| 18-1401 |
David D. Peterson v. Linear Controls, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
adverse-employment-action circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc employment-discrimination employment-practices statutory-interpretation terms-conditions-privileges title-vii workplace-discrimination |
Are the 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment' covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le… |
| 18-6172 |
Sherman Edward Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10)IFP |
access-to-courts binding-precedent categorical-approach circuit-procedure crime-of-violence due-process due-process-access-to-courts eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-precedent prior-panel-precedent prior-precedent-rule second-or-successive-habeas second-or-successive-petitions |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's prior-precedent rule violates due process when applied to orders denying second or successive habeas petitions |
| 18-7575 |
Alexis Valdes Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-process mandatory-form panel-decision preclusive-effect prior-panel-precedent strict-deadline writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Due Process Clause permits the Eleventh Circuit to afford preclusive effect in a criminal case to a prior panel decision |
| 19-1042 |
Euince J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer v. Kaufman County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's qualified immunity analysis sets a dangerous precedent for the Civil Rights Act, exposing flaws in the Supreme Court's qua… |
| 19-1054 |
Christa Gail Pike v. Gloria Gross, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
cumulative-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether a defendant who asserts that trial counsel failed to present key evidence is precluded from showing prejudice under Strickland v. Washington |
| 19-1069 |
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
article-iii-standing causation-theory class-action false-statements intervening-factors omissions prescription-drug prescription-drugs product-liability proximate-cause rico-act rico-claim standing |
Whether the chain of causation between a manufacturer's allegedly false or misleading statements or omissions and end payments for prescription drugs … |
| 19-1070 |
Jeffrey Alan Olson v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment Birchfield-v-North-Dakota blood-draw constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-procedure due-process retroactivity substantive-law supreme-court-precedent warrantless-blood-draw warrantless-search |
Whether this Court's holding that states may not impose criminal penalties on the refusal to submit to a warrantless blood draw, Birchfield v. North D… |
| 19-1084 |
Dayton Michael Cramer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
18-usc-2422 child-exploitation circuit-split criminal-law due-process intent-element intermediary-communication mens-rea minor-protection sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether communications with an adult intermediary to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor are punishable only if the defendant's interaction wi… |
| 19-1180 |
Robert Radcliffe, et al. v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure class-action class-actions class-counsel conflicts-of-interest due-process fair-settlement legal-representation material-conflict rule-23 settlement-fairness |
Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 permits class counsel whose interests are in material conflict with those of the class to represent the class so long as th… |
| 19-1182 |
Smith Land Company, et al. v. Shawn A. Herhold, et al. |
Ohio |
Denied |
|
clean-water-act corps-of-engineers-permit due-process isolated-wetlands nonpoint-source notice-and-hearing standing supremacy-clause wetlands |
Whether a state can enforce a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit to fill isolated intrastate wetlands |
| 19-1190 |
Samuel H. Sloan v. Creighton W. Sloan, et al. |
South Carolina |
Denied |
|
adoption adoption-status asset-confiscation biological-son dna-testing due-process estate estate-distribution estate-inheritance familial-rights judicial-review probate-court probate-jurisdiction standing |
Must the courts reopen the case where the entire assets of the deceased have been confiscated by an unofficially adopted child, and must the estate be… |
| 19-1193 |
Kristin D. Wilkinson v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline of the State Bar of Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment attorney-discipline confidentiality confidentiality-statutes disciplinary-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-re-ruffalo professional-rights property-rights |
Does the standard for assessing the protection of Due Process Clause rights of lawyers in disciplinary proceedings announced in Jn re Ruffalo, fail to… |
| 19-1197 |
GwanJun Kim v. City of Ionia, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure collateral-review exclusive-possession false-claims-act federal-cause-of-action legal-standards pleading-standards retroactivity rule-9b section-10b securities-fraud |
Whether the relaxed pleading standard for claims where evidence lies within the defendant's exclusive possession applies to claims under Section 10(b)… |
| 19-1200 |
Johndrell Elliott v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment dog-handler dog-sniff drug-offense drug-sniffing-dog fourth-amendment probable-cause rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-us search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search |
