Conference: 2020-10-09

201 cases — 0 granted, 201 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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19-1004 Robert James Jaffe v. Brad Sherman, United States Congressman Ninth Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) certiorari-review checks-and-balances civil-rights congressional-oversight due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-fraud judicial-misconduct summary-dismissal supervisory-power supreme-court-discretion void-judgment Whether US Supreme Court justices may refuse to enforce FRCP rules and precedent
19-1057 Lori Rodriguez, et al. v. City of San Jose, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) civil-rights community-caretaking constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure immediate-threat issue-preclusion ripeness search-and-seizure second-amendment timely-warrant warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment allows an exception to its warrant requirement for so-called 'community caretaking' where the alleged danger to the commu…
19-1085 Shannon Deasey, et al. v. Daniella Slater, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 7th-circuit 9th-circuit civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law closely-analogous constitutional-rights due-process legal-precedent ninth-circuit qualified-immunity seventh-circuit sufficiently-analogous Whether a 'sufficiently analogous' case is enough to show that the law is 'clearly established' for purposes of qualified immunity, or if something mo…
19-1137 Tennessee, By and Through the Tennessee General Assembly, et al. v. Department of State, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) coerce-state-pay-federal-program commandeer-state-funds commandeering constitutional-coercion federal-commandeering federal-government federal-program legislative-standing medicaid-funding separation-of-powers standing state-funds state-legislature state-sovereignty Whether both chambers of a state legislature have institutional standing to sue the federal government
19-1186 Joshua Baker, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (6) 42-usc-1396a(a)(23) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split federal-enforcement medicaid-recipients medicaid-rights private-right-of-action provider-qualification spending-clause state-determination statutory-interpretation Whether Medicaid recipients have a private right of action under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(23) to challenge a state's determination that a…
19-1272 Thomas Christopher Retzlaff v. Jason Lee Van Dyke Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) anti-slapp civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech litigation-strategy Whether state anti-SLAPP statutes apply in federal diversity cases
19-1280 Idaho Department of Correction, et al. v. Adree Edmo, aka Mason Edmo Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) advocacy-organization-guidelines circuit-split constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble gender-dysphoria inmate-medical-care medical-care prison-healthcare Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in concluding that the guidelines set by an advocacy organization constitute the constitutional minima for inmate medi…
19-1284 Malwarebytes, Inc. v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (4)Relisted (2) anticompetitive-animus antitrust blocking civil-liability civil-rights communications-decency-act computer-service-providers filtering free-speech immunity section-230 Whether federal courts can derive an implied exception to Section 230(c)(2)(B) immunity for blocking or filtering decisions when they are alleged to b…
19-1291 Charles Hamner v. Danny Burls, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (7) affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-prong due-process federal-appellate-courts qualified-immunity standing state-actors sua-sponte Is qualified immunity an affirmative defense that state actors must assert, as nine circuits hold, or may federal appellate courts raise the defense s…
19-1352 Western Oilfields Supply Company, dba Rain for Rent v. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor, et al. District of Columbia Denied administrative-inspection due-process fourth-amendment mine-safety mine-safety-and-health-act msha msha-inspector walkaround-rights warrantless-inspection Whether it violates the Due Process Clause for an MSHA inspector arbitrarily to refuse a mine operator an opportunity to accompany the inspector on hi…
19-1378 Phazzer Electronics, Inc. v. Taser International, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ex-parte-review federal-circuit patent-cancellation patent-claims patent-damages remand standing uspto-cancellation uspto-reexamination Is the Federal Circuit's affirmation of patent damages correct in light of the USPTO's cancellation of the patent claims?
19-1433 Autumn Stavely v. Jeffery G. Norman, et al. Utah Denied 14th-amendment appellate-review change-of-venue due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-sanctions Question not identified. sanctions venue-change Did the Supreme Court of Utah violate Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights when it sanctioned her and her counsel for seeking appellat…
19-1434 United States v. Arthrex, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officer inferior-officers patent patent-and-trademark-office principal-officer principal-officers standing uspto Whether administrative patent judges are principal officers under the Appointments Clause
19-1452 Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. v. Arthrex, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-adjudicators administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation federal-circuit inferior-officers lucia-v-sec patent-trial-and-appeal-board principal-officers Whether administrative patent judges are 'principal' or 'inferior' Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause
19-1456 KK-PB Financial, LLC v. 160 Royal Palm, LLC Eleventh Circuit Denied asset-sale bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-court-discretion bid-procedures debtor-asset debtor-estate debtor's-estate discretionary-power higher-better-offer higher-bid maximize-value-estate private-sale public-bid-procedures sale-maximization Does a bankruptcy court abuse its discretion when it cancels public bid procedures and approves the private sale of a debtor's principal asset, even t…
19-1458 Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-judges administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause congress due-process executive-review independence judicial-remedy patent separation-of-powers severance tenure tenure-protection Whether the court of appeals' severance remedy is consistent with congressional intent, where Congress has long considered tenure protections essentia…
19-7624 Jerome Shaw v. United States Second Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acceptance-of-responsibility burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fatico-hearing sentencing Whether the District Court violated Petitioner's Due Process Rights
19-8246 Gregory Thomas v. Tom Corbett, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Relisted (2)IFP cellmate-discrimination civil-rights conjugal-visit due-process fourth-amendment institutionalized-persons-act prison-policy privacy property-rights religious-exercise religious-land-use search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's home and seizure of their personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's protection again…
19-8588 Robert Donelson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 404(b) circuit-split criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence prior-act-evidence propensity-evidence propensity-free-link Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)'s prohibition against prior act evidence requires the government to demonstrate a propensity-free link between…
19-8831 Eric Reid v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied IFP capital-case capital-cases constitutional-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty due-process jury-selection morgan-v-illinois voir-dire Whether the Arkansas' voir dire framework in capital cases conflicts with this Court's ruling in Morgan v. Illinois
19-8903 William Clyde Gibson, III v. Indiana Indiana Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-claim criminal-appeal culyer-v-sullivan due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-proceedings public-defender strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Indiana Supreme Court erred in determining Gibson's conflict of interest claim should be analyzed under Strickland v. Washington rather th…
19-8904 William Clyde Gibson, III v. Indiana Indiana Denied IFP death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington traumatic-brain-injury wiggins-v-smith williams-v-taylor Whether the Indiana Supreme Court's opinion contravened Williams v. Taylor and Wiggins v. Smith by failing to find deficient performance where counsel…
20-10 Emily Kollaritsch, et al. v. Michigan State University Board of Trustees, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process federal-funding sexual-harassment student-harassment student-liability title-ix Whether Davis's 'vulnerability' prong requires plaintiffs to prove additional, post-notice sexual harassment to state a claim for damages under Title …
20-114 Michael Edward Bufkin v. Scottrade, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied administrative-law arbitration-dispute civil-procedure compelled-arbitration due-process finra foia-request judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation tax tax-controversy Was it error to compel FINRA arbitration of this tax dispute?
