Conference: 2020-05-15

186 cases — 0 granted, 186 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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18-1421 Nassau County District Attorney's Office v. Mark Orlando Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (23) aedpa aedpa-deference bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation deferential-review habeas-corpus murder-conviction state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane tennessee-v-street Whether the state court's admission of an accomplice's inculpatory statement, accompanied by limiting instructions, violated the Confrontation Clause
19-1005 Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Research Center, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure article-iii-standing circuit-precedent en-banc-review federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure intra-circuit-splits jurisdictional-dismissal local-appellate-rules local-rules motions-panel subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Ninth Circuit's local rules for en banc review violate FED. R. APP. P. 47(a)(1) by allowing a three-judge motions panel to deny en banc re…
19-1006 Facebook, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, et al. California Denied communication-contents constitutional-rights constitutional-subpoena contempt criminal-defendant-rights privacy privacy-protection service-provider-disclosure service-providers stored-communications-act subpoena Whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to subpoena service providers and force them to turn over the contents of their account holder…
19-1021 Micah Jessop, et al. v. City of Fresno, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct property-rights property-seizure qualified-immunity search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure Whether it is clearly established that the Fourth Amendment prohibits police officers from stealing property listed in a search warrant
19-1049 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, et al. v. Crystallex International Corporation Third Circuit Denied alter-ego alter-ego-doctrine attachment exceptional-importance foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia instrumentality international-law judgment-enforcement pdvsa sovereign-immunity third-circuit Whether a judgment-enforcement action against a foreign sovereign and its instrumentality must be predicated on applicable exceptions to the immunity …
19-1079 M.W. Watermark, LLC, et al. v. Evoqua Water Technologies, LLC Sixth Circuit Denied civil-rights consent-decree contract-assignment contract-law due-process federal-court four-corners injunction injunctive-relief sixth-circuit standing Does a person or entity lack standing to enforce a federal court's consent decree that includes an injunction if it was not a party to the original co…
19-1081 Arlene Rosenblatt v. City of Santa Monica, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied circuit-split constitutional-scrutiny discriminatory-purpose dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-reach interstate-commerce legislative-intent nonresident-discrimination presumption-of-no-extraterritorial-intent Whether a local ordinance that discriminates against interstate commerce, and was enacted for a discriminatory purpose, must additionally discriminate…
19-1088 Gerson Irving Fox v. Elissa Miller, Chapter 7 Trustee Ninth Circuit Denied admissible-evidence bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-727(a)(3) civil-procedure competent-evidence debtor-discharge discharge evidentiary-standard judicial-discretion recordkeeping recordkeeping-requirements summary-judgment Whether a justification for recordkeeping 'under all of the circumstances,' where supported by competent, admissible evidence, may be weighed and over…
19-1093 Aleashia Clarkston, et al. v. John White Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit government-officials legal-standard qualified-immunity section-1983 standing takings Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that there is a second type of qualified immunity—that government officials are also entitled to qualified immuni…
19-1095 James Beggs, et ux. v. Beverly Story, et al. Virginia Denied civil-rights conspiracy court-fraud domestic-terrorism due-process mental-health military-power-of-attorney national-defense-authorization-act standing title-18-usc-241-242 veterans-affairs veterans-rights Was a Veteran deprived of continued Mental Health Care from a War Zone under President Obama Executive Order 13625 by Conspiracy Under Title 18, U.S.C…
19-1096 Multiventas y Servicios, Inc., et al. v. Oriental Bank Puerto Rico Denied credit-default-swap due-process foreclosure foreclosure-standing jurisdiction mortgage-securitization note-ownership promissory-note securities-law securitization standing standing-to-sue ucc-section-3 ucc-section-8 uniform-commercial-code Whether the plaintiff lacks standing to sue for collection of monies and foreclosure when the plaintiff is neither owner, nor holder, nor possessor of…
19-1109 Timothy C. Yoakum v. Sabre GLBL Incorporated Fifth Circuit Denied adverse-action adverse-employment-action civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights employment employment-discrimination performance-review summary-judgment title-vii Does the issuance of an undeserved Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) and undeserved employee performance review become actionable under Title VII as …
19-1111 Michael Anthony Deem v. Lorna DiMella-Deem, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived abstention-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations-abstention due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-claims federalism judicial-immunity parental-rights standing Does a federal court have a right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction over federal-question claims?