Was the drug offense arrest based on the facts of the traffic stop and use of the drug-sniffing dog valid under Rodriguez v. U.S.? |
| 19-1205 |
Anthony J. Lucero v. Paul Gordon, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment certificate-of-review civil-procedure due-process federal-review legal-malpractice rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine sham-affidavit state-actor state-actors state-court-judgments |
Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine permit this United States Supreme Court to review state trial court documents and judgments in this case within a cas… |
| 19-1219 |
Respect Washington v. Burien Communities for Inclusion, et al. |
Washington |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot ballot-access civil-rights election-law first-amendment free-speech initiative initiative-process political-speech referendum voting voting-rights |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right of citizens to vote on an initiative that meets all time, place and manner requirements for the initiat… |
| 19-1227 |
Judith Kerns, et al. v. Caterpillar, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collective-bargaining collectively-bargained-agreements contract-interpretation durational-clause ERISA healthcare-benefits m-and-g-polymers M&G-Polymers-v-Tackett retiree-benefits sixth-circuit surviving-spouse vesting |
Did the Sixth Circuit misapply M&G Polymers USA, LLC v. Tackett and related cases to find that Group 2 surviving spouses have no right to healthcare b… |
| 19-1239 |
Jackson Ridge Rehabilitation and Care, et al. v. Rhonda Meadows |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response Waived |
concurrent-jurisdiction employee-benefits erisa exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction interference retaliation statutory-interpretation |
Whether ERISA claims for retaliation and interference are enforced through 29 U.S.C. §1132(a)(1)(B) or 29 U.S.C. §1132(a)(3) |
| 19-1240 |
Myron Hubbard v. Missouri Department of Mental Health |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1251 appellate-review civil-procedure fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-misconduct original-jurisdiction retaliatory-action supervisory-power supreme-court-jurisdiction void-judgment void-judgments |
Whether the Court of Appeals and District Courts breached its duty, departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceeding and is of such … |
| 19-1271 |
Toni Sharretts Collins v. William Zolnier |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-privilege circuit-conflict civil-procedure communication-privilege defamation defamation-privilege first-amendment free-speech judicial-privilege legal-immunity procedural-exception tort tort-law |
Whether a party has absolute judicial privilege when a defamatory communication is made that has no logical relation to the proceeding |
| 19-5451 |
Michael Lawrence Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
binding-precedent circuit-split constitutional-question court-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 jurisdiction statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit exceeded its statutory mandate under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(C) when it issued published rulings on the merits of open leg… |
| 19-5990 |
David Alan Vogel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-court-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-appeal procedural-defect right-to-appeal standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals conflict with Supreme Court precedent by denying the petitioner's right to appeal based on a minor defect in th… |
| 19-623 |
Shrinivas Sugandhalaya LLP v. Balkrishna Setty, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
arbitration-agreement civil-procedure equitable-estoppel federal-arbitration-act foreign-arbitration foreign-arbitration-agreement foreign-defendant new-york-convention nonsignatory standing stay-litigation |
Does the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards permit a nonsignatory to an arbitration agreement to compel arbitrat… |
| 19-6355 |
Eric Mack v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
crime-of-violence due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus liberty-interest precedential-effect prior-panel-precedent pro-se-petition section-2255 successive-petitions |
Whether a defendant's right to Due Process in his initial § 2255 proceeding is violated by the Eleventh Circuit's rule assigning precedential effect t… |
| 19-685 |
Edward George McGregor v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
credibility cross-examination due-process false-testimony materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Is the materiality of false testimony knowingly used by the prosecution determined by asking whether the jury would have convicted the defendant had t… |
| 19-7076 |
Cedrick Ponder v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-7148 |
Jimmy Lee Boston v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
28-usc-2244 acca acca-elements-clause armed-robbery criminal-law due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a Florida conviction for principal to armed robbery is a 'violent felony' under the ACCA elements clause |
| 19-7153 |
Ronald Johnson v. Missouri |
Missouri |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment-representation capital-representation death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability plea-bargaining |