20-124 Robert Fusco v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause
20-125 Iron Stone Real Estate Fund I, L.P., et al. v. Stephen Ratner, et al. Pennsylvania Denied civil-procedure direct-action due-process judicial-dissolution limited-partner limited-partnership partnership-law party-rights procedural-due-process standing Whether the procedural due process rights of a limited partner are violated when that limited partner is not named as a party in a direct action
20-131 Essity Hygiene and Health AB v. Cascades Canada ULC, et al. Federal Circuit Denied appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation discretion federal-circuit forfeiture judicial-discretion pending-cases precedential-decision scalia Whether courts have discretion to apply a precedential Appointments Clause decision in pending cases where the issue was not raised in the opening app…
20-135 Customedia Technologies, LLC v. Dish Network Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 35-USC-101 Administrative-Procedure-Act Appointments-Clause Due-Process Leahy-Smith-America-Invents-Act patent-eligibility Patent-Eligible-Subject-Matter patent-trial-and-appeals-board ultra-vires Whether a court of appeals can invoke forfeiture to refuse to address an Appointments-Clause-violation
20-141 Howard Bloomgarden v. National Archives and Records Administration District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-decision exemption-6 freedom-of-information-act government-criticism government-employment personal-privacy public-disclosure Whether Exemption 6 of the Freedom of Information Act requires disclosure of a former government employee's termination decision when the employee has…
20-144 Spencer Savings Bank, SLA, et al. v. Lawrence B. Seidman New Jersey Denied bank-secrecy-act civil-liability customer-privacy financial-crimes financial-institution non-disclosure-obligation state-court-liability statutory-scheme suspicious-activity-report Whether a state court's imposition of a good faith requirement for termination of a customer account is repugnant to the statutory scheme embodied in …
20-148 Marvin Washington, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (9)Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-review controlled-substances-act due-process federal-patents medical-cannabis Can Congress criminalize medical cannabis without exception?
20-154 Wayne P. Byzon, et ux. v. PNC Bank, National Association, Successor by Merger to National City Bank Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived act-6 act-6-of-1974 act-91 act-91-of-1983 foreclosure foreclosure-procedure homeowner-assistance homeowner-assistance-settlement-act mortgage-company mortgage-notices notices sheriff-sale Whether the mortgage company's Act 6 of 1974 and Act 91 of 1983 notices were adequate?
20-159 John Devos v. Rhino Contracting, Inc., et al. Minnesota Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-law equal-protection interstate-commerce state-law state-residency workers-compensation Does a State's workers compensation statute violate Equal Protection when it treats Minnesota residents injured on the job in Minnesota differently ba…
20-165 Angela L. Carroll v. Timothy W. Miller Wisconsin Denied 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-ethics recusal social-media standing Was the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated by a judge and party being Facebook 'friends'?
20-168 Paul W. Nusbaum, Jr. v. Marsha R. Nusbaum, et al. Maryland Denied Response Waived agency-determination arrearages child-support federal-regulations judicial-review public-assistance separation-of-powers spousal-support Whether the federal and state governments have a direct interest in how child support payments are applied when the obligee is not receiving public as…
20-175 Jinil Steel Company, Limited v. ValuePart, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure forfeiture judicial-discretion legal-forfeiture oral-argument pleadings preservation-of-error procedural-preservation Whether a litigant forfeits an argument by raising it thoroughly in an oral proceeding in bankruptcy court or other court of first instance, but not i…
20-178 Anne Prafada v. Mesa Unified School District Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy-to-defraud due-process educational-law equal-protection federal-preemption free-speech standing supplemental-jurisdiction Whether fraudulent misrepresentation and conspiracy-to-defraud are preempted
20-185 Rickey Nelson Jones v. Mary Ellen Barbera, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Maryland Maryland Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection judicial-appointment judicial-review judicial-selection maryland-law race-discrimination standing Was the United States Constitution violated when the highest court in Maryland supported the lower courts' decisions to apply federal statutory discri…
20-196 Ilma Alexandra Soriano Nunez v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Third Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-211 Barry Rosen v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived airspace-system civil-procedure due-process injury-in-fact national-airspace-system pro-se-litigant public-use-airport separation-of-powers standing statutory-rights Whether a federally certificated Pilot demonstrated injury-in-fact
20-223 Michael P. O'Donnell v. United States First Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims for lack of standing
20-227 Cynthia Madej, et vir v. Jeff Maiden, Athens County Engineer Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived accommodation-request americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split corroboration disability-accommodation disability-claims fair-housing-amendments-act medical-history summary-judgment Is a disability claimant's self-reported medical history regarding the need for an accommodation presumptively unreliable?
