Conference: 2020-05-21

96 cases — 0 granted, 96 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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18-107 R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (33)Relisted (14) circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity price-waterhouse-v-hopkins sex-discrimination statutory-construction statutory-interpretation title-vii transgender Whether the word 'sex' in Title VII's prohibition on discrimination 'because of . . . sex,' 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(a)(1), meant 'gender identity' and inclu…
19-1012 General Electric Company v. Raytheon Technologies Corporation, fka United Technologies Corporation Federal Circuit Denied Amici (2) article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights competition competitive-harm competitor-standing due-process inter-partes-review judicial-precedent patent patent-infringement patent-law standing Whether competitive harm alone suffices to confer Article III standing to appeal an IPR determination, or whether an appellant must also show concrete…
19-1048 Blanca L. Ramos v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied None
19-1056 Kristi Noem, Governor of South Dakota, et al. v. Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe Eighth Circuit Denied economic-impacts fiscal-demands preemption state-interests state-taxation bracker-test economic-impacts federal-regulation indian-gaming preemption state-interests state-taxation tribal-sovereignty Does the Bracker test currently serve as a consistent and predictable rule of law in light of the exponential expansion of Indian gaming since 1988 an…
19-1101 Canada v. Cynthia L. Merlini First Circuit Denied commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception consular-employees consular-employment consular-independence consular-sovereignty employment-conditions employment-terms foreign-sovereign-immunities-act legislative-decision sovereign-immunity state-law workers-compensation Whether the court of appeals erred in treating Canada's legislative decision to compensate its consular employees for workplace injuries exclusively u…
19-1131 Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. v. Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals LLC Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1) 35-usc-112 claim-construction federal-circuit patent-claims patent-law patent-law-35-usc-112 patent-specification patent-validity statutory-interpretation written-description written-description-requirement Whether § 112 requires a patent's specification to contain a written description of all of the limitations of a patent's claims, not just a 'substanti…
19-1140 In Re Wesley Perkins Denied abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction recusal statutory-construction access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process probation-revocation standing statutory-construction texas-code-of-criminal-procedure Is TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. art. 42A.755(e) unconstitutional, as applied?
19-1148 Michael Bruno, as Parent, Guardian, and Next Friend of R. B., a Minor, et al. v. Northside Independent School District Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1) comparable-services due-process educational-programming educational-services free-appropriate-public-education individuals-with-disabilities-education-act programming school-district special-education-programming student-transfer transfer-student Whether a reduction in a student's programming from a full-day to a half-day program is consistent with the mandate to provide 'similar' or 'equivalen…
19-1152 ISL Loan Trust, et al. v. Millennium Lab Holdings II, LLC, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-court-authority constitutional-authority debtor-creditor-relationship equitable-mootness non-debtor-claims non-debtor-releases nonconsensual-release restructuring restructuring-debtor-creditor stern-v-marshall Whether a bankruptcy court has authority to enter final judgment releasing without consent a non-debtor's claims against other non-debtors
19-1160 Robert J. Murphy v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-code pennsylvania-rules-of-professional-conduct pennsylvania-workers-compensation-act retroactive-application workers-compensation Whether petitioner had fair warning of disciplinary proceedings
19-1164 Jocelyn A. Johnson v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure disability-rating due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-evidence senate-bill-31 statute-of-limitations workers-compensation Does the Workers' Compensation Judge relying on medical reports according to Senate Bill 31 guidelines and not the permanent disability rating schedul…
19-1167 Bradley William Kennedy v. Stephen Morris, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment AEDPA anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act-of- cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-trial-errors due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence statute-of-limitations trial-errors Whether Bradley Kennedy's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is time barred under the one-year statute of limitations set forth in the anti-terroris…
19-1171 Reed Kirk McDonald v. Citibank, N.A., et al. Colorado Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection court-procedure due-process due-process,civil-procedure,tila,respa,dodd-frank, foreclosure jurisdictional-challenge respa-violation standing tila-claim writ-of-ejection Whether Mr. McDonald held any cognizable claim under TILA, RESPA, TRA, and Dodd-Frank against Citibank
19-1178 Robert K. Zabka, et ux. v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-final-judgment-receivership-appeal conflict-of-laws conflicting-precedent due-process federal-courts final-judgment jurisdiction net-operating-loss partnership-property receivership standing tax-liability timeliness Where the court clerk has entered the final appealable judgment, and the district court judge has initialed it as such, and then the litigant appeals …