Whether counseling an intellectually disabled client to plead to life without parole to avoid the death penalty is ineffective assistance |
| 19-7165 |
Omar Macias-Macias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-ripeness circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process finality jurisdiction justiciability legal-challenge standing supervised-release |
Does the doctrine of prudential ripeness allow the Court of Appeals to dismiss a defendant's timely direct appeal challenging a supervised release con… |
| 19-7403 |
Theodore C. Shove v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-violations due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus judicial-oath law-enforcement prosecution state-constitution state-court-judgment state-exhaustion statutory-demand us-constitution |
Whether a criminal judgment obtained through violations of state and federal constitutions and laws by law enforcement and prosecution qualifies for h… |
| 19-7451 |
David Keith Rogers v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-hearing constitutional-rights court-discretion discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial hearing judicial-procedure juror-misconduct legal-review |
When a court is presented with admissions of clear juror misconduct is it constitutionally compelled to conduct a hearing to determine the extent and … |
| 19-7469 |
Olga Palamarchuk v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
escobar evidence evidence-admissibility lender-conduct mail-fraud materiality materiality-standard ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-interpretation recipient-behavior supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the standard for materiality in a mail fraud case is determined by the likely behavior of the recipient of the alleged misrepresentations |
| 19-747 |
Francisco Lopez Gamero v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
None |
|
| 19-7472 |
Tymaine Akeen Lewis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance drug-offense firearm-possession prior-conviction qualifying-offense robbery statutory-interpretation texas-robbery violent |
Whether Petitioner is an Armed Career criminal under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)? |
| 19-7506 |
David Andrew Hunt, Lusion Yoshua Rice, and Dendrick Demond Hall v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
28-usc-2244 binding-precedent due-process ex-parte federal-courts supervisory-authority |
Whether Alabama robbery categorically requires 'as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of anothe… |
| 19-7527 |
Marcus Rashawn Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure binding-precedent due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review meaningful-review precedent-rule second-or-successive-2255 second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing |
Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi… |
| 19-7637 |
Pedro Anthony Romero Cruz v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
which can be committed through mere omission 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute omission-liability statutory-interpretation use-of-force virginia-law |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of a 'crime of violence,' under which an offense must have 'as an element the use, attempted use, or thr… |
| 19-7672 |
Donte Deshawn Alston v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
access-to-courts due-process eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus prior-panel-precedent prior-precedent-rule pro-se second-or-successive |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's Prior-Precedent Rule violates due process |
| 19-7692 |
R. A. S. v. Montgomery County Children and Youth Services |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1257a adjudication adjudication-hearing adjudication-order constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights parental-rights statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review termination-of-rights termination-proceeding |
Whether the right to a fair termination of parental rights proceeding include the right of an effective adjudication order, and whether the Supreme Co… |
| 19-7872 |
Samuel A. Wilder v. William F. Krebs |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process fourth-circuit informal-brief motion-to-extend pro-se pro-se-litigation procedural-ripeness standing waiver-doctrine |
Whether the court should have assisted this pro se litigant with time to respond to the Defendant's motion to extend time and Defendant's response to … |
| 19-8103 |
Ramiro Rubi Ibarra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence federal-judicial-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment texas-law |
Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to ensure meaningful federal judicial review of a substantial Sixth Amendment claim |
| 19-8134 |
James Ricky Ezell v. Damon Hininger, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appointed-counsel appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-remedies pro-se-plaintiff retaliation |
Whether the Tenth Circuit has jurisdiction to consider denying of plaintiff, prisoner in custody of Department of Corrections, housed in private priso… |
| 19-8138 |
Jeanette Woolsey-Ross v. James Woolsey, et al. |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
child-support civil-rights due-process interstate-commerce social-security standing |
Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when the federal interstate child support enforcement process under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act d… |
