| 18-1027 |
Superior Communications, Inc. v. Voltstar Technologies, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
35-usc-314 35-usc-314d 35-usc-315 35-usc-315b administrative-law appealability inter-partes-review inter-partes-review-ipr patent-infringement patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab statutory-interpretation time-bar voluntary-dismissal |
Whether the PTAB's application of 35 U.S.C. § 315(b)'s time-bar provision in its decision to institute IPR is appealable under 35 U.S.C. § 314(d), and… |
| 18-1585 |
Kassim M. Nagi v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment controlled-substances cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender lockyer-v-andrade money-laundering proportionality proportionality-test racketeering sentencing solem-v-helm |
Whether a 90-year consecutive sentence for a 33-year-old first-time offender violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishme… |
| 18-7488 |
Billy R. Lewis v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-jury nonunanimous-verdict ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment |
Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a criminal convicti… |
| 18-8748 |
Dajuan A. Alridge v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection jury-unanimity juvenile-sentencing non-unanimous-jury prima-facie prima-facie-case racial-discrimination |
Whether statistics alone are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination in the first step of a Batson analysis? |
| 18-8897 |
Corlious C. Dyson, aka Corlious Corall Dyson v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment |
Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a criminal convicti… |
| 18-9130 |
Shaun Allen Dick v. Oregon |
Oregon |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict unanimous-verdict |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporate the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict? |
| 18-9463 |
Michael Joseph Brooks, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict |
Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 18-9693 |
Kevin Sheppard v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict |
Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 18-9787 |
Jace Crehan v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict |
Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 18-9821 |
Robert Lee Heard, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
Apodaca-v-Oregon criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-jury-verdict nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment |
Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment allow a state-court criminal conviction to stand on a nonunanimous jury verdict? |
| 18-999 |
Atlanta Gas Light Company v. Bennett Regulator Guards, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-procedure administrative-review america-invents-act dismissal-without-prejudice federal-circuit-jurisdiction inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law patent-review-procedure-35-usc-314-315 patent-trial-and-appeal-board standing time-bar |
Did the Federal Circuit err in concluding that it had jurisdiction to review the Board's decision to institute inter partes review |
| 19-1034 |
Tami L. Mitchell v. Thomas M. Dillahunt |
Minnesota |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment district-court due-process enforceability evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment military-retired-pay state-courts uniformed-services-former-spouses-protection-act |
Did the Minnesota District Court's division of petitioner's military retired pay violate the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act? |
| 19-1047 |
Michael Weiss, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Jane L. Marsh, Deceased v. Damon Marsh, as Executor of the Estate of Monroe F. Marsh, Deceased, et al. |
California |
Denied |
|
and whether California's vexatious litigant statu appellate-opinions bill-of-rights civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-procedure due-process first-amendment full-faith-and-credit standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes void-court-opinions void-grant-deed |
Whether the court erred in failing to declare the grant deed void as a result of the void court opinions, which is necessary for the proper dispositio… |
| 19-1149 |
UPMC, et al. v. United States, ex rel. J. William Bookwalter, III, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
ambiguity civil-penalty civil-procedure false-claims-act knowledge knowledge-standard pleading-standard regulatory-ambiguity regulatory-provision scienter treble-damages |
Whether a plaintiff plausibly alleges scienter—that a defendant knowingly submitted false claims—when the plaintiff does not allege any facts to sugge… |
| 19-1151 |
Rohit Kumar v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals-court civil-rights court-misconduct criminal-law due-process federal-judges judicial-misconduct judicial-safety judicial-threats legal-proceeding petition-language procedural-irregularity threat-of-violence threats violence |
Will the Supreme Court Justices order the killing of Federal Judges and Appeals Court Judges? |
| 19-1169 |
Jonas Ybarra, Jr. v. Texas Health and Human Services Commission, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-remedy bivens-claim civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-remedy retaliatory-conduct section-1983 section-1985 sex-discrimination standing |
Whether Mr. Ybarra's Bivens claim has no administrative remedy and should not be construed to preclude a judicial remedy |
| 19-1170 |
Ricky W. Campbell v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-exhaustion causal-connection civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-filing employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdictional-bar standing staub-v-proctor-hospital supreme-court-precedent |
issue being raised |
| 19-1174 |
