Conference: 2020-10-16

110 cases — 0 granted, 110 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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19-1212 Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Innovation Law Lab, et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (3) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-authority border-policy due-process immigration-law non-refoulement notice-and-comment preliminary-injunction statutory-interpretation Whether MPP is a lawful implementation of the statutory authority conferred by 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(2)(C)
19-1260 Andrew Demma v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 18-usc-3553a appeals-court child-pornography circuit-split discretion gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether the discretion recognized under Kimbrough v. United States for a district court to vary based on a policy disagreement applies to the child po…
19-1298 Rogers County Board of Tax Roll Corrections, et al. v. Video Gaming Technologies, Inc. Oklahoma Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) ad-valorem-tax bracker-balancing-test federal-preemption government-interests indian-gaming-regulatory-act non-indian-entity non-indian-property state-taxation tribal-sovereignty Whether a generally applicable state ad valorem tax, as assessed against personal property owned by a non-Indian, out-of-state corporate entity and le…
19-1301 Clyde S. Bovat v. Vermont Vermont Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) 4th-amendment curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether a police officer can access 'semiprivate' areas within a home's curtilage to conduct an investigation without a warrant
19-1323 B.E. Technology, L.L.C. v. Facebook, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights costs due-process federal-circuit judicial-imprimatur legal-relationship mootness preclusion prevailing-party standing texas-state-teachers-association-v-garland Whether the dismissal of a case for mootness can satisfy the 'prevailing party' standard
19-1357 Robert Angel Perez v. Colorado Colorado Denied Amici (2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment mental-health-records privilege sixth-amendment state-privilege Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a criminal defendant the right to discover potentially exculpatory mental health records held by…
19-8232 William Lynn Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-mapping due-process equal-protection jury-selection minority-representation racial-discrimination racial-gerrymandering standing voting-rights Whether the Petitioner is another example of the deprivation of the Equal Protection Clause which forbids the State's to exclude black persons from se…
19-8279 Jeffrey LaGasse v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto plea-bargaining police-misconduct severance Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals by-pass the petitioner's 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment rights by denying his petition for Certificate of Appealabi…
19-8280 Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction lack-of-jurisdiction statutory-window Did the Fifth Circuit err in not allowing Petitioner his rights to bring his complaint of 'Lack of Jurisdiction', under a §2254 Writ of Habeas Corpus,…
19-8348 Roland I. Kehano, Sr. v. Scott Harrington, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care prisoner-rights Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process prohibit prison off…
19-8357 Jeffery J. Lout v. Montana Montana Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto intellectual-disability mental-illness procedural-challenges psychological-evaluation sentencing Whether the Montana Supreme Court violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment by failing to address Louis's claims of …
19-8832 Stefan Van Der End v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial maritime-law nationality sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments are violated by the provision of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70504(a), precluding jury c…
20-138 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Sierra Club, et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (16)Relisted (2) administrative-law appropriations appropriations-transfer department-of-defense executive-power judicial-review national-security separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Whether respondents have a cognizable cause of action to obtain review of the Acting Secretary's compliance with Section 8005's proviso in transferrin…
20-147 Timothy B. Brown v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied adversary-process civil-procedure district-court due-process magistrate magistrate-referral pro-se-litigant res-judicata sua-sponte Does the Supreme Court's ruling in Arizona v. California empower a District Judge to raise the issue of res judicata sua sponte?
