Conference: 2021-01-15

107 cases — 1 granted, 106 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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19-1063 Joy Denby-Peterson v. NU2U Auto World, et al. Third Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) 11-usc-362 11-usc-362(a) 11-usc-362a automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-stay creditor creditor-rights debtor debtor-trustee property-possession property-rights turnover Whether a creditor who maintains possession of property in which a bankruptcy estate has an interest violates the Bankruptcy Code's automatic stay pro…
19-8807 Cassandra Cean v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-liability eighth-amendment intervening-cause mandatory-victims-restitution-act proximate-cause sixth-amendment Whether proximate causation under the MVRA must be analyzed by the use of the 'middle road approach' or the 'created circumstance approach'
19-8873 Efrain Diaz, Jr. and Justin Smith v. Kentucky Kentucky Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment justiciability party-presentation procedural-due-process standing-doctrine Does the requirement in Lujan v. Defs. of Wildlife apply to a motion filed by a defendant in a criminal case?
19-8886 Jon Edward Erickson v. Thomas E. Collins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Cochise County, et al. Arizona Denied Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process trial-record trial-records Did the trial court err in violating the Petitioner's 5th and 6th Amendment rights, by failing to provide/produce the records and transcripts of the f…
19-8897 David Lee Smith v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-prison-conditions due-process emergency-relief fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-review Whether a pro se petitioner is entitled to a liberal construction of their court papers or fair amendment, when the prosecutor presented no evidence t…
20-177 Ally Financial Inc. v. Alberta Haskins, et al. Missouri Granted Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) class-action due-process forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class out-of-state-defendant personal-jurisdiction state-court Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over claims against an out…
20-231 Aladdin Manufacturing Corporation, et al. v. The Water Works and Sewer Board of the Town Centre, et al. Alabama Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process in-state-effects out-of-state-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction third-party third-party-conduct unilateral-actions Whether a State may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant because the defendant knew (or should have known) that its …
20-254 Kuang-Bao Ou-Young v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights competence-restoration criminal-action criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-tort-claims-act habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing Whether a three-judge court should have adjudged the FTCA case
20-350 Daniel Flores v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment confession-coercion confidential-informant due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mexican-mafia Are a defendant's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights violated by the placement of a paid confidential informant in an adjacent cell who…
20-380 Idenix Pharmaceuticals LLC, et al. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-112a enablement genus-claim genus-claims patent patent-law pharmaceutical-innovation pharmaceuticals statutory-interpretation written-description Whether the Federal Circuit's genus-claim-specific enablement rule and separate 'possession' requirement are consistent with 35 U.S.C. § 112(a)
20-399 Jung Hyun Cho, et al. v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process mortgage-securitization non-judicial-foreclosure property-dispute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-detainer Whether a state summary court has competent jurisdiction over an unlawful detainer action challenged by a bona fide property dispute arising from a no…
20-400 James Avery, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a state burglary statute is divisible for purposes of a sentence enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act
20-518 Darrius Marcel Mastin v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied arrest-warrant bystander-detention constitutional-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement-authority michigan-v-summers police-powers probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Whether Michigan v. Summers authorizes detaining a bystander without individualized suspicion
20-5643 Louis Gene Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act assault burglary civil-rights due-process leocal physical-force predicate-conviction reckless-causation texas-assault-crimes texas-criminal-law Whether causing injury is synonymous with the use of physical force
20-5689 Orlando Bell v. United States District of Columbia Denied IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a defendant's sentence on conduct for which the jury acquitted the defenda…
20-5723 Demetrius Calhoun v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP fifth-amendment just-compensation physical-appropriation private-property public-use takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation when it physically appropriates private property fo…
20-5735 Michael Dean Perry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-court-review Whether the Suspension Clause of the U.S. Constitution requires federal courts to review the merits of a habeas corpus petition challenging the legali…
20-5975 Nathaniel Ruth v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied IFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the CSA?
