| 19-1290 |
Michael T. Bennett v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
admissions-of-guilt character-design civil-procedure copyright-infringement damages defamation discovery intellectual-property plagiarism poor-man's-copyright standing |
If the Court finds that the Marvel Character 'Falcon' in the 2014 Captain America The Winter Soldier movie looks strikingly similar from the neck down… |
| 19-1341 |
Richard A. Van Auken, as Trustee and Beneficiary v. Fletcher R. Catron, et al. |
New Mexico |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-property fraud fraudulent-taking judicial-denial judicial-determination judicial-review litigation-history property-rights trust trust-contract |
Whether the refusal of New Mexico State Courts to provide a final judicial determination of trust contract meaning and effect, a fact central to provi… |
| 19-1371 |
Roger Dean Waldner v. Bradley R. Hartke, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction judicial-admissions judicial-power jurisdictional-error rule-60(b)(4) standing void-judgment |
Is a district court's exercise of Article III judicial power over a non-controversy a rare instance of jurisdictional error that renders its judgment … |
| 19-1374 |
Arturo Fernando Shaw Gutierrez v. California |
California |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
electronic-communications electronic-privacy exceptions-to-warrantless-searches fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protection-electronic-communicati law-enforcement-search miller-doctrine privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy stored-communications-act suppression warrant-requirement warrantless-searches |
Does the Fourth Amendment protect individuals who send or receive stored electronic communications (emails) as provided under federal law through the … |
| 19-140 |
Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-review remand remand-order removal standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the appellate court has jurisdiction to review the entire remand order or only the portion addressing particular issues |
| 19-1408 |
James Coppedge, et ux. v. Janet Z. Charlton |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint civil-rights-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction pleadings procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the District Court review of the facial sufficiency of 42 USC § 1983 and § 1985 complaint below ignored the requirements of FRCP Rule 12(c) |
| 19-1421 |
Michael Wilford LaFlamme v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony judicial-discretion jury-selection jury-selection-bias law-enforcement law-enforcement-bias trial-procedure voir-dire |
Was Petitioner Prejudiced When Several Prospective Jurors Withheld Crucial Information Pertaining To Employment As Law Enforcement When Asked During V… |
| 19-1430 |
Richard Polidi v. Michelle K. Lee, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
absolute-immunity brady-v-maryland civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ethics-prosecution exculpatory-evidence federal-circuit-jurisdiction fifth-amendment immunity qualified-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Fifth Amendment provides a remedy for ethics violations |
| 19-1463 |
Sandra Jean Oliver v. James C. Oliver, Jr., et al. |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion chancery-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction recusal rule-60 standing void-judgment |
Whether four orders issued by the chancery court, when the court did not have jurisdiction over the Petitioners, should be held as void and vacated pu… |
| 19-1477 |
Philip Chi Yan Man v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 19-8317 |
Mitchell Taebel v. Douglas A. Ducey, Governor of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
arbitrary-authority civil-rights due-process free-speech retaliation standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for violation of their constitutional rights, including due process, free speec… |
| 19-8420 |
Charles Wilson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion trial-court-discretion witness-testimony |
Whether the trial court abused its discretion when it excluded several jurors for failing to follow the voir dire process |
| 19-8425 |
Chayce Aaron Anderson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process fair-trial jailhouse-informant jury-trial prejudicial-evidence |
Whether the district court erred in limiting the scope of cross-examination of a jailhouse informant, denying the defendant's constitutional right to … |
| 19-8435 |
Jerome Lemeal Williams v. Wendy Duffy, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel equal-protection judicial-bias procedural-due-process speedy-trial unlawful-touching |
Whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's civil rights by affirming the district court's ruling |
| 19-8457 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Alice Neece Mine, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process gun-control legislative-authority public-safety |
Whether the state's law prohibiting the sale of assault weapons violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms |
| 19-8461 |
Monica Karina Paz-Tejeda v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
| 19-8501 |
Jimmy L. Livingston v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights collateral-attack due-process jurisdiction standing void-or-voidable |
Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court abused its discretion or committed reversible error in denying further review of the Nebraska Court of Appeals' dec… |
| 19-8538 |
Jeffrey W. Smiles v. Berks County, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-taking civil-rights constitutional-authority due-process eminent-domain property-rights standing stare-decisis takings |
Can a political subdivision take private property without due process? |
| 19-8585 |
Van Jackson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure due-process federal-prisoner post-conviction-relief procedural-law rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal prisoner has a right to present an argument based on a change in procedural law on his first motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 19-8609 |
Madhu Sameer v. Sameer Khera, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights damages declarative-relief district-court due-process injunctive-relief legal-malpractice standing unconstitutional-judgment void-judgments |
Whether District Court's Characterisation of a suit seeking injunctive, declarative relief and damages against making of Unconstitutional and Void Jud… |
| 19-8634 |
Tehib Mahiem El Bey, fka Tevan Jamall Brown v. Doughtery County State Court |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights de-jure-citizenship due-process federal-questions free-speech legal-jurisdiction natural-rights organic-constitution standing statutory-ordinance |
Can the De Jure American citizen be punished by fine or imprisonment for exercising a Constitutional right? |
| 19-8635 |
Kenneth Brown v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Should a court be allowed to deny the withdrawal of a defendant's guilty plea when it is clear the plea was not entered voluntarily and with an unders… |
| 19-8739 |
Carl Womack v. Johanna Finkelstein, Assistant Clerk, Superior Court of North Carolina, Buncombe County |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct medicaid medicaid-recovery standing unauthorized-judgment |
Did a Martin Reidinger, district court judge rule against a US SUPREME COURT decision known as the Olmstead Act, and does his ruling contradict anothe… |
| 19-8749 |
Paul Anthony Crayton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-rights constitutional-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-review legal-procedure privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government's warrantless search and seizure of a person's cell phone location data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unre… |
| 19-8796 |
Gary Daniel Rodgers v. R. McIntyre, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-filing due-process evidence legal-equivalence motion motion-to-release notice-of-appeal procedural-requirements |
Whether Petitioner's timely filed 'Motion and Order to Release Evidence' satisfies the requirements as a functional equivalent of a Notice of Appeal |
| 19-8798 |
Rafeeq Salahuddin v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections |
Arizona |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal-rights batson-rule civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection legal-procedure retroactivity |
Whether a State Court of last resort has power to destroy a defendant's Constitutional right to trial by jury whose members are selected by non-discri… |
| 19-8852 |
Madhu Sameer v. Sameer Khera |
California |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights document-access due-process judicial-misconduct section-1983 standing transcript transcript-denial |
Whether dismissal of appeal for refusal of the lower courts to provide designated records and transcripts for appeal constitutes deprivation of civil-… |
| 19-8862 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Total Visa, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be gran… |
| 19-8930 |
Reginald L. Dunahue v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prison-conditions qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should review the discretion of the U.S. District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals in dismissing the petitioner's cl… |
| 20-111 |
Walter N. Strand, III v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-law board-discretion civilian-oversight due-process judicial-review military-records separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Secretary of the Navy is 'acting through' the Board for Correction of Naval Records as required by statute when he reweighs evidence and s… |
| 20-142 |
Michael Skidmore, as Trustee for the Randy Craig Wolfe Trust v. Led Zeppelin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
copyright-act copyright-act-of-1909 copyright-protection deposit-requirement musical-works ninth-circuit originality selection-and-arrangement sheet-music tangible-medium |