20-228 ESIP Series 2, LLC v. Puzhen Life USA, LLC Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause arbitrary-and-capricious art-iii-court due-process inter-partes-review patent statutory-jurisdiction thryv-precedent Whether Board decisions that are arbitrary and capricious, exceed the Board's statutory jurisdiction from the start, and are made by administrative pa…
20-232 Robert Anderson v. Teri Kennedy Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process evidence-exclusion expert-testimony eyewitness-identification holmes-precedent holmes-v-south-carolina state-rule Whether this Court's decision in Holmes v. South Carolina, 547 U.S. 319 (2006, clearly establishes that a defendant's due process right to present evi…
20-252 Gannett Co., Inc., et al. v. Ryan Larson Minnesota Denied Response Waived defamation fair-report-privilege falsity-element first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-statements media-reporting public-concern In a defamation case, where a jury finds that media defendants' reporting on what law enforcement said in a news release and news conference was subst…
20-259 Minhnga Nguyen v. The Boeing Company Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment discrimination disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-safety public-safety-reporting retaliation whistleblower wrongful-termination Did Boeing violate the Fifth Amendment and public safety when it punished Plaintiff for Plaintiff's saving hundreds of human lives from potential airp…
20-280 George Georgiou v. United States Third Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 28-usc-1651 all-writs-act criminal-financial-penalty criminal-sentencing final-conviction post-conviction-remedy retroactive-decision unauthorized-penalty unauthorized-sentence Does the All Writs Act afford a post-conviction remedy for the correction of an unauthorized criminal financial penalty?
20-313 Acer America Corporation, et al. v. Intellisoft, Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1451 claim-construction federal-jurisdiction gunn-v-minton inventorship patent-law removal removal-jurisdiction trade-secret Where Plaintiffs' theories of trade secret ownership, misappropriation, and damages depend on deciding the patent law issues of inventorship, claim co…
20-318 Equal Means Equal, et al. v. David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States First Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 1-usc-106b article-iii article-v constitution equal-rights-amendment standing Whether the Equal Rights Amendment is now the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because three-fourths of the States have ratified it?
20-327 BBB Industries, LLC v. Cardone Industries, Inc. Texas Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-limits due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction state-court supplemental-jurisdiction texas Whether the Texas courts' supplemental specific personal jurisdiction doctrine is inconsistent with the Due Process Clause
20-335 Maryland Reclamation Associates, Inc. v. Harford County, Maryland Maryland Denied Response Waived administrative-variance due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation penn-central penn-central-test property-rights takings-clause Whether an administrative variance decision precludes a subsequent independent Takings Clause lawsuit
20-338 Johnny Clyde Benjamin, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 11th-circuit controlled-substances-act criminal-indictment federal-district-court furanyl-fentanyl indictment jurisdictional-defect statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the district court have subject matter jurisdiction over this case?
20-345 Deborah Katz Pueschel v. Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Transportation, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived civil-service constitutional-rights disability-benefits first-amendment free-speech government-restrictions public-office standing Does the rule in U.S. Civil Service Comm'n v. Nat'l Ass'n of Letter Carriers, 413 U.S. 548 (1973), that the First Amendment does not prevent the feder…
20-346 D. Ashley Pennington v. Beattie I. Butler Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-termination first-amendment fourth-circuit public-defender qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standing Whether the Fourth Circuit should have exercised jurisdiction and considered evidence regarding qualified immunity
20-355 Arctic Cat Inc. v. Bombardier Recreational Products Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Dismissed Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived 35-usc-287 damages federal-circuit infringement-notice marking-statute notice-of-infringement patent-act patent-damages patent-marking statutory-interpretation willful-infringement Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that 'notified of the infringement' and 'such notice' under §287(a) refer only to communications from th…
20-5 Richard Blumenthal, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia Denied Amici (5) article-iii judicial-relief legislative-standing raines-v-byrd separation-of-powers standing vote-nullification Do legislators have standing to seek judicial relief when their votes have been 'completely nullified,' Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811, 823 (1997)?
20-5060 Justin Kirk Graves v. David Shinn, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act choice-of-law circuit-split district-of-confinement district-of-conviction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying the Fifth Circuit's substantive law in considering a § 2241 petition claiming actual innocence
20-5089 William Kirkpatrick, Jr. v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254e1 capital-inmate-rights capital-punishment colloquy due-process federal-review habeas-corpus presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings waiver waiver-of-rights whitmore-v-arkansas Whether the Ninth Circuit contravened Whitmore v. Arkansas in upholding a capital inmate's waiver of the right to proceed absent a colloquy demonstrat…
20-5119 Wayne Powell v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment expert-funding hurst-v-florida indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief sixth-amendment Does Ohio's postconviction process allow indigent defendants a substantive opportunity to develop claims that comport with Ohio's collateral review re…
20-5228 United States, ex rel. Friedrich Lu v. Ramandeep Samra, et al. First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-representation circuit-court civil-procedure false-claims-act jurisdiction legal-representation pro-se qui-tam standing Whether a relator may proceed pro se under the False Claims Act
20-5237 Kenneth Lee Manhard v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal collision-liability criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection license-suspension miranda-rights sentencing vehicular-manslaughter Was he denied equal protection of the law?
