| 19-1098 |
National Football League, et al. v. Ninth Inning, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
antitrust-market competition-harm damages-claim illinois-brick indirect-purchaser joint-venture rule-of-reason sherman-act |
Whether an agreement among the members of a joint venture on how best to distribute the venture's jointly created core product may be condemned under … |
| 19-1108 |
DeRay Mckesson v. John Doe |
Fifth Circuit |
GVR |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
civil-rights demonstration-law due-process first-amendment free-speech naacp-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action personal-liability protest protest-demonstration protest-liability standing tort-liability |
Do the First Amendment and this Court's decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. foreclose a state law negligence action? |
| 19-1261 |
Trent Michael Taylor v. Robert Riojas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (4) |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment government-officials obvious-violation prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing |
Whether the unconstitutionality of government officials' conduct is clearly established even absent binding precedent directly on point |
| 19-1412 |
Mark Johnson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
common-law common-law-interpretation contract criminal-statute criminal-statutes false-promises federal-criminal-statutes fraud integration-clause mail-fraud right-to-control wire-fraud |
Can an oral promise excluded from a fully-integrated written contract, which is unenforceable under the common law, be a 'false or fraudulent...promis… |
| 19-1436 |
Denise DeMartini v. Town of Gulf Stream, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 causation civil-lawsuit civil-litigation civil-rights first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation municipal-liability probable-cause retaliation section-1983 |
Did the Eleventh Circuit err in importing a 'lack of probable cause' requirement for a First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C § 1983 arising… |
| 19-1445 |
Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure contempt contempt-sanctions dietary-supplements due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-trade-commission injunction injunction-specificity waiver-doctrine |
Can the FTC unilaterally reinterpret an injunction to seek contempt sanctions based on a more restrictive standard? |
| 19-1447 |
Yehudi Manzano v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
18-usc-3731 circuit-split criminal-appeals-act criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-basis jury-nullification mandamus writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the United States may seek a writ of mandamus in a criminal case to bring an interlocutory appeal that is not permitted by 18 U.S.C. § 3731 |
| 19-7309 |
James Milton Dailey v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Amici (5)Relisted (5)IFP |
capital-punishment chambers-exception chambers-v-mississippi codefendant-confession due-process fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence innocence parole third-party-confession |
Was the Florida Supreme Court's analysis of Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284 (1973), employing a factor-based approach that has been embraced by … |
| 19-8227 |
Joshua Dwayne Carrier v. Colorado |
Colorado |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4-year-old-transaction 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy expert-testimony fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant stale-information |
Was the search warrant for Mr. Carrier's home and computers relying on a single transaction from four years earlier based upon stale information and l… |
| 19-8332 |
Robert Boyd Rhoades v. California |
California |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination |
Whether the California Supreme Court erred in ruling that the trial court properly declined to find an inference of discrimination at step one of Bats… |
| 19-8375 |
Lamarr Robinson v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-claim exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine fair-presentation federal-review habeas-corpus incorporation-by-reference procedural-default state-court-remedies |
Does a prisoner 'fairly present' the substance of his federal habeas corpus claim to the state's highest court when he utilizes a commonly used, unoff… |
| 19-8594 |
Justin Harrington Darrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment high-crime-area illinois-v-wardlow officer-safety reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Whether 'officer safety' can justify the Terry stop |
| 19-8598 |
Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. v. Keith Yordy, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
adaptive-functioning adaptive-skills atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia clinical-standards eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-scores standard-error-of-measurement |
Whether Atkins and the Eighth Amendment mandated the use of clinical standards for the determination of subaverage intelligence as measured by intelli… |
| 19-8821 |
Jose Santiago-Ortiz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
-criminal-organization -federal-criminal-law -murder-statute -organizational-intent -substantive-nexus #NAME? criminal-organization federal-criminal-offenses murder second-circuit sixth-circuit substantive-nexus |
