Conference: 2021-02-19

397 cases — 4 granted, 393 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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19-8498 Winnie Diggs v. Neil Gallucci, Chief of Police, City of Carlsbad, California Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP affirmative-action antidiscrimination civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-process law-enforcement racial-discrimination supreme-court-jurisprudence Whether the disjuncture between the statutory and constitutional prohibition of racial discrimination and the continuing subordination of racial minor…
19-8771 Michael A. Risenhoover v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-years-to-life criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder first-time-offender judicial-discretion murder prior-criminal-history proportionality public-message sentencing sentencing-guidelines Does sentencing a first-time offender who has no prior criminal history to 28 years to life send a dangerous message to the public and future offender…
20-1003 Christy, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived compensation government-fees inter-partes-review patent patent-exaction patent-invalidation post-grant-review private-property property-rights takings-clause When a duly-issued patent is invalidated through a post-grant review process (such as an IPR), must compensation be paid under the Takings Clause?
20-1028 Timothy L. Blixseth v. Credit Suisse Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-reorganization chapter-11 circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process exculpation-clause non-debtor-release subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a nonconsensual exculpation clause in a bankruptcy reorganization plan purporting to release non-debtor third parties from claims by other non…
20-1032 Petrobras America Incorporated, et al. v. Vantage Deepwater Company, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitral-award arbitration circuit-split de-novo-review enforcement international-conventions new-york-convention panama-convention public-policy standard-of-review Whether United States courts should review de novo an arbitrator's conclusions on issues of law or mixed questions of law and fact bearing on the ulti…
20-1045 David G. Liebenguth v. Connecticut Connecticut Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech hate-speech law-enforcement racial-epithet Whether Referring To A Law Enforcement Officer By A Racial Epithet While Protesting An Enforcement Action Constitutes Fighting Words Unprotected By Th…
20-120 Alfredo Juarez v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure deportation effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea immigration immigration-consequences padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky sixth-amendment When there is no dispute that a guilty plea will trigger mandatory deportation pursuant to federal law, must defense counsel advise a defendant that t…
20-186 Mirna Villegas Rendon v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) None
20-261 Jeff Schulz, et al. v. Presbytery of Seattle. et al. Washington Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) church-autonomy church-property-disputes civil-procedure constitutional-law denominational-authority denominational-dispute first-amendment free-exercise property-ownership religious-freedom Does the First Amendment permit courts to apply a rule of absolute deference to assertions of ownership by a denomination in a dispute over property o…
20-267 Sean Braunstein v. Jericka Braunstein New Hampshire Denied Relisted (2) child-support disability-benefits federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction military-compensation military-powers supremacy-clause veterans-benefits veterans-judicial-review-act Where Congress's enumerated military powers preempt all state law concerning disposition of military benefits, and Congress has not affirmatively gran…
20-294 Lamont Kortez Gaines v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process equipoise evidence evidence-standard hobbs-act motion-for-acquittal standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether a trial court must grant a motion for acquittal when, in viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, the evidence pro…
20-31 Prince McCoy, Sr. v. Tajudeen Alamu Fifth Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-factors prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Whether a prison official is entitled to qualified immunity for an unprovoked assault on a prisoner even when not every Hudson factor favors the plain…
20-321 Walter D. Barnette v. HBI, L.L.C., et al. Nebraska Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-foreclosure constitutional-rights due-process notice notice-requirements property-notice property-rights reasonable-steps takings windfall windfall-incentive Did the Nebraska Supreme Court err in holding that the due process requirements announced in Jones v. Flowers apply only to land containing homes?
20-337 Rosemary Ann Lynn v. Andrew George Brown, III, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process personal-jurisdiction rico-statute service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction venue Whether Appellees' refusal to serve Petitioner with summons and petition after passage of two years' and seven months divest the district court of per…
20-371 Care Alternatives v. United States, et al. Third Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split clinical-judgment false-claims-act hospice-care life-expectancy medical-certification medicare medicare-claims physician-opinion Whether a physician's honestly held clinical judgment regarding hospice certification can be 'false' under the False-Claims-Act based solely on a reas…
20-388 Lingfei Sun v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel continuing-violation-doctrine district-court due-process res-judicata standing Whether the continuing violation doctrine applies to the Petitioner's current U.S. district court suit
20-401 Devan Pierson v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights What test should be used to determine prejudice from a constructive amendment under Rule 52(b)?
20-429 American Medical Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Ninth Circuit Granted Relisted (3) administrative-law affordable-care-act arbitrary-and-capricious family-planning free-speech hhs-rule medical-ethics patient-communication reproductive-health title-x Whether the Title X family planning program rule is arbitrary and capricious, violates the Title X appropriations act, and violates the Affordable Car…
20-437 United States v. Refugio Palomar-Santiago Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-remedies criminal-law due-process fundamental-unfairness immigration-law judicial-review removal-order statutory-interpretation unlawful-reentry Whether a defendant automatically satisfies the prerequisites of 8 U.S.C. 1326(d) solely by showing that he was removed for a crime that would not be …
20-444 United States v. Michael Andrew Gary Fourth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea plain-error plain-error-rule plea-bargaining plea-colloquy substantial-rights Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon is automatically entitled to plain-error relief if the district court did no…
20-449 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit Granted Relisted (3) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-rulemaking homeland-security immigration-law immigration-nationality-act judicial-review notice-and-comment public-charge standing Whether entities that are not subject to the public-charge ground of inadmissibility are proper parties to challenge the final rule
20-450 Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Dismissed Relisted (3) administrative-law administrative-procedure homeland-security immigration-law immigration-nationality-act inadmissibility notice-and-comment notice-and-comment-rulemaking public-charge standing statutory-interpretation Whether entities that are not subject to the public-charge ground of inadmissibility are proper parties to challenge the final rule
20-454 Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore Fourth Circuit Granted Amici (1)Relisted (3) abortion abortion-referrals administrative-law agency-rulemaking family-planning rust-v-sullivan statutory-interpretation title-x Whether the rule falls within the agency's statutory authority
20-458 Michael B. Brown v. Department of Labor Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure deposition-modification evidence factual-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure petition-for-review regulatory-compliance sarbanes-oxley whistleblower-protection Whether a judge's change of a party's transcribed deposition is an appropriate factual finding, conclusion, and decision
20-475 Stanley V. Campbell v. Eagle Force Holdings, LLC, et al. Delaware Denied 14th-amendment civil-contempt civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-procedure personal-jurisdiction sanctions Can a finding of civil contempt and the imposition of a sanction be sustained consistent with the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Cons…
20-477 Shanika Day, et al. v. Franklin Wooten, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) asphyxiation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement positional-asphyxiation qualified-immunity section-1983 Does an arrestee have a clearly established right to have his difficulty breathing considered by officers in their handcuff and adverse body position,…
20-478 CBX Resources, L.L.C. v. ACE American Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice finality finality-trap judgment-finality Whether the Supreme Court should abolish the Fifth Circuit's judicially created 'finality trap' and resolve the conflict among the courts of appeals r…
20-48 Stacey Eugene Johnson v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Relisted (5) access-to-courts actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies Does the Arkansas DNA testing statute, as construed by the Arkansas Supreme Court, prevent Petitioner from meaningfully accessing the State's post-con…
20-499 Nathaniel Richard Hull v. Jeffrey J. Rockwell First Circuit Denied attachment bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split creditor-rights creditors homestead-exemption property-exemption reinvestment state-law Whether a debtor may keep a state-law homestead exemption inside bankruptcy, notwithstanding that the proceeds would be subject to attachment and exec…
20-505 Shlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York Connecticut Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment bankruptcy civil-procedure due-process foreclosure property-rights real-property standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether subject matter jurisdiction should be waived
20-5085 Joe Edward Johnson v. California California Denied Amici (1)Relisted (5)IFP batson-challenge criminal-procedure due-process faretta-motion faretta-v-california jury-selection legal-timeliness self-representation timeliness totality-of-circumstances Whether a pretrial request for self-representation can be held 'untimely'
20-5193 Mollee M. McWhorter v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole standing takings Whether the court below erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of certain federal statutes and government actions
20-5279 William Dale Wooden v. United States Sixth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-entry warrantless-search Did the warrantless entry and search of petitioner's home violate his Fourth Amendment right to be free from illegal search and seizure?
20-5304 Stephon Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-effect conflict-of-interest criminal-trial cross-examination effective-assistance-of-counsel eleventh-circuit right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent witness-representation Whether Mr. Williams' Sixth Amendment right to conflict-free counsel was violated
20-5316 Tyrone Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim discretionary-review due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus standing Whether the Federal District Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims contrary to Supreme Court precedent
20-534 All Saints' Episcopal Church (Fort Worth) v. The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, et al. Texas Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) church-property-dispute church-property-disputes ecclesiastical-question establishment-clause express-trust-provision free-exercise free-exercise-clause jones-v-wolf neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law Whether the Texas Supreme Court's decision awarding petitioner's sanctuary and rectory to a dissident faction in contravention of the will of petition…
20-536 The Episcopal Church, et al. v. The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, et al. Texas Denied Relisted (2) church-property church-property-disputes constitutional-law ecclesiastical-deference express-trusts first-amendment free-exercise neutral-principles polity religious-freedom Whether the First Amendment requires courts to enforce express trusts in church governing documents or whether state law may render such trusts unenfo…
20-539 Oregon, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Ninth Circuit Granted Relisted (3) administrative-procedure-act affordable-care-act healthcare-access medical-ethics patient-provider-communication reproductive-healthcare title-x Does the Final Rule violate appropriations statutes and the Affordable Care Act?
20-5399 Anthony Leon Latimer, aka Gerrald Smith v. Ben Jones, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 911-caller civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process emergency-provision false-imprisonment good-samaritan good-samaritan-law law-enforcement-immunity Did the petitioner call 911 in a mental state of emergency?
