Conference: 2020-04-17

185 cases — 0 granted, 185 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
18-1577 Pennsylvania v. Edward Adams Pennsylvania Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-law civil-rights conflict-with-other-jurisdictions fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-encounter pennsylvania-supreme-court probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop traffic-stop Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in finding that Adams was subjected to an unreasonable seizure in violation of the 4th Amendment
19-1013 Darru K. Hsu v. UBS Financial Services, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied class-action controlling-question-of-law exculpatory-clause interlocutory-review appellate-jurisdiction arbitration civil-rights class-action due-process federal-arbitration-act investment-contract jurisdictional-challenge sec-regulation securities standing statutory-violation Whether the Supreme Court should grant the judgment for the violation of SEC Heitman Capital No Action Letter in UBS MAC wrap-fee investment contract …
19-1014 Teresa Berry v. Delaware County Sheriff's Office Sixth Circuit Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process jail-conditions medical-care medical-policy medical-training municipal-liability policy training withdrawal Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court erred in finding the municipality not liable under 42 USC §1983
19-1016 Jeffrey Kirsch v. Redwood Recovery Services, LLC, et al. Nevada Denied business-activities business-contacts civil-procedure deposition-sanction discovery due-process evidence evidence-preclusion nationwide-contacts personal-jurisdiction sanctions Did the District Court violate the Due Process Clause by barring Defendant-Petitioner from presenting any evidence in his defense at trial
19-1024 Wayne A. Powe, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Residential Asset Securitization Trust Series 2004-A7 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates 2004-G Fifth Circuit Denied deed-of-trust financial-institutions-reform-recovery-and-enforce FIRREA firrea-receivership foreclosure foreclosure-standing indymac-bank mortgage-pass-through note-assignment receivership residential-asset-securitization standing trust trustee trustee-appointment Whether Respondent Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Residential Asset Securitization Trust Series 2004-A7 Mortgage Pass-Through Ce…
19-1028 Alina Korsunska v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived credibility employment-discrimination evidence-law intent-and-motivation intent-motivation jury-trial material-dispute retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Should summary judgment be avoided in employment discrimination and retaliation cases where outcome depends on credibility determination?
19-1036 Teresa Ann Waters v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment adam-walsh-act civil-liberties due-process equal-protection federal-funding sex-offender-registration substantive-due-process tier-classification tier-iii-sex-offender Whether Ms. Waters is a Tier III sex offender according to 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c)
19-1043 Paul G., a Conserved Adult, By and Through His Conservator Steve G. v. Monterey Peninsula Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedures due-process-complaint exhaustion-requirement free-appropriate-public-education futility-exception individuals-with-disabilities-education-act local-educational-agency non-IDEA-claims relief-not-available-under-IDEA settlement-agreement Whether exhaustion of the administrative procedures provided by the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act is required when Plaintiffs seek re…
19-1086 Robert E. Garcia v. Michael Falk, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights compensable-injury constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process legal-injury nominal-damages procedural-due-process section-1983 standing Whether it is an error of law to dismiss a constitutional claim brought under 42 U.S.C. 1983 on the grounds that the plaintiff has failed to establish…
19-1089 Lisa Gindi v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process education eeoc-procedures employment employment-discrimination free-speech school-safety special-education standing student-discipline title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether a failure to recognize the current IEP which allow the coddling of the very dangerous kids who are a threat to teachers and other students?
19-1090 In Re Bahig F. Bishay Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mandamus standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing, sua sponte, the complaint seeking judicial review of agency action under the Administrative Proce…
19-1110 Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, et al. v. Boston Scientific Corporation Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court federal-patent-statute federal-statute patent-infringement patent-venue personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity sovereign-rights state-rights state-sovereign state-sovereignty Whether a state's sovereign right to try its causes within its borders when there is personal jurisdiction over the defendant renders unconstitutional…
19-1113 Peter R. Rumbin v. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process equitable-estoppel government-seizure plaut-v-spendthrift-farms property-rights standing takings u.s.-government-v.-espinosa Whether the courts should overrule the decision of the District Court of Connecticut
19-1118 Jeffrey Todd Palumbo v. Connecticut Connecticut Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure criminal-testimony doyle-v-ohio due-process exculpatory-evidence first-time-account impeachment miranda-rights Miranda-warnings prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination trial-procedure uncharged-misconduct Whether a prosecutor violates Doyle v. Ohio by eliciting the fact that an exculpatory story is being told for the 'first time' at trial
19-1120 Monette E. Saccameno v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-review new-trial punitive-damages reexamination-clause remittitur seventh-amendment Does the Reexamination Clause of the Seventh Amendment allow the Circuit Court to fix the amount of punitive damages without offering a remittitur or …
19-1125 Steven Menzies v. Seyfarth Shaw LLP, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights continuity continuity-analysis due-process flexible-approach mail-fraud pleading-requirements racketeering racketeering-activity rico-pattern rico-pattern-of-racketeering tax-shelter wire-fraud Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit failed to apply this Court's mandated flexible approach to RICO's pattern of racket…
19-1133 Melvin Hodges, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines vague-laws vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson can assert a timely, valid claim that the residual clause of the mandatory Guidelin…
19-1136 Chong Yim, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington Washington Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-in-time fourteenth-amendment landlord-tenant legislative-act property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings substantive-due-process takings tenant-selection undue-oppression Whether the destruction of a fundamental attribute of property ownership constitutes a taking without the need to prove diminished value or interferen…
