| 19-1143 |
FMC Corporation v. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit federal-indian-law inherent-authority jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits montana-exceptions ninth-circuit-interpretation nonmember-regulation seventh-circuit tribal-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction-over-nonmembers tribal-self-government tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly holds that tribal jurisdiction over nonmembers is established whenever a Montana exception is met |
| 19-1184 |
Nikki Bruni, et al. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (10)Response RequestedRelisted (5) |
buffer-zone circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation content-neutrality due-process federalism first-amendment free-speech judicial-construction narrow-tailoring overbreadth standing state-law |
Whether federal courts have authority to save a state or local law from unconstitutionality by positing a limiting construction that has no state-law … |
| 19-1277 |
David Thorpe v. Dexter Dumas, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity administrative-acts civil-rights due-process investigative-acts probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether a supervising Deputy District Attorney who assigned three (4) District Attorneys over a two-year period to a case that lacked probable cause (… |
| 19-1342 |
Edward Mulcahy v. Aspen Pitkin County Housing Authority |
Colorado |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure due-process expedited-procedure housing-authority procedural-due-process procedural-requirements property-rights service-of-process summary-judgment |
Did the District Court violate Mulcahy's constitutional rights by denying his motion to vacate the underlying judgment for procedural due process viol… |
| 19-1343 |
In Re Edward Starling |
|
Rehearing |
Relisted (3) |
article-i article-i-court civil-procedure due-process income-tax-refund judicial-authority jurisdiction quasi-in-rem question-not-identified tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction title-26 |
Scope of United States Tax Court jurisdiction under Article I |
| 19-1363 |
Carlos Enrique Urrutia Robles v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
None |
|
| 19-1389 |
Texas Democratic Party, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Granted |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
age-discrimination constitutional-amendment constitutional-law due-process election-law mail-in-ballot mail-in-voting standing twenty-sixth-amendment voter-access voting-rights |
Does Texas's limitation of the right to cast a no-excuse mail-in ballot to only voters who are '65 years of age or older on election day' violate the … |
| 19-1419 |
Michael A. Henry-Bey v. Hector Castro, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeals appellate-procedure arbitration civil-procedure court-transfer due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review pro-se-litigant standing subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer |
Whether the court had federal question jurisdiction to hear the petitioner's appeal, and if not, should the court have transferred the appeal to the c… |
| 19-1441 |
City of Austin, Texas v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption preemption standing state-preemption supremacy-clause |
Under Ex parte Young, is a state official a proper defendant in a federal declaratory judgment challenge under the Supremacy Clause to the validity of… |
| 19-1470 |
Samuel A. Gurrola v. Walgreen Company |
Fifth Circuit |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment monopoly monopoly-power obstruction-of-justice property-rights res-judicata |
Can the world's largest pharmacy chain influence a State to fabricate evidence to achieve its monopoly goals, abridge plaintiffs rights and steal plai… |
| 19-1476 |
Vantage Energy Services, Incorporated, et al. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights conditions-precedent due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure intake-questionnaire iqbal plausibility-standard pleadings statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements verified-charge |
Whether the combination of an unverified intake questionnaire and an inexcusably dilatory verified charge meets the statutory requirements of the Amer… |
| 19-251 |
Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (14)Relisted (5) |
association civil-rights constitutional-rights donor-privacy due-process exacting-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech law-enforcement-interest naacp-v-alabama narrow-tailoring nonprofit nonprofit-association nonprofit-organizations standing |
Whether the exacting scrutiny this Court has long required of laws that abridge the freedoms of speech and association outside the election context ca… |
| 19-255 |
Thomas More Law Center v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (5) |
charitable-organizations circuit-split civil-rights disclosure-requirements donor-anonymity due-process exacting-scrutiny first-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech nonprofit strict-scrutiny |
Whether exacting scrutiny or strict scrutiny applies to disclosure requirements that burden non-electoral, expressive association rights |
| 19-5267 |
Michael St. Hubert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-step-act habeas-corpus pending-on-direct-review preclusion pro-se section-2255 successive-2255-motion successive-motion successive-petitions |
Is a criminal defendant's right to Due Process violated by the Eleventh Circuit's rule affording binding force and preclusive effect to a prior panel'… |
| 19-6594 |
David Ingraham v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
violate the principals of due-process constitutional-fairness due-process eight-amendment eighth-amendment judicial-integrity juvenile-offenders parole stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in overturning its previous decision violate due-process,judicial-integrity |
| 19-8446 |
Anthony S. Twitty v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions pcra-statute reasonable-doubt |
Was the Petitioner denied the right to a fair trial, due to hypothetical-jury, jury-instruction, ineffective-assistance-of-counsel, reasonable-doubt |
| 19-8458 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Phillip Jordan, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection public-accommodations race-discrimination standing |
Whether the petitioner's complaint of discrimination based on race, color, religion, familial status, and/or national origin was sufficient to survive… |
| 19-8630 |
Richard Charles Lussy v. Henry Paumie Lussy, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-discretion ministerial-function pro-se standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether conflicting free speech: superior Ray v. Blair does not' address constitution question allowing to decide for themselves ; opposite: Bell v T… |
| 19-8648 |
Vernon Wayne McNeal v. Fleming, C/O, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-penalties agency-authority civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction regulatory-compliance standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation three-strikes |
Question not identified |
| 19-8661 |
Justo Jonah Santos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-prosecution immigration immigration-law naturalization sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-evidence |
Whether the immigration officer's handwritten notes and checkmarks on a naturalization application are 'testimonial' and subject to the Sixth Amendmen… |
| 19-8668 |
Lemuel Whiteside v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-robbery capital-felony-murder constitutional-rights graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment non-homicide-crime procedural-default |
Whether the trial court erred in instructing the jury that the petitioner could be sentenced to life imprisonment for a non-homicide crime committed a… |
| 19-8684 |
Brian David Hill v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fraud-allegations fraud-on-the-court judicial-inaction jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge mandamus mandamus-petition pending-motions |
Where the U.S. Court of Appeals didn't think that the Petition for Writ of Mandamus should apply to the case of multiple pending motions not being act… |
| 19-8690 |
Jimmy Lee Wheeler v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation structural-error |
Whether due process was circumvented |
| 19-8701 |
Roger Allen Raymond v. United States District Court for the District of South Dakota |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aedpa Brady-violation constitutional-due-process due-process eighth-circuit exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct south-carolina successive-petition |
Whether the State of South Carolina commits a final byte power against the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision is a second or successive habeas … |
| 19-8709 |
Gregory Greer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation judicial-fairness plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record |
Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters… |
| 19-8716 |
Eric Martin Pepke v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit appellate court erred in dismissing Pepke's motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 which included an unconstitutionality challenge t… |
| 19-8724 |
Michael Garry v. Trane Company |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure court-procedure evidence-review federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-procedures mandate-rules mootness newly-discovered-evidence procedural-error structural-error |
whether-the-wisconsin-supreme-court-contravened-appellate-procedure |
| 19-8728 |
Joshua Harrell v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-illness rational-understanding |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that … |
| 19-8769 |
Daryll Shumake v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-report jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court |
Whether the trial court erred in denying the petitioner's motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence |
| 19-8793 |
R. W. v. Dauphin County Social Services for Children and Youth |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction parental-rights standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of due-process, civil-rights, and parental-rights |
| 19-8799 |
James Johnman, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals circuit-split criminal-assessment criminal-law judicial-review sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victims-rights victims-trafficking-act |
Whether the 'additional special assessment' in the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3014, imposes a per-offender or per-count asses… |
| 19-8801 |
Tichinia Jones, et al. v. Lamar Company, LLC |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment binding-judgment civil-procedure constitutional-due-process court-jurisdiction due-process legal-merits personal-jurisdiction state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8834 |
Monosij Dutta-Roy v. Jysk Bed'n Linen, dba By Design Furniture, as Successor to Quick Ship Holding, Inc., dba By Design Furniture |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cybersquatting-protection domain domain-name-dispute equitable-accounting fiduciary-duty joint-venture joint-venture-rights profit-sharing retroactive-application trademark-ownership |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit properly reviewed de novo the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Jysk, ignoring issues of fraud, iden… |
| 19-8838 |
Magdaleno Medina, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255h aggravated-assault-as-violent-felony armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states constitutional-rule johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-barrier section-2244b4 successive-motion violent-felony williams-v-united-states |
armed-career-criminal-act,violent-felony,reckless-conduct,serious-bodily-injury,successive-habeas-petition,jurisdiction |
| 19-8898 |
Angelo Peter Efthimiatos v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-circuit-split calendar criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion jury-selection presentation-of-evidence speedy-trial-act trial-delay uniformity |
Whether the Speedy Trial Act permits district courts to conduct jury selection within the time limits of the speedy trial clock but delay presentation… |
| 20-112 |
Sherry Hernandez v. PNMAC Mortgage Opportunity Fund Investors, LLC, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
due-process fourteenth-amendment fraudulent-documents judicial-notice law-of-case law-of-the-case mers-system notice wrongful-foreclosure |
Did the California Superior Court and the Court of Appeal deprive Petitioner of her right to Due Process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, by Re… |
| 20-13 |
Brandon S. Lavergne v. Burl Cain, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-action due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech legal-correspondence prisoner-mail qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 20-132 |
The Moodsters Company v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
audio-visual-characters circuit-split copyright-law literary-characters originality question-of-fact-vs-law |
Whether originality is the proper standard to determine character copyrightability |
| 20-136 |
Tremayne T. Dozier v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law felony-definition prior-felony-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing-scheme |
Whether an offense is 'punishable by imprisonment for more than one year' when the maximum term permitted by the applicable statutory sentencing schem… |
| 20-139 |
Bryant Kazuyoshi Iwai v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anticipatory-search-warrant beeper controlled-delivery exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement-perjury probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether the Ninth Circuit majority opinion has adopted a rule of exigent circumstances contrary to United States v. Grubbs and Kentucky v. King |
| 20-150 |
ThermoLife International LLC v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-patent-judges appellate-review appointments-clause chenery-doctrine constitutional-appointment patent-trial-and-appeal-board principal-officers rehearing unconstitutional-appointments |
Whether the Federal Circuit violated the Chenery doctrine |
| 20-187 |
Okwudili Francis Chukwuani v. Solon City School District |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-appeal civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction idea idea-stay-put parental-rights special-education standing |
Can an unconstitutional denial of parental rights by a State Court, due to a complaint about IDEA 'stay put' violation, be used to deny jurisdiction f… |
| 20-202 |
Robert Massie v. Basilea Mena |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether Officer Massie's actions constituted excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 20-216 |
Prianka Bose v. Roberto de la Salud Bea, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
academic-misconduct civil-rights due-process education educational-opportunity false-accusation gender-bias retaliation sex-discrimination title-ix |
Whether a school that expels a student based on charges and evidence motivated by sex bias denies that student educational opportunities 'on the basis… |
| 20-217 |
Richard Balter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
expert-witness federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice proximate-cause standard-of-care virginia-medical-malpractice-act |
Does the Virginia Medical Malpractice Act's requirement apply to a medical malpractice claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act? |
| 20-234 |
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Yolany Padilla, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
GVR |
|
5th-amendment classwide-injunction credible-fear detention due-process expedited-removal immigration immigration-detention statutory-interpretation |
Whether 8 U.S.C. authorizes the government to detain aliens who are placed in expedited removal proceedings, but who then establish a credible fear of… |
| 20-239 |
Juan Carlos Solorzano-Guerrero v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 20-242 |
Norine Sylvia Cave v. Delta Dental of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
beneficiaries-rights benefits-denial breach-of-fiduciary-duties claim-adjudication erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duties fiduciary-responsibility medical-records medical-records-withholding plan-administration unauthorized-benefits |
Whether a covered entity violates ERISA, by improperly denying beneficiaries' rights and further compounds such violations by approving unauthorized b… |
| 20-244 |
James Michael Fayed v. California |
California |
Denied |
|
double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-fairness right-to-counsel separate-sovereigns silver-platter-doctrine sixth-amendment uncharged-allegations |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches on uncharged murder allegations |
| 20-247 |
Duane Ronald Belanus v. Leo Dutton, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 20-248 |
Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Charles Koch, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
5th-amendment case-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence fifth-amendment judicial-recusal procedural-fairness recusal standing |
