Conference: 2020-05-01

106 cases — 0 granted, 106 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented Score
18-268 Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P., et al. v. Upstate Forever, et al. Fourth Circuit GVR CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (4) citizen-suit clean-water-act discharge-of-pollutants groundwater navigable-waters ongoing-violation point-source soil The Clean Water Act requires a permit for the "discharge of pollutants" into navigable waters, defined as "any addition of any pollutant to navigable … 36.0
19-930 CIC Services, LLC v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. Sixth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (23)Relisted (2) administrative-agencies administrative-procedure-act anti-injunction-act apa-challenges direct-marketing judicial-review regulatory-mandate regulatory-mandates statutory-interpretation taxes Whether the Anti-Injunction Act's bar on lawsuits for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of taxes also bars challenges to unlawfu… 34.0
19-5807 Thedrick Edwards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (20)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-law Whether Louisiana's non-unanimous jury requirement for crimes requiring life sentences violates the Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the Un… 20.0
19-618 Jon Eric Shaffer v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-exemption digital-devices digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search fourth-amendment,private-search-doctrine,digital-p government-search private-search-doctrine property-based-test property-rights united-states-v-jacobsen united-states-v-jones virtual-certainty 1. Does the "virtual certainty" that reopening "an ordinary cardboard box" will expose nothing beyond the private actor's earlier search, Jacobsen, 46… 16.0
19-670 Arnold Fleck v. Joe Wetch, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (4)Relisted (2) compulsory-funding compulsory-membership first-amendment janus-v-afscme opt-out opt-out-mechanism political-activities political-speech state-bar-association union-fees The Petitioner is an attorney who is required by state law to join and to fund a state bar association as a condition of practicing law. He challenged… 15.0
19-959 TAMKO Building Products, Inc. v. Daniel Williams, et al. Oklahoma Denied Amici (1) agency-law arbitration-agreements equal-footing equal-footing-principle federal-arbitration-act jury-trial-rights practical-impact state-agency-law state-court-hostility state-courts Whether the Federal Arbitration Act permits state courts to craft state principles of agency law that uniquely disfavor arbitration (in the guise of u… 11.5
18-1329 Momodoulamin Jobe v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2) None 11.0
18-593 StarLink Logistics, Inc. v. ACC, LLC, et al. Tennessee Denied Relisted (2) clean-water-act effluent-limits navigable-waters npdes-permit point-source point-source-pollution preemption supremacy-clause Whether a state law that authorizes a polluter to discharge covered pollutants from a point source into the navigable waters of the United States with… 11.0
19-910 K. G. S., Individually and as Guardian and Next Friend of Baby Doe, a Minor Child v. Facebook, Inc. Alabama Denied calder-effects-test calder-v-jones due-process effects-based-test fourteenth-amendment online-activity personal-jurisdiction reputational-harm virtual-contacts walden-v-fiore Whether, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, virtual contacts can establish specific personal … 10.5
19-392 Martin A. Armstrong v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) asset-forfeiture asset-freezing civil-enforcement constitutional-right-to-counsel counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process parallel-civil-enforcement parallel-proceedings personal-property property-rights right-to-counsel 1. Whether the constitutional right to counsel of choice extends to cases where a criminal defendant's assets are frozen as part of a parallel civil e… 9.5
19-827 Territory of Guam, et al. v. Arnold Davis Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 15th-amendment fifteenth-amendment guam native-inhabitants plebiscite political-status self-determination voting-rights Whether the Fifteenth Amendment permits Guam to invite only "native inhabitants of Guam" to participate in a potential political-status plebiscite tha… 9.0
19-1064 Kealii Makekau, et al. v. Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1988 all-writs-act civil-rights civil-rights-attorneys-fees election-cancellation injunctions judicial-imprimatur merits prevailing-party statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Court's grant of an injunction pursuant to the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a), which requires a "finding that [plaintiff] has a sig… 8.5
19M132 Juan Balderas v. Texas Texas Presumed Complete Relisted (2) None 6.0