19-1142 Kendall R. Carter v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment administrative-subpoena carpenter-v-united-states civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment internet-privacy internet-subscriber-information ip-address privacy privacy-interest subpoena third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement protects a right to privacy in an internet protocol (IP) address and internet subscriber information
19-1146 Centaur, L.L.C. v. River Ventures, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split conceptual-approach contract-classification federal-maritime-law judicial-interpretation maritime-commerce maritime-law precedent spatial-approach Whether the Fifth Circuit's new mechanical test complies with the conceptual approach mandated by this Court in Kirby and Kossick
19-1159 Michael Bouchard v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment brady-giglio-jencks brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto false-statements false-statements-statute ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mortgage-lending retroactivity sixth-amendment Whether the 2009 amended version of 18 U.S.C. §1014 was retroactively applied in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause
19-1162 Addison Thompson v. United States, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-claim administrative-settlement civil-rights copyright-act copyright-law due-process exhaustion-of-claims federal-agency federal-government federal-statute sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation vara visual-artists-rights-act Whether the USA/USPS is immune from violating an artist's exclusive rights under the Copyright Act
19-1163 Bernard Rottschaefer v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response Waived appeals collateral-estoppel court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy drug-distribution due-process judicial-deference judicial-review jurisdiction medical-professional precedent standard-of-review substantial-question May the District Court overrule the previous unanimous Court of Appeals decision in the same case?
19-488 Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-regulation certified-mail circuit-split common-law-mailbox-rule due-process-challenge irc-section-7502 mailbox-rule postmark statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-filing Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held that under 26 CFR §301.7502-1(e) the common-law mailbox rule no longer is available to establish timely fil…
19-506 W. M. V. C., et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied None
19-512 Anthony Robinson v. Department of Education Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (3) civil-procedure civil-suit consumer-protection fair-credit-reporting-act federal-agency federal-government-liability sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation statutory-liability Whether the Fair Credit Reporting Act authorizes consumers to file civil suits against federal governmental agencies under 15 U.S.C. § 1681n and §1681…
19-5133 Andrew Anthony Brown v. William P. Barr, Attorney General of the United States Eleventh Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
19-514 Nikko A. Jenkins v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-illness mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment solitary-confinement Whether the sentencing court violated the requirement of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment that capital sentencers give meaningful consideration and…
19-5596 Eric T. Latham v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment arizona-v-gant civil-rights criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment minor-traffic-offense probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest traffic-offense vehicle-search Whether the search incident to arrest exception permits police officers to conduct a search based on probable cause for a minor traffic offense and bo…
19-587 Jimmie Eugene White, II v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied continuance criminal-procedure district-court-discretion ends-of-justice on-the-record-findings speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation stipulation time-exclusion Whether a district court may exclude time pursuant to a stipulation between the parties without making on-the-record findings under the Speedy Trial A…
19-6055 Edwin Ricardo Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony chevron-deference circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto immigration immigration-law separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation theft-offense Does a 'theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)' under §1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent?
19-611 Rene A. Boucher v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal below-guideline-sentence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal waiver waiver-of-rights Did the government waive its right to appeal the defendant's sentence?
19-6220 Nerses Nick Bronsozian v. United States Ninth Circuit GVR IFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution due-process firearms firearms-regulation national-firearms-act registration statutory-construction taxation taxation-power Does Congress's power to tax give it the power to punish the possession of unregistered machineguns under § 5861(d) of the NFA, even though it is impo…
19-627 Antonio Islas-Veloz v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2) None
19-6413 Ricky Langley v. Howard Prince, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquittal ashe-v-swenson collateral-estoppel constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-verdict Whether a jury's failure to return a verdict has collateral estoppel effect
19-643 John Hurry, et al. v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-law due-process finra immunity law-enforcement-powers private-corporation regulatory-authority securities-industry securities-regulation state-action state-actor tort-immunity Whether FINRA, an ostensibly private corporation invested with vast powers to regulate the securities industry, is absolutely immune from any claims a…
19-6590 Antwon Whitten v. Atif Atyia, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts jurisdiction standing takings Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
19-6609 Chad Michael Stoner v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-875c 18-usc-876c criminal-law due-process federal-crime first-amendment-speech free-speech internet interstate-threat interstate-transmission private-correspondence statutory-interpretation threat video-reposting Whether a person may be convicted of the federal crime of interstate transmission of a threat for reposting video of a threatening incident on the ind…
19-6630 Dannez W. Hunter v. Keith Rupert Murdoch, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 1866-civil-rights-act 42-usc-1981 civil-rights commerce commerce-interference copyright-infringement debt-collection interstate-commerce judicial-misconduct rico rico-statute title-42-usc-1981 ucc-lien Whether to establish 1866 Civil Rights Act, Title 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (a) against high-ranking government officials and officers of the court
19-6647 Michael J. Baxter v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP acquitted-conduct batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-watts Whether the striking of two out of three black veniremembers demonstrates a 'pattern of discrimination' as necessary to satisfy the first step of the …
19-6695 Ilana Rigwan v. Jordan Lee Neus Florida Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-procedure court-records docket-alteration evidence-tampering judicial-accountability judicial-discipline judicial-ethics judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-transparency legal-accountability public-trust Should Judges be allowed to alter dockets and go unpunished?
