| 18-1455 |
Archdiocese of Washington v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (5) |
civil-rights content-discrimination establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-forum religious-freedom viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether WMATA's policy of refusing to accept advertisements that promote or oppose religion or reflect a religious perspective violates the First Amen… |
| 19-1003 |
Isaac Gichuru Kinuthia v. Barbara Velarde, Acting Chief, Administrative Appeals Office, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 19-1072 |
Scott Rothstein v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cooperation cooperation-credit criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing government-withdrawal plea-agreement rule-35 rule-35-motion |
Whether the Government's right to withdraw a previously earned and filed Rule 35 Motion violates the defendant's due process rights |
| 19-1075 |
Bryan Adrian Copeland v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan miller-el-v-cockrell strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the District Court and denying Copeland a Certificate of Appealability for § 2255 habeas review |
| 19-1102 |
Dontae Small v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
abandonment-exception carjacking-statute cell-phone cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-contents digital-privacy digital-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-warrant-requirement mens-rea riley-v-california search-incident-to-arrest |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless searches of the digital contents of an abandoned cell phone |
| 19-1103 |
INO Therapeutics LLC, et al. v. Praxair Distribution Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 drug-administration due-process eligibility innovation medical-research medical-treatment method-of-treatment patent patent-eligibility patient-outcomes personalized-medicine section-101 selective-treatment |
Whether a method of treatment that requires doctors to selectively administer a drug to certain patients and not others to enhance patient outcomes is… |
| 19-446 |
VF Jeanswear LP v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (6) |
charge-of-discrimination discrimination-charge eeoc employment-law equal-employment-opportunity-commission investigation investigative-authority private-litigation right-to-sue title-vii |
Whether Title VII authorizes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to continue investigating a charge of discrimination after the Commission iss… |
| 19-573 |
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson closing-arguments constitutional-error fifth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-defense |
Did the Eleventh Circuit improperly determine that the Prosecution's pattern of deliberate and egregious improper comments in closing arguments did no… |
| 19-6156 |
Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
abuse-of-the-writ aedpa anti-semitism capital-punishment constitutional-claim due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias racial-discrimination recusal second-or-successive-petition |
Whether Halprin's second federal petition raising a judicial bias claim is 'second or successive' under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) if the judge concealed … |
| 19-6410 |
Donald W. Rager v. Paige Augustine, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-remedies circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies exhaustion-of-remedies plra prison-conditions prison-litigation-reform-act statute-of-limitations tolling |
Whether the statute of limitations should be tolled for the time spent exhausting administrative remedies under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA… |
| 19-6427 |
Ray A. Smith v. John Chapdelaine, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
charging-document criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions professional-responsibility prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
As representatives of the Office of Public Defender, did lawyers Willie Rios and Eric Zale fulfill their professional responsibilities and obligations… |
| 19-6501 |
Alvin Felicianosoto v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-autonomy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel McCoy-challenge mccoy-v-louisiana remand right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred on direct review in failing to remand the case to the district court when a challenge under McCoy v.… |
| 19-659 |
Miladis Salgado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-2465 abuse-of-discretion civil-forfeiture claimant court-dismissal dismissal dismissal-without-prejudice federal-procedure judicial-discretion legal-prevailing-party prevail prevailing-party statutory-interpretation without-prejudice |
When does a civil forfeiture claimant 'substantially prevail' under 28 U.S.C. § 2465(b)(1)? |
| 19-6762 |
Fred Martin Wimberley v. Rachel M. Sacramento |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights court due-process patent standing takings |
No questions presented |
| 19-678 |
United States, ex rel. Laurence Schneider v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
|
administrative-law appeal circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process false-claims-act false-claims-act-fca-qui-tam-government-deference- government-dismissal habeas-corpus Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference qui-tam sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Government is entitled to absolute deference regarding its decision to dismiss an FCA action under section 3730(c)(2)(A), or whether the q… |
