Conference: 2020-11-06

133 cases — 0 granted, 133 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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19-1289 George Andrew Benavides v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process military-operations. torture treason civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process espionage-act espionage-act-1917 fourth-amendment military-operations military-privacy surveillance-rights torture treason Whether the United States Navy/USN had legal consent to spy on the petitioner while serving in the United States Marine Corps/USMC during the Gulf War…
19-1398 Ted Lieu, United States Congressman, et al. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia Denied Amici (6) campaign-finance corruption corruption-prevention federal-election-campaign-act first-amendment independent-expenditures political-committees political-contributions standing statutory-limit Whether the federal statutory limit on contributions to political committees, 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C), comports with the First Amendment as applied …
19-1422 Nakisha Jackson v. Roy L. Brun, Judge, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) 501(3)c appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech funding internet-communication jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge legal-records-access misrepresentation personal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation secretary-of-state small-business-administration standing Is it considered 'misrepresentation' when an individual is not registered with the Secretary of State (SOS), in their state, to represent an entity, b…
19-1442 Willie Earl Carr, et al. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Tenth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-law-judge appointments-clause circuit-split disability-benefits exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review social-security social-security-act Whether claimants seeking disability benefits under the Social Security Act must exhaust Appointments Clause challenges before the Administrative Law …
19-1475 Duke University v. Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. Federal Circuit Denied 35-usc-314 administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause due-process forfeiture inter-partes-review patent patent-law standing statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals can invoke forfeiture to refuse to address an Appointments Clause violation in a pending appeal despite an intervening chan…
19-5497 John McGill v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions pattern-jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment When a district court issues erroneous jury instructions that include (a) to consider conviction with less than guilt beyond all reasonable doubt and …
19-7266 Mickie Stone v. Centene Corporation Eleventh Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11-usc-1915-e-2-b appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-complaint eleventh-circuit frivolous-appeal frivolous-claim in-forma-pauperis standing statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the Court in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying my motion for leave to proceed on appeal in forma pa…
19-7542 Noah-Wade Pelmear, et al. v. Maureen O'Connor, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights color-of-law due-process equal-protection free-exercise immunity judicial-immunity oath-of-office obstruction-of-justice Whether state actors acting under color of state law can impair, impede, deny, discriminate, threaten or otherwise obstruct petitioners' federally pro…
19-8641 Samir Hanna v. California California Denied Relisted (2)IFP affidavit civil-procedure court-fees declaration in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-fees poverty pro-se-litigation redress Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis
19-8766 In Re Linda Ann Wright Denied Relisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment carotid-artery civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment medical-malpractice obstruction-of-justice Was there a concerted effort to deny petitioner her Due Process, under the 5th and 14th Amendments?
19-8767 In Re Linda Ann Wright Denied Relisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice Was there a concerted effort, from 2007-Present to deny petitioner her Due-Process, under the 5th-and-14th-Amendments to the Constitution-of-the-U.S.
19-8860 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appointments-clause aqua-products arthrex constitutional-redress equal-protection fletcher-v-peck patent-prosecution patent-prosecution-history patent-review supreme-court-precedent virnetx Whether this Court must Order the Circuit Court to apply Arthrex, Virnetx, Aqua Products, consider Patent Prosecution History, and enforce Fletcher, i…
19-8889 Hector Guagua-Alarcon v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP article-iii article-three due-process executive-branch executive-power federal-jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the MDLEA violate Article III and the Sixth Amendment by giving dispositive weight to the Executive Branch's assertion that jurisdiction exists?