Whether federal criminal offenses that include a substantive nexus between a charged murder and the defendant's alleged involvement in a criminal orga… |
| 19-8900 |
Jeffrey Chleo Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-procedure factual-dispute factual-objection legal-sufficiency preservation-of-appeal procedural-error sentencing sentencing-objection standard-of-review |
Is a factual objection at sentencing sufficient to preserve for appeal the district court's failure to resolve the ensuing dispute? |
| 19-8921 |
Zane Floyd v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
aedpa brain-damage capital-case fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit-rule strickland-prejudice strickland-standard |
May a court assessing Strickland prejudice dismiss the significance of evidence of brain damage, on the ground that it makes only a 'limited additiona… |
| 19-8929 |
Tedarel Leshun Preston v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 20-188 |
Zhiheng Sheng v. Daniel Michael Snyder |
Georgia |
Denied |
|
antenuptial-agreement beneficiary-designation civil-procedure erisa erisa-waiver retirement-plan spousal-rights spousal-waiver state-law |
Can a waiver by a spouse of her interest in a retirement plan covered by ERISA be enforced through a state law cause of action? |
| 20-195 |
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe v. Tulalip Tribes, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
d-c-circuit indian-tribes judicial-decree judicial-precedent ninth-circuit precedent treaty-fishing-rights treaty-interpretation treaty-rights |
Whether the Ninth Circuit impermissibly narrowed a decades-old judicial decree to deprive Indian tribes of treaty fishing rights |
| 20-199 |
George Charles Clark v. Inco Champion National Security, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
ada-disability-discrimination ada-discrimination causation circuit-conflict direct-evidence disability-accommodation employment-termination reasonable-accommodation retaliation summary-judgment |
What is the standard under the ADA applicable to firing an employee for conduct caused by a disability? |
| 20-200 |
Morgan McCoy v. Michael Bullock, et al. |
Ohio |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment civil-procedure dismissal due-process evidence landlord-tenant-law prima-facie prima-facie-case racial-discrimination selective-enforcement standing |
Does pretrial court dismissing prima facie case before its evidence filing deadline constitute R.103(D) plain error in constitutional violation of due… |
| 20-204 |
Ming Wei v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction pleadings standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's complaint for lack of standing |
| 20-207 |
Lara Bush-Pensy v. Timothy Pflieger |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
|
due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech private-communication private-email state-court state-court-restraint unprotected-speech |
Whether basic First Amendment and Due Process freedom of speech is infringed where a state court restrains a person's private e-mail absent any eviden… |
| 20-210 |
Jing Shu Zheng v. Christina Ellis, et vir |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-penalties civil-rights due-process false-claims-act promissory-fraud section-8-housing treble-damages |
Whether the number of FCA civil penalties is based upon the number of overpayments received by a Section 8 landlord or whether they are based upon the… |
| 20-213 |
Dilip Dey v. Li-Huei Tsai, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
|
adverse-employment-action age-discrimination civil-rights employment-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation title-vii |
Whether the prohibition in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against employment discrimination was violated because of my race, age encompasse… |
| 20-218 |
Isidro Abascal-Montalvo v. City of New York, New York |
New York |
Denied |
|
cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process false-arrest mental-hygiene-law organized-stalking remote-electronic-assault standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether petitioner's causes of action relating to organized-stalking and remote-electronic-assaults are not inherently-incredible and state-a-cause-of… |
| 20-225 |
John R. Muenster v. Disciplinary Board of the Washington State Bar Association |
Washington |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bar-association-resignation civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-rights due-process free-speech lawyer-conduct professional-ethics standing state-bar-rules takings |
Whether petitioner has the right to permanently quit the state bar association without first obtaining the association's permission |
| 20-229 |
Michael Woolen v. California |
California |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-error mental-illness prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether petitioner, 1 of 60 million Americans with mental illness, was deprived of Bill of Rights protections of Amendment 1, V, VI-IX and XIV |
| 20-235 |
Edward J. Mierzwa v. Arkadiusz M. Dudek, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure court-manipulation due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure racketeering supervisory-powers supreme-court-jurisdiction unlawful-process |
Will the Supreme Court exercise its supervisory powers to remedy the unlawful process enacted by the Lower Courts to substitute racketeering-based cou… |
| 20-236 |
Jerry W. Wells v. Robbin Nelson, et al. |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adoption civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process family-law federal-law jurisdiction uccjea |