| 19-8153 |
Keith Clayton Brooks, Jr. v. Celia Schwartz, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-traumatic-stress-disorder prisoner-rights section-1915g suicidal-impulses |
Will conditions of confinement that demonstrate a pattern of misconduct under the First and Fourteenth Amendments leading to suicidal impulses or urge… |
| 19-8157 |
Brian Richardson v. Joshua Moore |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for failure to exhaust administrative remedies when the petitioner was denied the… |
| 19-8159 |
Jeffrey Ramirez v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-time-bar due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-rules time-bar |
When is it permissible for application of the time bar of AEDPA, without due consideration of the evidence provided throughout a diligently pursued ac… |
| 19-8164 |
Eric T. Tolen v. Jeff Norman, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-claim disbarment exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure manifest-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel trial-court withheld-evidence |
Whether the Lower Court committed a manifest error of law |
| 19-8165 |
Tanya Winters v. Industrial Commission of Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-benefits medical-cannabis veterans-benefits |
Whether the government's denial of medical cannabis benefits to military veterans violates their constitutional rights |
| 19-8166 |
Anthony Williams v. Muhammad Naji, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process health-care hepatitis-c imminent-danger medical-neglect prison prison-healthcare standing |
Did the court of appeals decision conflict with decisions made by the U.S. district court regarding imminent danger and does hepatitis-C create immine… |
| 19-8170 |
Joe Robert Reynolds v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing |
Whether the defendant was arrested without a warrant and whether the defendant's attorneys' actions were part of the case strategy |
| 19-8174 |
Camille T. Mata v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights-act due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination race-discrimination race-gender-discrimination superintendent-authority title-ix title-vi |
Should senior legal officers be allowed to deny further appellate review when there is constitutional ground to grant it? |
| 19-8176 |
Homer Lawrence Lane v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas legal-preclusion procedural-bar state-law state-rule structural-error |
Whether the State of Alabama may impose a state procedural bar rule to preclude a structural error claim |
| 19-8179 |
In Re Harold Wayne Nichols |
|
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 capital-defendant court-of-appeals habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits merits-adjudication retroactive-law statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
When a capital defendant requests from a court of appeals authorization to file in a district court a second or successive habeas petition presenting … |
| 19-8182 |
Edward Paul Moss v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the presumptive inference under Arizona law for any felony for which the Petitioner was convicted is unconstitutional |
| 19-8183 |
Jose Nogales v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-justice retroactive-legislation retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the retroactive application of California's Senate Bill No. 1391 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-8185 |
Floyd Dewaine Scott v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Did the California State Superior Court violate the Petitioner's Due Process, Sixth Amendment, and Eighth Amendment rights |
| 19-8186 |
Leroy Staton v. Superintendent, Lee Correctional Institution |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence bill-of-attainder criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel sexual-assault |
Whether defendant is not guilty due to lack of rape and murder cover-up, resulting in an irrational conviction from due process violations and an unfa… |
| 19-8189 |
Jose E. Ramos v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-procedure dispute-resolution due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-standing procedural-compliance ripeness-doctrine standing |
Whether the jurisdiction of the trial court to decide the issue is called into question, and whether the party seeking the exercise of jurisdiction ha… |
| 19-8195 |
Alens Charles v. Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
assault civil-rights-act-of-1991 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritoriality federal-government federal-officers general-intent specific-intent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §111 the dismissal was a specific-intent |
| 19-8198 |
Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-circuit injunction standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit unpublished opinion and judgment issued on February 26, 2020 is defective |
| 19-8201 |
James R. Householder v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when the police conducted a warrantless search of their home without exigent circumstan… |
| 19-8202 |
Linda Gough v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights-act employee-classification employment-classification equal-pay-act fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor outside-sales-exemption title-vii-civil-rights-act wage-and-hour-law |
Whether Bankers Life properly classified Gough as an independent contractor and not an employee? |
