ of certiorari? |
| 19-7726 |
Larry Watkins, Sr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail bail-reform-act constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence moot-question mootness pretrial-bail residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness |
Whether the judgment below should be vacated for deciding a moot question |
| 19-7735 |
Ronnie Kearby v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level burden-of-proof drug-conspiracy drug-quantities drug-quantity due-process evidence federal-courts non-testifying-coconspirator non-testifying-informant preponderance-of-evidence |
Whether a court may accept a mere allegation of estimated drug quantities from a non-testifying coconspirator informant as satisfaction of the Governm… |
| 19-7755 |
Scott Michael Patrick v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
Whether the right recognized in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory Guidelines |
| 19-7761 |
Jose Osvaldo Arteaga v. Ken Clark, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misidentification sixth-amendment |
Did the Ninth Circuit's order denying a COA violate this Court's mandate that a circuit court must issue a COA if a habeas petition makes 'a substanti… |
| 19-7765 |
William Reyes v. Robert Ercole, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2254 conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus perjury prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-likelihood section-2254 witness-testimony |
Is a defendant deprived of his right to due process of law when he would not have been convicted had perjury not been introduced at his trial? |
| 19-7768 |
Jibriil A. Hersi v. Harold May, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-misconduct jury-trial police-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal transcript trial-irregularities |
Whether I am entitled to get the missing records from my trial in Medina County, Ohio for statements made by the judge outside the hearing of the jury… |
| 19-7771 |
Christopher Benjamin Blanton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 19-7773 |
James Curtis Denton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavits business-records confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay-exception sixth-amendment |
Whether the introduction of unconfronted affidavits establishing the foundation for admission of business records violates the Confrontation Clause of… |
| 19-7775 |
Rande Brian Isabella v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review circumstantial-evidence conflict-among-circuits criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-18-usc-2251a due-process evidence evidence-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-procedure sexting statutory-interpretation substantial-step |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in disregarding review of essential elements at 18 U.S.C.§2251(a) and relying solely on circumstantia… |
| 19-7776 |
Mickel L. Marzouk v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause fair-sentencing-act fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner's sentence on the second § 924(c) conviction and twenty-five year sentence enhancement was incorrectly affirmed |
| 19-7777 |
John Henry Hoyle v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction question-not-identified sexual-offender-registration standing statutory-interpretation takings telephone-disclosure void-for-vagueness |
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 |
| 19-7781 |
John Charles Fortner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-crimes felony-offense minor minor-involvement minors sentencing sentencing-enhancement sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2260A require the underlying listed offense to involve an actual minor? |
| 19-7782 |
Stephen Mayer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
absolute-immunity contempt-of-court-18-usc-401 contempt-proceedings criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-42-a-2 federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction-28-usc-1331 federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-misconduct immunity judicial-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's opinion declining jurisdiction over contempt proceedings under 18 U.S.C. §401 violates Federal Rules of Criminal Proced… |
| 19-7784 |
Darren Lee Jenkins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 19-7786 |
Daniel Teitelbaum v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 19-7796 |
Kevin T. Hawkins v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit vindictive-prosecution |
Does the Ninth Circuit circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particular when it results in depriving an individual due pr… |
| 19-7797 |
Lonnie W. Hubbard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process medical-necessity medical-practice medical-purpose prescription-dispensing prescription-drugs professional-practice statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred by holding a jury could rationally conclude that defendant pharmacist abdicated his duty under §§ 1306.04(a) & 841(… |
| 19-7798 |
Pablo Cantu Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances mootness patent-law standing takings |
Whether petitioner's claims became moot under extraordinary and unusual circumstances that were beyond the petitioner's control under the CARES Act of… |
| 19-7800 |
Donald Sheman Bush v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-split de-novo de-novo-review evidence-admissibility evidence-rule-404b evidentiary-rules federal-rules-of-evidence-404(b) legal-interpretation other-acts rule-404b standard-of-review |
Whether evidence falls within Rule 404(b) |
| 19-7802 |
Fernando Ramirez Noria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alienage confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington essential-element federal-rules-of-evidence Hearsay non-testifying-agents sixth-amendment |
Did the admission of the non-testifying agents' reports of their interviews of the defendant to prove alienage, an essential element of the offense, v… |
| 19-7804 |
Ramon F. Flores v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appeal criminal-procedure drug-quantity guideline-range guidelines procedural-bar sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-amendment |
Whether a defendant is procedurally barred from appealing the district court's original drug quantity determination in a sentence reduction applicatio… |
| 19-7811 |
Marcus Scott Crum v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting attempt conspiracy controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u-s-sentencing-commission |
Whether the Sentencing Commission's commentary to its definition of 'controlled substance offense' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) to include inchoate offenses… |
| 19-7812 |