19-8910 Trinity Rolando Cabezas-Montano v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment miranda-rights post-arrest-statement pre-miranda-statement self-incrimination Whether the prosecution violates the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution when they use a Defendant's pre-Miranda, post-arrest statements…
20-105 John J. Davis, et al. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Eighth Circuit Judgment Issued Relisted (3) administrative-law administrative-law-judge appointments-clause disability-benefits exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review social-security Whether a claimant seeking disability benefits or supplemental security income under the Social Security Act must exhaust an Appointments Clause chall…
20-260 Personal Audio, LLC v. CBS Corporation Federal Circuit Denied appointments-clause collateral-estoppel inter-partes-review patent-law reexamination-clause seventh-amendment waiver Must the collateral estoppel effect of an inter partes review be raised and litigated in the appeal of the inter partes review, rather than in the cou…
20-263 Nanette Blanchard-Daigle, Representative of the Estate of Lyle Blanchard v. Shane Geers, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by overlooking precedent in determining whether an officer enjoys qualified immunity after applying deadly excessive f…
20-277 Christopher Adams, et al. v. Tony Parker, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment food-safety professional-standards sanitation Whether prisoners have a right protected by the Eighth Amendment to have their food prepared and served in a sanitary manner
20-281 Waseem Daker v. Clinton Perry, Jr., Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied 8th-amendment circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights solitary-confinement Whether a prisoner may file a habeas corpus petition to challenge his placement on segregated/solitary confinement
20-285 Herman Tracy Clark v. Jerold Braggs, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied aedpa-restriction commutation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus impartiality liberty-interest pardon pardon-and-parole parole statutory-interpretation Whether the word 'shall' binds the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board decision
20-288 ALCR, LLC v. Linda W. Swain, et al. Arizona Denied business-operation civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights court-order involuntary-servitude private-property thirteenth-amendment Whether a court order requiring the owner of private property to operate a business on the private property violates the involuntary servitude provisi…
20-289 Retirement Plans Committee of IBM, et al. v. Larry W. Jander, et al. Second Circuit Denied corporate-disclosure disclosure employee-stock-ownership-plan erisa fiduciary-duty fraud fraud-disclosure insider-information securities-law Whether Dudenhoeffer's 'more harm than good' standard can be satisfied by generalized allegations
20-307 Shahrokh Mireskandari v. Barrington Mayne, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived common-law-immunity foreign-agents foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity governmental-organ jurisdictional-immunity sovereign-immunity state-department tort-liability tortious-conduct uk-government Whether the Law Society of England and Wales and the U.K. Solicitors Regulation Authority are entitled to sovereign immunity as 'organs' of a foreign …
20-309 John E. Reardon v. New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack common-law-mandates due-process judicial-immunity jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct standing void-proceedings Whether Judges, Prosecutors and other officials can be held liable for either Equity and/or Legal relief
20-32 Steve Morsa v. Andre Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-101 abstract-idea claims-analysis federal-circuit patent patent-eligibility patent-office preemption section-101 undue-preemption May the Federal Circuit and Patent Office ignore this Court's seminal Cuno decision?
20-336 Richard J. Kelly, et ux. v. Marjory Motiaytis Illinois Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process legal-vagueness municipal-ordinance vagueness Whether 65 ILCS 5/11-13-15 is unconstitutionally vague in violation of the due process clauses of the 14th and 5 Amendments of the United States Const…
20-340 Olga Paule Perrier-Bilbo v. United States, et al. First Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise freedom-of-religion government-endorsement religious-discrimination standing Whether the federal government may continue to degrade atheists from the equal rank of citizens by repeatedly, flagrantly, and facially lending its po…
20-343 Estate of David Maurice, et al. v. Life Insurance Company of North America Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split erisa-preemption health-plans insurance-policy-interpretation ninth-circuit proximate-cause saving-clause Whether the court below erred by refusing to apply Kentucky Ass'n of Health Plans, Inc. v. Miller
20-354 In Re Lorcan Kilroy Denied civil-rights criminal-obstruction criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation judicial-review kamala-harris ninth-circuit political-bias standing Whether or not democrat political bias to protect Sen. Kamala Harris from exposure to criminal prosecution existed
20-369 Amir Vana v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Third Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-417 Sanjay Bhardwaj v. State Bar of California California Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment forgery new-trial new-trial-motion standing state-bar trial-transcripts Can California State Bar Court consider trial transcripts which are not certified, are false and product of antecedent forgery after trial, for purpos…
20-421 Progressive Lawn Managers, Inc. v. Lawn Managers, Inc. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived divorce-orders lanham-act mark-abandonment naked-licensing parallel-state-court-proceedings state-court-proceedings trademark-infringement unclean-hands Whether a federal court may disregard state-court constructions of divorce orders in a trademark infringement case
20-430 Justin Marques Henning v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equipoise-rule evidence mere-presence Whether a criminal defendant may be convicted based solely on evidence of his mere presence near the scene of the crime, without any evidence that the…
20-436 Thomas Haugabook v. Walter Bery, Warden Georgia Denied Response Waived child-molestation child-testimony criminal-defense expert-testimony forensic-interview habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Habeas Court err in not finding that trial counsel was ineffective under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) when counsel failed to …
20-446 James W. Richards, IV v. Barbara M. Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Armed Forces Denied Response Waived article-i article-i-courts article-iii article-iii-courts collateral-claims federal-courts jurisdictional-issue military-courts military-law military-prisoners Should military-specific collateral claims raised by military prisoners still subject to military law be adjudicated in the specialized, experienced A…
20-455 Daniel Carpenter v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process fifth-amendment post-indictment-delay post-verdict-delay pre-indictment-delay sentencing-delay sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the Government's prosecution of the Petitioner violated his Sixth Amendment right to a Speedy Trial and/or his Fifth Amendment right to Due Pr…
20-460 Richard E. Boggs v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-determination due-process fifth-amendment irs property-seizure tax-liability withholding-certificate Did the IRS deprive the petitioner of his Constitutional Fifth Amendment right to due process?