Whether musical works under the Copyright Act of 1909 are protected as created and fixed in a tangible medium, or limited to sheet music deposits |
| 20-17 |
Wade Robertson v. Richard A. Honn, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-1963 civil-procedure constitutional-challenge federal-judgment-registration federal-preemption fraud-on-court judgment-registration registration-court rendering-court state-proceeding void-judgment younger-abstention |
Whether a registration court, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1963, has the power to amend or annul the judgment of the rendering court so registered |
| 20-184 |
Jamel Ellerbee v. Annett Holdings, Inc., dba TMC Transportation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
29-cfr-1987-110-b 49-usc-31105 administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act commercial-motor-vehicle due-process employee-retaliation equal-protection judicial-review statutory-construction transportation |
Whether statutory construction of 49 U.S.C. § 31105 conflicts with judicial review, 29 C.F.R. § 1987.110(b), of the Administrative Procedure Act? |
| 20-237 |
Old Republic Home Protection Company, Inc. v. William B. Sparks, et al. |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
|
appellate-court-decisions federal-arbitration-act insurance-contracts interstate-commerce mccarran-ferguson-act preemption reverse-preemption state-arbitration-statute |
Whether a state arbitration statute that excludes insurance contracts from its scope can qualify as a 'law enacted by [a] State for the purpose of reg… |
| 20-240 |
Kentucky v. Larry Lamont White |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
atkins-v-virginia atkins-waiver capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a capital defendant can waive a claim of intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia |
| 20-253 |
Christopher Castagna, et al. v. Harry Jean, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
|
community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-sanctity police-intrusion qualified-immunity sanctity-of-home search-and-seizure warrantless-entry |
Whether the community caretaking exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applies to warrantless, unconsented-to entries by police offi… |
| 20-27 |
Jennifer Paskert v. Kemna-ASA Auto Plaza, Inc., dba Auto Smart of Spirit Lake, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard sexual-harassment title-vii |
Whether sexual harassment is unlawful under Title VII if a reasonable person would conclude the harassment created a hostile environment, or only if t… |
| 20-273 |
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Rovi Guides, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Dismissed |
|
administrative-law administrative-patent-judges agency-adjudication appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation inferior-officers judicial-review patent-judges principal-officers separation-of-powers united-states-patent-and-trademark-office |
Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause |
| 20-296 |
Christina V. Le v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act breach-of-contract civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-adjudication judicial-review retaliation settlement-agreement title-vii |
Whether an employee is entitled to file suit for breach of settlement agreement as discrimination or retaliation under Title VII |
| 20-311 |
Deborah Walton v. First Merchant's Bank |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction |
Whether the Appellants' 14th Amendment rights were violated when she was not afforded the right to respond to the Appellee's motion for Attorney fees |
| 20-320 |
Jane Doe, et vir, Individually and as the Natural Parents and Next of Kin of Minor Doe v. Jackson Local School District Board of Education, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-duty deliberate-indifference deshaney-exception due-process state-created-danger supreme-court-review |
Whether DeShaney v. Winnebago Cty. Dep't of Soc. Servs. created the exception of the State Created Danger Test? |
| 20-37 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Charles Gresham, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-discretion civil-rights demonstration-projects health-care-coverage medicaid medicaid-demonstration-projects statutory-interpretation work-requirements |
Whether the Secretary may authorize demonstration projects to test requirements designed to promote the provision of health-care coverage by facilitat… |
| 20-375 |
In Re E. Edward Zimmermann |
|
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 20-377 |
Gina Ackerman v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
|
act-91 act-91-notice civil-procedure due-process foreclosure judicial-review legal-procedure notice property-rights sheriff's-sale |
Whether the lower court erred in denying the petition to set aside sheriff's sale where the plaintiff's Act 91 notice was defective and premature? |
| 20-379 |
Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s London v. Brighton Collectibles, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
abstention civil-damages comity due-process federalism insurance-policy invasion-of-privacy ninth-circuit privacy-rights song-beverly-act song-beverly-credit-card-act |
Whether the Ninth Circuit violated federalism, abstention, and comity by creating new law when it refused to follow California's precedence establishi… |
| 20-38 |
Arkansas v. Charles Gresham, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-discretion experimental-projects health-benefits health-policy medicaid medicaid-expansion secretary-of-health-and-human-services social-welfare statutory-interpretation work-requirements |
Whether the Secretary's approval of the Arkansas Works Amendment was lawful |
| 20-381 |
Hamilton County Job and Family Services, et al. v. Joseph Siefert, et ux. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 child-services circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process medical-care qualified-immunity state-action state-actor |
Did the Sixth Circuit err in its qualified-immunity analysis? |
| 20-389 |
Peter J. Schaffer, et al. v. Joey Long |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-review bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver waiver-of-rights |
Does a full litigation of the merits of a personal jurisdictional challenge sufficiently preserve the issue for full review on appeal? |
| 20-392 |
Fatmata Kamara v. New Jersey, Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of State Police |
New Jersey |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-rights collective-bargaining conscientious-employee-protection-act due-process employment-discrimination employment-law law-against-discrimination police-misconduct state-police-procedure time-bar |
Termination-without-due-process |
| 20-393 |
Alex Rahmi v. Pill & Pill, PLLC |
West Virginia |
Denied |
|
asset-liquidation bankruptcy-fraud class-action due-process federal-rules foreclosure-fraud foreclosure-scheme retaliation whistleblower-protection |
What legal issues are being raised? |
| 20-394 |
David Alan Schum v. Fortress Value Recovery Fund I, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-precedent officers-of-the-court rule-60 stare-decisis time-bar |
Whether a claim brought under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(d)(3) as a result of fraud on the court can be time-barred |
| 20-396 |
Sheri Speer v. Michael Tieger, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
abstention abstention-doctrine abuse-of-process bankruptcy-code circuit-split civil-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy legal-precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Is the Second Circuit's decision in conflict with In re: Matthew N. Murray (Wilk Auslender LLP v Murray), Popular Auto, Inc. v. Reyes-Colon (In re Rey… |
| 20-398 |
Mary Strong v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
chain-of-title mortgage-foreclosure mortgage-holder mortgage-note oregon-trust-deed-act original-note property-rights robo-signed-assignments robo-signing unlawful-lockouts |
Did the Trial and Appellate Courts Err |
| 20-403 |
Jose Edward Valentin, et al. v. California |
California |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-code vagueness zoning zoning-ordinance |
Whether Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.51.020 (A)(1)(e) is unconstitutional |
| 20-404 |
In Re John Masiz |
|
Denied |
|
5th-amendment article-ii article-iii civil-rights consent-decree due-process fifth-amendment securities-law sua-sponte |
Whether the federal court exceeded its Article III authority by initiating a sua sponte investigation into a defendant's compliance with a consent dec… |
| 20-412 |
Mark Stanford Katzman v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
|
digital-privacy digital-trespass fourth-amendment police-impersonation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing standing-to-challenge trespass |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the police to undetectably impersonate the owner of a phone via text message, and arrest another person by means … |
| 20-413 |
Jozlyn Thomas v. James Scott Blevins |
California |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment beneficiary-rights civil-procedure constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirements trust trust-administration |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments void a trial court order approving a trust account and distribution between trustee and beneficiary withou… |
| 20-419 |
Stephen Robert Deck v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment attempt attempt-offense custodial-arrest due-process jury-instructions jury-unanimity right-to-counsel search-warrant temporal-element unanimity |
Whether the temporal direct step element of an attempt offense may be changed by jury instructions |
| 20-428 |
Horacio Sequeira v. Republic of Nicaragua, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
arbitration-clause breach-of-contract choice-of-forum choice-of-law commercial-arbitration commercial-contract contract-validity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdiction jurisdiction-waiver motion-to-dismiss |
Whether the proper procedure for a district court to follow in FSIA breach of contract cases is to apply the FSIA to avoid converting a Motion to Dism… |
