Conference: 2021-01-22

108 cases — 0 granted, 108 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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19-1039 PennEast Pipeline Company, LLC v. New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (21)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) certificate-of-public-convenience constitutional-law eminent-domain federal-power ferc interstate-pipeline natural-gas-act state-property Whether the NGA delegates to FERC certificate holders the authority to exercise the federal government's eminent domain power to condemn land in which…
19-1104 Mark Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (9) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights damages-liability good-faith-defense legal-immunity unconstitutional-law Is there a 'good faith defense' to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional rig…
19-1126 Stacey Mooney v. Illinois Education Association, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Relisted (9) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights good-faith-defense private-entities qualified-immunity restitution restitutionary-remedies retroactivity section-1983 takings Does 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provide a 'good-faith defense' to private entities who violate another's constitutional rights before the courts have clearly es…
19-1130 Dale Danielson, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (9) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights court-ruling good-faith-defense private-entities qualified-immunity restitution retroactivity takings Does 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provide a 'good-faith defense' to private entities who violate another's constitutional rights before the courts have clearly es…
19-8006 John P. Greiner v. Macomb County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (3)IFP administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-relations obstruction-of-justice perjury retaliation wrongful-termination Whether the termination of a public employee in retaliation for exercising First Amendment rights and the failure to provide due process in administra…
19-8695 Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis V. Saenz, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (12)IFP compelling-interest execution execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause religious-accommodation religious-adviser religious-exercise rluipa spiritual-aid Whether the State's policy of denying a religious adviser to a condemned prisoner during execution violates RLUIPA and the Free Exercise Clause
19-8806 David Lawrence Dixon v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP biological-evidence destruction-of-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment re-testing state-destruction trial Was Appellant denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process when the biological evidence used in his trial was destroyed before Appellant could…
20-183 Billy D. Stair, III v. Charles Jackson Eighth Circuit Denied excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor and Plumhoff v. Rickard in denying qualified immunity to petitioner base…
20-20 Benito Casanova v. International Association of Machinists, Local 701 Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights damages-liability good-faith-defense legal-immunity Is there a 'good faith defense' to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional rig…
20-208 Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company v. Ethan Volungis, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) amendment civil-procedure district-court federal-rules-of-civil-procedure leave-to-amend motion-to-dismiss represented-plaintiff rule-15 sua-sponte Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a) requires district courts to grant plaintiffs represented by counsel leave to amend their complaint sua s…
20-245 Patricia Nelson v. Esteban Rivera Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights excessive-force eyewitness-testimony qualified-immunity summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in granting qualified immunity despite evidence supporting the plaintiff's position
20-257 Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., et al. v. Maxcimo Scott, et al. Second Circuit Dismissed Amici (4)Relisted (5) civil-procedure class-certification collective-action district-court employment-law fair-labor-standards-act material-question opt-in-plaintiffs similarly-situated Whether a district court may consider factors other than the presence of a single material question of law or fact common to a group of employees when…
20-278 Marguerite Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-circuit appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion jurisdiction mandate-issuance standing Does the 11th Circuit's circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particularly when it results in depriving an individual due…
20-305 Planned Parenthood Center for Choice, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) abortion abortion-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process executive-order judicial-review mandamus mootness Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgments granting writs o…
20-330 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, et al. Second Circuit GVR Amici (4)Relisted (2) article-iii constitutional-interpretation domestic-emoluments-clause emoluments-clause foreign-emoluments-clause judicial-review presidential-immunity presidential-powers standing Whether plaintiffs who claim to compete with businesses in which the President of the United States has a financial interest can seek redress in an Ar…
20-331 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. District of Columbia, et al. Fourth Circuit GVR Amici (2)Relisted (2) abuse-of-discretion district-court domestic-emoluments emoluments-clause foreign-emoluments interlocutory-appeal legal-error mandamus motion-to-dismiss presidential-immunity Whether a writ of mandamus is appropriate to correct the district court's denial of the President's motion to dismiss and refusal to certify an interl…
20-422 Sarah R. Lee v. Ohio Education Association, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights good-faith-defense private-entities qualified-immunity restitution restitutionary-remedies retroactivity section-1983 Does 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provide a 'good-faith defense' to private entities who violate another's constitutional rights before the courts have clearly es…
20-482 Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. v. Adams & Boyle, P.C., et al. Sixth Circuit GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-order executive-order medical-procedures mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing Whether the Sixth Circuit's judgment should be vacated and remanded as moot under Munsingwear
20-486 Nathaniel Ogle v. Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, AFSCME Local 11, AFL-CIO Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights damages-liability good-faith-defense legal-immunity Is there a good faith defense to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for depriving citizens of constitutional rights under color of unconstitutional law?