John W. Kimbrough v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Is it an unreasonable application of federal law to hold, for Strickland purposes, that there was no reasonable probability that the state's appellate… |
| 19-455 |
ARRIS International Limited v. ChanBond, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
35-usc-315 35-usc-315(b) administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction due-process estoppel inter-partes-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab time-bar |
Whether the Federal Circuit has appellate jurisdiction to review a PTAB decision denying inter partes review |
| 19-5301 |
Aaron Orlando Richards v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection first-degree-murder jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-verdict legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-discretion unanimous-verdict |
Did the appellate court err in its interpretation of Apodaca and Bertrand? |
| 19-586 |
Devona Hollingsworth v. Department of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
due-process employment-rights federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board military-service opm-regulations probationary-period reemployment-rights termination uniformed-services userra |
Are USERRA's reemployment rights applicable to federal employees during their probationary period? |
| 19-5989 |
Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitutional-law thirteenth-amendment verdict-retroactivity |
Whether it denies defendant's Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment Rights while on direct review not to retroactively vacate a non-unanimous jury verdi… |
| 19-6679 |
Horatio Johnson v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment state-court state-criminal-procedure |
Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a state-court crimi… |
| 19-6767 |
Douglas D. True v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness standard-of-review |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's summary denial of Mr. True's application for a certificate of appealability was based on an adjudication of the underlyin… |
| 19-6833 |
Gregory Alan Rowe v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitations dna-testing due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-relief state-court-interpretation state-federal-conflict |
Whether a U.S. District Court and Court of Appeals are bound by a State Supreme Court's interpretation of its own post-conviction DNA testing statute … |
| 19-6851 |
Lena Lasher v. Nebraska State Board of Pharmacy, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-discretion civil-rights due-process equal-protection ethnic-discrimination independent-agency independent-review licensing pharmacist pharmacy-licensing state-board-of-pharmacy witness-credibility |
Did the Nebraska Board of Pharmacy (NE BOP) err by not acting independently in considering the matter concerning the appellant's pharmacist license on… |
| 19-6869 |
Michael Anthony Jefferson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
barker-v-wingo blackledge-v-perry civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process motion-to-suppress prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vindictiveness speedy-trial vindictiveness |
Do prosecutors create the appearance and presumption of vindictiveness requiring dismissal of a case and violate the rule in Blackledge v. Perry |
| 19-687 |
League of United Latin American Citizens, et al. v. Edwards Aquifer Authority, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights electoral-districts equal-protection franchise-elections local-government one-person-one-vote rational-basis-review salyer-ball-exception voting-rights |
Whether the Salyer-Ball exception to the one-person, one-vote population equality requirement ought to apply to local government representatives chose… |
| 19-6874 |
In Re Stephen Daniel Leonard |
|
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1915 abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion judicial-power pro-se-litigation standing three-strikes three-strikes-provision |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion in refusing to file the petitioner's motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis on appeal |
| 19-6909 |
Efrain J. Rosa v. R. L. Rhodes, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation conviction-reversal criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
Has the government's suppression of exculpatory evidence violated due process under the Fifth Amendment? |
| 19-7052 |
Jose Alexander Callejas Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pereira-v-sessions removal-order removal-orders separation-of-powers |
Whether the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue orders of removal, violating separation-of-powers and due-process |
| 19-7058 |
In Re Ramsey Randall |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 35-usc-101 civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech patent-eligibility standing |
Whether the 35 U.S.C. 101 patent eligibility restrictions unconstitutionally violate the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the petitioner |
| 19-7065 |
Carrie A. Braspenick v. Johnson Law PLC |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure contract contract-law court-judgment judgment legal-ethics legal-representation order professional-ethics statute-of-limitations termination |
Can an attorney terminate the attorney-client relationship prior to the Circuit Court issuing a JUDGMENT/Order in the client's case? |
| 19-7096 |
David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fingerprint fingerprint-analysis jury jury-confusion probable-cause standing wrongful-conviction |
Whether petitioner is entitled to a remand with instructions for the district court to order the case dismissed with prejudice because the prosecution… |
| 19-7135 |
Hye-Young Park v. Charles Secolsky, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure campus-retaliation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation retaliation sexual-violence standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Seventh Circuit's treatment of pro se litigants was correct |
