Conference: 2020-06-11

97 cases — 0 granted, 97 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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18-1078 James Dawson, et al. v. Joshua Brennan Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) 4th-amendment circuit-split curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement probation probation-condition probation-conditions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Sixth Circuit misapplied Supreme Court precedent on Fourth Amendment curtilage, creating circuit split
18-1272 Michael Gould, et al. v. Andrew Lipson, in His Official Capacity as Chief of the Brookline Police Department, et al. First Circuit Denied Relisted (7) 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-restrictions good-reason intermediate-scrutiny right-to-bear-arms right-to-carry second-amendment self-defense standing takings Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a firearm outside the home for self-defense
18-1287 Alexander L. Baxter v. Brad Bracey, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (11) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity search-and-seizure seizure Whether the use of a police dog to apprehend a suspect who has surrendered by sitting on the ground with his hands up violates the Fourth Amendment
18-663 Fredric Russell Mance, Jr., et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (6)Relisted (8) 2nd-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-firearms-licensees firearm-sales firearms-regulation handgun-sales interstate-commerce second-amendment standing Whether prohibiting interstate handgun sales, facially or as-applied to consumers whose home jurisdictions authorize such transactions, violates the S…
18-824 Thomas Rogers, et al. v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) 2nd-amendment carry circuit-split constitutional-carry firearm-rights heller-v-dc intermediate-scrutiny licensing second-amendment self-defense Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a firearm outside the home for self-defense
18-843 Ivan Pena, et al. v. Martin Horan, Director, California Department of Justice Bureau of Firearms Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (4)Relisted (7) 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection firearm-regulation firearm-restrictions handgun-regulation intermediate-scrutiny microstamping second-amendment self-defense standing takings Whether California's 'Unsafe Handgun Act' violates the Second Amendment
18-913 Joshua Brennan v. James Dawson, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (9) civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement liability police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-reliance Whether a police officer may reasonably rely on a narrow exception to a specific and clearly established right to shield him from civil liability when…
18-9674 Terence Tramaine Andrus v. Texas Texas GVR Amici (1)Relisted (24)IFP death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Does the Strickland standard fail to protect Sixth Amendment right to fair trial and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process in death-penalty cases …
19-1010 Actavis Holdco U.S., Inc., et al. v. Connecticut, et al. Third Circuit Denied Amici (6) civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery claw-back discovery discovery-scope document-production federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus mandamus-review proportionality relevance relevance-standard rule-26 scope-of-discovery Whether a district court may compel a party that has not engaged in discovery-related misconduct to produce documents that are neither relevant nor re…
19-1033 Daniel Enrique Cantú v. James M. Moody, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied bivens bivens-claim civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence federal-officer qualified-immunity standing Whether a plaintiff may pursue a claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), alleging that…
19-1058 Hospira, Inc. v. Eli Lilly and Company Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1) claim-drafting claim-narrowing doctrine-of-equivalents literal-infringement patent-claim-interpretation patent-claims patent-prosecution-estoppel patent-prosecution-history-estoppel patent-scope prior-art-rejection tangential-relation tangential-relation-exception Whether a patentee may recapture subject matter via the doctrine of equivalents under the 'tangential relation' exception
19-1061 Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Ltd., et al. v. Eli Lilly and Company Federal Circuit Denied Amici (2) claim-amendment doctrine-of-equivalents festo-corp-v-shoketsu festo-corp-v-shoketsu-kinzoku-kogyo-kabushiki-co patent-claim patent-infringement patent-law patent-law-doctrine-of-equivalents patent-prosecution prosecution-history-estoppel tangential-exception Whether patent owners may recapture subject matter they could have claimed in prosecution but did not, by arguing that they surrendered more than they…
19-1065 Teresa Ann Johnson v. Alaska Alaska Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-evidence lab-report sixth-amendment surrogate-expert testimonial-evidence Whether the Confrontation Clause prohibits the prosecution from introducing into evidence at trial a certified lab report reflecting statements of non…
19-1080 Archer and White Sales, Inc. v. Henry Schein, Inc. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-agreement carve-out court-determination delegation equitable-estoppel nonsignatory Whether an arbitration agreement that makes no mention of delegation 'clearly and unmistakably' delegates arbitrability with respect to actions that t…
19-1105 Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Jimmy Dean Harris Tenth Circuit Denied death-penalty death-penalty-appeal deference-to-state-courts deferential-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability standard-of-review Whether the Tenth Circuit contravened Supreme Court precedent in holding that the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals made an unreasonable determinatio…
19-1127 Wheeler K. Neff v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) business-ownership civil-lawsuit mail-fraud money-or-property rico-conspiracy settlement-negotiations tribal-sovereign-immunity unlawful-debt wire-fraud Does a misrepresentation about the true identity of the owner of a business during settlement negotiations constitute mail/wire fraud?