Can an original decree state, using the UCCJEA, deny the jurisdiction of a sister state during an adoption proceeding |
| 20-243 |
James L. Robison v. Citibank, N.A., et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court procedural-fairness property-rights standing state-court-procedure state-courts |
Due-process |
| 20-246 |
Stephen B. Pence, et al. v. VNB New York, LLC, as Successor by Merger to VNB New York Corporation, as Successor in Interest to the Park Avenue Bank |
Kentucky |
Denied |
|
banking banking-regulation d'oench-doctrine defenses federal-common-law financial-institutions-reform firrea fraud holder-in-due-course statutory-interpretation |
Does the D'Oench doctrine or federal common law 'holder in due course' doctrine survive FIRREA? |
| 20-262 |
Bridget Alex, et al. v. T-Mobile USA, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certification civil-rights due-process erie-doctrine federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-discretion state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation tort-claims-act |
Whether the Fifth Circuit abused its discretion by refusing to certify the case to the Texas Supreme Court |
| 20-264 |
Stephen S. Bona v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
|
criminal-threat elonis-v-united-states first-amendment free-speech intent-to-harm political-speech true-threat virginia-v-black |
Whether the First Amendment allows a state to criminalize a knowing threat of violence directed against a political official without a showing of an i… |
| 20-269 |
In Re Barbara Stone |
|
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-enterprise due-process ex-parte-judgment extortion fraud judicial-misconduct jurisdiction-stripping whistleblower-protection writ-of-prohibition |
Should a Writ of Prohibition be issued |
| 20-270 |
Irma Rosas v. R.K. Kenzie Corp., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
7th-circuit case-law civil-complaint civil-procedure dismissal george-v-smith judicial-precedent pleadings procedural-rule seventh-circuit standing |
Whether a civil complaint can be dismissed solely pursuant to George v. Smith, 507 F.3d 605 (7th Cir. 2007) |
| 20-275 |
Barrington Boyd v. Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blacklisting civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination expungement financial-services FINRA finra-form-u5 regulatory-action title-vii |
Whether large financial services employers should be able to use FINRA Form U5 as a blacklisting tool against former employees who raised discriminati… |
| 20-284 |
Nicole Barone v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-property-rights due-process fannie-mae-liability foreclosure foreclosure-fraud government-takings securities securities-law-violation standing takings void-judgment |
Whether the U.S. Government's wrongful possession of a tainted, unlawful void title due to clear violations of federal and Florida laws is acceptable |
| 20-290 |
Charles Meyers, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
assembly civil-rights constitutional-review due-process fair-notice first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-permission |
How individualized must government permission be to raise fair notice protection under the due process component of the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 20-323 |
John S. Barth v. City of Peabody, Massachusetts |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment municipal-ordinance property property-rights regulatory-taking takings |
Did municipal denial of permission to rebuild a home effect a taking of private property, where an ex post facto ordinance prohibited all other econom… |
| 20-328 |
Charlie Wilson, as Executor of the Estate of Debra Wilson v. Dallas County Hospital District, dba Parkland Health and Hospital System |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure conflict-preemption federal-appeal federal-removal jurisdictional-ping-pong preemption state-court-jurisdiction state-deadlines statutory-deadline tolling |
Are state statutory pre-discovery deadlines tolled during a federal appeal after removal to federal court? |
| 20-339 |
Jason Winer v. Coralys Negron, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure consumer-protection creditor-definition creditor-status de-facto-dealer district-court-jurisdiction state-law-claims Supplemental-jurisdiction unfair-trade-practices |
No question identified |
| 20-341 |
Natalie McDaniel v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada-constructive-discharge ada-essential-functions ada-hostile-work-environment ada-reasonable-accommodation ada-telework ada-undue-hardship constructive-discharge disability-discrimination essential-job-functions hostile-work-environment medical-restrictions reasonable-accommodation |
Whether the reasonableness standard articulated in Barnett requires that, a denial or removal of telework or other normally reasonable accommodation b… |
| 20-342 |
Kyko Global Inc., et al. v. Omkar Bhongir |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
calder-effects-test calder-v-jones civil-procedure corporate-directors due-process effects-test personal-jurisdiction rule-12b2 state-law walden-v-fiore |
Whether Walden v. Fiore nullifies state personal-jurisdiction-statutes |
| 20-358 |
Randy Henry v. J. Bret Johnson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-employer government-employment public-concern public-employee retaliation |
When may a government employee be punished for speaking on a matter of public concern? |
