| 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… |
33.0 |
| 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 |
(1) Whether the sentencing court violated the requirement of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment that capital sentencers give meaningful consideration… |
14.5 |
| 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… |
14.0 |
| 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 |
Based on its interpretation of federal law, the Washington Supreme Court overruled 68 regulatory takings and due process cases —130 years of jurisprud… |
11.5 |
| 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… |
11.5 |
| 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 |
1. Whether class members are given constitutionally
adequate notice under Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin ,
which requires direct individual notice when… |
11.0 |
| 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… |
11.0 |
| 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, notwithstanding the plain language of § 3161(h)(7) of the Speedy Trial Act and this Court's decision in Zedner, a district court may exclude … |
10.5 |
| 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… |
10.5 |
| 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 |
1. Whether the First Amendment protects the speech by a public official that is required by law and that reports and exposes corruption.
2. Whether s… |
10.5 |
| 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 … |
10.5 |
| 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 |
The question presented is whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in finding that Adams was subjected to an unreasonable seizure in violation of … |
9.5 |
| 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 |
1. Did the government waive its right to appeal the defendant's sentence when it expressly agreed that the defendant would be free to argue for a belo… |
9.0 |
| 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 |
1. Whether FINRA, an ostensibly private corporation invested with vast powers to regulate the securities industry, is absolutely immune from any claim… |
9.0 |
| 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 |
A magistrate judge granted Riverside police officers qualified immunity on a § 1983 unlawful arrest claim, finding there was probable cause for the ar… |
9.0 |
| 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… |
8.5 |
| 19-627 |
Antonio Islas-Veloz v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
None |
|
7.5 |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held, in conflict with precedents in the Third, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits, that under 26 CFR §301.750… |
6.0 |
| 19M118 |
Julius Jerome Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
None |
|
6.0 |
| 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 |
Question-1: Whether the Supreme Court should grant the judgment for the violation of SEC Heitman Capital No Action Letter in UBS MAC wrap-fee investme… |
5.5 |
| 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 |
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment from the United States District Court Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division finding that… |
5.5 |
| 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 |
1. Did the District Court violate the Due Process Clause by barring Defendant-Petitioner from presenting any evidence in his defense at trial, a sanct… |
5.5 |
| 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 |
1. Whether Respondent Deutsche Bank National
Trust Company, as Trustee for Residential Asset
Securitization Trust Series 2004-A7 Mortgage Pass-
Thr… |
5.5 |
| 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, 20 U.S.C. § 1415(l), is required w… |
5.5 |
| 19-506 |
W. M. V. C., et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 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… |
5.5 |
| 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. … |
5.5 |
| 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 "1) whi… |
5.5 |
| 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 |
(1) WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRED IN DISMISSING PETITIONER'S CLAIMS WHEN IT DENIED HER MOTION TO REOPEN HER APPEAL, CONTRARY TO FEDERAL RULE OF APPELL… |
5.5 |
| 19M128 |
Antonio Raheem Matthews v. Colby Braun, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 19M129 |
Kaneka Corporation v. Xiamen Kingdomway Group Company, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 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… |
4.0 |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Texas Vexatious Litigant Statutes, as applied, abridged Petitioner's First Amendment unfettered core right to petition and to access Te… |
4.0 |
| 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 |
I. Whether it is unconstitutional for the Court to write, rewrite, modify, or add to a so-called settlement agreement without the consent of the parti… |
4.0 |
| 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 Eleven Circuit Court error not to determine the equal protection clause, and the civil rights act of 1964, Title VI, authorize Georgia con… |
4.0 |
| 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 |
U.S. Supreme Court and every circuit has at one time or another expressed the view that employment discrimination and retaliation cases are poor candi… |