19-114 Douglas F. Ciolek v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process handgun-carry justifiable-need permit-requirement permit-restriction public-carry public-safety second-amendment self-defense standing takings Whether the legislative requirement of 'justifiable need' for a permit to carry a handgun in public violates the Second Amendment
19-1141 Atlantic Trading USA, LLC, et al. v. BP P.L.C., et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (3) circuit-split commodity-exchange-act domestic-transaction extraterritorial-jurisdiction location-of-exchange morrison-test morrison-v-national-australia-bank securities-exchange-act stoyas-v-toshiba-corp territorial-application Whether passing Morrison's domestic-transaction test is sufficient or merely necessary
19-1191 Ohio v. Shawn Ford Ohio Denied Amici (2) atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability standing state-standards supreme-court-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent What is the test for determining whether someone is 'intellectually disabled' for purposes of the Eighth Amendment?
19-1206 Paul Boland, as Heir of the Estate of Dixie L. Boland, et al. v. Chris Boland, et al. Montana Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process estate-dispute hearing probate probate-law standing Were Petitioners denied due process
19-1207 Geoffrey M. Young v. Denise G. Clayton, Chief Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals Kentucky Denied ballot-access ballot-challenge due-process election-law federalism judicial-review kentucky-supreme-court original-jurisdiction separation-of-powers standing state-constitution state-constitution-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court of Kentucky may nullify Kentucky's ballot challenge statute, Kentucky Revised Statute ('KRS') 118.176, and violate Sections …
19-1215 Steven Sussex, et ux. v. City of Tempe, Arizona Arizona Denied Response Waived civil-procedure enabling-act federal-defense federal-enabling-act federal-law federal-preemption judicial-procedure jurisdiction property-rights quiet-title state-law Can a state law bar a federal defense in a quiet title proceeding?
19-1217 Scottie A. Bagi, et al. v. City of Parma, Ohio Sixth Circuit Denied 42-usc-1988 attorney-fees christiansburg-garment civil-rights discretionary-standard due-process first-amendment free-speech public-employee retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment Whether the District Court abused its discretion in its application of the standards set forth in Christiansburg Garment Co. v. EEOC, 434 U.S. 412 (19…
19-1282 Avery Terry v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 18-usc-924c appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-waiver due-process force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime Whether the court of appeals erred in dismissing the appeal pursuant to an invalid appeal waiver
19-1294 Geoffrey Young v. Amy McGrath Kentucky Denied Response Waived ballot-access ballot-challenge civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation democratic-party due-process election-integrity election-law judicial-procedure kentucky-constitution political-parties primary-election standing Whether Kentucky's Judicial Department unlawfully enabled the names of Amy McGrath and Andy Beshear to appear on general election ballots
19-1295 Rao S. Mandalapu v. Temple University Hospital, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination pretext reeves-v-sanderson retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Is it necessary for a plaintiff to show discriminatory or retaliatory 'animus' against a protected category in order to prevent dismissal at the summa…
19-1297 James K. Collins, et ux. v. D.R. Horton-Texas, Ltd. Texas Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process federal-judgment fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-rights takings tenth-amendment void-judgment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment allows a state to enforce a void federal judgment obtained without personal jurisdiction over and notice to the defen…
19-27 Mark Cheeseman v. Joseph Polillo, Chief of Police, City of Glassboro, New Jersey, et al. New Jersey Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry discretionary-permitting due-process handgun-permit justifiable-need public-safety right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-protection standing takings Whether States can limit the ability to bear handguns outside the home to only those found to have a sufficiently heightened 'need' for self-protectio…
19-404 David Seth Worman, et al. v. Maura T. Healey, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit Denied Amici (7)Relisted (7) 2nd-amendment caetano civil-rights due-process firearms-ban heller heller-standard individual-right intermediate-scrutiny mcdonald second-amendment self-defense Does Massachusetts' ban unconstitutionally infringe the individual right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment?
