Conference: 2020-05-28

80 cases — 0 granted, 80 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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19-1000 Heon-Cheol Chi v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied bribery corrupt-intent criminal-intent foreign-bribery intent-to-influence mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering official-act public-official statutory-interpretation Whether 'an offense against a foreign nation involving .. . bribery of a public official' under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(c)(7)(B) requires generic bribery of …
19-1023 Donnie Morgan, Warden v. Vincent D. White, Jr. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) actual-prejudice cause-and-prejudice circuit-split federal-court-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default state-postconviction-counsel Whether a federal court may excuse a procedural default of an ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claim with 'some merit' under Martinez v. Ryan w…
19-1044 Romilson Batista Ferreira v. William P. Barr, Attorney General First Circuit Denied None
19-1052 Andre G. Dewberry v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea self-representation sixth-amendment waiver Whether a guilty plea waives a challenge on appeal to the denial of a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to represent himself
19-1066 Comcast Corporation, et al. v. Charles E. Tillage, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied bilateral-arbitration bilateralism consumer-disputes contract-revocation federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunctive-relief saving-clause Whether the McGill rule falls outside the FAA's saving clause because it is not a ground that 'exist[s] at law or in equity' for the 'revocation' of a…
19-1078 AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. v. Steven McArdle Ninth Circuit Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements california-law civil-procedure class-wide-injunction consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunction public-injunctive-relief Whether California's public-policy rule conditioning the enforceability of arbitration agreements on acquiescence to public-injunction proceedings is …
19-1165 Chuck Willis v. Tower Loan of Mississippi, LLC Fifth Circuit Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitrator-selection baseline-intent-to-arbitrate circuit-split contract-formation contract-interpretation definite-agreement gorsuch-dissent intent-to-arbitrate meeting-of-minds meeting-of-the-minds standard-of-review Whether the parties entered into a sufficiently definite agreement to arbitrate despite multiple discrepancies between the arbitration agreements
19-1185 Carol Wilding, et al. v. DNC Services Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied amendment civil-procedure civil-rights democratic-party due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fiduciary-duty fraud impartiality rule-12 rule-15 standing Does the DNC have a fiduciary duty to maintain impartiality in the Democratic Party presidential nominating process?
19-277 HSBC Holdings PLC, et al. v. Irving H. Picard, et al. Second Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (6)Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-550 extraterritoriality foreign-transaction foreign-transactions initial-transferee initial-transferees international-comity subsequent-transferee subsequent-transferees trustee-recovery Whether applying Bankruptcy Code Section 550(a)(2) to permit recovery of the proceeds of a foreign transaction that occurred abroad between two foreig…
19-690 Tina Neville v. Janet Dhillon, Chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) 32-U.S.C.-§-709 civil-rights conflict-of-interest dual-status-technician due-process eeoc EEOC-access feres-doctrine incident-to-service military-civilian-employment military-function national-guard title-vii workplace workplace-discrimination Whether the Feres Doctrine invalidates Title VI remedies for workplace discrimination experienced by a dual-status technician while performing civilia…
19-6939 Anthony Scott Hunt v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP base-offense-level categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense divisibility drug-statute modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-§-4b1.2(b) u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(a)(4)(a) u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) Whether a state drug statute that is either (1) completely indivisible or (2) at most only generally divisible into no more than three separate offens…
19-7007 Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States Fourth Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach collateral-challenge controlled-substance-offense due-process fourth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense state-conviction u.s.s.g.-4b1.1 Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to use the categorical approach, applying the parameters set by this Court, to its determination that a …
19-7043 John A. Toth v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment abuse-of-discretion attenuation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining police-conduct post-conviction-relief Whether police custodial interrogation on less than probable cause for arrest held violative of 18 U.S.C. §§ 241-242 and Petitioner's 4th Amendment ri…
19-7127 Phillip Wayne Tomlin v. Tony Patterson, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts aedpa certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit fair-punishment habeas-corpus retroactivity Whether non-capital habeas corpus petitioners in the Eleventh Circuit are being treated so fundamentally differently than similarly situated prisoners…
19-7354 Lawrence Martin v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-court capital-murder constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearing jurisdiction perjury prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether state court violated A.C.A. 5-10-202
19-7361 Edward Shevtsov v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP actual-decisionmaker circuit-split civil-procedure decisionmaker-test federal-fraud federal-prosecution fraud fraud-statute materiality materiality-standard private-victim reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard Whether in a federal fraud prosecution involving a private victim, materiality turns on the misrepresentation's ability to influence the actual decisi…
19-7368 Nadia Kuzmenko v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split escobar gaudin lindsey mail-fraud materiality objective-standard subjective-standard united-states-ex-rel-escobar-v-universal-health-se united-states-v-gaudin united-states-v-lindsey wire-fraud Whether materiality in mail and wire fraud cases is based on the subjective standard in Gaudin and Escobar or the objective standard in Lindsey
19-737 James Nathaniel Douse v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) camp-lejeune civil-rights disability disability-statute due-process eleventh-circuit federal-courts federal-district-court north-carolina standing state-legislator takings toxic-exposure toxic-water Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Federal District Court of Northern Georgia erred in their interpretation and application of the …