20-462 Jesse Louis Kaiser v. Anthony R. Morfitt, Assistant United States Attorney Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process foreign-state personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Jurisdiction-challenge
20-487 Ho Wong Jeong v. Angel Cabrera, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion motion precedent pro-se rule-60 standing supreme-court-precedent Did the district court act contrary to SCOTUS precedents in denying appellant's pro se Rule 60(b)(3) motion on untimeliness without oral argument?
20-501 M. Christine Shaffer, as Executrix of the Estate of Adelaide Chuckrow v. Geoffrey E. Snyder, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Revenue Massachusetts Denied Response Waived due-process estate-tax income-interest marital-deduction predeceased-spouse trust Can a state impose an estate tax on the termination of an income interest in a trust
20-5118 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ancient-writs appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process jurisdiction post-conviction-relief procedural-constraints standing statutory-interpretation Do Pennsylvania appellate courts have the authority and jurisdiction to review and grant petitions of ancient writs ex statutory constraints?
20-5600 Jason Lee Harris v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure court-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-rights relief-petition standing statutory-interpretation When Preponderance of the Evidence Suffices Inference and Courts Judicial Notice
20-5602 Robyn Jill Farrington v. U.S. Bank Trust N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-court equitable-powers fraud mortgage-foreclosure proof-of-claim res-judicata Rooker-Feldman-doctrine Whether claims of fraud in a mortgage foreclosure action are barred by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and res judicata
20-5608 Michael Jonathon Besoyan v. Jimmy Yee, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-access jury-trial pro-se-litigant void-orders Whether any court or tribunal should be allowed to deny or deprive any citizen of basic rights listed in the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment
20-5616 Zachary Knotts v. West Virginia West Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP bench-trial competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-disposition mental-competency proof-standard trial-jurisdiction if-defendant-not-competent-to-stand-trial
20-5624 Juan Francisco Vega v. Chad Poppell, Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families Eleventh Circuit Dismissed IFP §2254-petition certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-discretion extraordinary-circumstances false-imprisonment habeas-corpus sexually-violent-predator successive-petitions whether-jurists-could-debate-abuse-of-discretion
20-5626 Monte Whitehead v. New Mexico New Mexico Denied IFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining state-vs-federal-law Where New Mexico's anti-waiver statute violates double jeopardy
20-5627 Justin Woodard v. New York New York Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions
20-5631 Riggin Valley v. Texas Texas Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel due to counsel's failure to investigate and present exculpatory evidence
20-5633 Darren M. Rowe v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence daubert-standard district-court due-process evidence-analysis expert-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-error new-evidence schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Whether the district court committed legal error when it determined that the newly presented evidence does not qualify for consideration under the act…
20-5634 Stephen F. Snow v. California California Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-5641 Steven Turbi v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights counsel-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-standard strickland Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Petitioner's claims regarding allegations of counsel being ineffective according to t…
20-5642 Christopher Wooten v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the court erred in denying petitioner's motion to dismiss the indictment
20-5675 Robert Trevino v. E. Dotson, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas intentional-oversight judicial-procedure legal-interpretation procedural-rules standing supreme-court Did the 14th Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of the Supreme Court's supervisory p…
20-5678 Charise L. Logan v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cia-testing civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech frivolous-law government-conspiracy jurisdictional-law standing systematic-oppression Did the lower courts fail to properly review the appellant's complaint and detect federal jurisdictional law violations?