20-6104 Jacqueline Pidanick v. Paul C. LaRosa, III, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP affidavit child-custody civil-procedure court-fraud declaration due-process in-forma-pauperis poverty pro-se-litigation standing supreme-court-review Whether the petitioner should be granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis
20-6275 William Ford v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP burden-of-proof ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-counsel prejudice-prong procedural-default self-defense sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-counsel Would jurist of reason disagree and find debatable the correctness of the Sixth and District Courts' finding of effective assistance of counsel
20-6278 Bodhisattva Skandha v. Gloriann Moroney Massachusetts Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion application-of-law attorney-general civil-procedure claim court-discretion facts false-statements fraud jurisdiction legal-procedure official-document parole-board representation standing supreme-court tort tort-claim Whether making false statements in an official doc Whether the defendant is allowed to represent the Whether the respondent was required to apply the l Whether the lower court abused its discretion by not allowing the tort claim to go forward?
20-6279 Bodhisattva Skandha v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex County, et al. Massachusetts Denied IFP civil-procedure court-discretion due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-condition standing standing-doctrine Whether the lower court abused its discretion by dismissing the complaint?
20-6280 Deverick Scott v. Pamela Cook Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-grievance retaliation some-evidence some-evidence-standard Was inmate Scott's writing of a prisoner grievance an exercise of his constitutional right?
20-6289 Catherine Denise Randolph v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction obscenity public-forum Whether the First Amendment protects the right to distribute obscene material in public places
20-6297 Kevin J. Barker v. Norm Robinson, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry firearms in public for self-defense
20-6300 Bryan Mitchell Lietzau v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP cell-phone cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment privacy-rights probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion search warrantless-search Does the Fourth Amendment require reasonable suspicion for a probation officer to conduct a warrantless search of a probationer's person or property?
20-6303 Lamar Whatley v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge de-novo eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers sixth-amendment Whether the separation of powers clause allows the legislature to limit the scope of judicial discretion in sentencing by deeming certain aggravating …
20-6308 John Patrick Wallace v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appellability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit-precedent fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the state lack subject matter jurisdiction under the Fourteenth Amendment?
20-6312 Abdul Azeem Mohammed v. Jorge L. Alonso, District Judge, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-authority due-process judicial-discretion judicial-immunity legal-procedure procedural-defect standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a judge has judicial immunity when presiding over a case without subject matter jurisdiction
20-6315 Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sixth-amendment victim-testimony witness-testimony Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to trial counsel's conduct involving dishonesty tha…
20-6318 Abdul Azeem Mohammed v. Erin Anderson, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-litigation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech legal-procedure standing Whether a litigant has a First Amendment right to freedom of speech in civil litigation
20-6321 Alexander Cameron v. John F. Walrath, Warden Fourth Circuit Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression false-evidence false-forensic-evidence habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-fabrication witness-tampering Can the State convict an innocent defendant for crimes committed by a person that does not exist?
20-6322 George A. Christian v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Dismissed IFP constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez martinez-standard post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-denial Whether the State's denial of the post-conviction relief establish cause for any procedural default to be excused and considered on this issue anew in…
20-6329 Daniel Acedo v. United States District Court for the Southern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process extraordinary-remedy federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation property-rights relief-sought standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless searches of vehicles parked on private property
20-6331 Raphael Dimenick Sam v. Texas Texas Denied IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-6337 Tramaine Standberry v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court-discretion due-process guidelines-interpretation jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional upward-variance Did the jury convict Mr. Standberry for a crime of violence that this Court has held is unconstitutional?
20-6344 Phyllis Marie Knight v. John C. Chatelain, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law bill-of-rights civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship due-process interstate-commerce jury-trial seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the state or federal court the proper forum for this dispute?
20-6349 Larry D. Odum v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
20-6352 G. N. W. v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel speedy-trial Whether reasons for delay are relevant to both sides
20-6353 Larry Williams v. Scott B. Lewis, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-6354 Richard A. Poplawski v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fee-provisions fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act standing Can courts strategically exempt litigants from the law to thwart test cases?
20-6355 Randall Thomas McArty v. Asa Hutchinson, Governor of Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-violations civil-action civil-rights declaratory-relief ex-parte-young injunctive-relief sovereign-immunity state-court Does the opinion of the Supreme Court of Arkansas in a State Court Civil Action for violations of A.D.A. make an exception in opposition to this Court…
20-6358 Donna Marie Dawson v. Mary Ann Valdez, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-misconduct civil-procedure eeoc eeoc-claim employment-discrimination hr-policies hr-policy legal-procedure workplace-rights Can Mary Ann Valdez violate HR policies and the Americans with Disabilities Act?