Whether the lower courts deprived the petitioner of due process rights by failing to provide an opportunity to be heard, properly weigh the evidence, … |
| 20-250 |
Mark Anthony Poole v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
|
aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment hurst-precedent hurst-v-florida jury-recommendation mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in reinstating a capital sentence issued under Florida's pre-2016 scheme |
| 20-255 |
Mahanoy Area School District v. B. L., a Minor, By and Through Her Father, Lawrence Levy and Her Mother, Betty Lou Levy |
Third Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (36) |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech school-discipline school-regulation student-rights student-speech |
Whether Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District applies to off-campus student speech |
| 20-256 |
Zavian Munize Jordan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession predicate-crime statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether separate convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1) require separate predicate crimes and separate acts of using, carrying, or possessing a firea… |
| 20-272 |
Maryland, et al. v. Jimmie Rogers |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment |
Did the Court of Appeals of Maryland depart from this Court's decisions in Smith v. Doe and Apprendi v. New Jersey |
| 20-276 |
Christopher M. Gibson v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
administrative-law administrative-law-judges appointments-clause constitutional-challenge dodd-frank free-enterprise-fund jurisdictional-review lucia-v-sec sec-enforcement securities-and-exchange-commission separation-of-powers |
Whether Congress has implicitly stripped federal district courts of jurisdiction to adjudicate separation-of-powers challenges to the authority of SEC… |
| 20-293 |
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, et al. v. New Mexico, ex rel. Hector Balderas, Attorney General |
New Mexico |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure federal-judgment federalism government-intervention public-policy qui-tam res-judicata standing state-court |
Whether a state government is bound by a final federal judgment in a qui tam action when it declines to intervene |
| 20-301 |
Timothy B. Hennis v. United States |
Armed Forces |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
capital-punishment constitutional-provisions court-martial double-jeopardy due-process military-justice military-law state-court-acquittal state-jurisdiction |
Whether the offenses for which Petitioner was tried and acquitted in state court constituted offenses 'for which [he] cannot be tried in the courts of… |
| 20-304 |
World Programming Limited v. SAS Institute, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
all-writs-act civil-procedure enforcement enforcement-injunction federal-money-judgment federal-money-judgments foreign-judgment foreign-money-judgments judicial-remedy novel-remedies rule-69 |
Whether the All Writs Act or Rule 69 permits federal courts to fashion novel remedies to enforce federal money judgments |
| 20-306 |
Robert Olan and Theodore Huber v. United States |
Second Circuit |
GVR |
Amici (2) |
conversion criminal-procedure dirks-v-sec fraud fraud-statute government-regulation insider-trading personal-benefit property-rights securities-law |
Whether information about a proposed government regulation is 'property' or a 'thing of value' belonging to a federal, state, or local regulator such … |
| 20-315 |
Jose Santos Sanchez, et ux. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12) |
8-usc-1254a 8-usc-1255 administrative-law circuit-split immigration-law legal-status noncitizen-rights statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status |
Whether, under 8 U.S.C. § 1254a(f)(4), a grant of Temporary Protected Status authorizes eligible noncitizens to obtain status under 8 US.C. § 1255 |
| 20-329 |
Julie M. Sowell, et al. v. Tinley, Renehan & Dost, LLP, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-actors |
Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine apply to interlocutory orders that are entered in state court proceedings that end after the federal court action is … |
| 20-332 |
Maggy Hurchalla v. Lake Point Phase I, LLC, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
first-amendment free-speech genuine-belief governmental-action petition-clause public-concern tort-award verifiable-assertion |
Whether a tort award against a speaker violates the Free Speech or Petition Clause when the statement could reasonably be construed as a verifiable an… |
| 20-333 |
Bozeman Financial LLC v. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
america-invents-act federal-government federal-reserve-banks federal-reserve-system government-entity patent patent-review post-issuance-review return-mail-decision return-mail-v-usps standing |
Whether the regional Federal Reserve Banks are distinct from the Federal Government and qualify as 'persons' permitted to seek post-issuance patent re… |
| 20-334 |
City of San Antonio, Texas, On Behalf of Itself and All Other Similarly Situated Texas Municipalities v. Hotels.com, L.P., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-costs circuit-split civil-procedure cost-award discretion federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-interpretation standard-of-review |
Whether district courts lack discretion to deny or reduce appellate costs deemed taxable under Fed. R. App. P. 39(e) |
| 20-344 |
Jon Myers v. Sondra Myers, et al. |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights corruption divorce due-process emotional-distress familial-dispute intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress judicial-review legal-corruption legal-system tort-law |
Whether the Massachusetts Appeals Court erred in its skeptical treatment of the petitioner's claims regarding the degree of destructiveness in his fam… |
| 20-348 |
Gregory Shawn Mercer v. E. A. Vega |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process guarantee-clause jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment supreme-clause |
Whether a Circuit Split has arisen over the interpretation of 18 U.S.C. §924(e)(1) regarding simultaneous crimes |
| 20-351 |
Norris Paul Carey, Jr. v. Joanne Throwe, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
concealed-carry concealed-weapon first-amendment law-enforcement-officer-safety-act law-enforcement-safety-act public-employee public-employee-speech qualified-retired-law-enforcement-officer section-1983 social-media-posts |
Does a qualified retired law enforcement officer have an enforceable right under LEOSA? |
| 20-360 |
David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. v. Shawn Jensen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
attorneys-fees circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-rights fee-enhancement judicial-discretion lodestar-method prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-litigation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the PLRA leaves any room for a district court to enhance a fee award in prisoner cases beyond what it statutorily prescribes |
| 20-361 |
James Courtney, et al. v. David Danner, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause fourteenth-amendment interstate-commerce navigable-waters privileges-immunities privileges-or-immunities-clause slaughter-house-cases state-government state-power |
Is the 'right to use the navigable waters of the United States' limited solely to uses involving interstate or foreign commerce? |
| 20-364 |
Thomas Wilkins v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-procedure article-iii-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-circuit inventor-correction inventorship jurisdiction patent patent-law standing uspto-procedure |
Whether the USITC, district court, and Federal Circuit lacked Article III jurisdiction over the patent inventorship dispute |
| 20-365 |
Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
commercial-speech dilution-by-tarnishment first-amendment humor-defense lanham-act parody trademark-dilution trademark-infringement |
Whether a commercial product using humor is subject to the same analysis under the Lanham Act or must receive heightened First Amendment protection |
| 20-370 |
Konstantin Bugarenko, aka Kostyantyn Bugarenko v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 20-378 |
North Cypress Medical Center Operating Company, Ltd., et al. v. Cigna Healthcare, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-discretion benefits-denial circuit-split conflicts-of-interest employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa firestone-analysis judicial-review standard-of-review totality-of-factors |
Whether, in reviewing an ERISA administrator's benefits denial, it is automatically dispositive that 'two other courts' upheld the administrator's int… |
| 20-382 |
Territory of Guam v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3) |
cercla clean-water-act comprehensive-environmental-response-compensation- consent-decree contribution contribution-claim environmental-law environmental-liability judicial-settlement statute-of-limitations |
Whether a non-CERCLA settlement can trigger a contribution claim under CERCLA Section 113(f)(3)(B) |
| 20-405 |
City of Miami Gardens, Florida v. Wells Fargo & Co., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
alabama-legislative-black-caucus article-three circuit-conflict civil-rights discovery due-process standing sua-sponte summary-judgment |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's sua sponte dismissal of the case on standing grounds without providing the plaintiff an opportunity for discovery and e… |
| 20-407 |
Nancy Massenburg v. Innovative Talent Solutions, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-charge employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit pro-se-litigation statute-of-limitations summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the Fourth Circuit properly upheld the district court's dismissal of Title VII claim |
| 20-410 |
NTCH, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
|
administrative-agency administrative-law agency-discretion auction auction-integrity cash-payments integrity public-interest regulatory-agency regulatory-benefits rule-making |
Whether an administrative agency may accept cash payments in exchange for granting regulatory benefits required to be granted solely on relevant publi… |
| 20-423 |
LaQuanda Gilmore Garrott v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
charge-bargain judicial-review maximum-sentence plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers |
Whether a district judge violates the separation-of-powers by rejecting a plea-agreement containing a charge-bargain based solely on the judge's view … |
| 20-427 |
Polk County, Wisconsin v. J. K. J., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violations failure-to-train monell-liability municipal-liability section-1983 single-incident-theory |
Whether the 'single-incident' theory of Monell liability may be used to hold a municipality liable under §1983 on the theory that its failure to do mo… |
| 20-440 |
Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (2) |
35-usc-282 assignor-estoppel due-process judicial-doctrine patent patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant in a patent infringement action who assigned the patent, or is in privity with an assignor of the patent, may have a defense of in… |
| 20-441 |
Minnesota Sands, LLC v. County of Winona, Minnesota |
Minnesota |
Denied |
|
commerce-clause discrimination interstate-commerce mineral-rights mining permitting-requirements property-interest property-rights state-regulation takings-clause |
Does a state or local government impermissibly discriminate against interstate commerce when it allows a mineral to be mined for all uses that are com… |
| 20-456 |
Michael Elder v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-procedure official-misconduct party-presentation search-and-seizure supervisee-rights supervisee-search suspicionless-search |
Whether the Second Circuit violated the party presentation principle |
| 20-457 |
MarketGraphics Research Group, Inc. v. David Peter Berge |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split debtor-liability discharge intent-standard objective-certainty statutory-interpretation subjective-intent willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury |
Whether the 'willful and malicious injury' exception applies only where a debtor has a subjective intent to injure or may also be satisfied by conduct… |
| 20-464 |
James J. Rosemond v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
actus-reus capital-cases concession-of-guilt criminal-defendant criminal-procedure right-to-autonomy sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Does an attorney violate a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to autonomy by admitting, over the defendant's objection, that the defendant ord… |
| 20-47 |
Lebamoff Enterprises, Inc., et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
commerce-clause direct-to-consumer-shipping interstate-commerce liquor-regulation nondiscrimination-principle state-authority state-liquor-law twenty-first-amendment |
Whether a state liquor law that allows in-state retailers to ship wine directly to consumers but prohibits out-of-state retailers from doing so, is in… |
| 20-471 |
Y. W. v. Patricia Aufiero, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal finality finality-doctrine judicial-procedure microsoft-baker-precedent microsoft-corp-v-baker without-prejudice without-prejudice-dismissal |
Whether the mere using of the word 'dismissed' is enough to make an order final within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. 1291 |
| 20-472 |
HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC, et al. v. Renewable Fuels Association, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
continuous hardship exemptions since 2011 to qual administrative-law disproportionate-economic-hardship energy-policy epa-regulation hardship-exemption renewable-fuel-standard small-refineries small-refinery-exemption statutory-interpretation |
Whether a small refinery must receive uninterrupted, continuous hardship exemptions since 2011 to qualify for a hardship exemption under the Renewable… |
| 20-484 |
Patricia L. Woods v. Robert Storms, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-rights de-novo-review due-process equitable-estoppel equitable-tolling fraudulent-concealment ninth-circuit-review pro-se-complaint statutes-of-limitation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit decision should be reversed and remanded |
| 20-488 |
Sangeeta Bhargava v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. |
California |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure forgery fraud judicial-process robo-signing standing |
Are forgery and robo-signing one and the same? |
| 20-490 |
Damien Freeman v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
aedpa circuit-split federal-habeas final-judgment habeas-corpus habeas-petition resentencing state-court-judgment statute-of-limitations |
Whether the statute of limitations for filing a habeas petition begins when the new judgment entered following resentencing becomes final |
| 20-491 |
Sandy Perez Hernandez v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
|
capital-murder criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manslaughter texas-law |
Does the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bar conviction for intentional injury to a child following acquittal for capital murder, but convict… |
| 20-495 |
Charee Stanley v. ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cba-interpretation circuit-split federal-preemption federal-statutory-claims mandatory-arbitration preemption railway-labor-act title-vii undue-hardship |
Whether the RLA's mandatory arbitration requirement applies to federal statutory claims |
| 20-496 |
Lynn Weinberg v. Deborah Bort |
Florida |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process florida-constitution florida-supreme-court fourth-district-court full-faith-and-credit probate probate-law |
Whether the 4th District Court of Appeal of Florida violated due-process protections |
| 20-498 |
Sonia Garcia, et vir v. Wesley Blevins, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity stare-decisis unpublished-decisions unpublished-opinions |
Whether a person holding a gun has a Fourth Amendment right to be free from deadly force |
| 20-502 |
Ken Mascara, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of St. Lucie County, Florida, et al. v. Viola Bryant, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gregory Vaughn Hill, Jr. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-police-liability civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-admissibility harmless-error judicial-review police-liability probation probationary-status rules-of-evidence standard-of-review |
Whether the Court should adopt a more flexible standard of admissibility of evidence than Huddleston v. U.S. under Rules 403 and 404(b) in civil polic… |
| 20-5020 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Tri-Lift North Carolina, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction |
| 20-5025 |
Eddie Matthew Amos v. Tommy Bowen |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
convicted-felon criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial felon-in-possession firearm-possession ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense |
Is a criminal defendant denied a fair trial and the effective assistance of counsel when defense counsel fails to request a jury instruction on self-d… |