20-5712 Marcus Vernell Coleman v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance new-trial prejudice right-of-confrontation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal apply the correct legal standard in accordance to Strickland's prejudicial prong when petitioner(s) righ…
20-5722 Stanley J. Carter v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest speedy-trial state-law Does a Criminal defendant have a Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Protection against the arbitrary deprivation by a state of one's State created li…
20-5736 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-counsel fla-r-app-p-9-141(d) habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-review pro-se-litigant standing writ-of-review Does the United States Supreme Court have the authority to review the underlying merits of an issue when the action being challenged is a petition for…
20-5790 Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-finding prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica…
20-5803 Raymond Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment petition-for-review standing state-court supreme-court-rules Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decide on a constitutional question that conflicts with a decision of another state court and the Supreme Court Rul…
20-5833 Scott Francis Fortier v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2251 child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-vagueness mens-rea sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct specific-intent vagueness-doctrine Does creating a visual depiction of sexual conduct of a minor need to be the dominant or specific purpose; one of the dominant or specific purposes; o…
20-5836 Rosie Diggles v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process external-document judicial-procedure mandatory-supervision oral-pronouncement pronouncement sentencing special-conditions Is the Court required to orally pronounce special conditions and give reasons for those special condition, as a condition of mandatory supervision, at…
20-5841 Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-standard prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica…
20-5844 Horacio Santamaria, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights due-process grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the government's unavailing defense of the indefensible with respect to the indictment, inadequate jury instructions, prosecutorial misconduct…
20-5850 Aaron Keith Avery v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-questioning border-patrol civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint martinez-fuerte programmatic-purpose united-states-v-martinez-fuerte Does the Border Patrol's unfettered and arbitrary questioning of those stopped at an immigration checkpoint to ferret out crime go beyond the limited …
20-5851 John Christopher Badgett v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness 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…
20-5853 Ubaldo Gabriel Acosta-Leyva v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-guidelines drug-offense due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentence produced by the drug guideline, §2D1.1, is not entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal
20-5854 Trumaine Muller v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses intervening-act jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error proximate-cause Whether the trial court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the government had to prove mens rea as to each drug offense and th…
20-5855 In Re Ruben Orlando Benitez Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-authority civil-procedure court-procedure due-process judicial-oversight judicial-recusal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-precedent new-evidence recusal standing Whether the Court committed errors therein arising from oversight
20-5857 Alimamy Barrie v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3582 criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a post-sentencing clarifying guideline amendment is applicable to a defendant
20-5861 Alijah Jaquez Mitchell v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime weapons-offense Whether a Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
20-5862 Markey Antonio Goldston v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process government-overreach plea-agreement plea-bargaining Is a defendant's right to due process of law violated when the government requires an appeal waiver as part of a plea agreement?
20-5864 Peter George Noe v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts finality habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction standard-of-review standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of appellate jurisdiction
20-5865 John Doe #1 v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process sentencing supervision-conditions vagueness Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in imposing a vague communication condition of supervision that unfairly impacts the defendant's int…
20-5868 Manuel Acosta-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP in a run-of-the-mill drug smuggling case between is a participant who had a managerial role in the criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-smuggling drug-trafficking managerial-role mexico-united-states-border mexico-us-relations minor-role participant-classification role-adjustment role-in-offense sentencing-guidelines Whether a participant with a managerial role is excluded from being considered an 'average participant' for USSG § 3B1.2 minor role comparison
20-5871 Derrick Lenard Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 attempt bodily-injury borden-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(8)(A) includes all offenses that require an attempt to inflict bodily injury?