20-6369 Ewing Redmond Samuels v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Question not identified
20-6393 Todd C. Hughes v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-motion sexual-predator Did the Florida Second District Court of Appeal and the Florida Sixth Judicial Circuit violate the Petitioner's and like situated inmates, rights unde…
20-6417 Edwin Omar Almonte-Nunez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2112 abuse-of-discretion counsel-substitution crime-of-violence double-jeopardy due-process party-presentation resentencing sentencing-review Did the district court adequately vet Mr. Almonte-Nufiez's dissatisfaction with his counsel?
20-6422 Nazariy Kmet v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-regulations hinton-v-alabama ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process plea-bargaining strickland-v-washington supervisory-powers u.s-v-lee Whether the 3rd Circuit's denial of the Petitioner's 2255 Motion directly violates this Court's decisions in the U.S. v. Lee, Hinton v. Alabama and St…
20-6424 Deloyd Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict common-purpose criminal-enterprise drug-distribution fifth-circuit legal-interpretation rico rico-statute shared-profits statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Is concerted criminal activity by individuals within a group sufficient to establish an 'enterprise' under RICO even if there is no evidence of shared…
20-6433 Byron Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP assault-with-dangerous-weapon criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy evidence-admission fifth-circuit-court jury-instructions murder-in-aid-of-racketeering pattern-of-racketeering rico-conspiracy rico-enterprise witness-intimidation Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in finding Byron Jones guilty of a RICO conspiracy?
20-6441 David O. Keel v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the court of appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-6445 Cristofer Jose Gallegos-Espinal v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search consent consent-form forensic-search fourth-amendment government-surveillance perpetuity riley-precedent riley-v-california Whether verbal consent to 'look through' a cell phone, followed by written consent on an outmoded pre-Riley consent form, permits the government to pe…
20-6452 Michael Deshawn Homer v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu case-remand certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
20-6453 Marcos Alejandro Gonzalez Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-hearing suppression-motion witness-testimony Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause, the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause, or some other authority guarantees a criminal defendant …
20-6456 Maurice Trammel v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case for lack of jurisdiction despite the petitioner's showing of entitlement …
20-6457 Phillip Watkins v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hybrid-representation pro-se right-to-counsel sixth-circuit standing supplemental-brief Whether the appellate court erred in denying the appellant's motion to dismiss court-appointed counsel and allow him to submit pro se supplemental bri…
20-6458 Clayton Lee Waagner v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acca armed-career-criminal-act burglary-definition collateral-estoppel indictment indictment-statute ohio-aggravated-burglary predicate-offense statute-of-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether the statute of conviction must be used for an ACCA predicate offense, or can the district court use the statute listed on the indictment inste…
20-6462 Anastacio Castruita-Escobedo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court lacked authority to remove Mr. Castruita-Escobedo because he was not served a notice to appear with a hearing time
20-6468 Kinzey Shaw v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence sentencing standard-of-review Whether there was sufficient foundation to support the District Court's drug quantity approximation?
20-6469 Hector Valentine v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-innocence criminal-law double-jeopardy judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in not addressing conduct rendered non-criminal by an intervening Supreme Court decision
20-6471 Israel Washington v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure court-standard due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard standard-of-review testimony-readback trial-procedure Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying a request for the readback of testimony
20-6472 Raquel Cortez v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment border-patrol civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the same rule applies when an officer extends a traffic stop to allow border patrol agents to arrive without reasonable suspicion or other law…
20-6473 Jessica Arnold v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court failure-to-address judicial-discretion mitigation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-mitigation standard-of-review trial-counsel What standard applies to appellate review of the appeal of a district court's failure to address arguments of counsel in mitigation of sentencing, whe…
20-6474 Pedro Fermin Barajas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
20-6475 Samer Walid Abdalla v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment judicial-authorization law-enforcement neutral-magistrate particularity probable-cause residence search-warrant warrant-specificity Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated when officers executed a search warrant that authorized the search of a different residence in a different t…
20-6478 Barry Addison Gray v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C.-§-2255 career-offender career-offender-sentencing-guideline due-process johnson-ruling Johnson-v-United-States residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines vagueness Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions raising due-process-vagueness challenges to fixed sentences imposed through application of the pre-2005 mandatory career-…
20-648 James W. Bonham v. John Sutto, Jr., et ux. Arizona Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure non-judicial-foreclosure property-rights statutory-interpretation Does the Arizona Deed of Trust Scheme provide good cause for removal of one or more of its provisions under severability?
