Conference: 2021-02-26

67 cases — 0 granted, 67 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-1005 Sara Dees v. San Diego County, California Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 child-seizure civil-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights section-1983 Is a parent's Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest in the care, custody, control, and management of their child violated when government authorities …
20-1038 Darrell Wayne Brown v. Kevin Michael Comstock Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
20-1041 Cynthia Soria, et vir, Individually and as Parents and Natural Guardians of G. S. v. New York City Department of Education Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process educational-support individuals-with-disabilities-act pendency pendency-services school-district special-education Does a school district have an affirmative obligation to provide pendency-related educational and support services to its special education students u…
20-1059 Roy H. Murry v. Washington Washington Denied Response Waived anders-brief court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-briefing right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was Mr. Murry denied his Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process?
20-249 Doug Ommen, in His Capacity as Liquidator of CoOportunity Health, et al. v. Milliman, Inc., et al. Iowa Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-clause contract-defense contract-defenses equal-footing federal-arbitration-act insurance-liquidation mccarran-ferguson mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-law-preemption Whether the FAA preempts the generally applicable disavowal defense codified in Iowa's Liquidation Act
20-283 Austin J. Bass v. Patrick M. Greve, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) 4th-amendment arrest arrest-justification civil-rights criminal-intent due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion probable-cause qualified-immunity Whether Officer Bass had probable cause to arrest under the Fourth Amendment
20-299 Milliman, Inc. v. James J. Donelon, Commissioner of Insurance for Louisiana, in His Capacity as Rehabilitator of Louisiana Health Cooperative, Inc. Louisiana Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitration contract-arbitration federal-arbitration-act forum-selection-clause insurance-insolvency insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-regulation Whether the Federal Arbitration Act (the 'FAA') preempts the state's forum selection clause and requires the commissioner to arbitrate these pre-insol…
20-303 United States v. Jose Luis Vaello Madero First Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (31)Relisted (6) civil-rights congressional-authority due-process equal-protection federal-benefits fifth-amendment puerto-rico statutory-interpretation supplemental-security-income territorial-rights Whether Congress violated the equal-protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment
20-374 Continental Resources, Inc. v. Zachary Buckles, Deceased, By and Through His Personal Representative, Nicole R. Buckles, et al. Montana Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) due-process federalism forum-contacts independent-contractors personal-jurisdiction sovereign-interest specific-jurisdiction tort-liability vicarious-liability Whether the 'arise out of or relate to' requirement of the personal-jurisdiction test is met when none of the defendant's forum contacts caused the pl…
20-480 David Bryon Babcock v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Sixth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) civil-service-pension dual-status-military-technician military-technician national-guard social-security-act statutory-interpretation uniformed-service Is a civil-service pension payment based on dual-status military technician service to the National Guard a payment based wholly on service as a membe…
20-535 Drew Samuel Bates v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current…
20-546 Michigan v. Laricca Seminta Mathews Michigan Denied constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Miranda v. Arizona is satisfied when a suspect in custody is advised of the right to an attorney but not explicitly advised of the right to th…
20-5990 Martin Moreno-Ruiz v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
20-6200 Randall Gray Webb v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment cell-site-location-information constitutional-law privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures apply to the government's acquisition of historical cell-site lo…
20-6210 Deondre Arthur Staten v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP federal-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-case state-court-procedure state-court-procedures strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether federal court deference to state court summary disposition of habeas claims includes deference to state court's established process and proced…
20-6211 Michael Anthony Robbins v. California California Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process investigation juror-bias jury-trial racial-bias sixth-amendment What constitutes juror bias for purposes of removing a sitting juror during deliberations?