| 19-680 |
Kenneth Sealey, et al. v. J. Duane Gilliam, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process summary-judgment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process fourth-circuit legal-analysis qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in holding that District Courts are not required to properly apply the qualified immunity analysis as to each officer and e… |
| 19-6800 |
Rodney Dewayne Mitchell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act jury-determination maximum-punishment prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement standing texas-criminal-law violent-felony |
whether-the-texas-offense-of-aggravated-robbery-is-a-violent-felony-under-the-armed-career-criminal-act |
| 19-6846 |
James W. Riley v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-as-of-right constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing state-court statutory-analysis third-circuit-court |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel applies to a defendant's first appeal as of right |
| 19-6856 |
James W. Riley v. Delaware |
Delaware |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
capital-punishment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-considerations fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Should Abns courct extend Ts Hucsh wv. Florida cubug |
| 19-6863 |
In Re Melvin Bonnell |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-circuit state-court-decisions teague-doctrine teague-standard |
Whether a state court's merits decision applying a new rule of constitutional law opens up federal review |
| 19-6931 |
Robert W. Johnson v. Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, L.L.P. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure-fraud-due-process-white-collar-cr civil-rights due-process rico-act standing takings white-collar-crimes |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower court's ruling |
| 19-6967 |
Michael E. Boyd, et al. v. California Public Utilities Commission, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-authority circuit-split commerce-clause conflicting-circuit-authority declaratory-and-injunctive-relief federal-power-act prevailing-party-attorney-fees public-utility-regulatory-policies-act purpa remedies statutory-interpretation |
Whether PURPA provides comprehensive remedies that foreclose 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims |
| 19-7081 |
Adeoye Oriade Adebowale v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
| 19-7086 |
Walter Daniel Prezioso v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether reliance on acquitted conduct in imposing sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 19-7088 |
Marcos Cortez-Rogel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 19-7095 |
David Lee Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-relief criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standards pro-se sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Is pro-se petitioner entitled to court's liberal construction of his complaint? |
| 19-710 |
Connecticut Fine Wine and Spirits, LLC, dba Total Wine & More v. Michelle H. Seagull, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
antitrust antitrust-law commerce-clause market-competition preemption price-fixing sherman-act state-action-doctrine state-regulation wholesale-pricing |
Whether Section 1 of the Sherman Act preempts state laws facilitating such unsupervised private price-fixing |
| 19-7102 |
Ruben Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-7104 |
Julio Cesar Pacheco-Astrudillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 19-7112 |
Gabriel Galindo-Serrano v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
confession confession-suppression court-of-appeals criminal-procedure delay magistrate-judge motion-to-suppress plain-error standard-of-review waiver |
Whether the standard of review on appeal of an untimely motion to suppress a confession, based upon the failure to bring the defendant before a magist… |
| 19-7131 |
Eric Hanna v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 aiding-and-abetting certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act-robbery second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified |
| 19-726 |
Mallory Jones, et al. v. Ramone Lamkin, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Marshal of the Civil and Magistrate Court of Richmond County, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
branti-finkel branti-v-finkel civil-rights confidential-employee due-process elrod-burns elrod-v-burns employment employment-law first-amendment free-speech government-policy policy-maker policymaker public-employee public-employees public-sector |
Whether the exception to First Amendment protections for public employees applies based on the actual work performed or the written job description |
| 19-7493 |
Charles T. Kirvin v. L. Grant, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect good-cause jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge ninth-circuit notice-of-appeal standing timeliness |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit arbitrarily and erroneously denied appeal notice for lack of jurisdiction |
| 19-7513 |
Omar Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing severance suppression-of-evidence trial-procedure trial-severance virginia-supreme-court witness-testimony |
Whether the Virginia Supreme Court erred in its rulings on ineffective assistance of counsel claims |
| 19-7529 |
Veronica A. Williams v. Litton Loan Services, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights dodd-frank-act due-process financial-fraud fraud glass-steagall-act institutional-deception mortgage-servicing pro-se-assistance pro-se-litigation |