3.5 |
| 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 |
1. Whether Ms. Waters is a Tier III sex offender according to 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c).
2. Whether Ms. Waters is a Tier I sex offender according to Adam W… |
3.5 |
| 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… |
3.5 |
| 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 |
I. Question: 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… |
3.5 |
| 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 |
Against the backdrop of this Court's most recent guidance set forth in Weyerhaeuser Co., — where the Court held, to wit: "The Administrative Procedure… |
3.5 |
| 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… |
3.5 |
| 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 |
1. Whether the courts should overrule the decision of the District Court of Connecticut (11-cv-904
(CSH)), which granted the Respondents' motion to
di… |
3.5 |
| 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 |
When a criminal defendant has been advised prior to trial of his rights under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 346 (1966), and then testifies at trial to … |
3.5 |
| 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 |
I. Does the Reexamination Clause of the Seventh Amendment allow the Circuit Court to fix the amount of punitive damages without offering a remittitur … |
3.5 |
| 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 |
1. 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
rac… |
3.5 |
| 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 guarantee protects a right to privacy in an internet protocol ("IP") address and internet subscriber … |
3.5 |
| 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 |
In Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Kirby, 543 U.S. 14 (2004), this Court mandated that a conceptual approach –not a spatial approach –be utilized to d… |
3.5 |
| 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 |
I. Under the "false statements statute", 18 U.S.C. §1014, it is a crime to knowingly make "any false statement or report ... for the purpose of influe… |
3.5 |
| 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 |
In 2014, a photographic mural project was destroyed during the relocation of the Peter Stuyvesant United States Postal Service (USPS), New York. The U… |
3.5 |
| 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 |
On March 3rd, 2006, the Court of Appeals for the 3rd District ruled that sex-for-drugs played no part in Dr. Rottschaefer's convictions and that Dr. R… |
3.5 |
| 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 |
1. Whether the striking of two out of three black veniremembers demonstrates a "pattern of discrimination" as necessary to satisfy the first step of t… |
0.5 |
| 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 |
1. Whether claims of substantive unreasonableness must be preserved by specific objection?
SUB SIDIARY QUESTI ON: Whether the Court should hold the c… |
0.5 |
| 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 eithe… |
0.5 |
| 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 |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
0.5 |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
-0.5 |
| 19-5133 |
Andrew Anthony Brown v. William P. Barr, Attorney General of the United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
-1.0 |
| 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 |
I. Does a "theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)" under § 1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent?
II. May courts … |
-1.0 |
| 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 it is clearly established that a jury's failure to return a verdict, which is tantamount to an acquittal for double jeopardy purposes, will ha… |
-1.0 |
| 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 |
The question presented is whether, as the court of appeals in this case held, a person may be convicted of the federal crime of interstate transmissio… |
-1.0 |
| 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 |
1. Is first degree murder, as broadly and idiosyncratically defined under the 2004 Puerto Rico Penal Code: (a) included in the category of "murder" as… |
-1.5 |
| 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 |
Petitioner, NANCY ARLENE LOPEZ, appealed her ten-year statutory minimum sentence imposed after she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import 500 or more … |
-1.5 |
| 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 |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
-1.5 |
| 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 |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
-1.5 |
| 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 |
Petitioner, ASHLEYR. HAMBRIGHT, appealed her twelve months of supervised probation
for driving while intoxicated ("DWI") on the grounds of a military … |
-1.5 |
| 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 |
I. Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Montanez? |
-1.5 |
| 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 |
The Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory penalty can be triggered by prior convictions for "burglary." 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) , (e)(2(B)(ii). The term "b… |
-1.5 |
| 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 |
I. 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) , if the plain … |
-1.5 |
| 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 |
Petitioner was sentenced to 15 years in prison for biting a finger. The Court of Appeals found that "highly unjust, and little short of absurd," and t… |
-1.5 |
| 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… |
-1.5 |
| 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 |
May a person who is actually innocent of a firearms offense under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) after United States v. Davis, 1389 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), seek habea… |
-1.5 |
| 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 |
Under Evidence Rule 103 and Criminal Rule 52(b), once a party informs the court of the substance of the evidence at issue, and the court rules, counse… |
-1.5 |
| 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 |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
-1.5 |
| 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 |
Nevada courts instruct juries that they may consider imposing a death sentence only after finding at least one statutory aggravating factor beyond a r… |
-3.5 |
| 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 |
Is whether this Court's ruling in Arizona v. Gant, 556 U.S. 332 (2009), permitted police officers to conduct a "search incident to arrest" for only "p… |
-4.0 |
| 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 |
Q: Should Judges be allowed to alter dockets and go unpunished? (Many) Judges don't base their judgements on the merits of the case, include all of th… |
-4.0 |
| 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 |
1. If the actions of the respondent that led to my termination were "willful ", did
the United States Court of Appeals Err in affirming the United Sta… |
-4.0 |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
-4.0 |
| 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 Petitioner's due Process Rights denied, because she is a 97-year-old, female PRO se litigant?