20-497 Jamal A. Azeez v. West Virginia West Virginia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights ex-post-facto false-arrest jury-selection megan-laws perjury prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Did the lower court condone systemic injustice against Petitioner?
20-5027 Christopher Allred v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process preemption privileges-and-immunities supremacy-clause vagueness Whether the privileges and immunities clause of the 14th Amendment protects the fundamental rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights against state infr…
20-5133 Steven Baxter v. United States Third Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP border-search customs customs-border fourth-amendment suspicion-less-search unincorporated-territory united-states-virgin-islands warrant-requirement warrantless-search Does the border-search exception to the Fourth Amendment allow routine, suspicion-less searches at internal/domestic customs borders?
20-5733 Clinton Lee Rumley v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP almendarez-torres armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fourth-circuit-split mens-rea omission-liability recklessness sentencing-enhancement violent-felony Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another 'by any means,' including omissions, is categorically …
20-5748 Dacarius Holliday v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-intent criminal-negligence due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions jury-sentencing specific-intent standard-of-proof trial-court Can convictions for crimes requiring specific intent create constitutional error where the trial court has ruled that the evidence supports criminal n…
20-5762 Will Robertson Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent petition-standard retroactivity section-2255 successive-petitions unconstitutional-law Whether a petitioner must show it is 'more likely than not' that a district court's prior ruling relied on a provision of law later deemed unconstitut…
20-580 Barry Damon Mallatere v. Town of Boone, North Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ashcroft-v-iqbal civil-rights fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution monell-v-dept-of-soc-servs municipal-liability policymaker-liability Did the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the district court's dismissal of the Petitioner's claim for violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in finding that the…
20-5842 Yang Mei v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore Maryland Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment-violation body-attachment city-council civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights contractor-dismissal due-process employment legal-procedure standing takings Whether the dismissal of the contractor Adam Barclay is unconstitutional
20-591 Daniel Greer, Rabbi, et al. v. Eliyahu Mirlis Second Circuit Denied Response Waived adverse-inference civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidentiary-inference fifth-amendment privilege self-incrimination What factors determine whether an adverse inference may be drawn against a party to a civil action following the party's invocation of the Fifth Amend…
20-5917 Eric Malmstrom v. United States First Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure competency criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process embassy-communication judicial-discretion mental-competency mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect standing sua-sponte Whether the district court abused its discretion when it failed to sua sponte order a competency evaluation
20-5923 Charles Don Flores v. Texas Texas Denied Amici (2)IFP constitutional-fairness death-penalty due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial hypnosis investigative-hypnosis law-enforcement-procedure police-investigation Is the Constitution's guarantee of a fundamentally fair trial compromised when a conviction hinges on an in-court eyewitness identification obtained a…
20-60 Sheldon Silver v. United States, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) appeals-court bribery criminal-law due-process extortion harmless-error hobbs-act public-official Can a public official be convicted of bribery absent proof of an agreed exchange with the alleged bribe payor, based solely on his unexpressed, unilat…
20-604 InfoBionic, Inc. v. Cardionet, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit Denied 35-usc-101 abstract-idea federal-circuit innovation longstanding-human-practice patent-eligibility patent-monopoly statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Circuit has properly narrowed the scope of the abstract idea exception under 35 U.S.C. § 101
20-6091 Cherrie A. Hollie v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equitable-claims federal-circuit oral-argument standing veterans-claims Whether the Federal Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal and failing to address the petitioner's constitutional due process, equal prot…
20-6094 Sean Alonzo Bush v. Florida Florida Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency florida-supreme-court legal-precedent precedent standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Florida Supreme Court denied the petitioner due process
20-6371 Antoine Moseley v. Daniel Clarke Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-elements Double Jeopardy
20-6379 Brenda L. White v. St. Lawrence Catholic Schools Seventh Circuit Denied IFP abuse administrative-liability assault civil-rights due-process educational-abuse parental-reporting retaliation school-misconduct student-rights Should teachers be allowed to hurt students?