20-54 Bridge Aina Le'a, LLC v. Hawaii Land Use Commission Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process economic-impact lucas-standard lucas-v-south-carolina penn-central penn-central-factors property-rights regulatory-taking takings temporary-taking Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling effectively eliminates property owners' ability to recover for temporary regulatory takings conflicts with other co…
20-542 Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Veronica Degraffenreid, Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Amici (9)Response WaivedRelisted (4) constitutional-authority election-law elections-clause electors-clause federal-election-day federal-election-statutes judicial-interpretation mail-in-ballots mail-in-voting pennsylvania-supreme-court preemption Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court majority usurped the Pennsylvania General Assembly's plenary authority
20-5422 Eric Miller v. James Deal, Warden Georgia Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure due-process filing-requirements postal-service standing timeliness Whether the date stamped on the petition by the post office is the date of receipt by the post office
20-549 John Farrow, et al. v. Contra Costa County, California Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bail circuit-split counsel-appointment criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equal-protection indigent-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Is a detainee's first appearance in court a 'critical stage' of the proceedings?
20-5502 Kareem K. Kirk, Sr. v. Janet Richardson, et al. Florida Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation district-court-review due-process judicial-bias judicial-competence judicial-discretion judicial-duties motion-for-rehearing unelaborated-decision MAINTAIN PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IN IT, AND PERFORM JUDICIAL DUTIES WITHOUT BIAS, OR PREJUDICE
20-5589 Wali Ross v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest-warrant fourth-amendment hotel-eviction hotel-room payton possessory-interest probable-cause reasonable-belief search-and-seizure Whether officers must have probable cause to believe a suspect is present to justify entry into a hotel room to execute an arrest warrant
20-5598 Gary Richardson v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process family-member impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment structural-error Whether a trial judge commits structural error violating a defendant's Sixth Amendment and due process rights to an impartial and independent jury by …
20-5610 Eric J. Brown v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal jury-unanimity juvenile-offenders retroactivity sentencing Whether a defendant whose conviction was final before Ramos v. Louisiana, but who is still on direct appeal from resentencing, is entitled to the bene…
20-5632 Rick Shawn v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County Nevada Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to a new trial when defense counsel fails to raise a meritorious defense
20-5635 Daniel Thomason Smith v. Warden, FCI Beaumont Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP allocution brady-violation conflict-of-interest due-process exculpatory-evidence false-witness identity-theft judicial-misconduct medicare-fraud mens-rea savings-clause Question not identified
20-564 Rodney Carlisle, Jr. v. Kentucky Kentucky Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-history-check fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-requirements law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause traffic-stop Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to prolong every traffic stop by performing a criminal history check, or whether the Fourth Amend…
20-565 George Matthews, et ux. v. Andrew J. Becker, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contempt-of-court court-orders eleventh-circuit judicial-accountability legal-procedure northern-district-court orders sanctions Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court failed to hold Attorneys in contempt of court after evidence was shown they violated orders from the Northern Distr…
20-5672 David Kareem Turpin v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c3a crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts force-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery, which can be committed by putting another in fear of future injury to himself, his property, or even his intangible propert…
20-5680 Larry R. Steele v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-violations due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief res-judicata standing state-court-review Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims as barred by res judicata and collateral estoppel
20-5701 Prakash Narayan v. Rabindra Prasad California Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-bias due-process judicial-accountability judicial-bias judicial-corruption judicial-discretion judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-transparency legal-procedure procedural-irregularity Why are judges corrupted in California?
20-5703 James L. Miller v. Virginia A. Phillips, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-courts sovereign-immunity standing Does Ex parte Young allow a federal court to enjoin state officials from enforcing unconstitutional state laws?
20-5718 Raheim Abdullah Trice v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apartment-building covert-surveillance fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure surveillance unlawful-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether a law enforcement official entering an unlocked apartment building, without permission and without a warrant, placing a 'covert camera' disgui…
20-5724 Justin Lamar Johnson v. Joseph Gibson, Judge, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-conspiracy civil-rights court-appointed-attorneys fraud immunity judicial-immunity res-judicata state-action state-actors Are court-appointed attorneys state actors for 42 USC 1983 claims?
20-5732 Ernest Seadin v. Dean Williams, Director, Colorado Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment new-evidence no-escape-conviction plea-agreement sentence-expiration sentencing-violation Is the State of Colorado subjecting Petitioner to a death in prison sentence
20-574 Jake Corman, et al. v. Pennsylvania Democratic Party, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (4) constitutional-authority election-deadlines election-integrity election-law election-procedures elections-clause intervention judicial-interpretation legislative-power mail-in-ballots presidential-electors Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court majority violated the United States Constitution by usurping the Pennsylvania General Assembly's plenary author…
20-5774 Archie Manzanares v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach mens-rea new-mexico-aggravated-assault new-mexico-robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony Whether the Tenth Circuit's analysis, which relies on facts rather than elements, abrogates the Supreme Court's holdings that the categorical approach…
20-5776 Joel Thomas Augard v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant warrant-execution Whether the good-faith analysis prohibits consideration of facts not included in the search-warrant affidavit?
20-5876 In Re Paula Idele Keller Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 9th-circuit-appeal civil-procedure fair-housing-act loan-modification mortgage mortgage-modification private-right-of-action real-estate real-estate-transaction standing statutory-interpretation Whether a Mortgage Loan Modification from a plaintiffs loan servicer is sufficiently related to the meaning of 'real estate-related transaction' under…
20-5931 David Frank Petrano, et ux. v. Darlene P. Baylor Florida Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-595 Dennis Lemma, Sheriff, Seminole County, Florida v. Seana Barnett Eleventh Circuit Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-reasonableness detention detention-duration due-process dui dui-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause Is it constitutionally unreasonable for a jail to detain for eight hours any driver arrested with probable cause for driving under the influence of al…
20-5974 Quordalis V. Sanders v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence sentencing Whether the Wisconsin Court of Appeals erred in affirming the conviction of the petitioner despite the state's failure to prove the essential element …
20-599 Hirsh Singh v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey New Jersey Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-law due-process elections-clause executive-order freedom-of-information-act mail-in-voting standing state-powers Does the New Jersey Governor's Executive Order taking over the powers of the state legislature to make election related laws and the primary election …
20-5993 Keith A. James v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach force-clause impersonation intimidation physical-force subjective-intimidation violent-felony Does a prior offense categorically qualify as a violent felony under ACCA's force clause if it only requires a use of 'intimidation' that can be satis…
20-602 Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels v. Donald J. Trump Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-slapp anti-slapp-statute circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure procedural-law shady-grove Does the Texas Citizens' Participation Act apply in federal court diversity jurisdiction cases under Erie R.R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938)?
20-6038 Darius Coty Whitaker v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process property-rights standing takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to provide public access to private propert…
20-6043 Robin Lee Archer v. Florida Florida Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-role retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-criminal-law substantive-law Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law
20-6046 Eric Gerard McGinnis v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP history means-end-scrutiny protective-order second-amendment text tradition Should the Second Amendment be evaluated based on text, history, and tradition instead of means-end scrutiny?
20-6059 Paul Edward Duran v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review arbitration-award civil-rights constitutional-violations district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-arbitration-act federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion-to-vacate Did the Ninth Circuit Court err by not issuing a COA, when the Court had knowledge that there were allegations of constitutional violations that were …
20-606 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. California Department of Industrial Relations California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights first-amendment free-speech governmental-immunity labor-code labor-law libel Does Governmental Entity the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) have a right to file a Special Motion to Strike my Complaint (an anti…
20-608 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. California Department of Industrial Relations California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure california-department-of-industrial-relations employment-dispute evidence-transfer federal-court government-code retaliation state-court transfer-of-record unlawful-termination Does the Opposing Party the Governmental Entity the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) have a right to refuse to transfer the record …
20-612 Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Minnesota Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ballot-access equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties political-party-rights primary-election primary-elections Whether Minnesota's taxpayer-funded, state-administered, and binding presidential nomination primary election statutes are repugnant to the First and …
20-613 Lyle Mark Coultas v. Carroll Tichenor, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Yamhill County Prosecutor, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process due-process-violation fabricated-facts fraud-on-the-court judicial-fraud judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing supreme-court supreme-court-jurisdiction Can the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals disregard the United States District Court Judge Marco Hernandez intentional fabrication of facts…
20-618 Kelly Georgene Routten v. John Tyler Routten North Carolina Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-courts state-intervention Does due process require a finding that a parent is unfit before a State denies that parent all visitation with their child?
20-6218 Terance Valentine v. Florida Florida Denied IFP constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-fact-finding jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b…
20-622 Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Bernadean Rittmann, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2) arbitration-exemption arbitration-regimes contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-delivery ninth-circuit seamen-railroad-employees transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for classes of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce prevents the Act's application to loc…
20-6241 Lisa Marie Smith v. Kelly Services, Inc., et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law federal-law liability-exemption negligence retaliation state-law third-party-liability workplace-policies Whether work place polices made up by Kelly Services should overrule state and federal school laws
20-6259 Angela de Jesus-Concepcion v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misrepresentation sentencing sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel was impermissibly violated
20-6283 Robert Brownlee v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation Whether trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective
20-629 In Re James Beggs, et ux. Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy conspiracy domestic-terrorism due-process executive-orders mental-health military military-medical-records parental-alienation title-18-conspiracy veterans-rights Whether Females Officers of the Court deprived a Veteran of continued Mental Health Care from a War Zone under President Obama & Trump Executive Order…
20-6310 Dean Phillip Carter v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d1 attorney-client-conflict due-process fetal-alcohol-syndrome fundamental-rights habeas-corpus holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a trial court has a duty to inquire into a conflict between a defendant and his attorney that implicates fundamental rights
20-6323 Lamont Andre Thomas v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code Whether the district court had jurisdiction to hear the government's motion under 18 U.S.C. section 924(c)
20-634 Felicia Robinson v. Webster County, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-claim constitutional-violation due-process government-liability private-actor-injury section-1983 standing state-created-danger Whether a person injured by a private actor can state a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a state or local government actor who created the danger …
20-6351 Johnny Tippins v. Patricia Caruso, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-law legal-compliance standing state-actors statutory-interpretation Should the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recall its mandate to prevent a miscarriage of justice because the district court did not apply…
20-6383 Vincent McFadden v. Missouri Missouri Denied IFP fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice-assessment rompilla sixth-amendment strickland-standard wiggins williams Whether the Missouri Supreme Court's application of Strickland violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
20-6429 John L. Howell v. Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud chapter-7-proceeding embezzlement estate-administration fiduciary-duty fraud injunction sanctions secured-creditor trustee-misconduct May the lower court endorse a trustee's scheme to defraud secured estate creditors?