19-819 Alfred Procopio, Jr. v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied administrative-law civil-procedure equal-access-to-justice equal-access-to-justice-act haas-v-peake judicial-review pro-veteran-canon statutory-interpretation substantially-justified veterans-benefits I. Whether This Court Should Grant Certiorari to Resolve an Important Point of Law Concerning the Applicability of the "Substantially Justified" Stand… 5.5
19-940 Rene Antonio Gonzalez-De Leon v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Sixth Circuit Denied None 5.5
19-949 Wisconsin Department of Revenue, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Seventh Circuit Denied 4-r-act commercial-entities discrimination-claim intangible-property property-tax property-tax-exemption railroad-taxation state-taxation tax-exemption Does a State violate subsection (b)(4) by exempting intangible personal property of non-railroads from its personal property tax, but not exempting su… 5.5
19-957 Emerald Zodwa Nkomo v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Third Circuit Denied None 5.5
19M133 Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
19M134 Anthony Jerome Kee v. Rick Raemisch, et al. Tenth Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
19M135 Anton Purisima v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
19-1175 John Fritz, et ux. v. Washoe County, Nevada Nevada Denied Amici (1)Response Waived economic-impact economic-impairment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-regulation loretto-v-teleprompter physical-invasion physical-taking property-rights regulatory-takings takings To constitute a taking under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, must a physical invasion also destroy or substantially impair an owner's economicall… 4.5
19-1041 Rostislav Khrapko v. Kristin Splain, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction government-corruption interlocutory-appeal standing 1. Whether discrimination with no legitimate rationale, motivated by government corruption violates the Equal Protection Clause of the United State… 4.0
19-1076 John L. Corrigan, Jr. v. City of Savage, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived 1983-claim 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights custody due-process favorable-termination habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration judicial-precedent section-1983 spencer-v-kemna standing Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of seven other circuits, that the favorable termination rule applies even if … 3.5
19-1077 Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-liability color-of-law due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-immunity separation-of-powers Are the circuit judges of the Third Circuit acting in violation of the US Constitution by providing different due process to citizens similarly situat… 3.5
19-1083 Jeffrey A. Clouser v. Kim Doherty, et al. Delaware Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection official-misconduct qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity state-tort-claims state-tort-claims-act whistleblower-protection I. A Delaware Department of Education official, sued in his official and individual-capacities, knowingly disregarded available results of a State Pol… 3.5
19-1092 In Re TCT Mobile International Limited Denied Response Waived bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure contact-attribution due-process eastern-district-of-texas federal-circuit forum-state mandamus nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce unilateral-activity venue 1. Whether the Federal Circuit erred in denying mandamus and failing to correct a district court ruling finding personal jurisdiction over a nonreside… 3.5
19-1107 Clinton L. Sides, et ux. v. Central Kansas Conservancy, Inc. Kansas Denied Response Waived adverse-easement adverse-possession federal-law national-trail-system-act prescriptive-easement property-reactivation property-rights rail-banking railroad-right-of-way servient-estate trail-use-easement Does federal law preclude the application of state adverse possession/prescriptive easement doctrines to trail-use easements created under the Nationa… 3.5
19-1179 Yuri J. Stoyanov v. James E. McPherson, Acting Secretary of the Navy, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived case-consolidation civil-rights consolidation due-process federal-crimes fraud judicial-fraud mail-fraud obstruction-of-justice postal-service-records pro-se-petition wire-fraud Question not identified. 3.5
19-1198 CANVS Corporation v. Barbara M. Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law contract-law due-process government-contracts government-liability intellectual-property small-business small-business-innovation takings Can the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, an administrative panel, deprive a corporation of valuable intellectual property without due process… 3.5
19-6429 William Jovian Davis v. Clark E. Ducart, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (7)IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing forensic-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit-review pro-se strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Ninth Circuit's unreasoned denial so clearly misapply Buck's modest standard as to call for summary reversal? 3.5