| 20-5028 |
Richard Charles Lussy v. Wade J. Dahood |
Montana |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech jury-trial legal-procedure ministerial-oath oath-of-office standing stare-decisis |
Whether to apply Federal Constitution: [A] bad speech to impeach hearsay-stare decisis with particularized legislated Montana Code Annotated |
| 20-5029 |
Richard Charles Lussy v. Henry Paumie Lussy |
Montana |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-constitution free-speech hearsay-impeachment jury-verdict ministerial-oath standing stare-decisis |
Whether to apply Federal Constitution: [A] bad speech to impeach hearsay-stare decisis with particularized legislated Montana Code Annotated (MCA) in-… |
| 20-503 |
Tofig Kurbanov v. UMG Recordings, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
due-process foreign-citizen fourth-circuit-court internet-transactions personal-jurisdiction sovereignty website-operation |
Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when a foreign citizen is subjected to personal jurisdiction based on operation of a website and minor inte… |
| 20-5043 |
Jiping Rizk v. Defense Finance and Accounting Service |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination language security-clearance workplace-termination |
Whether the termination of the plaintiff's employment was unlawful due to language barriers and lack of due process |
| 20-5048 |
Josh L. Bowman v. Bert Boyd, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment batson-challenge confession confession-suppression constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection police-misconduct police-threats suppression |
Whether Mr. Bowman's confession should have been suppressed due to threats by police? |
| 20-506 |
Sergei Vinkov v. Mark Smith, et al. |
California |
Denied |
|
civil-rights communication-decency-act defamation due-process first-amendment religious-organization subject-matter-jurisdiction volunteer-protection-act |
Whether the lower courts have subject matter jurisdiction over a defamation lawsuit against a foreign national board director of a religious organizat… |
| 20-5064 |
Tony Brown v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process exculpatory-evidence Landgraf-v-USI-Film-Prods preindictment-delay prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity rico-conspiracy statute-of-limitations witness-evidence |
Should the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of Lovasco be addressed? |
| 20-5074 |
Robert Banks, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion pretextual-stop racial-profiling search-and-seizure unreasonable-detention unreasonable-seizure whren-v-united-states |
Should Whren v. United States be overruled to protect against racial profiling and discrimination? |
| 20-5084 |
Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-claim civil-rights due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-prejudice racial-bias sentencing sixth-amendment |
was-ellis-prejudiced |
| 20-509 |
Jonnaven Jo Monalim, et ux. v. HawaiiUSA Federal Credit Union |
Hawaii |
Denied |
|
constitutional-law deficiency-judgments due-process english-common-law foreclosure foreclosure-deficiency judicial-procedure market-value property-rights retroactivity |
Does the centuries old English common law procedure for calculating foreclosure deficiency judgments violate the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and … |
| 20-5090 |
Ronald Lynn Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-510 |
IQVIA Inc. v. Florence Mussat, M.D., S.C. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-procedure class-action due-process federal-courts jurisdiction-limits personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a district court with jurisdiction coextensive with a state court in the district can exercise personal jurisdiction over absent class members… |
| 20-511 |
Chris George v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Virgin Islands |
Denied |
|
administrative-court administrative-law civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-authority motor-vehicle personal-liberty property-rights right-to-travel standing |
What legal authority or standing does the V.I. Government have to take me a private individual into its administrative/commercial court (Magistrate Co… |
| 20-5123 |
Cardell A. Hayes v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-pipeline criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict pipeline ramos-relief ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment |
Whether Cardell Hayes is entitled to the relief provided by Ramos v. Louisiana because his case is in the appeal pipeline |
| 20-515 |
Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company v. Gateway Hospitality Group Inc., et al. |
Montana |
Denied |
|
arbitration-clause civil-procedure due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-selection fourteenth-amendment insurance insurance-contract personal-jurisdiction |
Whether the nationwide territory of coverage clause in the insurance policy obligated the insurer to submit to personal jurisdiction in a Montana cour… |
| 20-516 |
D'Ann S. McCoy v. Boureima Ouedraogo |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte ex-parte-communication family-court judicial-disqualification judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction sua-sponte |
Has the Pennsylvania Court System violated the constitutional rights of the Appellant, D'Ann McCoy, through communication ex-parte in a matter without… |
| 20-5184 |
Richard Brian Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-charging criminal-procedure indictment indictment-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-provision statutory-interpretation |
Whether sentencing Mr. Williams under the ACCA was error |
| 20-5188 |
Adelso Barnes v. Janet Dowling, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-exception criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-consultation miscarriage-of-justice plea-change right-to-counsel |
Whether an affirmative statement entitles Mr. Barnes to the consultation required by Roe v. Flores-Ortega |
| 20-519 |
State Bar of California, et al. v. Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
11-usc-523(a)(7) attorney-discipline bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split federal-courts kelly-v-robinson public-protection statutory-interpretation |
Whether payments ordered by the California Supreme Court as a condition of an attorney's discipline, imposed to protect the public, are non-dischargea… |
| 20-5202 |
Jerome Collins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attempted-assault categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-prisoners mental-state plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty reckless-endangerment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the New York crime of attempt to commit a crime qualifies as a 'crime of violence |
| 20-5211 |
Michael Anthony Dobson v. Colin D. Stolle, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process informant-relationship personal-safety prison-administration race-restrictions state-action state-custody |
Whether the administration of a state prison facility's policy of routinely recording phone calls between prisoners and their attorneys violates the p… |
| 20-522 |
Xavier Demetrius Porter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
categorical-approach dicta federal-court federal-court-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-interpretation precedent state-court state-court-dicta statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court applying the categorical approach is required to give significant weight to on point dicta from the relevant State's highest c… |
| 20-523 |
Clarence Matthew Otworth v. PNC Bank |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
americans-with-disabilities-act bank-obligations banking check-cashing check-cashing-fee civil-rights disabled-customer disabled-customers non-customer-agent uniform-commercial-code |
Whether a bank is obligated to cash a check and give the money to the agent of a disabled customer who is the payee |
| 20-5236 |
In Re Russell Rope |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extraordinary-writ government-relief legal-remedy standing supreme-court-jurisdiction takings writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the Law Extends to All Citizens & Corporations in Modern Times? |
| 20-5247 |
Avern Lee Burnside v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence perjured-testimony presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether Mr. Burnside's due-process rights were violated and he is entitled to a new trial based on newly-discovered-evidence where the prosecutor know… |
| 20-527 |
Kevin Guskiewicz, in His Official Capacity as Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, et al. v. DTH Media Corporation, et al. |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
disciplinary-records discretion education-records educational-privacy ferpa public-records sexual-assault sexual-assault-disciplinary-records supremacy-clause |
Does the Supremacy Clause permit a state public-records law to override the discretion that FERPA grants universities over the disclosure of sexual-as… |
| 20-5278 |
Melvin Whitehead v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
crime-of-violence federal-court federal-recidivism-enhancement federal-sentencing-guidelines intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence negligence-standard recidivism-enhancement state-offense |
Whether the definition of a crime of violence under federal recidivism enhancement provisions requires more than negligence with respect to harm to an… |
| 20-5285 |
Melvin Lee Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment circuit-court-split criminal-procedure drug-enforcement fourth-amendment locked-containers marijuana-odor probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Scope of search warrant based on marijuana odor |
| 20-5289 |
Justin W. Sanderson v. Keith J. Foley, Warden |
Ohio |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment writ-of-mandamus |
Whether this present petition should be liberally construed by this court as a petition for Writ of Mandamus or as an original request for a Writ of H… |
| 20-5291 |
Dexter Leemon Johnson v. John Marlar |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-conflict civil-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements medical-treatment standing tenth-circuit warrant-constitutionality |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's failure to satisfy itself of district court's jurisdiction resulted in it exceeding its discretion and jurisdiction |
| 20-530 |
Harold H. Burbank, II v. Connecticut Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel |
Connecticut |
Denied |
|
attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech petition petition-rights political-speech |
Did the First Amendment and Connecticut Constitution preclude Connecticut from reciprocal attorney discipline |
| 20-5308 |
Tammy Horton v. The Methodist University, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-accommodations disability-rights due-process equal-protection higher-education rehab-act rehabilitation-act |
Whether the United States District and Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit are obligated to confirm an institution of higher learning, subject to … |
| 20-5329 |
Douglas Dean Scyphers v. Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection grand-jury indictment indictment-procedure statutory-conflict vagueness |
Question not identified |
| 20-5341 |
Erik Becerra v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
affirmative-defense criminal-justice criminal-prosecution federal-law firearm-possession judicial-development lower-court-conflict statutory-interpretation |
Does federal law permit the judicial development of an innocent-transitory possession (ITP) affirmative defense in a criminal prosecution for unlawful… |
| 20-5342 |
Rigoberto Avila, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-standard conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony innocence post-trial-developments post-trial-review scientific-evidence |
Does a conviction violate the Due Process Clause if a key part of the prosecution's case was scientific evidence that later developments have proven f… |
| 20-5355 |
Eddie David Cox v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appeal circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process resentencing sentencing |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars resentencing on counts for sentences a defendant has already served? |
| 20-5363 |
Reginald Jones v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction firearm jury-trial jury-unanimity obstruction-of-justice ramos-precedent ramos-v-louisiana |
Whether the Petitioner is entitled to be released from prison due to the State's failure to prove guilt by a unanimous jury verdict as required by Ram… |
| 20-538 |
Rentberry, Inc., et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
civil-rights first-amendment mootness nominal-damages section-1983 standing voluntary-cessation |
Whether government defendants are subject to the same voluntary-cessation standard as private defendants |
| 20-540 |
David Hegland, et al. v. Nicola T. Hanna |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights congressional-acts due-process federal-grand-jury government-petitions government-redress judicial-accountability legal-standing ninth-circuit-review redress-of-grievances right-to-petition standing |
Do American Citizens have the right to petition their government for the redress of their grievances? |
| 20-541 |
James MacDonald v. Louis E. Kempinsky, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts civil-rights discovery due-process equal-protection petition-for-redress |
Question not identified |
| 20-5416 |
Roosevelt Cure, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc |
Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause |
| 20-5417 |
Rasheed Lamar Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-habeas-corpus felony-convictions national-importance retroactive-sentencing |
Whether the retroactive erasure of felony convictions violates due process and the denial of a Certificate of Appealability reflects a breakdown in th… |
| 20-543 |
Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law alaska-native-claims-settlement-act alaska-native-corporation cares-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance indian-tribe relief-funds statutory-interpretation tribal-government |
Whether Alaska Native regional and village corporations established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act are 'Indian Tribe[s]' for purp… |
| 20-544 |
Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, Inc., et al. v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3) |
agency-practice alaska-native-claims-settlement-act alaska-native-corporations cares-act circuit-split federal-benefits indian-self-determination-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance statutory-interpretation tribal-recognition |
Whether ANCs are 'Indian tribes' under ISDEAA and therefore are eligible for emergency-relief funds under Title V of the CARES Act |
| 20-545 |
Barbara D. Terrell v. John Lewis Renner, II |
West Virginia |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations-exception due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-assets notice privileges-immunities property |
Whether the domestic-relations-exception applies to property rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-5485 |
Maurice Moss v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc |
Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause |
| 20-5486 |
Spencer E. Miles v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc |
Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause |
| 20-5509 |
Christopher L. Pugh v. Linton Deloach, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question court-of-appeals due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review non-published-order unpublished-order |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in disposing of the constitutional question presented by habeas petitioner by denying his application for Certifica… |
| 20-5517 |
Scotty Ray Gardner v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts aggravating-circumstance aggravating-circumstances appellate-review capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-instructions |
Whether due process requires that every statutory element of an aggravating circumstance be proven beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 20-5518 |
Lewis J. Vance v. Timothy E. Buchanan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-appeal wrongful-conviction |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state court denied his request for a new trial based on newly discovered evidenc… |
| 20-5519 |
Richard Wanke v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
arrest arrest-initiation conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process prosecution prosecutorial-delay public-defender speedy-trial |
When does an arrest initiate prosecution for speedy trial purposes? |
| 20-5525 |
Larry R. Bailey v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law agency-discretion discovery-rights due-process federal-lands fee-authority fees judicial-procedure public-lands public-records standing |
Whether the District Court erred when it determined that the Secretary of the Interior can charge an amenity fee |
| 20-553 |
Pennsylvania Voters Alliance, et al. v. Centre County, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