20-6430 John L. Howell v. Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP bankruptcy-fraud breach-of-fiduciary-duty chapter-7-bankruptcy embezzlement estate-administration falsification-of-evidence fiduciary-duty fraud-upon-the-court secured-creditor trustee-duties trustee-misconduct May the lower court endorse a trustee's scheme to defraud secured estate creditors
20-6431 John L. Howell v. David Adler, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP article-iii-powers bankruptcy barton-injunctions civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity non-core-claims qualified-immunity quasi-judicial-immunity To deny a plaintiff's constitutional right to due process and prohibit suit against a particular set of defendants who it wishes to shield from liabil…
20-6432 Elise LaMartina v. David Adler, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP automatic-stay bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-jurisdiction barton-doctrine creditor-claims immunity judicial-immunity jurisdiction state-court trustee ultra-vires-acts May a bankruptcy court exponentially expand the Barton Doctrine?
20-6444 Ronnie Eugene Fuston v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause state-statute statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement Whether the state appellate court erroneously applied the good-faith-exception to the warrant-requirement despite a state-statute requiring a finding …
20-6488 Mario Allan Montano v. Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Michigan Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-fees due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-standing standing supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the Michigan Supreme Court violated its jurisdiction by issuing an order dismissing the Petitioner's case and depriving the Petitioner of his …
20-6489 Mario Allan Montano v. Ivy Alice Wimmer Michigan Dismissed IFP access-to-courts case-dismissal constitutional-rights court-fees court-orders due-process equal-protection filing-fees jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the Michigan Supreme Court violated its jurisdiction in issuing three orders dismissing the Petitioner's cases thus depriving the Petitioner o…
20-6490 Mario Allan Montano v. Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Michigan Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-fees court-orders due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-injunction standing supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the Michigan Supreme Court violated its jurisdiction in issuing orders against the Petitioner, depriving him of his right to equal protection …
20-6491 In Re Mario Allan Montano Dismissed Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process fee-waiver filing-injunction judicial-sanctions jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits michigan-supreme-court sanctions Did the Michigan Supreme Court fail to rule on the Petitioner's motions to waive fees and issue orders dismissing uncontested cases without jurisdicti…
20-6493 Neelam Uppal v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Florida Denied IFP abuse-of-authority bias civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process foreclosure hobbs-act judicial-bias standing Whether a litigant is deprived of due process of law
20-6499 Robert T. Sigler v. Jimmy Thornton, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference detainee-rights detention-conditions due-process equal-protection medical-care prison-conditions Whether the county government was deliberately indifferent towards the detainee class by providing inadequate sleeping conditions, limited recreation …
20-6505 Roosevelt Bigbee, Jr. v. Johnny Fitz, Warden Tennessee Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated
20-6506 Andy Buxton v. Iva C. Dougherty, et al. Third Circuit Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure discovery due-process pro-se-litigant standing Question not identified
20-6512 Davey Lewis v. Florida Florida Denied IFP confession-suppression confessions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule interrogation-tactics law-enforcement miranda-rights police-interrogation Can the State Courts allow the Police to use promises, inducements, deceit and trickery when obtaining a Confession and then not Suppress the Confessi…
20-6514 Jimmy Ray Weatherholt, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process fair-trial judicial-conduct recusal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether trial counsel's suspension and ultimate disbarment during the pendency of criminal charges deprived the defendant of his constitutional right …
20-6518 Blaine Milam v. Texas Texas Denied IFP briseno-framework collateral-review court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-rule retroactivity substantive-law Did Moore v. Texas announce a new substantive rule that is retroactive to cases on collateral review?
20-6522 Ricky Vincent Pendleton v. Terry C. Hamrick, et al. West Virginia Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeal-preparation constitutional-rights court-reporter due-process grand-jury grand-jury-transcripts indigent-prisoner transcripts Whether indigent prisoner's constitutional rights were violated by court reporter's denying him access to the grand jury transcripts requested to prep…
20-6524 Joshua D. Myers v. Georgia Georgia Denied IFP burden-of-proof consent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sexual-assault sexual-battery standard-of-proof trial-court-discretion trial-procedure Whether the State proved the essential element of 'without the consent' beyond a reasonable doubt
20-6528 Ecclesiastical Denzel Washington v. Benjamin Brooke, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prison-conditions prison-safety summary-judgment Whether the district court improperly decided factual issues in granting summary judgment
20-6532 Fernando Sanchez, Jr. v. California California Denied IFP None
20-6534 Deverick Scott v. Rory Griffin, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment grievances inmate-rights medical-malpractice medical-treatment policy Is A.D.C.'s Correct Care Solutions Medical policy unconstitutional when it denies Scott's tooth restoration?
20-6537 Tamara Rouhi v. CVS Pharmacy, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP appeal appeals-court case-dismissal civil-procedure district-court due-process fraud injustice judicial-misconduct legal-procedure procedural-error standing Question not identified
20-6538 Gabriel Schmitt v. Charlie Baker, Governor of Massachusetts First Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment police-power public-health public-health-emergency service-of-process standing substitute-service May a state governor close the state house and prevent service of process on civil rights claims?
20-6542 Alfonso Percy Pew v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Pennsylvania Denied IFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-religious-land-use-institutionalized-perso federal-settlement-agreement first-amendment pro-se-litigant religious-land-use standing Whether the Pennsylvania state court judicial system has created a hands-off doctrine for pro se litigant's 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil-rights complaint all…
20-6544 Randall S. Overton v. Matt Macauley, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-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 …
20-6549 Evatrus Derjuan Moss v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review exclusionary-provision habeas-corpus martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-interpretation treving-v-thaler Does a denial of counsel on an initial state post-conviction habeas corpus application activate the exclusionary provision of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1)(B…
20-6550 Kenneth H. Newkirk v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech magistrate-judge school-discipline standing student-speech Whether the U.S. Magistrate Judge violated the petitioner's due process rights by acting like the lawyer for Warden Kiser et al. by responding to the …
20-6558 Sonya Bamberg v. Georgia Georgia Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-proceedings right-to-appeal right-to-counsel Whether a judge who did not preside over the trial may certify a supplemental record of testimony from witnesses eight years after a conviction when t…
20-6560 Lorenzo Gerald Ferebee v. Karen Stapleton, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights procedural-due-process Whether the U.S. Department of Corrections' disciplinary procedures violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
20-6561 Jesus N. Rodriguez v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law district-court due-process incorporated-grounds judicial-discretion pleading-defect procedural-error rule-violation standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority Whether the district court invited error resulting in a fundamental pleading defect
20-6564 Eric Bernard Scott v. Artis Singleton, Warden Georgia Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review standing state-law supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court abused its discretion by failing to rule that the Superior Court of Fulton County was without subject matter jurisdiction to…
20-6565 Simon Quinn v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-investigation criminal-procedure homicide-investigation obstruction-of-justice reasonable-doubt specific-intent statutory-interpretation underlying-conviction Whether there was sufficient evidence to support a conviction for obstruction of a homicide investigation
20-6573 Ellis Keyes v. Matt Wilson, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 11th-circuit civil-rights deadly-force due-process judicial-intervention municipal-liability order-to-show-cause police-restraint police-use-of-force qualified-immunity standing Whether the 11th Circuit erred in denying the motion for order to show cause why defendant police should not be restrained from using deadly force
20-6574 Kevin L. Martin v. Ashlynn Ledford Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct recusal standing Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint based on the alleged bias of the district judge
20-6578 Rickey White v. Gary L. Lumpkin, Presiding Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, et al. Tenth Circuit Dismissed IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-6579 Aimee O'Neil v. Weld County, Colorado Tenth Circuit Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection individual-rights judicial-procedure legal-representation liberty-interest procedural-protection standing Did Attorney Andrew Poland provide adequate representation?
20-658 Sherri Cohen v. Equifax Information Services, LLC, et al. Second Circuit Denied consumer-disputes consumer-protection credit-disputes credit-file-accuracy credit-repair credit-reporting credit-reporting-agencies fair-credit-reporting-act pro-se-litigation reasonable-investigation Whether CRAs can satisfy the FCRA's reasonable investigation requirement by merely verifying information with furnishers
20-6592 Edgar Gomez v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process faretta-right habeas-corpus right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment timeliness Was Petitioner denied his right to self-representation pursuant to Faretta v. California
20-6593 Dustin Lee MacLeod v. William Moritz, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction indian-treaty legal-interpretation native-american-rights supreme-law supreme-law-of-the-land treaty-rights Is an 'Indian Treaty' the Supreme Law of the Land?
20-6598 Stephen Frederick Baker, Jr. v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equitable-tolling guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling
20-660 Employer Solutions Staffing Group, LLC, et al. v. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor Ninth Circuit Denied contribution contribution-liability fair-labor-standards-act flsa-requirements joint-and-several-liability joint-employer notice-of-flsa-requirements overtime-wages wage-compliance willful-violation willfulness-standard Whether the FLSA's willfulness standard requires actual knowledge of non-compliance
20-6603 In Re Antonio Akel Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus mandamus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus to compel the court to provide the peti…
20-6605 Demondray D. Mayo v. Perry Russell, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-petition reasonable state-court state-court-reasoning statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Whether a federal court incorrectly applies 28-U.S.C-2254(d)
20-6607 Kushawn S. Miles, aka Kushawn Miles-El v. Ionia Correctional Facility, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
20-6608 Zachary Michael Patten v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense investigation medication mental-health search-and-seizure Question not identified
20-6611 John Paul Mullaney v. University of St. Thomas Minnesota Denied IFP academic-sanctions censorship civil-rights discovery discovery-rule due-process ferpa fifth-amendment Is the intent of FERPA to protect the privacy of student and faculty as a preliminary subsociety, not use 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(a)(4)(B)G&ii) in a punitiv…
20-6612 Patricia T. Patterson v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
20-6615 Cornell McHenry v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review witness-testimony Did the 11th Circuit err in deferring to the State Court finding that Mr. McHenry was not prejudiced by trial counsel's conflict of interest and failu…
20-6620 Michael R. Spengler v. Los Angeles County District Attorney Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-remedies Whether federal habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 is available to criminal defendants challenging the legality of their confinement before exhausti…
20-6621 Shauna Smith v. Brooks Benton, Warden Georgia Denied IFP appellate-review cell-phone-records criminal-procedure evidence-suppression habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel phone-records trial-procedure Did the Eleventh Circuit err in deferring to the Superior Court's finding that Ms. Smith was not prejudiced by her appellate counsel's failure to rais…
20-6623 Raymond Ka-Lun Pin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-grievance civil-rights constitutional-rights discretionary-parole due-process equal-protection imprisonment parole sentencing takings Whether the Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections violated the petitioner's due process rights by the arbitrary enforcement of a void dis…
20-6624 Aaron Michael Aguilera v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights due-process fair-trial harmless-error jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence right-to-testify structural-error Right-to-testify
20-6625 Shane Q. Whipple v. Michael Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-court statute-of-limitations Whether Marcth Morales Howard should be allowed to stop the prosecution of all defendants in claims?
