Conference: 2021-03-26

105 cases — 0 granted, 105 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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20-1001 Columbia MHC East, LLC, et al. v. Melody Stewart, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment just-compensation mootness state-action takings Can the official actions of state judges violate the Takings and Just Compensation Clauses of the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution?
20-1011 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. D. Joshua Staub, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied appellate-review circuit-conflict conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-recusal whistleblower-protection younger-abstention Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in refusing to require federal judges to disclose information relevant to disqualification?
20-1016 Michael Kosterlitz v. The S/V Knotta Klu, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-procedure contract-formation contract-law false-arrest federal-rules-of-civil-procedure florida-law title-transfer uniform-commercial-code Under Florida law, false arrest occurs when a person provides false information to the arresting officer, did the District Court properly rule that th…
20-1027 Joshua Coleman v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response Waived dog-sniff fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure unreasonable-seizures Does the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable seizures tolerate a dog sniff which prolongs a stop, which occurs after all purposes for the…
20-1049 City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, et al. v. Calvin McCraw, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-neutral-regulation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-interest narrow-tailoring pedestrian-rights public-safety Does the risk of death or serious bodily injury to a pedestrian on a median constitute a significant government interest?
20-1051 Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived appeal-procedure civil-procedure contempt discovery discovery-order foia-request intervenor judicial-review mandamus post-judgment-appeal writ-of-intervention Whether a witness can seek a writ of mandamus and bypass the 'disobedience and contempt route to appeal a discovery order' by becoming an intervenor f…
20-1055 Anthony Tricoli v. Rob Watts, et al. Georgia Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-corruption government-retaliation retaliation sanctions sovereign-immunity May the State of Georgia impose punitive sanctions against an attorney petitioning the courts and speaking out in public to expose and redress state g…
20-1065 Christopher Hudler v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition fourteenth-amendment in-absentia in-absentia-trial sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's judgment of conviction was rendered in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, where …
20-1080 Stephen Edward May v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constitutional-challenge counsel-conduct counsel-performance effective-assistance hypothetical-strategies hypothetical-strategy ineffective-assistance judicial-deference performance-evaluation record-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Can a court find counsel's conduct to be effective under Strickland v. Washington by positing strategies that hypothetically could have, but demonstra…
20-1081 Illinois Republican Party, et al. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech pandemic-regulation political-speech religious-speech strict-scrutiny Does the Illinois governor's preference for religious speakers over political speakers survive strict scrutiny?
20-1087 Leonard Hartford Tunnell v. Public School Retirement System of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived beneficiary-rights civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination erisa government-retirement-system government-retirement-systems retirement-equity-act spousal-rights Whether the Retirement Equity Act of 1984 protects the spousal rights of spouses of government retirement system members, including teachers, military…
20-1090 Thasha A. Boyd v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts federal-employment judicial-review retroactive-legislation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether the 60-day deadline for seeking judicial review pursuant 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(B) and the FRAP sets a bar to an appeal, as the Eleventh Circui…
20-1101 Taniesheia Harden v. Comcast Corporation Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-§-1981 42-usc-1981 burden-of-proof civil-procedure commercial-establishment court-of-appeals pleading-standard summary-judgment unsettled-law Is the grant of summary judgment proper when the movant does not meet its burden?
20-1105 Anthony Futia, Jr., et al. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process guarantee-clause justiciability legal-standing petition-for-redress standing state-constitution Is Petitioners' Guarantee Clause claim justiciable?
20-1109 George C. Chatman v. Arrowhead Credit Union Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitution constitutional-protection due-process federal-law legal-process property-rights social-security Whether we abide by the laws and the constitution of the United States in protecting our secured property Social security?
20-1127 Joseph Louis Paduano v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury incorporation state-courts state-criminal-proceedings Should Hurtado v. California be overruled?
20-1170 James Ben Feinman v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-act claim-preclusion class-action due-process in-personam injunction judgment party service-of-process Is one bound by a judgment in personam in a class action litigation in which he or she is not designated as a party, is not a member of the class, and…
20-1175 Sandra DeMuth v. Small Business Administration, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination federal-employment personnel-actions retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Does 'shall be made free from any discrimination' prohibit personnel actions where either discrimination and/or retaliation are a factor?