Whether lower courts failed to facilitate due process for the Petitioner |
| 19-7532 |
Travis Welsh v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 3.850-motion 8th-amendment capital-sexual-battery civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus law-of-the-case motion-filing petition standing void-for-vagueness |
Did the court's refusal to accept the timely 3.850 motion filing because it did not identify the circuit court in the certification of service violate… |
| 19-7537 |
Donald Alexander Spice v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant indigent-defendants transcript transcript-access transcripts |
Whether MOR 5.433(c)(3) is unconstitutional as it violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the mandates of… |
| 19-7541 |
Richard Hurles v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics recusal right-to-fair-trial |
Are the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments violated where a judge who has personally litigated against a defendant in the same case presides over his tr… |
| 19-7545 |
Willie Palmer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment abandonment effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions postconviction-relief rule-3.850 sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-facts |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court |
| 19-7546 |
Juan Jorge v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court civil-rights coa constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus precedent standing supreme-court |
Whether petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 19-7554 |
Roger Hillygus v. Frances Doherty, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983,false-arrest,due-process, due-process false-arrest guardianship-fraud judicial-procedure qualified-immunity standing |
Did the trial court err when it dismissed with prejudice all of Plaintiffs' claims under 42 USC § 1983 when Plaintiff Roger Hillygus has suffered fals… |
| 19-7559 |
Elijah Jackson, Jr. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech school-discipline standing statutory-interpretation student-rights |
DOES the First Amendment protect the right of a public school to discipline a student for off-campus speech that does not cause a substantial disrupti… |
| 19-7563 |
Terry Glynn Speed v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus new-trial perjury racial-bias trial-procedure |
Whether the reviewing court is required to hold an evidentiary hearing to allow the petitioner to prove claims of racial prejudice and bias that would… |
| 19-7573 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts jobs-for-veterans-act standing statutory-enforcement statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-employment-rights veterans-preference-act void-for-vagueness |
What is the appropriate enforcement mechanism for 38 U.S.C. §4215? |
| 19-7582 |
Raul Arellano v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mailbox-rule ninth-circuit petition-reconsideration prisoner-rights standing |
Question not identified |
| 19-7583 |
Tiffany R. Byrd v. Frederick Boutte, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-search juror-bias jury-misconduct law-enforcement procedural-violations search-and-seizure |
Whether Tiffany R. Byrd #61935 was entitled to relief on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on trial counsel's failure to investigate an… |
| 19-7591 |
Leo Lionel Payne v. Jessica Mangum |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process failure-to-defend fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction right-to-travel standing state-action travel |
When Ms. Mangum acting under color of state law deprived petitioner of constitutional right to travel by the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States… |
| 19-7595 |
Rickey Todd Major v. Renee Baker, Warden |
Nevada |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-constitution retroactivity state-courts substantive-function supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states |
Does the federal Constitution require state courts to apply retroactively decisions that narrow the scope of criminal laws? |
| 19-7600 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC |
Georgia |
Denied |
IFP |
effectively depriving pro se litigants of the sub equal-protection full-access-to-court judicial-estoppel private-property-without-just-compensation right-to-be-secured-in-papers with the specific and purposeful intent to defrau constitutional-rights document-tampering due-process equal-protection full-access-to-the-court judicial-and-or-equitable-estoppel judicial-misconduct private-property-without-just-compensation pro-se-litigation right-to-be-secured-in-one's-papers |
Does this oppressive conduct and reckless defiance of elementary standards of justice and fair play, with the specific and purposeful intent to defrau… |
| 19-7609 |
Juan Mauricio Castillo v. Isidro Baca, Warden |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity state-courts statutory-interpretation substantive-rule welch-united-states welch-v-united-states |
Whether due process requires the states to retroactively apply a decision narrowing the interpretation of a substantive criminal statute |
| 19-7628 |
Glen Gary Guyn v. Jason Kent, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cause-and-prejudice comity due-process finality fourth-amendment fundamental-injustice incarceration search-and-seizure unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure |
Whether Mr. Guyn's Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures was violated |
| 19-7660 |
Ronald Blue West v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion breach-of-duty causation civil-rights constitutional-rights damages duty-of-care federal-tort-claims-act prisoner-protection subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's civil rights and FTCA claims for failure to allege a physical injury |
| 19-7666 |
Donniel Woods v. Aaron Joyner, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
506 U.S. 390 113 S.Ct. 853 122 L.Ed.2d 203 holdin federal-habeas-relief herrera-v-collins independent-constitutional-violation newly-discovered-evidence state-criminal-proceeding actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct state-criminal-proceeding |
Has the Supreme Court of the United States overruled Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 113 S.Ct. 853 122 L.Ed.2d 203 |
| 19-7676 |
Robert Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment graham-v-florida graham-vs-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing miller-graham-rule miller-v-alabama miller-vs-alabama national-consensus parole scientific-evidence |
Whether Eighth Amendment's protection established in Graham and Miller should be expanded beyond age cutoff at eighteen to prohibit mandatory life imp… |
| 19-7723 |
James William Brammer v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure critical-stage motion-for-new-trial new-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari |
Does the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel include appointment of counsel for prosecution of motion for a new trial? |
| 19-7734 |
Andre Dennis v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation miranda-rights sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence |
Did counsel render ineffective assistance by failing to seek suppression of Mr. Dennis' statements to police because he was not re-Mirandized followin… |
| 19-7740 |
Yolanda Bell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-dismissal civil-rights collateral-order disability disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-discretion judicial-process motion-denial reasonable-accommodation |
Did the Court of Appeals commit legal error and abuse their discretion when denying Petitioner's appeal of the district courts denial of her motions r… |
| 19-7759 |
Lyarron T. Emers v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment aggravating-factor constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment pre-sentence-investigation right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Question not identified |
| 19-7762 |
Galen LeMar Amerson, et al. v. Atlas Law Firm, P.C., et al. |
Colorado |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-contempt civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process hearing hearing-requirements judicial-procedure judicial-sanctions kidnapping liberty property warrantless-search |
If the right to a hearing is assured under due process, according to the 6th and 14th amendments, before a person can be deprived of life, liberty or … |
| 19-7791 |
Jermaine Michael Jackson v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Was trial counsel's abandonment of a readily available alibi defense a violation of petitioner's Sixth Amendment right? |
| 19-7813 |
Michael C. Jamerson v. Jason Lewis, Warden |
Missouri |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence giglio-vs-united-states habeas-corpus napue-standard napue-vs-illinois perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Did the Missouri courts err in failing to find that the State's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence violated its obligation under Brady v. Maryla… |
| 19-7830 |
Pablo Antonio Pantaleon-Aviles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation deportation-warrant evidence illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment |
Whether a warrant of deportation admitted to prove an essential element of the offense of illegal reentry is subject to confrontation under the Sixth … |
| 19-7835 |
Miguel Rodriguez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-authorization constitutional-law constitutional-suspension due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision in McCarthan v. Dir. Goodwill Indus. Suncoast-Inc, 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), is in violation of the Unit… |
| 19-7836 |
Tajuddin Salahuddin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute property property-rights property-seizure restitution restitution-lien seizure third-party third-party-rights |
When the United States of America seizes innocent third-party property and cash; applies 21 U.S.C 853 to forfeit the property but applies a separate r… |
| 19-7838 |
Anthony Shockey v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
addiction-treatment criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-addiction drug-test due-process parole probation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release violation-classification |
When an addict on supervised release fails a drug test, should the failure be treated as a crime or a manifestation of a disease? |
| 19-7839 |
Christopher Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deterrence due-process imprisonment plain-error-review policy-statement policy-statement-range sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Is a single-sentence explanation of 'I believe this addresses the issues of adequate deterrence and protection of the public' procedurally reasonable … |
| 19-7851 |
Lenin Martinez-Alvarado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-departure eleventh-circuit jurisdiction substantive-reasonableness u.s.s.g-§4a1.3 |
Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit held that it did not have jurisdiction to review the district court's denial to… |
| 19-7869 |
Raymond David Wilson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender common-scheme criminal-scheme criminal-sentencing felony-disposition judicial-discretion misdemeanor-conviction misrepresentation-of-felony prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Why Did The District Court Erroneously Classify Mr. Wilson As A Career Offender |
| 19-7873 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process firearms judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error mens-rea standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the government must prove the defendant's knowledge of his prohibited status in order to convict under 18 U.S.C. 922(g) |
| 19-7875 |
Byron Gay v. Scott Daffenbach, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure court-procedure dna-testing evidence evidentiary-rules judicial-admission judicial-admissions legal-standards scientific-evidence standards |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7876 |
Aaron Richardson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Did an unconstitutional 'objective risk of bias' or 'probability of actual bias on the part of the judge' manifest itself during the sentencing hearin… |
| 19-7881 |
Tavares L. Farrington v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-behavior criminal-procedure first-hand-witness fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure second-hand-information terry-stop |
Under the Fourth Amendment, a Terry stop and frisk must be supported by reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or will soon be committed. Here, po… |
| 19-7884 |
In Re James Ernest Frye |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adequate-relief appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing |
| 19-7886 |
Dennis Mahon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review custodial-interrogation district-court effective-assistance-of-counsel functional-equivalent-of-interrogation judicial-disagreement legal-standard magistrate-judge miranda-v-arizona right-to-silence substantial-showing |
Whether the lower courts erred in failing to find that a defendant made a substantial showing that jurists of reason could disagree on a constitutiona… |
| 19-7887 |
Juvenile Female v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adult-status congress-intent delinquency-prevention district-court-discretion due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-justice-and-delinquency-prevention-act juvenile-offenders juvenile-transfer sentencing supreme-court-precedent transfer-to-adult-status |
Whether a district court errs when it gives too much weight to the seriousness of charged offenses in deciding whether to transfer a juvenile to adult… |
| 19-7894 |
In Re Charles S. Renchenski |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default statutory-adequacy statutory-interpretation statutory-notice writ-of-certiorari |
Did the federal court(s) unlawfully suspend the writ of habeas corpus? |
| 19-7896 |
Nicholas Hughes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit shall be permitted to remain an outlying jurisdiction insofar as it interprets the phrase 'for the purpose of' to require… |
| 19-7898 |
Richard C. Murphy v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review attorney-client attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-ethics due-process judicial-discretion legal-ethics legal-representation procedural-integrity representation standing |
Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals abuse their discretion by allowing counsel to continue representation after counsel documented his unwillingnes… |
| 19-7909 |
Sidney P. Kilmartin v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assisted-suicide causation civil-rights due-process first-circuit free-speech legal-reasoning mail-fraud mailing-an-injurious-article mailing-injurious-article statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Circuit's reasoning on causation issues attendant to assisted suicide is at odds with this Court's case-law and the states' view of … |
| 19-7911 |
Thomas William Cornelius, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion 28-usc-2255 appeal criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus physical-presence right-to-be-present sentencing |
Whether a defendant has a right to be physically present at a re-sentencing hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 19-7916 |
Mark Gelazela v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3282 continuing-offense criminal-indictment criminal-procedure federal-prosecution lulling statute-of-limitations time-barred wire-fraud |
Whether after-the-fact 'lulling' allegations extend the statute of limitations for wire fraud beyond the five-year period authorized by 18 U.S.C. § 32… |
| 19-7917 |
Isaac Feldman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antisemitic-reference antisemitism appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause jury-verdict prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct |
Where a jury returns a final verdict on a charge of conspiracy, finding a defendant guilty of only one of multiple charged offense objects, is the gov… |
| 19-7934 |
Kathleen Betts v. United Airlines, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitration-procedure arbitration-procedures civil-procedure collective-bargaining court-review due-process eeoc-charge employment judicial-proceedings lower-court pro-se-litigation retaliation seventh-circuit |