19-7481 Patrick Henry Murphy v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 capital-murder capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty due-process enmund-v-florida federal-habeas jury-determination jury-trial sentencing tison-v-arizona Does Ring dictate that a jury determine whether a capital murder defendant is eligible for a sentence of death under Enmund and Tison, and, if so, is …
19-7496 Garry Dean Stroner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights discrimination due-process effective-counsel fair-cross-section fair-trial impartial-jury intentional-exclusion jury-composition jury-selection presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct systematic-exclusion Whether the right to an impartial jury was violated by the systematic exclusion of male venirepersons
19-767 National Association for Gun Rights, Inc. v. Jeff Mangan, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of Political Practices for the State of Montana, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) campaign-finance circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights express-advocacy first-amendment free-speech political-committee political-committee-regulations Whether the First Amendment permits imposing burdensome political-committee regulations upon groups that do not engage in any express advocacy for or …
19-7706 Tommy Adams, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-descamps-mathis-precedent taylor-v-united-states Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly apply the line of authority from this Court beginning with Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575 (…
19-7708 Ahmad Jamaleddin Aljindi v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-employment-opportunity hate-crimes retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-reprisal Why the Federal Agencies and the Intelligence Community (IC) are allowed to abuse and torture the aggrieved Petitioner to death
19-7729 Aaron New v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split false-claims-act judicial-interpretation legal-standard materiality materiality-standard objective-standard subjective-standard supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-gaudin universal-health-services-v-escobar Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion contradict this Court's holding in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar 136 S. Ct. 1989 (2…
19-7738 H. K. V. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adoption civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus standing state-court-proceedings Whether the state courts erred in denying the petitioner's claims of due process and equal protection violations in the adoption proceedings
19-7739 H. K. V. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-interpretation standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court dismissed the petitioner's claims without proper jurisdiction
19-774 Marcus Terrelle Marsh v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute federal-sentencing predicate-offense state-law statutory-interpretation Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including purchasing, which does not meet the definition of a …
19-7751 Christopher Michael Thrasher v. Alabama Alabama Denied IFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-precedent montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-hearing Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a factual finding as to which class a juvenile homicide offender belongs before sentencing the juvenile to life …
19-7756 In Re Frank Deville Denied Relisted (2)IFP amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-law constitutional-violation due-process federal-law hazardous-waste judicial-procedure liberal-amendment standing Is the Petitioner a victim in this case?
19-7799 Desmond Baker v. Florida Florida Denied IFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole sentencing-review Do the Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibit mandatory sentencing laws which require sentencing every j…
19-782 Vahan Kelerchian v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied carpenter criminal-prosecution mail-fraud mcnally property regulatory-authority right-to-control statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Does the 'right to control' constitute 'property' for purposes of wire and mail fraud?
19-8095 Deville McCants v. Cheryl Hansen, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-rules civil-procedure discovery district-court due-process judicial-interpretation medical-bills standing summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to compel discovery
19-8101 Angelo Mamone v. Angela Plows Burch Maryland Denied IFP child-rearing civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process freedom parental-rights public-benefits state-precedent unlawful-incarceration Does the Constitution of the United States permit the State of Maryland to create legal precedents to deprive the petitioner and similarly-situated fa…
19-8112 Mustafa Ali v. Derek Oberlander, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability coerced-confession coerced-statement criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction-challenge pretextual-arrest right-to-counsel unwanted-counsel whether-the-court-of-appeals-denying-application-for-certificate-of-appealability
19-8114 Brenda White v. Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital, et al. Michigan Denied IFP affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion medical-malpractice race race-discrimination rico rico-claim 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, …
19-8116 Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. Michigan Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-interpretation medical-malpractice race racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga…
19-8117 Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Donnie Morgan, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-issue due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-constitutional-issue federal-habeas procedural-default state-courts state-prisoner statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should exclusively apply 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) when evaluating State assertions that a State prisoner has failed to properly rais…
19-8118 Wisconsin, ex rel. Joshua M. Wren v. Reed Richardson, Warden Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel laches laches-doctrine postconviction-relief procedural-default right-to-appeal When trial counsel acts ineffectiveness in failing to initiate a requested appeal leaves a defendant without appellate counsel, can delays and misstep…
19-8123 Wendell Brown aka Menes Ankh El v. Superior Court of Indiana, Marion County, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process first-amendment legal-mail-rights name-change procedural-due-process religious-freedom signature-rights title-42-usc-2000bb-1 title-42-usc-2000cc-1 Does Ankh-El's common-law name change have to be recognized by the courts and IDOC?
