Conference: 2021-03-05

85 cases — 0 granted, 85 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-434 Francisco Romero v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) None
19-632 Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General v. Aracely Marinelarena Ninth Circuit GVR Relisted (2) None
19-8386 David L. Culverhouse v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion standing May the Court of Chimie Appeals of Fougs tin consbtutsena lly deny actually anocent Petitioners motion Por leave to Pile original applicatisa For weit…
19-8848 Curtis Phillips v. Derek Oberlander, et al. Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 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
20-1036 Robert V. Bolinske v. Supreme Court of North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived amendment-of-pleadings civil-procedure due-process first-amendment motion-to-dismiss rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing younger-abstention Did the lower courts err in refusing to allow Appellant Bolinske to amend his complaint?
20-1040 Michael Aaron Strickland v. Oregon Oregon Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment constitutional-rights due-process prior-experiences reasonable-person second-amendment self-defense state-of-mind Did the Oregon courts err in holding that there is no Constitutional right of self-defense except for when someone like the judge would have behaved t…
20-1058 National Board of Medical Examiners v. Jessica Ramsay Third Circuit Denied Response Waived academic-performance-evaluation ada ada-disability-standard disability disability-diagnosis medical-licensing medical-licensing-exam reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations standardized-testing-accommodation standardized-tests third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that the 'substantial limitation' standard requires disregarding evidence of real-world academic and standa…
20-317 Dakai Chavis v. Delaware Delaware Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility multi-analyst-testing out-of-court-statements testimonial-statements Whether the Confrontation Clause permits DNA evidence obtained as the result of a multi-analyst testing process to be introduced against the defendant…
20-481 GE Capital Retail Bank v. Nyree Belton Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy-code debt-discharge federal-arbitration-act implied-repeal legal-procedure lower-court-confusion precedent statutory-discharge statutory-interpretation Whether provisions of the Bankruptcy Code providing for a statutorily enforceable discharge of a debtor's debts impliedly repeal the Federal Arbitrati…
20-532 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technology Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit Denied Relisted (2) claim-preclusion federal-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings patent patent-infringement perjury pro-se-plaintiff sanctions Claim-preclusion-issue
20-5344 Christopher Taylor v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP 6th-amendment autopsy-report cause-of-death confrontation-clause criminal-procedure knowing-murder lesser-included-offense murder-charge sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Whether a defendant is denied his Sixth Amendment right to be confronted with the witnesses against him
20-5778 David Davalos, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rules district-court-jurisdiction federal-rules forfeiture forfeiture-order jurisdiction money-judgment notice-of-appeal time-limits Whether a district court exceeds its jurisdiction by entering a preliminary order of forfeiture and an order of money judgment beyond the time limits …
20-585 Greg Vasquez, et al. v. Maritza Amador, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Gilbert Flores and as Next Friend of Minor R. M. F., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intervention police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard suicide-by-cop use-of-force Reasonableness-of-force-under-4th-Amendment
20-5886 Lynn Z. Smith v. Andrea Dobin Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP additional-documents bankruptcy bankruptcy-claim bankruptcy-judge bankruptcy-trustee creditor-claim creditor-documents debtor-rights evidence-discovery judicial-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine When can a bankruptcy debtor obtain additional documents from a creditor to challenge the creditor's claim?
20-6031 Durwyn Talley v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act Whether the United States Court of appeals, 7th Circuit decision denying Petitioner access to the Court and his right to file any motions against such…
20-6050 James Anthony Martin v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-liability direct-appeal due-process federal-law legal-interpretation massachusetts-supreme-judicial-court supreme-court-decisions supreme-judicial-court Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court misinterpreted federal law in not applying a new rule narrowing criminal liability to cases on direct…
20-6064 Alan Justin Smith v. Washington Washington Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custodial-rights due-process evidence-procedure family-law hague-convention parental-rights substantive-due-process wrongful-removal Whether the incommunicado detention of natural custodial children
20-619 R. S., et al., Individually and on Behalf of Their Son, A. S. v. Board of Education Shenendehowa Central School District, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure autism civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-reopen pro-se pro-se-litigant standing time-limitations Whether an appellate court may sua sponte dismiss an appeal
20-6190 Bradley R. Freeman v. New Mexico New Mexico Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP affirmative-defense brady-v-maryland constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct Does the Constitution require the prosecution to disclose favorable, material evidence of an affirmative defense before entering a plea agreement?