19-1112 Stephanie Jones v. Jeremy Eder, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights fourth-amendment interstate-commerce-clause preemption prescription-drugs prescription-medication probable-cause search-and-seizure supremacy-clause warrantless-seizure Does the Fourth Amendment, the Supremacy Clause, or the Interstate Commerce Clause prohibit state actors from warrantlessly seizing the People and the…
19-1114 National Collegiate Athletic Association, et al. v. New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association, Inc. Third Circuit Denied civil-procedure damages equitable-discretion federal-rules-of-civil-procedure injunction injunction-bond permanent-injunction rule-65(c) rule-65c sports-gambling temporary-restraining-order Whether a party was 'wrongfully enjoined' under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) when the district court confirmed via the grant of a permanent i…
19-1117 Henrikas Malukas v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived None
19-1119 Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance v. Department of the Interior, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-services arbitrary-and-capricious environmental-policy federal-property federal-property-and-administrative-services-act military-helicopter-training military-training national-environmental-policy-act national-park-service recreation secretary-of-the-interior standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Did the Seventh Circuit err in concluding that the National Park Service's approval of military helicopter training exercises on property conveyed for…
19-1122 Hong Tang v. University of Baltimore, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-injunctive-relief declaratory-relief due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young jurisdictional-grounds official-capacity pro-se-litigant service-of-process sovereign-immunity standing Whether the lower courts should have liberally construed the pro se litigant's claims
19-1128 Jose Mendes Da Costa v. City of Mount Vernon Police Officer Pereira, et al. Second Circuit Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation claim-preclusion constitutional-amendments due-process petition-rights res-judicata Whether the right to petition the government for redress of grievances is violated by the claim preclusion Res Judicata, Bar Order
19-1129 Charles T. Fote v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-opinion judicial-reasoning judicial-review legal-reasoning rehearing supervisory-authority written-opinion Whether a court of appeals must provide an opinion explaining its reasoning in an appeal that involves a complex and unsettled area of the law and in …
19-1132 Blackbird Tech LLC, dba Blackbird Technologies v. Health in Motion LLC, dba Inspire Fitness, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-fees case-by-case-analysis exceptional-case judicial-determination litigating-position litigation-discretion octane-fitness patent-act patent-law patent-litigation Can a court consider factors unrelated to the instant case in determining whether a particular case is exceptional?
19-1139 James Leonard Hines v. Regions Bank, fka Union Planters Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-transfer notice notice-of-complaint personal-jurisdiction service-of-process Was the precedent established by the U. S. Supreme Court in summons-and-complaint followed in the lower courts' decisions
19-1150 Gary Kirchhoff v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-suit fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech military-medical-privileges statute-of-limitations whistleblower whistleblower-rights Whether the court erred in affirming the lower court's decision that the statute of limitations was past for Gary Kirchhoff, M.D. to file a federal su…
19-1161 Justin Hawkins v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion stolen-vehicle traffic-stop vehicle-registration vehicle-search Whether a report that a car's color is different from the color listed on the car's registration—without any additional facts—gives a police officer r…
19-1168 Mirek Machala v. Libuse Kral, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment Whether Petitioner's due process right was violated
19-1172 Mark Targowski v. Zachary Lee Rawlins Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived 8th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights direct-appeal due-process evidence evidence-standard jury per-curiam reasonable-jury standing verdict writ-of-certiorari Whether no reasonable jury could have reached the same verdict based on the evidence submitted.
19-1188 Samaca, LLC v. Cellairis Franchise, Inc., et al. Georgia Denied Response Waived arbitrability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-arbitration-act georgia litigation preemption sanctions standing state-law Is Georgia's remedy for abusive litigation under O.C.G.A. § 9-15-14 exempt from arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act?
19-1196 William Johnson v. Paulding County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eleventh-amendment manuel-v-city-of-joliet pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention statute-of-limitations Whether a State's statute of limitations bridling the pursuit of regress for UnConstitutional and illegal pre-trial imprisonment commences 48 hours af…
19-1202 Thomas Taffe, et al. v. First National Bank of Alaska Alaska Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial legal-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants standing summary-judgment systemic-bias Did a systemic bias against pro se litigants lead to the unconstitutional denial of Petitioners' right to a jury trial in this case?
19-1209 Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott Frakes Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review castro-v-us constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus non-successiveness panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards Does the Appellate Court's obscure Panel denials violate the 1996 A.E.D.P.A. Constitutional Due Process Question in Conflict with the Certiorari Decis…
19-1211 James Christopher North v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived aedpa circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-limitations-period habeas-corpus state-court-proceedings state-habeas statute-of-limitations Does a state court's act lulling a petitioner into believing he has tolled limitations—and resulting in running out his federal limitations period—war…
19-1213 Buck Leon Hammers v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived conspiracy conspiracy-conviction-inferences-executive-positio criminal-conviction evidence evidence-standard exculpatory-evidence executive-position hearsay hearsay-exculpatory-evidence-chambers-v-mississipp inference judicial-review tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly found sufficient evidence for Mr. Hammers to be convicted of conspiracy based solely upon inferences from his exe…
19-1226 In Re Masoud Bamdad Denied 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 constitutional-rights constitutional-violation detention-review due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus inadequate-and-ineffective ineffective-assistance jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-remedy Whether a federal prisoner can obtain relief via the original writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. §2241 when the initial §2255 motion and its subseq…
19-1228 Kaneka Corporation v. Xiamen Kingdomway Group Company, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment 7th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure claim-construction due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment patent patent-infringement patent-infringement-non-infringement rule-36 seventh-amendment standing summary-judgment Whether the Federal Circuit may affirm a judgment of non-infringement without opinion and on alternative grounds first raised by the respondents at or…
19-55 James W. Richards, IV v. Barbara M. Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Armed Forces Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) all-writs-act article-i article-i-court caaf executive-branch extraordinary-writ jurisdiction military-courts military-jurisdiction uniform-code-military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice Can the Executive Branch divest an Article I military court of appeals of jurisdiction over an extraordinary writ brought under the All Writs Act, 28 …
19-6006 Nicholas Wilkerson v. Alabama Alabama Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-hearing Does the Eighth Amendment require a factual finding to determine to which class a given juvenile belongs?