20-6234 Karen Moynihan v. West Chester Area School District, et al. Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process endrew-f-v-douglas-cty-sch-dist individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review special-education standing supreme-court-precedent third-circuit third-circuit-court Did the United States District Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit disregard this Honorable Court's Opinion on the Individuals with Disabilities Ed…
20-6286 Ruben Aragon v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus plea-agreement state-impediment state-imposed-impediment statutory-limitations Is Mr. Aragon entitled to equitable tolling of the statutory limitations set by 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A), due to a state-imposed impediment which pre…
20-641 LSP Transmission Holdings, LLC v. Katie Sieben, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (2) commerce-clause discrimination dormant-commerce-clause electric-utilities electricity-transmission interstate-commerce market-preference state-law state-regulation transmission-lines Whether a state law that grants an express preference to entities with an existing in-state presence to build facilities serving a distinctly intersta…
20-6414 Daniel Ray v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-7 adams-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction maritime-jurisdiction prison-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction Whether the Ninth Circuit's rule that prison personnel testimony that they 'work at a United States prison' contravenes the requirements necessary to …
20-6425 Scott Meece v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery brandishing-a-firearm crime-of-violence dimaya-precedent firearm-brandishing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states sentencing-review sessions-v-dimaya Whether under this Court's rulings in Johnson and Dimaya, Mr. Meece's conviction and sentence for brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of viol…
20-6466 Louis Anthony Jackson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 924(c) 924(c)-sentence certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-decision due-process hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sentencing Whether a certificate of appealability should have been granted
20-6476 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1495 28-usc-2513 certificate-of-innocence court-of-appeals dismissal district-court federal-court-of-claims fourth-circuit jurisdiction rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation technical-claim Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of a certificate of innocence in 28 U.S.C. § 2…
20-6696 La Verne Koenig v. Andrew Wheeler, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-precedent due-process equal-protection erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure full-faith-and-credit pro-se-litigation state-rights Does the Federal Rule [Fed. R. Civ. Pro. Rule 4] significantly affect the result of a litigation for a Federal Court to disregard a law of a State tha…
20-6705 Ian LaMonte Cormier v. James Comey, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the court's placement of the defendant's boss on the stand to testify about the defendant's phone call to his boss constitutes a violation of …
20-6711 Pat Dee Leatherman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the defendant's statement was clearly used against him in violation of the 5th Amendment
20-6717 Jay S. Kravitz v. Kenneth Leis, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance-procedure incarceration-rights prison-policy religious-freedom summary-judgment Whether Petitioner presented an underlying First Amendment Constitutional violation
20-6718 Jason J. Johnson v. California California Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rule judicial-discretion legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief standards-of-review trial-procedure Under the 'newly discovered evidence rule' does not evidence discovered after conviction, such as evidence the movant could not have possibly discover…
20-6729 Michael Allen Bullock v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering fraud-on-the-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fraud prior-record sentencing Whether the petitioner's attorney deliberately and flagrantly violated the petitioner's constitutional rights, and why the courts have avoided address…
20-6746 Jonathan Loyd v. Florida Florida Denied IFP 8th-amendment age-of-offender constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-life-sentence sentencing Whether a mandatory term of life imprisonment imposed upon an offender under the age of 18 is per se lawful under the Eighth Amendment?
20-6749 Ricardo Morales v. Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-1447c civil-procedure civil-procedure-violation conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection federal-removal judicial-misconduct due-process-violation
20-6762 James W. Knipfer v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jury jury-trial procedural-due-process Can there be a 'perpetual jury', 'phantom jury', 'forever jury' or a 'jury on a judge's whim' in the United States?
20-6815 Robert Munoz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process double-jeopardy due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment indictment jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations Is it written in the U.S. Constitution that a person may be indicted, reindicted 3-times with same cause number: broaden, abandon, and bring abandoned…
20-6959 Mason Somers v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process ineffective-assistance jail-recordings pre-trial-discovery right-to-counsel trial-counsel Whether trial counsel was ineffective for providing discoverable information to his client prior to receiving discovery from the government, resulting…
20-6964 Dallas Ray Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ammunition-possession commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past…
20-6974 Freddie Lee Wilson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b) background-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-evidence evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence jury-testimony res-gestae Should the Court grant certiorari to make clear that Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) now controls the use of other acts evidence, and that there is no…
20-6985 Zongli Chang v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fines plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Did the Sixth Circuit err in enforcing an unknowing, invalid plea agreement?
20-6992 Bobbie Lewis Mayes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP booker criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process johnson johnson-precedent mandatory-guidelines pre-booker pre-booker-era sentencing-challenge sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant has a right under Johnson to challenge a sentence ordered pre-Booker, when applying the Sentencing Guidelines was mandatory
20-6993 Clarence Jackson v. Office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-licensing bar-admission civil-rights due-process equal-protection legal-discrimination legal-profession racial-discrimination systemic-racism white-supremacy Does the background established in the petition allow for Caucasians holding 98% of power and wealth to engage in racism, fraud, and theft to maintain…
20-6995 Floyd Clark v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process final-judgment johnson-precedent motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence recanting-affidavit residual-clause Whether there was a sufficient final determination by the trial court such that the Circuit Court could have reached a determination of the substantiv…
20-7002 Ryan C. Lander v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure plea-bargaining search-and-seizure warrantless-search Is it constitutional to prosecute citizens for cybercrime under the interstate-commerce clause