Lajbar Lajaward Khan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure declaration district-court drug-quantity drug-weight fatico-hearing objections probation-office role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court's findings as to drug weight and role were clearly erroneous |
| 19-7816 |
Terry Gay v. Shawn Foster, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review constitutional-entitlement due-process evidentiary-development fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan state-courts |
Under the standards set by this Court in Martinez v. Ryan, must a U.S. District Court allow evidentiary development of a fact-based claim of ineffecti… |
| 19-7817 |
Maria de Lourdes Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court judicial-procedure plain-error pre-sentence-report prejudice procedural-error sentencing |
When the district court fails to either order a Pre-Sentence Report or make explicit on-the-record findings as to why a Pre-Sentence Report is unneces… |
| 19-7819 |
Shamsuddin Dost v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anonymous-testimony confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial sixth-amendment undercover-agents |
Is it a violation of the Sixth Amendment to allow undercover agents to testify anonymously during a criminal trial? |
| 19-7820 |
Marcus Derby v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-involvement criminal-procedure drug-trafficking essential-participant minor-participant minor-role reduction sentencing-guidelines supplier |
Does being a supplier to a drug trafficking organization categorically bar a defendant from receiving the 'minor participant' reduction under the Sent… |
| 19-7823 |
Seth A. Weaver v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment conviction due-process guilty-plea illinois-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining post-conviction-petition sixth-amendment unknowing-and-involuntary-plea |
Does Illinois ignorance-of-the-law theory deny successive-post-conviction-petitioners relief-from-constitutionally-unsound-guilty-pleas? |
| 19-7824 |
Dexter Fisher v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing hobbs-act section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Fisher's § 924(c) convictions for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the Hobbs Act robbery offenses … |
| 19-7826 |
Marlon R. Miller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure document-sealing due-process first-amendment judicial-transparency law-enforcement-misconduct public-access public-access-to-courts right-to-fair-trial sealed-records |
Whether the district court correctly sealed an entire category of information from public access, including preventing Mr. Miller from having meaningf… |
| 19-7833 |
Inocente Rodriguez-Juarez 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 … |
| 19-784 |
University of Pennsylvania, et al. v. Jennifer Sweda, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
breach-of-duty civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty investment-options iqbal pleading-standard twombly twombly-standard |
Whether Twombly's pleading standard governs breach of fiduciary duty claims under ERISA |
| 19-7843 |
Tony Buck v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review punishment punishment-clause sentencing |
Whether the Judgment of Conviction should be vacated as a violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause |
| 19-7844 |
Buck Otto White, aka Timothy Joseph Hoffman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing |
Was the petitioner's 40 sentence back-dated by the district court's works on a woman who was only sentenced to 10 years? |
| 19-7845 |
Omar Weise v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review standing |
Did the Circuit apply an improper, too demanding, and unduly burdensome COA standard? Should a COA be granted in this case? |
| 19-7848 |
Barton Joseph Adams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
binding-plea-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11-c-1-c criminal-procedure-rule-32-2-e-1-a district-court-misconduct due-process forfeiture plea-agreement property-forfeiture property-rights protective-order rule-11 rule-32.2 sealed-court-order sealing-orders sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the lower court violated the mandatory requirements of Rule 32.2(e)(1)(A) and breached the Rule 11(c)(1)(C) binding sentence |
| 19-7853 |
Jaime Monzon-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling fugitive judicial-discretion jury-evidence jury-instructions legal-standard trial-procedure |
Did the district court abuse its discretion by permitting a jury to hear evidence that Petitioner believed he was a 'wanted fugitive,' evidence that d… |
| 19-7854 |
Howronda Overstreet v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure Did Ms. Overstreet's waiver of appeal unenforceabl Did the district court commit plain error when it due-process guidelines guidelines-calculation plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
Did Ms. Overstreet preserve her right to appeal the district court's inapplicable guidelines calculation? |
| 19-7855 |
Jeremy T. Walker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession material-facts obstruction offense-level-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-obliteration |
Whether the district court erred at sentencing by increasing Mr. Walker's Sentencing Guidelines offense level for possessing a gun with an obliterated… |
| 19-7857 |
Chance Dechristian Adams v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes pretext prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review |
When a peremptory strike of a prospective juror is challenged under Batson v. Kentucky, must the reviewing court examine each proffered reason for the… |
| 19-7863 |
Delores L. Knight v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-statute due-process federal-appellate-review judicial-review ninth-circuit patent sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court upheld the government's denial of her patent application |
| 19-795 |
Paul D. Voorhees v. United States |
Armed Forces |
Denied |
|
conduct-unbecoming-an-officer criminal-prosecution criminal-statute due-process mens-rea military-justice negligence negligence-standard rehaif-v-united-states scienter sixth-amendment uniform-code-military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice |
Does the mens rea principle apply to criminal prosecutions under the Uniform Code of Military Justice? |
| 19-797 |
City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. v. Mary R. Meier |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment municipal-liability probable-cause section-1983 seizure wanted-bulletin warrantless-seizure |
Whether a municipality can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for a warrantless seizure of an automobile based on probable cause |
| 19-798 |
