Conference: 2020-12-11

96 cases — 0 granted, 95 denied/dismissed, 1 pending

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19-1144 Michael McCarron v. DeCarlo & Shanley, P.C. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-procedure erisa erisa-preemption fiduciary-duty labor-law labor-union legal-advice legal-malpractice preemption professional-misconduct standing state-law-claims Does ERISA preempt state law claims against a law firm for providing improper legal advice to a labor union official?
19-1302 David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. George Russell Kayer Ninth Circuit GVR Amici (1)Relisted (9) aedpa aedpa-standard comity de-novo-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit rule-of-law sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the Ninth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254's deferential standard, and employ a flawed methodology this Court has repeatedly condemned, when it gr…
19-1321 In Re Cheryl A. Wolf, et al. Denied Relisted (2) bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process false-claims incarcerated-prisoner incarceration ninth-amendment standing tucker-act Does the respondent's creation of a court technicality that reiterated a false claim, incarcerated the prisoner, and originated from a U.S. Court of F…
19-1385 Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health v. Ashlee Henderson, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) biological-parentage biology-based birth-certificate birth-certificates due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parentage presumption rebuttable-presumption May a State, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, adopt a biology-based birth-certificate system that in…
19-1402 Antonio Jubis Zacarias, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction article-iii-standing bar-orders circuit-conflict civil-procedure investor-claims receivership receivership-estate standing standing-doctrine Whether a district court in a receivership action has Article III jurisdiction to bar investor claims for individual injuries when the receiver lacks …
19-1411 Barry L. Rupert, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, as Receiver for Stanford Receivership Estate, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction non-receivership-entities ponzi-scheme receivership receivership-estate settlement settlement-bar standing third-party-claims Whether Article III standing limits receivers to bringing claims that are coextensive with the receivership estate and precludes receivers from bringi…
19-1427 William Price Tedards, Jr., et al. v. Doug Ducey, Governor of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) election-date election-writ executive-authority executive-power legislative-power senate-vacancy seventeenth-amendment state-executive state-legislature temporary-appointment Does A.R.S. § 16-222 conflict with the Seventeenth Amendment's requirement that state executives 'shall issue writs of election' and limit state legis…
19-8410 Johnathan Pinney v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-limitations criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-rights standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Suspension Clause of the U.S. Constitution supersedes the statutory requirement of exhausting state remedies before filing a federal habea…
19-8436 In Re Michael A. Young Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-recusal legal-standing right-to-appeal standing Whether indigent petitioner's 'gateway factual innocence' showing while being 'constructively' denied appointment of counsel on first and all other ap…
19-8516 Craig Mrazek v. Illinois Illinois Denied Relisted (2)IFP automatic-reversal brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-assistance sixth-amendment Whether the Court's denial of petitioner's assertion of a Brady claim, specifically per se conflict, violates the Sixth Amendment guarantee to reasona…
19-8518 Dexter C. Newson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights compulsory-process constitutional-law due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence judicial-review legal-procedure right-to-present-defense statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment by the state court's refusal to compel the productio…
19-8597 Lewis McKenzie v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof gatekeeping-requirement johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony When the record is silent as to which enhancement clause applied, what showing is a § 2255 movant required to make to satisfy the requirements of § 22…
19-8622 Kimberley McQueary-Layne v. Louisiana State Board of Nursing, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law case-number civil-procedure civil-rights court-case district-court due-process government-liability judicial-system jurisdiction legal-proceeding standing Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-8638 Walter Brzowski v. Executive Committee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-statute judicial-review procedural-due-process remand removal removal-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit review and discredit a previously entered Certified Copy of Order of Remand
19-8752 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Annette Moore, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure jurisdiction official-misconduct precedent standing Whether the petitioner's complaint contains sufficient factual allegations to survive a motion to dismiss
19-8758 Li Qin, et al. v. 99 Cents Only Stores, LLC, et al. California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering fraud judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice Question not identified
20-100 Michael S. Barth v. Bernards Township Planning Board, et al. New Jersey Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-process constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection injunction new-jersey-supreme-court procedural-fairness remand supreme-court-review temporary-injunction Whether the unconstitutional process of the court below should result in a temporary injunction and or remand back to the New Jersey Supreme Court to …
20-102 Christopher Hadsell v. Barry Baskin, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction rooker-doctrine separation-of-powers state-court-judgments state-courts Whether Rooker's usurpation of Congress' power to expand this Court's jurisdiction to include exclusive jurisdiction for appellate review of state-cou…
20-109 Scott Schwab, Secretary of State of Kansas v. Steven Wayne Fish, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) citizenship-requirement constitutional-law election-law federal-preemption national-voter-registration-act voter-registration voting-rights Whether the United States Constitution prohibits Kansas from requiring applicants to provide proof of United States citizenship when registering to vo…
20-163 Brett C. Lillemoe v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process economic-harm federal-fraud fraud materiality money-property-fraud second-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant may be convicted of federal 'money or property' fraud when his alleged deceit was incapable of affecting any economic decisions by…
20-172 Ukpai I. Ukpai v. Continental Automotive Systems US, Inc. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) comparative-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment mcdonnell-douglas retaliation similarly-situated summary-judgment Can Courts find that two employees are not similarly situated though both employees performed the same conduct under the supervision of the same super…
20-176 Pablo Calderon v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-action civil-fraud criminal-fraud decision-act letter-of-credit property-right property-rights statutory-law uniform-commercial-code Can a party in a criminal fraud action have a property right that applicable statutory law denies in a civil action?