20-1179 William W. Cole, Jr. v. PRN Real Estate & Investments, Ltd., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived comity court-procedure federal-appellate-split federalism forum-shopping judicial-comity state-constitution state-courts state-law-certification state-sovereignty Whether this court should grant the petition to resolve a split among federal appellate courts regarding the standards for certification of state law …
20-1181 Kyle Stephen Thompson v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response Waived de-novo-review evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware materiality-prong probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review When a court considers a request for a Franks hearing by excising the challenged statements in the warrant application, does the court review the rema…
20-1187 Leon Carmichael, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights contemporaneous-evidence criminal-procedure due-process hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-test sentencing-guidelines What additional objective and contemporaneous evidence is required to satisfy the prejudice test this Court articulated in Hill v. Lockhart and other …
20-1190 Richard D. Simmons v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law agency-action agency-deference article-1-legislative-power chenery-doctrine chenery-rule constitutional-delegation due-process judicial-review prejudicial-error Must a court, when taking due account of the rule of prejudicial error on review of agency action, comport with Chenery?
20-1193 Christopher G. Lee v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response Waived 18-usc-chapter-110 child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process first-amendment image-cropping ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lascivious-exhibition minor-image sexually-explicit-conduct Can innocent, non-sexual conduct of a minor be retroactively converted into 'sexually explicit conduct'?
20-1198 Jerry Wiltz v. Texas Texas Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement Whether a person can abandon their privacy right to an item by merely leaving it behind without evidence of intentional abandonment
20-1205 Gazelle Craig v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-distribution dispensing distributing medical-necessity prescription prescription-law statutory-interpretation When a licensed physician writes a prescription for a controlled substance that is not medically necessary, does that conduct constitute 'dispensing,'…
20-1209 In Re Raymond L. Rogers Denied Response Waived all-writs-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to vacate the Kansas District Court's criminal conviction and sentence of the petitioner
20-1216 Faysal Khalaf v. Ford Motor Company, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard jackson-v-virginia jury-findings seventh-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the standard under the Sixth Amendment, as established by the Court in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), should apply in civil cases u…
20-251 Willie Gipson v. Louisiana Louisiana Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rule criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent Ramos-retroactivity Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity state-collateral-review Teague-framework Teague-v-Lane Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on state collateral review
20-567 Ohio, ex rel. Elliot Feltner v. Cuyahoga County Board of Revision, et al. Ohio Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) due-process equity-windfall government-seizure just-compensation property-rights surplus-equity takings-clause tax-delinquency Does the Takings Clause require compensation when government confiscates property worth far more than the debt owed, keeping the surplus value as a wi…
20-569 Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church, et al. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-exception religious-discrimination religious-gatherings strict-scrutiny Whether the Free Exercise Clause prohibits government discrimination against religious gatherings
20-5795 Donald Mitchell Tedford v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP discoverable-information due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pennsylvania-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act Whether the Post-Conviction Relief Act procedures of Pennsylvania law were applied to Petitioner in violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment ri…
20-5908 Mikel Clotaire v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit-precedent fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mug-shot-admission presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-precedent Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision to admit a mug shot in a criminal trial absent a need for the evidence splits with well-established Sixth Circ…
20-601 Daniel Cameron, Attorney General of Kentucky v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C., et al. Sixth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) attorney-general civil-rights due-process federal-appeals-court intervention judicial-procedure june-medical standing state-law statutory-interpretation Whether a state attorney general vested with the power to defend state law should be permitted to intervene after a federal court of appeals invalidat…
20-605 Kiernan Wholean, et al. v. CSEA SEIU Local 2001, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights damages-liability good-faith-defense qualified-immunity unconstitutional Is there a 'good faith defense' to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional rig…
20-6093 Hany Sayed Abutaleb v. Mona Mohamed Abutaleb Illinois Denied Relisted (3)IFP 401(k) 401k-distribution asset-division discretion divorce-proceedings divorce-settlement equitable-distribution joint-assets judicial-discretion marital-assets property-division property-ownership Whether the trial court abused its discretion in awarding the wife 75% of the husband's 401(k) account despite the existence of four joint assets and …
20-6363 Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process magistrate magistrate-recommendation plain-error plea-agreement report-and-recommendation statutory-interpretation Whether a district court commits plain error by not waiting the fourteen days allotted by 28 U.S.C. § 636 prior to adopting a magistrate's Report and …
20-6409 Hugo Humberto Perez Rangel v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP advisory-opinions appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-error harmless-error incentive-to-object judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a…
20-6443 Scott Myers v. Patrolman Rowell, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-section-1983 civil-rights false-arrest false-prosecution institutionalized-abuse malicious-prosecution municipal-liability Whether the complete reversals of the convictions affirm that malicious prosecution occurred, requiring the case to be remanded for a jury trial for c…
20-6546 John C. Nimmer v. Michael G. Heavican, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment privileges-and-immunities rooker-feldman separation-of-powers standing Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bar a 42 USC 1983 claim when a facial challenge is pled?