Did A PRO Se litiGANt Receive A faiR DAY IN the Lo… |
-4.0 |
| 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 |
When the National Firearms Act ("NFA") was passed in 1934, the sole constitutional authority for the law was Congress's power to tax under U.S. Const.… |
-4.5 |
| 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 Tex as Court of Criminal Appeals' unex plained dismissal of claims raised in
a subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus, where the… |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
I. Whether pursuant to the Jury Selection and Service Act a criminal defendant who observes a racially skewed venire can be denied time to inspect jur… |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
I. Whether a conviction under Arkansas's terroristic threatening in the first degree statute qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Crim… |
-4.5 |
| 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? |
-4.5 |
| 19-7236 |
John Joseph DeBlase v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case codefendant confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process jury-unanimity sixth-amendment waiver |
1. Do the Sixth Amendment and the Due Process Clause permit, in a capital case, the admission of statements of a nontestifying codefendant, acknowledg… |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in finding Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses… |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
1. While you are incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC), how are you supposed to notify Medical of your prior medical history/he… |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
1gb08m
1Slavery Cocerion, Desaceing
of
The United States Coorts, &Unisie Justice systemand citaziens. |
-4.5 |
| 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 sta… |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
I Julia Louise McDuffy Johnson, Appellant believe The United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit has entered a decision which is in conflict the fe… |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
Does the Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel extend to the Appellate process?
Whether the effective assistance of Counsel when Petitioner are to they re… |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
"Procedural due process imposes constraints on governmental decisions which deprive individuals of "liberty" or "property" interests within the meanin… |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 19-7619 |
Therian Cornelia Wimbush v. R. L. Conway, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-liability law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
can a person really sign away the U.S. constitution's guaranteed rights, and amendment 14 the U.S. cnstition, that in ladder part is a right, as well … |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
1. Whether U. S. Supreme Court should enforce The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) and The False Claim Act (FCA), and extend pr… |
-4.5 |
| 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, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt (1) th… |
-4.5 |
| 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, 11 U.S.C. § 349(b)(3), extinguishes unapproved postpetitio… |
-4.5 |
| 19-7658 |
In Re Robert Strange |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process mandamus prohibition standing supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
1) 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… |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
1. Whether appellate reweighing is constitutional after Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016).
2. Whether Hurst is retroactive. |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
carse /evidantiary haaring af a fetition fon a writ of habaas corpus wherein the
prasanted faets include : Marlon Blacher, hereinafter "Patitioner ", … |
-4.5 |
| 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 Favorcdle Eurdence KnocnAt The Time Of Trral
But Excluded And Jury Rrevented FromSeeingOr
Hearing, Can This Evidence Now Be Conesrderede
As Ne… |
-4.5 |
| 19-7700 |
Evanglin McCain v. A.F. Evans Company, Inc., et al. |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
None |
|
-4.5 |
| 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 |
Does the 5th Amendment Release from illegal detention Convicted Against Double Jeopardy 5TH Amendment Petitioner WAS Counse/ Ineffective in Violation … |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
The U.S. supreme court and every court in the U.S., duties is to uphold the U.S. constitution, title IV-D agency violated my civil rights, inalienable… |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
On the record in this case, the District Court erred in denying a writ of habeas corpus without a plenary hearing.