20-6384 Owen McCants v. Steven Silva First Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law-violation ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review pretrial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Whether the trial court, appeals court, and Supreme Judicial Court abused their discretion?
20-639 Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v. Steve Sisolak, Governor of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (6)Relisted (2) covid-19 covid-19-restrictions equal-protection first-amendment free-assembly free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech religious-liberty strict-scrutiny Whether the Governor's favoring of secular over religious gatherings violates the Free Exercise Clause
20-6391 Timothy Ronald Hare v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP constitutional-standard critical-stage effective-assistance ineffective-assistance lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-v-cronic Does the requirement to prove prejudice under Lafler v Cooper place a burden on the accused that is deemed unnecessary in United States v Cronic
20-6396 Michael John Bever v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-review jury-finding juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment Whether a judge's decision to sentence a juvenile offender to consecutive terms is exempt from Eighth Amendment review
20-6398 Richard Wesley Allen v. Marcus A. Pollard, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection First-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment free-speech parole prisoner-rights religious-freedom Does it violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when a state requires a prisoner to change his or her religion, or to commit acts that are against…
20-6410 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, et al. California Dismissed IFP civil-rights conspiracy due-process judicial-misconduct legal-conspiracy mental-competency money-laundering national-security power-of-attorney standing Whether lower courts should continue to allow international drug cartels, pedophiles, sex and human traffickers, and MS13 gangsters to use people's ho…
20-6411 Miguel A. Ramirez v. California California Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error defendant-rights due-process evidence-admissibility jury-instructions prejudicial-error sexual-abuse Whether the trial court's instructions on continuous sexual abuse were prejudicial
20-6416 Devon M. Byrd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing takings-clause Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims under the Takings Clause and Due Process Clause
20-6454 Mark David Zimmerman v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree k-9-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the lower court erred in denying Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained during a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment search-and…
20-6479 Genaro Garcia v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-petition prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a State Appellate Court's unexplained failure to allow a petitioner to file a successive petition for last-ditch chronological relief under Ru…
20-6504 Carolyn Barnes v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority delegated-authority due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-rights judicial-review motion-to-recuse recusal retaliation standard-of-review Whether it violates due process to ignore a Motion to Recuse and apply the wrong standard of review
20-6520 Paul Viriyapanthu v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment ada americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration-immunity noerr-pennington sovereign-immunity spending-clause title-ii u.s.-v.-georgia Where Congress conditioned the ADA to states' receipt of funding, must a Title II plaintiff demonstrate a 14th Amendment violation under U.S. v. Georg…
20-6553 John F. McGinnis, Jr. v. Social Security Administration Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
20-6554 Jeffrey Fay Pike v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-anonymity jury-selection presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment Whether cloaking jurors in anonymity impermissibly impairs the presumption of innocence and the right of the accused to an impartial jury
20-6559 Jesus Villarreal-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination 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 …
20-6562 Reynaldo Salinas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP air-force air-force-office-of-special-investigations civil-rights civilian-employee constitutional-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act law-enforcement military-law posse-comitatus-act special-investigations standing Was this a Military or Civilian investigation?