19-1183 Odyssey Contracting Corp. v. L & L Painting Co., Inc. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived -appeal-waiver -judicial-interpretation -procedural-waiver -stipulation-rights -third-circuit-ruling #NAME? appeal appeal-right civil-procedure consent-judgment final-judgment standing third-circuit thomsen-v-cayser united-states-v-procter-gamble waiver Whether a stipulation forfeits the right of appeal from the final judgment
19-1187 Matco Tools Corporation, et al. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-validity district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens forum-selection-clause ninth-circuit-rule procedural-exception subject-matter May a district court create an exception to the rule that the validity of a forum-selection clause does not depend upon the validity of the underlying…
19-1192 Missouri, ex rel. Key Insurance Company v. Marco A. Roldan, Judge, Circuit Court of Missouri, Jackson County, et al. Missouri Denied Response Waived due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment liability-insurer long-arm-statute motor-vehicle-accident personal-jurisdiction Whether a court's exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over a nonresident liability insurer violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Am…
19-1199 Don Higginson v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response Waived at-large-voting california-voting-rights-act civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-elections racial-polarization voting-rights voting-rights-act Whether the California Voting Rights Act violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-1210 Harry's Nurses Registry, et al. v. Claudia Gayle, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-enforcement condition-precedent employment-law fair-labor-standards-act private-right-of-action section-206 section-207 section-216(b) statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour Is the finding that the employer has violated Section 206 or Section 207 of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et. seq, a condition precede…
19-1223 Demetrias Taylor, as Representative of the Estate of Iretha Jean Lilly, Deceased, et al. v. McLennan County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process medical-care municipal-liability municipal-policy myocardial-infarction policy pre-trial-detainee procedure section-1983 summary-judgment Does the provision of three EKGs, an aspirin, and a nitroglycerin pill over the course of three hours to a pre-trial detainee (who then died from an o…
19-1236 Rachel Joanna Evens v. Timothy John Evens South Dakota Denied Response Waived terminating visitation without any consideration child-custody civil-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules hearsay judicial-authority parental-rights parenting-coordinator sanctions What constitutes 'Due Process of Law? Can binding orders be implemented
19-1238 Lisa L. Watson v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived adverse-action adverse-employment-action agency-action civil-rights comparator comparator-evidence discriminatory-termination due-process employment hipaa-compliance performance-improvement-plan prima-facie-case Question not identified
19-1245 Samuel Kwushue v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit federal-appeals habeas-corpus section-2255 Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA) to review the denial of Peti…
19-1247 Judson A. Lovingood v. Discovery Communications, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived actual-malice defamation entertainment entertainment-media first-amendment free-speech public-official sworn-testimony Whether the publication of totally false and fabricated testimony of a public official testifying under oath to produce an entertaining, dramatic effe…
19-5921 Lisa M. Montgomery v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (2)IFP attorney-client-relationship capital-case capital-trial due-process fifth-amendment in-chambers learned-counsel notice-requirement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment termination-of-counsel In a federal capital trial case, may a federal district court judge, consistent with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, terminate the appointment of lear…
19-6668 Andrew J. J. Wolf, et al. v. Idaho Board of Correction, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure completeness-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence motion-to-stay ninth-circuit rule-106 summary-judgment trial-record Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to rule on whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner's Motion to Stay the Second Sum…
19-6877 Christopher Rudolph Brown v. Florida Florida Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief res-judicata standing trial-counsel Whether the essential principles of res judicata were departed from by the lower courts in allowing the prosecution to relitigate issues that were pre…
19-6926 Roger William Campbell, II, aka Roger William Campbell v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure federal-sentencing revocation sentence-revocation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release united-states-sentencing-commission Is the 'stacking' of multiple consecutive sentences, upon revocation of multiple concurrent terms of supervised release, consistent with the United St…
19-7061 Charles Edward Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting clearly-erroneous-standard jury-selection peremptory-challenge prima-facie-case racial-discrimination standard-of-review What is the standard of appellate review applicable to an adverse first-step Batson determination?