19-605 Arizona v. Philip John Martin Arizona Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal criminal-appeal double-jeopardy first-degree-murder greater-offense hung-jury hung-jury-rule jury-instructions jury-verdict lesser-offense richardson-v-united-states second-degree-murder When a jury expressly states it is 'unable to agree' on a defendant's guilt for a greater offense and convicts the defendant of a lesser offense, and …
19-6426 John Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure district-court extraordinary-circumstances finality finality-exception legal-standard relief-from-judgement relief-from-judgment timely-filing timely-motion Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief from judgement where he files a motion in a timely fashion and provides the district court with extraordinary…
19-6588 Carlos Javier Pedroza-Rocha v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-remedies collateral-attack due-process hearing-time illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-court-authority immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Pedroza because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
19-6657 Rikisha S. Smith v. Dr. Scott, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
19-6701 Carl Labat v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP exhaustion-of-state-remedies fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-remedies strickland-standard strickland-v-washington supervisory-writs Whether Mr. Labat was denied effective assistance of counsel on appeal due to: (a) Failure to Exhaust State Remedies; (b) failure to seek Supervisory …
19-6705 Keenan G. Wilkins v. J. Galvin, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-award civil-procedure dismissal district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-standard manifest-disregard motion-to-strike motion-to-vacate standing Does the Court of Appeal have jurisdiction to decide an appeal before hearing an oral argument by the appellants, and is the appellants' request for I…
19-6783 Virgil Lamont Jarvis v. David Allison, Sheriff, Pearl River County, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-review appeal-rights appeals civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies in-forma-pauperis jury-trial legal-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act standing summary-judgment Whether officials can refuse to process inmate grievances and then dismiss a subsequent civil rights lawsuit for failure to exhaust administrative rem…
19-682 Melanie Kelsay v. Matt Ernst Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment non-compliance police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanan…
19-6839 Patrick R. Smith v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination standing Whether the lower courts erred in upholding the racial discrimination in jury selection in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-6922 Charles Edward Bates v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-punishment forfeiture sentencing Whether the lower courts erred in their interpretation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition on excessive fines and punishments as the forfeiture amount…
19-7017 Lana K. Williams v. Taco Bell Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings WHEY Wo dipatiwvZrv3unnmMe gv Bus iv Ess
19-7023 Michael P. Cotton v. Scott Eckstein, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process eminent-domain jurisdiction property-rights standing statutes-and-regulations takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for evaluating a claim under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
19-7085 Ratha Oeur v. County of Los Angeles, California California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion child-support continuance de-novo de-novo-review due-process family-law income-expense-declaration standard-of-review unexpected-event Does this Court of Appeal's Opinion conflict with the Court of Appeal's decision in In re the Marriage of Tydlaska?
19-7217 Rickey Thompson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause firearms johnson-davis-doctrine johnson-v-united-states mandatory-minimum second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8) is unconstitutionally vague
19-7228 Jerry Carter v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chain-of-custody confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-8th-amendment-confrontation-cla criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns eighth-circuit evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-violation strickland-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in rejecting the Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred
19-7230 In Re Arthur Lopez Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings Whether Mold a Biobyical ond Prasrnad Male, US Bert Gitlin, Gonr Povely Minn Chilaan Be slaiele 4 afforded the Uncted Bhectex (mot tictione Gil Qykt i…
19-7374 In Re John Wallace Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion mandamus procedural-error sanctions standing three-strikes three-strikes-law three-strikes-statute whether-magistrate-judge-exceeded-authority-in-issuing-strike
19-7413 Brennen Clancy v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-conflict classification due-process equal-protection felony misdemeanor probation probation-department sentence-classification sentencing statutory-interpretation Can a probation department change the classification of a sentence from MISDEMEANOR to FELONY for no reason and without any due process?
19-7425 Wylmina Louemna Hettinga v. Arcadia Management Services Co. California Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection insurmountable-security legal-remedy security-deposit standing takings vexatious-litigant Is the imposition of insurmountable security on a California Vexatious Litigant a violation of the Equal Protection or Due Process rights?
19-7455 Ronson Kyle Bush v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-law fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decisions state-court-review unreasonableness Whether the 'clearly established Federal law' provision of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act renders state court decisions categorical…
19-7476 Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-rule brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-investigation procedural-default professional-standards Must a court consider prevailing professional norms when determining whether a life history investigation was 'thorough?