20-194 Franklin Cox v. Texas Workforce Commission, et al. Texas Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) duty-to-defend employment-law substantial-evidence-rule tax-audit unemployment-insurance vicarious-liability Whether the employee has a duty to defend the employer in a tax audit for unemployment, joined as an employer in the above referenced cause
20-222 Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., et al. v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, et al. Second Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (24)Relisted (2) basic-v-levinson burden-of-proof materiality price-impact reliance securities-class-action Whether a defendant in a securities class action may rebut the presumption of classwide reliance
20-297 TransUnion LLC v. Sergio L. Ramirez Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (28) article-iii-standing civil-rights class-action damages due-process fair-credit-reporting-act punitive-damages standing statutory-damages Whether either Article III or Rule 23 permits a damages class action where the vast majority of the class suffered no actual injury, let alone an inju…
20-298 El Paso County, Texas, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit Pending appropriations-clause border-wall caa congressional-spending department-of-defense executive-branch executive-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation transfer-of-funds Whether the Executive Branch's expenditure of $2.5 billion on border-wall construction violates the CAA and thus the Appropriations Clause
20-326 Mitchell J. Stein v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence false-testimony government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Due Process Clause excuses the government's knowing use of false testimony in a criminal prosecution so long as the government divulged ev…
20-347 Charles Malcolm Spivey, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process forum-shopping interstate-commerce registration-requirement sorna venue Whether venue for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a) for failing to update a registration under SORNA after traveling in interstate commerce can …
20-362 Cochlear Corporation, et al. v. Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-284 apportionment book-of-wisdom circuit-split damages damages-calculation hypothetical-negotiation patent-infringement reasonable-royalty sinclair-refining Whether the Federal Circuit has misapplied the 'book of wisdom' set forth in Sinclair Refining Co. v. Jenkins Petroleum Process Co.
20-433 Mark Anthony Jenkins v. Timothy O'Rourke, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody-dispute civil-rights conspiracy de-novo-review due-process judicial-conspiracy res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983-lawsuit subject-matter-jurisdiction void-ab-initio Whether the federal courts erred in dismissing this 42 U.S.C. 1983 lawsuit under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
20-442 Kelly Colvard Parsons v. Richard Jearl Parsons Tennessee Denied appellate-review attorney-fees divorce-decree marital-property modification property-rights retirement-benefits vested-interest Did the Appellate Court err in concluding that Wife did not obtain a vested, nonmodifiable property interest in her share of Husband's marital retirem…
20-448 Kenneth Ray Strickland v. Texas Texas Denied appellate-review assault corpus-delicti directed-verdict due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-rejection summation trial-counsel Whether the appellate court's rejection of the trial court's favorable fact findings violated due process
20-452 S. S., Mother v. D. S., et al. Pennsylvania Denied 14th-amendment adoption amish-education best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard child-welfare constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights Termination of parental rights-constitutionality
20-459 Robert Ryan Snyder v. California California Denied administrative-law cell-assignment constitutional-rights due-process emergency-regulations equal-protection prison-overcrowding prisoner-conditions prisoner-rights sentencing-reform Should the extra living space created by California's prison population reduction measures be prioritized for long-serving or long-incarcerated prison…
20-468 Xpedite Systems, Inc. v. John J. Ficara, Acting Director, New Jersey Division of Taxation New Jersey Denied Amici (1)Response Waived apportionment commerce-clause deference due-process due-process-clause interstate-commerce revenue-reapportionment state-taxation tax-apportionment Whether granting unfettered deference to a State tax commissioner's decision to reapportion the revenues of an interstate business violates the Due Pr…
20-470 Gladys Mendoza v. Inspira Health Network, Inc., et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process free-speech seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury Does the Decision in this case require a reaffirmation and clarification of Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
20-473 Ammar I. v. Connecticut Connecticut Denied Relisted (2) child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law foster-care fourteenth-amendment parental-rights religious-freedom Whether prolonged 'temporary' foster placement violated federal law and the Petitioner's constitutional rights
20-474 CMT Hospital HIMA San Pablo Caguas v. Jose Suero-Algarin First Circuit Denied civil-procedure damages-review diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine excessiveness federal-standard gasperini-standard gasperini-v-center-for-humanities remittitur state-law Whether the decision below contravenes Erie Railroad v. Tompkins by granting respondent a recovery that is ten times larger than the recovery responde…
