| 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 |
|