20-6627 Clarence B. Jenkins, Jr. v. South Carolina Department of Employment Workforce, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination due-process employment-workforce equal-protection institutional-racism systemic-racism title-vii Define the purpose of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Civil Rights Act of 1991
20-6629 Jane Doe v. Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-cases anonymity constitutional-rights court-cases disability-rights due-process government-defendant mental-illness name-redaction statutory-rights Should mentally ill individuals be automatically granted name redaction in administrative and court cases?
20-6631 Aaron Sebastian Redmond v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-sentencing constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit's rule that a Guidelines error is harmless if the district court states it would have imposed the same sentence regardless o…
20-6633 Eduardo David Vargas v. California California Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c…
20-6636 Lan Tu Trinh v. Citizen Business Banking, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP banking banking-negligence civil-rights client-protection customer-protection due-process fiduciary-duty institutional-integrity institutional-sabotage procedural-safeguards unauthorized-transfer Should Citizens Business Banking consider the protection of its customers' money and line of credit as one of its essential responsibilities?
20-6639 Todd Anthony Aurit v. Colorado Colorado Denied IFP detention-authority foreign-estate foreign-person foreign-trust internal-revenue-code non-us-person tax-treaties tax-treaty taxpayer-relief-act Whether the State of Colorado has lawful authority to detain the petitioner and his foreign estate and trust
20-6642 Kevin W. Dunigan v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process sovereign-immunity standing takings Should all of plaintiff's civil and punitive compensations be attributed to Kevin Wayne Phillips vs. Jehovah, Yahweh Christ?
20-6643 Adrian McCray v. Scott Lewis, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the Petitioner's prosecution violated his due process rights
20-6644 David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus investigative-funds sentencing Did the Court of Appeals deny petitioner a full appeal of the district court's denial of funding under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f), and this Court's decision …
20-6645 Joe Cervantes, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-violation due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jury-trial notice-of-charges void-for-vagueness void-statutes Does AEDPA deprive federal courts of the power and obligation to review claims not previously known and could not have been known through reasonable d…
20-6646 Marcia Croce v. Lorin A. Croce Pennsylvania Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure political-bias Whether the Pennsylvania Judicial System erred in depriving the low-income Petitioner of equal-process-and-protection
20-6650 Gregory Scott Sumner v. Brett Carter, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP ada ada-discrimination bivens-action civil-rights disability-rights due-process equal-access equal-protection free-speech public-services reasonable-accommodation Whether the public entity violated Title I of the ADA by excluding the plaintiff from participation in or denying the benefits of its programs and ser…
20-6651 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, et al. California Dismissed IFP civil-rights contempt-of-writ court-securities CUSIP cusip-number due-process human-trafficking money-laundering standing subpoena-compliance tort-claims Whether courts have become vehicles for pedophiles, MS13, sex and human traffickers, and drug cartels to launder money using various ruses, including …
20-6652 Rex Duane Stephenson v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial direct-appeal federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity post-conviction-relief ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Whether counsel provides ineffective assistance
20-6653 Scott P. Roeder v. Kansas Kansas Denied IFP abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-review personhood roe-v-wade standing Whether the notion of overturning Roe v. Wade includes other possibilities besides leaving abortion up to the states
20-6658 Michael Brent Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP death-penalty district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-petition fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations Whether the courts erred in denying relief and review on procedural grounds
20-6659 Eddie Ashley v. California, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP california-law california-supreme-court constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements Does Petitioner had a Federal Due Process Right to the Prohibition of the Imposition of Two Different Sentencing Enhancements, per the California Supr…
20-6661 Brian Keith Figge v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure deliberation-process due-process judicial-misconduct juror-dismissal jury-deliberations jury-selection jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Does a trial court violate a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury when it dismisses a defense holdout juror on the third day of…
20-6663 Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. New York New York Denied IFP brady-violation criminal-discovery criminal-procedure discovery due-process late-disclosure medical-evidence medical-records prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Did the prosecution violate its duties under Brady v Maryland (373 US 83 [1963]) and its progeny by withholding the complainant's medical records unti…
20-6667 Ronald Douglas v. Eric S. Schmitt, Attorney General of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights communications-act constitutional-challenge due-process eminent-domain government-owned-stations human-rights-violations jurisdiction property-rights takings Whether the district court had exclusive jurisdiction over the in rem eminent domain action
20-6669 Brian Zellner v. Georgia Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-provision criminal-charges criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment first-offender-statute state-prosecution substantive-criminal-charges Double Jeopardy Clause
20-6670 Janice Sue Taylor v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process federal-statutes fifth-amendment first-amendment jurisdiction title-26-usc Has the petitioner's constitutional rights been violated by the appellate court's denial of due process?
20-6672 Adam L. Coleman v. Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center Kentucky Denied IFP age-of-majority civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause estate-administration legal-representation medical-malpractice wrongful-death Can a state pass legislation that jeopardizes legal representation of a Wrongful Death or Medical Malpractice asserted claim that would otherwise be g…
20-6675 Augustine L. Cavitte v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense self-incrimination voluntariness Did the lower courts err in finding Ms. Cavitte's statements admissible contrary to present Miranda standards?
20-6676 Hernandez Daniels v. Florida Florida Denied IFP alibi alibi-defense brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-procedure criminal-appeal due-process effective-assistance evidence-suppression strickland-v-washington Whether suppression of (some) evidence is sufficient according to the procedures mandated by Brady v. Maryland
20-6678 Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process government-surveillance privacy standing Whether the government's seizure and retention of an individual's personal information without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment's protections a…
20-6680 Darryl Taylor v. Timothy E. Buchanan, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence Whether federal judges should safeguard the constitutional right to a full and fair opportunity for consideration in state courts
20-6681 Robert Wright v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement prison-grievance prisoner-litigation pro-se-litigation procedural-default standing Was Wright required to exhaust state remedies under the PLRA?
20-6682 Vamsidhar R. Vurimindi v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP condominium-association constitutional-appeal due-process in-rem-judgment jurisdiction mortgage-foreclosure sheriff-sale standing void-judgment Whether state appellate court violated state constitutional right to appeal, which is protected by Due Process Clause of U.S. Constitution Fifth Amend…
20-6685 Peter Terrell Redditt v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Question not identified
20-6686 Benjamon Ray Stewart v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus standing supreme-court-review Whether the Texas' 'procedural' scheme for addressing claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel on direct appeal denies petitioner his fundame…
20-6687 William James Jonas, III v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-counsel due-process fifth-circuit pro-se right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment substitute-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the district court did not violate Petitioner William James Jonas, III's right to cou…
20-6691 Cesar Armenta Lopez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment procedural-fairness sixth-amendment supervised-release united-states-v-haymond Did the district court's failure to afford petitioner an opportunity to be heard prior to adjudicating him guilty of supervised release violations as …
20-6692 Juan Manuel Lopez-Canales v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6694 Gerardo Flores-Riojas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6695 Lori Anna Massey v. MultiCare Health System, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights disability-law due-process legal-incompetency mental-incompetency physical-disability statute-of-limitations time-bar tolling Should no time limit apply?
20-6697 Damon O’Neil v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process franks-v-delaware ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure Whether the modified Franks v. Delaware 438 U.S. 154 (1978) rule announced by the Eighth Circuit allowing for deletion and retroactive replacement of …
20-6698 Richard H. Morrison v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-burden habeas-corpus legal-burden procedural-standard state-courts state-jurisdiction Do the state have the burden, and then that burden shift back to the defendant to challenge?
20-6699 Juan David Pineda-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6700 Melissa Calabrese v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-1915 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights civil-rights 20-66" collateral-order-doctrine counsel-appointment district-court-order due-process in-forma-pauperis moral-rights property-development recognized-stature standing statutory-damages visual-artists-rights-act Whether the Due Process Clause permits imposing st Whether the collateral order doctrine permits the immediate appeal of a district court order denying appointment of counsel under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(…
20-6701 Benjamin Pedraza, III v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether a third party has expectation of privacy in cell-phone data obtained without a warrant
20-6702 Tomas Moreno-Turrubiates v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 appellate-review mitigation-arguments plain-error-review procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentence-explanation sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights whether-district-court-must-address-mitigation-arguments
20-6703 Roberto Antoine Darden, aka Dizz-e, aka Javon v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court factual-dispute fourth-circuit government-breach hill-v-lockhart legal-interpretation plea-bargain plea-contract prejudice prejudice-standard Whether the government's failure to dispute the factual manifestations of the Petitioner's government breach claim due to the plea contract's accounta…
20-6704 Agustin Calderon v. Texas Texas Denied IFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy 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 …
20-6706 Roberto Degollado v. Texas Texas Denied IFP and whether due process requires affirmative show 14th-amendment criminal-plea criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea intentional-conduct memory memory-defense murder plea-bargaining Is a defendant's open plea of guilty to murder valid when the plea colloquy reflects the defendant does not remember the conduct, or is it no longer r…
20-6707 Cary Lee Peterson v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judgment procedural-irregularity standing transcripts Whether the court erred in issuing an unpublished opinion without including the 'Bill of Costs' or 'Attorney's Fees' or 'Costs of Appellate Procedure'…
20-6708 Tony Decloues v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confession confession-voluntariness due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the court of appeal should have granted COA where the district court employed a constitutionally impermissible standard in evaluating the volu…
20-6709 Lance Hundley v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mental-health self-representation sixth-amendment Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid a trial court from allowing a capital defendant with questionable mental health to represent himself?