20-6602 Wayne Boucher v. Deanne Lyons New Hampshire Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse child-custody domestic-dispute due-process equal-protection evidence-exclusion family-law guardian-ad-litem judicial-bias parental-rights What is best for E.B.
20-6649 El Aemer El Mujaddid v. Andrew Brewer, et al. Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-remedy due-process state-actors statute-of-limitations subpoena subpoena-abuse Does 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 18 U.S.C. § 1595 create a damages remedy against state actors for abuse of invalid subpoena?
20-671 In Re Atul C. Shah Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy-court civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-investigation employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure religion standing Whether the violation of First Amendment for practice of my Religion occurred
20-690 Michael Sang Han v. United States District of Columbia Denied circuit-split income income-classification intent intent-analysis internal-revenue-code james-v-united-states loan loan-proceeds tax-law May a court consider factors other than the parties' intent in determining whether a transfer of funds constitutes a non-taxable loan under the Intern…
20-6912 Roy L. Rambo, Jr. v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice due-process pretrial-restraint retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did this Court's holding in Luis v. United States simply clarify a Federal civil asset forfeiture statute
20-6919 Lawrence James Napper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rules speedy-trial successive-motion Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction
20-6922 Melvin Bonnell v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP brady-vs-maryland capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process evidence prosecutorial-misconduct When a capitally sentenced defendant credibly demonstrates that state actors have continually exhibited bad-faith and the majority of evidence is lost…
20-6935 Melvin Wofford v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-question criminal-trial deliberating-juror deliberation-process judicial-discretion juror-dismissal juror-removal jury-unanimity merits-of-the-case sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict Does a trial court violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous jury verdict when the record establishes a reasonable possibility that…
20-6937 Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial parole Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's writ of habeas corpus as unauthorized and successive
20-6938 Muhammad E. Milhouse v. Camba Inc. Staff Members, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-statute freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech prosecutorial-discretion sex-trafficking standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions in this case
20-6940 Ellery Dennis Thomas v. Raymond Madden, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights remittitur sentencing standing Whether the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides an opportunity for a full and fair litigation of an unconstitutional state law that is nev…
20-6950 In Re John Poullard Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure rule-60-motion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Can the United States District Court of Appeals 5th Circuit Clerk of Court refuse to file my FRCP(60)(B)(4) motion for relief from the 2-1 decision ju…
20-6951 Julio Torres Palomo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony hearsay hearsay-objection indictment indictment-insufficiency jury-instructions sexual-abuse sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified
20-6956 H. Denise Stuart v. Erickson Living Management, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process elder-care employment employment-discrimination investigation-procedures retaliation termination whistleblower workplace-retaliation wrongful-termination When Erickson Living Communities suspended me for nine days to investigate intentionally false accusations of elderly abuse and found no grounds to su…
20-6968 Kenton Lance Light v. Texas Texas Denied IFP abandonment automobile-exception evidence fourth-amendment methamphetamine probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated when police searched a container on the basis that Petitioner abandoned the item without any evidence that P…
20-6986 Lorenzo Escudero v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights habeas-corpus legal-sufficiency sentencing trial-by-jury trial-rights Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated through deprivations of due process, trial by jury, equal protection, and other fundament…
20-6988 Antwone Lamont Creater v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines Whether the seriousness of the offense is the most important factor for a judge to consider in fashioning a defendant's sentence, or whether the serio…
20-6996 Delroy T. Booth v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law disability due-process judicial-review legal-precedent social-security standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Social Security Administration's denial of disability benefits to the petitioner violated the petitioner's constitutional rights
20-6997 Joe D. Bryan v. Texas Texas Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review substantive-due-process Does the criminal punishment of an innocent person violate the Substantive Due Process Clause of the Constitution?
20-6998 Clara Lewis Brockington v. Ronald L. Havner, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP breach-of-contract civil-contract contract-breach contract-enforcement damages district-manager legal-remedy south-carolina-law storage-auction verbal-agreement written-contract Why did Danielle Jones, District Manager make a verbal contractual agreement that was not included in the written contract?