| 19-8203 |
Rashan J. Hunt v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement repeat-offender repeat-violent-offender sentencing sixth-amendment |
Was petitioner's plea agreement violated, and his constitutional due process protections violated? |
| 19-8205 |
In Re Jonathan E. Brunson |
|
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-review |
Whether [Mr. Brunson's] right to discover exculpatory evidence is still enforceable |
| 19-8206 |
Zaryl G. Bush v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-bar sixth-amendment |
Should state courts be allowed to hide behind procedural bars when the record indicates the accused was denied constitutional rights? |
| 19-8210 |
Peggy Gordon v. Holy Cross Hospital Germantown, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims |
| 19-8213 |
Jesus Rodriguez v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review cullen-v-pinholster due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan pinholster-ruling sixth-amendment |
Whether receiving inadequate representation at a first collateral review proceeding triggers the exception of Martinez v. Ryan |
| 19-8217 |
Blake Jones v. McKee Foods Corporation |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-procedure discovery evidence pleadings summary-judgment |
Whether a defendant may ignore evidence provided through interrogatories, depositions, and motions for the purpose of summary judgment and have the wo… |
| 19-8225 |
In Re Faramarz Mehdipour |
|
Denied |
IFP |
all-writs-act certiorari-timeline due-process equitable-powers exceptional-circumstances extraordinary-relief prison-lockdown pro-se pro-se-petition standing supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the Court retains equitable powers to ensure faith in the Federal Courts of the United States, even when no other means of relief can be obtai… |
| 19-8226 |
Randy Phipps v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claims due-process fair-presentation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-petition |
Whether federal constitutional claims were fairly presented under federal law |
| 19-8245 |
Scott Peters v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights covid-19 due-process standing takings |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioners' claims challenging the constitutionality of the Centers for Disease Co… |
| 19-8264 |
Paul M. Gordon v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure legal-standard mental-competency mental-incompetency sentencing |
Is it a constitutional violation of due process to have been sentenced while mentally incompetent? |
| 19-8270 |
Earl Mayberry Johnson, Jr. v. The Florida Bar |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment attorney-discipline confrontation-clause disbarment due-process equal-protection florida-bar service-of-process |
Whether the State of Florida violated the Petitioner's 14th-Amendment-due-process, 14th-Amendment-equal-protection, Confrontation-Clause, service-of-p… |
| 19-8286 |
Edward Tiger v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite |
Whether a finding that a criminal defendant is presently competent to proceed is a jurisdictional prerequisite to a court's authority to deprive an ac… |
| 19-8297 |
Leif O'Connell v. Dushan Zatecky |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance insanity-defense plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the Indiana courts erred in affirming the post-conviction court's decision despite the State's procedural default |
| 19-8301 |
Stephen J. Mocco v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability sixth-amendment slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel townsend-hearing townsend-v-sain |
Whether the standard announced in Slack v. McDaniel compels issuance of a certificate of appealability where prima facie evidence demonstrating a Sixt… |
| 19-8311 |
John D. Dalen v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. |
South Carolina |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process foreclosure securitization standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Was Petitioner denied his Common Law Right to a trial by jury, and his right to due process of law |
| 19-8319 |
Tarvares James Watson v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-challenge wrongful-conviction |
Whether petitioner's conviction resulted in the conviction of one who is actually innocent? |
| 19-8322 |
Joseph Augustus Dixon v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 19-8362 |
Henry M. Mitchell, Jr. v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bad-faith constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-destruction police-misconduct |
Whether the police may rely on unsubstantiated evidence to absolve them of bad faith intentional destruction of potentially useful evidence? |
| 19-8363 |
Daniel R. McClain v. Kenneth Sharp, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-counsel post-conviction-relief prison-conditions |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to the deprivation of adequate access to the courts and lack of properly trained lega… |
| 19-8371 |
Angelo Ham v. Warden Williams |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statute-of-limitations takings |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the petitioner's claims were barred by the statute of limitations |
| 19-8379 |
Herbert Burgess v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial judicial-bias judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct trial-bias witness-credibility |
