Conference: 2021-01-08

437 cases — 1 granted, 436 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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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