20-5872 Jesus Sanchez-Chacon v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination 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 …
20-5873 Tario Stamps v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP binding-precedent due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness judicial-review meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
20-5877 Demetrius Cherilus Morancy v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3013 criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute legal-procedure offenses-against-the-united-states sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation Whether the special assessment required by 18 U.S.C. Section 3013 applies to all offenses or only offenses against the United States
20-5878 Renard Cortez Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness judicial-review meaningful-review panel-order precedent second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
20-5879 Michael Matthew Phillips v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence felon-in-possession firearm-evidence rule-404b rules-of-evidence witness-testimony Whether evidence that a defendant walked with a person to a public place where the other person retrieved a firearm is sufficient to show that the def…
20-5880 Deepak Deshpande v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction meaningful-access statutory-interpretation transcript Whether the petitioner's right to meaningful access to the courts and meaningful appeal of a criminal conviction was violated by the lower courts' den…
20-5881 Jose Vincente Lira-Ramirez v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect noncitizen-rights notice removal removal-proceedings unlawful-reentry Does the Due Process Clause permit a noncitizen to be convicted under 8 U.S.C. § 1326 for unlawful reentry into the United States if the noncitizen wa…
20-5882 Omero Nino-Guerrero v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
20-5885 Mario Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing legal-representation settlement-agreement Question not identified
20-5889 In Re Jesus Anaya Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-standard standard-of-review Whether trial and appellate counsel's inadequate representation constituted constructive denial of counsel
20-5890 Willie R. Benton, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process mistake-of-fact relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-circuit Is a criminal defendant denied Due Process of Law when the sentencing Court in a drug conspiracy case determines that a quantity of a substance should…
20-5891 Mauricio Alvarez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment mens-rea negligence seaman's-manslaughter-statute statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness subjective-interpretation void-for-vagueness Whether the Seaman's Manslaughter Statute, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1115, is unconstitutionally vague
20-5894 Jorge Eduardo Nava v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-liability criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof unrelated-offense Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause require a heightened standard of proof to dramatically increase a criminal defendant's prison sentence f…
20-5900 Fane R. Sellers, et al. v. Wyoming, et al. Wyoming Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection good-behavior government-accountability judicial-procedure jurisdiction unbiased-judge When the inferior District Court failed and/or refused to initiate or commence the action by issuing the summons as required by Wyoming Rules of Civil…
20-5903 Christopher Younger v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing-law prison-sentence reasonableness-review sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 120-month prison sentence
20-5905 Travon Jarvel Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence rule-412 rule-608b sex-trafficking sixth-amendment witness-impeachment Whether evidence of prior prostitution activity that is inadmissible under Rule 412 of the Federal Rules of Evidence to rebut a claim of sex trafficki…
20-5909 David Conerly v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-review judicial-review ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Did the Ninth Circuit err by mining the district record to uphold an upward adjustment to petitioner's offense level under the Sentencing Guidelines?
20-5910 Robert Coleman v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation What constitutes relevant conduct?
20-5912 Adam Alan Henry v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-2256 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment overbreadth sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether the definition of 'sexually explicit conduct' in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) is vague, ambiguous, overbroad and a violation of due process
20-5913 Bradley M. Cox v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards factors-for-detention presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention release-conditions witness-testimony Whether the lower courts used the provisions of the Bail Reform Act in a manner contrary to the constitutional right to bail?
20-5918 Leonard F. Locke, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights defense-counsel due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search Question not identified
20-5925 Roberto Mendoza-Sanchez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings service-of-process statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear that did not …
20-5926 Rolando Candia v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) carjacking carjacking-statute crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law intimidation sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the federal carjacking statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2119, qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
20-5928 Rick Lee Archer v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due process vagueness challenges to …
20-5929 Tommy Lee Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2g2.2(b)(5) burden-of-proof criminal-procedure offense-conduct police-report restitution sentencing-guidelines shepard-standard shepard-v-united-states unreliable-evidence Can the government utilize an unreliable nearly thirty (30) year old police report to satisfy its burden the sentencing guideline five (5) level enhan…
20-5930 Diego Palacios-Villalon v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure culpability drug-trafficking judicial-discretion mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines Does a defendant have the sole obligation in the establishment of these elements or does the trial judge have a duty to inquire into them?
20-5933 Junior Griffin v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-exclusion impeachment-evidence right-to-present-evidence supervisory-power wiretap-evidence wiretapping Whether the defendant was denied his constitutional right to present a complete defense
20-5936 Mark Phillip Carter, II v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split factual-objections judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure undue-influence Whether the undue influence enhancement in USSG § 2G1.3(b)(2)(B) should be expanded
20-5937 Rosa Enedia Pazos Cingari v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law authority commentary federal-sentencing guideline-commentary inconsistency judicial-interpretation legal-authority sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether United States Sentencing Guideline Commentary which adds to a sentencing guideline is necessarily inconsistent with the guideline such that th…
20-5940 Sabrina Alexander Weightman v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond writ-of-certiorari Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
20-5942 John Tran v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-error rule-41 search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant-validity Whether the First Circuit erroneously applied the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule
20-5946 Roberto Antoine Darden v. Barbara Von Blanckensee, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disciplinary-notice district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest prisoner-rights procedural-grounds qualified-immunity Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision that due process was satisfied because the officer's act was 'above the norm' conflicts with other appellate cour…
20-5947 Craig Martin Shults v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-115 criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidence-admissibility federal-judge federal-rules-of-evidence federal-statute federal-threat subsequent-act-evidence Whether subsequent act evidence of additional threats is admissible in an 18 U.S.C. § 115(a)(1)(B) prosecution for threatening a federal judge when th…
20-5948 Christopher Michael Sevier v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault borden-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court texas-law violent-crime Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2?