19-423 Brian Kirk Malpasso, et al. v. William M. Pallozzi, in His Official Capacity as Maryland Secretary of State Police Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) 2nd-amendment carry circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process handgun-carry heller law-abiding-citizens mcdonald second-amendment self-defense Whether the Second Amendment allows the government to prohibit typical, law-abiding citizens from carrying handguns outside the home for self-defense
19-487 Kevin W. Culp, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (7) 2nd-amendment concealed-carry constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection firearm-rights illinois non-resident-licensing second-amendment standing state-restrictions Whether the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms requires that the State of Illinois allow qualified non-residents to apply for an Illinois co…
19-532 United States v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Relisted (14) anti-commandeering civil-rights federal-law federal-preemption immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law information-sharing intergovernmental-immunity preemption sb-54 state-enforcement state-law Whether provisions of California law that prohibit state law-enforcement officials from providing federal immigration authorities with release dates a…
19-6444 Jermaine D. Harris v. Stephen T. Moyer, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aiding-and-abetting appeal cell-phone-technology cell-tower-testimony criminal-procedure cumulative-effect due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-privilege habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legally-inconsistent-verdicts sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability on Petitioner's claim that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective f…
19-656 William Anderson v. City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-responders first-responders hypothermia hypothermia-treatment qualified-immunity state-created-danger Whether the burden of persuasion in qualified immunity cases should be on the plaintiff or the defendant
19-6593 Deshay D. Ford v. Timothy P. White, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 42-usc-1981 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech racial-discrimination Violation of the Petitioner's Constitutional and Civil Rights to prevent the Petitioner from filing a lawsuit against the Respondent(s)
19-676 Joseph A. Zadeh, et al. v. Mari Robinson, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-liability judicial-precedent law-enforcement legal-doctrine qualified-immunity section-1983 standing Whether the Court should recalibrate or reverse the doctrine of qualified immunity
19-679 Amy Corbitt v. Michael Vickers Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement pleading-requirement pleading-standards police-use-of-force qualified-immunity section-1983 use-of-force Whether qualified immunity is an affirmative defense or a pleading requirement
19-6858 David Lamont Liddell v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery constitutional-law criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mississippi-state-law prior-conviction resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether Mr. Liddell should be resentenced without applying the armed career criminal provisions of the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-7018 Scott Ray Bishop v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony personal-knowledge structural-error technical-element testimony Whether the exclusion of a defendant's testimony based on first-hand, personal knowledge of a technical element of the offense charged is structural e…
19-704 Matthew D. Wilson, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (7) 2nd-amendment civil-rights common-use common-use-test due-process firearms-regulation heller heller-precedent local-government-restriction second-amendment self-defense standing takings Whether the Second Amendment allows a local government to prohibit law-abiding residents from possessing and protecting themselves with a class of rif…
19-7188 John Jay Powers v. M. L. Stancil Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3584 18-usc-3584a administrative-deference administrative-law bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-interpretation statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation Is the language of 18 U.S.C. 3584(a)'s phrase 'at the same time' ambiguous?
19-7300 Billy J. Booker v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-provisions Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1962 holds Cubana Air Piracy as a predicate act
19-7495 Abu Ala M. D. Badruddoza v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights covid-19 due-process employment equal-protection osha standing statutory-authority takings vaccination workplace-safety Whether the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) exceeded its statutory authority in issuing the COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emer…
19-753 Michael Hunter, et al. v. Randy Cole, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) civil-rights clearly-established-law deadly-force deadly-weapon due-process dynamic-encounter excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity shooting-encounter use-of-force Whether police officers can use deadly force when a person armed with a firearm moves the weapon toward the officer, even if the officer has not shout…
19-7538 Victoria Carlson, et vir v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Minnesota Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure administrative-procedures breast-cancer-treatment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute medicaid medicaid-coverage medical-assistance medicare state-statute statutory-interpretation Whether the applicable language requires or allows removal of Victoria from Medicaid breast cancer treatment coverage
19-757 Arizona Libertarian Party, et al. v. Katie Hobbs, Arizona Secretary of State Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) ballot-access ballot-qualified-party candidate-qualification constitutional-threshold election-law independent-voters political-parties primary-election voter-eligibility voter-support Questions presented
19-7642 Ann Karnofel v. Superior Waterproofing, Inc. Ohio Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence federal-evidence judicial-review jurisdiction lower-court standing Were petitioner's due-process rights denied, since she is a female, and an applicant?