| 20-438 |
Tatiana Reiter, et al. v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
Denied |
|
affordable-housing constitutional-protections constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment marital-property property-rights takings tenancy-by-entirety |
Whether a temporary, notwithstanding extended, absence by one spouse from a marital residence justifies a court ordered termination of a tenancy by th… |
| 20-439 |
Mantissa Corporation v. Ondot Systems, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-exception fact-finding patent-eligibility pre-emption section-101 technical-field |
Does the Alice exception to patent-eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 improperly cover inventions that improve another technology or technical field? |
| 20-44 |
In Re David A. Golden |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process false-claims-act free-speech judicial-discretion rule-of-law standing |
Whether the 9th Circuit and Western Washington District Court have abused their discretion |
| 20-445 |
Matthew Anderson v. John Bonnewell, et al. |
Delaware |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights correctional-officers due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force intent prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Whether a trial court can disregard the Whitley-factors in an Eighth-Amendment-excessive-force case |
| 20-447 |
Francisco Rodriguez-Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice petition-for-certiorari post-conviction-relief procedural-error section-2255 sentence-enhancement |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that Rodriguez's erroneous sentence enhancement as a career offender was not a miscarriage of justice entit… |
| 20-451 |
Jane Doe, Individually and as Parent and Guardian of Baby Doe, et al. v. Merck & Co., Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
citizens-action civil-rights due-process fda-licensing fda-regulation primary-jurisdiction standing thimerosal vaccine-act vaccine-injury vaccine-mandate |
Whether courts should extend the precedent of Jacobson v. Massachusetts to require that a mandated vaccine be necessary, harm-avoidant, proportional a… |
| 20-461 |
United States, ex rel., Charles W. Houpt v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accountability false-claims-act fraud fraudulent-conduct government-intervention qui-tam-relator relator sba-guarantee statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that a three year statute of limitations applied |
| 20-463 |
Robert A. Heghmann v. Democratic National Committee, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
candidate-rights civil-rights congressional-elections congressional-primaries democratic-party election-law political-parties racial-discrimination standing voter-standing voting-rights |
Does a voter have standing to challenge racial discrimination by the Democratic Party in Congressional Primary Elections? |
| 20-465 |
Young County, Texas, et al. v. Nichole Sanchez, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 bell-v-wolfish civil-rights conditions-of-confinement judicial-management monell-v-dept-of-soc-servs municipal-liability pretrial-detainee respondeat-superior section-1983 |
Has the Fifth Circuit violated the dictates of Monell and its progeny by exposing Young County to liability based on a theory of respondeat superior? |
| 20-467 |
Arthur Talbot, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-preclusion covid-19-pandemic foreclosure-fraud homeowner-rights judicial-procedure mortgage-electronic-registration-system mortgage-relief res-judicata standing |
Whether the Sixth Circuit has negated the relief it otherwise affords in Conlin to homeowners whose homes have been foreclosed through fraudulent mean… |
| 20-494 |
The Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College v. Stephen M. Gruver, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-i-spending-power article-one-powers civil-damages civil-rights-remedies-equalization-act eleventh-amendment federal-funds sovereign-immunity spending-power title-ix |
Can Congress, in the exercise of Article I Spending Power, unilaterally expand federal judicial power for private civil damages actions asserted again… |
| 20-5045 |
In Re Daniel H. Jones |
|
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction judicial-review mandamus standing state-law writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition |
Would the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus be justified |
| 20-5046 |
In Re Daniel H. Jones |
|
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure extraordinary-writs judicial-review mandamus prohibition sovereign-immunity state-law supervisory-power writ-of-prohibition |
Would the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus be justified where the petitioner's circumstances could aid this court in supervising an a… |
| 20-5047 |
In Re Daniel H. Jones |
|
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus prohibition sovereign-immunity standing state-law writ-of-prohibition |
Whether the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus would be justified |
| 20-5069 |
Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Banco Santander Puerto Rico |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process evidence-disregard fair-credit-reporting-act judicial-misconduct pro-se-representation public-interest standing supreme-court-rules |
Whether verifiable evidence has no importance and the one with more money is correct, no matter evidence shows is completely wrong |
| 20-5132 |
Antwan R. Cray v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Medium |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-innocence criminal-law due-process factual-innocence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-innocence rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Petitioner is actually, factually, legally, and lawfully innocent of his Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) conviction |
| 20-5172 |
Darrell Henry Williams v. Joe Coakley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-statutes due-process federal-procedure mandatory-minimums physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether reckless-conduct-resulting-in-injury satisfies the 'use-of-physical-force' element of the career-offender-sentencing-guideline |
| 20-5229 |
Arthur Lopez v. Costa Mesa Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech |
Should the obsence + Probable Guar onal Che absence f over beasonalte Ausp tion ino Warns tleay Mep f Petitioner, his dour Wino oh Adee, and vetiule B… |
| 20-5230 |
Arthur Lopez v. Newport Beach Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the seizure and warrantless search of a vehicle and its contents, including a cell phone, violates the Fourth Amendment rights of the vehicle'… |
| 20-5232 |
Iris Lamarr Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing state-courts |
Whether Petitioner was denied fundamental process in state and federal powers resolution of the claim |
| 20-525 |
Harold E. Rutila, IV v. Department of Transportation |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit hearing-waiver johnson-v-zerbst merit-systems-protection-board statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board violated Petitioner's due process rights |
| 20-526 |
Jason M. Blackburn v. United States |
Armed Forces |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment child-pornography criminal-procedure digital-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception military-justice probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding the good faith exception applied to the search and seizure of Petitioner's computer? |
| 20-5264 |
Lakento Brian Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing first-step-act guideline-range mandatory-minimum post-sentencing-conduct resentencing sentence-reduction sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Should the district court have held a hearing to consider petitioner's post-sentencing conduct and any other arguments before ruling on the motion? |
| 20-528 |
Nicholas S. Baas v. United States |
Armed Forces |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confrontation-clause court-martial daubert-standard due-process scientific-evidence sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict |
Whether a military servicemember's Sixth Amendment and due process rights are violated by allowing a conviction for non-capital offenses by a general … |
| 20-531 |
Derek Hutter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability |
| 20-5314 |
Jared Stubblefield v. Dorothy Brown, Clerk, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing |
Whether a plaintiff is allowed to receive an 'attorney fee' when filing a civil action for deprivation of rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983? |
| 20-5324 |
In Re Jeremiah Ybarra |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial false-evidence false-statements false-testimony law-enforcement warrant-validity |
Was the petitioner innocent of the alleged offense? |
| 20-533 |
Jeffrey Boudreau, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Wendy Boudreau v. Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
business-invitee daubert daubert-standard expert-testimony foreseeability kumho premises-liability rule-702 summary-judgment |
Whether foreseeability of harm is a factual issue for the jury in a premises liability case |
| 20-5360 |
Reinaldo Dennes v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-evidence brady-violation cause-and-prejudice circuit-split cullen-v-pinholster due-diligence due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus napue-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Should newly discovered Brady/Napue evidence be considered by federal courts or returned to state court? |
| 20-537 |
Jeffrey J. Walker, et al. v. Minnesota Commissioner of Management and Budget |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process exactions just-compensation land-use-permit special-assessments subdivision takings unconstitutional-conditions |
Do States or their agencies or subdivisions have the power to require the waiver of just compensation for land taken by special assessments, exactions… |