| 19-7150 |
Michael J. Walton v. Jack Kowalski, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review child-witness criminal-conviction direct-appeal due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct witness-coaching |
Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to reveal indisputably false testimony and coaching to the 4-year-old child who gave the false testimony |
| 19-7154 |
In Re Corey Devon Eaton |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-infirmity due-process plea-agreement plea-agreement-involuntary plea-waiver procedural-default retroactive-relief safety-valve |
whether-plea-agreement-involuntary |
| 19-7322 |
Gerardo Sanchez-Miranda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process 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 eit… |
| 19-7339 |
Victor O. Jones, Jr. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violations due-process foreclosure fraud pro-se-litigation res-judicata rooker-feldman standing takings |
Whether a litigant who has been repeatedly violated can come to Federal Court for protection and relief when the state courts no longer adhere to stat… |
| 19-7388 |
Aaron Perez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-prosecution categorical-match categorical-overbreadth circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-sentencing felon-in-possession insufficient-evidence prior-conviction prior-felony-conviction rehaif |
Whether a defendant must point to an actual state court prosecution to demonstrate a prior conviction is not a categorical match |
| 19-7393 |
In Re David Gulbrandson |
|
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty standing state-law successive-petition arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit second-successive-petition state-law state-law-application successive-petition |
Whether transfer to the district court for a hearing pursuant to this Court's original habeas jurisdiction is warranted in this exceptional case |
| 19-741 |
Estate of Esther Klieman, By and Through Its Administrator, Aaron Kesner, et al. v. Palestinian Authority, aka Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority, et al. |
District of Columbia |
GVR |
|
anti-terrorism-act civil-liability civil-litigation congress-power congressional-intent criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment foreign-sovereign |
Whether the PA-PLO has the right to raise a Due Process defense under the Fifth Amendment |
| 19-7410 |
Victor Manuel Mora-Galindo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear procedural-due-process removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether the immigration court lacked authority to remove the petitioner because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time |
| 19-7498 |
James Earvin Sanders v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-ineffectiveness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge mitigating-evidence procedural-due-process psychiatric-mitigating-evidence time-bar-exception united-states-v-fessel |
Where counsel lies about the existence of psychiatric-mitigating-evidence,due-process,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,habeas-corpus,constitutional-r… |
| 19-7502 |
Scott Peters v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings |
Whether the state's actions violated the petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 19-7508 |
Jeffrey D. Leiser v. Karen Kloth, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
by triggering PTSD symptoms rise to a level that is cognizable under the Eigh that caused psychological harm civil-rights correctional-officer correctional-officer-duties due-process eighth-amendment emotional-distress inmate-rights intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress psychological-harm ptsd qualified-immunity |
Does the intentional infliction of severe emotional distress, by triggering PTSD symptoms, that caused psychological harm, rise to a level that is cog… |
| 19-764 |
Mark I. Sokolow, et al. v. Palestine Liberation Organization, et al. |
Second Circuit |
GVR |
Amici (3) |
anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-act-1992 anti-terrorism-clarification-act-2018 congress due-process fifth-amendment international-terrorism national-security palestinian-authority personal-jurisdiction terrorism united-states-citizen |
Whether the PLO and PA consented to personal jurisdiction when they chose to maintain facilities within the United States after the date specified in … |
| 19-7709 |
John A. Toth v. Peter Antonacci, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance qualified-immunity treaty |
Whether the violation of any State or Federal Courts, Treaties, Rights or Privileges by any and all State and/or Federal Agents and individuals, both … |
| 19-7715 |
Alfredo Castillo-Reyes v. Bobbi Grant Ingalls, et al. |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure divorce due-process property standing takings civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction divorce-proceedings due-process federal-law federal-review judicial-discretion legal-procedure property-rights standing takings |
Whether the Federal Law permit Virginia Supreme Court denied of case because of Circuit Court of Warren County refused of transcription and Order Medi… |
| 19-7721 |
Machelle Parsons v. Ashton McDaniel, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
Child-protective-services-investigation child-support child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment Eleventh-Amendment-immunity family-law guardian-ad-litem Guardian-ad-litem-liability jurisdiction parental-rights Parental-rights-termination social-security-disability standing Termination-order-access |
Does the court have jurisdiction over the parties in the case to mandate services to families if there were no finding of neglect. No adjudicatory hea… |
| 19-7741 |
Robert W. Johnson v. Victoria Fire & Casualty Insurance Company, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's case for lack of standing |