19-8128 Bobby Joe Buckner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit implied-bias standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit err in its application of the implied bias doctrine by stating that this case is outside the 'extreme genre of cases' to warrant…
19-8132 Antoine T. Chest v. Michael P. Bald, Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Stephenson County Illinois Denied IFP bodily-harm consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion legal-ambiguity sentence-enhancement sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether concurrent sentences are mandated by statute when the petitioner was found to have caused bodily harm, not severe bodily injury
19-8136 In Re Lawrence Crawford Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process extraordinary-writ federal-courts jurisdictional-claims mandamus parties standing supreme-court-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Did the petitioner sufficiently establish the right to have the writ of mandamus granted?
19-8140 Benjamin Dennerlein v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP attorney-misconduct client-assault due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief pre-trial-conduct prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does Strickland v. Washington prejudice threshold condone the actions of Counsel when Counsel assaults his client pre-trial, covered up said assault d…
19-8141 Eric Jeffrey Cowan v. Josie Gastelo, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights Constitutional-Challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment Judicial-Review jurisdiction Legal-Interpretation Petitioner-Rights standing Should Petitioner receive relief under United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection
19-8142 Robert Sarhan, et ux. v. H & H Investors, Inc. Florida Denied IFP appellate-review denial-of-hearing due-process final-judgment indispensable-party judicial-procedure mortgage-foreclosure sanctions service-of-process void-judgment Whether Anabella Soury was denied due process in a mortgage foreclosure case
19-8143 Oliver Vaughn Douce Al Dey v. Brevard County Tax Collector, et al. Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP ad-valorem-tax civil-rights constitutional-challenge discovery discovery-rights due-process procedural-requirements property-rights quiet-title standing tax tax-authority Whether appellees have authority without a statute law by Congress to impose tax for private household goods and personal effects that are non-commerc…
19-8150 Marcia L. Jackson v. Kansas City Kansas Public Schools Unified School District No. 500 Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process property-rights standing takings Whether the government's seizure of private property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
19-8152 Menes Ankh-El, aka Wendell Brown v. Robert Carter, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP atypical-and-significant-hardship civil-rights due-process hardship-standard law-library-access prison-transfer prisoner-rights procedural-due-process retaliation Does Ankh-El's permanent transfer to higher level prison to use the law library impose atypical and significant hardship, deny procedural due process …
19-8156 John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 7th-amendment age-discrimination civil-rights discovery-rights due-process employment-law jury-trial seventh-amendment standing Did the district court and the 5th Circuit usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right to a jury…
19-8167 Charles Talbert v. Blanche Carney, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment just-compensation patent takings-clause Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in holding that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment does not require th…
19-8168 Charles E. Justise, Sr. v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation court-procedure due-process fabricated-facts first-amendment first-amendment-right-to-petition judicial-misconduct libel-and-defamation newly-discovered-evidence redress-of-grievances right-to-petition slander Whether Justise has a right to have the facts and issues he presents to a court for redress actually addressed, and what remedy he has if this right i…
19-8177 Christopher Kyle Keys v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment cellular-phone-data character-evidence collateral-crimes criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion warrantless-search Does the trial court abuse its discretion, within the confines of substantive and procedural due process in the U.S. Constitution's 6th and 14th Amend…
19-8180 M. H. v. Indiana Department of Child Services Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights compulsion constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-rights parental-rights self-incrimination waiver What are the present-day parameters to any assertion of privilege pursuant to the 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution (re: compulsion and …
19-8258 Denver Maxwell Goree, Jr. v. Michigan Parole Board Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commutation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto parole parole-board punishment Whether Petitioner's parole process was unconstitutional
19-8287 Muhammad Toure v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-question judicial-review jurisdiction precedent-analysis standing statutory-interpretation Whether the scope of a court's discretion in declining to exercise jurisdiction over a claim for relief in the absence of a federal question is limite…
19-8304 Timothy J. McVay v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder mens-rea presumption-of-innocence Whether a bench trial conviction of first degree murder can be upheld without evidence
19-831 Adam Jarchow, et al. v. State Bar of Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (5)Relisted (3) associational-rights compelled-association compelled-speech first-amendment integrated-bar janus-precedent political-speech state-bar Whether Lathrop and Keller should be overruled and 'integrated bar' arrangements like Wisconsin's invalidated under the First Amendment
19-8326 Charles Brandon Martin v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation burden-of-proof confrontation-clause evidence-sufficiency materiality materiality-standard sufficiency-of-evidence voir-dire witness-availability When a Brady violation (Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963)) occurs, must the Court take into account the effects of the Brady violation, or simply …
19-8344 Brett Combs v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression false-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony perjury Whether the state court's fact-finding process was undermined by ignoring evidence supporting the petitioner's claim
19-8353 Curtis Stokes v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-equal-protection criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Does Indiana have an obligation to equally apply the federal constitution in the same factual scenario?