20-6333 Immanuel F. Sanchez v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-rights government-power hearing judicial-power oral-argument procedural-fairness standing statutory-interpretation Whether the government's denial of Petitioner's request for a hearing violates his fundamental right to due process under the Fifth Amendment
20-6334 Chrishma Hunter Singhderewa v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defendant-rights due-process judicial-procedure legal-representation motion-to-appear representation standing Is the State of California denying a citizen of the United States of America their constitutional right to representation by refusing to acknowledge a…
20-636 Shase Howse v. Thomas Hodous, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied and strike him in the neck when he poses no threa and whether a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecut tackle him circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity unlawful-arrest Whether the law is clearly established that an officer cannot arrest a person whom the officer has no reason to believe committed a crime, tackle him …
20-6386 James Ray Earl Walker v. Nevada Nevada Denied IFP batson-framework death-penalty juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination racial-discrimination state-courts voir-dire Did the Nevada courts err in failing to observe and follow the three step Batson framework and failing to recognize the prosecutor's blatant discrimin…
20-6492 Calvin James v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms government-power interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the government is improperly denying a defendant's right to a pre-attachment hearing under the 5th Amendment
20-654 Anthony John Ripa v. Stony Brook University Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights denied-benefit educational-amendments educational-amendments-1972 gender-advocacy sex-discrimination standing statutory-interpretation student-benefits title-ix Whether discrimination for a student because of sex constitutes a 'denied ... benefit' to the other sex within the meaning of Title IX of the Educatio…
20-659 Larry Thompson v. Pagiel Clark, et al. Second Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances favorable-termination fourth-amendment section-1983 standing warrantless-entry Whether the rule that a plaintiff must await favorable termination before bringing a Section 1983 action alleging unreasonable seizure pursuant to leg…
20-666 Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Dismissed Relisted (3) byrne-jag-program civil-rights department-of-justice federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-compliance information-sharing state-and-local-government statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Whether the Department has statutory authority to impose the notice and access conditions on grantees that accept Byrne JAG awards
20-6758 Patrick Koroma v. Katti Lanham, et al. Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP antiterrorism-act appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order death-penalty-act district-court due-process equal-protection final-judgment habeas-corpus standing writ-of-appeal Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to review the petitioners' case, and whether the collateral order denying the petitioners' motio…
20-676 J. P., By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem, Shannon Villanueva v. Alameda County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-harm fair-notice first-amendment foster-care fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity Whether emotional harm alone triggers 42 U.S.C. §1983 liability
20-6760 Adam Lee Thomas v. Texas Texas Denied IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence extraneous-offenses innocence-phase judicial-interpretation legal-error state-court texas-rules texas-rules-of-evidence whether the weal Court erroneously admitted evidence of extraneous offenses or acts of miscanduct allegedly Committed by Petitioner luring the gui inn…
20-6764 James Ray Davis v. Christopher Morledge, Judge, Circuit Court of Arkansas, St. Francis County, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing Question not identified
20-6765 Kevin Wayne Dickson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process expert-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-sufficiency standard-of-review state-court-review Whether the Fifth Court of Appeal committed error in concluding that the appellant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim could not be reviewed on …
20-6769 Juan David Rodriguez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-consensus scientific-authority Whether the disregard of medical and scientific consensus and well-established clinical authority when evaluating a claim of intellectual disability c…
20-6772 Christopher J. Spreitz v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit Denied IFP cognitive-impairment ineffective-assistance martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan mitigation-evidence post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-mitigating-factor trial-counsel When must the court of appeals remand to a court of first instance for application of this Court's intervening decision in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. …
20-6779 Leon Bright v. Angel Didios Florida Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss notice Whether Defendants discriminated against Petitioner and deprived him of Equal Protection and Due Process
20-6785 Timothy R. Petrozzi v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process liberty safety standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the continued use of 'time-limited' and 'immediately' orders that deprive the petition…
20-6790 Mona Mustafa v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP baseless-litigation civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination harassment human-rights-act illinois-human-rights-act litigation-retaliation retaliation retaliatory-harassment title-vii Whether commencing and continuing baseless litigation as retaliation for an individual having opposed unlawful discrimination is conduct that is suffi…
20-6798 Henry Christopher Stubbs v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon Third Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment AEDPA appellate-review civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether, during review of the Petitioner's habeas corpus application in the United States District Court, the Petitioner was entitled to de novo revie…
20-6805 Michael M. Williams v. Josh Stein, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-law-relief trial-counsel Did the trial court err in reviewing prisoner Williams' initial motion for post-conviction relief for violations of the 6th Amendment right to effecti…
20-6810 Michael Lanier Watkins v. Georgia Georgia Denied IFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment trial-counsel Did Petitioner receive ineffective assistance of counsel?