| 19-7742 |
Derrick Lamark Lewis, Sr. v. Walter Berry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process exhaustion federal-courts federal-remedies habeas judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-error standing state-court-proceedings state-courts |
What remedies are available when the state court's habeas proceedings are erroneous and contrary to the laws of justice? |
| 19-7769 |
Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment competency competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation |
Whether the petitioner's 6th Amendment right to a fair trial was violated due to ineffective assistance of counsel, prosecutorial misconduct, and lack… |
| 19-777 |
Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Department of Commerce, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure article-iii article-iii-standing census-citizenship-question e-government-act federal-election-commission freedom-of-information informational-injury injury-in-fact mootness munsingwear-vacatur privacy-impact-assessment public-information standing-injury-in-fact statutory-disclosure vacatur |
Does a plaintiff suffer an Article III injury in fact when the plaintiff fails to obtain information which must be publicly disclosed pursuant to a st… |
| 19-7770 |
In Re Marcus Williams |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation constitutional-violations deception-by-counsel due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-agreement pre-trial-acts-and-omissions pre-trial-counsel structural-error |
Whether the pre-trial acts and omissions made by Marcus Williams' counsel constituted ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 19-7772 |
John Lee Barron v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review life-sentence |
Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied due process |
| 19-7774 |
Ronald Muhammad v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-preemption judicial-review precedent preemption reconciliation standing |
Is the 7th Circuit's decision appropriate for this Court's review, and if so why must this Court hear and decide this? |
| 19-7779 |
Freddy Garcia v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-erro harmless-error indictment indictment-variance jury-conviction jury-trial standard-of-review |
When a defendant is convicted of an offense for which he was not indicted, and has preserved the issues of constitutional error, what factors should a… |
| 19-7785 |
Jacob Daniel Wolf v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-petition post-conviction-relief statutory-tolling time-barred timeliness |
Did the district court properly grant Respondent's motion to dismiss Wolfs habeas petition as time-barred? |
| 19-7788 |
Ulises Corrales Vega v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process frivolous-claim habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-review legal-standard reasonable-jurists split standing summary-dismissal writ-of-certiorari |
Did the petitioner raise a substantial constitutional claim that was not so patently false or frivolous as to warrant summary dismissal? |
| 19-7789 |
Steven Klein v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof cage-v-louisiana criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana |
Whether the trial court erred by overruling Klein's objection to prosecution's misstated of the burden of proof during closing arguments |
| 19-779 |
Jordany Pierre-Paul v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
None |
|
| 19-7793 |
Michael Deuschel v. City of Long Beach, California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
ada ada-accommodation civil-rights constitutional-violation discrimination due-process judicial-procedure municipal-liability retroactivity trial-exclusion unconstitutional-custom |
Whether the City's 1 % year-long custom of illegal seizure, fraudulent post-storage notice, denied hearing, turning a blind eye and auction of Petitio… |
| 19-7803 |
Brandon Williams v. Brian B. Kemp, Governor of Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1986 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism negligence section-1986 standing |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit exceed its enumerated powers and violate basic principles of federalism |
| 19-7806 |
Cherunda Lynn Fox v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment attorney-general civil-procedure default-judgment due-process electronic-case-filing equal-protection federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure service-of-process |
Whether the defendants were served on 3-19-18 as verified by the court record, the Judge and receipt - personally verified by the Attorney General, de… |
| 19-7808 |
Richard Wayne Taylor v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-validity conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction oath-of-office sentencing |
Whether the trial judge's failure to retake and refile a valid oath of office before pronouncing sentence renders a judgment, conviction and sentence … |
| 19-7818 |
Kristopher Eric Benjamin v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims de-novo-review due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-deference strickland-v-washington |
Whether district court required to give deference to state appellate court's finding of historical facts |
| 19-7837 |
Francine Slavin v. Residential Rentals, Trustee |
New Hampshire |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process free-speech judicial-intervention judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings jurisdiction standing trial-procedure whistleblower |
Whether the New Hampshire supreme court unconstitutionally intervened in the low court's trial of this case by assigning one of its own justices to po… |
| 19-7840 |
Victor Dewayne Jones v. Joe Errington |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance judicial-review mental-competency mental-evaluation post-conviction psychiatric-evaluation public-defender sentencing sentencing-petition trial-counsel |