19-7169 Daniel Eric Cobble v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-value due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation patent physical-appropriation public-use standing takings takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation when it physically appropriates private property fo…
19-7288 John Kelsey Gammell v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-definition statutory-elements Whether a burglary conviction based on an aiding and abetting theory qualifies as an enumerated burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-7296 In Re Gilbert M. Martinez Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-discretion administrative-law disability-benefits due-process evidence gerd medical-evidence property-tax-exemption rheumatoid-arthritis social-security social-security-administration-discretion social-security-disability Did the Social Security Administration abuse its discretion holding that plaintiff is ineligible for Social Security disability benefits after claiman…
19-7302 Latefah Shampine v. Sarver's Realty, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-and-witnesses forced-drugging forced-medication free-speech hearsay hearsay-evidence involuntary-treatment judicial-misconduct jurisdiction-dispute racial-discrimination standing How could Petitioner retain an attorney when she was forced to plead guilty?
19-7391 Larry David Davis v. Larry Tegley, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-standard civil-procedure civil-rights due-process insufficient-evidence judicial-review legal-sufficiency patent record-review standing takings trial-court Whether the PEMCE [5 in. (em) 12 support the petitioner's claims
19-7402 Andrea Lee Sanders v. Hennepin County Human Service and Public Health Department Child Support, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech property-rights standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments
19-7456 Taurus Carroll v. Alabama Alabama Denied IFP atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia brumfield-v-cain capital-punishment current-medical-standards eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards moore-v-texas supreme-court-review Does the Alabama Supreme Court's continued reliance upon evidence that fails to adhere to current medical standards in rejecting Mr. Carroll's claim o…
19-7471 Barbara E. Brown v. San Bernardino County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct standing Whether the Te iscait Judges erred in the dissmissol of His pettion, ih @greeance with District Court Sudje Cony!
19-7605 Vincent Kane v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone-privacy cell-phones fourth-amendment intent-to-reclaim password-protected property-rights public-place reasonable-expectation search-and-seizure Whether the doctrine of abandonment applies to password protected cell phones found in a public place?
19-7629 Carolyn Hill-Lomax v. David Vittetoe, et al. Iowa Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure-standing-due-process-equal-protec civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-766 North Carolina v. James Harold Courtney, III North Carolina Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) None
19-7685 Dominic Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit GVR IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-errors federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error plain-error-review precedent sentencing standard-of-review Does plain-error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) include factual errors?
19-8022 Clarence Wayne Dixon v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP burden-of-proof chapman-v-california deck-v-missouri due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt shackling shackling-error sixth-amendment When a trial court unjustifiably orders a defendant shackled throughout trial contrary to the rule in Deck v. Missouri, is the burden on the defendant…
19-8033 In Re Jonathan A. Hampton Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prosecutorial-appeal state-law structural-error Does the California Supreme Court's holding in People v. Breverman (1998) inadvertently impose an unlawful state of ambiguity when faced with the fede…
19-8047 Richard E. Daniel v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination right-to-trial Whether a defendant has a constitutional right to withdraw a plea of not guilty and enter a plea of guilty over the objection of the trial judge
19-8052 Mohamed A. Almahmmody v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP the legal issue being raised appears to be: appeal court-appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis indigency indigent-defendant pro-bono-representation right-to-counsel transcript trial-transcript Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state court failed to appoint counsel for his appeal despite finding him indigen…
19-8058 Maurice Brack, aka Maurice Barrack, aka Maurice Black, aka Maurice L. Brack, aka Socca Bopum, aka Socka Bopa v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied IFP 8th-amendment adolescent-development constitutional-retroactivity criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment family-court juvenile-justice juvenile-waiver retroactivity Whether New Jersey's revised juvenile waiver statute (N.J.S.A. 2A:4A-26.1(c)) which prohibits the Family Court from waiving its jurisdiction over any …
19-8068 Daniel B. Boudette v. Tammy Boudette, nka Tammy Oskerson Montana Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law enforceability foreign-judgment full-faith-and-credit judgment-enforcement originating-state sister-state-judgment state-law time-limit time-limitation Does a state's enforcement of a sister state's judgment beyond the time limit when it is enforceable in the originating state contravene the Full Fait…
19-8069 Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment jurisdiction law-enforcement-misconduct police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter that, like the instant petition, involves a substantial Const…
19-8070 Kenney Shi Lai v. United States, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment administrative-law agricultural-improvement-act civil-rights constitutional-rights drug-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction hemp-production standing takings Whether the federal government can prohibit the possession of firearms by law-abiding citizens
19-8073 Kenneth Baker v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent third-circuit Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rendered a decision in conflict with the law of the United States Supreme Court announced in Barefo…
19-8074 David Gunter v. Cory Pulsipher Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