| 20-5379 |
Keith Adair Davis v. Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adversarial-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel due-process pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment unsettled-law |
Where a pro se defendant is absent from a criminal trial, whether due to misconduct or voluntary choice, is the trial court constitutionally required … |
| 20-5449 |
Carolyn R. Dawson v. Kevin Pakenham |
Texas |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure forcible-detainer no-evidence-motion property-rights summary-judgment texas-law |
Whether Texas courts have properly distinguished between motions for no-evidence summary judgment and traditional summary judgment in forcible detaine… |
| 20-547 |
Luis Xadiel Cruz Vazquez v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mickens-v-taylor sixth-amendment united-states-v-decologero wheat-v-united-states |
Whether the First Circuit applied a novel, harsher standard for issuing a certificate of appealability, denying due process and effective assistance o… |
| 20-548 |
Jessie Eugene Shelton v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process improper-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-filing prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a pro se filing by petitioner in 2012 to the District Court, alleging ineffective assistance of counsel and an invalid plea would deny a secon… |
| 20-550 |
Heon Jong Yoo, aka Hank Yoo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-924 atf-form-4473 federal-firearms-licensee firearms-licensee firearms-transfer jurisdictional-fact national-of-the-united-states national-status statutory-offense |
Are the instructions on an ATF Form 4473 evidence of a jurisdictional fact such that the jurisdictional element of the statutory offense found at 18 U… |
| 20-552 |
Jeremiah Paige Rice v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech healthcare medical-cannabis probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the detectable odor of burnt cannabis alone, without any other indicators, is sufficient for law enforcement to form probable cause to subject… |
| 20-5520 |
Michael Williamson v. Harold May, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial hearsay hearsay-statements right-to-witnesses sixth-amendment witness-exclusion |
Was Michael Williamson afforded a fair trial and right to confront his accusers or right to witnesses in his favor |
| 20-5523 |
Brian Jury v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus standing statutory-procedure |
Whether the district court's assessment of the petitioner's constitutional claims was debatable or wrong, and whether the habeas corpus petition claim… |
| 20-555 |
Kyle Stephen Thompson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea minor-protection minors purpose-element sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation visual-depiction |
Whether the 'for the purpose of' element of § 2251(a) means the defendant's prevailing or most influential purpose for the sexually explicit conduct w… |
| 20-5562 |
Jeffrey Hessler v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-amendments death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-panel jury-determination post-conviction-relief ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as Ring and Hurst, are violated when eligibility for the death penalty is asserted to be … |
| 20-5581 |
Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-dismissal civil-rights court-of-federal-claims due-process filing-fee indigent indigent-plaintiff procedural-due-process standing title-vii |
Can the U.S. Court of Federal Claims compel an indigent Title VII plaintiff to pay a filing fee when the plaintiff doesn't have money and is financial… |
| 20-5588 |
Joshua Wallace v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-intent duenas-alvarez facial-overbreadth generic-burglary generic-definition intent statutory-interpretation |
Where a state statute explicitly defines 'burglary' in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element nec… |
| 20-5609 |
In Re Gary Wayne Barnes |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights dna-evidence due-process federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction |
Can the claim of Actual innocence be reviewed under a petition for HABEAS CORPUS ON PETITION FOR EXTRAORDANATY WRIT pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 and 2… |
| 20-5619 |
James Allen Minyard v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
competency-hearing due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment harmless-error prejudice structural-error trial-rights |
Whether the trial court violated the petitioner's due process right to a fair trial by failing to hold a competency hearing despite a bona fide doubt … |
| 20-563 |
Harris County, Texas v. PRSI Trading, LLC |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency auer-deference customs-and-border-patrol customs-border-patrol foreign-trade-zones issue-preclusion property-tax regulatory-interpretation tax-exemption |
Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in failing to follow the findings of CBP in its Headquarters Ruling Letters in holding that the foreign trade su… |
| 20-566 |
United States, ex rel. Diana Juan v. Stephen Hauser, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
authority defendant-knowledge failure-to-act medicare medicare-fraud overbilling plausible-claim qui-tam remediation-authority systemic-automated systemic-overbilling |
Must a Qui Tam Relator in a systemic automated Medicare overbilling case specify more than each Defendant's knowledge that the systemic automated syst… |
| 20-568 |
William Geoffroy v. Town of Winchendon, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
29-usc-626 age-discrimination due-process employee-rights employment-law statutory-interpretation voluntary voluntary-consent waiver waiver-validity |
Whether a waiver of age discrimination claims can be found to be voluntary when an employer verbally revokes an employee's twenty-one (21) day review,… |
| 20-570 |
Daniel Cvijanovich v. United States Secret Service |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights criminal-prosecution foia-exemptions freedom-of-information-act judicial-review law-enforcement-exemption law-enforcement-monitoring secret-service-records standard-of-review |
Does FOIA-exemption-(b)(7)(A)-apply-to-monitoring-of-individual |
| 20-572 |
James R. Young v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-penalties felon-in-possession felony-possession firearm-statute firearms habeas-corpus interstate-commerce retroactivity |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires proof of a defendant's knowledge of their felon status or the firearm's interstate commerce connection |
| 20-576 |
Sharon Darlene Lopez v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blood-draw civil-rights consent constitutional-rights driving-privilege due-process fourth-amendment implied-consent search warrantless-search |
Can the State of California condition driving upon its public highways upon a motorist's agreement to surrender Fourth Amendment rights for purposes o… |
| 20-5768 |
RaySean D. Barber v. Todd Wasmer, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel factual-basis information motor-vehicle-operation plea-colloquy proximate-cause |
Was Appellant denied Due Process of Law and Effective Assistance of Counsel? |
| 20-577 |
Moaze Ibrahim v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing |
Question not identified |
| 20-5786 |
William Earl Sweet v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violations eighth-amendment giglio-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-proceedings suspension-clause |
Whether the Eighth Amendment and the Suspension Clause require that an individual have a fair opportunity to show actual-innocence in state-court and … |
| 20-581 |
United States, ex rel. Integra Med Analytics, L.L.C. v. Baylor Scott & White Health, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
3rd-circuit 5th-circuit alternative-explanation alternative-explanations false-claims-act federal-procedure pleading-standards relator statistical-analysis |
Whether a relator may use statistical analyses to plausibly allege the submission of false claims under the False Claims Act |
| 20-5810 |
Ruth Torres v. Marie Diaz, et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-process anti-SLAPP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review whistleblower whistleblower-retaliation |
Is a state anti-SLAPP restriction seeking dismissal within 60 days of the filing of claims (ignoring later legal actions) unconstitutional when the cl… |
| 20-5811 |
Ruth Torres v. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection equal-protections governmental-immunity judicial-bias pro-se-litigation whistleblower-rights |
When Pro Se Indigent parties lack meaningful access, procedurally and meritoriously, does this constitute lack of due process and equal protections un… |
| 20-5821 |
Calvin Simpson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault |
Whether the defendant's 6th Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to present evidence of the e… |
| 20-5823 |
Michael R. Spengler v. Los Angeles County District Attorney |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights contempt-trial double-jeopardy due-process government-action habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pretrial-proceedings |
Whether a pretrial petitioner may challenge his custody as in violation of the Constitution, federal laws, and treaties, and whether this pretrial saf… |
| 20-5826 |
Chris Anthony George v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation plea-bargaining pro-se pro-se-petition sua-sponte |
Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the principle of party presentation by raising and deciding an issue sua sponte in petitioner's habeas appeal |
| 20-5827 |
Michael R. Spengler v. Alex Villanueva |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody-claims due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus legal-abuse petition-review standing |
whether-28-usc-2241-authorizes-relief-for-extraordinary-circumstances-that-may-violate-defendants-constitutional-rights |
| 20-5831 |