19-7489 Paul Edward Duran v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure empirical-evidence evidence evidence-standard exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illinois-v-krull judicial-review search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions united-states-v-leon Whether the Circumstances regarding the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule § 2010F not evolved around the obtaining, holding and exclusion of evidence…
19-7553 Gerald Humbert v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 11th-circuit acca armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation summary-remand Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offens…
19-7607 Jon P. Westrum v. National Labor Relations Board Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alter-ego-doctrine civil-rights due-process labor-dispute labor-law legal-standing sole-proprietorship statute-of-limitations time-bar union-representation Whether a one-man shop can be represented by a union, whether the 6-month time bar had lapsed, whether the union failed to represent the first company…
19-7627 Ernesto Salgado Martinez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure brady-claim brady-evidence brady-violation capital-case gonzalez-v-crosby ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias kyles-v-whitley ninth-circuit Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's law of implied judicial bias
19-7645 Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure decisional-law due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-courts federal-rules gonzalez-v-crosby rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 split-among-circuits standing supreme-court-precedent Whether a change in decisional law may constitute an extraordinary circumstance justifying relief under Rule 60(b)(6)
19-7716 Timmy Wallace v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment database-search fourth-amendment police-database reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-identification Does Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015) permit a traffic stop to be extended based on a suspicion that had already been dispelled by p…
19-7792 In Re David Lopez Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-3231 actual-innocence cause-and-effect-doctrine constitutional-violation criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the government's defense, jury instructions, and denial of counsel were prejudicial to the defendant
19-7805 Shavis Holloman v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower court's decision
19-7810 Dale W. Eaton v. Mike Pacheco, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 cullen-v-pinholster federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency new-evidence state-court-adjudication strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a state court has adjudicated the performance prong of a Strickland v. Washington claim on the merits within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d…
19-7866 Farid Popal v. Stephen Brown Second Circuit Dismissed IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus witness-tampering Whether the U.S. Constitution protects witnesses from being tampered with when a detective was whispering into his ears during live Skype testimony in…
19-7885 In Re Kenton G. Findlay Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction disqualification due-process foreclosure impartiality judicial-impartiality motion-for-rehearing timely-filing Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendments…
19-7888 Josephine Banks v. Waffle House, Inc. Georgia Denied IFP appeal appellate-rights civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure denial-of-appeal due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-error legal-document notice-of-appeal procedural-justice record standing When a lower court overlooks a required legal document that is in the record, fails to correct their error and proceeds to deny a litigant the right t…
19-7899 Paul Nigl v. Jon Litscher, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment marriage marriage-rights prison-administration prison-regulations prisoner-rights summary-judgment turner-v-safley Whether prison officials may prohibit a former prison employee and a prisoner from marrying
19-7901 Thomas Powers v. Travis Smith, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure-rules due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing access-to-courts civil-rights detention due-process filing-fees indigency Whether an indigent civil detainee is denied access to the court due to inability to pay filing fees
19-7906 Angello A. D. Osborne v. Peter Georgiades Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution police-misconduct stet unlawful-seizure Whether a 'STET' entry in a criminal prosecution precludes a defendant from recovering in a civil rights lawsuit against a police officer for fabricat…
19-7907 David Allen Olsen v. Kaylee Ann Francois Wisconsin Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-communication due-process emergency ex-parte ex-parte-proceeding free-speech imminent-threat involuntary-default irreparable-harm original-writings-rule pro-se-respondent quasi-criminal quasi-criminal-matter standing Does asking someone for help constitute an emergency, threat of danger, or irreparable harm?
19-7912 Ali Mehdipour v. Keith Sweeney, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure court-filing dismissal erroneous-ruling fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree judicial-review legal-timeliness prejudice procedural-error review statute-of-limitations timeliness Does a fruit-of-a-poisonous-tree follow from an initial erroneous ruling on timeliness of filing the initial complaint follow through subsequent rulin…
19-7913 Pooroushasb Parineh v. Michael Martel, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence aedpa civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-remedies statutory-tolling Whether the petitioner filed a timely habeas corpus petition after exhausting state remedies
19-7915 Alan DeAtley v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP adoption-law child-welfare civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indian-child-welfare-act placement-preference standing state-courts state-jurisdiction tribal-court tribal-courts tribal-sovereignty Whether the U.S. District Court and the 10th Circuit must follow federal and tribal law as they have followed in the past, rather than the State of Co…
19-7920 Iverylee Arashella Johnson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unreasonable-application unsworn-testimony Was Johnson's due process and Sixth Amendment confrontation clause protections violated by allowing Powell's unsworn testimony to be presented to the …
19-7921 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. Superior Court of California, Monterey County Ninth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-bias recusal vexatious-litigant void-judgment Is it contrary to clearly established laws for an attorney to knowingly use court cases that were never filed or commenced, or maintained to use as ex…
19-7923 Barlow Smith v. Terry Kennedy Fifth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process errors-made-by-court-of-appeals errors-made-by-district-court federal-jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice no-evidence no-evidence-claim summary Is the petitioner actually innocent?