20-6566 Anilou Beltran Del Rio 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?
20-6575 Ronald Jermaine Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech government-accountability indigenous-rights jurisdiction land-management standing tribal-sovereignty Is the Constitution of the United States of America, its Articles, and Amendments valid and legal under the Supreme Law of the Land?
20-6576 Jessie Anthony Parker v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
20-6577 Victor Mondragon v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court downward-adjustment federal-jurisdiction panel-review standard-of-review Did the district court err by denying Mr. Mondragon a three-level downward adjustment for acceptance of responsibility?
20-6580 Joseph W. Peeples, III v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment search-and-seizure travel warrantless-search Whether the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, along with the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, allow any person suspected of a crime to freely trav…
20-6584 Richard Olive v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington What do Missouri v. Frye and Lafler v. Cooper require to demonstrate prejudice from counsel's failure to advise on a plea offer?
20-6588 Kenneth Scott Gordon v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-defense effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-adversarial-testing prosecutions-case sixth-amendment Should a certificate of appealability issue due to ineffective assistance of appellate counsel?
20-6589 John Xavier Portillo, aka John Portillo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure critical-stage initial-appearance magistrate magistrate-hearing right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the initial appearance before a Magistrate after the right to counsel has attached is a critical stage of the proceeding under the Sixth Amend…
20-6590 Jimmy Pike v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court's denial of a mitigating role adjustment was clear error
20-6591 Jose Delores Vanegas v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights conviction due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct remand whether-the-trial-court-abused-its-discretion
20-6594 Juan Fredy Hernandez-Zozaya v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-law human-trafficking interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prostitution prostitution-statute statutory-interpretation transportation-across-state-lines Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a) is violated where prostitutes arranged and paid for their own transportation across state lines
20-6596 Kevin S. Abney v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal due-process legislative-history rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the legislative history dealing with 18 USC § 924(e)(1) supports all the lower courts' rulings concerning offenses committed on different occa…
20-6597 John Aguilar v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP change-of-venue constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial guilt ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-bad-acts prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Is a Defendant denied the constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel and ultimately a fundamentally fair trial as guaranteed by the Unite…
20-6606 Paul W. Miller v. B. Von Blankensee Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review procedural-due-process remedies standing statutory-interpretation Can Congas Stabasly lowt by teak the Subject matter Tycho of Coors Cleated by ar het of acres 7 j
20-6609 Salvador Moreno Cervantes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6618 Marcel Malachowski v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-v-united-states civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process extra-judicial-circumstances habeas-corpus impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington Whether an appeal brought under 28 U.S.C. 2255 is subject to the avenue of relief granted when an appellate court fails to adequately resolve ineffect…
20-6619 Pedro Carrasco, Jr., aka Pedro Carrasco v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-rights criminal-procedure dispositive-pretrial-motion effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining pretrial-motion right-to-appeal sixth-amendment Is a criminal defendant deprived effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment when counsel knowingly withholds from the trial …
20-6628 Rodane Lamb v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-charges criminal-procedure dea-testimony due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-selection trial-errors Was counsel ineffective for not challenging issues
20-6630 Alejandro S. Estrada v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence administrative-law agency-decision certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge procedural-default procedural-error sentencing Whether the lower courts should be sanctioned for protecting the unconstitutional imposition of void and obsolete statute
20-6632 Claudio Valdez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
20-6637 David Earl Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary james-v-united-states sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
20-6638 Raheem Jefferson Brennerman, aka Jefferson R. Brennerman, aka Ayodeji Soetan v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review liberty second-circuit trial-court Whether the abuse of discretion standard is Constitutionally impermissible where the trial court deprived a criminal defendant of his Constitutional r…