Rafael Cezar Danam v. Arizona Board of Education |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-hearing bill-of-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech redress-of-grievances stare-decisis |
Is the inferior, subordinate courts' rulings and orders superior to the Supreme Court of the United States? |
| 20-5838 |
Daryl Dude Nelson v. Mike Brown, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-review district-court due-process ex-parte-proceeding fact-finding fraud-on-the-court judicial-oversight legal-authority prosecutor prosecutorial-fraud relief-from-judgment |
Did the Circuit Court commit a reversible error and grossly violate petitioner's Due Process when it (1) overlooked the district court's fact-finding … |
| 20-584 |
Michael Wood, et ux. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conspiracy-charges conspiracy-to-commit-immigration-offenses constructive-amendment criminal-procedure first-amendment immigration-law prejudicial-variance statute-of-limitations yates-v-united-states |
Whether Defendants' conviction for conspiracy to commit immigration offenses is legally invalid pursuant to Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957… |
| 20-5845 |
Deverick Scott v. Danny Burl, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment administrative-grievance civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process false-disciplinary first-amendment prisoner-rights property-rights retaliation |
Confiscation-and-destruction-of-prisoner-property |
| 20-5849 |
Uzoma Igbonwa v. Facebook, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process facebook free-speech immunity-provision ninth-circuit section-230 terms-of-service |
Whether Facebook was should be protected by the immunity provision of Section 230 of the Communication and Decency Act when they clearly violated its … |
| 20-5856 |
Alimamy Barrie v. Matthew M. Robinson |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-rules strickland-v-washington |
Whether an Omission by habeas Counsel to include a Supporting fact that Appellate Counsel was Ineffective |
| 20-5858 |
Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights disciplinary-hearing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection first-amendment liberty-interest sandin-v-connor |
Can an action by a prison disciplinary hearing that is a violation of the First Amendment, Eighth Amendment, or Equal Protection Clause give a liberty… |
| 20-5859 |
Kevin Blanke v. Utah Board of Pardons and Parole |
Utah |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process judicial-review right-to-counsel standing |
Can a state supreme court or state court of appeals make dispositive rulings on issues in a civil case that were never properly adjudicated in the sta… |
| 20-586 |
James T. Gersky v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment court-precedent criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process estelle-v-smith judicial-guidance mitchell-v-united-states sentencing |
should-district-courts-compel-defendant-testimony-at-sentencing |
| 20-5863 |
Andrew Newson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure court-procedure due-process equal-protection mailing-error parental-rights petition-for-review statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights timeliness |
Whether the State violated the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by denying the father the right to be heard in a timely manner in the terminat… |
| 20-5867 |
Jerome Ceasar Alverto v. Bryan Dwain Cline |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process jury-trial standing state-court takings |
Whether the petitioner's due-process rights were violated by the state court's denial of his request for a jury trial |
| 20-5883 |
Kyle Patrick Comrie v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder jury-findings jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sandstrom sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the trial court permit prejudicial error by allowing the jury to find first-degree murder without specific findings of fact on each required eleme… |
| 20-5887 |
Charles Kunta Lewis, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
age-consideration brain-development constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sentencing |
Whether the sentence given to Mr. Lewis was unconstitutional because it violated the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment when his youthfu… |
| 20-5888 |
Burton Lee Smith v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
404(b)-jury-instructions bruton-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mug-shot-identification severance-of-defendants sleeping-juror trial-procedure |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability |
| 20-5892 |
Russell A. Stoddard v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment enhanced-sentence fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-law |
Does the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment prohibit a state from imposing a prison sentence that exceeds the maximum pr… |
| 20-5893 |
Jonnie Ravon v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole manifest-injustice sentencing violent-offenses |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court |
| 20-5897 |
Demetrice Williams v. Sandy McCain, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability COA criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution denial effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-district-court fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the federal district court should not have denied COA based on the substantial showing of the denial of the Sixth Amendment guarantees of the … |
| 20-5898 |
Roy Eugene Ussery v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
barker-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights defense-theory extraneous-offense-evidence grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prejudice speedy-trial witness-prejudice |
When the deceased witness was erroneously considered a witness for the State, despite being a defense witness, did this affect the prejudice factor in… |
| 20-5899 |
Bodhisattva Skandha v. William Bates |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion case-dismissal civil-procedure court-jurisdiction dismissal due-process judicial-procedure pure-land-buddhism religious-rights standing trial-court trial-court-discretion |
Whether The Trial Court Abused Its Discretion By Dismissing The Case? |
| 20-59 |
Charles R. Campbell v. Hollie Bennett, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
due-process equal-protection family-court family-rights right-to-counsel rooker-feldman self-incrimination sixth-amendment state-actor state-bar |
Right to Counsel for Defence |
| 20-5901 |
Laura Marie Scott v. City of Hamtramck, Michigan, Treasurer, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
choice-of-law comity equity federal-contracts property-rights quasi-in-rem quasi-in-rem-action tax-foreclosure title |
Does a violation of choice-of-law create a quasi-in-rem-action that reverses itself to preclude any relief as to title or equity despite mutual and ex… |
| 20-5906 |
Demetrius Barber v. James Burke, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-filing direct-appeal due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-error standing |
Where does the petitioner have standing to bring this case before the U.S. Supreme Court? |
| 20-5907 |
Joseph Peterson v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights computer-seizure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech search-and-seizure trial-court written-materials |
Did the trial court violate Mr. Peterson's Due Process of Law when denying written materials seized from his computer when those materials were protec… |
| 20-5911 |
Josh Albritton v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 20-5916 |
Veronica Delph v. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law due-process issue-preservation legal-basis procedural-fairness trial-court |
Does a court of appeals deny a party due process under the 14th Amendment when it decides the case on a basis never litigated or passed on as a matter… |
| 20-5919 |
Astarte Davis v. Joseph Wilson, Judge, Superior Court of California, Marin County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud-upon-court judicial-conduct standing void-judgment |
Is non-judicial conduct/actions by judges subject to due-process protection? |
| 20-5920 |
Richard Cortez v. Iowa |
Iowa |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure disclosure due-process sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation was violated when the State's primary eyewitness to the exchange testified under a false … |
| 20-5921 |
Joseph J. Craig v. Kansas |
Kansas |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-instruction kansas-supreme-court voluntary-intoxication |
Did the Kansas Supreme Court deny the defendants rights to a fair trial under the Due Process Clause when it should have ruled the defendant was entit… |
| 20-5922 |
Julia Hook v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-access due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-abuse judicial-bias judicial-taking sanctions |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings |
| 20-5924 |
Patricia Wynn v. Mark Butler, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Labor, et al. |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-intervention due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-proceedings legal-review procedural-standards supervisory-power |
Whether the Court below so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as to call for an exercise of this Court's supervi… |
| 20-5934 |
Thomas Holden v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure conflict-with-supreme-court constitutional-review due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance premeditated-intent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard trial-court-error |
Whether a United States Court of Appeal's has decided an important question of federal law that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court |
| 20-5935 |
Frank Allen Levi Holland v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof compulsory-violations confrontational-violations constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Michigan courts violated the petitioner's state and federal constitutional right to due process of law |