20-5249 Marlon Blacher v. California California Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure Whether the circumstances presented and detailed by the STATEMENT OF THE CASE portion of the present Petition warrant issuance of a Writ of Certiorari
20-5254 Quintin I. Brown v. Virginia Virginia Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law felony jury-trial misdemeanor Did the Commonwealth of Virginia trial court deny Mr. Brown his constitutional right to jury trial on the misdemeanor charges of receiving stolen prop…
20-5256 Travis Jackson Marron, aka Abdul Mu'min v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-precedent due-process judicial-ruling judicial-rulings jurisdiction legislative-law legislative-laws standing subject-matter-jurisdiction virginia-supreme-court Did the Virginia Supreme Court and Chesapeake Circuit Court err in failing to establish jurisdiction over the subject matter?
20-5260 In Re Kenton G. Findlay Denied IFP 11-usc-362 14th-amendment 5th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay constitutional-violation court-jurisdiction due-process foreclosure property-seizure Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendments…
20-5261 Michael Fred Houston v. Texas Texas Denied IFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-testimony motion-to-suppress reliability-standard suggestive-identification suggestive-procedure totality-of-circumstances witness-reliability Does the in-court identification meet the reliability standard under the totality of the circumstances, even though the confrontation procedure was su…
20-5266 Angela Rogers, et vir v. Caddo Parish School Board Louisiana Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection liberty-interest property-interest redress-of-grievances state-government-liability state-liability Whether the U.S. Const. amend XIV, § 1, Due Process, Equal Protection, Liberty Interest in employment and Property Interest in employment contracts an…
20-5269 Amadeo Valls v. Florida Florida Denied IFP acquittal burglary criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea structural-error Whether due process prohibits Florida from excluding mens rea instruction from burglary charges or whether it is structural error for trial courts to …
20-5270 Keith Allen Wilson v. Florida Florida Denied IFP circumstantial-evidence corpus-delicti delayed-prosecution due-process motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal witness-unavailability Whether the Charlotte County Court of Florida erred in denying a Motion for Judgment of Acquittal when the State failed to prove the corpus delicti of…
20-5271 Toshi Edward Willingham v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit Whether the lower courts erroneously denied a certificate of appealability in a habeas corpus case
20-5277 Joseph Thompson, Jr. v. Houma Terrebonne Housing Authority, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation discrimination due-process employment federal-review jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-construction supreme-court-procedure Whether the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in d…
20-5282 Alla A. Zorikova v. Realvest, Inc. Missouri Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial falsified-facts foreign-corporation judicial-discretion missouri-statutes usurious-interest weight-of-evidence Did the Circuit Court deny Petitioner's Constitutional right for fair Trial?
20-5288 Eugene Peter Schuler v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied IFP bad-faith contract-law extrinsic-fraud fraud intentional-omission legal-authority omission statute-of-limitations voidable-agreement Where contract law identifies that an agreement can be signed under bad faith and made voidable by either extrinsic fraud or an intentional omission o…
20-5297 Demarius Bridges v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment standing testimonial-hearsay unavailable-witness Can unconfrented testimonial hearsay be used as hearsay admission at trial?
20-5298 Rodney A. Smith v. Susan Barker, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals de-novo frivolous frivolous-complaint informa-pauperis judicial-discretion standard-of-review Whether dismissal of informa pauperis complaint as frivolous is properly reviewed for abuse of discretion and it wass error for court of appeals to re…
20-5305 Ronnie Smith v. New York State Child Support Processing Center, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-support child-support-garnishment erisa erisa-exemption federal-pension federal-pension-funds garnishment income-protection intergovernmental-tax-immunity statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Whether federal pension funds are exempt from child support garnishment
20-5307 Rebecca H. Gallogly v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-responsibility civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure due-process expungement probation property-rights Is it a Constitutional deprivation to put a person found not guilty on community supervision or probation for the charge; or, to permit states to abro…
20-5310 Benjamin Franklin v. Glenna S. Blair Fifth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech freedom-of-association judicial-review presumption-of-intent presumption-of-reasonableness procedural-due-process standing Did the District Court abuse discretion in denying appeal of counsel but found several arguable claims under pre-RICO UTPA?