19-7924 Shanel Stacz v. ESA Management, LLC, et al. California Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-amendments court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction timeliness transfer-petition writ-of-mandate Whether the Supreme Court of California erred by not granting and transferring the Appellant's Writ of Mandate of original jurisdiction back to the Co…
19-7925 Ronald O'Rourke v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppressed-evidence trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court abused discretion in denying petitioner's request for counsel
19-7926 Lin Ouyang v. Achem Industry America, Inc. California Denied IFP civil-procedure fraud misconduct oral-argument standing appeal appellate-procedure attorney-misconduct civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-upon-court judicial-misconduct oral-argument standing Where rules of the court provides that oral argume Whether refusal of California Court of Appeal to vacate a judgment procured by fraud upon the court violated the right to due-process, civil-procedure…
19-7929 Caryn Hall Yost-Rudge v. A to Z Properties, Inc., et al. Florida Denied IFP attorney-misconduct city-attorney city-commission city-government civil-procedure disqualification due-process fraud legal-ethics municipal-fraud Whether the Due Process Clause is made invalid by denying disqualification of an opposing attorney whom caused great harm as city vice-mayor yet conce…
19-7932 Enrique Auch v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-law feigning memory-loss out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce out-of-court testimonial statements from a witness who is feigning memory loss a…
19-7935 Dennis Andrew Ball v. City of Marion, Illinois Illinois Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure beneficiary civil-procedure due-process judicial-review quiet-title real-estate standing supreme-court-jurisdiction trust trust-assets writ-of-certiorari Appellant's Standing To Protect Inherited Property
19-7936 James Zavaglia v. Boston University School of Medicine First Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law but-for-causation causation-standard chevron-deference civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-interference jury-trial medical-leave motivating-factor reeves-v-sanderson retaliation standing summary-judgment Whether the lower courts are correct to apply Nassar to FMLA cases
19-7937 Michelle Stopyra Yaney and Peter DeBellis v. Rebecca Mason, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP association civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-expression religious-neutrality state-power Did the California Supreme Court have a duty to protect petitioners' individual constitutional rights for a claim of discrimination on how the associa…
19-7938 In Re Aretha Townsend Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-review government-officials judicial-error jurisdictional-challenge procedural-dismissal standing writ-of-certiorari Whether District Judge May erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint as frivolous
19-7943 J. H. v. E. R. S. Colorado Denied IFP appellate-review child-custody constitutional-facts constitutional-liberty de-novo-review due-process equal-protection parental-rights plain-error structural-error termination termination-of-parental-rights Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses require application of the plain error doctrine and independent de novo review of constitutional …
19-7944 In Re Steven Beebe Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-order double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,united-states-v-di fifth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-developments legal-precedent probation probation-condition publish-opinion united-states-v-dixon Whether this Court should issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus
19-7953 Arthur Lopez v. Cheryl Lopez California Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights costs due-process patent standing takings waiver-of-fees Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's claims
19-7954 Steven M. Leonhart v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP competent-counsel constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strategic-benefit Is defense counsel who makes a plea bargain that fails to give his client a substantial strategic benefit acting as competent and effective counsel as…
19-7955 Philip Berryman v. Randall Haas, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process precedent prison-litigation sixth-circuit stare-decisis Is the Sixth Circuit required to adhere to precedent under stare decisis when ruling on the same issue that has been ruled upon by the Sixth Circuit, …
19-7959 John Tedesco v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process grievance-process injunctive-relief personal-involvement retaliation Was the plaintiff entitled to injunctive relief?
19-7961 Randall Duane Throneberry v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-law oklahoma-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner's enhanced sentence under Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 51.1A is invalid
19-7962 Rodney Jerome Womack v. James Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions representation-by-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement Was petitioner represented by counsel in connection with his two prior robbery convictions?
19-7964 Varis R. Aizupitis v. Delaware Delaware Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege confidential-materials constitutional-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defect criminal-process defense-counsel due-process federal-judiciary federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strategic-intentions structural-defect structural-error Whether the release of confidential materials by defense counsel creates a structural defect in a criminal process where the release is contrary to th…
19-7966 Justin Odell Langford v. William G. Cobb Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 26-usc-1415 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether the courts violated the 14th Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection clauses?
19-7969 Embery J. McBride v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights conviction cruel-punishment due-process equal-protection fair-trial fraud fundamental-fairness indictment-challenge ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection presentment sentencing special-presentment standing Whether the Court should grant the writ of certiorari to review the lower court's decision
19-7973 Quincy Chisolm v. Maryland Maryland Denied IFP appeal civil-rights conspiracy conviction criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder judicial-discretion mitigating-circumstances murder sentencing trial-court-error Did the trial Court err in failing to set aside the verdict that a Conviction can the Court of Criminal Appeals to murder?
19-7975 Glenn Myer v. All Dulles Area Muslim Society Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights,pro-se,due-process,court-rules,subpoe court-rules due-process judicial-procedure legal-discrimination pro-se pro-se-litigant standing subpoena Does Virginia have the right to discriminate against a Pro Se litigant and violate their Civil Rights, US Supreme Court Rulings, Court rules
19-7980 Maechel Shawn Patterson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection retroactive-application statutory-interpretation victim-rights victims-rights Whether the North Carolina Crime Victims' Rights Act can be constitutionally applied to the petitioner for crimes committed before the Act's effective…
19-7982 Alex Penland v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-fraud legal-remedy post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion Does the trial court abuse its discretion when it failed to entertain Penland's claim that his conviction was tainted by fraud when the prosecutor kno…
19-7983 Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement-misconduct misidentification police-misconduct probable-cause reckless-disregard search-and-seizure search-warrant standing Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter involving a violation of the petitioner's Fourth Amendment ri…
19-7989 Roger Bryner v. Clearfield City, Utah, et al. Utah Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-bias rule-of-law standing summary-judgment utah-rule-of-civil-procedure-83 Issues being raised
19-7990 Gabriel L. Roman v. Sarah H. Kim, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP california-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-access standing vexatious-litigant Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statute is Unconstitutional
19-7992 Glenn Sinatra Davis v. Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, as Trustee for Specialty Underwriting and Residential Finance Trust, Series 2005-BC3 Alabama Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights continuance court-motion discovery due-process equal-protection fair-trial fairness judicial-fairness justice legal-procedure notice notice-of-motions notice-of-rights Whether a Citizen of the United States have a right to 'Due Process' under the law