Whether Petitioner was denied his right to due process of law |
| 19-7859 |
Marlon Blacher v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
asset-seizure civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process due-process judicial-procedure neutral-hearing penal-code property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the California courts' denial of an evidentiary hearing is unreasonable and violates due process |
| 19-7883 |
Tyrone Harris, Sr. v. Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing criminal-statute-conflict due-process habitual-offender judicial-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court err in deferring to the lower court's finding, that Mr. Harris was not prejudice during his guilty plea sentencing hearing |
| 19-7889 |
Walter Rosario-Colon v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence insufficient-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-jurist second-degree-murder self-defense |
Whether reasonable jurists would determine that Walter Rosario-Colon acted in self-defense when he struck Antonio Aguado, or whether there was insuffi… |
| 19-789 |
Maghreb Petroleum Exploration, S.A., et al. v. John Paul DeJoria |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-retroactivity-provisions civil-rights constitutional-law de-novo-review due-process erie-doctrine federal-constitution foreign-judgment foreign-money-judgment judicial-review retroactive-application retroactive-legislation retroactivity texas-constitution texas-law texas-legislature uniform-foreign-country-money-judgments-recognitio |
Whether the retroactive application of the 2017 Texas Act violates the anti-retroactivity provisions of the Federal and the Texas Constitutions? |
| 19-7891 |
Syl Rogers v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 19-7893 |
Nicholas Roos v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-case evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining psychological-evaluation red-flags strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel-performance |
Did Arkansas Supreme Court misapply Strickland-v-Washington |
| 19-792 |
Vugo, Inc. v. City of New York, New York |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
central-hudson civil-rights commercial-speech content-based-restrictions content-based-speech first-amendment free-speech reed-v-gilbert reed-v-town-of-gilbert strict-scrutiny |
Whether strict scrutiny review should apply to government restrictions on commercial speech that do not apply to non-commercial speech |
| 19-7997 |
Jean-Gespere Pierre v. Dora L. Irizarry, Chief Judge, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination retaliation standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims against the respondent company for hostile work environment, retaliation, and racia… |
| 19-8040 |
Jerry Meas v. Osvaldo Vidal, Superintendent, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability confrontation confrontation-clause credibility criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-confrontation witness-credibility |
Whether it is permissible under a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right of confrontation for a trial judge to curtail materially relevant cross-e… |
| 19-8046 |
Michael Anthony Cervantes v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-interpretation witness-testimony |
Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2) where the district court failed to adequa… |
| 19-8076 |
Alfredo Galindo v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-procedure habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-requirement |
Whether petitioner's claim that his 300-month sentence violates his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment meets the stat… |
| 19-8089 |
Michael W. Jenkins v. Brigitte Amsberry |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel statutory-interpretation statutory-standard |
Does the Ninth Circuit's ruling, denying a Certificate of Appealabiliy to a habeas corpus petitioner, contravene the statutory standard, under 28 U.S.… |
| 19-8104 |
Juan Gonzalez-Arias v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment home-search nexus probable-cause right-to-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment |
Was there sufficient evidence of probable cause to establish a nexus between Mr. Gonzalez-Arias's drug trafficking activity and his home to justify se… |
| 19-8106 |
Salvador Arteaga Aragon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency judicial-review petitioner standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals erred in finding sufficient evidence to sustain petitioner's conspiracy conviction |
| 19-8109 |
Antonio Bogan v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-ruling threshold-inquiry |
Whether a certificate of appealability (COA) can be denied without an overview of the habeas claims and issues in the request and a general assessment… |
| 19-8110 |
DeVinche Javon AlBritton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adequate-state-ground brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct public-records state-procedural-ground |
Does the availability in Public Records qualify as an Independent or Adequate State procedural ground to bar a State prisoner's claim of prosecutorial… |
| 19-8111 |
Todd James Broxmeyer v. L. Ray Ormond, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-protection due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence presumption-of-innocence sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Is the use of the preponderance of evidence standard to enhance at sentencing deemed unconstitutional when the presumption of innocence is restored, i… |
| 19-8113 |
Johnny R. Andoe v. Joe Biden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms government-restrictions individual-rights natural-born-citizens personal-liberty second-amendment voting-rights |
Is it constitutional to discriminate between natural-born U.S. persons? |