When an application by a state pri… |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
1. Where Petitioner's state-trial court counsel did not pursue Petitioner's wishes, commands, and orders to file a second-perfected-appeal after Petit… |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 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 … |
-4.5 |
| 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 |
Are creditors and debtors, plaintiffs and defendants, and parties in interest allowed, required, or exempt from instituting the mitigation doctrine?
… |
-4.5 |
| 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… |
-4.5 |
| 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 district court's grant of summary judgment on the basis of defendants' on Whitter's material disputed claims of State and Federal constitu… |
-6.0 |
| 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 officials and officers of the court for dismantling RICO laws to the det… |
-6.0 |
| 19-6836 |
Therian Wimbush v. Willie Sue Mickens, Warden |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-rights court-appeal-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge speedy-trial standing |
Question not identified. |
-6.0 |
| 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 this courts holding against the individual mandate sanction in NFIB v. Sebelious 567 U S 519, 132, S. Ct. 2566, 183, L Ed 2d 450 (2012) on the… |
-6.0 |
| 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 & Cofrin. LLP v. App… |
-6.0 |
| 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 THE THIRD
CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ADOPTION THAT THE DISTRICT
COURT'S RULING THAT APPELLANT WAS NOT ENTITLED TO… |
-6.0 |
| 19-7189 |
Kevin D. Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
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 |
1) Did the United States District Court (USDC) judge Reed Charles O'Connor abuse his discretion when he refused to recuse himself/ in violation of the… |
-6.0 |
| 19-7200 |
Barry Wayne Adams v. Calhoun County, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
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 |
1. Did either the District Court and the Court of Appeals directly address in good faith the common law claims that were presented by Petitioner in th… |
-6.0 |
| 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 |
1. This Court has held that the right to the retained counsel of one's choice is the "root meaning" of the Sixth Amendment guarantee. Here, the distri… |
-6.0 |
| 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 |
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THE tHiHteeht H Judicial b<37&CT Cjduat orN&n./Dexivd und&l the
Dub Proces… |
-6.0 |
| 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 |
I. Whether Discrimination/Duty of Fair Representation violated by the Labor International Union 269 under Title VI I42 U.S.C. 2000(e) {Goodman v. Luke… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
1. WHETHER the County Court abused its Discretion and violated Due Process Under the
Fourteenth Amendment and Rule 13, Tex. Rule of Civil Procedure; … |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
1. Is the neglect or negligence committed by an Attorney a violation
of the Constitution's Sixth Amendment's requirement of assistance
of counsel ? .
… |
-6.5 |
| 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… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
i. Whether petitioner should be Granted Certiorari, where his claim not only affect him, but also hundreds of others?
ii. Whether the United States C… |
-6.5 |
| 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… |
-6.5 |
| 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 THE STATUTORY
AUTHORITY CONFERRED UPON THE AGENCY BY CONGRESS
IN 18 U.S.C. § 3585(a), WHEN IT COMMENCES A … |
-6.5 |
| 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… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
QUESTION ONE
SHOULD ANY OF THE REVIEWING COURT 'S HAVE
REVERSED FOR AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING TO DEVELOP
AN ACCURATE FACTUAL RECORD
QUESTION TWO
WAS C… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
If a Florida U.S. Citizen is convicted of a crime by and through the perpetration of fraud on the trial Judge, and the jury by the assistant state att… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
1) When STATE OF WASHINGTON repeatedly imposes sanctions back-to-back, i.e. , when
'temporary" restrictions become perpetual through various schemes,… |
-6.5 |
| 19-7809 |
Chris A. Walters v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
-6.5 |
| 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 |
I. When considering whether agency expertise could be brought to bear on the questions presented in the "Bennett " decision, the United States Court o… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
Question #1: Whether petitioner's Original trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of U.S. Const. Amn. 6 when counsel fa… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
WHY AFTER A REVEEW OF RELATED TIHERE IS AN ABSENCE OF A REMEDY
DOCumeNTs
THERE IS A CIVIL RIGHT THAT SUFFERED
NOWLODGE
2
A WRONG?