| 20-372 |
Richard Louis Arnold Phillips v. Kevin Chappell, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-challenge due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey partial-reversal section-1983 standing |
Does a plaintiff remain 'Heck barred' from seeking §1983 relief when their conviction is partially reversed, vacating the only sentence imposed, but p… |
| 20-373 |
Richard Lee Abrams v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss standing state-action |
Did the district court and the Ninth Circuit abuse their discretion by not allowing Petitioner to argue that the behavior of the Commission on Judicia… |
| 20-383 |
PAR, Inc., et al. v. Nichole L. Richards |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure enforcement-mechanism fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-law plain-meaning right-to-possession state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Courts may look to state law to define 'present right to possession' in 15 U.S.C. §1692f(6) of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to e… |
| 20-384 |
Penny Nichols Corn, et al. v. Mississippi Department of Public Safety, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech garcetti-precedent garcetti-v-ceballos lane-v-franks law-enforcement-misconduct misprision-of-felony public-employee-speech |
Whether public employees have First Amendment protection to report fraudulent conduct by state troopers |
| 20-390 |
Brandan A. Mack v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography civil-rights criminal-offense criminal-procedure due-process felony-penalty juvenile-offender sex-offender-registration |
Whether a state may subject a juvenile offender to long-term sex offender registration requirements following conviction for possession of child porno… |
| 20-411 |
Traize T. Wash v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure whren-v-united-states |
Whether a police officer's subjective intent should be considered in the context of a Fourth Amendment analysis involving a pretextual stop and unreas… |
| 20-415 |
Pablo Javier Aleman v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-responsibility detainer-transfer interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers jurisdictional-authority mental-health-adjudication not-criminally-responsible receiving-state sending-state sentencing sentencing-procedure treatment |
Under the Interstate Agreement on Detainers, does the receiving state have authority to commit a person for treatment after pleading guilty but found … |
| 20-420 |
Jack R. T. Jordan v. Department of Labor |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence foia foia-review judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether lower courts may disregard FOIA-judicial-review-provisions,administrative-procedure-act,federal-rules-of-civil-procedure,federal-rules-of-evid… |
| 20-50 |
Monica Voss v. Gregory G. Goode |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fourth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 standing sua-sponte |
Whether an appellate court may impute third-party actions to a § 1983 claimant as the basis for qualified immunity |
| 20-5217 |
David Kelsey Sparre v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
adolescent-brain-development brain-development constitutional-rights first-degree-murder harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing prejudice trial-strategy |
Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and execute the defense trial strategy results in prejudice? |
| 20-53 |
Cecilia Aguilar Fermin v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 20-5395 |
Marcus Tyler Sheffield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights police-questioning reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard self-incrimination |
Whether the police detective's assurance to Sheffield that he is free to leave on the condition that he make a truthful statement would lead a reasona… |
| 20-5452 |
Judy Thorpe v. Justin Swidler, et al. |
New Jersey |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-division appellate-review certification-denial civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review manifest-error prejudice supreme-court-of-new-jersey trial-court |
Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the Supreme Court of New Jersey to Deny Certification and Not Fairly and Equitably Rev… |
| 20-5454 |
Mark Shields v. R. C. Smith, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto judicial-individualization parole parole-considerations sentencing sentencing-rights stage-1-calculation standing takings |
Whether a specified § 333.7 C1 stage-1, Cig bl Le Review' initial hearing' can be considered a actual product for a mandated judicial individualized P… |
| 20-5455 |
Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Aurora Bank, FSB, et al. |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitration-award civil-procedure court-conflict due-process henry-schein-inc-v-archer-white-sales-inc judicial-corruption judicial-interpretation non-judicial-arbitration notary-affidavit schein-rules standing |
Should this court end the conflict in lower courts by applying Schein rules nationwide that Arbitration Award is effective upon its perfection under n… |
| 20-5459 |
Sean S. Earl v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its judgment |
| 20-5461 |
Jose Camilo v. New Jersey State Parole Board |
New Jersey |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process extended-term parole parole-board retaliation retaliatory-action sentencing |