19-8075 S. Patrick Mendel v. UBER Technologies, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust federal-authority-transportation federal-preemption interstate-commerce intrastate-rates intrastate-routes intrastate-services passenger-transportation public-safety regulatory-conflict transportation-network-companies Whether private contracts, with the aid of the States, designed to defeat federal transportation and antitrust laws should be enjoined
19-8077 Arnold Anderson v. Gilberto Valenzuela, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure digital-privacy forensic-evidence fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure of a person's property for the purpose of conducting a forensic search of the property'…
19-8078 Brandon L. Banks v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-safeguards counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury sixth-amendment Whether petitioner was denied due process of law, a fair trial by an impartial jury, and equal protection of the laws
19-8084 Christopher Young v. Rehka Halligan Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment standing whether-continuous-ineffective-treatment-violates-8th-amendment
19-8085 Lamar L. Zamichieli v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing why the decision of the lower court may be erroneous, but the national importance of having the Supreme Court decide the question involved
19-8086 Randy Dale Jackson v. Tommy Taylor, Interim Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-sanctions civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-challenges criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Whether Petitioner's First, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated by the imposition of monetary sanctions and threat restr…
19-8088 Antonio Rodrigues v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied IFP constitutional-due-process criminal-element due-process felony-murder judicial-determination judicial-fact-finding maximum-sentence predicate-felony sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-evidence Does the Constitution prohibit a State to define a crime to include an element that is to be decided by a judge without evidence; and where the State …
19-8093 Jose Passalacqua v. Mike McDonald, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jury-misconduct motion-standard ninth-circuit rule-60(b) rule-60b scope-of-hearing successive-petition Did the Ninth Circuit Erred In Holding That Petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion, Was the Equivalent to an Unauthorized Second or Successive 28 U.S.C. § 225…
19-8096 Marvin D. Noble v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-8124 Manuel Garcia Velasco v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
19-8135 Marie Tanamor-Steffan v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
19-8169 Jorge Madero-Gil v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction pereira-v-sessions removal-order removal-orders separation-of-powers Whether the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue orders of removal, violating separation-of-powers and due-process
19-8181 Arkeem Hakim Jordan v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure particularity probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure speedy-trial Whether the search warrant and the resulting constitutionally and sufficiently particularized, and whether the officers were allowed to use their disc…
19-8194 Jonathan Crupi v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights data-collection digital-privacy electronic-devices exploratory-searches fourth-amendment particularity particularity-doctrine search-and-seizure Should the Carpenter decision on CSLI extend to digital devices?
19-8196 Larry Grant Gentry v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether a court should assess such a strike u batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights due-process jury-selection objective-observer-test peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike purposeful-discrimination racial-discrimination Whether a party taints the entire jury selection proceedings by providing a racially discriminatory basis for exercising a peremptory strike at the se…
19-8208 Jerald Harris v. Richard Jennings, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification identification-evidence police-misconduct reliability reliability-standard suggestive-circumstances Do the due process protections against unreliable identification evidence apply to all identifications made under suggestive circumstances, as held by…
19-8248 Herve Wilmore v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-u.s.c.-§2255 due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct mischaracterization Whether a mischaracterization of facts by a Judge warrant relief from a final judgment in light of Gonzalez v Crosby?
19-8268 Ade Brown v. Reid Desrochers, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process exhaustion exhaustion-requirement grievance-procedures grievance-process prison-litigation-reform-act summary-judgment Does the petitioner properly satisfy exhaustion of all available administrative remedies?
19-8284 In Re Michael A. Young Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-forfeiture contraband due-process just-compensation standing takings-clause Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the Takings Clause does not prohibit the government from seizing private property without just compens…
19-8294 Roscoe Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-allegations criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions motion-in-limine position-of-trust Whether Dohnson's Trial Counsel provided Constitutionally ineffective assistance of Trial Counsel
19-8295 Clarence B. Jenkins, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction pro-se standing Whether the district court's denial of pro se litigant's due process rights requires a writ of certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court
19-8308 Terry Gooden v. U.S. Navy/U.S. Marine Corps, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claim
19-8310 Michael R. Haynes v. Colette S. Peters, Director, Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-rule civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts legal-fiction liberty-interests Whether a U.S. citizen can be denied U.S. constitutional rights through fraud or unlawful extension of authority
19-8316 Dervanna H. A. Troy-McKoy v. New York City Department of Parks and Recreation New York Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause
19-8328 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedy civil-procedure discovery due-process forced-medication ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandamus pro-se standing Is it an abuse of discretion for the First Circuit Court to deny mandamus because the District Court could respond but never has?