20-6480 Maurice Freeman v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment bailey-v-united-states detention fourth-amendment immediate-vicinity michigan-v-summers police-authority premises-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure search-warrant Does the rule of Michigan v. Summers extend to individuals on a public street near the residence?
20-6481 Luis Francisco Murillo Morfin v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP coercion conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deliberate-ignorance due-process intent-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea Whether the government may rely on a deliberate ignorance theory to establish a conspiracy conviction, when there is no evidence of deliberate action …
20-6494 Jose Andres Vera-Gutierrez v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error harmless-error witness-credibility Whether erroneously admitted evidence critical to proving an element of the charged offense can be deemed harmless based on the appellate court's dete…
20-6495 Michael Alford v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-seizure personal-property property-return property-rights riley-v-california search-and-seizure Whether the court erred in refusing to return personal property
20-6496 Michael Alford v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-services expert-witness forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-assistance motion-of-innocence pro-se-litigant right-to-counsel Whether the court erred in refusing to order legal assistance and forensic software expert assistance to obtain and submit factual evidence
20-6502 Sean P. Reilly v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 2254-petition federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief trial-counsel trial-counsel-claim Does a federal habeas petitioner forfeit his or her opportunity to invoke Martinez v. Ryan, 182 S. Ct. 1309 (2012), and bring forth an otherwise unexh…
20-6509 Milas Antwon Grant, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-defendant due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255-motion truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
20-6511 Jose Antonio Lugo-Guerrero, aka Antonio Moraima, aka Fernando Rivera-Rodriguez, aka Alex v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment Whether this Court should grant this petition because the First Circuit's judgment affirming the district court's judgment violates Mr. Lugo-Guerrero'…
20-6513 Calvin Teko Coston v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-imprisonment revocation sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment supervised-release united-states-v-haymond Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
20-6516 Eric Dynell McGadney v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion molina-martinez per-se-rule prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-error sentencing-framework sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentencing court's statement that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guidelines creates a per se rule that a miscalcu…
20-6517 Elvis Basic v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a federal district court must use the 'err on the side of caution' principle when approximating the drug quantity?
20-6519 Julian Mondragon-Hernandez, aka David Rojas, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-elements conviction criminal-procedure factual-findings judicial-fact-finding judicial-review jury-instructions jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentences mandatory-minimums sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence When a jury verdict allows for alternative elements of conviction, may courts review the evidence and make factual findings to uphold the conviction a…
20-6521 Hector Valdez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant's pre-First Step Act waiver of appeal rights applies to claims based on the First Step Act's passage
20-6526 Kendesia Juinize May v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP buy-sell-defense buy-sell-transactions conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-procedure judgment-of-acquittal jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rule-29 Whether the trial court committed plain error in refusing to grant a 'buy-sell' defense jury instruction
20-6527 Byron Brown v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review bivens civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process federal-government legal-interpretation seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's civil rights claims against the United States government…
20-6529 Wesley Wayne Wakeford v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2d1.1(b)(5) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses methamphetamine-importation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Sentencing Guidelines section 2D1.1(b)(5) 'offense that involved the importation' of methamphetamine should be interpreted to include cert…
20-6530 Jamel Mobley v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-preservation appellate-process constitutional-ineffectiveness fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial-standard right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether trial counsel can be constitutionally ineffective under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) for failing to preserve an issue for pur…
20-6535 Levi Ruffin v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-representation judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing state-court Whether the petitioner has a due process right to have counsel appointed to represent them in a civil matter due to their inability to afford an attor…
20-6540 Joshua N. Wright v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abduction acquitted-conduct constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-courts jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-enhancement upward-variance Whether the district court erred in its 'crime of violence' instruction to the jury
20-6543 Curtis Moody v. Chae Harris, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection gerrymandering redistricting standing Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioners' claims challenging the constitutionality of Ohio's congres…
20-6545 Michael Meadows v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error-doctrine drug-enforcement drug-profile-testimony due-process evidence expert-testimony judicial-procedure legal-admissibility trial-evidence trial-practice Does drug profile testimony have any legitimate use as trial evidence?