20-6814 Rodney Johnson v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP 4th-amendment family-home fourth-amendment parolee-search parolees police-misconduct privacy-rights samson-precedent search suspicionless-search warrantless-search Whether Illinois has lowered the bar of reasonableness for the search of parolees beyond this Court's holding in Samson v. California, 547 U.S. 843 (2…
20-6818 Roy Russell, Sr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas-constitution arkansas-supreme-court due-process elected-judge fundamental-fairness judicial-assignment Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice failed to comply with the Arkansas Constitution and Arkansas Supreme Court's Administrative Order No.…
20-6834 Cynthia Holmes v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process health-privacy healthcare-compliance HIPAA hipaa-privacy medical-privacy patient-rights physician-liability state-law state-law-preemption Whether HIPAA's Privacy Rule is unconstitutional as applied by respondents
20-684 Benjamin Tagger v. Strauss Group Ltd. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction fcn-treaties federal-courts friendship-commerce-navigation-treaties international-commercial-relations national-treatment permanent-resident standing treaty-interpretation Does the National Treatment clause in Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation Treaties provide permanent resident aliens from treaty nations access to fe…
20-6845 Tony Tran v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal confrontation-clause credibility criminal-procedure due-process evidence Whether the circuit Court erred where the court ruled that Tran could not elicit evidence to attack the credibility of Tran's accuser
20-6858 Benjamin Mario Soto v. AFSCME Union Council 5 Local 12181, et al. Minnesota Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct state-constitution employment-contractual-due-process-property-rights
20-6860 Antonia W. Shields v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 28-usc-453 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-review pro-se-litigation standard-of-review Does the federal government give unequal rights to a free U.S. citizen and the U.S. Constitution when the judiciary requires a different standard of r…
20-6872 Scott Hildreth v. Kim Butler, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment grievance-process medical-neglect medical-treatment medication-refill policy prisoner-rights Is it right that the defendant Wexford health service, (Menard CC ) have returned to their same old song and dance and have been not properly or timel…
20-6875 Jason Pierce v. Nathan Brooks, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure death-penalty faretta-protocol habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-defect structural-defect Did the United States Court of Appeals err in failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability from the denial of the Petition for writ of habeas corpu…
20-6896 Phillip A. Benjamin v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment witness-testimony Did the Trial Court err when limiting the testimonies of the defense witness from testifying of vital information, therefore, hindering the Defendant …
20-6906 Charles Hamilton v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-restrictions counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights federal-law sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review Whether a State Court's erroneous denial of a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment Right to be represented by counsel of choice resulted in a decision…
20-6924 Auturo Beltran v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing trial-court Whether petitioner's claim that the court's abrupt and arbitrary rejection of his plea agreement deprived him of due process is cognizable in habeas
20-6945 Robert White v. Kubotek Corporation, et al. First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-for-reconsideration rule-59(e) timeliness timely-filing Does the act of mailing a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e) motion for reconsideration in time for normal US Mail Second Day delivery to the US Di…
20-6991 Edwin Jurado-Nazario v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process first-circuit judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing Whether the sentence imposed is unreasonable
20-7039 Thomas Patrick Keelan v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process giglio-impeachment giglio-rule homosexuality jencks-act new-evidence perjured-testimony Does an overview of facts collected at trial, sentencing, restitution, direct and collateral review, (and from startling new evidence), which exposes …
20-7040 Jonathan Lovato v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing takings Question not identified.
20-7046 Paul A. Bilzerian v. Securities Exchange Commission District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP change-in-circumstances civil-procedure court-access equitable-relief judicial-discretion legal-standards motion-to-terminate permanent-injunction rule-65 standing Whether a district court has the discretion to deny an unopposed motion to terminate a 20-year-old permanent injunction prohibiting access to any stat…
20-7050 Mustafa Muhammad v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process indiana-courts ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the Indiana courts erred in denying the petitioner's request for post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel
20-7058 Dwayne Wilson v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection jurisdiction mental-health miscarriage-of-justice Question not identified
20-7059 Glen Thomas Dotson v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment grand-jury prosecutorial-misconduct right-against-self-incrimination witness-testimony Was the petitioner deprived of a fair trial due to prosecutorial misconduct?
20-7062 Alfred L. Cross v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea indictment-defect intent intent-to-defraud jurisdiction materiality materiality-element plea-bargaining Whether the Decision below squarely conflicts with McCarthy v. United States and Neder v. United States, where Mr. Cross Held a Constitutional Right t…
20-7066 William Echols v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP allied-offenses case-joinder confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-sufficiency fair-trial joinder trial-fairness Whether Echols was denied a fair and impartial trial due to several major constitutional and due process violations that included an improper joiner o…
20-7078 Brandon Cordell Bennett v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-review material-omission materiality probable-cause search-warrant WHETHER OMITTED INFORMATION FROM A SEARCH WARRANT APPLICATION MUST NEGATE OR CONTRADICT ALLEGED FACTS SUPPORTING PROBABLE CAUSE IN ORDER TO BE MATERIA…
20-7079 Lorenzo Liwayne Barnes v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel narcotics-distribution perjury sentencing sentencing-factors Whether the United States Court of Appeal 4th Circuit violated the Appellant appeal rights
20-7087 Brian James Holland v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2241 conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency force-definition statutory-interpretation witness-credibility What is the definition of the term 'force' under 18 U.S.C. § 2241?