19-7669 Lawrence Eliot Mattison v. Janie Deborah Willis, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-13 38-cfr-814 38-cfr-814-560-561 concurrent-criminal-jurisdiction concurrent-jurisdiction criminal-jurisdiction federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-enclave federal-enclave-jurisdiction jurisdiction-transfer retrocession stalking state-criminal-prosecution state-prosecution veterans-affairs Whether repeal of code of Virginia 87.1-21(1976) of jurisdiction over alleged crimes and offenses committed on federal enclave property, and acceptanc…
19-7670 Hooman Ashkan Panah v. Ron Broomfield, Warden California Denied Amici (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process federal-law habeas invalidated-evidence judicial-review post-conviction scientific-evidence trial What is the test to determine when due process is violated based on scientific evidence presented at trial which is later shown to be invalid?
19-7732 Jerad Hanks v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP bank-robbery circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-statutes firearm-use rule-of-lenity use-of-force vagueness-doctrine Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1) is unconstitutionally vague
19-7790 Brenda Mason, Individually and on Behalf of Quamaine Dwayne Mason, et vir v. Martin Faul Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (6)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit objective-reasonableness police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing use-of-force Whether a finding of 'objectively unreasonable excessive force' can be squared with a finding of qualified immunity
19-7919 Darius Latrell King v. United States Ninth Circuit GVR IFP 18-usc-922(g) 9th-circuit-appeal bench-trial felon-in-possession knowledge-requirement prohibited-status stipulated-facts Whether the defendant's conviction should be vacated and remanded in light of Rehaif v. United States
19-8010 Joseph Chhim v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure burden-of-proof civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination hiring-process job-referral performance-review pre-qualification prequalification termination Whether Appellant was discriminated against in the initial prequalification process?
19-8036 Odis Lee Jackson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction first-step-act judicial-review mandatory-minimum post-sentencing-conduct sentencing sentencing-modification sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation What procedures does Section 404 of the First Step Act require a district court to follow when conducting its statutorily required 'complete review of…
19-8200 Don Farley v. Carl Parson Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech witness-testimony Was Farley denied his First Amendment Right of Free Speech and Fourteenth Amendment of due process?
19-8216 Scott Winfield Davis v. Shay Hatcher, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment arizona-v-youngblood bad-faith circuit-split due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment youngblood-standard Whether the opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is a precedent-setting error in interpreting the requirements for 'bad faith…
19-8223 Timothy W. Connors v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. Nevada Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing Question not identified
19-8224 James William Neuman v. Nathan Callahan, et al. Iowa Denied IFP civil-rights clerk-conspiracy court-records document-tampering due-process fraud fraud-allegations judicial-misconduct qualified-immunity retaliation theft Do the Black Hawk County Clerks have qualified immunity when they conspired to delete or erase a payment and not follow court orders
19-8230 Alexander Kates v. New York New York Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process fourth-amendment illegal-seizure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement property-return prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity Whether a plea agreement to return illegally seized property in exchange for a guilty plea, induced by the prosecutor, is breached when the prosecutio…
19-8233 Reynaldo Alberto Cantu v. Texas Texas Denied IFP bias constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-bias juror-misconduct remand trial-procedure Whether the Texas High Court erred in denying Petitioner the right to a fair and impartial trial by failing to remand the case back to the trial court…
19-8234 Eric J. Davis v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Ohio Denied IFP conviction court-jurisdiction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-finality petition-construction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether there can be a finality of judgement of conviction rendered against a criminal defendant, where the criminal court lacked subject-matter-juris…
19-8236 Iva Brooks v. Aaron Foster Illinois Denied IFP child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion parental-rights pro-se procedural-violations standing state-attorney What are the issues being raised in the SCOTUS petition for writ of certiorari?