19-7116 Eddie Estuardo Galindo-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review? 0.5
19-7958 Anthony Quinones v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard vagueness 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
19-7974 Jesse Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness-standard 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
19-7976 Lonnie Victor Fleming v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard 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
19-7977 Robert Morris Hoff v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard vagueness 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
19-7981 Marcos Robert Castaneda v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines timeliness void-for-vagueness 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
19-7988 Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence harmless-error hearsay hearsay-standard standard-of-review Where hearsay, consisting of an inculpatory, out-of-court statement made other than to law enforcement, is erroneously introduced to the defendant's p… -1.5
19-6982 Ernest Collins v. Barnes & Thornburg LLP, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 1983-civil-rights-act case-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment incorporation judicial-discretion qualified-immunity section-1691 standing statutory-interpretation DOES THE DISCRETIONARY FUNCTIONS EXCEPTIONS IN 28 U.S.C. 2680(a) APPLY WHEN THE ALLEGED RIGHTS DOES THE "COMMITTED TO AGENCY DISCRETION" EXCEPTION IN… -4.0
19-7204 Eric Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal strickland SHOULD PETITIONERS NOTICE OF APPEAL HAVE BEEN CONSTRUED AS A REQUEST FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ON GROUNDS 1-12 AND 14-15, AND WAS FAILURE TO … -4.0
19-7099 Paul David Storey v. Texas Texas Denied IFP constitutional-violation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intentional-concealment prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review state-habeas Whether it violates due process for a state court to deny substantive review of a constitutional violation in a death penalty case, when the state hab… -4.5
19-7479 Brian Price v. United States First Circuit Denied IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant's constitutional rights are abridged when a district court bases its sentence solely on acquitted conduct. Whether a criminal con… -4.5
19-7504 Verdell Marcel Brooks v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act… -4.5
19-7807 Christopher Young v. Jose Boggio, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment ineffective-treatment intentional-mistreatment medical-care medical-need prisoner-rights serious-medical-need treatment 1.) Whether the contention that an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference to serious medical need claim fails simply because the Plaintiff received… -4.5
19-7814 Alicia Herriott v. Paul Herriott California Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-court appeal-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights common-law-protection due-process privileges-and-immunities recall-remittitur standing statutory-law vexatious-litigant In Honda Motor Co., Ltd. v. Oberg, 512 U.S. 415 (1994) this Court has not hesitated to find proceedings violative of due process where a party has bee… -4.5
19-7815 Robert Grimsley v. Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights contractual-leniency custody due-process fraud fraud-in-the-facts habeas-corpus prison prison-contracts prisoner-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-judgment statutory-interpretation takings Can a state commit the crimes of fraud in the facta of its own Sentencing guidelines to renege on prison contracts How can there be Habas Corpus reli… -4.5
19-7822 Harry J. Williby v. Mark Zuckerberg, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing statutory-interpretation takings A. Is Facebook subject to suit under the Civil Rights law(s) based upon the conduct -4.5
19-7827 Terry O'Nell Hall v. Texas Texas Denied IFP co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-trial cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidentiary-inconsistency fundamental-fairness inconsistent-testimony right-to-fair-trial sentencing-disparity victim-testimony witness-testimony DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DECIDE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TD DUE P WAS NOT VIOLATED, WHERE THE VICTIM TESTIFIED ONE WAY DURING HIS TRIAL AND THEN TEST… -4.5
19-7828 Ronald Hayward v. Keith J. Foley, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment box-truck civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search 1. Do a police officer have probable cause to search a vehicle or a box truck without a search warrant? 2. Do citizens has the protection of the Four… -4.5
19-7831 Jose Antonio Cortez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction standing statute-of-limitations Question not identified. -4.5