| 20-5938 |
Robert B. Wister v. Donald R. White, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process elder-abuse equal-protection federal-statute petition-of-grievances |
Denial of due process and equal protection in elder abuse case |
| 20-5945 |
Shelby Clarmont v. Willis Chapman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process people-v-lockridge people-v-milbourn proportionality resentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is the imposing of a sentence which was based on incorrectly scored sentencing guidelines and was a departure from applicable advisory guidelines wher… |
| 20-5950 |
Clinton Riley v. Indiana Department of Correction, et al. |
Indiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing |
Does the Trial Court's Order to dismiss a Writ of Habeas Corpus petition violate the petitioner's constitutional rights? |
| 20-5964 |
Marlow Shelton McDonald v. Jeff Titus, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about the denial of relief on procedural grounds where other courts have… |
| 20-5965 |
Vito A. Pelino v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-reopening civil-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-courts judicial-discretion rule-60(b) rule-60b state-courts substantive-claim |
Whether jurists of reason can debate that repeated decisions to ignore (not dismiss or deny) a substantive claim constitutes sufficiently 'extraordina… |
| 20-5968 |
Rochelle Driessen v. Miami-Dade County, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure court-access due-process florida-constitution judicial-procedure jurisdiction |
Whether the Supreme Court of Florida denied petitioner access to the court pursuant Article 1, Section 21 of the Florida Constitution when it declined… |
| 20-5981 |
Javier Garza v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-characteristics constitutional-provisions court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure de-facto-life-sentence eighth-amendment judicial-review juvenile-sentencing legal-interpretation miller-v-louisiana statutory-provisions youth-characteristics |
Whether mandatory life sentences, natural or de facto, for juveniles are unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment regardless of whether the trial c… |
| 20-5986 |
Romeo Wilson v. Debra Sue Gabites, et al. |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel legal-representation standing witness-testimony |
Do I have any rights/the light was blinking? Do I have any right/I had two lawyer, Mr.Jessie A.Nas# (79465) and Mirstared 1,Shouey(75877) was their to… |
| 20-5994 |
Mongkhon Leekomon v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure georgia-court-of-appeals indictment legal-procedure statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tolling tolling-exception |
Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the indictment alleged a statutory tolling exception to extend the seven-year statute of… |
| 20-5997 |
Zaira Franco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies compassionate-release criminal-justice exhaustion federal-procedure judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred by ruling that exhaustion of administrative remedies is required before a court can consider a motion for compassiona… |
| 20-5998 |
Kevin Ray Prentice v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-analysis civil-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit least-culpable-act mellouli-v-lynch predicate state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit ignored this Court's authority and misapplied the categorical analysis by failing to consider the least-culpable act covered… |
| 20-6001 |
Antranette Canady v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3583(d)(2) civil-rights criminal-procedure liberty-deprivation probation probation-condition sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release |
Is a standard condition of supervised release which requires a person to 'permit a probation officer to visit [her] at any time at home or elsewhere' … |
| 20-6002 |
Curtis Lee Dale v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts adverse-decision appeals case-seizure criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-law-enforcement pro-se procedural-due-process warrant-search |
Does Petitioner have a procedural due process right to access the Court and file an initial brief in the appeals court related to the district court's… |
| 20-6012 |
Allen Young v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-defect discovery-violations due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment indictment-defects insufficient-evidence perjury prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure |
Question not identified |
| 20-6024 |
Keinald V. Parnell v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability |
| 20-6032 |
Timothy Nolan v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking jurisdictional-error notice notice-requirement standing statutory-interpretation |
Is it possible to sustain a prosecution for human trafficking when no one is trafficked? |
| 20-6048 |
David J. Godine, III v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misidentification ninth-circuit pro-se-petition strickland-claim |
Did the Ninth Circuit's unreasoned denial so clearly misapply Buck's modest standard as to call for summary reversal? |
| 20-6061 |
Whittier Buchanan v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assistant-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-appeal right-to-counsel self-representation standby-counsel trial-transcripts witness-testimony |
Whether the court allowed the petitioner to represent himself using standby counsel when he had also been appointed assistant counsel, and whether the… |
| 20-6068 |
Willie Gross, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 20-6069 |
Jeff Howell v. Indiana |
Indiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-rule civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process indiana-statute information-access juror-access juror-deliberation public-access trial-procedure trial-proceedings |
Whether the lower courts erred by denying Howell's right to access of information on jurors who deliberated at his trial |
| 20-6073 |
Desmond Littlejohn v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c certiorari-review civil-rights crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fourth-amendment ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the government from using a person's prior convictions for a crime of violence as a basis to enhance the senten… |
| 20-6075 |
Deshawn McCarter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-statute generic-extortion generic-robbery property-threat sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the California robbery statute criminalize a broader swath of conduct than generic robbery or generic extortion? |
| 20-6076 |
Harold Pena v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coram-nobis due-process indictment-defect jurisdiction-errors jurisdictional-error marpol-violation material-evidence material-evidence-suppression summary-affirmance |
Appropriate standard of review for Eleventh Circuit's grant of summary affirmance |
| 20-6083 |
John Oliver Wooten v. Patrick Warren, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
deference factual-error federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standard-of-review state-court state-courts |
Is a state court decision entitled to deference on federal habeas review if it is undisputed that the state court applied the wrong standard of review… |
| 20-6084 |
Laron J. Wainwright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act judicial-records jury-trial modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment permits a sentencing court to find that a defendant's prior convictions were committed on different occasions based on non… |
| 20-6085 |
Celso Yanez v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-abuse |
Whether a mandatory sentence of 45 years to life, imposed on a 56-year-old first-time offender in a sexual abuse case involving no violence, no force,… |
| 20-6086 |
Brittan Kettles v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 20-6088 |
Miguel Angel Baez-Castillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indictment prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether a court can impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on a prior conviction not alleged in the indictment, consistent with the Sixth Amendm… |
| 20-6089 |
Jermaine D. Hill v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-hearing retroactivity statute-of-limitations |
Whether a juvenile filing for relief on January 23, 2016 is entitled to the 1 year statute of limitation and equitable tolling under Montgomery v. Lou… |
| 20-6092 |
Nathan L. Hill v. Warden of Lee County, U. S. P. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
albeyne-v-united-states civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-law due-process statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court's holding in Albeyne v. United States set forth a rule of statutory interpretation that could be used for collateral review |
| 20-6095 |
Ray Anthony Chaney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-justice district-court federal-criminal-procedure health-conditions home-confinement motion sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Chaney's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) |
| 20-6100 |
Carlos Meza-Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6101 |
Rachel Mae Skidmore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 3§583(g)(1) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6102 |
Dontayous Tonard Cameron v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment parole revocation-sentence sentencing-scheme sixth-amendment statutory-maximum supervised-release |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) unconstitutional as applied? |
| 20-6103 |
Curtis Lee Dale v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery document-discovery due-process pro-se-defendant search-warrant search-warrants sentencing standing |