19-6696 Barbara Myers-McNeil v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent-defense language-access right-to-counsel transcript Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a court to appoint a language translator or interpreter for an indigent …
19-672 The Rams Football Company, LLC, et al. v. St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority, et al. Missouri Denied Relisted (8) arbitrability arbitration-agreement clear-and-unmistakable contract-principles court-enforcement federal-arbitration-act lower-court-split state-contract-law state-law Whether the Federal Arbitration Act permits a court to refuse to enforce the terms of an arbitration agreement assigning questions of arbitrability to…
19-6794 Lakesha Smith v. St. Joseph's/Candler Health System, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations statutory-definition statutory-interpretation time-bar wrongful-termination Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the United States District Court's decision of a time-bar verdict on the issue of 'willf…
19-6836 Therian Wimbush v. Willie Sue Mickens, Warden Georgia Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights court-appeal-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge speedy-trial standing Can the challenge of a void judgment of conviction be premature?
19-6927 Tony Egbuna Ford v. Texas Texas Denied IFP arbitrary-state-action criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus merits-consideration state-action state-created-right state-created-rights statutory-criteria subsequent-application subsequent-habeas-application Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' unexplained dismissal of claims raised in a subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus violated the…
19-6980 John Lyndon Williamson v. City of Wichita, Kansas Kansas Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP citizenship-clause commerce-clause compelled-commerce constitutional-interpretation criminal-sanction dormant-commerce-clause due-process police-powers presumption-of-innocence supreme-court-precedent tenth-amendment welfare-powers Whether mandatory vehicle liability insurance using criminal sanction violates NFIB v. Sebelius
19-7001 Haji Bagcho, aka Haji Bagh Chagul, aka Haji Bagchagul v. United States District of Columbia Denied IFP acquittal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-and-service-act racial-bias racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant can be denied time to inspect jury records where the jury office's policy prohibited earlier observation of the venire or…
19-7003 Quintin Wright v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP alternative-means arkansas-law armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute domestic-battering force-clause property-damage serious-physical-injury terroristic-threatening violent-felony Whether a conviction under Arkansas's terroristic threatening in the first degree statute qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Crimina…
19-703 Barbara Nina Davis v. MTGLQ Investors, L.P. Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) certified-mail civil-procedure consumer-rights due-process fannie-mae first-class-mail foreclosure freddie-mac mortgage-notice notice notice-and-opportunity-to-cure residential-foreclosure uniform-mortgage Whether under the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Uniform Mortgage, a notice given by certified mail return receipt requested is a means other than first class…
19-7073 Anthony Thomas v. Kenmark Ventures, LLC Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure bankruptcy-law civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-on-the-court judicial-bias judicial-fraud mandate mandate-recall supreme-court-precedent void-judgment Did the Ninth Circuit commit error by failing to recall the mandate based upon this Court's intervening decision in Lamar, Archer & Cotrin. LLP v. App…
19-7077 Immanuel F. Sanchez v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-rights in-forma-pauperis oral-argument standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner has a fundamental right to a hearing in these proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(1) and Coppedge v. United States
19-7119 Larry Bell v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rule-60b federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standing third-circuit whether-reasonable-jurist-could-debate-third-circuit-court-of-appeals-adoption
19-713 Paul E. Nunu v. Nancy Nunu Risk, et al. Texas Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abridged Petitioner's First-Amendment-right-to-pe as applied access-to-courts citizens-united-v-fec contempt court-access first-amendment petition-clause prior-restraint pro-se vexatious-litigant Whether the Texas Vexatious Litigant Statutes, as applied, abridged Petitioner's First Amendment unfettered core right to petition and to access Texas…
19-7166 Ann Karnofel v. Superior Waterproofing, Inc. Ohio Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts age-discrimination civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial pro-se standing Were the petitioner's due process rights denied because she is a 47-year-old, female pro se litigant?
19-7182 Cirilo Mancilla Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-unreasonableness Whether claims of substantive unreasonableness must be preserved by specific objection?
19-7189 Kevin D. Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bias civil-rights criminal-indictment due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standing Did the United States District Court (USDC) judge abuse his discretion in refusing to recuse himself
19-7200 Barry Wayne Adams v. Calhoun County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights common-law de-facto-government due-process judicial-review martial-rule peonage pro-se procedural-fairness service-of-process standing Whether the lower courts properly addressed the petitioner's common law claims, viewed the claims in the light most favorable to the petitioner, and f…
19-7215 Jerry Jabbari Rhodes v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-sentencing jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment watts-decision Is it reasonable and constitutional to sentence a defendant on facts for which a jury found the same defendant not guilty?