20-6710 Marlon Iron Crow v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1 criminal-law criminal-statute jury-instruction jury-instructions malice-aforethought mens-rea second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation Whether the 'reckless' mens rea should be included in the jury instruction for 'malice aforethought' for second degree murder under 18 U.S.C. § 1
20-6712 John Eugene Leake v. Social Security Administration Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
20-6713 Danielle Devona Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment firearm-offense grand-jury-indictment indictment section-924c statutory-interpretation Whether Section 924(c) criminalizes two separate offenses - 'carry or use' and 'possession in furtherance of' - and whether both elements must be expl…
20-6715 Michael Adair Mankin 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?
20-6716 Mack Calvin Martin v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's alleged pretrial bias against him violated his due process rights
20-6720 Terek Harper v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law plea-agreement plea-bargaining void-agreement void-for-lack-of-consideration Whether a federal criminal plea agreement is void and unenforceable when it lacks consideration
20-6721 Monwell Dwight Booth v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court fourth-amendment legal-standard search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the court erred in affirming the district court's decision that petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were not violated?
20-6722 Eddie A. Poindexter v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-6723 Akando Ducksworth v. Hal MacMurdo, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights correctional-institute due-process medical-care prisoner-rights standing Whether this Petitioner's case should have proceeded past the dismissal phase based on the merits of his claim
20-6725 Larry Durant v. South Carolina South Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation cell-phone-data criminal-sexual-conduct digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-instruction jury-coercion privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-6726 Jamie Betances v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure factual-objections guilty-plea legal-arguments plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Did the lower court err in denying Jamie Betances acceptance of responsibility, under U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1, after Mr. Betances pleaded guilty, accepted th…
20-6727 Sergio Avalos v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-and-just-reasons guilty-plea impeachment-evidence impeachment-information plea-agreement post-hoc-disclosure withdrawal Whether being misled about the terms of the plea agreement and the government's post-hoc disclosure of impeachment information constituted 'fair and j…
20-6728 Jarvis O'Neil Adams v. Georgia Office of the Governor, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure law-enforcement narcotics officer-opinion probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure Whether probable cause can be established solely on officer's opinion of narcotics smell
20-6730 Jose Lupe Corrall 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 pleading guilty to knowingly distributing a controlled substance must admit that he knew the sub…
20-6732 Adams Joel Forty-Febres v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-insufficiency first-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Fairly Stand
20-6733 John Christopher Ferguson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits law-enforcement search-warrant warrant-affidavit Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies where law enforcement knew or should have known the affidavit would lead to a mistak…
20-6734 John S. Mobasseri v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2259 child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process restitution retroactive-application statutory-amendment Whether it violates due process to retroactively apply the 2018 amendments to 18 U.S.C. § 2259 to offense conduct occurring prior to the effective dat…
20-6736 Salvador Diaz v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction prior-conviction sorna-violation statutory-interpretation supervisory-power venue venue-selection whether-the-court-of-appeals'-failure-to-remedy-the-district-court's-improper-venue-selection
20-6737 Christian Alejandro Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process knowingly-and-voluntarily plea-bargain right-of-appeal waiver-of-appeal Was a dismissal of the appeal improper considering the court of appeals' reliance on a waiver of appeal pursuant to a plea bargain in which Mr. Perez …
20-6738 Lisa Yvette Coffman v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law embezzlement federal-statute fifth-circuit fraud plain-error-review statutory-interpretation substantial-rights Does the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C. § 641 set out separate offenses or different means of committing one offense?
20-6739 Larun E. Miller v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge outrageous-government-conduct sixth-circuit-conflict standing statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in their refusal/failure to address the conflict amongst the courts, while not acknowledging a persuasive split amongs…
20-6740 Darnell Lewis Peak v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search pennsylvania-law police-procedure private-property vehicle-impoundment Whether the inventory search was illegal under 75 Pa.C.S. § 6309(a) as no public interest was threatened
20-6741 Peter J. McDaniels v. Kathleen Preito, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights document-request due-process evidence evidence-withholding legal-discovery spoliation state-officials summary-judgment Does spoliation shift the burden of proof in a summary judgment motion?
20-6744 Sinclair Ellis, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 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 and statutory provisions
20-6747 Gregory K. Clinton v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Question not identified
20-6748 Edward David v. Eloy Ituarte, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence witness Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause was violated
20-6750 In Re Mark Marvin Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-court civil-rights due-process equitable-relief property-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Mark Marvin access to the court by imposing frivolous paperwork and submission obstacles
20-6752 Juan Tinoco-Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-advisement non-citizen non-citizen-rights padilla-v-kentucky post-conviction-relief removal-proceedings Does an immigration judge's failure to advise an immigrant in removal proceedings of their apparent eligibility to seek post-conviction relief under P…
20-6753 Andre Martel Winn v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process electronic-device-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-and-seizure supervisory-powers warrant warrant-validity Whether the Ninth Circuit's application of the inevitable-discovery-exception
20-6755 Alejandro Tovar-Regalado v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
20-6757 Phillip Jazir Thompson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fugitive fugitive-status probation-law sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release tolling tolling-period Whether a term of supervised release is tolled during the time in which the person on supervised release is a fugitive
20-6759 Bernard Weiters, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 3582(c)(2) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing section-404(b) sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-mandatory-minimum statutory-maximum Whether the court committed error by declining to resentence the petitioner under Section 3582(c)(2) when the court earlier reduced the petitioner's '…
20-6761 Wayne Wells, Jr. v. Terrie Wallace, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rules sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure witness-testimony Does the statute SC Code Ann. 8 10-3655 (8)(2) have unconstitutional requirements?
20-6763 Arnold Maurice Mathis v. Zulaika Zoe Vizcarrondo Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP compensatory-damages false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity statute-of-limitations warrantless-search Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit correctly dismissed Petitioners Counts ILand IIL of the Original Complaint for false arrest on t…
20-6766 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 due-process evidentiary-hearing haines-v-kerner ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal pro-se-pleadings recusal section-2255 What rights under the Due Process clause do prisoners have during the course of 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceedings?
20-6768 Quentin Watson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-evaluation petition-review standing Whether the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied clearly established law in evalu…
20-6770 Lelis Ezequiel Treminio-Tobar v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment affirmative-defense criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions trial-court Whether the Fifth Amendment Due Process right to present a defense requires the trial court to instruct the jury that it has a duty to acquit any defe…
20-6771 Oristel Soto-Peguero v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree good-faith-exception illegal-search independent-source-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-application Whether the court erred when it denied Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence discovered during an illegal search
20-6774 Craig B. Snoddy v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment colorado-v-bertine fourth-amendment inventory-search investigative-search search-and-seizure south-dakota-v-opperman supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the court of appeals' decision not to suppress evidence found in a warrantless vehicle search conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on invent…
20-6776 Charod Becton v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial pinkerton-doctrine sixth-amendment Should this Court abrogate the judicially established Pinkerton doctrine
20-6777 James Baxton v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy
20-6778 Richard Anderson v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof courtroom-closure criminal-procedure family-member-exclusion public-trial sixth-amendment triviality-exception waller-v-georgia Whether there is a 'triviality exception' to the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial
20-6782 Juan Carlos Guadron-Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cellular-communication civil-procedure criminal-joinder extortion-conspiracy gang-related-crime interstate-facilities joinder prejudice severance travel-act Whether federal joinder laws permit the expansive joinder of two unrelated cases with no factual commonality apart from one defendant's involvement in…
20-6783 Jaelon David Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abduction administration-of-justice circuit-split federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines location-definition room-or-area sentencing-guidelines victim-movement Whether the forced movement of victims from one room or area to another room or area within the same building constitutes an abduction for purposes of…
20-6784 Abdisalan Abulahab Hussein v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fraud insurance insurance-claims mail-fraud medical-necessity patient-referral scheme-to-defraud standing wire-fraud Whether a defendant can be convicted of mail and wire fraud where the purported victim insurance companies were not deprived of money or property beca…
20-6787 Matthew Lee Pryor v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal direct-review first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation Does Congress' express 'Clarification of Section 924(c) of Title 18, United States Code' in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant con…
20-6789 Lilia Abril Olmedo-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.S.S…
20-6792 Edgar Rene Mier-Garces v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit's test for determining whether two conspiracy prosecutions involve the same conspiracy renders the Double Jeopardy Clause in…
20-6795 Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards California Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process eviction ex-parte-eviction judicial-discretion property-rights sanctions Does the 'Compel Obedience Clause' in Civil Code of Procedure Section 128 allow ex parte eviction on the court's own motion?
20-6800 Harry Miller v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule brady-v-maryland constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence favorable-evidence materiality prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness How does a court determine whether evidence that the prosecution did not share with the defense before trial is 'favorable' under the standard announc…
20-6803 Dominic Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-conflict certiorari court-order criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-precedent legal-compliance precedent supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the opinion below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United States and Davis v. United States, and whether it adequately compli…
20-6804 Stephen Cometa v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bona-fide-doubt competency competency-hearing due-process eleventh-circuit irrational-behavior medical-opinions pate-v-robinson sua-sponte trial-competence Whether a district court must conduct a competency hearing sua sponte based on the record evidence
20-6809 Anthony Lynn Wood v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-power nondelega tion-doctrine nondelegation separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should this Court overrule Gundy and, if appropriate, revisit its approach to nondelegation claims, and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstit…
20-6813 Manuel Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment child-pornography circuit-split fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-arrest Whether an officer has probable cause to obtain a search warrant or to make a warrantless arrest for the offense of possession of child pornography ba…
20-6816 Edward G. Rodriguez v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit notice-of-appeal procedural-error right-to-appeal Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in denying Rodriguez's request for a certificate of appealability on an ineffective assistance of counsel clai…
20-6817 Jerry Lee Quinn v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split codefendant codefendant-testimony evidence-admission fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-statement plain-error prior-consistent-statements prosecutorial-misconduct tome Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied the plain error doctrine to bar review of the defendant's claim that the prosecution wrongly relied on a hearsay …
20-6820 Eljarod Lawson v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-immunity due-process sexual-assault sixth-amendment sixth-fourteenth-amendment testimonial-hearsay witness-unavailability Was the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation violated?