19-8329 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights competency constitutional-rights court-access due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-procedure psychiatric-evaluation standing Is it unconstitutional that no Article III District Court Judge has been assigned to this case?
19-8333 Nekhent Supreme Ali, aka William Sean Perry, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 criminal-procedure criminal-statute currency-conversion drug-proceeds drug-weight due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether federal courts are required to use the lowest drug present in the defendant's instant offense when converting currency drug proceeds into drug…
19-8334 James Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custody due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning police-interrogation totality-of-circumstances If a statement by the presiding officer that the defendant is not 'under arrest' precludes a finding of custody despite the totality of the circumstan…
19-8336 Igancio Reyes-Yanez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence Should the government be allowed to tell a jury that there is no presumption of innocence for a defendant's testimony?
19-8339 Juan M. Santiago v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver booker booker-error criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver Whether an established Booker error (mandatory application of the USSG) can be considered per se a miscarriage of justice/exception that is not waived…
19-8340 Christopher Scruggs v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law distribution distribution-intent file-sharing knowledge knowledge-standard mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether 'knowingly engaged in distribution' in sentencing guideline 2G2.2(b)(3)(F) requires knowledge that files are accessible online or only general…
19-8342 Dearieus Duheart v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit the use of acquitted conduct to enhance a defendant's sentence?
19-8351 In Re Vinodh Raghubir Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
19-8361 Tyrone Price v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process firearms ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief racketeering sentencing sentencing-phase Does the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. 924(c) convictions support 'use of violence' physical force?
19-8364 Adam C. Vance v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-device-fraud aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure identity-theft internet-transactions interstate-commerce reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-alexander united-states-v-vance Was Vance Entitled To Acquittal for Online Internet-based Aggravated Identity Theft
19-8376 Carlos M. Guerrero-Castro v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure enterprise essential-element judicial-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error RICO rico-conspiracy Whether a district court commits plain error by refusing to properly instruct the jury that the existence of an actual enterprise is always an essenti…
19-871 Raheem Chabezz Johnson v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden Virginia Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ake-v-oklahoma due-process indigent-defendant mcwilliams-v-dunn mental-health mental-health-expert sentencing sentencing-phase Whether an indigent defendant who seeks the appointment of a mental conditions expert to assist in the sentencing phase of his trial is denied due pro…
19-873 Geophysical Service, Inc. v. TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof contract-law copyright-infringement foreign-government-compulsion implied-license kirtsaeng-doctrine kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley-sons seismic-works Whether the nature and scope of the defense of implied license to copyright infringement requires proof of the grantor's intent by concepts familiar t…
19-917 Joslyn Manufacturing Company, LLC, et al. v. Valbruna Slater Steel Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied cercla construction-threshold environmental-cleanup permanent-remedy remedial-action remedial-costs removal-costs statute-of-limitations Whether the six-year statute of limitations for 'remedial' work is triggered, as the court of appeals held below, only when the construction of a perm…
19-943 Alireza Vazirabadi v. Denver Health and Hospital Authority, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) age-discrimination anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-selection employment equal-protection summary-judgment tenth-circuit Does the Tenth Circuit affirming in favor of Respondents' summary judgement conflict with Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., where in Tolan v. Cotton, t…
19-972 Christopher Edward McMillen v. New Caney Independent School District Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-exhaustion circuit-split disability-rights education-law individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review non-IDEA-claims procedural-requirements relief-not-available-under-IDEA standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires administrative exhaustion for non-IDEA claims seeking relief not available und…
19-974 William T. Schmitt, et al. v. Frank LaRose, Ohio Secretary of State Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (2) ballot-initiative ballot-initiatives civil-rights constitutional-law election-law first-amendment free-speech strict-scrutiny subject-matter-restriction subject-matter-restrictions voting-rights Whether the First Amendment and strict scrutiny apply to subject matter restrictions on ballot initiatives
19-992 Greg Skipper, Warden v. Curtis Jerome Byrd Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial hypothetical-plea-offer lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining sixth-amendment trial-rights Does the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel include the right to a plea offer that was never made?
19A1021 Roy L. Perry-Bey, et al. v. City of Norfolk, Virginia, et al. Virginia Presumed Complete None
19M138 Belinda Smith v. University of Chicago Medical Center Seventh Circuit Presumed Complete None