19-7220 Francisco Guerrero-Saucedo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
19-7236 John Joseph DeBlase v. Alabama Alabama Denied IFP capital-case codefendant confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process jury-unanimity sixth-amendment waiver Do the Sixth Amendment and the Due Process Clause permit, in a capital case, the admission of statements of a nontestifying codefendant, acknowledged …
19-7268 Acharayya Rupak v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP continuance criminal-procedure due-process plain-error-review plea-bargaining retained-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's request to substitute retained counsel
19-7275 Cecil Boyett v. New Mexico New Mexico Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-rights discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court state-prosecution Whether petitioner Boyett's constitutional rights were violated by the Thirteenth Judicial District Court of New Mexico under the Due Process Clause o…
19-7314 Johnny L. Dawson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP acca acca-predicate-offense actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states florida-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense shular strict-liability supreme-court-review united-states-v-smith Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded that Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses qualify …
19-732 Richard Natofsky v. City of New York Second Circuit Denied ada adverse-employment-action americans-with-disabilities-act burden-of-proof burden-shifting but-for-causation causation-standard civil-rights disability-discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law mixed-motive mixed-motive-causation Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act permits employees to proceed under a mixed-motive causation standard before the burden shifts to employers…
19-7333 Eduardo Luis Martinez-Paz 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 …
19-739 Julius Barbour, et al. v. Halliburton Company, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights class-action class-action-settlement-notice class-action-settlement-notice,due-process,hisen-v class-member-compensation compensation due-process hisen-v-carlisle-jacquelin judicial-discretion notice notice-requirement post-settlement-requirements procedural-fairness procedural-order settlement settlement-procedure Whether class members received constitutionally adequate notice under Hisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin
19-7565 Tyree Wright v. S. Alvarez, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference diagnostic-imaging due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-care medical-records prison-healthcare qualified-immunity When an inmate notifies medical of his prior head injury/medical history & asks them to retrieve his medical records, is that adequate to his medical …
19-7577 Jason L. Brown v. Lisa M. Brown Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions systemic-discrimination Whether the United States Courts and United States Justice system discriminate against citizens
19-7579 Philip G. Barry v. Thomas Perkins, et ux. Second Circuit Denied IFP automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment state-court-judgments void-ab-initio Whether the so-called 'Rooker-Feldman Doctrine' strips bankruptcy and other lower federal courts of jurisdiction to avoid or otherwise declare a state…
19-7596 Julia L. McDuffy-Johnson v. Daniel A. Lane, III Fifth Circuit Denied IFP amendment-violations Amendments-I-IV-VIII-XIII-XIV appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-question fifth-circuit judicial-procedure sexual-assault standing Supervisory-power-of-SCOTUS Whether the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit has entered a decision which is in conflict with the federal guidelines handout of the lower…
19-7601 Craig K. Garrett v. Joseph Madder, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure digital-privacy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct public-defender right-to-counsel search-and-seizure state-attorney Can the state of Colorado remove a defendant's right to effective assistance of counsel (trial and appellate) and use of a public defender due to pros…
19-7611 D'Marlo Levonne Faulk Johnson v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied IFP 6th-amendment appeal-process appellate-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal post-conviction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the 6th Amendment right to counsel extends to the appellate process and requires the effective assistance of counsel when petitioner's attorne…
19-7612 Sha'Ron A. Sims v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection mortgage-foreclosure mortgage-securitization property-rights securitization standing standing-doctrine Are the laws of standing applied in a manner which violate the homeowner's 14th Amendment's right, under the Federal Constitution, to be equally prote…
19-7615 William E. Vukich v. Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania Third Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-interpretation mistrial probation sentencing Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits multiple punishments for the same offense
19-7619 Therian Cornelia Wimbush v. R. L. Conway, et al. Eleventh Circuit Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-liability law-enforcement qualified-immunity Question not identified.
19-7632 Joshua Allen Bolen v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 2nd-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation sentencing standing statute-of-limitations takings Whether the petitioner's conviction was unconstitutional under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
19-7641 Yusong Gong v. University of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act false-claims-act federal-funding first-amendment fraud-waste-abuse government-corruption old-case public-university public-university-employees research-misconduct retaliation settlement-agreement state-immunity title-vii whether-court-of-appeals-made-mistakes-in-determin whether-district-court-court-of-appeals-has-respon whether-us-supreme-court-should-exclude-state-immu whistleblower-protection Whether U. S. Supreme Court should enforce The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) and The False Claim Act (FCA), and extend prote…
19-7647 William P. Castillo v. Nevada Nevada Denied Amici (1)IFP aggravating-factors appellate-review apprendi apprendi-line capital-punishment capital-sentencing clemons-v-mississippi death-penalty jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances mitigating-evidence mitigation-evidence reweighing Should this Court overrule Clemons v. Mississippi
19-7649 Socorro Susan Caro v. California California Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c…
19-7655 Joseph Llewellyn Worrell v. Emigrant Mortgage Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 11-usc-349 automatic-stay bankruptcy-dismissal bankruptcy-dismissal-statute-11-usc-349-b-3 bankruptcy-estate-revesting chapter-13-petition due-process mortgage-lien postpetition-sale prepetition-status-quo-ante servicemembers-civil-relief-act servicemembers-civil-relief-act-scra-2003 status-quo-ante Whether the 'prepetition status quo ante' requirement of the bankruptcy dismissal statute extinguishes unapproved postpetition sales
19-7658 In Re Robert Strange Denied IFP civil-rights due-process mandamus prohibition standing supreme-court Question not identified
19-7668 Darlene Kay Herran v. Indiana Indiana Denied IFP 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-rights appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process home-detention indigent-client indigent-rights pro-bono-counsel sixth-amendment standing transcript-costs Did the Indiana Court of Appeals err by ruling that when a trial court states that pro-bono counsel may be charged for costs of a transcript for an in…