20-149 Cheryl D. Uzamere v. New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied antitrust civil-rights court-corruption due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech genocide hobbs-act new-york-state-law Whether New York State Law S2942—A is unconstitutional
20-151 Joe Blessett v. Beverly Ann Garcia Fifth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-law due-process federal-contract federal-court-jurisdiction homestead-exemption property-seizure standing title-iv-d Question not identified
20-152 Anastasia Wullschleger, et al. v. Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit Denied appellate-jurisdiction class-action fake-products federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction jurisdictional-interpretation legal-procedure marketing state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court of appeals erred in finding federal question jurisdiction over a state-law class action complaint alleging marketing of fake pet foo…
20-153 Joe Blessett v. Office of the Attorney General of Texas Fifth Circuit Denied 10th-amendment 42-usc-654 constitutional-protections contract contract-law interstate-contract private-law-liability separation-of-powers title-iv-d u.s.-congress Did U.S. Congress intend for Title IV-D 42 U.S.C 654(3) contractors escape private law liabilities for violating their 10th amendment protections unde…
20-156 Kevin Edward Connors v. Texas Texas Denied brady-v-maryland brady-violation cold-record credibility-determinations due-process fact-finding habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility whether-due-process-prohibits-superior-court-from-rejecting-inferior-court's-fact-findings-based-on-credibility
20-161 City of Sacramento, California, et al. v. Robert Mann, Sr., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment intimate-association section-1983 sibling-relationship sibling-relationships standing Whether the First Amendment protects intimate associations absent expressive activity
20-164 Roosevelt Johnson v. Florida Florida Denied access-to-court claim-forfeiture due-process manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice postconviction-counsel pro-se-action procedural-default Whether a defendant is denied due process and access to the court
20-170 Karen Chongah Han v. Hankook Tire Co., Ltd. Sixth Circuit Denied civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-discretion federal-courts judicial-estoppel legal-standing procedural-dismissal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the doctrine of judicial estoppel can be applied to defeat subject matter jurisdiction
20-18 Arthur Gregory Lange v. California California Judgment Issued Amici (19)Relisted (2) 4th-amendment exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-search misdemeanor misdemeanor-pursuit probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-entry Does pursuit of a person who a police officer has probable cause to believe has committed a misdemeanor categorically qualify as an exigent circumstan…
20-180 Matthew William George v. Virginia Virginia Denied 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech post-commitment probation-restrictions Does a Virginia Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's post commitment First Amendment Rights?
20-182 Rita Stanback, et al. v. Ginny Humphrey, as Parent and Legal Guardian of Minor Child, O. H., et al. Sixth Circuit Denied civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process law-enforcement police-investigation qualified-immunity sexual-misconduct sixth-circuit supervisory-liability takings Whether the Sixth Circuit contradicted a fundamental principle of this Court's qualified immunity precedent
20-192 Mary Louise Serafine v. Karin Crump, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity prospective-relief section-1983 standing state-court-proceeding Whether City of Los Angeles v. Lyons may be expanded to bar Article III standing under Section 1983 in a suit for prospective relief against state jud…
20-212 Teresita A. Canuto v. Nancy Pelosi, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived article-iii causal-connection civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure ftca ftca-claims jurisdiction standing standing-doctrine summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case due to federal defendants' non-compliance with Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
20-215 Richard Bernholz v. Internal Revenue Service Second Circuit Denied Response Waived federal-tort-claims-act government-liability immunity internal-revenue-service sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tax-assessment tax-collection Whether the Internal Revenue Service's conduct falls within the tax assessment and collection exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act's waiver of imm…
20-22 Malik Akbar Bhai, aka Malik Akbarbhai Virani, aka Malik Akbar-Bhai Virani, aka Malik Abbar-Bhai Virani, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied None
20-224 Marion E. Pitch, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Anthony S. Pitch, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-records exceptional-circumstances federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-6 grand-jury-materials grand-jury-proceedings historical-significance inherent-judicial-authority rule-6e-exceptions Whether the Federal District Court has the inherent authority under case law precedent or the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act to release…
20-230 Donald L. Baker v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-misconduct civil-rights due-process judicial-notice judicial-review patent patent-law pro-se-litigation retaliation Whether U.S. Agencies may commit fraudulent acts to obstruct and delay applications
20-233 Hmong 2, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived breach-of-promise civil-procedure constitutional-law exception judicial-review justiciability non-justiciable political-question political-question-doctrine separation-of-powers standing treaty-interpretation Whether the Court should establish a breach of promise exception to the non-justiciable political question rule?