20-7035 Rondell Slaughter v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel criminal-procedure error exhaustion ineffective-assistance legal-concession oral-argument procedural-exhaustion state-court state-court-pleading Whether a claim of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel is exhausted when the state-court pleading asserted that appellate counsel rendered ine…
20-7054 Paul E. Weber v. Amy Arnott Quinlan, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-U.S.C-§1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief postconviction-remedy section-1983 state-action Is the refusal of state officials to afford a defendant existing postconviction remedies actionable under 42-U.S.C-§1983?
20-7055 Bernard F. Verrett v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense defense-expert due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent intent-element sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether Strickland requires counsel to procure an adequate defense expert to negate or mitigate the intent element of the crime when that was the only…
20-7057 Romario Waller v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-factors amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-sentencing plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement Did the Trial Judge violate Petitioner's constitutional rights
20-7103 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-mechanism petition-clause prisoner-rights standing Whether the petitioner retains the right to petition the government for redress of grievances and whether this is denied in violation of the Equal Pro…
20-7106 Mark Halper v. Linda Moore, et al. Colorado Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights colorado-courts due-process judicial-corruption legal-standing real-party-interest real-party-of-interest standing Whether the Colorado Supreme Court, the Colorado Court of Appeals, and the District Court, San Miguel County, CO were corrupt in failing to legally as…
20-7129 Tyreek Torrence v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Was Petitioner's guilty plea involuntarily induced?
20-7130 Kareem J. Cobbins v. Cherryle Hinthorne, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus illinois post-conviction standing Whether the Illinois affidavit rule under 725 ILCS 5/122-2 is an adequate state procedural ground for dismissing post-conviction claims
20-7190 Erik Sanchez v. Terry Jacques, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the sentencing court must enter a factual basis to support a consecutive sentence when a defendant has never pled guilty to such facts, depriv…
20-7195 Javan Fredrick Mays, aka Von Frederick Mayes v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel subject-matter-jurisdiction suppressed-evidence Whether the petitioner's convictions were obtained in violation of due process
20-7200 Michael Burciaga v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa criminal-procedure due-process gang-evidence habeas-corpus jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit premeditation standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in upholding the state court's finding of premeditation under Jackson v. Virginia
20-7204 Shane Faithful v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law federal-sentencing medical-care medical-prescription prescription-drugs sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a physician who prescribes a controlled substance to a patient for reasons other than medical care has unlawfully 'dispensed' the substance, u…
20-7229 Wanda Tubbs v. Jeff Long, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-error constitutional-law due-process litigation-rights motion-to-suppress standing tennessee-courts Did the Tennessee courts violate due process by failing to let Wanda Tubbs litigate a motion to suppress in an asset forfeiture case?
20-7243 David Linehan v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce interstate-communication statutory-interpretation threat-transmission Whether 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) requires the government to allege and the jury to find that the defendant threatened to injure a specific natural person
20-7247 Walter Eugene Powell v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by the warrantless search and seizure of his hotel room
20-7250 Eunice Husband v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plain-error supervised-release united-states-constitution Whether the district court and appellate court erred in their handling of the defendant's claims of plain error, judicial bias, ineffective assistance…
20-7254 Juan Valenzuela v. L. Small, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit brady-violation criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit-review police-misconduct writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit unreasonably applied SCOTUS precedent in concluding that petitioner's Brady-claim failed for lack of prejudice
20-7256 James Timothy Cobb v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellant's pretrial motion to…
20-7259 Juan Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 sixth-amendment Was petitioner denied his Constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel during his trial, that is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment of the U…
20-7268 Jason P. Briscoe v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure fourth-amendment police-discretion pretextual-stop pretextual-stops probable-cause traffic-violation whren-v-united-states Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), which permits pretextual traffic stops so long as the police have probab…
20-7269 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction final-judgment habeas-corpus rule-60b-motion standing Whether the district court erred in denying a Rule 60(b) motion to reopen a final judgment denying habeas corpus relief, where the denial of the Rule …
20-7270 Keith D. Barmore v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified
20-7272 Tyslen J. Baker v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure Does a police officer violate a defendant's Fourth Amendment rights by executing an arrest warrant consisting of bare bones allegations lacking in pro…
20-7273 Patrick Roger Brigaudin v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a prosecutor's threats to a defendant that he would receive a harsher sentence if he did not accept a plea deal denied him his constitutional …