19-7680 Samuel Howard v. Nevada Nevada Denied IFP appellate-review capital-punishment constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-florida judicial-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Whether appellate reweighing is constitutional after Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016)
19-7683 Marlon Blacher v. California California Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal arbitrarily-denied civil-rights due-process federal-remedy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion resentencing standing state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the arbitrary denial of an evidentiary hearing on a petition for writ of habeas corpus deprives the petitioner of due process
19-7686 Maurice Buford v. Laborers' International Union Local 269, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination duty-of-fair-representation employment-law fair-representation harassment labor-law labor-union statute-of-limitations title-vii weingarten-rights whistleblower-protection Whether Discrimination/Duty of Fair Representation violated by the Labor International Union 269 under Title VH 42 U.S.C. 2000(e)
19-7687 Miguel Palacios Plata v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the excluded evidence and jury prevented from seeing or considering this evidence should be considered newly discovered evidence for purposes …
19-7691 In Re Wilbert Norwood Starks Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-standing civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant civil-rights statutes and constitutional provisions
19-7700 Evanglin McCain v. A.F. Evans Company, Inc., et al. California Denied IFP None
19-7703 Terry Antonio Lee v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-counsel jury-instructions sentencing Question not identified
19-7704 Kevin Massengale v. Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process god-given-rights human-rights inalienable-rights inherited-rights title-iv-d Whether the U.S. Supreme Court and every court in the U.S. have a duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution and protect the petitioner's civil-rights, inal…
19-7710 George R. Young v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-proceeding due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence self-incrimination state-court-proceedings Whether the District Court erred in denying petitioner's actual-innocence claim
19-7712 Luis Ray Jaramillo, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appeal appellate-counsel competence due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain probation probation-revocation prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel Where Petitioner's counsel did not pursue his wishes to file an appeal, was he denied effective assistance of counsel?
19-7717 Tarvis M. Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied IFP bail certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process excessive-bail federal-statute fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge lower-court-conflict pretrial-detention standing supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether the constitutional prohibition on excessive bail, as incorporated through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, requires a state cour…
19-7724 Byron R. Barker v. Texas Texas Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rule-403 extraneous-offenses fair-trial texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-criminal-procedure texas-rules-of-evidence Does the introduction of extranseous offenses, pursuant to Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 38.37 violate the right to a fair trial and shift …
19-7725 William Desmond Conrad v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa alleyne assistance-of-counsel attorney-negligence constitutional-rights constitutional-violation descamps habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance precedent pro-se pro-se-rights sixth-amendment Is 'the neglect or negligence committed by an Attorney a violation of the Constitution's Sixth Amendment's requirement of assistance of counsel ?
19-7728 Wayne English v. Energy Future Holdings Corp., et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP chose-in-action civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights claims-transfer common-law contract corporate-securities damages mitigation mitigation-doctrine party-standing securities standing Whether creditors and debtors, plaintiffs and defendants, and parties in interest are allowed, required, or exempt from instituting the mitigation doc…
19-7746 William A. Runnels v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP child-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-of-parents cumulative-error due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parental-discipline parental-rights reasonable-discipline strict-scrutiny substitutable-discipline Whether the trial court could infringe on, and take away, a parent's constitutional right to reasonable discipline of their child absent strict scruti…
19-7748 Kevin Souffrant v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari circuit-split civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-question habeas-corpus judicial-conflict legal-standard standing supreme-court-review Whether petitioner should be granted certiorari, where his claim not only affects him, but also hundreds of others
19-7758 Lin Ouyang v. Achem Industry America, Inc. California Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appeal civil-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourth-amendment indigent-defendant indigent-rights misdemeanor-conviction right-to-counsel Whether the state court's dismissal of the appeal from misdemeanor conviction, despite the lack of assistance of counsel on appeal, violates the Equal…
19-7763 Jean Bernier v. J. C. Holland, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3585 18-usc-3621 18-usc-3621b administrative-discretion barden-determination bureau-of-prisons custody-credit federal-custody federal-sentencing sentence-commencement state-custody statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Does the federal bureau of prisons exceed statutory authority when it commences a sentence in 1992, decides 11 years later in 2003 that it was state e…
19-7766 Guillermo Garcia v. B. A. Lacey, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo…
19-7767 Octavio Torres Ortega v. Florida Attorney General, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-record ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review new-trial reversible-errors standing trial-counsel trial-errors Should any of the reviewing court's have reversed for an evidentiary hearing to develop an accurate factual record
19-7783 Billy J. Martin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection question-not-identified standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions
19-7787 Vernon Wayne McNeal v. A. Ervin, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower court's decision
19-7795 Robert Alan Foster v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery-violation due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination school-desegregation sixth-amendment standing voting-rights Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause
19-7801 James Benjamin Barstad v. Washington Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights constitutional-violation contract contract-breach due-process equal-protection inmate-rights punishment sandin-v-conner state-sanctions When does the repeated imposition of 'temporary' restrictions become unconstitutional?