20-241 Jack Jordan v. Department of Labor District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action attorney-client-privilege circuit-court-review foia freedom-of-information-act judicial-review rule-60 summary-judgment Whether district court and circuit court review of agency action under FOIA must comport with the APA
20-258 Alvin E. Medina v. Federal Aviation Administration Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-rights arbitration arbitration-decision civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review notice notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant whether-the-failure-to-provide-notice-of-appeal-rights-with-arbitrator's-decision-and-certificate-of-service-to-pro-se-litigants-warranted-a-favorable…
20-274 Evelia Bueno v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-279 Esaun Torres, aka Esau Torres Medina v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-295 Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived botanical-ingredients constituent-definition dietary-supplements dmaa DSHEA FDA-approval federal-food-drug-and-cosmetic-act geranium-plants prior-history-of-use trace-quantities Whether a substance that naturally occurs in a plant is a 'constituent' of an 'herb or other botanical' under the Dietary Supplement Health and Educat…
20-366 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al., Appellants v. New York, et al. New York Denied Amici (31) None
20-368 Eric Christopher Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment appellate-counsel constructive-possession contraband due-process fifth-amendment intent physical-evidence presentence-report residence Does constructive possession violate due process?
20-376 DNF Associates, LLC v. Jillian McAdory Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consumer-protection debt-buyer debt-collection debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act henson-v-santander legal-standing passive-debt-buyer statutory-interpretation Whether a passive debt buyer is a debt collector under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
20-387 Lewana Howard v. Gabriel DeFrates, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights equal-protection federal-remedy retaliation state-action state-employees When state employees acting in personal capacity violate 14th Amendment Equal Protection rights of a protected group member, can 42 U.S.C. 1983 be use…
20-39 AVIC International Holding Corporation, et al. v. Soaring Wind Energy, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied arbitrability arbitral-panel-composition arbitration-agreement arbitration-jurisdiction due-process equality-of-treatment federal-arbitration-act new-york-convention non-signatory-challenge public-policy Whether the district court must independently review a non-signatory's challenge to an arbitral panel's jurisdiction before the arbitration, and at a …
20-40 CATIC USA Incorporated v. Soaring Wind Energy, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied arbitral-award arbitration-agreement arbitration-jurisdiction commercial-arbitration due-process international-treaty jurisdiction new-york-convention us-activities us-citizens Does a federal court have jurisdiction under the New York Convention to confirm an arbitral award where the underlying agreement is exclusively betwee…
20-5072 Rodney Renard Newberry v. Florida Florida Denied IFP apprendi capital-sentencing due-process elements reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona Whether, considering the operation and effect of Florida's capital sentencing scheme, the Due Process Clause requires those latter two determinations …
20-5087 Italo Ebaristo Napa Moreira v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process johnson jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act miranda prosecutorial-discretion stateless-vessel Whether the MDLEA is unconstitutional due to lack of minimum-contacts or nexus requirement
20-5263 Patrick W. Schroeder v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation mitigation-evidence pro-se pro-se-representation proportionality sentencing Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments are violated when a capital sentencing panel issues a death sentence despite the defendant's refusal to i…
20-5365 In Re Jacquelyn B. N'Jai Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
20-5367 In Re Abdul Mohammed Denied IFP civil-procedure district-court district-court-judgment frivolous-appeal good-faith good-faith-complaint judicial-immunity mandamus-petition subject-matter-jurisdiction whether-judges-have-immunity-for-lack-of-subject-matter-jurisdiction
20-5378 James Lynn Styers v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit Denied IFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability collateral-review eddings-standard eddings-v-oklahoma habeas-corpus mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit second-or-successive-petition Whether the Arizona Supreme Court is required to consider all available mitigation evidence during reweighing on collateral review to correct an Eddin…
20-5383 Dennis Marc Grigsby v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-writ procedural-due-process standard-of-review state-court-proceedings Did the state district court failure to certify its grant of motion for reconsideration affect the course of proceedings and factor into the Nevada Su…
20-5384 Jerome Nathan Grant v. United States, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-court-review pro-se-petition right-to-counsel sentencing-enhancement standing Whether the petitioner's equal protection and right to counsel rights were violated
20-5386 Leon Hawkins v. Donnie Morgan, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion merger ohio-law sentencing sentencing-merger Does Ohio violate petitioner's constitutional right to be sentenced for sentences that merged (yet) the court sentenced separate sentences for the sam…
20-5387 Abraham A. Augustin v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied IFP accessory-after-the-fact actual-innocence due-process guilty-verdict post-conviction-relief principal-crime Whether a defendant is barred from raising a claim of actual innocence
20-5397 Wilbert Romon Banks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining racial-bias racial-discrimination trevino-v-thaler trial-counsel venue-change Was Banks' claim of ineffective assistance of counsel a substantial claim under Trevino v. Thaler and Martinez v. Ryan?