20-6823 Robert Buttery v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights juvenile-adjudication sex-offender-registration Whether an adult felony conviction under Ohio's failure to register statute violates due process and jury trial rights
20-6827 Abdul Majid v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review deference-to-lower-court fourth-amendment marijuana-legalization motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the Court of Appeals can override the District Court's factual findings and expand the scope of a warrantless search
20-683 Dirk Wilke, Interim State Health Officer of North Dakota, et al. v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Eighth Circuit GVR civil-rights eighth-circuit employee-benefits erisa erisa-preemption health-care-law pharmacy-benefit-managers plan-administration preemption state-regulation Whether ERISA preempts state laws regulating pharmacy benefit managers
20-6831 David Garcia v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal duty-to-adjudicate existing-record ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits sixth-amendment Whether a circuit court of appeals has a duty to adjudicate the merits of a Sixth Amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim raised by a defend…
20-6838 Jason Sinagwana Nsinano, aka Jason Nsinano v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detention civil-procedure civil-rights conditional-release due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-mootness mootness pleading-standards pro-se-litigant standing Whether a lower federal court loses jurisdiction over a habeas corpus petition upon release of the civil detention petitioner
20-6842 Christine D'Onofrio v. Costco Wholesale Corporation Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-sufficiency rule-50b-motion seventh-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent Whether the majority opinion in affirming the grant of a Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(b) motion failed to apply the correct standard of review, and under the co…
20-6844 Jose Angel Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay rule-of-completeness video-evidence Is a Defendant denied a Fair Trial when a District Court Finds that additional video evidence is admissible under the Rule of Completeness to prevent …
20-6850 Ronald Eugene Weems v. Alabama Alabama Denied Response WaivedIFP alabama-supreme-court attorney-representation constitutional-rights court-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-representation post-conviction sixth-amendment Question not identified
20-6854 Jose Armando Bazan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing fact-question plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a defendant's claim for a minor or mitigating role downward adjustment under the Sentencing Guidelines…
20-6857 Luis Pina v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge removal-order removal-orders separation-of-powers Whether the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue removal orders, violating separation of powers and due process
20-6859 Jonathon Ray Swan v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process search-seizure standing unreasonable-search Whether the Fourth Amendment rights of mine, get violated through S13. (3060? De WUE foe hee fours amddinth?é reguitenents 5 FT Tt. SUL Vel lA, He [ac…
20-6861 Justin Lee Sanders v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eighth-circuit factual-disputes federal-jurisdiction federal-writ habeas-corpus reversible-error Whether the district court and court of appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability to review the denial of the petitioner's federal habea…
20-6863 Tommy Findley v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-court-review first-amendment fourth-amendment internet-access probable-cause state-law-application supervised-release warrant-application warrant-probable-cause Whether a federal court is required to apply controlling state law in determining whether facts omitted from a warrant application vitiate probable ca…
20-6864 Brian David Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment supervised-release trial-by-jury Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner without a jury trial and by a preponderance of the evidence
20-6867 Noel Romero-Espinal v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP continuing-offense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code Whether illegally reentering the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. §1326 is a continuing offense
20-6869 Tavarius D. Radford v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP courtroom-closure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance partial-closure public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts whether-public-trial-right-violated
20-6870 Antonio Harris v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactive-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines Can federal judges ignore the current United States Sentencing Guidelines calculation when considering whether to reduce a sentence for a 'covered off…
20-6873 Joshua Harrell v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment seizure unreasonable-search unreasonable-seizure Whether the unreasonable search and seizure prejudicially violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
20-6878 Edward Joseph Curran, III v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute firearm-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause?
20-6880 Victor Esquivel, aka Youngster v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief constructive-denial criminal-procedure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel no-merit-brief preserved-objections right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel Whether Esquivel's Right to Counsel Was Constructively Denied
20-6883 Christopher Brent Garner v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-authority jury-trial legal-error sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release trial-by-jury Whether 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) unconstitutionally deprives federal supervised releasees of the right to trial by jury?
20-6884 Luis Alberto Andrade-Salas 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 …
20-6885 David Alan Vogel v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 2255-appeal 2255-motion 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent constitutional-grounds sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent tenth-amendment Did the 5th Circuit violate the precedent of this Supreme Court and the legal standard of every other circuit when it denied Certificate of Appealabil…
20-6888 Christina Elizabeth Pandey 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?
20-6889 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus internet-protocol overbreadth search-warrant standing vagueness Whether the federal rules of criminal procedure are unconstitutionally overbroad and vague
20-6893 Patrick Wallace v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-court habeas-corpus recusal right-to-be-present section-2255 Did the courts commit reversible error denying petitioner's COA, to resolve the factual disputes
20-6895 Raheem Jefferson Brennerman 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 a trial court deprived a criminal defendant of his Constitutional rig…
20-6897 In Re Lee Charles Bradford Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant civil-rights, due-process, and equal-protection laws
20-6903 Francisco Villa v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-visitation children constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process mexico parental-contact personal-contact personal-liberty supervised-release Whether and to what extent supervised release conditions may intrude on the Constitutional right to personal contact with one's children, by prohibiti…
20-6909 Brian Gale v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court due-process elements-clause hobbs-act residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence'
20-6911 Dimas Alfaro-Granados v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama rico-enterprise sentencing sixth-amendment vicar whether-counsel-was-ineffective
20-6915 Scott Lee Peterson v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire witherspoon-challenge witherspoon-v-illinois Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a verdict of guilt returned by a jury from which all prospective jurors opposed to the death penalty have been im…
20-6916 Stephen M. Patterson, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process edwards-standard indiana-v-edwards mental-competency self-representation sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel Whether Edwards' heightened competency standards apply when a court grants a borderline competent and mentally ill defendant's request to represent hi…
20-6917 Frank McAfee v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure counsel-performance fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance insufficient-record legal-standard procedural-dismissal sixth-amendment specific-objection strategic-reasons Did the Fifth Circuit fail to follow its own law and that of other circuits when it dismissed Mr. McAfee's appeal alleging ineffective assistance beca…
20-6918 Richard Moseley, Sr. v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-law confrontation-clause criminal-law due-process fair-warning overfederalization-of-criminal-law rico rico-statute testimonial-statements unlawful-debt Whether a defendant is provided fair warning under due process when a federal statute is applied to create a federal crime of conduct otherwise lawful…
20-6920 Sean Moffitt v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-procedure post-conviction-relief subsequent-petition Does the district court have jurisdiction to entertain a lawfully filed, Subsequent Petition
20-6921 Elier Isai Marquez-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli…
20-6925 Leonidas Iraheta and Eduardo Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judge-found-facts judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit severe increases to the sentences of criminal defendants using judge-found facts rejected by the jury
20-6926 Nestor Alegria Hernandez v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intoxicated-driving involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions lesser-included-offense Whether California law violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause by requiring its courts to instruct on involuntary manslaughter as …
20-6927 Anthony Freeney v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a audio-recordings criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jail-phone-calls jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Was the evidence insufficient to sustain the jury's guilty verdict?
20-6928 Timothy Ivey v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility credibility-determination due-process fifth-amendment out-of-court-identification reliability revocation revocation-hearing supervised-release Does a district court violate a defendant's due process rights by relying solely on an uncorroborated, recanted, out-of-court identification to revoke…
20-6930 Marco Antonio Lopez-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6932 Jorge Armando Jamaica-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
20-6933 Seledonio Martinez v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard totality-of-the-circumstances Whether the 46-month sentence is reasonable given the totality of the circumstances
20-6936 Scott Tucker v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea racketeering Whether the Court of Appeals has endorsed an inflexible rule that limits evidence of legal advice rendered to the defendant to the very inception of t…
20-6941 Frank Joseph Dodge v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit generic-burglary stitt-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states violent-felony Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career …
20-6942 Juan Jose Camarena v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment gang-affiliation liberty plain-error sentencing-conditions supervised-release vagueness Is this condition of supervised release a violation of the Fifth Amendment due process right against vague conditions of release and/or a greater depr…
20-6943 Ronald Lewis Coleman, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentence-reduction sentencing Whether the changes in applicable mandatory minimum sentences worked by the First Step Act can provide extraordinary and compelling reasons to support…
20-6944 Jose Manuel Zavala-Marti v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus magistrate-act whether-zavla-made-a-substantial-showing-of-a-denial-of-his-right-to-due-process
20-6952 In Re Russell Adam Pelletier Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct standing Does ignorance of the law bar petitioner from having right to be heard when a miscarriage of justice has occurred?
20-6954 Brenda Yadira Gamez-Castaneda v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-smuggling criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's sentence violates the Sixth Amendment because its reasonableness depends upon facts found by the court that was not admitted by t…
20-6958 Luis C. Paulino v. Thomas Griffin, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection justification-defense self-defense standing takings Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry firearms in public for self-defense
20-6960 DeAndre McMichaels v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment concealed-carry fourth-amendment law-enforcement public-carry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether an officer's belief that a person is armed allows the officer to infer for purposes of a Terry search that the person is 'presently dangerous'…
20-6962 Misael Herrera-Fuentes v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear that did not …
20-6969 Barto Edward Usry, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acca armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery business-burglary johnson-ruling mississippi-state-convictions resentencing robbery section-2255 sentencing violent-felony Whether Mr. Usry is entitled to resentencing without applying the ACCA
20-6971 Jason Alfred Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-reasonableness revocation-of-supervised-release revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the court of appeals erred in reviewing the district court's sentence for plain reasonableness
20-6973 Tommy Demond Fannin v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP assault criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court due-process fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines Did the district court err when it imposed a cross-reference under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2K2.1(c)(1) without a connection between the po…
20-6977 Joshua Ryan Dorman 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?
20-6978 Chaka LeChar Castro v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-statute due-process ethnic-targeting evidence evidence-sufficiency hate-crime hate-crimes religious-discrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether sufficient evidence supported Petitioner's convictions under 18-U.S.C-924(c)
20-6979 Eddie Charles Webb v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense intent-element shepard-v-united-states state-law-interpretation taylor-v-united-states Whether the categorical approach requires federal courts to defer to a state supreme court's interpretation of state law when determining if a prior c…
20-6980 Michael Ray West v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing standing successive-2255-motion successive-motion Where an authorized successive § 2255 motion argues that an Armed Career Criminal Act sentence should be set aside under Johnson v. United States, 135…
20-6989 Rodney Louis Sims v. Kimberly A. Seibel, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data criminal-appeal due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ninth-circuit privacy prosecutorial-conduct reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure witness-testimony Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear…
20-6994 In Re Khayree Smith Denied IFP 14th-amendment citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-law denationalization due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto slavery slavery-labels What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (Negro, Black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865?