20-6641 Jose Angel Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) is unconstitutional by exceeding the scope of the commerce clause and whether the statute requires knowledge of the interst…
20-6647 Douglas Charles Knicely v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellants' pretrial motion to…
20-6648 Gezo Goeong Edwards, aka Gezo Edwards, aka Zo v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus privacy search-and-seizure standing state-court-conviction Whether the government's warrantless acquisition of cell-site location information violates the Fourth Amendment
20-6655 Alonso Sanchez Ochoa v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentence criminal-sentencing defense-counsel district-court pre-sentence-report probation-officer relevant-conduct sentencing Is it reasonable for a District Court to order a consecutive sentence despite an agreement among Probation Officer, Pre-Sentence Report Addendum, and …
20-6656 Jose Armando Bazan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fifth-circuit plain-error role-adjustment sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in refusing to review an unpreserved factual argument for plain error
20-6657 Ezer Rosembel Barrientos-Osorio v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutes plain error affecting substantial rig for a defendant likely to be deported criminal-procedure deportation plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release Where a district court commits plain error by failing to follow Section 5D1.1(c) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines by imposing, without expla…
20-6660 Shusta Traverse Gumbs v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deadly-weapon intent jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense united-states-v-feola Whether the district court erred in giving only the first sentence of Mr. Gumbs' request to charge on use of a deadly weapon in light of the Circuit s…
20-6666 Sebastian L. Eccleston v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-justice due-process federal-prisoner federal-sentencing sentencing-statutes state-judiciary Whether federal sentencing statutes and the Constitution require the Bureau of Prisons to execute the sentence of a federal prisoner to effectuate the…
20-6671 Sarah Melisa Cox, aka Sarah Cox, aka Sarah Cunningham v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP print or publish the distribution of child pornog child-pornography circuit-split communication communication-standard criminal-law federal-criminal-law notice notice-requirement statutory-interpretation Whether a communication between just two individuals is sufficient contact to satisfy the requirement of giving notice to make, print or publish the d…
20-6674 Tony Chevallier v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-acts criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process judicial-discretion jury-conviction sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-range uncharged-conduct When are trial judges prohibited from considering as sentencing factors criminal acts that a defendant was neither charged nor convicted of?
20-6683 Reynaldo Diaz-Guzman v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-discretion jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court of appeals erred and abused its discretion in rejecting the challenge to the indictment and argument for dismissal for lack of subje…
20-678 M&T Bank Corporation, et al. v. David Jaroslawicz, et al. Third Circuit Denied Amici (2) compliance corporate-governance disclosure disclosure-obligations materiality public-company regulatory-compliance risk-factors sec-regulation securities-disclosure securities-regulation Whether Item 105 of Regulation S-K requires disclosure of general risk factors and potentially unlawful business practices
20-691 Lih Bin Shih v. Nathan Brooks Parnell California Denied civil-rights clean-hands-doctrine due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-petition petition-clause police-reports retaliation Whether the Court may deny Petitioner's First Amendment right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
20-695 Derek Piersing v. Domino’s Pizza Franchising LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1) aaa-rules arbitrability circuit-court delegation-doctrine employment-agreement first-options procedural-rules state-court Whether providing that a particular set of rules will govern arbitration proceedings, without more, is 'clear and unmistakable evidence' of the partie…
20-696 Peter Brownstein v. Tina Lindsay, et al. Third Circuit Denied assignment-of-copyright co-authors copyright-act copyright-assignment copyright-law derivative-work exclusive-rights joint-work license-revenue statutory-ownership Whether the rights of co-authors in a joint work under the Copyright Act can be severed by the subsequent use made by a licensee
20-700 Addie Smith v. Syhadley, LLC Washington Denied arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act motion-to-compel preemption state-law state-law-conflict supersedeas supreme-clause Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state Supersedeas law
20-702 David Stiles, Jr. v. Texas Texas Denied arrest-to-trial-delay barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights doggett-v-united-states due-process government-burden presumption-of-prejudice presumptive-prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether a defendant is required to demonstrate prejudice on a speedy-trial-claim involving a presumptively-prejudicial-delay
20-704 Cesar Santana v. California California Denied age-appropriate-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing liberty-interest miller-v-alabama sentencing youth-offender Does California create a liberty interest when it enacted legislation in response to Miller v. Alabama?