Whether the trial court's repeated displays of bias, hostility, and animosity toward Herbert Burgess violated the standard for prejudice and bias |
| 19-8422 |
Todd Lee Glenn v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration sorna 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… |
| 19-8431 |
Ciro Cruz-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Cruz because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time? |
| 19-8437 |
Joh-ner Taylor Wilson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment perjured-testimony probable-cause warrantless-arrest wrongful-conviction |
Whether Wilson's warrantless arrest and detention without probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 19-8440 |
Katherine O'Neal v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error evidence-admission harmless-error jury-trial overwhelming-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether a constitutional error in the admission of evidence is harmless based on the strength of the untainted proof or the error's contribution to th… |
| 19-8447 |
Jeanette D. Davis v. Renee Thomas, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection excessive-force grievance-interference grievance-process |
Were us cha 1.Defendant Officer Renee Thomas inflicted crule an unusal punishment |
| 19-8451 |
Michael Skinner v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process factual-determination habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-review trial-record |
Is a State Court Decision an Unreasonable Determination of the facts When it Determines That a Claim Was not Sufficiently Developed in the Record for … |
| 19-8453 |
John Christopher Dobbs v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court federal-rules firearm-possession judicial-findings presentence-report rule-32 sentencing-guidelines |
When a defendant disputes that he has committed a Cross Reference crime, does Rule 32(i)(3)(B) require the district court to make specific findings ab… |
| 19-8463 |
Luis Ricardo Mayea-Pulido v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination heightened-scrutiny legitimacy marital-status ninth-circuit parents'-marital-status statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Ninth Circuit (and other courts of appeals) misinterpret the phrase 'parents' marital status' by holding that it refers exclusively to 'legiti… |
| 19-8467 |
Juan Petis McLendon v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal-without-prejudice due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mandatory-review speech-trial-act standing statutory-interpretation stricklands-prejudice |
Does a failure to obtain dismissal without prejudice under the Speech or Debate Act constitute 'STRICKLAND's prejudice' when the mandatory reversal in… |
| 19-8468 |
Janice M. Shufford v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy-charges criminal-history due-process evidence evidentiary-exclusion fair-trial indictment-defects judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Did the court of appeals properly affirm the trial court's prohibition of the defense from adducing evidence of prosecution witnesses' criminal histor… |
| 19-8469 |
Viengxay Chantharath v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure drug-convictions first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act (FSA-2018) altered the statutes: 21 U.S.C. § 851 enhancement for prior drug convictions |
| 19-8475 |
In Re Tarvares James Watson |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief |
Whether petitioner's conviction resulted in the conviction of one who was actually innocent |
| 19-855 |
Lenin Lugo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split expert-witness expert-witness-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-opinion lay-witness lay-witness-testimony professional-experience rule-701 rule-702 |
Whether an opinion of a law enforcement officer that depends on the witness's professional experience is admissible as Rule 701 lay opinion or must me… |
| 19-863 |
Agusto Niz-Chavez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Sixth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 19-875 |
OTO, L.L.C. v. Ken Kho, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-proceeding arbitration-agreement civil-litigation federal-arbitration-act preemption procedural-protections state-law substantive-unconscionability unconscionability |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a State from invalidating an arbitration agreement as substantively unconscionable |
| 19-889 |
Kaufman County, Texas, et al. v. Eunice J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
Did the Fifth Circuit panel majority err in reversing Kaufman County's summary judgment after concluding Officer Hinds did not violate clearly establi… |
| 19-901 |
Devon Drive Lionville, LP, et al. v. Parke Bank, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
causation-chain chain-of-causation civil-rico fdic fdic-regulation mail-fraud proximate-cause wire-fraud |
What standards and criteria are appropriate in a civil RICO case to determine whether proximate cause exists for a plaintiff who is not the direct rec… |
| 19-997 |
Gary S. Williky v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-court civil-penalties discretion guilty-plea guilty-pleas guilty-verdicts judicial-discretion seventh-circuit whistleblower |
Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining that the Trial Court did not abuse its discretion by awarding 2x civil penalties against W… |
| 19M140 |
Julian Marin Gutierrez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|