elections-clause federal-common-law federal-elections political-subdivisions private-financing private-grants social-contract standing tortious-interference |
Whether the social contract of the Federal Elections Clause requires federal elections, thus prohibiting such private federal election grants |
| 20-5537 |
Anderson Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process johnson-decision mississippi-state-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-johnson violent-felony |
Whether Mr. Alexander should be resentenced without application of the armed career criminal provisions of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 20-5539 |
Ginger Glo Rumzis v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
| 20-5541 |
Betsy Sachs v. Bank of America, N.A. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
arbitration attorney-conduct civil-rights debt-collection due-process fdcpa foreclosure judicial-procedure manifest-disregard |
Whether the definition of a 'debt collector' under the FDCPA includes attorneys who select non-judicial foreclosure |
| 20-556 |
Special Services Bureau, Inc., dba Regional Bonding Co. v. Circuit Court of West Virginia, Berkeley County |
West Virginia |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-discretion bail-bondsmen constitutional-challenge discretionary-power due-process good-moral-character statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether W.Va. Code § 51-10-8 violates the due-process, vagueness |
| 20-5566 |
John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-counsel relief-denial standing state-court-procedure |
Can the systematic deprivation of counsel be used as the primary reason to deny post-conviction relief? |
| 20-5567 |
Linda Ames v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A. |
Washington |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
assignment foreclosure jurisdiction parties quiet-title relationship statute-of-limitations summary-judgment tolling trustee-appointment unjust-enrichment |
Does the complete absence from the jurisdiction of this court from the outset of the assignment in 2011 entitle the plaintiff to claim that the statut… |
| 20-557 |
Enrique Aguirre-Chavez v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 20-5572 |
Michael Aaron Witkin v. Mariana Lotersztain, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment expert-testimony medical-care prison-conditions summary-judgment |
Whether expert medical testimony is necessary to survive summary judgment in an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim |
| 20-5578 |
Steven Gerard Walker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure federal-state-courts felon-in-possession mens-rea preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony |
Whether a sentencing judge can find facts about a defendant's prior offenses |
| 20-560 |
Brian Sullivan, et al. v. Nassau County Interim Finance Authority, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof constitutional-law contract-clause emergency-measure government-contracts less-deferential-standard reasonable-and-necessary state-impairment wage-freeze |
Whether the Court should re-examine the 'reasonable and necessary' test, applied under a 'less deferential' standard, when a State impairs its own con… |
| 20-561 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al., Appellants v. City of San Jose, California, et al. |
California |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 20-562 |
John Yearwood, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court forney-v-apfel judicial-review national-importance res-judicata standing standing-to-appeal |
Whether the decision below denying the Petitioners' standing to appeal the district court's final judgment on their constitutional claims under the Ad… |
| 20-5623 |
Maksim Stefanyuk v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-rule criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-destruction exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct spoliation trial-rights |
When a defendant's requested exculpatory evidence is destroyed by the government prior to trial, should the trial proceed? |
| 20-5638 |
Stanley J. Caterbone v. Lancaster County Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-abuse due-process free-speech intelligence-agencies judicial-misconduct national-security nsa-operations standing |
Is there Judicial Misconduct and Abuse of Authority and are the courts attempting to hide the fact that there are abuses by the military and intellige… |
| 20-5639 |
TJ Cain, aka Thomas J. Cain v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure involuntary-confession miranda-rights plain-error pretrial-motion suppression-of-evidence |
When a criminal defendant does not timely file a pretrial motion raising a claim covered by Federal-Rule-of-Criminal-Procedure-12(b)(8), is his claim … |
| 20-5649 |
David Blaszczak v. United States |
Second Circuit |
GVR |
Amici (1)IFP |
conversion criminal-liability dirks-v-sec fraud fraud-statute government-property insider-trading regulatory-information statutory-interpretation title-15 title-18 |
Whether government regulatory information is property or a thing of value |
| 20-5659 |
Gabriel M. Robles v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-communication extraordinary-writ mandamus-petition standing veterans-benefits |
Question not identified |
| 20-5693 |
In Re Terron Garhard Dizzley |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-rights double-jeopardy fifth-amendment hung-jury jury mistrial trial-procedure unanimous-verdict |
Whether the judges ruling that the jury's failure to reach a unanimous decision was not a failure on the jury's part was acquittal and the constitutio… |
| 20-571 |
Yoel Weisshaus v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
commerce-clause congressional-authority dormant-commerce-clause legal-tender pleading-standards price-fixing state-regulation |
When Congress exercises authority under the Commerce Clause, whether a negative impact to that act of Congress is actionable within the parameters of … |
| 20-5731 |
In Re Brent L. Alford |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2244(d)(1)(B) 2244(d)(2) aedpa article-i-section-9 constitutional-impediment great-writ habeas-corpus state-prisoner statutory-tolling |
Does a Federal Court's denial of a State prisoner's right to statutory tolling under 2244(d)(2) or 2244(d)(1)(B) effectively suspend the Great Writ in… |
| 20-5746 |
Brandon Thomas Finnesy v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-636 consent-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure guilty-plea judicial-consent magistrate-judge statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(3) authorizes a federal magistrate judge to accept a guilty plea with the parties' consent? |
| 20-5750 |
Chester Alan Staples v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err in denying my motion (Stanles) for a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 20-5765 |
Daniel F. Borden, Sr. v. Gary Swarthout, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether exculpatory material evidence that would exonerate a person is required to be disclosed by the prosecution |
| 20-5775 |
Natalie Angeles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure harm-analysis judicial-coercion presentence-report sentencing structural-error |
Does a district court coerce the Defendant to withdraw her objections to findings in the Presentence Report where the court informs the Defendant that… |
| 20-5784 |
Cedric Jeffries v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
complaining-witness confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence prior-sexual-assault rape-shield-law sexual-assault witness-testimony |
Does a State rape-shield law violate the Constitutional rights to confrontation and due process? |
| 20-5801 |
James Rogers v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-claims federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus legal-precedent state-court-decisions supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc |
Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C… |
| 20-582 |
Shadreck Kifayatuthelezi v. South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights compensation eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment incarceration qualified-immunity release-date seventh-amendment state-law |
Whether the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or state law provide a source of compensation when an inmate is incarcerated past his lawf… |
| 20-5828 |
Roderick A. Carter v. CPC Logistics, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law burden-of-proof driver-fatigue employer-admissions employment-discrimination federal-regulations protected-activity retaliation staa-protection trucking-safety whistleblower-protection |
When an employer admits to a violation in writing to the federal government, should they be held accountable to their words? |
| 20-583 |
Mitzi Elaine Dailey v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline confidentiality confidentiality-breach due-process equal-protection judicial-bias mandamus-petition pro-bono |
Should the Maryland Court of Appeals have granted Petitioner's request for a hearing on her Petition for Writ of Mandamus |
| 20-5840 |
James Robert Miller v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process ethical-violations federal-jurisdiction indictment-dismissal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal |
Whether a prosecutor's initiation of an investigation in a case in which he has a personal and financial interest, and subsequent continued involvemen… |
| 20-5874 |
Jerry Lard v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-prohibition death-penalty eighth-amendment execution intellectual-disability ripeness waiver |
Whether a death-sentenced inmate is permitted to waive a viable claim for an Eighth Amendment categorical probation against the execution of persons w… |
| 20-588 |
Lyneal Wainwright, Warden v. Jason S. Sexton |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
aedpa circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas state-proceedings |
Can federal courts award habeas relief based on errors in state proceedings? |
| 20-589 |
Reed Kirk McDonald v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees case-conclusion civil-procedure criminal-conduct federal-jurisdiction federal-removal-law judicial-misconduct magistrate-jurisdiction removal state-court state-court-procedure |
Did the Magistrate for the District of Colorado error in determining that the Bellco and Eagle cases had concluded? |
| 20-590 |
Ryan Pankoe v. Laura Pankoe |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
|
divorce divorce-law establishment-clause no-fault-divorce pennsylvania-constitution public-policy subject-matter-jurisdiction viewpoint-based |
whether-section-3301(d)-of-the-pennsylvania-divorce-code-is-unconstitutional |
| 20-5904 |
Tarahrick Terry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)IFP |
2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
Whether pre-August 3, 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) have a 'covered offense' under Section 404 of the First Step Act |
| 20-592 |
Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-action state-court-proceedings |
Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bar federal constitutional claims arising from a government action in the state trial court before a final ruling in … |
| 20-593 |
Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
citizen-redress civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-damages due-process ex-parte-order government-liability judicial-immunity standing |
Does the doctrine of judicial immunity extend beyond protecting the individual judges, personally, for their actions, to shielding the government, on … |
| 20-594 |
Richard S. Berry v. State Bar of Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust civil-rights commercial-speech constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment free-speech professional-regulation professional-services standing state-bar-regulation unauthorized-practice-of-law |
Is a court rule defining and prohibiting the unauthorized practice of law an unconstitutional abridgment of commercial speech? |
| 20-5954 |
Meryl S. McDonald v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing right-to-counsel |
Whether rule 3.851(b)(6)&(i) of the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is unconstitutional and violates the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses … |
| 20-596 |
Leroy E. Scott v. City of St. Petersburg, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection home-rule-powers municipal-abatement racial-discrimination seventh-amendment special-assessment-liens standing summary-judgment |
Is the PER CURIAM Affirm opinion a pretext for discrimination? |
| 20-597 |
Wisdom Jeffery v. Nathan Brooks, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-error deference federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-default |
Whether a state court's decision concerning a constitutional error should receive deference under AEDPA's 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) within the context of de… |
| 20-598 |
Jeffrey F. Kratz v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process mortgage-litigation property-rights summary-judgment |
Was Jeffrey F. Kratz denied his Constitutional Rights under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States which provides that no person … |
| 20-5996 |
Jamaal Howard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evaluation miranda-rights sixth-amendment |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 20-600 |
Anthony Sevy v. Philip Barach |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force first-amendment free-speech government-official qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-force symbolic-protest |
Does the First Amendment prohibit government officials from using retaliatory force against an individual exercising protected speech? |
| 20-6014 |
Jasper Lee Vick v. Clement F. Bernard, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-violation deliberate-indifference due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation medical-segregation prisoner-grievance retaliation summary-judgment |
Whether there is a temporal proximity between Petitioner's protected conduct and the Sixth Amendment retaliation act of placement in medical segregati… |
| 20-6017 |
Tracey Godfrey v. Lynn Guyer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
Question not identified |
| 20-6019 |
Greg P. Givens v. Clyde Yates, Jr., et al. |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech immunity judicial-discretion petition-clause standing |
Does the lower court have the absolute right to wholly suspend the First Amendment rights of free speech and petition for redress of grievances? |
| 20-6021 |
William Allen v. Candice Batts, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alexander-v-louisiana constitutional-violation de-novo-review due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury-discrimination habeas-corpus jefferson-v-morgan systematic-exclusion |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to habeas corpus relief |
| 20-6025 |
Steven McManus v. Mary Vann, Superintendent, Altona Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof emotional-appeals evidence-mischaracterization fair-trial inflammatory-statements prosecutorial-misconduct vouching witness-vouching |
Whether the cumulative effect of the prosecutor's actions deprived the petitioner of a fair trial? |
| 20-6026 |
Kenneth H. Newkirk v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-matter civil-rights court-of-appeals deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-review legal-proceeding medical-care pattern-of-misconduct physical-injury standing |
Whether the petitioner should be subjected to deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under the Eighth Amendment, even though the petitioner … |
| 20-6028 |
Carmencita Maria Pedro v. City Fitness, LLC, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-duty due-process equal-protection evidence-fabrication forgery judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct rule-of-law standing |
If United States District Court Judges are unable to discern the falsity of forged documents, how can the public have confidence in the federal judici… |
| 20-6035 |
Randy Williams v. South Carolina Workers' Compensation Commission, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process property-rights standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining if a government action constitutes a regulatory taking under th… |
| 20-6036 |
Torrey Washington v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the prosecution failed to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 20-6040 |
Charlie Bell Bullock v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence professional-norms sentencing-phase sixth-amendment standard-of-review victim-rights |
Does the Confrontation Clause require a victim to be made available for cross-examination if pictures of them are submitted, and is counsel ineffectiv… |
| 20-6053 |
Dieter Riechmann v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-standard circuit-split evidence evidence-review federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-determination statutory-interpretation |
Is a state court's conclusion that evidence not presented at trial was cumulative of other evidence before the jury a 'determination of the facts' tha… |
| 20-6056 |
Matthew Jones v. Jose Capiro |
Delaware |
Dismissed |
IFP |
8th-amendment abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-psychiatrist due-process judicial-process legal-frivolity malicious-prosecution medical-misdiagnosis section-1983-claim standing |