19-7809 Chris A. Walters v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
19-783 Nathan Van Buren v. United States Eleventh Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (22)Relisted (2) circuit-split computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act cybercrime data-protection improper-purpose intent standing statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access Whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abus…
19-7842 Manetirony Clervrain v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-ambiguity administrative-law alien-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process immigration immigration-law plra standing statutory-interpretation trade-secret Whether agency expertise could be applied to threshold questions accompanying a constitutional claim against a federal statute
19-7846 Cemaludin Veseli, II v. Carla Hacker-Agnew, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing statutory-interpretation takings When Ke Shee Gurte dove Cote 0 tiga & Arma
19-7847 Lee D. Watts v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP confession confession-suppression criminal-interrogation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance police-interrogation police-questioning right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppression voluntariness Whether petitioner's original trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of U.S. Const. Amn. 6
19-7852 Edwin F. Parson v. United States Air Force, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-abuse-of-discretion-standing-fede civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-statutes judicial-process legal-review remedy scotus-petition standing supreme-court Whether there is an absence of a remedy when a federal magistrate judge acknowledges there is a civil right that has been violated
19-7858 Todd Darrell Ballard v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-sentencing procedural-rights sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Act of the General Assembly [42 Pa.C.S. § 9543 and 9544] is in violation of Appellant's substantive and procedural rights; and whether sai…
19-7868 Steven B. Turner v. Mike Kemna Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether Missouri's rule conflicts with Lafler v. Cooper
19-7878 Joseph Ramon Santillan v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-classification criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing felony-conviction mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-federal-interaction state-federal-law statutory-interpretation Did defendant's State of California marijuana conviction constitute a 'prior conviction for a felony drug offense,' increasing defendant's mandatory m…
19-7879 Luis D. Rivera-Carrasquillo, et al. v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence first-degree-murder penal-code plain-error puerto-rico-penal-code racketeering sentencing-enhancement violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering Is first degree murder under the 2004 Puerto Rico Penal Code a 'crime of violence' for the purpose of 18 U.S.C. § 924(j)?
19-7902 In Re Darnell W. Moon Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity standing takings Whether the 11th Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims
19-7908 Larry Rashone Prunty v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit err when applying the two prong Slack v. McDaniel test (procedure and merits) in deter…
19-7918 Patrick Harris v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a child-pornography criminal-sentencing district-court enhancement-factors excessive-sentence sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines statutory-considerations Did the district court err in applying sentencing enhancements under U.S.S.G. §2G2.2(b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(4), (b)(6) and (b)(7)(D) to Mr. Harris' case?
19-7922 Scott L. Rendelman v. William True, Warden Seventh Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals docketing-fee due-process legal-fees non-frivolous-appeal prison prison-discipline prisoner-rights standard-of-review standing Whether 'some evidence' is required to support a finding on every element of a prison disciplinary offense, or if 'some evidence' supporting any singl…
19-7927 Jay Allen Newcomb v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-rights double-jeopardy due-process oral-pronouncement sentencing sentencing-conflict written-judgment Is the 11th Circuit's conclusion that any error the sentencing court made in orally pronouncing the sentence was corrected by the written sentencing o…
19-7928 Al Prince v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief Whether a state-created delay of uninformed notification that a second amended (corrected sentencing) judgment of conviction had become final and ripe…
19-7930 Roderick Pearson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure criminal-justice-reform criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process finality first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether certiorari should be granted to vacate the decision below and remand to the Eleventh Circuit to consider whether § 403 of the First Step Act o…
19-7931 Nancy Arlene Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeal criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit government-misconduct methamphetamine-conspiracy miranda-rights sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance supreme-court unconstitutional-motive Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the defendant's sentence by concluding there was no unconstitutional motive for the government's failure …
19-7933 Larry Donnell Bogard v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-794 Daniel Macias, et al. v. Raymond Nichols, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights district-of-columbia-v-wesby fourth-amendment law-enforcement ninth-circuit probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 wesby Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from this Court's qualified immunity decisions
19-7945 Zacharias Abab Aguedo v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was insufficient to support Aguedo's conviction and his motions for judgment of acquittal should have been granted
19-7946 Dirk Greineder v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing expert-testimony laboratory-analysis scientific-evidence sixth-amendment substitute-analyst substitute-analysts targeted-accusation Does the Confrontation Clause prohibit an expert prosecution witness from testifying at a jury trial to the results of DNA tests
19-7947 Bobby Joe Floyd v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 timeliness Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-7951 Rashad Taylor v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence miller-v-alabama Whether the imposition of a mandatory 40-year sentence on a juvenile convicted of homicide violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments' prohibition …
19-7952 Michael Deon Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking proximate-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether the language 'death or serious bodily injury results from' in 21 U.S.C. § 841 creates a strict liability crime, without a foreseeability or pr…
19-7956 Molly Tsai v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-rights comparator-evidence employment-discrimination evidence-exclusion evidentiary-standards judicial-discretion minority-rights probationary-period standard-of-review Did the First Circuit Judge err and abuse her discretion in excluding evidence concerning a minority employee terminated during her probationary perio…
19-7960 Reginald Edward Green v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment prejudicial-evidence prison-garb shackles Is displaying a defendant shackled, handcuffed, in prison garb prejudicial?