19-7994 David Armondo Butler v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-conflict Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure Due-Process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-preservation Evidentiary-Issues Fourteenth-Amendment ineffective-assistance prior-acts-of-violence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strategic-decision video-footage Was court-appointed counsel's decision not to seek video footage of alleged victim's prior acts of violence a violation of the Sixth Amendment right t…
19-7995 Elijah Jackson, Jr. v. Magoon Estates Limited, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts article-3-court civil-procedure district-court due-process filing-fee in-forma-pauperis prisoner-rights related-cases standing Did the federal article 3 court or United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, in Honolulu err/error or breach its own order failing to a…
19-8001 Valery Vinarov v. CitiMortgage, Inc. Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-personhood corporate-power due-process equal-protection equality-before-law fraud-on-court judicial-independence property-ownership property-rights Whether US Constitution equally applicable to all entities in US, including large corporations — Banks
19-8007 Gwendolyn Gabriel v. Merry Outlaw Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fraud judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice partnership-law perjury sexual-harassment standing Whether the Seventh Amendment Right to a Jury Trial protects against biased and corrupt judges
19-8012 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP amended-complaint diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship fair-labor-standards-act government-agency governmental-agency governmental-investigation labor-code retaliation retaliation-claim statute-of-limitations unlawful-termination Shall the District Court toll the statute of limitations under the FLSA
19-8013 Keith Alexander v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns criminal-sentencing due-process federal-appellate-review firearms ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation mandatory-minimum mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction whether-the-court-erred-by-denying-defendant's-petition-for-writ-of-coram-nobis
19-8018 Timothy Humphrey v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 aedpa-limitations aedpa-limitations-period antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus postconviction-relief properly-filed state-court state-court-procedure time-barred Whether an application for state postconviction relief is 'properly filed' within the meaning of Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act provisi…
19-8021 Henry L. Jackson v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP destruction-of-evidence due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge vehicle Whether the state violated petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and a fair trial when it released petitioner's vehicle to the lienho…
19-8023 Tom Eli Orr v. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP 42-U.S.C.-section 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process pro-se pro-se-pleading procedural-due-process sixth-circuit standing Has Mr. Orr been afforded procedural due process under the Constitution?
19-8024 Julio A. Hunsberger v. Randy B. Duran, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-convictions due-process heck-v-humphrey monetary-compensation Are state prisoners entitled to monetary compensation under Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) following the reversal of their criminal convictions…
19-8025 Kwasi McKinney v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression harmless-error involuntary-statement miranda-rights search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the Arkansas Court of Appeals erred in finding that the admission of an allegedly involuntary statement was harmless error
19-8028 Tyler Gore v. Florida Florida Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions?
19-8032 Vaughn Harris v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ ripeness standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standards for determining standing and ripeness in this case
19-8042 Lewis Taylor Jr. v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review merits-decision state-court-decision state-court-decisions state-court-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017) (per curiam), a case arising under federal habeas revi…
19-8050 Cuwan Merritt v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment canine-sniff criminal-procedure de-facto-arrest law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-articulable-suspicion reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Whether the level of corroboration and investigation required for reasonable articulable suspicion gives rise to a de facto arrest, which requires pro…
19-8051 Jack Benjamin Hessiani v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment indictment-defect jurisdictional-challenge mens-rea sixth-amendment Whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential element of the offense
19-8057 Aaron Moran Brown v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment de-facto-life-sentence eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-precedent montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-system Does the substantive rule of Miller v. Alabama apply to de facto life sentences for juveniles?
19-8060 John Doe v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-disclosure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment harassment medical-history medical-privacy prisoner-rights privacy Should a Convicted Felon be Subject to Additional Harassment Above and Beyond Their Prison Sentence Due to a Court's Disclosure of Their Medical Histo…
19-8064 Rubin Rurie Weeks v. Stan Payne, Warden, et al. Missouri Dismissed Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process forcible-rape habeas-corpus kidnapping prosecutorial-misconduct void-judgment Due-process,forcible-rape,kidnapping,brady-violation,dna-evidence,void-judgment
19-8081 Juan Isaac Flores v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP benefits constitutional-rights counsel-performance effective-counsel ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment Was my Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel violated by Attorney Kovtun's ineffectiveness?
19-8087 Sharla Jenkins v. Helen Forbes Fields, as Administrator of the Estate of Elase Jenkins Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights privacy seizure warrantless-search Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's private information violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on…
19-8091 Vernon Wayne Officer v. Washington Washington Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process fair-trial ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the denial of the defendant's request for re-appointment of counsel during his jury trial violated his Sixth Amendment right to counsel
19-8099 Brandon Perry Smith v. Utah Utah Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment heightened-clarity miranda-rights sixth-amendment state-courts suspect-comprehension waiver-standard Have the Utah courts adopted a rule of law which, in applying the 'heightened clarity' standard as expanded by Berghuis v. Thompkins, dispensed with a…
19-8108 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights uccjea Whether the State of New Hampshire's discretionary appellate process is unlawful or unconstitutional, and whether the State has unlawfully infringed u…
19-8115 Brenda R. White v. EDS Care Management, LLC, et al. Michigan Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-capacity medical-malpractice race-discrimination rico rico-claims standing Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctors, …
19-8122 Allan Widdifield v. Kevin Mazza, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit aedpa constitutional-rights discrimination due-process habeas-corpus kentucky legal-resources time-limits Why are the United States District Judges for Kentucky in total disarray with the other Judges in the 6th Circuit concerning the AEDPA's time limits f…
19-8125 Wendell Ray Thomas v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether Defense Counsel Craig Wormley's Mental Health Issues Had An Adverse Effect & Influence on the Outcome of the Trial
19-8127 Casey Rafael Tyler v. Erik A. Hooks, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights disciplinary-hearings documentary-evidence due-process evidence hearing-procedures prison-rights prisoners-rights video-surveillance wolff-v-mcdonnell Did the Wolff right to present documentary evidence encompass the right to present video evidence?