20-5313 Melquan Tucker v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-of-columbia-v-heller due-process felony-penalties home-protection second-amendment self-defense strict-scrutiny takings Whether New York's Penal Law § 265.01-b(1) is unconstitutional as applied
20-5318 Dimitri Rozenman v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP bad-faith brady-violation disclosure-requirement due-process evidence-preservation tampering youngblood-standard Whether the U.S.D.C. erred in its finding that, in order to obtain relief under Arizona v. Youngblood, Petitioner needs to prove either that evidence …
20-5322 Patrick H. Torrence v. Alaska Alaska Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection search-and-seizure self-incrimination unreasonable-searches-and-seizures Whether the decision of the State of Alaska and the Alaska Court of Appeals is consistent with the Fourteenth-Amendment, Sixth-Amendment, Fourth-Amend…
20-5328 Jeffrey Paul Giblin v. Washington Washington Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules eyewitness-testimony intent intent-standard lay-opinion-testimony Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection guarantees were satisfied for a defendant accused of a crime involving intent, whe…
20-5330 Layne Aucoin v. Andrew Cupil, Lieutenant, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force muhammad-v-close prison-discipline prisoner-rights sixth-amendment Do the Sixth Amendment and this Court's decision in Muhammad v. Close, 540 U.S. 749 (2004), foreclose a federal court from dismissing an inmate 8th Am…
20-5331 Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure anti-SLAPP antitrust civil-rights confrontation confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection retaliation Whether District and Appellant Courts can deny a citizen's 14th Amendment guarantees of due process, confrontation, and equal protection in a 15 U.S.C…
20-5332 William David Bush v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 10th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism preemption public-health-emergency quarantine-powers state-authority state-police-powers tenth-amendment Where the State of California's Health and Safety Code declares supremacy over the U.S. Constitution, under what circumstances does Article X not appl…
20-5333 Norman Paul Blanco v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law california-penal-code civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-convictions judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation Whether California's sentencing enhancement scheme for certain felony convictions violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual pun…
20-5350 Jordan Duke Venable v. City of Phoenix, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process prison-mail qualified-immunity Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's claims that prison officials violated his constitutiona…
20-5352 Shawn Woodward v. Mohammed Ali, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to exhaust administrative remedies
20-5354 Johnnie Lee Jordan, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-petition brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process giglio-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence pro-se-litigant standing Whether pro se litigants can be sentenced to a natural life sentence because of Giglio-and-Brady-violations
20-5370 Luis Guillen v. Russell Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent whether-the-petitioner's-petition-is-timely-and/or-the-one-year-statute-of-limitations-in-petitioner's-case-are-equatably-tolled-under-holland-v.-flor…
20-5371 Keith Lemont Farmer v. Jonathan Lebo, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standing Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner's application for a writ of certiorari
20-5374 In Re Amro Elansari Denied Response WaivedIFP cannabis-prohibition class-of-one constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review mandamus-writ medicinal-value substantive-due-process Does the failure of the Third Circuit and other courts to consider the Plaintiff's substantive due process claims applied to the prohibition of cannab…
20-5381 Lawrence F. Curtin v. Kimberly Cortez Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment florida fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-qualification-commission petition redress-of-grievances sixth-amendment state-court-judge First Amendment right to petition Florida's Judicial Qualification Commission, the government, in writing, for a redress of grievances about state cou…
20-5401 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP abstention access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection federal-forum judicial-abstention pro-se-litigation standing Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the U.S. District Court's abstention from ruling on Sundy's independent claims despite Su…
20-5421 Doved Ben Downer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process information-charging legal-sufficiency racketeering statutory-interpretation Whether simple possession under Fla. Stat. § 893.13(6)(a) is a legally permissible racketeering predicate incident under Fla. Stat. §§ 895.02(1)(a), 8…
20-5430 Anthony G. Meyers v. Cathy Jess, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law duty-to-retreat first-degree-reckless-homicide homicide ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense utter-disregard Was there sufficient evidence of utter disregard for human life to support a first degree reckless homicide conviction?
20-5447 John David Wilson, Jr. v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct speedy-trial Whether the petitioner's right to a speedy trial was violated by the government's delay in bringing the case to trial
20-5458 Fidel Alain Martin-Sosa v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines calculations did not constitute clear error where it denied a mitigating …
20-5464 Dwayne Banks v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty due-process habeas standing Whether the District Court abused its discretion by allowing the Petitioner's Motion/Response to be stricken and denying the Petitioner's request for …
20-5476 Derek Tyler Horton v. Alabama Alabama Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights duty-to-investigate fourth-amendment law-enforcement lawful-arrest pretext pretextual-arrest probable-cause warrant-validity Whether a police officer's reason for acting should factor into the Fourth Amendment inquiry
20-5477 Elvis Henry Idada v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure defendants-rights discovery discovery-restrictions due-process government-limitations government-misconduct judicial-review sixth-amendment Should This Court Address the Sixth Amendment Deprivations Created by the Government's Pervasive Restrictions on Defendants' Access to Discovery?
20-5482 Marvin Arido Sorro v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-law fourth-amendment judicial-proceedings jurisdictional-challenge procedural-rights standing Did the United States District Court deprived the petitioner access to the courts and to state a claim?
20-5487 Jerome Adams v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment procedural-bar res-judicata standing Whether the procedural bar of res judicata may serve as the basis for the dismissal of constitutional claims that were previously raised, but with sub…
20-5496 Santosh Ram v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-violations evidentiary-standard judicial-review lower-court-analysis mcquiggin-v-perkins post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process schup-v-delo Whether evidence of actual innocence provides a legal reason to reopen 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion proceedings to establish constitutional violations
20-5498 John Silvia, Jr. v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-performance client-representation criminal-procedure discovery evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence expert-consultation expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel subpoena witness-interview Whether an attorney provided effective assistance of counsel
20-5507 Laci Landers v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review drug-offense guidelines judicial-review reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines totality-of-circumstances Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial pr…
20-5508 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-issues statutory-interpretation trial-procedure Is Fla. Stat. 924.051(1)(b) unconstitutional due to conflict with the due process clause of the 14th Amendment?
20-5510 Robert L. Pernell, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 direct-appeal equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default supreme-court-precedent Whether the governing provisions in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals precedent case law, In re Goddard, has unlawfully created an arbitrary or ambi…
20-5513 Timothy Allen McWilliams v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance due-process methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines Whether courts must give deference to the commentary to U.S. Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.1(b)(2) in determining career offender status
20-5524 Ranau D. Johnson v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ohio-appellate-rule sixth-amendment unit-of-prosecution Can the State Court deprive the Appellant the fundamental right to effective assistance of Appellate Counsel?