19-7985 Charles Ray Hooper v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-v-united-states brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts government-misconduct guilty-plea plea-bargaining procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct Must a defendant continue to challenge a procedural bar ruling after being granted a Certificate of Appealability?
19-7986 Wesley Scott Hamm v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-injury conspiracy cooperation criminal-law-bodily-injury criminal-law-conspiracy criminal-law-cooperation criminal-law-sentencing criminal-law-withdrawal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquittal drug-distribution due-process evidence judgment-of-acquittal law-enforcement-cooperation sentencing withdrawal Shouldn't a judgment of acquittal have been granted?
19-7987 Ashley R. Hambright v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure driving-while-intoxicated due-process dui evidence evidence-sufficiency federal-appeals intoxication magistrate-review military-jurisdiction stare-decisis sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the DWI conviction by relying on an incorrect statement of the law on causation and failing to evaluate t…
19-7993 Thomas Victor Sway v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability conclusory-order conflict-of-interest discretionary-review due-process equitable-tolling precedent procedural-due-process standard-of-review strickland-standard When denial of COA was made in conclusory order without any precedent to rely on and there exists no sufficient basis for appellate court to review, w…
19-7998 Paul Anthony Montanez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Montanez?
19-7999 Christopher Parker v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), (d) categorically a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) w…
19-8002 Humberto Herrera v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-jurisdiction federal-crime federal-offense federalism hobbs-act interstate-commerce retail-robbery stirone-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states Whether the Hobbs Act makes the robbery of any retail store that engages in interstate commerce a federal offense
19-8005 Harrison Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal edwards-v-arizona first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018 applies where Petitioner's sentence is not final and he would no longer be subject to multiple, mand…
19-8008 Jeremy Fontanez v. J. Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-materials prison-policy prisoner-rights Does the policy in 6.0.8 violate a federal prisoner's First Amendment right to reasonable access to the courts, where the policy allows only one hour …
19-8014 Michael Artis v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest criminal-activity criminal-conspiracy evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment requires suppression of evidence where agents lacked probable cause to arrest two persons absent probable cause of crimin…
19-8015 Gabriel Cruz v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-rule co-defendant-statement codefendant-statement confrontation-clause criminal-appeal criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit non-testimonial non-testimonial-statement severance Whether the United States Court of Appeal Eleventh Circuit erred in finding that the Bruton rule does not mandate a severance when a non-testifying co…
19-8016 Jaime Vega, aka Jimmy Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release To what extent does 18 U.S.C. § 3553 require a district court to specifically state the reasons for imposing a revocation sentence above the guideline…
19-8019 Efrain Sifuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP resulting in an unreasonable sentence appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly condone the District Court's error in applying the United States Sentencing Gu…
19-8020 Walter Freeman Jordan, III v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure evidence-admission federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence standard-of-review Did the admission of the unrefuted inadmissible hearsay evidence constitute harmful error
19-8027 Javier Gomez-Carrasquillo v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) circuit-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing individualized-assessment plea-agreement procedural-reasonableness puerto-rico-crime sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Whether the district court erred in imposing a sentence that was procedurally and substantively unreasonable by failing to adequately consider the 18 …
19-8030 Robbie Shane Bateman v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary criminal-statute entry entry-definition generic-burglary sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law Whether Tennessee aggravated burglary qualifies as a generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-8031 James Allen Gregg v. United States District Court for the District of South Dakota Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure credibility credibility-determination district-court due-process evidentiary-standard judicial-review magistrate-judge procedural-fairness witness Is a defendant's due process rights adequately protected when a district judge rejects a magistrate judge's proposed findings on credibility when thos…
19-8034 Whitney Atkinson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP crack-cocaine drug-offense fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation Did Mr. Atkinson receive a sentence for a covered drug offense, such that he should be eligible for retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act…
19-8038 Jermaine James v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attempt circuit-split commentary conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b)
19-8041 Stanley Edward Jamison, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-right timely-motion Whether Mr. Jamison's § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), claiming that Johnson invalidates the p…
19-8048 Collyer Goodman v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-court circuit-court-split conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process narcotics narcotics-conspiracy sentencing shared-objective supreme-court Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United …
19-8049 Kenneth Marquise Ruff v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1962d 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment rico rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated where the Petitioner receives a sentencing enhancement in a Racketeer In…
19-8053 Daniel Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence economic-harm federal-criminal-law hobbs-act property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is categorically a 'crime of violence' as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
19-8054 Nathan Richard Vineyard v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-code eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law federal-registration-requirements notification-requirements sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act sexual-contact statutory-interpretation united-states-v-vineyard Whether SORNA extends to anything meeting the dictionary definitions of 'sexual' and 'contact' or is instead limited to the intentional touching of ce…
19-8055 Corey Jones v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review sentencing supervisory-power Whether the Court should exercise its supervisory power to order further consideration of the petitioner's sentence for biting a finger