20-5406 In Re Abdul Mohammed Denied IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process executive-committee federal-judges judicial-harassment judicial-misconduct judicial-order mandamus-petition race religion retaliation Whether the Executive Committee's Order entered against the Petitioner is legal
20-5413 Josiah English v. Jo Lynn Gentry, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-court federal-courts judicial-discretion standing state-courts Did the Arizona Supreme court err by denying Father Fesigh English TIL's Petition for Review and request for a stay of proceedings, despite the fact t…
20-5414 Aimee Lewis v. Seventh Circuit Court, South Dakota Unified Judicial System, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
20-5419 Michael D. Dyer v. Aimee Smith, Warden, et al. Georgia Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel Whether a defendant can knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily enter a guilty plea when the prosecutor is allowed to engage in misconduct without h…
20-5420 Helga G. Suarez Clark v. Republic of Peru District of Columbia Denied IFP civil-procedure court-appointed-counsel due-process pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation rule-8a short-and-plain-statement standing venue venue-transfer Whether the court erroneously denied the motion for court-appointed counsel and erroneously held that the complaint failed to set forth a short and pl…
20-5425 Rasheen J. Gamble v. New York New York Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cumulative-error dna-evidence due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Was defense counsel ineffective for consenting to the prosecutor's extremely untimely request for a DNA sample?
20-5426 David Moss v. Texas Texas Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactive-application retroactivity strickland-standard strickland-v-washington texas-code-of-criminal-procedure Whether the state court's decision was contrary to this Court's decision in Lafler v. Cooper and Chaidez v. United States, and whether the court's dec…
20-5438 Michael Robinson v. Geisinger Hospital, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process property standing takings Whether the petitioner's property was unlawfully taken without just compensation
20-5443 Christopher Rondeau v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-alien due-process federal-law foreign-national legal-status legally-dead murder-prosecution subject-matter-jurisdiction Were the Petitioner's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights violated?
20-5448 Antonio Williams v. William J. Pollard, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-standards antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance interest-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence Whether federal courts should or must consider the restrictive standards for granting habeas relief under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalt…
20-5451 Casey Rafael Tyler v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit Dismissed IFP actual-innocence church-state constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus legal-prosecution second-petition successive-petitions unlawful-prosecution When Petitioning for Federal Habeas Relief, is the Actual Innocence Requirement Satisfied Where Conceding Guilt Nevertheless Could Not Have Legally Au…
20-5456 Lorenzo Robertson v. Ozell Pace, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-procedures judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-construction Why have My Care not been Yaking, Serioas 2
20-5460 Keith L. Calvin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-act civil-rights due-process federal-petition habeas-corpus post-conviction state-prisoner statute-of-limitations time-limitation Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) requires a state prisoner seeking federal habeas corpus relief to file his federal p…
20-5463 Rowmoto Rogers v. Gregory Skipper, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-credibility Whether the prosecutor was improperly allowed to vouch for the credibility of his star witness during closing arguments, denying various constitutiona…
20-5480 Dennis Andrew Ball v. John Does 1-X, et al. District of Columbia Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech schools student-discipline Whether the First Amendment protects the right of a public school to discipline a student for off-campus speech that does not cause a substantial disr…
20-5491 M. C. v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment delinquent-acts due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment juvenile-detention juvenile-justice punishment Is a child imprisoned for delinquent acts 'punished' within the meaning of the Eighth Amendment?