20-5530 Tony Gordon v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice-act due-process expert-services independent-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Whether a trial court violates the Sixth Amendment right to independent counsel in denying a defense application for necessary expert services pursuan…
20-5533 Gayle McNamara v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-history district-court-error downward-variance judicial-discretion offense-level sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Should the petitioner's appeal be reinstated?
20-5534 In Re Marcos Antonio Blancas Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-3231 breach-of-agreement congress-powers congressional-powers district-court-jurisdiction government-agreement government-breach subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the government breaching an agreement resulted in the district court losing subject-matter-jurisdiction
20-5535 Randy Platt v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender common-law common-law-definition elements-clause physical-force robbery robbery-statute sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission Whether robbery convictions for purposes of the career offender provision of the United States Sentencing Guidelines should be limited to only those t…
20-5540 Ugunda Giovanni Sanders v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-charge constructive-amendment double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion relevant-conduct Did the Government violate Sanders's rights under the Fifth Amendment to have a grand jury consider the charge and to have the Government honor its im…
20-5542 Devin M. Kugler v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-limitation due-process juvenile-adjudication life-sentence miller-v-alabama sentencing-precedent sexually-violent-person Whether this Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which prohibits life sentences for juveniles, prevents a court from civilly c…
20-5543 Javier Galindo-Caballero v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5548 James Michael Hood v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice criminal-predisposition digital-inducement digital-relationships due-process entrapment entrapment-defense law-enforcement-sting minor-enticement predisposition sting-operation Whether, when the government has induced a person to break the law and the defense of entrapment is at issue, the government need only show that its i…
20-5549 Javier Lopez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations fact-finding factual-issues federal-sentencing judicial-standard precedent reasonableness-review standard-of-review wrongful-incarceration Whether review for reasonableness in federal sentencing requires a separate, more deferential, standard of review for credibility determinations than …
20-5552 Ohio, ex rel. Jeremy Kerr v. Reeve Kelsey, Judge Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure default-judgment dismissal-prejudice due-process non-legal-entity procedural-due-process standing state-court Does a state court violate the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution when it issues a Default Judgment against a non-legal entity?
20-5553 Joseph E. Lawrence v. Montana Montana Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability judicial-misconduct public-records standing state-accountability subject-matter-jurisdiction Are the Montana Supreme Court, Montana Attorney General and Montana's lower courts obligated to abide by the express provisions of the Montana Constit…
20-5554 Kenton Dayne Eagle Chasing v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 8th-circuit circuit-split criminal-offense criminal-revocation public-importance sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred on a matter of public importance and created a circuit split when it ruled that subject matter juris…
20-5555 Franklin C. Edwards v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigatory-stop kansas-v-glover law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-search Whether the traffic stop was lawful where the police had no idea who the driver was but knew the registered owner of the vehicle was neither involved …
20-5560 Briand Daniel Fechner v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence evidentiary-rules propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Whether the prosecution may introduce child pornography videos at trial that were not found on the defendant's devices, but found in an outside invest…
20-5561 Craig Edward Hunnicutt, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review discretion federal-sentencing first-step-act guidelines judicial-discretion motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by refusing to review the denial of the defendant's First Step Act motion
20-5564 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brown-opinion Brown-v-Board due-process Eleventh-Circuit fair-trial recusal recusal-statute resentencing sentencing Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision affirming the district court's refusal to conduct a full resentencing with the defendant present renders the p…
20-5568 Alex Alberto Castro v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence wiretap-suppression wiretaps Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order denying the defense motion to suppress wiretaps
20-5569 Carlos Garcia-Toro v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment homicide ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of the federal Constitution guarantee the right to conflict free counsel if defense counsel represents multipl…
20-5571 Angel C. Pacheco v. Maine Maine Denied Response WaivedIFP any-persons-present collective-searches criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant warrant-standard Whether the Fourth Amendment requires probable cause that each person present will possess evidence of a crime, or only that the collective searches o…
20-5574 Jose Luis Torres v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions deficient-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance multiplicious-offenses plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-default Whether the lower courts erred in denying habeas corpus relief despite the petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, multiplicious off…
20-5575 In Re Van Lawson Williams Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-standard due-process standard-of-proof successive-proceedings Whether an appeals court has discretion to implement a clear and convincing standard of proof in a second or successive proceeding
20-5576 Sarina Ann Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split congressional-intent conspiracy federal-law sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking Whether the crime of Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, and Coercion carries a base offense level of 34 or 14
20-5577 Malik Timbers v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines violence-enhancement weapon-enhancement Whether the guilty plea was voluntary and the sentence-appeal waiver enforceable
20-5580 Kyle Phillips v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process due-process-clause evidence-law evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence sexual-battery Whether it is a violation of the due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment for irrelevant prior-act evidence to be received in a criminal tri…
20-5583 Gregory D. Crosby v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
20-5586 Jose Zamudio-Silva v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing sentencing-departures sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness When considering guidelines rulings, should appellate courts review the decision to depart from the guideline range in the same way as other guideline…
20-5587 Zachary Joseph Love v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 constitutional-rights evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus kaufman-v-united-states townsend-factors townsend-v-sain Should the Townsend v. Sain factors for evidentiary hearings in 28 U.S.C. § 2254 state habeas proceedings apply to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 federal habeas pro…
20-5590 Manuel Chacon-Lara v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fast-track fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-proceedings pre-trial-stage sentence-reduction sentencing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining there was no 'Substantial Showing of Denial of a Constitutional Right' when Chacon-Lara argu…
20-5595 Joshua Glen Box v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit categorical-approach child-pornography criminal-law eighth-circuit federal-criminal-law predicate-offense predicate-offenses sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred when it failed to properly apply the categorical approach to determine whether Mr. Box's pri…
20-5596 Kevin Dean Green v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP beckles-v-united-states constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines vagueness-challenge vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Does Beckles v. United States foreclose a vagueness challenge to a sentencing guideline when the operative term in that guideline is defined by a crim…
20-5597 Rory Swenson v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law first-amendment free-speech intent intent-standard listener-perception speech-protection true-threat true-threats virginia-v-black Whether speech that does not contain any expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence may be criminalized as a 'true threat' unprotec…
20-5599 Michael W. Greenwell, Sr. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
20-5601 Eric Wayne Grinder v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split computer-search computer-searches digital-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant Does the conflict of the particularity required for computer searches between the Fourth and Tenth Circuits diminish Fourth Amendment rights?