20-7089 Kemen Lavatos Taylor, II v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-scrutiny courtroom-closure courtroom-closures eighth-circuit-court-of-appeals judicial-procedure minnesota-supreme-court public-trial sixth-amendment triviality-exception Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee contains a triviality exception
20-711 City of Fairbanks, Alaska, et al. v. Marvin Roberts, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur criminal-conviction due-process favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 Whether vacatur of a conviction by settlement qualifies as a favorable termination under Heck v. Humphrey when the vacatur was merely the ministerial …
20-713 Rosa Elba Ventura de Paulino v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights disability-rights due-process educational-support idea-act individuals-with-disabilities-education-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…
20-764 Mark E. O'Brien v. U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust Connecticut Denied due-process foreclosure foreclosure-procedure judicial-notice loan-servicer mortgage-note new-evidence procedural-defect standing standing-challenge testimony Were the Defendants' due-process rights violated?
20-795 New York, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit Dismissed Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law byrne-jag-program civil-rights federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-enforcement spending-clause statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment Did Congress authorize DOJ to condition Byrne-JAG-funding on acceptance of DOJ's three new requirements?
20-796 City of New York v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit Dismissed Relisted (3) administrative-law byrne-jag-grant civil-procedure federal-grants federal-immigration-enforcement government-funding immigration separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Do the three substantive conditions the DOJ has imposed on Byrne JAG program eligibility exceed its authority under the statute?
20-864 Hitomi Arimitsu v. James Edward Cook, II Minnesota Denied child-abduction child-custody comity hague-convention international-child-abduction international-custody judicial-comity jurisdiction-conflict treaty-interpretation uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-and-enforcement Whether the Minnesota courts' refusal to acknowledge the ultimate outcome of Convention proceedings by a Contracting State and declining to afford com…
20-873 Herman Miller, Inc. v. Blumenthal Distributing, Inc., dba Office Star Ninth Circuit Denied civil-procedure household-name jury-trial standard-of-review trade-dress trademark Whether the appellate court improperly substituted its own factual findings in place of a jury verdict
20-874 David Lee Phillips v. State Bar of Nevada Nevada Denied african-american attorney-discipline constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process nevada-supreme-court procedural-fairness professional-conduct suspension withdrawal Was Petitioner denied constitutional procedural due process
20-879 Arthur Lopez v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-torts federal-officials federal-tort-claims-act qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity Whether the Westfall Act provides personal immunity for federal officials for constitutional torts
20-883 Donald J. Trump v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived absentee-voting election-integrity election-law election-procedures elections-clause electors-clause equal-protection legislative-intent voter-fraud Whether WEC and local election officials violated Art. II, § 1, cl. 2 of the United States Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Eq…
20-887 In Re L. Lin Wood, Jr. Denied civil-rights due-process election-law elections equal-protection legislative-authority signature-verification standing vote-dilution voting-rights Whether the Petitioner/voter has standing to challenge state action based on the vote-dilution
20-904 Deborah Holter v. City of Mandan, North Dakota North Dakota Denied abuse-of-discretion due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-action judicial-discretion property-rights special-assessment special-assessments takings village-of-norwood-v-baker Whether a governmental entity properly considers the special benefits accruing to an assessed property when paying a nominal portion of the total cost…
20-914 TNT Crane & Rigging, Inc. v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived construction-safety construction-site controlling-entity crane-operation crane-operator ground-conditions osha osha-regulation regulatory-interpretation tort-liability Whether 29 C.F.R. §1926.1402(b) imposes a duty on crane-operators
20-918 In Re Johnathon Kelly Denied Response Waived actual-innocence antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-rights evidence-exclusion federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence Whether the petitioner's actual innocence claim is unconstitutionally restricted by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and Fede…
20-929 Neil J. Gillespie v. Florida Florida Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california forced-counsel habeas-corpus right-to-self-representation self-representation state-proceedings Can a writ of habeas corpus free a criminal defendant in state criminal proceedings from being restrained by forced appointment of counsel prohibited …
20-935 Anne Richards, et al. v. Sam Olens, et al. Georgia Denied Response Waived bribery civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extortion fraud judicial-misconduct obstruction obstruction-of-justice rico-act rule-of-law Whether the total breakdown of Georgia's justice system—in which the state never responded to documented allegations of fraud, obstruction, bribery, a…
20-966 Rajeshree Eunice Roy v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20A135 Jane Doe, et al. v. Howard Zucker, Commissioner of Health for the State of New York, et al. Second Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M61 Dario M. Rodriguez v. Correctional Officer Barrows, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None