20-5494 Ernest Ray Snow v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-warrant standard-of-review Does United State v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), permit an appellate standard of review that requires an appellant to raise and rebut the applicability…
20-5503 Kevin L. Martin v. Christopher Nicholson Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the court erred when it held that the plaintiff's claims were barred because the court lacked jurisdiction to consider the plaintiff's claims
20-5506 Rodolfo Lopez, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indiana-criminal-rule-4 indiana-law sixth-amendment speedy-trial Did the trial court violate Mr. Lopez's right to a speedy trial under U.S. Constitution Sixth Amendment Bill of Rights recognized by the State of Indi…
20-5514 Daryl D. Nelson v. Mike Brown, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause
20-5528 Miguel Romero v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP fourteenth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-adjudication prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude a trial court from using a prior juvenile adjudication to increase a defendant's maximum sentence…
20-5536 Joseph Scott McKinney v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-defense due-process evidence evidence-exclusion rape-shield rape-shield-law sixth-amendment Whether Louisiana's Rape Shield law and the lower courts' rulings contravened the defendant's Sixth Amendment confrontation right and due process at t…
20-5544 Clarence B. Jackson v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
20-5546 Rudolph Carryl v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure fraud fraud-definition sale sale-requirement sec-v-zandford securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-fraud standing statutory-interpretation zandford-precedent Whether violation of §10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 has been extended to encompass acts where the fraud does not coincide with a sale
20-5585 Denis Nikolla v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute duenas-alvarez federal-criminal-statute federal-definition generic-definition generic-offense predicate-offense realistic-probability realistic-probability-test Whether the categorical approach requires courts to limit the plain language of a federal criminal statute to the generic definition, even when the st…
20-5613 Keith Bernard Smith v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing extraneous-contact fair-trial juror-misconduct jury remmer-v-united-states sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether the trial court interfered with the petitioner's state and federal constitutional rights to a fair jury trial by refusing to hold an evidentia…
20-5630 Mark Anthony Thacker v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indiana-law jail-time-credit judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-credit Whether Petitioner, Mark A. Thacker, has suffer a miscarriage of justice and has been denied the equal protection and due process of laws as guarantee…
20-5647 Robert William Moynihan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-injustice constitutional-manifest-injustice exceptional-circumstances federal-courts judicial-power legal-remedy procedural-default standing Whether the petitioner, as a matter of law, who has presented clear and convincing evidence demonstrating a constitutional injustice, is entitled to a…
20-5676 Leon Venegas, Jr. v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence faretta-inquiry ineffective-assistance jury-selection self-representation timely-request Does a state trial court deprive a criminal defendant of their constitutional right to self-representation?
20-5690 Darrick Michael Loff v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the arresting officer had permission to enter and search the appellant's family property, and whether it was legal for the officer to accept a…
20-5714 Donald Joseph Koshmider, II v. Daniel Lesatz, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process medical-marijuana possession-immunity retroactivity standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure Did the Sixth Circuit err when its opinion failed to analyze Petitioner's issues according to the legislative directive that Public Act 283 is retroac…
20-5719 Efrain Camarill Cruz v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy federal-jurisdiction guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness plea-bargaining Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability
20-5730 Jimmie Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review Whether the district court's improper designation of the petitioner as a career offender was harmless error and whether the court of appeals improperl…
20-5738 Willie Hugh Washington v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu 139-S-Ct-2369 certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
20-5739 David Rothenberg v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states physical-abuse restitution restitution-calculation statutory-interpretation victim-losses When calculating restitution for a possessor of child pornography, must the victim's losses caused by the initial physical abuse be disaggregated from…
20-5740 Edward Mahan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3553a appeal criminal-procedure downward-adjustment drug-offense due-process government-misconduct plea-agreement safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines Did the district court err by allowing the government to violate the plea agreement?