Whether the petitioner's case is similar to Trantino v. State of N.J. Parole Board, where the petitioner was issued a retaliatory extended term senten… |
| 20-5462 |
Smith Ellison, Jr. v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure complete-defense constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preclusion motion-for-reconsideration remorse self-defense standing |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability |
| 20-5466 |
John Eldridge Cone, Jr. v. Janet Dowling, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-discretion circuit-split constitutional-claim constitutional-claims factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-petition harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel |
When a petitioner supplements his constitutional claim on appeal with a colorable showing of factual innocence, should a Court of Appeals exercise its… |
| 20-5467 |
Carlos Michael Lopez v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
adversarial-process appeal appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process garza-v-idaho inherent-powers sua-sponte-dismissal waiver |
Does due process require courts to treat at least some claims as unwaiveable on appeal? |
| 20-5468 |
Corey Manning v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
competency-hearing competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stages due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure right-to-be-present supreme-court-precedent trial-presence |
Whether defendant-appellant was denied his constitutional right to be present at all critical stages of trial |
| 20-5471 |
Darryl C. Daniels v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment involuntary-detention liberty liberty-interest sexual-predator state-power |
Should such disfavored persons, involuntarily civilly imprisoned as sexual violent predators, be deprived of fair notice and warning and continually r… |
| 20-5483 |
Dion Black v. Norm Robinson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights cross-examination double-inference-rule effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence |
Should the petitioner have been granted a certificate of appealability |
| 20-5484 |
Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. J. C. Smith, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fifth-amendment parole parole-revocation retaliation supervisory-liability |
Whether Petitioner's claims that his parole was revoked due to invoking his Fifth Amendment Right to refuse to incriminate himself could establish Sup… |
| 20-5492 |
Ray Lamar Johnston v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have remanded or expanded the appeal |
| 20-5493 |
Tobias O. Reed v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-evidence criminal-investigation ex-parte-order exclusionary-rule good-faith-defense good-faith-exemption illinois-v-krull prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
Are prosecuting attorneys entitled to the same good faith exemption from the exclusionary rule as police officers? |
| 20-5495 |
Ruben Sanchez v. United States, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights complaint-amendment due-process federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction immunity marginalized-defendants pro-se standing state-actor-immunity |
Does a pro se plaintiff have the right to appointment of counsel to amend a complaint challenging state-actor-immunity? |
| 20-5500 |
Valentin Spataru v. Pedro Antonio Suarez, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct legal-ethics pro-se-litigation procedural-rules professional-responsibility standing |
Whether Florida judges may disregard my filings and prior cases, and may not exercise the standard of care requested by law and expected from professi… |
| 20-5501 |
Andrew Darvin Hersh v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
ativan-influence confession-admissibility credibility-determination credibility-determinations due-process federal-court-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-confession non-custodial-confession state-court-findings state-court-review |
Does a 'non-custodial' confession uttered under the influence of the prescription drug, 'Ativan,' render a confession involuntary and inadmissible? |
| 20-5505 |
Keith O. Johnson v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-error mental-health |
Whether a defendant can be proceeded against in a criminal proceeding where a question of the defendant's competency has been raised and recognized by… |
| 20-5511 |
Debbie Pittman v. Ronnie Pittman |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-contempt civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection notice-of-appeal premature-filing prematurely-filed standing |
Whether a notice of appeal filed on May 10, 2016 is considered prematurely filed when the orders being challenged cover the period between 2013 and 20… |
| 20-5512 |
James L. Miller v. Scott S. Harris, Clerk, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fifth-amendment just-compensation physical-appropriation private-property public-use takings-clause |
Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation when it physically appropriates private property fo… |
| 20-5515 |
In Re Tracey A. Merrill |
|
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit pleadings predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation |
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 |
| 20-5516 |
Joseph Peter Garbarini v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disagreement procedural-bar |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability on a double jeopardy claim |