Did the lower Courts correctly use the 10-delaware-code-subsection-8803 |
| 20-6060 |
Benjamin Davis Smiley, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mitigating-circumstances sentencing |
Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in Smiley v. State, 295 So.3d 156 (2020), violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishm… |
| 20-6063 |
Madhu Sameer v. The Right Move 4 U, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-lading cargo-damage conversion fraud harter-act insurance insurance-fraud international-shipping maritime-law multimodal-transport |
Whether the defendants are liable for the full value of the damaged cargo under the Harter Act, given the alleged destruction of the original bill of … |
| 20-6072 |
Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino v. J. Espinosa, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fees garnishment state-law |
Does the state of California have the right to circumvent its own state garnishment laws to impose the garnishment charge of $35 over the $10 fee pres… |
| 20-6077 |
Johnathan Pinney v. Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts frivolous-claims judicial-discretion pleading-standards pro-se-litigation standing three-strikes-rule |
Issues being raised |
| 20-6078 |
Delmart E. J. M. Vreeland, II v. David Zupan, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure discovery discovery-violation due-process exhaustion fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miscarriage-of-justice rule-60 |
Should the judgment on habeas corpus be void for failure to adhere to due process requirements before entering judgment |
| 20-6080 |
David Russell Posey v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
ada-accommodations civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection florida-bar fraud obstruction-of-justice trial-record |
Whether prosecutors' names should be struck from the trial record for violating due process and equal protection by committing obstruction of justice … |
| 20-6081 |
Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
11-usc-523 bankruptcy-discharge court-costs due-process equal-protection license-suspension professional-licensing state-bar-discipline statutory-interpretation |
Whether 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(7) bars a debtor from obtaining a discharge of State Bar disciplinary costs under Chapter 7 |
| 20-6096 |
Dieuseul Brown v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder independent-and-adequate-state-grounds jury-finding jury-instructions procedural-default second-degree-murder state-grounds |
Whether the Petitioner's claim is Procedurally-Defaulted |
| 20-6097 |
Francisco J. Martinez v. Adolfo Gonzalez, Chief Probation Officer, San Diego, California |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commodities-fraud criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions scienter |
Should CERTIORARI be granted to review whether the failure to instruct a state jury on lack of scienter could be harmless-beyond a reasonable doubt in… |
| 20-6099 |
Malcolm Moore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-review due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018 should apply to defendants whose convictions and sentences remain pending on direct review |
| 20-610 |
Linda L. Howland v. Michael Kelly, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
bank-fraud bankruptcy civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud due-process false-claims financial-crisis fraud mortgage-fraud racketeer-influenced-organizations wire-fraud |
Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals prematurely dismiss the case without viewing the facts proving violations to Federal Statutes that shows a fin… |
| 20-6107 |
Larry Michael Maples v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights controversial-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing findings-of-fact habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lower-courts pillow state-evidence |
Whether an accused's Due-Process Rights are violated when all lower courts deny an Evidentiary Hearing on controversial evidence and picture of a pill… |
| 20-611 |
Robert J. Doyle v. Jacqueline M. Vigilante |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process judicial-procedure procedural-due-process right-to-sue |
Whether the right to sue, right of access to courts, and procedural due process require a court of appeals to address and resolve every issue raised o… |
| 20-6111 |
Dorothy Moore v. Board of Review, New Jersey Department of Labor, et al. |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process employment free-speech government-retaliation standing |
Whether the petitioner's unemployment benefits were denied based on the First Amendment right to free speech |
| 20-6113 |
Jeffrey Wogenstahl v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 capital-case direct-review habeas-review magwood-v-patterson merits-decision new-judgment state-court |
When a state court re-opens direct review in a capital case, does the resultant state court merits decision constitute a 'new judgment' pursuant to th… |
| 20-6114 |
Shong-Ching Tong v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
Dismissed |
IFP |
california-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeal due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct standing supreme-court-california |
Whether the Supreme Court of California, En Banc, abused its discretion in denying the petitioner's filing |
| 20-6115 |
Warren Scott Taylor v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified |
| 20-6119 |
In Re Nira Woods |
|
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights court-reporter due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal recusal standing superior-court |
Were Petitioner's Constitutional Rights violated (including the 15+, 5th, and 14th Amendment(s)) |
| 20-6120 |
Johnny Tippins v. NWI-1, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fraudulent-concealment mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice sixth-circuit standing state-law statute-of-limitations successor-liability |
Should the Sixth Circuit recall its November 27, 2017 mandate in order to prevent a miscarriage of justice? |
| 20-6125 |
Edward Jones v. William Aaron Traylor, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims |
| 20-6126 |
Edward Jones v. Candace Edward, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in its interpretation and application of 35 U.S.C. § 101 in this case |
| 20-6127 |
Jermaine Antwan Tart v. Jamese Vigus, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-hearing discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression housing judicial-procedure pleadings summary-judgment video-evidence |
How can the case be closed without any decision on one of the due process claims? |
| 20-6128 |
Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law jury-trial parental-rights patent-claims state-procedure |
Does CL have a right to a jury trial when the state seeks to terminate parental rights? |
| 20-6131 |
Deandre M. Smith v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review corroboration demonstrative-evidence due-process felon-in-possession recanted-statements |
Whether a state appellate court's revision of procedural historical facts contrary to the record, evidence, and understanding of the court and parties… |
| 20-6132 |
Mose B. Coffee v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-arrest fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-incident-to-arrest vehicle-search warrant-requirement |
Does Gant's exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement permit searches on probable-cause, reasonable-suspicion or a categorical-approach … |
| 20-6136 |
Owen W. Barnaby v. Bret Witkowski, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment collateral-attack due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction unauthorized-practice-of-law void-ab-initio void-judgment |
Validity of void judgment and order |
| 20-614 |
Thomas D. Kerr v. Heidi L. Kerr |
Montana |
Denied |
|
child-rearing constitutional-guarantees constitutional-law due-process equal-protection family-law gender-discrimination parental-rights parenting supreme-court-review |
Can the Montana Supreme Court ignore the unjustifiable and inexplicable decisions of the lower court discriminate against a father for no other discer… |
| 20-6144 |
David Allen Kuntz v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure coercion confession constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda-rights personal-autonomy psychological-evaluation trial-counsel |
Whether appellant's waiver of his rights under Miranda v. Arizona and the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments was not knowing, intelligent, and voluntary |
| 20-6145 |
Anthony Quentin Kelly v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-law standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision regarding federal law |
| 20-616 |
Stephen Durr v. Department of the Army, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation motion-to-vacate procedural-rights standing statute-claim statutory-interpretation |
Did The U.S. District Court (Washington, DC), Abuse The U.S. Court Of Appeals (Washington DC) Abuse Discretion In The Denial Of The Petitioner Motion … |
| 20-6160 |
Azaniah Blankumsee v. Walter West, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions contract-clause due-process federal-courts first-amendment legal-interpretation private-contractors public-policy standing |
Did the court of Appeals decision create a conflict between its decision and the decision of other appellate courts on the same issues? |
| 20-6164 |
In Re Theresa S. Romain |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court full-faith-and-credit petition-clause race-discrimination |
Can a State encourage discrimination on the basis of race theory? |
| 20-6166 |
Brad Keith Sigmon v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing cumulative-evidence evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-claim martinez-v-ryan mitigation-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fourth Circuit violated this Court's directives on the Sixth Amendment's right to effective counsel when it rejected Sigmon's Martinez evi… |
| 20-617 |
California Virtual Academies v. California Public Employment Relations Board |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof constitutional-law due-process labor-relations prima-facie-case retaliation wright-line-test |
Whether California's Public Employment Relations Board may postpone consideration of employer evidence that contradicts a prima facie case of unlawful… |
| 20-6171 |
Kenneth Emanuel Baptiste v. Craig Koenig, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
capital-murder capitol-murder constitutional-error due-process fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions reconsideration severance-motion stolen-property trial-procedure |
Was instructing the Jury with CALJIC No. 2.15 in error |
| 20-6174 |
Marjory Childs v. Western Tidewater Community Services Board |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
ada-1990 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-appellate-procedure judicial-procedure mandate-rule standing title-vii |
Whether the Court of Appeals judgement shall take effect upon issuance of mandate in accordance with FED. R. App. P. 41 |
| 20-6175 |
Rico Walker v. Vance Laughlin, Warden |
Georgia |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment indictment-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-of-charges void-conviction |
Can Petitioner be convicted of a crime where the Indictment fails to allege the essential elements of the crime charged? |
| 20-6176 |
Brandon J. Weathers v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel standard-of-justice standard-of-review |
Did the Court of Appeals correctly apply the 'interests of justice' standard to the Petitioner's substitution of counsel claim where the trial court m… |
| 20-6181 |
Hasan Shareef v. Captain Moore, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-data constitutional-law 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 … |
| 20-6183 |
Timothy N. Hatton v. Mark R. Sevier, Superintendent, New Castle Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standing |
Question not identified |
| 20-6187 |
Robin Elaine Jackson v. County of Sacramento Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law fmla fmla-violation standing statutory-interpretation time-limitation wrongful-termination |
Whether a plaintiff who has no available remedy in a FMLA time limitation violation is barred from pursuing a willful violation claim |
| 20-6194 |
Brian E. Vodicka v. Michael B. Tobolowsky, Executor of the Estate of Ira E. Tobolowsky, et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-data civil-rights digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment mandamus-petition riley-v-california search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a cell phone's digital contents and location information by a private citizen debt collector violates th… |
| 20-620 |
Anthony Dwayne Williams, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-protections constitutional-rights due-process excise-tax federal-income-tax internal-revenue-code nontaxpayer nontaxpayer-status statutory-notice tax-assessment tax-liability taxpayer |
Should the United States Federal Income Tax be viewed differently when determining the assessment for the liability or penalty for a taxpayer versus a… |
| 20-6202 |
Jimmy Don Wooten v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3005 capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process error-coram-nobis statutory-interpretation |
Did 18 U.S.C.A. 3005 apply to Petitioner in 1994 when he was charged with Capital Murder and the Death Penalty was sought? |
| 20-6203 |
Rachel O. v. Alaska Department of Health and Social Services |
Alaska |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law alaska-supreme-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection guardianship native-american standing |
Question not identified |
| 20-6205 |
Alfred E. Caraffa v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
authentication civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct standing |
Whether the court documents submitted were fraudulent, with the same judge's name and position, but different signatures |
| 20-6206 |
Travis Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing solem-v-helm state-courts supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Illinois Appellant Courts must be required to follow the United States Supreme Court's opinion in Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 (1983), when ana… |
| 20-6208 |
Ira L. Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-due-process counsel-representation district-court-writ due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-errors standing |
Whether the Elevant Circuit was in error when it failed to grant the certificate of appealability |
| 20-6217 |
Adrian Rangel v. Steven P. Meyer, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process federal-appeals federal-courts judicial-review legal-procedure state-courts trial-rights |
Did Petitioner Adrian Rangel receive meaningful due process? |
| 20-6222 |
Brenda L. White v. Yang Acupuncture, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
damages medical-ethics medical-malpractice patient-consent patient-safety patient-trust professional-accountability professional-negligence standard-of-care unauthorized-treatment |
Is it lawful for a medical professional to injure a patient and just walk away? |
| 20-6223 |
Brenda L. White v. Tavel |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
duty-of-care medical-malpractice medical-negligence negligence patient-rights professional-accountability professional-liability remedial-damages standard-of-care |
Is it lawful for a medical professional to injure a patient and just walk away? |
| 20-6224 |
Brenda L. White v. Elite Beverages |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
addiction-treatment alcohol-abuse civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process duty-of-care employee-misconduct employer-responsibility employment-law reasonable-accommodation workplace-negligence workplace-safety |
Whether an employer has a duty to accommodate an employee with a known substance abuse problem |
| 20-6228 |
Helen Le v. Molly C. Dwyer, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-procedure contempt-order due-process fraud standing |
Whether the contempt order issued by Judge Kimberly J. Mueller against the petitioner was proper and lawful |
| 20-6229 |
Jerry Earl Johnson v. Erin McReynolds |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process mailbox-rule pro-se-litigant statute-of-limitations |
Does the mailbox rule apply to filing of the complaint when a pro se litigant submits the civil complaint to the prison law library to be mailed via U… |
| 20-623 |
Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process jurisdictional-dispute patent patent-infringement pro-se-litigant standing takings writ-of-certiorari |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Writ of Certiorari under the All Writs Act against the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit or against the … |
| 20-6232 |
Brian Dwight Peterson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement prosecutorial-misconduct right-against-self-incrimination right-to-counsel trial-procedure |
Whether a defense attorney has an obligation to show the defendant live video calls in a capital case and hire a private investigator that the trial c… |