20-5603 Michael A. Glover v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-sufficiency reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Did the Pennsylvania state courts violate the petitioner's 5th and 14th amendment rights when they found the petitioner guilty despite insufficient ev…
20-5604 Atorbe Aaron Isibor v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure federal-rules forfeiture olano venue venue-insufficiency waiver waiver-doctrine Whether a defendant who argues for the first time on appeal that the government failed to meet its burden to prove venue waives the issue or merely fo…
20-5606 Keith A. Brown v. Alberto Ramirez Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment incompetent-defendant motion-to-suppress suppression-of-evidence When the state fails to carry its burden of proof in a motion to suppress hearing, is the remedy suppression of the evidence or can the state have a s…
20-5611 Andy Buxton v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-appeal habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-representation post-conviction-relief procedural-default Whether claims of ineffective assistance of post-conviction counsel could serve as cause to excuse the procedural default of a claim of trial counsel'…
20-5612 Anthony Roy Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment charging-instrument criminal-procedure due-process felony-sentencing intervening-arrest prior-sentences same-charging-instrument sentencing-guidelines Whether prior sentences imposed on the same day or in the same charging instrument should be counted separately or treated as a single sentence
20-5614 Derrick Anthony Felton v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-activity defendant-status due-process judicial-determination leadership-role legal-error plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-court vagueness Did the Trial Court error in finding that Mr. Felton was an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of the criminal activity?
20-5615 Michael Gordon v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-prosecution juror-impartiality jury-impartiality jury-selection marijuana-legalization marijuana-prosecution voir-dire When empaneling a jury for a federal marijuana prosecution in a state where marijuana is legal, must the voir dire be more keenly focused on whether a…
20-5620 Ivan Soto-Barraza and Jesus Lionel Sanchez-Meza v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP consent conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure extortion hobbs-act jury-instructions robbery Can a conviction for conspiracy to commit robbery and attempted interference with commerce by robbery stand if the jury was instructed on the elements…
20-5622 Larry E. Starks, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment Whether the court of appeals erred in terminating the inquiry into whether the petitioner met the requirements for a writ of certiorari
20-5625 Ricky Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review Whether the Court of Appeals employed the correct legal standard in determining that the Petitioner was not entitled to the issuance of a certificate …
20-5628 Javier Corona-Verduzco v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP based on the plain text of the statute without relying on extratextual sources of author 21-usc-841 drug-felony extratextual-sources first-step-act imprisonment-term plain-text plain-text-analysis plain-text-interpretation sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation Whether the phrase 'served a term of imprisonment of more than 12 months' in the First Step Act unambiguously allows a defendant to sustain two 'serio…
20-5636 Miguel Figueroa v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-statute plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's statement during a plea colloquy admitting conduct that could serve as a predicate for a conviction for use of a gun under 18 U.…
20-5637 Limmia Page v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP citizen-arrest citizen's-arrest civil-rights color-of-law customs-and-border-patrol federal-preemption fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure unreasonable-search vehicle-stop Whether a citizen loses the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures because an on-duty federal agent acting under color of law makes …
20-5644 Jonathan Limary v. Maine Maine Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights defense-of-others fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection self-defense sixth-amendment voir-dire Did the lower court deny Jonathan Limary the right to a fair and impartial jury under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, by denyin…
20-5648 Damien Guidry v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines imprisonment-aggregation probation-modification probation-revocation rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Sentencing Guidelines permit the aggregation of a prior sentence of imprisonment with a subsequent probation modification imposed …
20-5650 Carlos Cruz-Rivera v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure firearms firearms-conviction first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C) precludes aggravated punishment for second firearms convictions unless the second violation 'occurs after a prior con…
20-5652 Daniel L. Lopez v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate sentencing statute-of-limitations Whether Lopez's 28 USC Section 2255(a) Motion was timely filed under Johnson v United States
20-5653 Hermenegildo Margarito Espinoza Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
20-5654 Aaron Jose Acuna-Duenas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law judicial-jurisdiction pereira-precedent pereira-v-sessions removal-orders separation-of-powers Whether the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue orders of removal, violating separation-of-powers and due-process
20-5655 Casye Necole Richardson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process 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?
20-5656 Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure district-prosecution due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge overt-act venue venue-requirement Does proof of venue require that at least one defendant charged in a criminal conspiracy case have participated in an overt act in furtherance of the …
20-5658 Martin Racioppi v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states robbery-statute state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit's approach to determining that New Jersey's second-degree robbery statute is divisible is contrary to Mathis v. United State…
20-5660 Percy St. George v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard petition-review reasonable-jurist standard-of-review standing Whether reasonable jurist could debate the third circuit court of appeals adoption that the district court's ruling that appellant's petition does not…
20-5661 Monty Marcellus Shelton v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal civil-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis standing Whether the lower court's dismissal of the petitioner's appeal for failure to pay court fees violated the petitioner's due process rights
20-5666 Cristian Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility advisory-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range Whether a defendant who enters a guilty plea pursuant to a plea agreement that includes a purported inducement that he will receive an acceptance of r…
20-5668 Kelly Frithiof Sundberg v. Harold Oreol, Executive Director of Patton State Hospital Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure diligence-standard due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus section-2254 standing Should this Court resolve the conflicting approaches to equitable-tolling?