20-476 Rafael Martinez, et al. v. Bryheim Jamar Baskin New Jersey Denied 42-u.s.c.a.-§-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process law-enforcement municipal-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 Is the petitioner/Police Detective Rafael Martinez protected by qualified immunity in this action brought under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983?
20-483 Artem Koshkalda v. Seiko Epson Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-termination civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure legal-order ninth-circuit sanctions Did the district court err in imposing case-terminating sanctions?
20-485 Michael Torrence v. Kentucky Kentucky Denied 14th-amendment cell-phone-evidence cell-phone-tower-evidence confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process lay-witness pretrial-identification state-action whether-the-court's-ruling-that-cell-phone-tower-location-data-and-interpretation-may-be-presented-by-an-unqualified-lay-witness-who-is-unable-to-answ…
20-5030 Jimmy Lee Franklin v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 acca-provision acca-sentence burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant federal-statutory-enhancement-provision retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing-relief statutory-enhancement Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can satisfy his burden of proof by showing that his sentence may have been based…
20-5068 Li Qin v. Barbara Kong-Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment ada-protection arbitration arbitration-fraud civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-jurisdiction due-process fraud medical-malpractice rooker-feldman-doctrine Where is the jurisdiction in U.S.A. over a corruptive arbitration?
20-508 Brandon S. LaVergne v. Michael Vaughn, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech mail-restriction qualified-immunity religious-freedom solitary-confinement turner-test Can a prisoner's 1st amendment right to correspondence be totally revoked without a hearing or due process?
20-512 National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Shawne Alston, et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law board-of-regents circuit-conflict compensation federal-antitrust ncaa ncaa-rules ninth-circuit rule-of-reason student-athlete-compensation student-athletes Whether the Ninth Circuit erroneously held, in conflict with decisions of other circuits and general antitrust principles, that the National Collegiat…
20-5194 In Re Kevin D. Moore Denied Relisted (2)IFP compassionate-release covid-19 due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus non-successive-claim post-conviction-relief sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) based on the COVID-19 pandem…
20-520 American Athletic Conference, et al. v. Shawne Alston, et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (1) antitrust joint-venture ncaa rule-of-reason sherman-act student-athlete student-athletes Whether the Sherman Act authorizes a court to subject the product-defining rules of a joint venture to full Rule of Reason review, and to hold those r…
20-521 Citizens for Fair Representation, et al. v. Alex Padilla, California Secretary of State Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review party-presentation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction three-judge-district-court Did any named in the three complaints filed with the District Court allege sufficient personal concrete and particularized harm therein to assert Arti…
20-524 Yi Tai Shao v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived court-jurisdiction court-records default-judgment disqualification due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal Did the district court and court of appeal violate due process
20-5368 Usman Oyibo v. Huntington Hospital, et al. Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP biological-relationship civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial judicial-misconduct legal-standing standing takings Whether the defendants can be found anything but guilty given the parallels between the petitioner's case and the Tuskegee Experiment
20-5475 Archie Cabello, aka Archibaldo Cabello, aka Archie Cabello, Jr., aka Archie P. Cabello, aka Arquimedes Cabello, aka Archie Palumbo v. United States Ninth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 60(b)(4) 60(b)(6) constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-law plea-petition right-to-counsel sixth-amendment When the government moves to strip a defendant of his counsel of choice, does the court have any obligation to hold a hearing to inquire and determine…
20-5497 Marcus Simpson v. Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Hamilton County, et al. Ohio Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-usurpation mandamus perjury wrongful-conviction Whether perjury has amounted to and causes one or both the judicial usurpation of power or abuse of discretion by the trial court, therefore mandamus …
20-5531 Cynthia Holmes v. James Y. Becker, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (FPA), S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional
20-5565 Mary Jo Weidrick v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-interference civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process executive-order fifth-amendment first-amendment investigation-misconduct national-security standing Whether this case is frivolous
20-5579 Israel Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)IFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment standing Whether an individual charged with violating a law barring the possession of firearms by felons can bring an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to …
20-5605 In Re Eric Wallace Koehl Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial racial-bias sixth-amendment Does a criminal defendant have a constitutional right to a public trial under the 6th Amendment to the United States Constitution?