20-719 Don Arthur Webster, Jr. v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska Ninth Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process international-treaty judicial-bias marginalized-communities marginalized-populations racial-discrimination treaty-interpretation Does racial bias disproportionately affect the federal courts' treatment of marginalized people of color, when addressing the international treaty asp…
20-724 Donovan Middleton, et al. v. Complete Nutrition Franchising, LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice judicial-discretion motion-to-amend post-judgment-motion rule-12b6 rule-59e standard-of-review Should the standard of review in a Rule 59(e) post-judgment motion to amend following a dismissal with prejudice under Rule 12(b)(6) be clarified
20-725 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived amendment-xi civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process existential-threats judicial-bias originalism pro-se-access systemic-bias systemic-justice Does Judge Colville's elevation to the federal bench or any other events during the pendency of this case lend urgency to the problem of Thrasymachus?
20-728 adidas AG v. Nike, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied 5-usc-7513 administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officers judicial-review patent-judges principal-officers severance statutory-interpretation us-patent-and-trademark-office Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
20-734 Brett Emmett Lloyd v. John Gerhard, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 anti-SLAPP civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process false-police-report favorable-termination malicious-prosecution standing summons Was Petitioner unfairly denied redress for a malicious prosecution when the District Court of Oregon granted Defendants' Motion to Dismiss for a failu…
20-749 Kathy Roux v. Dennis Pharris, et al. Texas Denied appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process factual-analysis legal-analysis sanctions standard-of-review state-law trial-court-sanctions Whether the Tenth Court of Appeals for the State of Texas failed to apply the proper standard of review and perform the correct factual and legal anal…
20-755 Kenan Biberovic v. City of Culver City, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied 28-usc-1343 28-usc-1831 28-usc-sections circuit-split extrinsic-fraud federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine subject-matter-jurisdiction Has the court of appeals failed to exercise the federal jurisdiction given it by Congress under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1831 & 1343(a)(3) & (4), by refusing to a…
20-759 Robel Bing v. Brivo Systems, LLC Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination pleading-standards pro-se-pleading rule-12(b)(6) title-vii Did the 4th Circuit's Published Opinion, with dissent, err in its 2-1 majority affirmance of the district court's dismissal of Bing's pro se complaint…
20-769 GS Cleantech Corporation, et al. v. Adkins Energy LLC, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-review federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the Federal Circuit, in cases arising under the Patent Act, may depart from the uniform rule of the other Circuit Courts that an issue resolve…
20-770 John Nypl v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-procedure federal-law federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-deference motion-to-quash non-party-witness nonparty-witness rule-45 subpoena subpoena-compliance Whether the applicable burden on a moving-party seeking to quash the subpoena of a non-party witness under Fed. R. Civ. P. 45(d)(8) should be decided
20-775 Clifford Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense self-defense sixth-amendment Whether a state court's arbitrary decision to deny a defendant the ability to present his self-defense case amounts to a denial of the fundamental con…
20-777 In Re Darren Heyman Denied Response Waived 28-usc-455 conflict-of-interest due-process extrajudicial-relationship interlocutory-appeal judicial-recusal mandamus scope-of-employment Whether a presiding judge must recuse/disqualify themselves when the judge has active teaching ties with a named-party university
20-785 Eboni Nicole Baldwin v. Latoisha Dorsey Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care medical-care-delay pre-gerstein-arrestee state-actor-liability How many hours of delayed mental health care is reasonable before a state actor can be held liable for deliberately indifferent or objectively unreaso…
20-787 Preserve Responsible Shoreline Management, et al. v. City of Bainbridge Island, Washington, et al. Washington Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure constitutional-claims due-process evidence evidence-limitation fourteenth-amendment judicial-review standing Does it violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause for a state's judicial review statute to bar the introduction of evidence outside the ad…
20-789 Rebecca Dikes, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Shawn C. Dikes v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived causation-standard civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court due-process evidence-presentation federal-tort legal-procedure Whether a District Court's decision to implement a new causation standard in a federal tort case after the Petitioner presented all her evidence const…
20-792 Melinda Beazley Pearson v. City of Augusta, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination investigation loudermill-hearing neutral-decisionmaker pretext pretext-analysis public-employment summary-judgment Was it error for the panel to affirm a grant of summary judgment, finding due process had been provided where a challenged demotion had been effected …
20-797 Leonard Patti v. George C. Peck, Jr. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 7th-amendment affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process informed-consent jury-trial medical-malpractice standing Why was I denied my right to a trial by jury, or even a hearing on the case?
20-798 In Re Leonard Patti Denied Response Waived affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process informed-consent judicial-review medical-malpractice medical-procedure standing statute-of-limitations Why was I denied my right to a trial by jury, or even a hearing on the case?
20-799 L. Lin Wood, Jr. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied due-process election-integrity election-law equal-protection legislative-authority signature-verification standing state-legislature vote-dilution voting-rights Whether a voter has standing to challenge state action based on vote dilution
20-801 Frank DeLucia v. Greenbuild, LLC, et al. New York Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights contempt due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment subpoena witness-appearance Is it a violation of the Due Process clauses of the United State Constitution, 5s Amendment and 14th Amendment to punish a party by dismissing his pro…
20-802 Virginia Ann Kurschinske v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment final-order-of-acquittal fourteenth-amendment state-law Are Pennsylvania state laws constitutional?
20-803 Morgan Joseph Langan v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iv constitutional-interpretation due-process federalism judicial-sovereignty legislative-act property-rights republican-government separation-of-powers takings vested-rights Does the State of Arizona possess the transcendental sovereignty to take away petitioner's vested rights in private property by a mere legislative act…
20-805 RollinsNelson LTC Corp., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Jane Winters Ninth Circuit Denied civil-rights due-process false-claims-act healthcare-provider inpatient-care medical-judgment medical-necessity medicare medicare-reimbursement objective-falsehood objective-falsity Whether the False Claims Act requires pleading and proof of an objectively false statement
20-806 Mary Swartzlander v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived accrual erosion flooding flooding-event government-action government-taking land-erosion limitations-period property-rights statute-of-limitations takings When does a taking claim accrue against the government based on erosion caused by government action, where the erosion for many years was present only…
20-809 Kelli Ward v. Constance Jackson, et al. Arizona Denied ballot-inspection civil-rights due-process election electoral-college electoral-count-act fourteenth-amendment presidential-electors standing state-courts voting-rights Does the Electoral Count Act impose unconstitutional deadlines on state courts' final determination of disputes over presidential electors?
20-810 Mike Kelly, United States Congressman, et al. v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Amici (11)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-law elections elections-clause first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech laches laches-doctrine standing Do the First and Fourteenth Amendments permit Pennsylvania to bar equitable relief for constitutional challenges to election laws?
20-811 Kathy Contreras, on Behalf of Her Minor Child A. L. v. Dona Ana County Board of County Commissioners, dba Dona Ana County Detention Center, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process monell-claim monell-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether the law was clearly established
20-813 James Simmons v. UBS Financial Services, Incorporated Fifth Circuit Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination family-member person-aggrieved retaliation standing title-vii zone-of-interests Whether a family member who is the intentional target of retaliatory actions by an employer is a 'person aggrieved' for purposes of Title VII only if …
20-814 James Nalder, et al. v. United Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure damages-review diversity federal-courts judicial-procedure jury-trial standing standing-doctrine substantive-law Whether a federal appeals court may be divested of jurisdiction by evaluating facts of an alleged post-judgment reduction in the amount of damages and…
20-815 Timothy King, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-dispute elections-clause electors-clause equal-protection michigan-election-code preliminary-injunction voter-fraud Whether the petitioners have presented sufficient evidence to support three claims pursuant to 42 USC§ 1983: (Count I) violation of the Elections and …
20-817 Louis Roderick Ogden v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability?
20-818 Bruce A. Norvell v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 26-usc-7623 administrative-procedures-act agency-action irs-inaction irs-whistleblower-office sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction whistleblower-claim Whether the United States has waived sovereign immunity under the Administrative Procedures Act to exercise subject matter jurisdiction over Claim 201…
20-821 Mountainlands Conservancy, LLC, et al. v. California Coastal Commission, et al. California Denied Response Waived coastal-regulation due-process fourteenth-amendment land-use procedural-due-process property-rights substantive-due-process takings zoning zoning-law When the California Coastal Commission's certification of the County of Los Angeles' local coastal program imposed a complete ban on the establishment…
20-822 Solon Phillips v. Maryland Board of Law Examiners, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived bar-admission character-and-fitness character-fitness-test constitutional-vagueness due-process legal-standards moral-character opportunity-to-be-heard unexplained-delay vagueness Is the Maryland character fitness test unconstitutionally vague?