20-5669 Christopher Paul George v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-procedure criminal-restitution equity-practice fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-verdict seventh-amendment sixth-amendment Whether Apprendi applies to a mandatory criminal restitution order, and whether the Seventh Amendment requires a restitution order to comply with trad…
20-5670 Henry Horace Givins v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a 'controlled-substance-…
20-5673 In Re Ricardo Watkins Denied Response WaivedIFP cares-act civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-management due-process home-confinement medical-conditions prison-conditions prison-safety Whether Ricardo Watkins should be released to home confinement under the CARES Act due to his medical conditions and FCI Luna's failure to protect aga…
20-5674 In Re James Ward Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
20-5681 Ryan K. Sumlin v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
20-5685 Ruben Sanchez v. Steven Silva, et al. First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge pretext racial-discrimination standard-of-review Whether the prosecutor's peremptory challenge of Hispanic prospective jurors was justified
20-5687 John Oliver Bryant v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-review petition-dismissal standing suspension-clause timeliness Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petition as untimely
20-5688 Joseph L. Berry v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-discrimination jury-selection race-discrimination Does discrimination in jury selection at the intersection of race and gender violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Un…
20-5691 In Re Freeman Berry Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea indictment jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority plea-agreement Does the United States Government retain the inherent right to bind this Petitioner and other Defendants to a guilty plea contract it drafted containi…
20-5692 Johnathon Nico Wise v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure error-preservation federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judgment-of-acquittal legal-motion preservation-of-error rule-29 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether specific grounds must be identified in a Rule 29 motion for judgment of acquittal to preserve error?
20-5695 Tony DuPree v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Florida state courts erred in rejecting the petitioner's claims of due-process, civil-rights, standing, civil-procedure, takings, 35-usc-1…
20-5704 Leonard Borden v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof co-conspirator-testimony criminal-procedure due-process factual-statements guideline-application preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing-guidelines sentencing-hearing does a defendant have an obligation to prove the facts in the PSR are inaccurate or untrue after the defendant objects to the factual statements and t…
20-5706 Mark Berg v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-review legal-determination standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court view the evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party or rev…
20-5709 Rickey Cole v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP and proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? placed in the indictment burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grand-jury indictment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be found by a grand jury, placed in the indictment, and proven to a …
20-5710 Jaime E. Coca-Ortiz v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
20-5711 David Smith-Garcia, fka David Garwood Atwood, II v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release Whether the district court erred by ordering two terms of imprisonment to run consecutive in the subject third supervised release revocation proceedin…
20-5717 William Bradner v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process government-breach plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-level sixth-circuit Whether the government breaches the bargain of a plea agreement by requesting a minimum sentencing level fifteen years longer than what it had explici…
20-5720 Martin Garcia-Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense immigration-law jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing-factors sixth-amendment Should the Court finally overrule Almendarez-Torres?
20-5721 Sheyna Douprea v. Janel Espinoza, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP battered-woman-syndrome ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health post-traumatic-stress-disorder prejudice prejudice-analysis self-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington was-douprea-required-to-establish-a-reasonable-probability-of-a-total-acquittal
20-5726 In Re Charlette Dufray Johnson Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-process mandamus standing Whether the only legal remedy to resolve the biggest miscarriage of justice in the 21st century is the issuance of a writ of mandamus
20-5727 Martez LaJuan Edwards v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jury probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Question not identified
20-5737 Jesse Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process juror-misconduct jury-impartiality jury-selection religious-bias sex-trafficking sixth-amendment Whether the presence of a juror with religious bias violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury
20-5743 Johnny Melendez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-criminal-act constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance narcotics-possession prior-conviction right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether counsel rendered ineffective assistance by allowing the court to rely on a prior conviction for sentencing purposes absent court documents to …
20-5744 Antonio Miller v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights expectation-of-privacy private-property search-and-seizure standing Whether trial counsel failed to bring the issue of the defendant's expectation of privacy in a rental car parked on his private property to the attent…
20-5745 Bradley William Monical v. Christina Towers, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process government-employees governmental-powers judicial-review legal-standards park-county-orders qualified-immunity statutory-provisions Whether government employees' aid in violating clearly established park county orders and administrative law amounts to a due process violation
20-5749 Elijah Hart v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-infirmity fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement law-enforcement-disclosure magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-application Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers technically disclose a crucial fact that would reveal a warrant's constitu…
20-5756 Chen Xu v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-abuse child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-court due-process family-court substantive-rights Whether the Second Circuit should have finished certain assigned court proceedings to protect the due process rights and substantive rights of the pet…
20-5761 In Re Antonio M. Bogan Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability collusion constructive-possession due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-fairness retaliation Whether habeas corpus relief is being denied
20A35 Miriam Haydee Arana-Molina, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M25 HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC, et al. v. Renewable Fuels Association, et al. Tenth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M26 Joseph W. Lattisaw v. District of Columbia District of Columbia Presumed Complete None
20M27 Ammar I. v. Connecticut Connecticut Presumed Complete None