| 20-5521 |
Wilbert Williams, aka Serenity Izabel Williams v. Beverly Kelly, Assistant Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gender-dysphoria medical-treatment prisoners-rights transgender transgender-rights |
Whether gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition and whether there is a conflict between the 5th Circuit and other U.S. Courts of Appeals |
| 20-5522 |
Obatala Blount v. Bridgett Beecher |
Georgia |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection government-conduct judicial-review |
Whether the government's alleged unconstitutional conduct in denying the petitioner's constitutional rights to due process and equal protection was pr… |
| 20-5526 |
Norman Paul Blanco v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process municipal-liability qualified-immunity supervisory-liability |
Can a public official be held liable for the constitutional violations of their subordinates? |
| 20-5529 |
Herman Bernard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa amendment bankruptcy-court district-court due-process habeas-corpus judgment jurisdictional-defect procedural-rules successive-motions successive-petition |
Whether the Bankruptcy Court erred in denying a motion to amend a petition under the AEDPA, as the Eleventh Circuit has required that a motion to amen… |
| 20-5538 |
Michael Gerrell Boone v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing |
Whether the district court erred in finding that the plaintiffs failed to establish a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits of their claim th… |
| 20-5545 |
Mary Klebba-Shulga v. Jodi Shulga |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constructive-trust divorce divorce-law due-process judicial-discretion pension pension-rights unjust-enrichment workman-compensation |
Do judges have the right to ignore the laws of: The Retirement Equity Act of 1984; a couple's finalized MSA and QDRO; the rules of an established Pens… |
| 20-5547 |
Roger Lee Baker, Jr. v. Magistrate Court of Georgia, Talbot County |
Georgia |
Denied |
IFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings |
Whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's denial of a patent application for an invention that was previously disclosed to the public violates th… |
| 20-5550 |
Robert Kelvin Lindbloom v. Manatee County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights false-evidence legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss perjury qualified-immunity standing |
Do specific and particular allegations of perjury and submitting false evidence overcome a presumption of qualified immunity in a Motion to Dismiss? |
| 20-5551 |
Ohio, ex rel. Jeremy Kerr v. Robert Pollex, et al. |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency jurisdiction state-court state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-evidence |
Does a state court's judgment of conviction violate the 14th Amendment when the record is devoid of evidence proving the defendant committed an elemen… |
| 20-5556 |
Genaro Edgar Espinosa Dorantes v. Kevin Genovese, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
§2254-case civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extradition extradition-treaty habeas-corpus language-barrier mexican-national |
Did the District Court Err Or Abuse Its Discretion in a § 2254 case When It Denied Equitable Tolling To A Mexican National, Unable To Speak Or Underst… |
| 20-5557 |
Earl Crownhart v. STRiVE |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in dismissing Appellant Earl Clowbhaft's claims that the State of Ohio violated his Fift… |
| 20-5559 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. |
Georgia |
Dismissed |
IFP |
constitutional-rights court-record-tampering criminal-immunity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity judicial-remedy |
Whether the refusal of Georgia courts to provide a Georgia litigant any 'plain, speedy, and efficient' remedy to officers of the Georgia courts tamper… |
| 20-5570 |
Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
adjudicated-on-the-merits fair-presentation fair-presentation-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan new-evidence procedural-default state-post-conviction-review |
In determining whether a claim has been fairly presented to, and 'adjudicated on the merits' by, the state courts for § 2254(d) purposes, must a feder… |
| 20-5591 |
Joseph G. Edwards v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection material-facts nebraska-supreme-court precedential-authority sexual-assault vulnerable-adult |
Did the Nebraska Supreme Court omit material facts and circumvent the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights? |
| 20-5592 |
Christopher Lipsey, Jr. v. D. Goree, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review frivolous habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance malicious procedural-default standing state-court-review |
Whether the district court's dismissal of a complaint as frivolous, malicious, or for failure to state a claim constitutes a strike under 28 U.S.C. § … |
| 20-5593 |
Chaz Antonio Earp v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mistake |
Whether the appellant received a fair trial as promised by the federal and state constitutions |
| 20-5618 |
Adrian D. Riley v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review cullen-v-pinholster federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether the court of appeals failed to follow this Court's federal habeas jurisprudence |
| 20-5629 |