| 20-6233 |
Krishna Mote v. James W. Murtin, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 20-6235 |
Mario Montano v. Court of Appeals of Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts court-sanctions due-process indigent-litigants indigent-rights judicial-abuse judicial-authority legal-merit procedural-fairness sanctions |
Did the Michigan Supreme Court abuse its authority by sanctioning the indigent Petitioner $1000 payable to the Clerk of the Court that it knew he coul… |
| 20-6239 |
Abdul Mohammed v. Prairie State Legal Services, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment civil-procedure complaint-amendment dismissal district-court notice pro-se rule-8 |
Whether a District Court can dismiss a Pro Se Plaintiff's complaint under Rule 8 without giving an opportunity to amend the complaint at least once af… |
| 20-624 |
Larry Golden v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
7th-amendment civil-rights due-process intellectual-property patent patent-rights pleading-standards pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process seventh-amendment standing |
Is it a question of law for the District Court and/or the Appeals Court judges to unjustly violate a Pro Se litigant's procedural due process or viola… |
| 20-6240 |
Kyle Brandon Richards v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aspergers-syndrome cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process mental-health self-representation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proportionality |
Question not identified |
| 20-6245 |
Jovon C. Davis v. Willis Chapman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-selection sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Denial of Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights |
| 20-625 |
Joseph Findler v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-claims dismissal-with-prejudice entitlement-to-relief federal-rules iqbal-twombly pleading-standards subject-matter-jurisdiction unconstitutional-conduct |
Do the lower federal courts have the authority to depart from the pleading standards required by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and this Court's… |
| 20-6250 |
Kyle A. Box v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the prosecution's failure to disclose evidence favorable to the defense violates due process |
| 20-6251 |
Timothy Tyrone Byers, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review judicial-power standing state-court-jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction united-states |
Whether the prosecution must always prove territorial jurisdiction over a crime in order to sustain a conviction? |
| 20-6252 |
David Boyle v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-rules civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus Jimenez-v-Quarterman judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations |
How can Ohioans reset the statute of limitations pursuant to 28-USC-2244(d)(1)(A) when Ohio-Rules-of-Appellate-Procedure prohibit the only remedy rais… |
| 20-6253 |
Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-4142 civil-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process federal-detention judicial-order mental-competency statutory-custody |
Whether continued custody under 18 U.S.C. § 4142 for almost four months beyond the expiration of an order to determine mental competency violates the … |
| 20-6254 |
Roberto Yoquigua Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidentiality criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process duress-defense fair-trial fifth-amendment pre-trial-disclosure sixth-amendment testimonial-confidentiality |
Whether and to what extent the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit a defendant to keep all of the details of his duress confidential before trial, or wh… |
| 20-6256 |
Elet Valentine v. The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment civil-procedure dismissal federal-rules-of-civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-transfer law-of-the-case motion-to-dismiss service-of-process |
Question not identified |
| 20-6257 |
Finnis Davis, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-records murder-evidence |
Whether the state presented sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Davis of attempted capital murder |
| 20-6258 |
Arthur L. Campbell v. Cynthia Gause, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise islam judicial-review prison-policy religious-freedom rluipa statutory-interpretation substantial-burden |
Whether the Sixth Circuit committed plain error, contrary to 42 U.S.C. §2000cc et seq., when it abdicated the responsibility, conferred by Congress on… |
| 20-626 |
In Re Robert A. Heghmann |
|
Denied |
|
apportionment civil-rights congressional-districts district-court due-process one-person-one-vote standing three-judge-panel writ-of-mandamus |
Should a Writ of Mandamus be issued |
| 20-6261 |
Damien Edward Desjardins-Racine v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act guidelines sentencing |
Does a DGQM0VS OP Astin give rise to an extraordinary and compelling reasons pursuant to [1423] of the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 20-6262 |
Daniel Twian Brown v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel warrantless-arrest |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability |
| 20-6264 |
Mohammed Alsayed Abdelsalam, aka Mohammed Youssef Abdelsalim, aka Mohammed Al Sayed v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 20-6265 |
Alfredo Aguilar Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment border-search cell-phone cell-phone-privacy forensic-examination fourth-amendment privacy riley-precedent riley-v-california warrant warrantless-search |
Whether a warrantless forensic search of a cell phone at a border port of entry is an unreasonable search |
| 20-6266 |
Mario Salas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-power case-error civil-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-review rule-60b standing |
Whether the unique facts of Petitioner's case reveal extraordinary circumstances justifying relief from the Habeas Judgment under Rule 60(b)(6) |
| 20-6268 |
Bryan Keith Roberts v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-trial criminal-trial-prejudice due-process jury-charge law-enforcement law-enforcement-presence prejudice right-to-fair-trial spectators statutory-interpretation |
Is the presence of a large number of uniformed, undercover, and armed spectators identifiable as law enforcement on the final day of the guilt-innocen… |
| 20-6269 |
Gilbert Montrez Gardner v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review certiorari court-of-appeals felony-murder legal-remand mens-rea robbery rosemond-precedent rosemond-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court of Appeals of Maryland erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction for felony murder when the evidence was insufficient to establ… |
| 20-627 |
E. H., III v. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Licensing |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights concealed-carry constitutional-law due-process expungement expungement-order firearms firearms-permit full-faith-and-credit state-reciprocity |
Did the Florida Court of Appeal commit reversible error and abuse its discretion in declining to recognize and apply Petitioner's New Jersey Expungeme… |
| 20-6270 |
In Re Derrick Howell |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 20-6271 |
Cordarryl Antonio Betton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process government-breach plea-agreement record-support sentencing sentencing-enhancements |
Is a Plea Agreement breached by the government when the prosecutor announces the government's agreed to recommendation to the sentencing court but the… |
| 20-6273 |
Jerome Sidney Barrett v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief pro-se-appeal standing state-appellate-procedure |
Whether a state prisoner has the right to file his own appeal Pro Se |
| 20-6274 |
Fernando Juarez, aka Fernando Perez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-discretion overarching-goal presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the presumption of reasonableness for within-guidelines sentences approved in Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007) has proved incompatib… |
| 20-6276 |
Arek R. Fressadi v. Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-violations court-rules due-process equal-protection first-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct judicial-review oath-of-office procedural-default self-defense state-law supreme-court trial-counsel venue-transfer venue-transfer
20-6275" Would a jurist of reason find debatable the correc |
Whether failures to apply mandatory language of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Supreme Court rulings, state law, and court rules are violations of the Du… |
| 20-6277 |
Percy Allen Stucks v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
castle-doctrine civil-rights criminal-law domestic-violence due-process florida-law imminent-danger residential-defense self-defense stand-your-ground |
Does a resident have the right to stand their ground in their residential property in Florida? |
| 20-6281 |
Kevin Lamar Ratliff v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Lower Courts have discretion to reduce Petitioner's sentence under U.S.S. Guideline Amendment 782, regardless of Petitioner's career offen… |
| 20-6282 |
Darius Tirrell Thomas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation u.s.-code |
Whether the Trial Court Erred in Finding the Defendant to Be a 'Career Offender' and Sentencing Him Accordingly |
| 20-6285 |
Brittany Shanice Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6287 |
In Re Antonio Akel |
|
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-court-review habeas-corpus mandamus procedural-default |
Whether the United States and a pattern of utilizing an erroneous certificate of appealability is the only appropriate remedy, where petitioners have … |
| 20-6288 |
Allen Snyder v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error legal-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation victim-identification |
Whether the lower courts erred in denying Snyder's application for post-conviction relief based on an apparent confusion about the identity of the vic… |
| 20-6290 |
Orlando Sanchez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness johnson-v-united-states postconviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version of the Sentencing Guidelin… |
| 20-6292 |
Alonte Deshavion Richey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6293 |
Raymond Alan Griffin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-law findings-of-fact motion-to-suppress threshold-determination |
May a district court make findings of fact resolving contested issues in determining that the threshold for holding an evidentiary hearing on a defend… |
| 20-6298 |
Carlton Butler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sentencing |
Does the SCOTUS have authority to release a federal inmate's lawful sentence imposed on him as part of a criminal conviction? |
| 20-6299 |
Brayan Jassiel Leyva-Peraza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split discretionary-review due-process judicial-discretion knowing-and-voluntary plea-agreement supervisory-powers unconscionability |
Whether the plea agreement was unconscionable and the plea was knowing and voluntary |
| 20-6301 |
Alfornia Jason Wall, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-state-interaction recidivism sentencing-enhancement state-law |
Whether the consecutive imposition of a federal and state recidivism-enhanced sentence violates the Double Jeopardy Clause |
| 20-6304 |
Muhanad Mahmoud Al-Farekh v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
classified-information classified-information-procedures-act criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process ex-parte ex-parte-motion national-security right-to-present-defense security-clearances |
Where the plain text of 18 U.S.C. app. 3 §4 of the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) does not require that any motion be determined ex part… |
| 20-6306 |
Phillip L. Gilliam v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary violent-felony |
Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 20-6309 |
Emilio Urena-Villa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim constitutional-law counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kimmelman-v-morrison motion-to-suppress strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether appointed counsel was ineffective for failure to file viable motion to suppress pursuant to Fourth Amendment claim |
| 20-631 |
Hologic, Inc., et al. v. Minerva Surgical, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-proceedings america-invents-act assignor-estoppel collateral-estoppel infringement-litigation patent-infringement patent-office patent-validity |
Whether an assignor of a patent may circumvent the doctrine of assignor estoppel by challenging the validity of the assigned patent in administrative … |
| 20-6311 |
Russell Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability co-conspirator-liability controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution due-process enhanced-penalty pinkerton-liability sentencing |
Whether the government must satisfy the evidentiary requirements for accomplice liability under 18 U.S.C. §2 or co-conspirator liability under Pinkert… |
| 20-6313 |
Kevin Merritt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report procedural-objection sentencing sentencing-unreasonableness |
whether-holguin-hernandez-v-united-states-is-relevant-to-preserving-claims-of-procedural-unreasonableness |
| 20-6314 |
Jovon Antoine McClures v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense 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? |
| 20-6316 |
Mickey Pubien v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing discretion first-step-act penalty-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
What the district court may appropriately consider when imposing a reduced sentence pursuant to § 404 of the First Step Act of 2018 remains an unsettl… |
| 20-6317 |
Robert Petty v. Indiana |
Indiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review closing-arguments constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether the Indiana Courts erred in denying Appellant effective assistance of trial counsel during closing arguments and sentencing, violating the Fif… |
| 20-632 |
Jason Fyk v. Facebook, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
anti-competitive-animus communications-decency-act good-faith-content-removal information-content-provider publisher-liability secondary-publisher |
Is the breadth of CDA immunity for interactive computer service providers |
| 20-6320 |
Dianne Michele Carter v. Thomas Pellicane, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bench-warrant civil-procedure constitution constitutional-supremacy due-process fourth-amendment religious-establishment separation-of-powers service-of-process standing superior-law |
Whether the Constitution or an ordinary act of the legislature governs the case |
| 20-6324 |
Michael Christopher Laird v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review mental-competency mental-deficiencies post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings procedural-fairness real-and-substantial-doubt |
Was petitioner denied his constitutional right to due process? |
| 20-6326 |
Adam Donald Bennett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2251 child-exposure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation texas-law |
Is a Texas deferred adjudication a 'prior conviction' for purposes of the sentencing enhancement in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e)? |
| 20-6327 |
Terry Charles Carroll v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-bargaining standard-of-review supervisory-powers supreme-court |
Whether the standard of review on a motion to withdraw a guilty plea conflicts with Supreme Court precedent |
| 20-6328 |
Christopher David Mayhall v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest discretionary-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remand sixth-amendment supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim based on a conflict… |
| 20-6330 |
Benjamin Macias v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy due-process mccoy-v-louisiana reckless-endangerment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether the right to insist on a speedy trial is a choice that falls within the category of a criminal defendant's right to make his own choices about… |
| 20-6332 |
Cecil Salyers v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard |
Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the Sixth Amendment in holding the petitioner cannot demonstrate prejudice under Stricklan… |
| 20-6335 |
Duane Allen Sikes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments preclude a district court from increasing a defendant's sentence based on conduct, uncharged and unrelated to t… |
| 20-6338 |
James H. Smith v. Brian Cook, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa-deference confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-charges deficient-performance federal-claim ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-misconstrue trial-court |
Can an attorney demonstrate deficient performance in representing a client while also facing serious criminal charges in the same court |
| 20-6340 |