19-8238 Morris Kent Thompson v. Jennifer Leppek Cerato, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Natalie A. Richards-Thompson Florida Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-override due-process equal-protection government-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-procedure legal-conspiracy separation-of-powers Have the attorney's and court committed a management override of the Constitution?
19-8241 Joseph Llewellyn Worrell v. Emigrant Mortgage Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-proceedings mortgage-security preemption servicemembers-civil-relief-act summary-judgment Whether a mortgage security instrument created six days before the underlying promissory note is sufficiently executed to provide standing to foreclos…
19-8242 Adrian Weatherspoon v. Fatemah Bagahpour, et al. Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process eviction eviction-procedure foreclosure judicial-signature mortgage-dispute property-rights standing Why was the writ of possession document not signed by a judge or stamped by the lower courts?
19-8243 Jonathan Melvin LeDeux v. Jeannette Louise Anthony, as an Individual and in her Official Capacity as Trustee of The Emmett and Aralee Charlton Trust, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-vitiation judicial-error noerr-pennington-doctrine probate probate-clause separation-of-powers Can Juridically created rules such as, The Probate Clause and the Noerr Pennington Doctrine, ect. Interfere with due process without also violating th…
19-8244 Frank Morgan v. Illinois Department of Corrections Illinois Denied IFP chaplain-duties civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections detainee-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment religious-services standing takings Whether the petitioners' due process rights were violated by the state's use of summary procedures that did not comport with the requirements of due p…
19-8247 John Wilson v. Florida Florida Denied IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-procedure mental-competency self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court was obligated to determine the mental competency of a defendant before granting him the right to represent himself at trial if…
19-8253 Rudolph Churchill v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence hypothetical-question ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel Sixth Amendment-Ineffective-Assistance-of-Counsel
19-8257 Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-requirements due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-default successive-petitions supreme-court-precedent time-barred-petition Can the lower courts continue to bypass U.S. Supreme Court law in favor of their self-created rule calling time-barred initial habeas petitions 'adjud…
19-8259 Talib Hussain v. Marietta Halal Meat, et al. Georgia Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eviction eviction-procedure georgia-statutes judicial-discretion landlord-tenant landlord-tenant-law property-rights Due process-of-law-and-public-interest
19-8260 Alvin Fulton v. New York New York Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-miscarriage judicial-discretion post-release-supervision sentencing sentencing-error sex-offenses Whether issuance of the writ is agreeable to the usages and principles of law, whether the State of New York Court of Appeals has decided an important…
19-8266 James Heard v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-court-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation trial-court Whether the trial court erred in denying Somes Heard's pre-trial motion to proceed pro se
19-8271 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska Alaska Denied Response WaivedIFP equal-protection impartial-jury juror-bias jury-trial jury-trial-right no-impeachment-rule racial-bias sixth-amendment Whether a no-impeachment rule constitutionally may bar evidence of juror bias when offered to prove a violation of the Sixth Amendment to an impartial…
19-8290 Robert Taylor v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-procedure procedural-due-process standing Did The Circuit Court Abuse Its Discretion?
19-8318 William Whiteley v. John Willis, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure evidence-law exculpatory-evidence eyewitness fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that the warrantless search of his automobile's glove compartment violat…
19-8389 Edward Yarbrough, Jr. v. J. Sullivan, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-error federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remarks-authentication reversible-error trial-court Whether a prosecutor's uninvited inflammatory remarks made in summation, absent a timely explicit curative instruction, so infected the trial with unf…
19-839 Eastern Oregon Mining Association, et al. v. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, et al. Oregon Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split clean-water-act environmental-regulation material-movement navigable-waters pollutant-discharge pollution-prohibition statutory-interpretation suction-dredge-mining Does the Clean Water Act regulate activities that simply move pre-existing material, such as rock, sand, and gravel, within a 'navigable water'?