Is a defendant entitled to copies of inventory documents related to executed search warrants connected to his criminal case? |
| 20-6105 |
Gabriel Oliver v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings voting-rights |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 20-6106 |
Rafael Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance mental-disability plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment voluntariness |
Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's request for a certificate of innocence, when the defendant had pled guilty to 'hostage tak… |
| 20-6108 |
Antoine Washington v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 burrage-precedent burrage-v-united-states but-for but-for-causation causation causation-standard criminal-law drug-sentencing forensic-pathology statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'special rule' exception to but-for causation is inapplicable to a 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) enhancement |
| 20-6110 |
Samuel Hogans v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defendant pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-procedure trial-proceedings |
Whether a competent criminal defendant has a constitutional right to self-representation under the Sixth Amendment when the defendant invokes the righ… |
| 20-6116 |
Terry Joseph Wernicke, Jr. v. Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-murder juvenile-offender life-sentence parole |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the imposition of a life sentence without the possibility of paro… |
| 20-6121 |
Jesus Adam Lizarraga v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-precedent massaro-v-united-states procedural-default |
Whether the Eight Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability |
| 20-6122 |
Jerome Capelton v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-liability first-circuit joint-venture mens-rea realistic-probability sentencing |
Whether the First Circuit's application of the 'realistic probability' standard conflicts with other circuits |
| 20-6124 |
Jose Maria Loaiza-Gaspar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guideline-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion when it granted appointed counsel's motion to withdraw and dism… |
| 20-6133 |
Theodore David Newcomb v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach conspiracy conspiracy-elements controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eighth-circuit inchoate-offense sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority |
| 20-6134 |
Adam Alfredo Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment felon-in-possession sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Was a maximum ten year sentence above the guidelines of 70 to 87 months' imprisonment for Felon in Possession of a Firearm substantively unreasonable,… |
| 20-6135 |
Justin Mertis Barber v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Barber's motion for leave to file a motion for a certificate of appealability |
| 20-6137 |
Arvester Lamonica Anderson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense force knowledge-requirement physical-force robbery robbery-offense snatching statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Does a state robbery offense that may be committed through mere snatching qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 20-6140 |
Roger Jose Almanzar v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance due-process first-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment |
Did the First Circuit err in not granting a certificate of appealability on the merits of the claims of ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 20-6141 |
David William Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof confrontation-clause evidence-rule-701 expert-testimony hearsay-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion professional-experience rule-701 rule-702 testimonial-hearsay |
When can law enforcement officers offer lay opinions based on professional experience? |
| 20-6143 |
Saul Mangual-Corchado v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking-statute civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process force-clause johnson-standard residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the federal carjacking offense constitutes a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 20-6146 |
Douglas Harrie Stewart v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa antiterrorism-and-death-penalty-act-of-1996 clearly-established-law due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-prejudice fourteenth-amendment lisenba-v-people-of-state-of-california payne-v-tennessee trial-fairness |
Whether the rule of law espoused by Payne v. Tennessee, Lisenba v. People of State of California, and Estelle v. McGuire qualifies as 'clearly establi… |
| 20-6147 |
Shane Anthony Roberts v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-right waiver |
Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied Mr. Roberts of the statutory right to appeal his 70-month sentence |
| 20-6148 |
Smith Merinord v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 924(c)-statute brandishing criminal-justice-reform direct-appeal firearms-offense first-step-act hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act applies to cases pending on direct appeal at the time of its enactment |
| 20-6149 |
Jose Sanchez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search |
Whether an unlawful search of a vehicle performed by law enforcement after an improperly conducted dog sniff constitutes an unreasonable extension of … |
| 20-6150 |
Andres Keyon Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment collective-knowledge due-process fourth-amendment narcotics reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure substantive-due-process vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fourth Amendment in this narcotics case b… |
| 20-6151 |
Thomas Mario Costanzo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-by-case-inquiry commerce-clause constitutional-limits constitutional-reach facilities-used-for-interstate-transactions interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element lopez-precedent transaction-analysis |
Whether the court of appeals' opinion conflicts with United States v. Lopez regarding the jurisdictional element of a federal statute |
| 20-6153 |
Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-statute drug-trafficking proximate-causation proximate-cause rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'death enhancement' of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) requires proximate causation |
| 20-6154 |
Roderick Perez-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-bargaining prosecution united-states-constitution |
Whether Subsequent Prosecution of Conspiracies Violate the Double Jeopardy Clause of the United States Constitution when Both Conspiracies Operate Und… |
| 20-6155 |
Jordan Sandoval v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split congress-intent judicial-discretion proportional-sentencing reasonableness-standard reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act substantive-reasonableness |
Does the substantial deference afforded to within-Guidelines sentences permit appellate courts to permit a flawed Guideline to anchor the sentencing a… |
| 20-6156 |
Arlene Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
black-v-romano burden-of-proof controlled-substances drug-identification due-process fundamental-fairness probation-revocation state-narcotics texas-narcotics |
Whether the Government's failure to prove a suspected substance is actually a dangerous drug or controlled substance in a probation revocation case pr… |
| 20-6157 |
Pedro Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process motion-to-dismiss prejudicial-error sixth-amendment |
Did the district court prejudicially err denying petitioner's motion to dismiss based on Sixth Amendment violations? |
| 20-6163 |
Angelique Bankston v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement material-omissions professional-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the government fabricated probable cause and made material omissions in the affidavit, violating the Fourth Amendment |
| 20-6167 |
Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1653 arbitration-award civil-procedure compensatory-damages declaratory-relief federal-circuit federal-circuit-court henry-schein motion-to-dismiss standing summary-affirmance |
Whether the unanimous decision in Henry Schein, Inc., et al. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc. that an arbitration award is not a cause of action but a fa… |
| 20-6169 |
Tykei Garner v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conviction due-process evidence interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prejudice third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision |
| 20-6170 |
Justin David Brown v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-action constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation substantial-assistance |
did-the-court-err-by-not-holding-a-hearing |
| 20-6172 |
Yulian Manuel Villavicencio, aka Cristian Rodriguez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment due-process fourth-amendment interdiction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search traffic-stop vehicle-search |
Whether payment of $630 for a SUV rental in the defendant's home state of Florida to go to North Carolina for a visit, the inability to recall the spe… |
| 20-6179 |
Hai Duong v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation doyle-v-ohio due-process equal-protection harmless-error miranda-rights post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct |
Was Duong denied due process and equal protection |
| 20-6180 |
Naquan Reyes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court federal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Reyes's contention that the sentence was procedurally unreasonable based on the district court's failu… |
| 20-6182 |
Kyle Rainey v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 20-6185 |
Bryan Lamar Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruton bruton-rule co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error |