19-7832 Sean Wayne Pierce v. California California Denied IFP actually-innocent constitutional-review conviction criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus miller-v-alabama mitigating-factor sentence standard-of-review-under-miller-v-alabama status-rather-than-criminal-conduct validity-of-conviction youth-offender 1. Whether habeas corpus under Miller v. Alabama , 567 U.S. 460, 465 was necessary when a "significant mitigating factor " pop-up that calls into qu… -4.5
19-7841 In Re Elloyd Johnson Denied IFP certiorari-denial conviction court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus judicial-assignment judicial-misconduct judicial-oath judicial-review jurisdiction oath-of-office sentence (1) When a judicial officer clearly preside over a conviction and sentence WITHOUT BEING ASSIGNED OR HAVE TAKEN OATH OF OFFICE AND RECEIVED LEGAL FORM… -4.5
19-7850 Bobby Drew Autry v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-error due-process false-imprisonment final-judgment habeas-corpus plea-bargain statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause Does the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) of 1996; one year statute of limitations as quoted in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A) ".final… -4.5
19-7856 Richard Kenneth Djerf v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel In a state capital murder case, the state prosecutor and trial court recognized on the record that trial counsel were not properly investigating and p… -4.5
19-7860 Robert Rowles v. GEO Group, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment circuit-court civil-rights cost-cutting deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate inmate-rights judicial-discretion medical-treatment prison standing DID THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DENYING RELIEF ON THE LACK OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT IS FAILING TO TREAT A … -4.5
19-7861 Sean P. Reilly v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus in-custody in-custody-requirement lackawanna-county-v-cross schlup-v-delo witness-tampering Whether the "actual innocence" gateway to federal habeas review applied in Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 115 S. Ct. 851, 130 L. Ed. 2d 808 (1995), and… -4.5
19-7864 Derek Crosby v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process indictment jury jury-determination legislative-power sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-maximum Whether The Legislature Can Remove The Facts From The Jury That Increase The Statutory Maximum ? Whether Defendant Was Properly Found Death Eligible … -4.5
19-7867 David Leon Mims v. Illinois Health and Family Services Illinois Denied IFP child-support civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process freedom jurisdiction statutory-interpretation THe pAyMert oF Chid Supprt (TiHI D PriNAtEe COMPANY is NOt MANdatoRY, ANd hAS NO JarisdictiON tO Stop my FOodom AS A FrEt MAN -4.5
19-7870 Louis Ivester Peets v. Robert W. Fox, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus insanity-defense ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity procedural-bar schlup-gateway schlup-test (1) If Petitioner provided sufficient newly presented evidence for all reasonable jurors to conclude that he was "not guilty by reason of insanity"—wo… -4.5
19-7871 In Re Antonio Damarcus Woodson Dismissed IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-procedure-standing-jurisdiction-federal-rule civil-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment jurisdiction legal-standards procedural-due-process retroactive-law standing WHETHER OR NOT THE JURISDICTIONAL REQUIREMENTS UNDER ZBUSCS Z284)U, 2D72 (FEROUP.-7))C), 8CA), 9CO)-) THE PLANTIFFHAD A RIGHT HANE TBOTHE AETIONS F A … -4.5
19-7874 Jackie Dewayne Andrews v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction federal-proceedings habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings integrity-of-proceedings judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-defect rule-60(b) rule-60b DOES THE DISTRICT COURT HAVE JURISDICTION TO CONSIDER A RULE 60 (b) MOTION IN HABEAS PROCEEDINGS SO LONG AS THE MOTION ATTACKS NOT THE SUBSTANCE OF TH… -4.5
19-7877 Tyrone Rogers v. Josie Gastelo, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP Conflict-counsel Enhanced-sentence In-custody in-custody-determination ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial ninth-circuit-conflict procedural-default Procedural-defaults sentencing-error Sexual-elements Has the U.S. Ninth Court of appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decisions of other U.S. court of appeals on the important subject of "se… -4.5
19-7890 Kevin Michael-Ferdinand Richards v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-coercion plea-understanding plea-withdrawal trial-court-discretion I. Did The TriAl Court Abuse It's Discretion When It Denied Pla WithdrAwal Under MCR 6.3IOcB); Mr. RicHaRds HAs A Due Process Right To PleA Withdrawal… -4.5
19-7892 Frank Roark v. New York New York Denied IFP bar-admission civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules judicial-procedure new-york-law standing 1. Is Frank Roorith the BAR part and whlly in and of His other in and of Anger 2 YES 2. Is Fronk Roor the BABin pert and undly iy ond K Ys matter in … -4.5