19-8146 Anton Purisima v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
19-815 Lisa M. Phoenix v. Regions Bank Eleventh Circuit Denied applicant-definition circuit-conflict consumer-financial-protection-bureau credit-discrimination discrimination equal-credit-opportunity-act federal-reserve-board federal-reserve-system guarantors regulatory-interpretation Whether the regulations issued by the Board and the CFPB permissibly construe the 'applicants' protected from discrimination by ECOA to encompass guar…
19-8151 Michael John Alcocer Roa v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-denial criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process interlocutory-appeal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-v-cronic Does an interlocutory appeal constitute a critical stage, and does denial of counsel during an interlocutory appeal violate the Sixth Amendment under …
19-8171 Carolyn R. Dawson v. Bank of New York Mellon, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split claim-preclusion constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-circuit issue-preclusion jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that it lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate preclusion order disputes
19-8184 William Francis Walsh, IV v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-2252 criminal-procedure evidence-presentation federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit-interpretation old-chief-precedent old-chief-v-united-states prejudicial-material rule-403 stipulation Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's Rule 403 claim, based on the district court's having abused its discretion by rejecting his proffe…
19-8199 Dwight Bullard v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines career-offender collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing section-2255 sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant erroneously sentenced as a career offender under the advisory Guidelines can collaterally attack his enhanced sentence under 28 U.…
19-8204 Arnold Eugene Fox, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-warrant standing statutory-interpretation Does federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) have an unconstitutionally vague residual clause?
19-8211 Frederick Banks v. Scooter Braun, et al. Second Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19 due-process habeas-corpus standing Whether the District Court erred in denying Petitioner's request for Habeas Corpus under 28 USC §2241?
19-8212 Santiago Soto-Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop witness-testimony Did the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals err in concluding that the mere presence or possession of guns/weapons seen in plain view and registered to the l…
19-8214 Howard Atkins v. Georgia Crowell, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis poverty standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court denied his motion to proceed in forma pauperis without considering h…
19-8215 Victor Rivera-Munoz v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing manager-enhancement sanctions sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines subordinate-authority subordinates supervisor-enhancement supervisor-role Can a defendant receive a manager or supervisor enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.1 when the evidence establishes that his alleged subordinates felt fr…
19-8219 Juan Gilberto Medrano v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas federal-petition habeas-corpus legal-question ninth-circuit timeliness Was Petitioner's 2016 Petition filed in a timely manner?
19-8220 Jorge Macli v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-trial sixth-amendment trial-choice Whether the Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel
19-8222 Steven Mason v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP brady brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process exculpatory exculpatory-evidence impeachment jury-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct severance trial-severance Whether the lower courts erred in finding that the Government's late disclosure of exculpatory and impeaching information did not prejudice the defend…
19-8228 Kirk Russell Marsh v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing criminal-procedure direct-appeal equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure mandatory-claims-processing-rule procedural-error unique-circumstances Whether a trial court's violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(j)(1) is subject to redress on direct appeal
19-8231 Juvenile Male v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer prosecutorial-discretion rehabilitation sentencing transfer-hearing Whether the refusal of the United States Attorney to detail the defendant's role in weighing his potential for rehabilitation in the interest of justi…
19-8235 Justin K. Eaton v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP beckles-v-us braxton-v-us constitutional-challenge dillon-v-us judicial-review retroactive-effect sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Sentencing Commission's interpretations of the sentencing guidelines must be given retroactive effect
19-8237 Fernando Romero-Salgado v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment substantial-rights Does Rehaif error per se affect a defendant's substantial rights under the third prong of plain-error review?
19-8240 Richard Valentini v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction criminal-statute extortion hobbs-act personal-gain property-deprivation property-transfer statutory-interpretation third-party third-party-transfer Does a Hobbs Act conviction require the perpetrator to acquire the victim's property?
19-8249 Rodney Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bell-v-wolfish constitutional-rights detention fourth-amendment handcuffed-individual minor-offense public-search search-and-seizure strip-search unreasonable-search Whether a public strip search of a handcuffed, detained individual suspected of a minor offense violates one's Fourth Amendment right to be free from …
19-8250 Michael Thomas Gaussiran v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-searches unreasonable-searches-and-seizures vehicle-search Whether the Fourth Amendment's Right To Be Free From Unreasonable Searches And Seizures Requires Reversal When There Is No Evidence To Support Reasona…
19-8252 Roscoe Chambers v. William Hardy, et al. Sixth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process preemption regulations Whether the District Court can overlook regulations as preempting claims of due process rights
19-8254 Samuel Dowell v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-rights consumer-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment personal-property religious-freedom stream-of-commerce takings Can Congress regulate the private and personal property of the ultimate consumer for eternity through the Commerce Clause simply because that item at …
19-8255 Emilio Medina-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-8256 Jerry Browdy v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judicial-review motion-for-acquittal sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was insufficient to support Browdy's conviction and his motion for judgment of acquittal should have been granted
19-8261 Sean Ath v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-standard standard-of-review substantial-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-rahseparian Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly applied the 'substantial evidence' test in concluding there was sufficient evidence to affirm Peti…
19-8263 Larry Wesley Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking felony-enhancement guidelines gun-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of other Circuits on an important matter…
19-8265 Jerry Wilson Hartley v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation damages due-process judicial-review legal-scope procedural-rights qualified-immunity standing state-actor Are the actions of a district court in denying a motion to dismiss a civil rights claim for damages against a state actor constitutional?