20-5741 Juan Gabriel Sanchez-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States?
20-5751 Pedro Fernandez-de Campa v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari-petition criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration precedent precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether Al/mendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled
20-5752 Christopher Aundre Faulkner, aka Christopher A. Faulkner v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-obligations due-process fifth-amendment government-diligence government-misconduct pretrial-detention Whether a prolonged length of pretrial detention violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment because the government has failed to exercise …
20-5753 Kunta Kenta Redd v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP crack-cocaine-sentencing due-process first-step-act retroactive-sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-retroactivity Whether the petitioner is entitled to relief from denial of a 404 motion at the district court level in light of the First Step Act
20-5755 Joseph Lee Jones v. Google LLC Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights consumer-protection due-process first-amendment free-speech human-rights in-forma-pauperis legal-remedies three-strikes Whether the three strikes provision in 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) violates the right of access to courts, as it is part of the right of petition protected by…
20-5757 Jerrieus Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearms-offense plea-agreement plea-bargaining residual-clause sentencing void-for-vagueness Whether the petitioner's convictions for aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1951(a) and 2, and ai…
20-5759 Charles C. Williamson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight judicial-interpretation relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the district court and circuit court misinterpreted and misapplied the 'relevant conduct' provisions of United States Sentencing Commission, G…
20-5770 David A. Bridgewater v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule dismissed-conduct due-process fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a court from relying solely on dismissed conduct to impose an otherwise substantively unreasonable sen…
20-5783 Chia Jean Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-standard criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit should apply the Chapman beyond a reasonable doubt standard rather than the substantial evidence standard to consider the ha…
20-5785 Michael Hunter Cook v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure consideration contract contract-law due-process judicial-review standing Whether, consistent with due process, an appellate court may enforce an appellate waiver unsupported by consideration
20-5791 Anthony Moreno v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process firearms-possession home-defense interest-balancing risk-assessment second-amendment sentencing-guidelines standing Does the use of an interest-balancing test to evaluate the Second Amendment rights of a person to keep and bear arms in his home (or vehicle where pos…
20-5793 Francisco Zendejas v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-defendant disclosure disclosure-motion due-process-rights in-camera-hearing roviaro-standard roviaro-v-united-states threshold-showing When a criminal defendant moves to disclose the identity of a confidential informant under Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. 58 (1957), and makes a t…
20-5794 Scott T. Wilbert v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause search-and-seizure second-circuit suppression-motion Should certiorari be granted due to improper affirmation of Fourth Amendment suppression motion denial?
20-5816 Jose Antonio Acevedo-Lemus v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error probable-cause search-warrant suppression-motion waiver Whether a new theory raised on appeal in support of a suppression motion is reviewable for plain error or under Rule 12's good-cause standard
20-5837 In Re Edward Donald Oberwise Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standards circuit-court habeas-corpus state-court successive-petition teague teague-claim Whether the Court should grant a writ of habeas corpus to a non-capital state court defendant who has no other available forum to raise a compelling c…
20M28 Glenda Marcus v. Sylvester Marcus, Sr. Georgia Presumed Complete None
20M29 Lawanda Warren v. Kennection Installation, LLC, et al. Virginia Presumed Complete None
20M30 Derry Sykes v. New York State Office of Children and Family Services, et al. Second Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M31 Anthony A. Stringer v. Lincoln County Jail, et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M32 Richard W. Rose v. Department of Justice District of Columbia Presumed Complete None