19-7895 David Dwayne Brown v. Florida Florida Denied IFP access-to-court-rights appellate-court-orders civil-procedure due-process pro-se-petitions state-appellate-courts access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-petitions state-courts i. Whether Constitutional right of access to court is violated when State Appellate court does not issue a show cause order as to why pro se litigants… -4.5
19-7897 Brent Evan Webster v. CorVel Enterprise Company, Inc., et al. Oregon Denied IFP arrest-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-law due-process fraud human-trafficking identity-theft legal-abuse legal-coercion remedy standing Can this man Reverse- Fraudulently Incurred Jail-Bond-Contracts, with Public and Private Corporate Entities, by Implementing his own Legally Binding T… -4.5
19-7900 Tanino Emon Miller v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation It T&s £vz:t>svcF tki^^FF tctb /^t T Fxr/ub TUB Ftncr-^soe/z £vTtTi T>T( cv1> A- Bter ]>oo>SF FofZ /4-~&rtuc-r~ k/^T7/ t+jTevT To d?£&rr /3o^ f fi'U&… -4.5
19-6442 William Conrad Yeager, II v. National Public Radio, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights defamation defamation-law first-amendment free-speech libel libel-standards media-access newsworthiness public-controversy public-figure public-figure-doctrine public-interest Whether the petitioner, an unknown musician and independent filmmaker (NPR stated: "Nobody's ever heard of this guy. "), who fails to meet the require… -6.0
19-6928 Lee Dale Lofton, Jr. v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment standing 1. By the exception of Martinez V. Ryan (32 S.Ct. 1309 (2012), Petitioner's inability to meet the one year time limitation under CAEDPA in Habeas corp… -6.0
19-7173 Kenneth Rose v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP address-discrepancy affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-fact plain-error search-warrant suppression 1) Reasonable jurists would debate that appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to raise a plain error of fact material to Leon's third exceptio… -6.0
19-7199 Paul Tooly v. John F. Schwaller Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process employee-rights first-amendment free-speech qualified-immunity retaliation standing university-administration workplace-violence John Schaller, the then President of The State University of New York (SUNY) at Potsdam, should not be allowed qualified immunity for many reasons. A… -6.0
19-7229 Asata D. Lowe v. Mike Parris, et al. Tennessee Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process procedural-due-process property-interest state-action state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction substantive-due-process Does the Petitioner have a property interest in (1) Rule 13 and 36 of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure and the (2) Right to relief secured b… -6.0
19-7318 John Henry Yablonsky v. California California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adversarial-challenge civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence-manipulation evidence-tampering fiduciary-duty fourteenth-amendment historical-accuracy prosecutorial-misconduct trial-integrity 1. HOW CAN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES UPHOLD CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS IF THE COURT ALLOWS STATE TERRITORIES TO PLUNDER THE CORNERSTONES OF THOS… -6.0
19-7383 Parnell May v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-conduct legal-procedure motion-for-new-trial motion-procedure standing trial-court Did the trial Court embarked on A Course Set to Provoke A Mistrial, by the trial Court embodying on A Course, that was the Public defenders that the t… -6.0
19-7409 Melvin Pryor v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm firearm-display physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony Do criminal statutes that prohibit angry or threatening firearm displays not targeted at a specific victim qualify as a "violent felony" having as an … -6.0
19-7509 In Re Lawrence E. Mattison Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP all-writs-act ends-of-justice federal-enclave federal-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice state-conviction supremacy-clause void-ab-initio Whether 28 U.S.C. §1651 (the All writs Act") allows this court authority to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus when a clear interference with a Federal pro… -6.0
19-7606 Robert McKinnon, III v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extrinsic-fraud federal-court federal-courts federal-petition habeas-corpus jurisdictional-default standing statutory-tolling subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. DOES STATUTORY TOLLING AS DESCRIBED IN 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(B) AND (D) PERMIT A PETITIONER 'S DIRECT FILING OF SECOND 28 U.S.C. § 2254 HABEAS COR… -6.0