20-5671 Michael Ward v. Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission Michigan Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection fees-and-costs indigent-litigant prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights Is Michigan's statute, MCL 600.2963(8) unconstitutional on its face and/or as applied to this petitioner, as violating the right of access to courts a…
20-5707 Ruth Ellen Reeves v. Mark T. Esper, Secretary of Defense, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial institutional-abuse medical-ethics military-intervention patient-rights standing Is it legal for a court to render judgment on a case before the case is heard from the Plaintiff and/or the Defendants?
20-5754 Palani Karupaiyan v. New York City Department of Education Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process homelessness notice-of-appeal pro-se-petition standing timely-filing Jurisdiction-under-28-USC-2107
20-5963 Daniel Edward Murray v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-time-calculation hipaa hipaa-restrictions ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel medical-records medical-records-disclosure plea-agreement plea-agreements pro-se pro-se-litigation If there is a set of plea agreements taken at the same time and the court of appeals reverses a part of the appealed agreement, does this start the AE…
20-5966 Keven A. Morgan v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment attorney-general authorization-order criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial law-enforcement wire-tapping wiretapping Whether law enforcement and the district attorney failed to attach the United States Attorney General's special designated authorization order and aut…
20-5972 John Garrett Smith v. Ronald Hayes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Correctional Center Ninth Circuit Dismissed IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure search-and-seizure standing suppression-of-evidence Whether a court can acquire subject matter jurisdiction over a criminal charge when the warrant used to search a smartphone is invalid because the aff…
20-5973 Efrain Santos v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit sixth-amendment Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in refusing to grant petitioner a COA to appeal from a judgment of the District Court d…
20-5979 Steven Dwayne Bailey v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP case-review compassionate-release criminal-justice district-court due-process early-release judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-standard parole procedural-error sentencing Whether the court can recall and/or resentence the defendant upon recommendation of the district attorney due to change in circumstances since the inm…
20-5982 Elmo Fortenberry v. Texas Board of Pardons and Parole, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-5987 William J. Truesdale v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection neil-challenge peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standing Whether a state trial court's brief colloquy and abbreviated review of evidence relevant to a Batson challenge satisfied its obligation under step thr…
20-6000 Sara G. Kielly v. New York New York Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-conditions conviction-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-treatment sentencing Whether a defendant is required, in light of well-established facts, to explicitly plead constitutional conditions and treatment in prison on the plea…
20-6008 Brian Evans v. Kaiali'i Kahele Hawaii Dismissed Response WaivedIFP compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech government-regulation private-entities Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech they disagree with
20-6010 Cezary Wojcik v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment ada ada-statute civil-rights constitutional-rights disabled-persons disabled-prisoners-rights eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble fourteenth-amendment medical-care Did cook county defendants violate disabled Cezary Wojcik Constitutional Rights
20-6011 Randy Williams v. American International Group, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-6013 Peter Patrick LaForte v. California California Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
20-6015 Lance R. Martin v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation California Denied IFP administrative-appeal administrative-law civil-rights documentary-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ministerial-duty state-court-procedure state-courts writ-of-mandate Whether the state courts wrongly misconstrued the writ of mandate for a habeas petition and denied the petitioner a hearing on his substantial claim f…
20-6016 George A. Christian v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Dismissed IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez martinez-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-denial Whether the State's denial of the post-conviction relief establish cause for any procedural default to be excused and considered on this issue anew in…
20-6023 Carlos Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-sentence procedural-bar state-court-decisional-law state-court-law Can the Florida Supreme Court use state court decisional law to procedurally bar a non-homicide juvenile defendant from seeking relief from an illegal…
20-6071 Jerry Kent Dillingham v. Eva Scruggs, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies inmate-appeals prison-litigation-reform-act Whether a properly filed/submitted inmate grievance was effectively unavailable due to prison officials' failure to respond within procedural time con…