19-8366 Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forfeiture property-recovery property-rights rule-41g subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a district court have subject-matter jurisdiction to decide 41(g) motions for recovery of property that is unrelated to a criminal judgment on ap…
19-8381 Joseph Benjamin O'Donnell v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon…
19-8382 Christopher Ewing, aka Alex Christopher Ewing v. Nevada Nevada Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-hearing fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act's guarantee of the right to 'demand and procure counsel' requires state courts to appoint counsel for ind…
19-8385 Enrique Lopez Quintero v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure hughes-v-united-states plea-agreement sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines type-c-agreement Is a sentence imposed pursuant to a Type-C agreement, Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(c)(1)(C), based on the defendant's United States Sentencing Guidelines range…
19-8387 Robert C. Caldwell v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP carjacking constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy enhanced-penalty evidentiary-finding firearm public-choice-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation two-strike-statute Whether sentencing defendants under both the Carjacking Statute and the Firearm Statute violates the Double Jeopardy Clause
19-8390 Do Kyun Kim v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-8391 Joseph M. Coffman v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-confession miranda-rights motion-to-suppress Whether the trial court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress statements
19-8393 Joshua Tucker v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause probation probation-rights search-and-seizure warrantless-searches Whether a probationer has a right to be free from warrantless searches and seizures conducted by law enforcement officials without reason or purpose p…
19-8399 Reshon Tolliver v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute drug-payment drug-trafficking evidence federal-law money-laundering statutory-interpretation Whether mere payment for drugs constitutes sufficient evidence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1956?
19-8400 Roy Allen Nichols v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process factfinding fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a Court of Appeals violates a criminal defendant's right to Due Process
19-8401 Roderick Delon Lewis v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP collins-v-virginia curtilage fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrant Whether an officer's intrusion into the curtilage of a residence implicated Fourth-Amendment-protections, requiring probable-cause rather than reasona…
19-8411 Charles Burton v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error Whether mailing a verdict to a criminal defendant through his counsel in violation of the Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment and Federal Criminal Rule o…
19-8412 Lenroy McLean v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review forfeiture plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights Should the Second Circuit Court of Appeals exercise its discretion to correct the forfeited error of Petitioner's miscalculated guideline sentence tha…
19-8415 Arthur Stanley v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-relevance federal-rules-of-evidence gang-related-crime relevant-evidence rico-statute rule-401 standing statutory-interpretation Where the Government introduced a cache of weapons found four years before the alleged crime, simply because gang graffiti was found nearby, should ce…
19-8416 Hadori Karmen Chantel Williams v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law boumediene-v-bush civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the administrative exhaustion requirement of 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) violates the right to habeas corpus under Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723 (…
19-8423 Christopher Gies v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-doctrine probable-cause probation-search reasonable-suspicion statutory-compliance warrantless-search warrants-clause Does a warrantless probation search conducted outside the scope of an authorizing state regulation and not authorized by a condition of probation, and…
19-906 Philip N. Antico v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied allen-charge circuit-court-conflict constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-due-process fundamental-rights jury-instruction jury-instructions retrial-cost retrial-costs Is a criminal defendant's fundamental constitutional rights violated by an Allen charge that instructs a deadlocked jury to consider the expense of a …
19-982 Erica Y. Bryant, et al. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-transfer multi-district-litigation multidistrict-litigation preemption procedural-error state-law statute-of-repose Whether a transferee court in an MDL proceeding must follow the decisions of the transferor court's state supreme court and federal circuit court of a…
19-994 Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Leandra G. Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-agency-action state-agency-actions state-court-judgments Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit violated the Due Process Clause when applying the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine
19M139 Willie Roberson v. Illinois Illinois Presumed Complete None