19-7829 Dale E. Phillips v. South Coast Plaza, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination class-action constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction pro-se-litigation standing state-actor vexatious-litigant Whether California's Vexatious Litigant Laws (CCP § 391(b)) violate the 1st, 8th and 14th Amendments of the US Constitution, particularly when a gover… -6.5
19-7849 Siva Black v. Edward Dolan, Commissioner of Probation Department First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa arbitrary-power due-process fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae pretrial-custody state-power What is Arbitrary power —restricted by the Fourteenth Amendment Due process clause —if it isn't the state's unestablished parens patriae power, used t… -6.5
19-7941 Jane Doe v. United States, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act appellate-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process pro-se pro-se-litigation reasonable-accommodation standing I. Whether the Second Circuit on January 3, 2020 violated the law by fifth and fourteenth Amendment by dismissing the appeal without ruling on the re… -6.5
19-7948 Omar N. Davis v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-counsel The main question in this petition is whether a petitioner's due process rights were violated because he had ineffective assistance of counsel. Here, … -6.5
19-7957 Damar D. Ruffin v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law jury-instruction jury-trial reversible-error sentencing standard-of-review 1. Sheer le Sul, Circle Cocer oF Aopeals Tiling \s \n direct Contes cartlkwothe Laws othe Svupreme CoURT™ Rex er ding . Pleas Eaor tor Kel cation OF —… -6.5
19-7963 Yehowshua Yisrael v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process florida-constitution jurisdiction manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct substantive-due-process 1. Did the trial Court and State of Florida Prosecutor invoked a miscarriage of Justice and manifest Injustice as to wair their conduct did not compor… -6.5
19-7965 Cedric Edney v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fifth-circuit-interpretation mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states u-s-s-g-section-4b1-2-b Did the Fifth Circuit Err in deciding as an issue of first impression, that Texas offenses of Distribution of controlled substances and possession wit… -6.5
19-7971 William L. Lewis v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP bias burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error prejudice prior-convictions reasonable-doubt robbery sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Did the trial Code And The Appellate Court error within entering a finding of quilt On a Single count Robbery when the government Cid net Prove pet… -6.5
19-7972 Javier Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4b1.1 career-offender categorical-approach drug-offense fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach predicate-drug-offense prior-conviction records-of-conviction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 south-carolina-code Pursuant to Section 4B1.1 of the United States Sentencing Commission Guidelines, following a conviction for a narcotics offense, an offender who has a… -6.5
19-7978 Ramon Delgado, aka Ramon Delgado-Pina v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law affection-influence civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process foreign-nationals foreign-relations security-clearance sentencing uncharged-conduct vagueness First, was it unconstitutionally vague to ask Petitioner in a security clearance questionnaire to name the foreign nationals with whom Petitioner had … -6.5
19-7979 Leo Chadwick v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP animal-fighting animal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pre-sentence-report recusal sentencing I. Whether A Judge' Statements Demonstrating Extreme Bias Against Pit Bull Owners as a Class And Advocating the Elimination of Anyone Involved in Dogf… -6.5
19-7984 Danny Pereda v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process government-discretion government-procedures jury-trial sentencing-guidelines Question not identified. -6.5
19-8003 Bradley Deon Hoover v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-prejudice alibi-defense capital-murder due-process preindictment-delay statute-of-limitations Whether the lack of reasonable justification for an excessively delayed prosecution must be considered when the accused, at no fault of their own, suf… -6.5
19-8017 Maria Mercedes Cancino, et al. v. Cameron County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-circuit civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process legal-error state-created-danger 1. The District Court and the 5th Circuit erred, as a matter of law, in failing to find that Appellants have a constitutional right to be free from st… -6.5