20-823 Robert Lee Crider v. Texas Texas Denied blood-extraction bodily-intrusion chemical-analysis fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation search search-and-seizure warrant warrant-scope Whether a Fourth Amendment violation occurs when the government extracts a blood sample by compelled intrusion into a person's body and then chemicall…
20-824 Edward F. Taupier v. Connecticut Connecticut Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-protection intent intent-standard reckless-speech recklessness true-threats virginia-v-black Whether the First Amendment prohibits a State from criminalizing threats to commit violence communicated in reckless disregard of the risk of placing …
20-825 Christopher Brewer v. Teresa Hooks, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied 4th-amendment causal-connection fourth-amendment informant informant-testimony probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 Whether probable cause or arguable probable cause exists to seek a search warrant where an officer relies upon an informant who turns himself in, admi…
20-829 WasteCare Corporation v. Harmony Enterprises, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitrability arbitration-agreement arbitration-rules carve-out circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation delegation-doctrine exempt-claims Whether an arbitration agreement that expressly carves out specific claims to be exempt from the provision clearly and unmistakably delegates arbitrab…
20-833 William Todd Coontz v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure criminal-tax-prosecution expert-testimony expert-witness-exclusion foundation sentencing-guidelines state-of-mind tax-knowledge tax-prosecution willfulness willfulness-standard witness-testimony Was it reversable error for the trial court to exclude the Petitioner's/Coontz's key witness — the CPA expert — from testifying in a criminal tax pros…
20-834 James A. Widtfeldt v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived biological-weapons civil-rights constitutional-rights lyme-disease medical-care medical-malpractice pre-trial-testing stevia Question not identified
20-835 Warren Rosenfeld v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment article-iii ausa-appointment certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit miller-el presidential-commission sixth-amendment-right standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability was unreasonable
20-838 Kim Blandino v. Nevada, et al. Nevada Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise impartial-judge judicial-impartiality structural-error Whether a criminal defendant's right to an impartial judge under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments requires correction before trial or conviction
20-841 Eliber Ulises Martinez Lopez v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-845 Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. v. Veronica Degraffenreid, Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Amici (4)Response Waived article-ii constitutional-interpretation due-process election-integrity election-law equal-protection legislative-authority mail-ballot presidential-election Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's alteration or suspension of state election law violated the U.S. Constitution
20-847 Billie Renee Frances Lillian Powers v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation summary-affirmance supervisory-authority Whether the pro se petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by the circuit court's treatment of informal briefs
20-852 Shaquere Myleshia Gray, Co-Administratrix of the Estate of Gregory Tremaine Miller, et al. v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process employer-liability federal-courts fela fifth-circuit labor-law legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has deviated from established Supreme Court precedent under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA…
20-862 Hui Feng, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived antifraud-provisions broker-registration capital-raising investment-advisers-act-of-1940 sec-authority secondary-market secondary-market-transactions securities-act securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 statutory-interpretation Whether the SEC exceeded its statutory authority
20-867 Shalini Ahmed v. United States First Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction bond-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights cohen-doctrine criminal-case criminal-law due-process surety-intervention Is a bond forfeiture proceeding sufficiently civil in nature such that it falls under certain rules governing civil actions and should be treated as a…
20-868 Foxfield Villa Associates, LLC, et al. v. Paul Robben, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split general-partnership howey-test investment-contract investment-contracts limited-liability-company limited-partnership promoter-control securities-law Are limited liability company interests, like limited and general partnership interests, 'investment contracts' under the Securities Exchange Act of 1…
20-870 John W. Orem, et ux. v. Matthew Gillmore, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment medical-privacy probable-cause qualified-immunity search search-and-seizure Whether the Respondent State Trooper's lack of probable cause to search was sufficiently clear, when all reasonable inferences are made in Petitioner'…
20-876 Jeanine Liberti, et vir v. City of Scottsdale, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-doctrine police-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 Should the qualified-immunity doctrine be abolished?
20-878 Michael Edwards v. Indiana University Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment public-employment state-action workplace-termination Was my 14th Amendment United States Constitutional Rights violated when I was fired by Indiana University?
20-882 Donald J. Trump, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, et al. Wisconsin Denied Response Waived absentee-ballot article-ii constitutional-interpretation election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review laches legislative-intent state-courts voter-fraud wisconsin-legislature Whether it violates Article II of the Constitution, as well as the First and Fourteenth Amendments, for state courts to invoke the non-statutory, judg…
20-890 Stanford Vina Ranch Irrigation Company v. California, et al. California Denied Amici (2)Response Waived compensation constitutional-rights due-process emergency-authority property-rights public-trust-doctrine quasi-legislative takings water-rights Whether government may avoid constitutional rights to due process and compensation by crafting quasi-legislative regulations that eliminate the proper…
20-893 Duane Ronald Belanus v. Lynn Guyer, Warden Montana Denied Response Waived compelled-speech content-neutrality free-speech government-regulation private-entities public-forum Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech with which they disagree
20-897 Kyle Kopitke v. Karen Brinson Bell, Executive Director, North Carolina State Board of Elections Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived anderson-v-celebrezze ballot-access candidate-signatures constitutional-rights election-law fourth-circuit independent-candidates march-filing-deadline north-carolina petition-requirements Whether the Fourth Circuit decision requiring all independent candidates to file their ballot access qualifying petitions by the date of North Carolin…
20-898 Coneisha L. Sherrod v. United Way Worldwide Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act employment employment-contract indirect-evidence interference non-contracting-party pleading race-discrimination section-1981 Whether Section 1981 prohibits non-contracting party interference based on race
20-899 Paul Sorum, et al. v. North Dakota, et al. North Dakota Denied Response Waived anti-gift-clause conflict-preemption equal-footing-doctrine federal-dam-projects flood-control-act navigable-waters public-trust-doctrine submerged-lands-act Does Federal law preempt State law for the purpose of determining ownership of the bed of navigable waters within a State?
20-901 Spring Branch Independent School District v. O. W., By Next Friend Hannah W. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived child-find individuals-with-disabilities-education-act public-school-district reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations school-district section-504 special-education Is a public school district's use of Section 504 accommodations a reasonable step in the process of complying with its Child Find obligation under the…
20-903 First Choice Chiropractic, LLC, et al. v. Mike DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived central-hudson-test circuit-split commercial-speech content-based-regulation content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech heightened-scrutiny speaker-based-restrictions speaker-identity First Amendment challenge to Ohio statute restricting medical practitioner-patient communications
20-906 Thomas Charles Horne, et al. v. Sheila Sullivan Polk Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights due-process heck-rule property-rights section-1983 statute-of-limitations whether-the-heck-rule-should-apply-to-administrative-cases
20-912 Abigail Ladd, et al. v. Jack Marchbanks Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation knick-v-township-of-scott mandamus property-rights takings takings-clause Whether Ohio's mandamus scheme provides its citizens with a reasonable, certain, and/or adequate procedure or process sufficient to meet the guarantee…
20-913 Joseph Wilborn v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment state-court-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a federal court is bound only by the decisions of the Supreme Court in determining whether a state court has unreasonably applied clearly esta…
20-917 800 Services, Inc. v. AT&T Corp. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-review federal-communications-commission federal-courts fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court jurisdiction primary-jurisdiction tariff tariff-interpretation telecommunications Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Failing to Refer this Questions of Tariff Interpretation to the FCC Under the Doctrine of Primary …
20-921 Braulio Marcelo Castillo v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response Waived child-witness closed-circuit-testimony confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-trial due-process maryland-v-craig sixth-amendment Does the Confrontation Clause allow a non-victim child witness to testify against his father via two-way closed-circuit television when the witness ca…
20-924 David G. Bowser v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1001 criminal-concealment dismissal-with-prejudice false-statement federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment-of-acquittal legal-duty material-fact motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal Whether a legal duty to disclose can be created by coupling a voluntary request for information with a false statement proscription
20-926 Duane Ronald Belanus v. Montana Montana Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process juror-privacy public-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extends to the voir dire process, and whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial can be o…
20-930 Karl Geppert v. Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration Maryland Denied Response Waived civil-rights driver's-license due-process federal-law real-id-act social-security social-security-number state-law state-legislation state-privilege Where no federal law requires a citizen of the United States to obtain a social security number, may a State legislature, or its courts in applying th…
20-934 Haritha Samaranayake, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act due-process evidentiary-record federal-circuit patent separation-of-powers standing statutory-jurisdiction Whether the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit exceeded its statutory jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 144
20-946 John J. Dierlam v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment affordable-care-act civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech religious-exemptions rfra Do one or more Constitutional violations exist in the ACA?
20-947 Idaho State Tax Commission v. Noell Industries, Inc. Idaho Denied Amici (1)Response Waived business-enterprise corporate-taxation due-process judicial-split pass-through-entities pass-through-entity state-court-split state-tax state-taxation unitary-business Does this Court's ruling in Mobil apply to pass-through entities?
20-957 Alireza Vazirabadi v. Denver Public Schools, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived bilingual-applicants business-necessity civil-rights disparate-impact eeoc-guidelines employment-practices job-relatedness national-origin national-origin-discrimination title-vii Whether an employer can be liable under Title VII when the employer requires its bilingual job applicants, without job requirement, to disclose their …
20-958 Rickey Leon Scott v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived aedpa civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation precedent stare-decisis When a Justice contributes the necessary fifth vote to a majority opinion but also writes a concurrence interpreting that opinion, should lower courts…
20-961 John Henry Ryskamp v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-i-section-8 constitutional-scrutiny due-process first-amendment free-speech general-welfare janus-precedent janus-v-afscme speech-component tax tax-system Does the U.S. tax system violate the First Amendment and the General Welfare Clause?
20-964 Orien L. Tulp v. Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure evidence-standard genuine-issue-for-trial judicial-review motion-for-summary-judgment non-movant-evidence non-movant-inference standard-of-review summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton Did the lower Court fail to adhere to the axiom that in ruling on a motion for summary judgment 'the evidence of the non-movant is to be believed and …
20-967 Pedro Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Rodriguez-Garcia because he was served a Notice to Appear that did not comply with federal law …
20-970 Juvenal Gonzalez v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-981 Fidelis Agbapuruonwu v. NBC Subsidiary (WRC-TV), LLC, dba NBC4 Washington, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights defamation due-process federal-pleading-standards malice malice-standard media-defendant pleading-requirements private-individual qualified-privilege Whether Twombly and Iqbal require heightened factual pleading of allegations of malice in a common law defamation complaint brought by a private indiv…
20-986 Michael Gregory Hubbard v. Alabama Alabama Denied Response Waived criminal-law criminal-statutes due-process fair-notice first-impression-law legal-interpretation official-actions official-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-theory statutory-interpretation Did the Supreme Court of Alabama deprive Petitioner of due process of law?
20M50 Lawrence T. Seidman v. Frank D. Weiler, et al. Arizona Presumed Complete None
20M51 Bernard Thomas v. United States Second Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M52 Anthony Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M53 Nenad Markovic v. Mohamed Z. Rahaman Maryland Presumed Complete None
20M54 Constantine Polites v. City of Philadelphia Law Department Pennsylvania Presumed Complete None
20M55 Dwight D. Mitchell, Individually and on Behalf of His Children X. M. and A. M., et al. v. Dakota County Social Services, et al. Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M56 Albert Reginald Robinson v. Adam Kandulski, et al. Sixth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M57 Doe Company v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M58 Ali Yazdchi v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None