19-8267 Jon Cascella v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation confidential-informant constitutional-error due-process fifth-amendment independent-inquiry testimony uniform-practice witness-testimony Whether permitting a blanket claim of Fifth Amendment privilege and total exclusion of a confidential informant's testimony without independent inquir…
19-8269 Stella Rae James v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1791 conviction criminal-statute due-process federal-correctional-facilities federal-correctional-facility federal-criminal-law inmate-contraband possession possession-law statutory-interpretation Whether due process requires the government to establish actual or constructive possession of a prohibited object in order to sustain a conviction und…
19-8273 Deonday Evans v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 commerce-clause commerce-nexus criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federalism federalism-principles fourth-amendment search-warrant sentencing-guidelines standing Whether federalism principles require reinterpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and 18 U.S.C. § 924 to require a more meaningful commerce nexus
19-8274 Tracy Anthony Scott v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea mens-rea plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment Does the Constitution require that the accused know the elements of a crime in order to validly plead guilty?
19-8275 Robert L. Swinton v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-exclusion complex-motion due-process pretrial-detention prior-conviction selective-prosecution sixth-amendment speedy-trial structural-error Was there error in the U.S. Sixth Amendment Speedy Trial and Speedy Trial Act assessment of this case?
19-8277 Abraham A. Augustin v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ancillary-jurisdiction bivens-action civil-procedure constructive-possession criminal-investigation criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-16 fed-r-crim-p-41 jurisdiction property-seizure Whether the district court had ancillary jurisdiction over property seized during the criminal investigation
19-8282 In Re Robbie Gene Watson, Jr. Denied IFP arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-law discriminatory-enforcement due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review penal-code sufficiency-of-evidence vagueness Did reasonable jurist debate whether California Penal Code section 206 is Constitutionally void for purported vagueness because it is capable of arbit…
19-8285 In Re David L. Williams Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing Was dismissal of Petitioner Appeal error by the Fifth Circuit?
19-8291 Willis J. Yazzie v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether the court of appeals disregarded this Court's decision in Buck v. Davis to advise a pro-se litigant about the COA procedure by deciding the me…
19-8293 Timothy Walker v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure circuit-court clerk clerk-discretion court-access due-process mandate mandate-recall third-circuit Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals error when it failed to compel its Circuit Clerk to accept, file, and submit Appellant's recall the mandate mot…
19-8312 Lazaro Candelaria v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement shepard-documentation Whether the First Step Act of U.S. Senate Bill 756 applies to the Petitioner
19-8315 Todd Michael Vincent v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation Is issuance of a certificate of appealability a prerequisite to appealing the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion?
19-8325 Qais Hussein v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines Is it reasonably debatable that Qais Hussein was deprived the effective assistance of counsel where his defense attorney failed to object to any insin…
19-8345 In Re Steven Ciotta Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule procedural-default retroactive-application retroactivity right-to-counsel Whether review should be granted to correct a U.S. Constitution violation when inferior federal courts have failed to acknowledge a claim alleging ine…
19-835 Valero Energy Corporation, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-discretion annual-rulemaking clean-air-act epa-rulemaking judicial-review point-of-obligation renewable-fuel-standard Whether EPA must consider the appropriateness of the point of obligation in each annual renewable fuel standard rulemaking
19-849 Kristanalea Dyroff, Individually and on Behalf of the Estate of Wesley Greer v. Ultimate Software Group, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied civil-rights communications-decency-act content-moderation editorial-function editorial-functions free-speech immunity information-provider internet-immunity publisher publisher-liability section-230 Does Section 230(c)(1) provide broad immunity or limit the definition of a publisher?
19-859 Stuart Force, et al. v. Facebook, Inc. Second Circuit Denied communications-decency-act content-provider editorial-function editorial-functions immunity interactive-computer-service legal-interpretation online-platforms publisher publisher-immunity section-230 Whether Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act provides broad immunity to online platforms or is limited to traditional editorial functio…
19-864 Bradley Beers v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Third Circuit GVR civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-restriction involuntary-commitment mental-health mootness second-amendment Whether the government may permanently deny a mentally healthy, responsible, and law-abiding citizen the opportunity to recover their Second Amendment…
19-867 Wexford Health, et al. v. Kareem Garrett Third Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) administrative-remedies amended-complaint circuit-split exhaustion-requirement judicial-exception prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights prisoner-status procedural-dismissal Whether Section 1997e(a) of the Prison Litigation Reform Act mandates dismissal of unexhausted claims or allows a prisoner to cure failure to exhaust …
19-876 Fernando A. Ramirez v. Dave Hogue, et al. North Dakota Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights court-integrity document-fraud due-process evidence evidence-tampering fraud judicial-misconduct legal-procedure public-records spoliation Whether courts can ignore the modification and deletion of public and important documents such as 911 Call for Service records in order to sabotage a …
19-912 Albert T. Robles v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bribery campaign-contribution campaign-contributions federal-officials federal-statute first-amendment hobbs-act quid-pro-quo Whether conviction of a federal bribery charge against a state or local official under 18 U.S.C. § 666 requires proof of a quid pro quo where the alle…
19M136 In Re Edward Starling Presumed Complete None
19M137 Irma Rosas v. University of Texas at San Antonio, et al. Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None