| 19-8120 |
Jarvis Rodrick Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection false-statements fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest |
Was it unreasonable to be seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment and re-arrested for the same offense to deprive the Petitioner of his Fourteenth… |
| 19-8121 |
Nikkolas Thompson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admiralty-rules burden-of-proof civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-challenge currency-seizure due-process pleading-standards standing |
Whether the 2000 amendments to the Civil Asset Forfeiture act are constitutional where it requires a Claimant to prove the source of the funds in ques… |
| 19-8129 |
Charles Ben Bounds v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal bounds-case court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the application of Sentence Enhancement |
| 19-8130 |
Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
South Carolina |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-challenge federal-constitutional-guarantees federal-guarantees habeas-corpus life-without-parole manifest-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction |
Correcting-erroneous-denial-of-extraordinary-writ |
| 19-8133 |
Jorge A. Martinez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
but-for-causation causation constitutional-rights conviction-notice criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process health-care-fraud judicial-notice statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'but-for' test of general causation is synonymous to the statutorial element of actual causation |
| 19-8137 |
Rafael Posadas-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-departure |
Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals misapplied the law under U.S.S.G § 4A1.3 and 18 U.S.C. § 3553 (a) sentencing factors |
| 19-8144 |
Franco Nicholas Padgett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure concurrent-sentence-doctrine convictions courts-of-appeals federal-postconviction-motions federal-sentences federal-sentencing judicial-review postconviction-motion sentence-challenge sentences |
Whether the concurrent sentence doctrine applies to challenges to federal sentences when there is no challenge to a conviction |
| 19-8145 |
Santiago Cruz v. C. Betancourt |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-grievance administrative-remedies civil-rights eighth-amendment exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process prisoner-litigation procedural-error procedural-errors waiver |
Whether the district court erred in finding that the petitioner failed to exhaust administrative remedies for his Eighth Amendment claim |
| 19-8147 |
Romulo Murillo-Morales v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether the petitioner's conviction is valid given the warrantless search and seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 19-8160 |
Eddie Vincent Rutledge v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment issue-preclusion solicitation |
Did the Florida trial court violate the Fifth Amendment's guarantee against double jeopardy? |
| 19-8163 |
In Re Marie Joy Tanamor-Steffan |
|
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process executive-authority habeas-corpus immigration immigration-detention |
Whether the petitioner's prolonged immigration detention without a bond hearing violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| 19-8207 |
In Re David Dwayne Brown |
|
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review default-review gateway-claim habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence schlup-v-delo |
Whether the petitioner's claim of actual innocence, supported by newly discovered evidence, entitles him to a de novo review of the merits of his defa… |
| 19-887 |
Aryeh Simon, et ux. v. Marriott International, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cafa civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act constitution constitutional-requirement diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction minimal-diversity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court can disregard the requirement of minimal diversity to exercise jurisdiction over a case that undisputedly lacks diversity, bas… |
| 19-891 |
John Lehmann v. Nicole Haims |
New York |
Denied |
|
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights standing state-intervention |
Did the New York courts' decisions violate the parent and his child's constitutionally protected fundamental-rights,natural-rights |
| 19-898 |
Kimberly D. Collins v. Gwendolyn Thornton |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure discretion federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion service-of-process statute-of-limitations |
Whether a district court has discretion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(m) to extend the time for service of process absent good cause |
| 19-908 |
Maria Elena Araujo Buleje v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 19-929 |
Louis S. Shuman, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
5th-amendment administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process internal-revenue-code irs judicial-review standing tax tax-law |
Whether the IRS and lower Courts application of IRC 6214(b) and IRC 6402 violate the Due Process Clause of the 5th Amendment |
| 19-995 |
Michael J. Murray v. Mayo Clinic, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
americans-with-disabilities-act causation causation-standard congressional-intent disability-discrimination discrimination motivating-factor statutory-interpretation |
Is the 'motivating factor' standard most consistent with the plain language and purposes of the ADA, and Congressional intent, and therefore the appro… |
| 19M130 |
Michael Cardora Roberson v. Norris D. Jackson, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 19M131 |
Roderick Johnson v. Denise Morgan, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|