19-8056 Brian Alan Matalka v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutes fifth-circuit-review indigency indigent-status plain-error plain-error-review special-assessment standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court record reached the wrong conclusion that Matalka was not indigent under the standard pros…
19-8065 Reinaldo Vasquez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court-discretion guidelines-range procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether the district court abused its discretion in imposing an above-Guidelines sentence without adequately addressing the defendant's arguments for …
19-8066 Silvestre Lara-Cervantes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8071 Curtis Dion Earley v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § …
19-8072 Saul Cervantes v. M. D. Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus meaningful-review schlup-standard Whether petitioner established actual innocence to overcome the untimeliness of his habeas corpus petition
19-8079 Mark Steven Elk Shoulder v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-jurisdiction major-crimes-act nondelegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration special-relationship statutory-interpretation Whether SORNA can be applied, retroactively, through the Wetterling Act, to a defendant whose underlying sex offense conviction was prosecuted under t…
19-8080 Julio Solorzano v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence-exception civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure davis-ruling due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-challenge waiver-doctrine Whether a defendant who previously waived collateral attack may seek relief under Davis v. United States
19-8082 Altius Willix v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-procedure double-jeopardy duplicitous-indictment fifth-amendment multiplicious-charges sixth-amendment structural-error Is an indictment considered duplicitous or multiplicious when it charges 2 counts occurring out of the same sequence or events that led to one episode…
19-8083 Antwune Washington v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing takings Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in concluding that the petitioner's claims were barred by qualified immunity
19-8094 Caleb S. Motupalli v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-112 america-invents-act enablement interdisciplinary-invention interdisciplinary-team patent-enablement patent-examination patent-specification pre-aia pro-se single-skilled-person waiver Does the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) permit the retroactive application of a scintilla of inadequacy in Pre-AIA to overturn precedent by ins…
19-8097 Jay Eugene Reed v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-rule-52(b) criminal-rule-52b evidence-rule-103 expert-testimony forfeiture plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether the Court of Appeals erred in treating the evidentiary issue as forfeited and subject to only plain error review under Evidence Rule 103 and C…
19-8098 Juan Carlos Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-consequences Was the petitioner entitled to an evidentiary hearing on his motion to vacate his plea?
19-8100 Jorge Rodriguez-Luca v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson v. United States applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (200…
19-8102 In Re Marquise White Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights clerk-error court-access court-clerk-error district-court-power due-process judicial-discretion procedural-rules state-statutory-rules statutory-rules Does a district court have the power to deny a Petitioner access to the court based on any such state statutory rules of evidence or even procedural r…
19-823 Susan Pearsall v. Thomas C. Guernsey, DDS Ohio Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure consent constitutional-procedure court-intervention due-process judicial-modification legal-consent separation-of-powers settlement-agreement Whether it is unconstitutional for the Court to write, rewrite, modify, or add to a so-called settlement agreement without the consent of the parties …
19-857 GPI Distributors, Inc. v. Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District Ohio Denied court-access due-process equal-protection indigent-litigants judicial-review property-rights property-takings Do the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses prohibit states from imposing substantial financial burdens on indigent parties seeking judicial revie…
19-878 Guy Gentile v. Securities and Exchange Commission Third Circuit Denied administrative-enforcement administrative-law circuit-split civil-penalties civil-procedure injunctions injunctive-relief penalty-bar securities-law statute-of-limitations Does the five-year statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 2462 apply to 'obey the law' injunctions and penny stock industry bars pursuant to 15 U.S.C. …
19-880 Yisrael M. Kemp v. Georgia State University Admissions Office, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) admission-criteria civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-1964 constitutional-law education-policy equal-protection georgia-constitution title-vi university-admission university-system-georgia Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court erred in not determining that the Equal Protection Clause and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VI, authorize the…
19-893 Shimon Waronker v. Hempstead Union Free School District, et al. Second Circuit Denied civil-rights corruption due-process employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech government-corruption public-employee public-official speech-protection whistleblower Whether the First Amendment protects the speech by a public official that is required by law and that reports and exposes corruption
19-894 Michael Yamashita, et al. v. Scholastic Inc. Second Circuit Denied circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-ownership feist-publication feist-publications pleading-standard prima-facie-case second-circuit seventh-circuit third-circuit unauthorized-copying Did the Second Circuit err in holding that a complaint for copyright infringement must be dismissed unless it alleges particular facts showing specifi…
19-967 Craig M. Wood v. Missouri Missouri Denied Relisted (2) capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Constitution requires that a jury, rather than a judge, weigh the aggravating and mitigating circumstances to determine whether a defendan…
19-984 Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman, LLC v. Common Benefit Fee and Cost Committee Fourth Circuit Denied common-benefit-fund conflict-of-interest court-appointed-committee due-process fee-allocation multidistrict-litigation self-dealing Whether federal courts must implement a process that comports with due process to determine the fee and expense allocation of common-benefit funds in …
19-993 Irma Rosas v. Austin Independent School District, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-procedure dismissal due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion legal-interpretation motion-to-reopen Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims when it denied her motion to reopen her appeal, contrary to Federal Rule of Appellate …
19M118 Julius Jerome Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete Relisted (2) None
19M128 Antonio Raheem Matthews v. Colby Braun, Warden Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
19M129 Kaneka Corporation v. Xiamen Kingdomway Group Company, et al. Federal Circuit Presumed Complete None