20-7006 Jacquere Doran, aka Jacare Gorman v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level controlled-substance criminal-sentencing district-court-error enhancement felony-conviction felony-enhancement marijuana-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines Did the District Court err in treating Mr. Doran's prior California conviction for sale of marijuana as a felony conviction and using it to enhance hi…
20-7007 Vernon Allen Collins v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-standing civil-procedure constitutional-minimum coram-nobis due-process johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing Whether the appellate court adoptions of the district court dispositive procedural conclusions erred in holding Collins had failed to prove Article II…
20-7008 Bradley Dearborn v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process government-seizure property-rights standing Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…
20-7012 Stanley Dan Reczko, III v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court continuance district-court judicial-discretion legal-doctrine party-presentation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-challenge united-states-v-sineneng-smith Does the Ninth Circuit's rule permitting it to decline to address a defendant's Sixth Amendment challenge (arising from the district court's denial of…
20-7021 Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP assault assault-charge criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation weapon-definition weapons Whether a 'deadly or dangerous weapon' for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) includes a natural object that was not designed to be a weapon, such as a ro…
20-7026 Jerome Berry v. Teri Lawson, Superintendent, Farmington Correctional Center Missouri Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-application board-of-probation discriminatory-treatment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus missouri-sexual-offenders-program parole sexual-offenders state-courts Did the Missouri courts err in failing to find that Petitioner was entitled to immediate release due to the Missouri Board of Probation and Paroles ar…
20-7029 Odell Kinard, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights continuance multi-defendant severance sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-rights trial-delay Does Petitioner sacrifice his Sixth Amendment and statutory rights to a speedy trial by the District Court's repeated denial of his motion to sever hi…
20-7031 Jose Diaz, aka Cano v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial juror-deliberations juror-misconduct jury jury-instructions jury-misconduct trial-court-inquiry trial-procedure Should a trial court conduct an inquiry when it learns that jurors have disregarded instructions and discussed the case outside the presence of other …
20-7042 Ronald Morris Hoenig v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states merits-ruling 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…
20-708 Joe Nathan James v. Terry Raybon, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied 28-U.S.C.-2254-d appellate-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigation-evidence post-conviction-review strickland-standard Whether the Court of Appeals failed to follow the review requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and the case law produced surrounding Strickland-v-Washin…
20-717 Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing clean-water-act environmental-protection-agency environmental-standing epa-permitting hazardous-waste procedural-standing resource-conservation-and-recovery-act resource-conservation-recovery-act standing Does petitioner CCNS have Article III substantive standing to challenge the CWA permit?
20-762 Eric Ferrier v. Cascade Falls Condominium Association, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure national-settlement national-settlement-agreement property-rights title-transfer Whether a person born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, may be deprived of property without due process of…
20-844 Barbara Murray v. Elizabeth A. Fry, as Executrix of the Estate of James E. Fry, et al. Connecticut Denied 7th-amendment civil-eviction civil-rights due-process equal-protection eviction false-factual-finding fourteenth-amendment national-health-crisis seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Seventh Amendment require a jury trial in a civil eviction case?
20-851 Roger Hawes v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied 42-usc-1983 commingled-funds disability-benefits due-process inmate-trust-fund preemption section-1983 section-5301 statutory-protection veterans-benefits Whether veterans' disability benefits deposited in an inmate trust fund account are protected from being used for a state-mandated medical co-payment …
20-856 Gary Pisner v. Robert M. McCarthy Maryland Denied asset-transfer beneficiary-rights civil-rights contempt court-appointed-trustee due-process ex-parte-contact procedural-due-process standing trust trust-governance trustee Whether the petitioner was denied procedural due process
20-857 Dale L. Miesen v. John D. Munding, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied circuit-split corporate-governance demand-letter derivative-action derivative-actions diversity-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-requirements rule-23.1 standard-of-review Whether the plaintiff in a derivative action must plead and prove the adequacy of its derivative demand letter
20-858 In Re Tyler Bowyer, et al. Denied 42-U.S.C.-1983 constitutional-rights due-process election-fraud elections electoral-college equal-protection fraud presidential-electors standing Whether presidential electors have standing to challenge the outcome of a presidential election for fraud and illegality that cause the defeat of thei…
20-859 In Re William Feehan Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-fraud elections electoral-college electors equal-protection presidential-electors standing Whether presidential electors have standing to challenge the outcome of a presidential election
20-871 In Re Bryant Moore Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1651 appellate-review default-judgment extraordinary-writ fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Whether this Court should use its discretion through 28 U.S.C. §1651(a) and governing law of Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 23…
20-920 Jeremy Collins v. Rebecca Putt, in Her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived academic-freedom college-classroom college-speech constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech hazelwood-v-kuhlmeier tinker-standard tinker-v-des-moines viewpoint-discrimination Whether viewpoint discrimination in a college classroom is permissible under Hazelwood
20-956 Robert Dziedziach v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-971 Geovanny Espejel Hurtado v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-977 Zachary Pulera v. Victoria Sarzant, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby causation-standard civil-procedure civil-rights legal-precedent precedent seventh-circuit standard summary-judgment Whether the Court should resolve the Seventh Circuit's departure from the summary judgment standard articulated by this Court in Anderson v. Liberty L…
20-995 Anthony Vetri v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment aiding-and-abetting cellphone-data cellphone-privacy criminal-procedure digital-privacy evidence-search fourth-amendment particularity probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirements Whether the Fourth Amendment requires more stringent privacy considerations in authorizing a warrant for the seizure of a cellphone and the manner its…
20M59 Robert Lee Billie v. Bill Brown, Sheriff, Santa Barbara County, California Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M60 Ella N. Liggins v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Ohio Presumed Complete None