19-8035 Manuel de Jesus Valencia v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP confession-extraction constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation edwards edwards-rule fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement-deception miranda miranda-rights self-incrimination undercover-operations Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a deceptive ploy in which uniformed and undercover officers work together to extract a confession f… -6.5
19-8092 Jose Roberto Padilla v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None -6.5
19-8131 Dwayne B. Sheron v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-powers probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search WHETHER a police officer can utter the magic words "I smelled an odor of marihuana" long after he conducted illegal search of a vehicle to justify sai… -6.5
19-8139 Douglas Duran Cerritos v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama psychiatric-evaluation section-2255-motion Did the Fourth Circuit commit errror by not granting Mr. 1. Cerritos a COA under 28 tKS.C... §2253 (c)(2), after the denial of his 28 U.S.C. §2255 mot… -6.5
19-8154 Jody Stamp v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure disabilities-act disability-accommodations due-process mental-health post-traumatic-stress sentencing sentencing-mitigation The question presented is should the District Coust Judge forcloser of a down word variance be based or the Judges Personal interpcatation of the Defe… -6.5
19-8155 Omar Saunders v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure denial due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review saunders third-circuit 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Saunders' Denial of Habeas Corpus? -6.5
19-8158 Lucas Heindenstrom v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 causation causation-standard fentanyl fentanyl-death harmless-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-sentencing upward-departure Is applying the wrong causation standard when upwardly departing under the sentencing guidelines or upwardly varying under the statutory sentencing fa… -6.5
19-8161 In Re Curtis Smith Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court due-process federal-courts gatekeeper-standard habeas-corpus sanctions statutory-interpretation I. Did the court of appeal adopt divergent interpretation gatekeeper standard? Does the gatekeeper visited?" by this Supreme Court, because different … -6.5
19-8162 In Re Curtis Smith Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court-discretion due-process judicial-precedent mandate mandate-recall post-judgment-relief recall seventh-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari writ-of-mandamus I. Did the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit adopted divergent interpretation of the Supreme Court of the United States binding precedent cas… -6.5
19-8172 Adam Carson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction perjury statutory-interpretation witness-credibility witness-tampering Can a conviction for witness tampering be upheld when a Defendant did not ask a witness to lie for him? and; can a Court of Appeals change the interpr… -6.5
19-8173 Ervin L. St. Claire v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Circumventing the two step ineuivey mandated by 759, Buck U. Davis 137 .S.ct, (2017), based upon Tollins Provisions, 7I Erved in Ciscuit WHETHER the E… -6.5
19-8178 Alexander Nathan Norris v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP electronic-privacy fourth-amendment home-privacy kyllo-v-united-states law-enforcement-surveillance reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search sense-enhancing-technology technology warrantless-search In Kyllo v. United States, the Court held that "obtaining by sense-enhancing technology any information regarding the interior of the home that could … -6.5
19-8187 Kahwahnas Nucumbhi Potts v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1028a circuit-split consecutive-sentencing criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court federal-procedure inter-circuit-conflict sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to resolve inter-Circuit disharmony regarding a District Court's consideration of consecutive sen… -6.5
19-8188 Anthony Wayne Hamilton v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence hobbs-act ninth-circuit-conflict physical-confrontation sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-florida 1. Whether a Hobbs Act robbery, which statutorily can be committed by a threat of future harm, categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18… -6.5
19-8193 John Purifoy v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review booker booker-decision criminal-procedure downward-departure jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that an appellate court does not have the jurisdiction to review the denial of a dow… -6.5
19-8218 Angel Paz-Alvarez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-853 appeals controlled-substances criminal-forfeiture drug-trafficking due-process standing statutory-interpretation third-party third-party-interest This petition asks an important question: whether modern criminl- forfeiture statutes can be squared with the Due Process Clause and and whether petit… -6.5