A STRATAGEM. OR SUBT… |
-6.5 |
| 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… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
In Missouri, it is an ensuing plea of guilty that implicates the constitution. A criminal defendant cannot succeed on a post-conviction claim of ineff… |
-6.5 |
| 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… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 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 DETE… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
I. DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR WHEN IT FOUND ENHANCEMENT FACTORS LISTED IN U.S.S.G. § 2G2.2(b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(4), (b)(6) AND (b)(7)(D) APPROPRIATE IN … |
-6.5 |
| 19-7922 |
Scott L. Rendelman v. William True, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
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 |
1. In 1985 this Court established that the "some evidence"standard
is to be applied to reviews of prison disciplinary cases. In cases where
an offense… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
1. Is the 11th Circuit's conclusion that "any error the sentencing court made in orally pronouncing [Petitioner's] sentence was corrected by the writt… |
-6.5 |
| 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 … |
-6.5 |
| 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 in order to vacate the decision below and remand to the Eleventh Circuit to consider whether § 403 of the First S… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
I. CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED AGUEDO'S CONVICTIONS WHERE THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT AGUEDO'… |
-6.5 |
| 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 comparing the petitio… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
1. Does imposition of a mandatory sentence of forty years on a juvenile convicted of a homicide -a sentence imposed pursuant to a statutory scheme tha… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
1. 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… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
1. Did the First Circuit Judge erred and abuse her discretion in excluding evidence concerning a minority employee terminated during her probationary … |
-6.5 |
| 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 picture of a defendant shackled, handcuffed, in prison garb and being held by prison staff, over objection, still more prejudicial tha… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
1. Must a defendant who has been granted a Certificate of Appealability by the Court of Appeals continue to challenge a procedural bar ruling by the d… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
Question I . Shouldn't a judgment of acquittal have been granted where the government failed to
prove that Hamm, arrested on August 25, 2016, in jail… |
-6.5 |
| 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 conlusory order without any
precendent to rely on and there exists no sufficient basis for
appellant court to review,… |
-6.5 |
| 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… |
-6.5 |
| 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. |
-6.5 |
| 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, enacted while Petitioner's case was pending on direct appellate review, apply where his sentence is… |
-6.5 |
| 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 B.O.P. Policy 1315.007 "Legal Activities, Inmates," violate a Federal prisoner's First Amendment Right to reasonable access to the state court, w… |
-6.5 |
| 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 of the United States Constitution requires that evidence be suppressed where agents lacked probable cause to arrest two p… |
-6.5 |
| 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 c… |
-6.5 |
| 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… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly
condone the District Court's error in applying the United States Sentencing… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
I. On Appeal WALTER JORDAN argued that the erroneous admission of hearsay evidence that he was the brother of one of the co-defendants caught leaving … |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 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 adequetLy protected when a district judge rejects a magistrate judge's proposed findings on credibility when those… |
-6.5 |
| 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… |
-6.5 |
| 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) to include the inchoa… |
-6.5 |
| 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… |
-6.5 |
| 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 … |
-6.5 |
| 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… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act ("SORNA"), 34 U.S.C. § 20901 et seq., requires anyone convicted of a sex offense under state law to… |
-6.5 |
| 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… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 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. § … |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
1. Whether it was at least debatable among jurists of reasons that petitioner established actual innocence, or at least warranted an evidentiary heari… |
-6.5 |
| 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… |
-6.5 |
| 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… |
-6.5 |
| 19-8083 |
Antwune Washington v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing takings |
I. Justification of necessity is not excluded as a defense to the offense of possession of a firearm by a felon, nor has it been excluded as a defense… |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
35 U.S.C. §112 requires that the specification of a patent application describe the invention in such terms that those skilled in the art are enabled … |
-6.5 |
| 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 |
This case concerns petitioner's claim that he was misled concerning the sentencing consequences of his guilty plea to a conspiracy charge.
The questi… |
-6.5 |