20-5953 Alex Lenard McCoy v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP andrus-v-texas certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance discovery due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255 sixth-amendment Was trial counsel ineffective in his directive to advise McCoy to plead guilty by failing to review the government's discovery in violation of this co…
20-5956 Tracy Lynn Cope v. Randy Lee, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-trial due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review Whether the Sixth Circuit's property applied the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) in denying Petition relief where in the…
20-5957 Darius Taurean Caldwell v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence sentencing Why was the accused Andrey Paneer described with code names and not have his real name used?
20-5960 Joe Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement maryland-v-buie probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure standard-procedure Does a protective sweep of person's entire residence by law enforcement officers pursuant to 'standard procedure' upon their entry when serving an arr…
20-5961 Lemar Gant v. Brian Williams, Sr., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice state-court-review strickland-v-washington witness-investigation Whether the Ninth Circuit erroneously concluded Gant could not establish ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
20-5962 Erik Diaz-Colon v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights-conspiracy constitutional-rights constructive-amendment deprivation-of-rights ineffective-assistance plea-agreement right-to-testify trial-counsel Whether petitioner's trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance
20-5967 John Elisha Mayville v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history-check dog-sniff fourth-amendment officer-safety out-of-state-plates reasonable-suspicion tenth-circuit traffic-stop Whether an officer can conduct unrelated investigations during a traffic stop
20-5969 Robert Dinkins v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif vacate the judgement below certiorari criminal-law criminal-participation due-process gun-buy-program illegal-guns non-profit-organization police-department public-announcement rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation Whether the Court should grant Certiorari, vacate the judgement below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Cts 2…
20-5971 Gregory D. Crosby v. Bill True, Warden Tenth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure petition-for-writ remedies standing statutory-provisions whether-the-court-erred-in-dismissing-the-petitioner's-claims
20-5980 Anthony Brawner, aka Anthony Barber v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure court-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-standard standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Can a valid claim of subject-matter jurisdiction ever come under a procedural bar?
20-5983 Omar Sierre Folk v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines career-offender criminal-procedure guidelines habeas-corpus pre-beckles section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in not addressing Erroneous Career Offender Designation under the Advisory Sentencing Guidelines Cognizable under 28 U…
20-5988 Ziyad Yaghi v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel gvr plea-process sixth-amendment Whether this Court should GVR the lower court's decision denying a Certificate of Appealability
20-5995 Edwin Virgilio Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Gomez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
20-5999 Sonya Porter v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP continuous-crime criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment plea-bargaining prosecution welfare-fraud Where a state criminal rule allows for dismissal of a case on the merits rather than via conviction or acquittal, is this sufficient to trigger protec…
20-6003 Alvin Celius Andre v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict criminal-procedure entrapment government-intervention jacobson-v-united-states jury-instruction predisposition ready-willingness Whether the Eleventh Circuit's Entrapment Jury Instruction is in Conflict With Jacobson v. United States, 503 U.S. 540 (1992) and the Majority of the …
20-6006 Terrance Leon Washington v. Crystal Willett, Superintendent, Meherrin River Regional Jail Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-conviction How can law enforcement's warrantless search and seizure with fraudulent search warrants and issue a wrong indictment
20-6009 Lamar Thornton v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act due-process in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-leave-to-proceed-in-forma-pauperis petition-for-writ-of-certiorari pro-se-filing sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
20-6079 In Re Dale McKenzie Denied IFP constitutional-violation conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-error trial-court-discretion unconstitutional-law void-conviction Has prejudice been shown where the trial court overruled the defendant's motion for continuance to show that his prior Georgia conviction was void, an…
20-86 Charles Daniels, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Ronald Ross Ninth Circuit Denied but never mentioned in his original federal habeas petition to supply th civil-procedure court-order federal-habeas federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus habeas-petition mayle-v-felix relation-back statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(c) permits a habeas petitioner to rely on a state court order appended to, but never mentioned in, his original federal hab…
20A56 Pamela M. Timbes v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Georgia Presumed Complete None
20M34 Eric C. Darden v. City of Fort Worth, Texas Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M35 Jeff Kitchen v. BASF Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M36 Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None