Lester Waller v. Vance Laughlin, Warden |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-error waiver-of-counsel |
Did the Trial Court err when it determined Defendant's waiver of counsel was valid thus , violating his Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and his Fourt… |
| 20-5651 |
Christopher R. Gish v. Randall Hepp, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure hill-v-lockhart immigration immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lee-v-united-states plea-bargaining prejudice-standard |
Whether Lee v. United States represents a narrow exception to Hill v. Lockhart's more general rule that is focused on the likelihood of success at tri… |
| 20-5679 |
Marie Joy Tanamor-Steffan v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 20-5682 |
Simon F. Ranteesi v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony fair-trial ineffective-counsel jury-instructions medical-malpractice mental-state prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question not identified |
| 20-5694 |
Marc Anthony Lowell Endsley v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-detention civil-rights conditional-release constitutional-rights due-process insanity-acquittee insanity-acquittees involuntary-civil-detention involuntary-confinement recommitment |
Due process protections for involuntarily civilly detained insanity acquittees |
| 20-5698 |
Adrian Hernandez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fair-trial federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction procedural-default racial-bias standing state-court |
whether-a-petitioner-was-denied-a-fair-trial-when-a-juror-stated-she-could-not-be-impartial |
| 20-5699 |
Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-error court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement void-conviction void-judgment |
issues-being-raised |
| 20-5700 |
Antonio Moss v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-regulations civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation judicial-review sentencing statutory-construction |
Why did a defendant's due process and equal protection rights be violated by the lower court's failure to address a defendant's sentencing error that … |
| 20-5708 |
Fagbemi Miranda v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-rights fundamental-decision fundamental-decisions legal-representation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-strategy |
Does the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to make fundamental decisions about his case include the right to choose which defense to present at trial? |
| 20-5716 |
James Ziegenfuss v. Anthony Mackey, et al. |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights competency due-process mental-illness |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has been diagnosed with a severe … |
| 20-5729 |
Amos Westmoreland v. Glen Johnson, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-conflict-of-interest conflict-of-interest cuyler-v-sullivan due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-bar procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Does the 11th Circuit decision conflict with Martinez v. Ryan? |
| 20-5758 |
Damon Woodard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c1c congressional-amendment congressional-amendments first-time-offender first-time-offenders mandatory-minimum-sentences recidivism sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court should revisit and recede from its decision in Deal v. United States, 508 U.S. 129 (1993) |
| 20-5769 |
Bradley Beauchamp v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 20-5771 |
Taveon Nixon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-reasonableness sentencing statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness |
whether-the-trial-court's-overt-consideration-of-the-existence-and-nature-of-an-appeal-waiver-prior-to-varying-upward-to-the-statutory-maximum-sentenc… |
| 20-5772 |
Michael Portanova v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'categorical approach' may be disregarded or 'loosened' in child-pornography cases |
| 20-5779 |
Cynthia B. Woods v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment-law equal-protection |
Whether the medical recommendation was approved and the living conditions of the individual were adequate |
| 20-5781 |
Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction |
habeas-corpus |
| 20-5787 |
Thomas Wayne Godard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) 924(c)-conviction due-process equal-protection first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-relief |
Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing to Apply First Step Act retroactively to multiple 924(c) convictions that were announced, but not final, at th… |
| 20-5792 |
Ronald Leslie Pierce, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentencing conviction-review criminal-monetary-penalties fourth-circuit harmless-error independent-sentences judicial-precedent sentencing-doctrine summary-reversal |
Whether concurrent sentence harmless error doctrine is not appliable to multiple convictions and sentences with criminal monetary penalties |
| 20-5798 |
Jose Velasquez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act common-law constructive-force robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony |
Does the Tenth Circuit's analysis, which ignores the common law requirements of constructive-force robbery, conflict with the Court's adoption of the … |
| 20-5799 |
Lorenzo Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a criminal defendant's sentence should be based upon acquitted conduct |