20-6082 Douglas D. Yokois v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied Petitioner's Motion for Issuance of Certificate of Appealability
20-6123 Dale C. Holcombe v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment racketeering stolen-property Whether possession of an item that is one or more transactions removed from an alleged theft constitutes possession of stolen property
20-6142 Steven Spain v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment gun-rights law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment terry-v-ohio In a state that allows residents to carry a firearm in public, is it reasonable under the Fourth Amendment to stop and arrest someone for carrying a f…
20-615 Petra Martinez, et al. v. America's Wholesale Lender Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived capacity civil-procedure claim-preclusion conflict-of-laws corporate-capacity corporate-dissolution dissolution federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit-conflict notice-of-removal removal standing Is the Opinion below in conflict with the opinions of the Courts of the State of New York in that Respondent America's Wholesale Lender is a dissolved…
20-6184 I. Dean Fulton v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence third-circuit whether-the-third-circuit-court-of-appeals-violated-buck-v-davis
20-6209 Louis Sanders v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review threshold-inquiry Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability, in conflict with this Court's decisions in Miller-El and Slack v. McDaniel
20-6247 Jermont Cox v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability default-rule exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan rule-60(b)(6) Whether a district court deciding a Rule 60(b)(6) motion in habeas corpus proceedings may ignore new exculpatory evidence when assessing the substanti…
20-630 Benjamin Scott Brewer v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied Response Waived brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering exculpatory-evidence forensic-evidence material-evidence state-misconduct Whether this Court's ruling in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) and its progeny entitle a defendant to the knowledge, before trial, that a state …
20-6302 Nguyen Vu v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Dismissed Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-bias perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner was deprived of due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment due to a prosecution based on perjured testimon…
20-6319 Kathleen McCullough v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-order legal-appeal procedural-error standing Whether the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its final order dismissing Petitioner's claims
20-6368 In Re Richard J. Ramsey Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights court-martial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial military-justice plea-bargain separation-of-powers sixth-amendment ucmj Whether military plea-bargains procedures are unconstitutional
20-638 Samuel Gonzales v. ConocoPhillips Company, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-fees burden-shifting civil-rights discretion employee-benefits erisa Whether and to what extent district courts must consider ERISA's purpose in awarding attorney's fees to a successful defendant
20-6401 In Re Gregory Richardson Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure lower-court-decision standing supreme-court-review Whether the Virginia Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's request for a delayed appeal
20-657 Tony C. Thomas, for the Estate of Thalia Dukes v. Lawrence S. Craige Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction guardian-ad-litem rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars a federal suit where the plaintiff was denied the opportunity to present his case in state court
20-661 Christian Charles v. Jerry Seinfeld, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived authorship authorship-claim circuit-split civil-procedure copyright-infringement copyright-ownership ownership-dispute statute-of-limitations work-for-hire Does a repudiation of copyright ownership in a work by one who is not an author of the work and has obtained no authorship interest in the work cause …
20-67 Delaney E. Smith, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contradictory-rulings due-process en-banc-panel federal-removal notice-of-appeal racial-discrimination standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals forfeited subject matter jurisdiction
20-677 John T. Laettner v. California Commission on Judicial Performance California Denied Response Waived due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline judicial-performance notice rebuttal-evidence right-to-be-heard speech-restraint Whether it is constitutional under the 1st, 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments for a judicial disciplinary commission to remove a judge based on the manner…
20-699 Michael Sammons v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure frivolous frivolous-litigation mandamus mandamus-review pro-se-litigant sanctions standing voluntary-dismissal Whether a plaintiff has an absolute right to voluntary dismissal under FRCP Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i)
20A37 Consuelo E. Kelly-Leppert v. United States Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M44 Pedro Carrasco, Jr., aka Pedro Carrasco v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M45 Richard Rynn v. Gregory A. McKay, et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None