20-706 Stone Creek, Inc. v. Omnia Italian Design, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied circuit-court-precedent circuit-split disgorgement disgorgement-of-profits intellectual-property intentional-misconduct judicial-precedent mishawaka-rubber trademark-infringement unjust-enrichment willfulness Does the Ninth Circuit's refusal to disgorge profits in this case of intentional infringement involving the identical mark on identical products confl…
20-735 Artem Koshkalda v. Seiko Epson Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied civil-procedure dismissal district-court-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure frcp-rule-25 frcp-rule-41 rule-25 rule-41 standing substitution-of-parties voluntary-dismissal Did the district court err in denying the motion to set aside a notice of voluntary dismissal?
20-738 Donald Grochowski, as Administrator of the Estate of Kenneth Grochowski, Deceased, et al. v. Clayton County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived cell-design civil-rights detainee-safety due-process inadequate-staffing jail-conditions legislative-immunity objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity substantial-risk Whether the trial court and panel erred in failing to draw inferences in Grochowski's favor and find that the conditions and systems created a substan…
20-742 Steven Bruce v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process false-and-misleading fifth-amendment medically-acceptable-indications medicare-part-d ninth-circuit rehabilitation-act rehabilitation-act-section-504 Can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sidestep issues under Medicare Part D by not looking behind a compendium's Medically Acceptable In…
20-744 Michael Wigginton, Jr. v. The University of Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fifth-circuit hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity state-actors supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fifth Circuit's grant of qualified immunity to the state actors named in the instant matter was violative of Supreme Court precedent estab…
20-750 Timothy P. Murphy v. Susan Stacy, Circuit Court Judge Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process erie-doctrine federal-courts state-law-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment swift-v-tyson Whether federal courts can disregard Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
20-784 Jeffry Schmidt v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-review arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious-standard disability-evaluation disability-ratings judicial-notice medical-evidence military-compensation military-disability new-and-material-evidence veterans-affairs veterans-disability Did Federal Circuits refuse to recognize consistent disability ratings between the U.S. Military and Department of Veterans Affairs
20-793 Samir Rafic Khoury v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure indictment-dismissal mandamus mandamus-relief post-indictment-delay post-judgment-review prejudice speedy-trial Whether a Court of Appeals may review, on petition for a writ of mandamus, the denial of a criminal defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment on sp…
20-800 Tracy Alan Barnett v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court district-court-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-order habeas-corpus Are United States District Courts required to address and resolve all constitutional claims or issues raised in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Motion to satisfy t…
20-82 Kane County, Utah, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (5) administrative-representation civil-procedure environmental-interest federal-civil-procedure federal-government intervention intervention-as-of-right quiet-title quiet-title-action special-interest-groups standing tenth-circuit-precedent Whether private special interest groups have an interest to intervene as of right in a quiet title action
20-848 D. A. S. v. Madison County Department of Human Resources Alabama Denied Response Waived addiction-treatment due-process federal-law federal-regulations medicaid medicaid-expansion parental-rights remote-participation Whether the denial of a parent's request to participate remotely in a trial adjudicating parental rights violates due process
20-865 In Re Todd Britton-Harr Denied 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split false-statement federal-prisoners habeas-corpus section-2244 section-2255 successive-petitions supervised-release Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) applies to federal prisoners seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. section 2255
20-96 United States v. Kane County, Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (5) circuit-conflict civil-procedure environmental-advocacy environmental-concerns federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure intervention intervention-of-right quiet-title quiet-title-action standing Whether an advocacy organization's environmental concerns qualify as an 'interest' required by Rule 24(a)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure f…
20M47 Sedfrey M. Linsangan v. Alice M. Taijeron, et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M48 Shane Jermaine Matthews v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M49 Waymon Jenkins v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None