20-7276 Russell Lawayne Montague v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process protective-order sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review supervised-release Whether the district court ordered an unreasonably long 114-month prison sentence
20-7278 Charles Dennis Friedman v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision departs so vastly from the accepted course of judicial proceedings—by forcing a litigant to challenge a decision …
20-7283 John Larvie v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-discretion plea-bargaining procedural-default standing state-court-reasoning tribal-sovereignty Whether tribal sovereignty can be ignored and a defendant punished despite not being convicted tribally
20-7290 Michael Scott Hanuman v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure emergency-aid emergency-aid-doctrine fourth-amendment law-enforcement protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Does the Fourth Amendment permit law enforcement officers to conduct a protective sweep search of a private home under the Buie 'reasonable suspicion'…
20-7294 James Peter Sabatino v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights communication-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process mootness statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's appeal as moot
20-730 Lindsay R. Cooper, et al. v. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., aka TEPCO, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) choice-of-law diplomatic-mission foreign-corporation foreign-corporations humanitarian-assistance international-comity jurisdiction military-personnel u.s.-court-jurisdiction Whether U.S. military personnel can rely on U.S. court jurisdiction for harms by foreign corporations on foreign soil
20-7301 Bernandino Gawala Bolatete v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment article-i congress-power-to-tax congressional-power criminal-law criminal-punishment firearms-regulation national-firearms-act suppressor-registration taxation-clause tenth-amendment Whether federal criminal punishment of the receipt and possession of unregistered suppressors under 26 U.S.C. §§ 5861(d) and 5871 exceeds Congress's p…
20-7305 Larry Daniel Harris v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3a attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-statute hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery negligence physical-force predicate-conviction property-injury statutory-interpretation whether-a-conviction-for-hobbs-act-robbery-qualifies-as-a-crime-of-violence-under-18-usc-924c3a
20-7342 In Re Christopher Vigliotti Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment covid-19 covid-19-risk cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prison-conditions Should the court issue an emergency writ of habeas corpus requiring respondent's to release petitioner due to the fact COVID-19 and its variants prese…
20-7349 In Re Bobby Mellard Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
20-751 Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech 20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud Whether the state action of disbarment violates the First Amendment as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment
20-830 Washington v. Said Omer Ali Washington Denied Amici (3) 8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-determination sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c…
20-831 Washington v. Endy Domingo-Cornelio Washington Denied Amici (3) 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c…
20-960 Khue Nguyen v. Hai Phu Nguyen, as Administrator of the Estate of Thin Thi Ta, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied appellate-jurisdiction breach-of-contract civil-procedure immunity mediation mediation-immunity non-final-judgment summary-judgment tort-claims Whether an appellate court can take the act of refusal to settlement at mediation out of the mediation context to strip off the immunity from liabilit…
20-965 Balubhai Patel, et al. v. Manuel Chavez California Denied 42-usc-1983 anti-SLAPP anti-SLAPP-statute attorney-fees civil-rights civil-rights-statute federal-preemption fee-shifting preemption supremacy-clause Whether California's anti-SLAPP statute's mandatory attorney fee shifting provisions in favor of a prevailing defendant conflicts with, and stands as …
20-980 Veena Sharma v. Santander Bank First Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-crime judicial-review preclusion standing statute-of-limitations summary-judgment whether-district-court-and-appeals-court-dismissal-is-sufficient-for-review
20-984 Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey v. Defense Distributed, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1) cease-and-desist due-process forum-state jurisdictional-challenge minimum-contacts nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction Whether a nonresident state official subjects itself to personal-jurisdiction in another forum-state when it sends a single cease-and-desist-letter to…
20-987 Spielbauer Law Office v. Midland Funding, LLC, et al. California Denied appeal civil-procedure constitutional-taking due-process entry-of-judgment judicial-discretion notice-of-appeal procedural-rights statutory-interpretation takings If a statute appears to reasonably permit the filing of a notice of appeal upon entry of order or entry of judgment, is it a denial of due process of …
20-988 Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. v. Aaron Edmunds Tyson Third Circuit Denied accomplice-liability aedpa aedpa-review benefit-of-the-doubt cullen-v-pinholster due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether the review required under AEDPA § 2254 and Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S. 170 (2011) is violated by reliance upon a 'some ambiguity' standard …
20-998 Mama Jo’s, Inc., dba Berries v. Sparta Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1) all-risk-insurance all-risk-policy causation-expert construction-damage daubert-standard direct-physical-loss expert-testimony insurance-coverage Whether construction dust and debris damage to covered property constitutes 'direct physical loss' under an all-risk insurance policy
20M65 Dong Sheng Huang v. Jalea Joechelle Hill, et al. Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M66 Donald Dallas v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None