Robert Farrace v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1343 great-recession kelly-v-united-states market-value mortgage-lenders mortgage-lending property-loss property-value short-sale wire-fraud |
Can a wire fraud conviction be sustained where the monetary losses to lenders were due to a decrease in market value of properties, and the government… |
| 20-6341 |
Jason Harriman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adequate-inquiry appointed-counsel appointment-of-counsel civil-rights court-inquiry criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether a defendant's 6th Amendment right to counsel of choice extends to an indigent defendant who has appointed counsel |
| 20-6342 |
Pedro Gutierrez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment general-verdict judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-case special-verdict |
Whether a RICO 'Gang' Case Certified as Complex Should Require the Use of a Special Verdict Form Rather Than a General Verdict Form |
| 20-6343 |
Ashley Fernandes v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure digital-devices digital-search-warrant electronic-evidence evidence fourth-amendment general-warrants probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether a search warrant can authorize an unlimited search of all of a suspect's digital devices based on an affidavit describing the type of crime be… |
| 20-6346 |
Demarcus D. Morris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment indictment-vagueness rico rico-statute sentencing |
Whether the RICO and drug conspiracy counts in the indictment are unconstitutionally vague, whether the evidence supports the crack cocaine distributi… |
| 20-6348 |
William J. O'Brien, III v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process free-speech law-enforcement procedural-error prosecution standing takings |
Whether the government's prosecution for a speech act violated the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 20-635 |
Soo Line Railroad Company, dba Canadian Pacific v. Consolidated Rail Corporation, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act jurisdiction preemption rail-corporation state-law termination-act |
Whether the court of appeals erroneously held that the exemption provision of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (49 U.S.C. § 11321(a)… |
| 20-6350 |
Esau Dozier v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brown-vs-board civil-rights due-process equal-protection public-schools racial-segregation |
Whether the US Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause prohibit racial segregation in public schools |
| 20-6360 |
Robert Hughes Wilkins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review civil-rights detainee-rights due-process health-conditions interlocutory-appeal pandemic-considerations pretrial-detention pretrial-release public-health |
Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing To Reverse District Court's Denial of Pretrial Release Conditions to Health Compromised Pretrial Detainee on I… |
| 20-6362 |
Victor Manuel Avalos-Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1229 circuit-split illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-order statutory-interpretation |
Whether an immigration court lacks jurisdiction to issue an order of removal that can later be used as a basis for an illegal reentry criminal convict… |
| 20-6364 |
Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal standing statutory-compliance |
Whether a case must proceed to final judgment with a judge who harbors actual bias against a litigant in order to obtain appellate review of the judge… |
| 20-6365 |
Gregory D. Crosby v. Bill True, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 20-6370 |
David Merritt v. Robert May, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule procedural-default rule-60 substantial-claim wrongful-conviction |
Did the Third Circuit's denial of a Rule 60(b)(6) motion constitute clear error in declining to issue a certificate of appealability |
| 20-6372 |
Willie E. Ashe, Jr. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-assistance geders-precedent geders-v-united-states plain-error presumptive-prejudice right-to-counsel sequestration sequestration-order sixth-amendment trial-interruption |
Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals erred in failing to reverse petitioner's convictions pursuant to the Sixth Amendment to the United S… |
| 20-6375 |
Molika Akwo Nweme v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 due-process prison time-extension |
Whether the court erred in denying the petitioner's request for an extension of time to file a petition for rehearing due to limited access to the law… |
| 20-6376 |
Sean Jason Harstine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-defendant appeal breaking-and-entering criminal-history due-process juvenile-offender juvenile-offenses point-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether it was error to count criminal history points for four 2004 breaking-and-entering convictions when the defendant was only 17 years old at the … |
| 20-6377 |
Anthony C. Martin v. Larry Fowler, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint |
| 20-6378 |
Brenda L. White v. Wishard Hospital |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach-of-trust equipment-failure medical-malpractice medical-negligence patient-rights patient-safety physical-therapy standard-of-care |
Whether a medical professional can be held liable for injuring a patient and abandoning them |
| 20-6380 |
China Hester v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari counsel criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-proceeding remand reversal-and-remand right-to-counsel standards-of-review |
Whether Ms. Hester may have received ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 20-6381 |
Domenico Anastasio v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court indictment rico-conspiracy second-circuit standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 20-6382 |
Randall Allen Eplion, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-practice plea-agreement sentencing standing waiver |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars the defendant from appealing 'the right to seek appellate review of . . . any sentence of imprisonm… |
| 20-6389 |
Tomas Martinez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-6390 |
Rigoberto Cabrera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-amount prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error witness-testimony |
Whether Cabrera received ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 20-6392 |
Peter Gakuba v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights declaratory-relief electronic-communications federal-circuit-court privacy privacy-protection search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation telecommunications |
Whether the Carpenter v. United States decision extends to cell-site location information obtained from a third-party cell phone provider without a wa… |
| 20-6394 |
Michael A. Hagar v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-judicial-power criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction protective-order sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act venue venue-limitations |
Question not identified |
| 20-6397 |
Douglas Cornejo v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-disclosure brady-evidence confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense witness-testimony |
Should a COA Have Been Granted to Decide If the Prosecutor's Failure to Disclose Brady Evidence Deprived Cornejo of His Right to Confront and Cross-Ex… |
| 20-640 |
The Welsh Government v. Pablo Star Ltd., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception copyright-infringement foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-state international-law jurisdictional-exception political-subdivision tourism-promotion |
Is a political subdivision of a foreign state immune from copyright infringement claims under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's commercial activi… |
| 20-6402 |
Eric Treantos v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review booker-standard booker-v-united-states criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing first-circuit-court-of-appeals gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-eric-treantos |
Does the First Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in petitioner's case conflict with this Court's decisions in Booker v. United States and Gall v. Uni… |
| 20-6403 |
Casey Mattingly v. Duval County Jail, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-trial summary-judgment |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court erred in dismissing the Plaintiff's appeal, demonstrating a violation of the Plaintiff's constitutional rights unde… |
| 20-6405 |
Joshua Cato v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under McFadden v. United States, a defendant who pleads guilty to knowingly distributing a controlled substance must admit that he knew the s… |
| 20-6406 |
Jeffrey Neal Cuddington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split history-and-characteristics preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure substantive-reasonableness |
what-is-required-to-preserve-procedural-reasonableness-claim |
| 20-6408 |
Jose Hilario Fernandez-Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-6412 |
Robert St. Hilaire v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-alteration statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit properly construed the meaning of U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(4)(B) |
| 20-6415 |
Larry Antonio Burleigh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2255-motion carjacking categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review due-process due-process-clause fourth-circuit inchoate-crime johnson-ii mandatory-sentencing |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of his motion to vacate his firearm convictions and mandatory se… |
| 20-6418 |
Michael A. Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting brandishing brandishing-firearm conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentence-reduction sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to a sentence reduction after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery and aiding and abetting bra… |
| 20-6420 |
Oscar Urias Espinoza, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-restriction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 20-6421 |
In Re Timothy J. Richards |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-overreach property-rights search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u… |
| 20-6426 |
Jose Farias-Valdovinos v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure factual-basis mens-rea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 specific-intent specific-intent-crime |
Whether the district court's omission of an independent inquiry into a defendant's mens rea during the Rule 11 plea colloquy for a specific intent cri… |
| 20-6427 |
Marquis Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018 applies to defendants whose convictions and sentences remain pending on direct review |
| 20-6434 |
Julian Madero-Diaz, aka Hector Ramon Castillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 constitutional-punishment fifth-amendment jury-trial punishment-scheme sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment supervised-release |
Whether a judge's decision to revoke a person's supervised release and send him to prison subjects him to an unconstitutional punishment scheme under … |
| 20-6435 |
Christopher Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregate-sentencing constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-appeals federal-courts judicial-precedent north-carolina-pearce north-carolina-v-pearce sentencing-doctrine |
Whether the aggregate sentencing doctrine violates the rule in North Carolina v. Pearce |
| 20-6437 |
Tommy Pena v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review upward-variance |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's toothless standard for reviewing the reasonableness of an upward variance is contrary to this Court's case law, United Sta… |
| 20-6438 |
Hector D. Molina v. Robert W. Fox, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-liability due-process fair-trial gang-conspiracy habeas-corpus natural-and-probable-consequences premeditated-murder |
Whether conviction for premeditated murder committed by others while the defendant was incarcerated based on the natural and probable consequences of … |
| 20-6439 |
Sidney Patterson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity due-process legislative-intent racketeering rico rico-statute sufficiency-of-evidence unsophisticated-crime vague-statute |
Does the application of a vaguely written racketeering statute to prosecute unsophisticated criminal activity not contemplated by the legislative inte… |
| 20-644 |
Terrence Pendergrass v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate second-circuit summary-dismissal |
Did the Second Circuit err in denying Petitioner's motion for a certificate of appealability where the district court conducted a merits analysis in s… |
| 20-6442 |
Jonair Tyreece Moore v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a circuit-split crack-cocaine discretionary-reduction district-court first-step-act racial-disparity sentencing-factors |
Whether a district court must consider the sentencing factors of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when determining whether to impose a reduced sentence for a crack… |
| 20-6446 |
Yaira T. Cotto-Flores v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing |
Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's dismissal of Petitioner's claims alleging violations of his constitutional rights un… |
| 20-6449 |
Anthony Don Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment waiver |
Whether a defendant's appeal of a sentence imposed in violation of due process and notice rights is barred by a plea agreement's waiver provision |
| 20-6450 |
Lee Yerkes v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary categorical-approach criminal-law entry generic-burglary georgia-criminal-statute sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-stitt |
Does Georgia burglary qualify as 'generic burglary' under the ACCA? |
| 20-6451 |
Genesis Javon White v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act criminal-classification factual-finding occasions-different prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses |
Whether the district court erred in classifying Mr. Griffin as an armed career criminal |
| 20-6455 |
Patricia A. Wade v. Trustees of Indiana University, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process employer-liability judicial-review monetary-damages sovereign-immunity standing state-sovereign-immunity takings |
Which parts of the constitution (if any) justify the doctrine of state sovereign immunity? |
| 20-646 |
Michael Tyler Baggott v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice sex-offender-registration |
Whether the reasoning of Lee v. United States extends to defendants facing lifelong sex offender registration conditions |
| 20-6461 |
Juan Morris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary violent-felony |
Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 20-6463 |
Alex Murillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6464 |
Benito Moreno-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Moreno because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time? |
| 20-6465 |
Damontaze Montrell Tillery v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
convicted-felon criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the evidence at trial was sufficient to convict Petitioner |
| 20-6467 |
Craig Howard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment co-tenant co-tenant-consent consent-to-search detention fernandez fourth-amendment law-enforcement physical-presence randolph reasonable-search search-and-seizure |
Does the lawful detention of an objecting co-tenant in a squad car on the premises to be searched make him absent such that another co-tenant may cons… |
| 20-647 |
Rachid Azala v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 20-6470 |
Frederick Demond Wilson v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 20-6482 |
Derrick Moffite v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
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/statutory provisions |
| 20-6485 |
Qinard Lamar Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus medical-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome statutory-interpretation |
Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence is cognizable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 proceeding in a case where the prosecution's theory was based on … |
| 20-650 |
Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main Holding GmbH v. RWE Trading Americas Inc. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure corporate-control discovery discovery-compliance document-search evidence-sufficiency judicial-discretion possession-custody-control reasonable-search subpoena subpoena-standard |
Whether the district court applied the wrong standard in concluding that the subpoena target's search was adequate and quashing the subpoena |
| 20-6508 |
Jesse Harris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether scienter is required for the two-level increase under USSG § 2D1.1(b)(5) for the importation or manufacture of methamphetamine from unlawfully… |
| 20-651 |