Whether the Seventh Circuit so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower cour… |
| 19-7940 |
Luis Fernandez Morales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 28-usc-1915 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure federal-courts in-forma-pauperis merits-determination sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether defendant in a federal criminal case is entitled to appeal the district court's judgment denying motion to modify sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 19-7942 |
Daniel Dale Parsons v. R. Blades, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adverse-witness co-defendant-guilty-plea co-defendant-statement compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination harmless-error plain-error waiver |
Has the accused's right of confrontation been converted from the prosecutor's duty under Confrontation Clause into the accused's privilege under the C… |
| 19-7949 |
Kenneth Richard Devore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-public-trust criminal-law criminal-law,evidence,sentencing,fraud,public-trus evidence jurisdiction sentencing sophisticated-means |
Does sufficient evidence exist to support Mr. Devore's convictions for mail-fraud, theft-of-public-money, wire-fraud |
| 19-7950 |
Daejerron L. Valentine v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment ambiguity automobile-exception conjunctive consistency criminal-procedure Did the removal of 'or' create ambiguity? disjunctive fourth-amendment Is a defendant entitled to consistent jury instruc jury-instructions jury-trial legislative-history possession probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard scope-of-search search search-and-seizure search-scope statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Did the warrantless search of an automobile exceed the scope of the automobile exception? |
| 19-7967 |
Kenneth Durant v. Frank Lawrence, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights filing-deadlines habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-remedy procedural-due-process right-to-counsel tolling |
Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of trial counsel and appellate counsel, and whether the petitioner was denied access to the cou… |
| 19-7970 |
Shawnte L. Shade v. Rusty Washburn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-unconstitutionality statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Petitioner's statute of limitation was equitably tolled under Holland v. Florida |
| 19-8026 |
In Re Jonathan A. Hampton |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-speedy-trial-habeas-corpus-d criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jury-instructions personal-recognizance speedy-trial |
Does the petitioner in a habeas proceeding have an inherent constitutional right to be enlarged upon his personal recognizance in the interest of his … |
| 19-956 |
Donald E. Craig, et al. v. Janet Turner O'Kelley, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of John Harley Turner, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process government-officers harlow-standard harlow-v-fitzgerald moore-v-pederson panel-decision qualified-immunity timing-circumstance |
Whether timing constitutes an extraordinary circumstance for qualified immunity |
| 19-986 |
Mary Lou Vosburgh, et al. v. Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Central School District, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process government-action liberty-interest mandamus name-clearing procedural-rights reputation reputation-harm |
When a government actor deprives an individual of his liberty interest in his reputation, is a state court proceeding in the nature of mandamus to com… |
| 19-990 |
Southern Illinois Storm Shelters v. 4SEMO.COM, Incorporated |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
business-impact circuit-conflict circuit-split common-law-trademark equitable-multi-factor-test equitable-test prior-precedent senior-user-rights trademark-ownership trademark-territory |
Did the Seventh Circuit panel's rejection of the equitable multi-factor test proposed by Professor McCarthy to determine common law trademark ownershi… |
| 19-996 |
Lindsay Waters v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights coercion due-process dui dui-testing fourth-amendment implied-consent search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to coerce submission to a warrantless blood test |
| 19-998 |
Vickie Cook, Individually and as Natural Mother to Deanna Cook, et al. v. Tonyita Hopkins, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-created-danger summary-judgment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly applied a 'deemed credible' approach to viewing a movant's credibility and arbitrarily excluded admissions of dis… |
| 19M119 |
William Francis Walsh, IV v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M120 |
Glenn W. Rebenstorf v. Jeffrey Grant |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M121 |
Phillip Earl Crenshaw, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M122 |
Morris J. Warren v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M123 |
Michael Logan Lowery v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M124 |
Archie G. Armstrong v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M125 |
Archie G. Armstrong v. United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M126 |
Archie G. Armstrong v. Amtrak Police |
Third Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M127 |
Archie G. Armstrong v. GEICO Insurance |
Third Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
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