| 20-58 |
Anita Smith v. Vestavia Hills Board of Education |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
but-for-causation causation causation-standard civil-rights discrimination-claim motivating-factor pleading summary-judgment title-vii |
Is a Title VII plaintiff required to meet the but-for causation standard to survive summary judgment? |
| 20-5805 |
Ian Resnick v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fraud-loss overview-testimony sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment testimonial-statements |
Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the admission of an accuser's statement against a criminal defendant under the guise of 'overview testimony' |
| 20-5806 |
Anthony Rogelio Griego v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254d2 28-usc-2254e1 collateral-review constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus Hill-v-Lockhart's-prejudice-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity strickland-standard |
Whether the state court's decision was contrary to or involved an unreasonable application of Strickland-v-Washington's-deficient-performance-analysis |
| 20-5809 |
Albert Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute criminal-sentencing force reasonable-fear robbery robbery-force statutory-interpretation stokeling stokeling-definition |
Whether the definition of force adopted in Stokeling for robbery eschews a requirement that any fear produced by a threat of force be reasonable? |
| 20-5812 |
Jason Andrew Dunlap v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure defendant-responsibility federal-sentencing guilty-plea offense-level plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentencing Guidelines limit the maximum offense level to 43, so that, there is a reduction when a defendant accepts responsibility by ente… |
| 20-5818 |
Tyrone Johnston v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
autopsy certificate-of-appeal circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason third-circuit |
Did the Third Circuit err in denying a certificate of appeal (COA) |
| 20-5825 |
Larry Lamar Nance v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review central-thesis circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether a sentencing court must address all material, non-frivolous arguments in mitigation |
| 20-5829 |
Jerry Fruit v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause rodriguez-precedent search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether police may delay a traffic stop, in the interest of officer safety, absent probable cause, in order to conduct a search? |
| 20-5832 |
Damon Graham v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expectation-of-privacy habeas-corpus k-9-search sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review warrantless-search |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit abused its discretion by improperly denying Petitioner a certificate of appealability |
| 20-5860 |
Miguel Antonio Wooten v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
county-of-riverside-v-mclaughlin criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated |
| 20-5884 |
Charles Chad Giese v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-defense self-defense self-incrimination |
Did Police Violate Giese's Miranda Rights by Interrogating Him While He was in Custody? |
| 20-5895 |
Michael Carlton Lowe, Sr. v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedures civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct liberty-interest separation-of-powers standing substantive-due-process |
Did the lower courts infringe on relator's fundamental right of substantive due process |
| 20-5896 |
In Re Douglas Weissert |
|
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination evidence-admissibility mental-health prescription-medication sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-testimony |
Whether the state trial court violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment rights by prohibiting cross-examination and evidence regarding the witness's me… |
| 20-5902 |
Larry Burt Sexton v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parole-consideration sentencing |
Whether the trial court erred in admitting hearsay evidence at the sentencing hearing and in finding the petitioner to be a career offender, resulting… |
| 20-5932 |
In Re Maurice Johnson |
|
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment african-american-rights citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-personhood reconstruction slavery slavery-abolition states-rights |
What branch of law authorized the states to apply abolished slaves labels (Negro, Black, Colored or African-American) to any African descent after 186… |
| 20-5944 |
In Re Gerald M. Calmese |
|
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus identity-theft jurisdiction sixth-amendment |
Whether the evidence presented failed to establish the required element of 'another person,' for which the plaintiff was convicted of taking their ide… |
| 20-88 |
HZNP Finance Limited, et al. v. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-112 claim-construction consisting-essentially-of nautilus-v-biosig patent patent-act patent-claim patent-validity reasonable-certainty statutory-interpretation transitional-phrase |
Whether the 'basic and novel properties' identified in connection with a patent claim's transitional phrase 'consisting essentially of' must independe… |
| 20M33 |
John H. Cirota v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|