Cook Children's Medical Center v. T. L., a Minor, et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-liability civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hospital-review internal-review-process medical-ethics section-1983 state-action texas-advance-directives-act |
Whether private doctors who discontinue private care for a private patient at a private hospital are state actors for invoking a state law's internal-… |
| 20-652 |
George Georgiou v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability counsel-waiver due-process napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct rule-8c witness-testimony |
Whether the order of the court of appeals denying a certificate of appealability should be reversed and remanded |
| 20-6523 |
Jason Lamont Brooks v. Scott Jordan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-time-bar civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-offender lwop-sentence meaningful-opportunity montgomery-miller-precedent standing |
Does the AEDPA time-bar apply to a 'protected-class-of-citizen's' claim for relief? |
| 20-653 |
Henry Hamilton v. City of Hayti, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arrest-warrant arrest-warrants discretionary-authority fourth-amendment gerstein-v-pugh judicial-immunity municipal-court probable-cause quasi-judicial-immunity |
Did the court clerk unconstitutionally exercise a judicial function under the Fourth Amendment and Gerstein v. Pugh |
| 20-6536 |
In Re Vinodh Raghubir |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights conspiracy court-integrity due-process federal-proceedings habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct legal-procedure malicious-prosecution predetermination |
Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the Respondents conspired to predetermine the outcome of federal proceedings prior t… |
| 20-655 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. R. Craig Lawrence, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-process legal-standing religious-doctrine religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified |
| 20-6581 |
Kimberly Hanzlik v. Joseph Joseph, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard reasonable-jurists second-circuit unreasonable-application-of-law |
Was the Second Circuit's denial of Petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability unreasonable |
| 20-6587 |
In Re Marie Joy Tanamor-Steffan |
|
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-risk due-process habeas-corpus humanitarian-parole immigration immigration-detention medical-vulnerability public-health |
Whether the petitioner should be released from federal custody due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the petitioner's underlying medical conditions |
| 20-6616 |
In Re Theresa Romain |
|
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment certiorari-petition civil-procedure constitutional-fairness due-process fairness finality-of-legal-process legal-process standing state-interest void-order |
Whether a void order within the meaning of the Constitution can automatically restrain a petition to Certiorari? |
| 20-662 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al., Appellants v. Natalia Useche, et al. |
Maryland |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 20-663 |
Peter R. Culpepper v. Provectus Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act grounds-for-vacating notice-requirement preemption state-arbitration-law state-law-preemption supremacy-clause time-limitation |
Whether a state arbitration law that provides a stricter mandate than Congress intended is preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act and the Supremacy … |
| 20-6634 |
In Re Karen Denise Chades |
|
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-proceedings constitutional-law constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity strickland-v-washington teague-v-lane trial-counsel |
whether a prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assista… |
| 20-664 |
Artem M. Joukov v. Office of the State Attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-action civil-rights due-process equal-protection florida-law small-business small-business-rights state-agency statutory-interpretation |
Does the Equal Protection Clause permit the State of Florida to discriminate against unincorporated small business owners that are unsuccessfully sued… |
| 20-670 |
Jill Dillard, et al. v. Kathy O'Kelley, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split constitutional-right constitutional-rights digital-age informational-privacy precedent-analysis qualified-immunity sexual-abuse supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court's opinion in National Aeronautics and Space Administrator, et al. v. Nelson diverged from its previous holdings in Whalen v. Roe and… |
| 20-673 |
Fraternal Order of Police, Chicago Lodge No. 7 v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-agreements arbitration-enforcement eastern-associated-coal-vs-umwa federal-arbitration-act federal-policy labor-arbitration public-policy public-policy-exception supreme-court-precedent united-paperworkers-vs-misco w-r-grace-vs-local-union |
Whether the Illinois Supreme Court erred as a matter of law by expanding the scope of the public policy exception to enforcement of labor arbitration … |
| 20-675 |
Lone Star Silicon Innovations LLC v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-311-312 35-usc-314 35-usc-318 administrative-law inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-invalidation patent-procedure patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board |
Whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board may invalidate patent claims based on a ground not asserted by the petitioner |
| 20-680 |
Lee Wendell Loder v. Icemakers, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure debt-dischargeability federal-courts judicial-authority money-judgment nondischargeable-debt |
Whether a bankruptcy court has the jurisdictional authority to render a liquidated money judgment at the same time that it determines a debt to be non… |
| 20-681 |
Daniel E. Larkin, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-production burden-of-proof civil-procedure irs irs-restructuring judicial-review penalties statutory-interpretation supervisory-approval tax-law tax-penalties |
Does the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 require the Secretary of the Treasury to come forward with evidence of written … |
| 20-682 |
Tomasz Kolodziejczyk v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 20-686 |
Michael Shock v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-law discovery-violation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions |
| 20-687 |
Walter L. Allen v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process eminent-domain federal-court legal-procedure property-rights standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the government seized his property without just compensation |
| 20-689 |
Michael Lee Foster v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bail-reform-act covid-19 covid-19-pandemic due-process excessive-bail internet-offenses internet-related-offenses presumption-of-detention pretrial-detention |
Whether a categorical presumption of pretrial detention for internet-related offenses violates the Bail Reform Act and the Due Process and Excessive B… |
| 20-692 |
Rosemary Webster, et al. v. Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., aka Fresenius Medical Care North America |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure bias civil-procedure due-process fundamental-rights impartial-tribunal judicial-bias prejudice standard-of-review tribunal-neutrality |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a judgment that violated the Petitioner's fundamental rights by supporting an opinion that (I) rep… |
| 20-693 |
Mikhail Fridman, et al. v. Orbis Business Intelligence Limited, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-malice anti-slapp anti-slapp-act defamation due-process herbert-v-lando public-figure |
Whether the application of the D.C. Anti-SLAPP Act to dismiss a public figure's defamation claim violates due-process, actual-malice, herbert-v-lando |
| 20-698 |
Alan Headman v. Royal I. Hansen, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
13th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection inadequate-forum involuntary-servitude judicial-immunity thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the lack of 'specific' terms within a written agreement should prevent state court officers from imposing terms of servitude |
| 20-703 |
William Kinney Jr., et al. v. Urban Housing Development, LLC |
Oregon |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure jurisdiction mortgage-securitization property-rights res-judicata standing |
Whether the Multnomah County Trial Court is without jurisdiction to Adjudicate the Defected Inferior FED action because of the Original jurisdiction o… |
| 20-705 |
Chris Jaye v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts first-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-immunity petition-rights pleading-standards standing |
Has the US Court of Federal Claims and US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law (Erickson vu. Pardus, Johns… |
| 20-707 |
Duane Joseph Johnson v. Eric D. Wilson, Warden |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-counsel brady-standard brady-v-maryland due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance preponderance-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Must a habeas petitioner asserting ineffective assistance of appellate counsel establish by a preponderance that counsel's omitted argument was merito… |
| 20-710 |
John Grove v. Stephen A. Groome, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-interest right-to-appeal small-claims-court takings |
Does Grove have a protected property interest under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments such that he has a civil-rights-claim and takings-claim agains… |
| 20-712 |
Leonid Burlaka, et al. v. Contract Transport Services, LLC |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fair-labor-standards-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce intrastate-transport shipper-intent statutory-exemption transportation-jurisdiction transportation-regulation |
Are drivers subject to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Transportation, and therefore exempt under 29 U.S.C. §213(b)(1) |
| 20-714 |
Stephen A. Saccoccia v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-law gross-disproportionality joint-and-several-liability joint-liability statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the courts of appeal may create exceptions to this Court's finding in Honeycutt v. United States |
| 20-715 |
Jibriil A. Hersi v. Ed Sheldon, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-authorization jury-trial police-conduct police-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel trial-records |
whether-i-am-entitled-to-get-the-missing-records |
| 20-721 |
Katie Garding v. Montana |
Montana |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment accident-reconstruction effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-testimony ineffective-assistance professional-norms sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether trial counsel's failure to consult and call an expert witness in the field of accident reconstruction was objectively unreasonable under preva… |
| 20-722 |
Rodney Anton Williamson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massiah-v-united-states right-to-counsel rule-33-motion section-2255 sixth-amendment |
Right to counsel violation |
| 20-726 |
In Re Stephanie Michael |
|
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act forum-non-conveniens judicial-review mandamus qualified-immunity res-judicata va-benefits veterans-claims veterans-judicial-review-act |
Whether agency actions affecting the provision of VA benefits under applicable law may be reviewed by any other official or by any court of competent … |
| 20-729 |
Juan Carlos Celestino Coderch Mitjans v. EGI-VSR, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-award arbitration-confirmation civil-procedure court-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act international-commercial-arbitration panama-convention substantive-dispute |
Whether a court can decide a substantive arbitrable dispute that an arbitration award left unresolved, on a petition to confirm the award under the In… |
| 20-731 |
Paul Winfield v. United States Probation & Pretrial Services, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-USC-201 18-USC-666 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-bribery McDonnell-v-US overbreadth statutory-interpretation statutory-overbreadth supreme-court-precedent vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C.A. § 666 suffers from the same constitutional infirmities of vagueness and overbreadth as 18 U.S.C.A. § 201 under McDonnell v. U.S. |
| 20-736 |
Adam Frasch v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence evidence-disclosure evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an evidentiary hearing to determine if a violation has occurred pursuant to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83… |
| 20-737 |
B/E Aerospace, Inc. v. C&D Zodiac, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure america-invents-act inter-partes-review obviousness patent-challenge patent-validity printed-publications prior-art statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Board has authority to consider unpatentability on a ground of obviousness that is not 'only on the basis of prior art consisting of paten… |
| 20-741 |
Tacara Anderson, on Behalf of Minor Child M. A. v. Officer Jonathan Vazquez |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment bodily-injury civil-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Are federal courts required to afford qualified immunity to a law enforcement officer who released a K9 on a child causing serious bodily injury? |
| 20-747 |
Peter F. Gary, et al. v. JTC Holdings, LLC |
Colorado |
Denied |
Response Waived |
choice-of-law civil-procedure corporate-governance due-process forum-selection long-arm-statute minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction tortious-conduct |
Does discussing business with Plaintiff's owner—a Colorado Resident—without more, allow Colorado to exercise personal jurisdiction over Defendants? |
| 20-754 |
Albert Von Weingarten v. Lonnie Chester |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certification-to-state-court civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction estate-administration federal-court independent-cause-of-action legal-certification maladministration state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does Title 14 Vermont Statutes Annotated Section 1208 provide for an independent cause of action for maladministration of an estate, which can be brou… |
| 20-760 |
In Re Libby A. Demery |
|
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-judge administrative-review federal-circuit merits-systems-protection-board procedural-errors supervisory-power whistleblower-protection-act |
Whether the Supervisory Power of this Court invoked recall of the mandate of Federal Circuit to vacate an unreviewed, Merits Systems Protection Board … |
| 20-761 |
Austin Joseph Campbell v. Missouri |
Missouri |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof consent criminal-law due-process jury-instructions sexual-assault |
Is evidence that a complainant does not remember giving consent, and states that she awoke from sleep during the sexual encounter, legally sufficient … |
| 20-767 |
Jessica Arong O'Brien v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bank-fraud continuing-offense federal-insurance federally-insured-lender imputed-knowledge mail-fraud real-estate-transaction scheme-liability statute-of-limitations |
Whether under Loughrin, a real estate seller's knowledge of her buyer's federally-insured lender may be imputed to sustain a conviction under § 1344, … |
| 20-774 |
Georgianna Parisi v. Dayton Bar Association Certified Grievance Committee, et al. |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-records due-process judicial-discretion legislative-intent open-records separation-of-powers state-constitution state-legislature state-separation-of-powers |
Whether the Ohio Supreme Court violated the U.S. and Ohio Constitutions by applying Superintendence Rules 44-47 to records that are not 'court documen… |
| 20-778 |
Anthony T. Grose, Sr. v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-question due-process employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction res-judicata standing |
Were any such documentation entries in the court's proceedings whether the U.S. District Court or the Appellant Sixth Circuit Court had jurisdiction p… |
| 20-780 |
Joe W. Aguillard v. Louisiana College |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights defamation defamation-suit eeoc eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination opposition-clause participation-clause retaliation title-vii |
Does the 'participation' clause protect an employee from a retaliatory defamation suit? |
| 20-788 |
Wilbur S. Veasy, et al. v. Fraternal Order of Police Jim Fogleman Lodge #50, Inc. |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-court appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process procedural-impropriety standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal's decision unfairly deprived citizens of their constitutional rights to access-to-court and due-pr… |
| 20A97 |
Sergei Vinkov v. United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 20M46 |
Charlie Lee Stewart, Sr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|