19-8439 Marijan Cvjeticanin v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation catch-me-if-you-can criminal-procedure due-process kyles-standard kyles-v-whitley materiality-standard new-trial-motion perjury rule-33 trial-perjury Brady-violations
19-8449 Gregory Harris, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-prosecution evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence helpfulness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony personal-perception usurping-jury-role Whether the personal perception and helpfulness requirements of Rule 701 are satisfied where the government's law enforcement witnesses provide lay op…
19-8456 Thomas Hopes v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split essential-elements evidence-standard federal-rules-of-evidence helpfulness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony personal-perception rule-701 usurping-jury-role Whether the personal perception and helpfulness requirements of Rule 701 are satisfied where the government's law enforcement witnesses provide lay op…
19-8466 Branch William Niehouse v. Brigitte Amsberry Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law evidence force legal-sufficiency lost-and-found property-rights robbery robbery-evidence speculative-testimony trespass trespassing use-of-force Whether the evidence of robbery was legally sufficient when the only evidence of threatened use of force was speculation about sunglasses that may hav…
19-8470 Raymond K. Walker v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-right counsel-refusal court-order due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance judicial-review procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Refusal of Price Counsel to Comply with U.S.C. 5 Continual request and Court orders to file a brief with allegations of ineffectiveness conceded the c…
19-8478 John King v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure fact-finding judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-fact-finding mcmillan-v-pennsylvania preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts Can a judge rely on facts not found by a jury to enhance a sentence after this Court's decision in United States v. Alleyne, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), where…
19-8479 Bernard J. Fleming v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial personal-opinion prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching vouching witness-credibility When do comments by a prosecutor in her final and rebuttal arguments to the jury in a criminal case that affirm the veracity of the government's chief…
19-8485 Melvin T. Bell v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-remedy statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals can exercise jurisdiction over the petitioner's interlocutory appeal before the imposition of an unconstitutional sentenc…
19-8486 Quincy Tremayne Bloodworth v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana-legalization police-encounter probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review unreasonable-seizures Are minott ties and pool people in America provided adequate protection from unreasonable Searches and Seizures?
19-8489 Jason Mitchell Abbo v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acca acca-enhancement burden-of-proof criminal-justice due-process equal-protection juvenile-conviction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement Does a juvenile conviction for possession of a controlled substance qualify as a prior predicate conviction for an ACCA enhancement?
19-8494 Michael Lustig v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search search-and-seizure standing Whether failure to suppress evidence resulting from an illegal search amounted to a violation of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights
19-8500 David Furtado Gray v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings Whether Moe Necen 'Qdeor' & Tarheleern est a2 AcKees is \\B VSO. Vsa@Wy, ako is Cross Kelerersetr Xe (QO
19-8536 In Re Robert P. Russell Dismissed IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-crime federal-habeas habeas-corpus liberty-interest liberty-interests murder-conviction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation successive-motions Whether Petitioner Robert Peter Russell retains a federal constitutional right to be released from federal prison upon existing record of uncontrovert…
19-897 Tae D. Johnson, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Maria Angelica Guzman Chavez, et al. Fourth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (2) 8-usc-1226 8-usc-1231 administrative-law detention immigration-detention immigration-law immigration-procedure removal-order statutory-interpretation withholding-of-removal withholding-removal Whether the detention of an alien who is subject to a reinstated removal order and who is pursuing withholding or deferral of removal is governed by 8…
19-899 Shaniz West v. Doug Winfield, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Relisted (6) 4th-amendment civil-rights consent due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-damage property-rights qualified-immunity Whether an officer who has consent to 'get inside' a house but instead destroys it from the outside is entitled to qualified immunity in the absence o…
19-966 Emerson Electric Co. v. SIPCO, LLC Federal Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-101 35-usc-103 35-usc-324 administrative-law america-invents-act cbm-patent covered-business-method judicial-review patent patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation Whether 35 U.S.C. 324(e) permits review on appeal of the Director's threshold determination, as part of the decision to institute CBM review, that the…
19-970 Retail Ready Career Center, Inc. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1) 5th-amendment civil-forfeiture constitutional-counterclaims due-process fifth-amendment in-rem in-rem-proceeding seizure-of-funds sovereign-immunity Does the United States have complete immunity from constitutional counterclaims asserted in an in rem civil forfeiture case initiated by the United St…
19M141 Arturo Fernando Shaw Gutierrez v. California California Presumed Complete None
19M142 Faramarz Mehdipour v. Lisa Denwalt-Hammond, et al. Tenth Circuit Presumed Complete None