Bay Point Properties, Incorporated v. Mississippi Transportation Commission, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process eleventh-amendment just-compensation just-compensation-clause property-rights sovereign-immunity state-immunity state-liability takings takings-clause |
Whether the 'self-executing' Just Compensation Clause abrogates a State's Eleventh Amendment immunity, allowing a property owner to sue the State for … |
| 19-802 |
David Ehrman v. Cox Communications, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
citizenship-pleading civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction domicile federal-jurisdiction notice-of-removal pleading pleading-standards procedural-requirements removal removal-procedure standing |
Is an allegation of an individual's state citizenship made solely on 'information and belief' sufficient to plead diversity of citizenship? |
| 19-807 |
Bank Melli v. Michael Bennett, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
agency-instrumentality asset-execution blocked-assets default-judgment foreign-sovereign-immunity juridical-separation separate-entity state-owned-entity terrorism-risk-insurance-act treaty-obligations |
Whether TRIA requires that the respondent actually own the assets at issue, or whether the statute permits execution even absent ownership |
| 19-903 |
Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-conspiracy civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine collateral-orders constitutional-protection defamation standing wrongful-use-of-civil-proceedings |
Whether claims of wrongful use of civil proceedings, civil conspiracy, or defamation would be irreparably lost if this appeal is not heard |
| 19-904 |
Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-conspiracy collateral-order collateral-orders constitutional-protection criminal-complaints defamation malpractice pa-constitution us-constitution |
questions-presented |
| 19-905 |
Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-conspiracy civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order constitutional-protection defamation due-process malpractice standing |
Whether claims of malpractice, civil-conspiracy, or defamation would be irreparably lost if this appeal is not heard |
| 19-919 |
Joseph Becker, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-injunction-act equitable-receivership in-aid-of-jurisdiction in-rem-claims ponzi-scheme securities-claim securities-litigation settlement-bar-order state-court-litigation state-court-proceedings |
Whether the Anti-Injunction Act allows for the issuance of a bar order by the SEC-appointed equitable receiver that permanently stays a pending state … |
| 19-931 |
Jay Lawrence Friedheim v. Dane Field |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
admiralty-law attorney-fees bankruptcy civil-procedure jones-act maintenance-and-cure maritime-law seaman-contract |
Whether a seaman's wage contract that includes maintenance and cure entitles the prevailing party to attorney's fees |
| 19-935 |
Carl Leeper v. Hamilton County Coal, LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
employee-recall employment-cessation employment-termination federal-law industry-standards layoffs objective-standard reasonable-expectation-of-recall terminations warn-act worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-act workforce-reduction |
Whether courts should distinguish between 'terminations' and 'layoffs' under the WARN Act by applying an objective standard that examines the employee… |
| 19-936 |
Terry Trentacosta v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel state-prisoner |
Should a state prisoner take a separate, direct appeal of the denial of an evidentiary hearing in a federal habeas case when no 'certificate of appeal… |
| 19-941 |
Billy Daniel Raulerson, Jr. v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
aedpa atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment cooper-v-oklahoma due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Georgia's requirement that a capital defendant prove intellectual disability beyond a reasonable doubt violates the Eighth Amendment |
| 19-945 |
Fred S. Pardes v. Susan Doan |
California |
Denied |
|
asset-concealment automatic-stay bankruptcy-fraud debtor-disclosure estoppel intentionally-omitted-assets post-discharge-injunction unclean-hands |
Whether a dishonest bankruptcy debtor has unclean hands or is estopped from seeking relief |
| 19-947 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Robert N. Chatigny |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights divine-intervention due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-complaint parable-interpretation religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-adam standing unjust-judge |
Whether the plaintiff has standing to bring claims based on alleged divine revelations and religious doctrines |
| 19-948 |
Gene Rechtzigel v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment government-action petition-clause sixth-amendment standing |
Did the Government deprive Petitioner the First Amendment Right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances? |
| 19-950 |
Yung-Kai Lu v. University of Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process employment-discrimination judicial-stay retaliation right-to-sue right-to-sue-letter |
Must a plaintiff seek a stay to avoid preclusion of later claims? |
| 19-951 |
Bellur G. Shiva Prasad v. General Electric Company, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-discrimination civil-rights corporate-liability due-process employment-arbitration forced-agreement forced-arbitration public-policy public-policy-violation standing takings |
Can an employer compel arbitration based on a forced agreement taken at the hiring stage? |
| 19-977 |
Maria Angelita Alfonso Gomez, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 19-981 |
Todd A. English v. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adea civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process sixth-amendment standing title-vii |
Plausible-cause-for-relief |
| 19-987 |
H. Stephens Winters, Judge, District Court of Louisiana, 4th Judicial District, et al. v. Stanley R. Palowsky, III, Individually and On Behalf of Alternative Environmental Solutions, Inc. |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1257a administrative-function case-pending federal-law forrester-v-white judicial-immunity record-destruction state-court state-law |
Does Louisiana Supreme Court have jurisdiction to review judicial immunity under federal law? |
| 19A914 |
Gavin B. Davis v. California |
California |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M114 |
Valentina L. O'Connor, as Next Friend and Guardian of Michael W. O'Connor v. Arthur Wright, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M115 |
Terry L. Smith v. Illinois Department of Transportation |
Seventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M116 |
Shaun A. Hodge v. Kevin Genovese, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M117 |
Juvenile Male v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|