20-6548 Tamral Guzman v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether the district court deprived the defendant of her Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by denying her ineffective assistance of counsel claim …
20-6555 Solomon Manamela v. Warden, Fort Dix FCI Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-uscs-1347 18-uscs-24(b) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process health-care-fraud jurisdiction pennsylvania-public-welfare-code standing state-created-danger statutory-interpretation Whether affirmative evidence exists to establish Congress' intention under 18 USCS §24(b) to find City of non-medical family support service provider …
20-6556 Harvey Bass v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit affirmed Bass' sentence where Bass' sentence was unreasonable in light of the s…
20-6557 Richard Cruz v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process felony-drug-offense fifth-amendment jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the definition of 'felony drug offense' for the purposes of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vagueness after Johnson, Dimaya, and Davis
20-6567 Kedrio Lekeis Summerville v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief Was the post-conviction counsel ineffective?
20-6568 Francisco Javier Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-circuit court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process legal-review procedural-question remand standard-of-review supreme-court united-states-v-penn Whether this Court should remand to the court below in light of United States v. Penn
20-6571 Antonio W. Smith v. M. Brecken, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court err by not hearing Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2241 petition on the merits
20-6613 C. D. Pickle, Jr., aka Clanton D. Pickle, Jr. v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure petition supreme-court takings-clause writ-of-certiorari Whether the construction of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses o…
20-6635 Daion J. Williams v. Michele Wilhelm, Warden, et al. Nebraska Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jurisdiction statutory-interpretation unconstitutional writ-of-review Did the district court judge error in denying the petitioner's habeas corpus petition?
20-665 Damon B. Cook v. George M. Galaza, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt rule-60(b)(6) sentencing Whether the petitioner Damon C. Cook had a constitutional right to a certificate of appealability
20-6665 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedy standing trial-record Whether the Supreme Court should grant a writ of certiorari
20-667 Antwaun Bush v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied civil-litigation civil-procedure federal-action federal-procedure procedural-waiver state-procedural-mechanisms statute-of-limitations third-circuit waiver writ-of-summons Whether the failure to contest a writ of summons constitutes waiver of the statute of limitations defense in a subsequent federal action
20-668 Nina Allison v. Robert Dar-Teh Liou, et al. California Denied accommodations americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-disability civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure legal-accommodation legal-profession mental-health mental-illness post-traumatic-stress-disorder Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires courts to provide accommodations for undiagnosed mental disabilities of attorneys?
20-672 Thomas Gilewicz v. Brylin Hospital, et al. New York Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure standing state-court statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-694 Eagle Cove Camp & Conference Center, Inc., et al. v. Town of Woodboro, Wisconsin, et al. Wisconsin Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection federal-law judicial-review notice procedural-due-process property property-rights religious-exercise sanctions sua-sponte sua-sponte-analysis Did the Wisconsin courts deprive petitioners of due process by reversing sanctions without notice?
20-716 Jorge Alfredo Flores-Moreno v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-720 Keefe Gordon v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-776 Gregory Williams v. Leonta Jackson, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-defendant criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing-exposure strickland-standard strickland-test When a criminal defendant is considering whether to accept a plea offer, is defense counsel's failure to advise the defendant of his or her sentencing…
20-786 United States, ex rel. Gwendolyn Porter v. Magnolia Health Plan, Inc. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act materiality materiality-requirement motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards proof rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 Whether Escobar overruled or modified the Twombly/Iqbal pleading standard for Rule 12(b)(6) motions to dismiss in False Claims Act cases
20-790 Reginald Eric Sprowl v. Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-rights disparate-treatment employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case summary-judgment Should the McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1978) burden shifting test remain a part of the summary judgment analysis?