Does a statement facially incriminate a person for purposes of Bruton Confrontation Clause analysis when one defendant says that as a group they took … |
| 20-6186 |
Piyarath S. Kayarath v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-review rule-60b section-2253 section-2255 successive-petitions |
Whether Court of Appeals fulsome review of potential meritorious claims in COA application overstep the bounds of 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) |
| 20-6188 |
Joshua Chiazor Ezeka v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona miranda-warning plain-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner's custodial statements should be suppressed due to lack of Miranda warning |
| 20-6189 |
Francisco Javier Nunez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment base-offense-level constructive-possession due-process fifth-amendment firearm firearm-enhancement scienter sentencing-enhancement substantive-due-process |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment in this constructive poss… |
| 20-6191 |
Daniel Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit sexual-abuse victim-age |
Was the error in the jury instruction harmless? |
| 20-6193 |
Martin L. Harrell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure diligence-standard due-process habeas-corpus material-fact mcquiggin mcquiggin-standard new-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct summary-denial |
Whether Evidence Not Presented as the Result of Prosecutorial Misconduct Should Be Considered New Evidence under McQuiggin? |
| 20-6195 |
Erlin Josue Torres Zuniga v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-adjudication administrative-agency-adjudication civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-defendant due-process immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement notice-to-appear removal-proceedings |
Whether and under what circumstances the government may invoke collateral-estoppel against-a-criminal-defendant based-on-a-prior-administrative-agency… |
| 20-6196 |
Mark Xavier Wallace v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-evidence criminal-procedure district-court-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-testimony standard-of-review |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in admitting inadmissible and prejudicial hearsay testimony |
| 20-6198 |
Agustin Chavez v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process identity identity-verification post-conviction-information postconviction-information prior-record-exception sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether courts have incorrectly applied a 'prior-record' exception to Apprendi-Alleyne rule |
| 20-62 |
Parents for Privacy, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
bodily-privacy civil-rights due-process free-exercise parental-rights religious-beliefs religious-freedom school-policy title-ix transgender-accommodation |
whether-parents-surrender-fundamental-right-to-direct-upbringing-of-children |
| 20-6201 |
Anthony Thomas v. Victor Calloway, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-constitutional-law habeas habeas-corpus perjury procedural-default state-law |
Should a certificate of appealability have issued? |
| 20-6204 |
Kenneth Curry v. Kess Roberson |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 20-6213 |
J. Santos Mondragon-Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-authority imprisonment-revocation plain-error reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release |
Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness? |
| 20-6214 |
John J. Powers v. Warden, Allenwood USP |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1-usc-109 18-usc-3624b criminal-procedure first-step-act general-savings-statute good-time-credits sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
Does the General Savings Statute, 1 U.S.C. §109, apply to the First Step Act's amendment to 18 U.S.C. §3624(b), so that penalties of the loss of good … |
| 20-6215 |
Abrahan Garcia-Morales, aka Abraham Garcia-Morales v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-law fifth-amendment right-to-silence self-incrimination |
Whether the prosecutor's use of a defendant's 'partial silence' during a custodial interrogation violates the Fifth Amendment |
| 20-6216 |
Michael E. Torres v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act arrest criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-seizure investigative-detention probable-cause reasonable-suspicion |
Did the Third Circuit err in viewing the police conduct as no more than a brief investigative detention and thus justified by reasonable suspicion ins… |
| 20-6220 |
Tony Edwin McClurg v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary attempted-entry generic-burglary sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary |
Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 20-6221 |
Miguel Nunez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-law johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of the mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely… |
| 20-6230 |
Ulis Howard Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corpus-delicti criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-error punishment-phase sentencing |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the concept of corpus delicti should not apply in the punishment phase? |
| 20-6231 |
Mark Zavala v. Kim Holland, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang-enhancement sentence-enhancement street-terrorism-act unitary-proceeding |
Does the trial of a sentence enhancement allegation under California's Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act in a unitary proceeding with th… |
| 20-6236 |
Fuad Ndibalema v. Mark A. Levine |
Vermont |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adequate-remedy civil-procedure constitutional-law declaratory-relief due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-remedy property-rights |
Whether the Existence of another Adequate Remedy does preclude a Judgment for Declaratory Relief |
| 20-6237 |
Jamar Parker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history district-court mitigating-factors mitigation-arguments procedural-reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the 168-month sentence is procedurally and substantively reasonable |
| 20-6238 |
Demon O'Neil Parker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion cell-site-location-information constitutional-review criminal-sentencing first-step-act fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rehabilitation search-and-seizure sentence-reduction standing |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures applies to the government's acquisition of historical cell-site locat… |
| 20-6243 |
Okeiba Sadio v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights covered-offense criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment statutory-penalties |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing Mr. Sadio's constitutional right to due process, when clearly Mr. Sadio is eligible fo… |
| 20-6244 |
Thomas M. Ha v. Christine Popoff, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation cross-examination due-process morrissey-precedent morrissey-v-brewer parole parolee-rights revocation-hearing witness-confrontation |
Whether the holding in Morrissey v. Brewer extends to revocation hearings |
| 20-6246 |
Adam Joseph Bogema v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing mental-illness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity |
Whether this Court should provide some guidance to the appellate courts on the proper evaluation of a within guidelines sentence vis-a-vis 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 20-6248 |
Shawn Thomas Brooks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions |
| 20-6249 |
Thomas F. Kuzma v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment administrative-law criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process federal-statute firearms machinegun-definition statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Is the definition of a machinegun in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b) void for vagueness as applied here to a receiver (frame for a firearm) used to make a shop to… |
| 20-6255 |
John Dubor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review loss-calculation medicare-fraud restitution restitution-award sentencing-guidelines |
Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court's record lead to an illegal, unreasonable sentence |
| 20-6267 |
In Re Graham Schiff |
|
Denied |
IFP |
bad-faith civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-intervention post-conviction-relief state-criminal-proceedings state-officials |
Whether federal intervention in a state criminal proceeding is appropriate given the petitioner's showing of 'bad faith and harassment by state offici… |
| 20-628 |
Samuel Anstey v. Ralph Terry, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence aedpa arson-investigation due-process fire-science habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief summary-judgment |
Whether a petitioner whose conviction was based substantially on discredited arson investigation techniques can survive summary judgment under 28 U.S.… |
| 20-642 |
Jorge Mendoza v. Uber Technologies Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-due-process constitutional-law contract-law dispute-resolution due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits legal-procedure procedural-rights |
Whether Constitutional Due Process can be part of Arbitration Jurisdiction |
| 20-643 |
D&G, Inc., dba Gary's Foods, et al. v. C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust-law bid-rigging customer-allocation horizontal-competitors market-allocation per-se-violation price-fixing sherman-act territorial-allocation |
Whether an agreement between horizontal competitors not to compete for certain customers is a per se violation of the Sherman Act, separate from the p… |
| 20A79 |
Gary Victor Dubin v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel |
Hawaii |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 20M43 |
Debera P. v. Maine Department of Health and Human Services |
Maine |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
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