Conference: 2021-04-01

95 cases — 0 granted, 95 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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19-1388 Jason Small v. Memphis Light, Gas & Water Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (13) civil-rights de-minimis-cost employment-discrimination religious-accommodation statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship Whether Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison, 432 U.S. 63, 84 (1977), which stated that employers suffer an 'undue hardship' in accommodating an emp…
19-1461 Mitche A. Dalberiste v. GLE Associates, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (5)Relisted (13) civil-rights employment-discrimination minority-religions religious-accommodation stare-decisis statutory-interpretation title-vii undue-hardship Whether the Court should reconsider Hardison and set a proper legal standard for determining what constitutes an 'undue hardship' under Title VII, 42 …
20-1015 Alexi Ortiz v. Alfred D. Walsh, Jr. Maryland Denied civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review property-rights standing tax-sale Did the State court's reliance on Quillens v. Moore (requiring an individual to pay taxes, interest, and tax sale purchaser costs prior to any court r…
20-1018 Louisiana Real Estate Appraisers Board v. Federal Trade Commission Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (3) administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine interlocutory-appeal public-entities state-action-immunity Whether and under what conditions orders denying state-action immunity to public entities are immediately appealable under the collateral-order doctri…
20-1020 Donald Chimaobi Okoro v. Texas Texas Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process fact-finding findings-of-fact judicial-review legal-contradiction procedural-error standard-of-review trial-court trial-court-findings Does an Appellate Court fail to provide meaningful appellate review when it adopts a Trial Court's findings of fact when those findings contradict the…
20-1024 Geoffrey M. Young v. Adam Edelen, et al. Kentucky Denied appellate-procedure civil-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pro-se-litigation rule-11-sanctions rule-12-dismissal sanctions standing whether-trial-court-construed-complaint-favorably
20-1025 Juan Francisco Vega v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process florida-constitution florida-rules-of-court florida-statutes involuntary-commitment jury jury-verdict mental-abnormality Whether the jury's verdict must be reinstated based on the United States Constitution, Florida Constitution, Florida Statutes, and Florida Rules of Co…
20-1037 Wanda Bowling v. John Roach Fifth Circuit Denied 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights court-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-immunity judicial-precedent legal-remedy prefiling-injunction standing vexatious-litigant Whether the Fifth Circuit's panel's opinion is in direct conflict with its own previous decisions, other U.S. Court of Appeals, and with the U.S. Supr…
20-1052 In Re Christopher Gary Baylor Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant section-1983 section-1983-claim Does a non-prisoner, indigent, pro se litigant to a Section 1983 claim who initially proceeds In Forma Pauperis but later pays for his appeal, lose th…
20-1064 Lloyd Allan Jones v. U.S. Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Residential Asset Securities Corporation, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-code chapter-13 debtor-rights home-ownership modification-of-claim nobelman-v-american-savings-bank present-value property-valuation secured-claim secured-creditor Whether 11 U.S.C. § 1325(a)(5)(B) allows Petitioner to satisfy Respondents' claim secured by Petitioner's home via a Chapter 13 Plan pursuant to 11 U.…
20-1067 Maria M. Rosas v. Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation, dba Advocate Christ Medical Center, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights damages disability equitable-tolling fourth-amendment section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations on a § 1983 claim seeking damages under the Fourth Amendment for deprivation of liberty can be equitably tolled whe…
20-1068 Jorel Shophar v. Johnson County, Kansas, et al. Kansas Denied Response Waived child-protective-services civil-rights county-judges due-process eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity parental-rights pro-se-litigation standing Is the enjoyment of the Eleventh Amendment Immunity for County judge's contradictory to Fourteenth Amendment for U.S. Citizens, when County Judges int…
20-1073 John Does 1-10 v. Debra Haaland, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights congressional-immunity constitutional-law due-process federal-immunity free-speech legislative-immunity legislative-privilege libel speech-and-debate-clause Is election to Congress a license to libel anyone, anywhere, anytime, even when the libel is not in response to a press inquiry, does not concern pend…
20-1108 Pontiler S.A. v. OPI Products Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived amendment civil-procedure contract due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-policy judicial-discretion pleading-standards rule-15 rule-8 Whether the court of appeals' dismissal of the petitioner's complaint for omitting one nonessential word in describing the respondents' breach of cont…
20-1134 John Myers v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with at least four other courts of appeals, that to establish prejudice under Strickland v. …
20-1135 Alex Emric Jones, et al. v. Erica Lafferty, et al. Connecticut Denied Response Waived civil-rights contempt due-process free-speech judicial-authority party-presentation Whether a litigant's extra-judicial statements can be sanctioned when the First Amendment otherwise protects his speech and where there was no order p…
20-1139 Florence Jones v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-decision agency-decision-making circuit-split due-process federal-circuit judicial-review retrospective-elaboration veterans-affairs veterans-benefits When a federal agency fails contemporaneously to explain its reasons for an action, must the retrospective elaboration be of a decisionmaker with auth…
20-1153 Susan Elaine Devine v. Absolute Activist Value Master Fund Limited, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-fees bad-faith civil-procedure costs-and-fees court-discretion inherent-authority judicial-power legal-costs objective-conduct procedural-standard subjective-bad-faith Whether a court considering a motion for an award of costs and attorney's fees pursuant to the court's inherent authority must require the movant to p…
20-1164 Donald E. Boyd v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fair-trial fair-trial-rights involuntary-medication psychotropic-drugs right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment xanax-dosage Whether the State of New Jersey's administration of unreasonably high doses of the controlled psychotropic drug Xanax violated the defendant's constit…
20-1189 Brian E. Hardin v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant vehicle-search Whether law-enforcement officers violate the Fourth Amendment by searching a person's vehicle when the person drives that vehicle up to his house whil…
20-1191 Robert Singletary v. Kenneth Nelsen, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights compulsory-process due-process equal-protection jurisdiction rule-of-law Do the accused have a right to reside?
20-1211 SynKloud Technologies, LLC v. Adobe, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 1404(a) civil-procedure discovery district-court-discretion federal-circuit-review mandamus patent patent-litigation transfer venue venue-transfer Whether the Federal Circuit wrongly overruled a district court judge's discretionary 1404(a) transfer decision
20-1222 Julie Dalessio v. University of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights comprehensive-remedial-scheme due-process judicial-review ninth-circuit remedial-scheme section-1983 statutory-interpretation statutory-rights Does a comprehensive remedial scheme for the enforcement of a statutory right under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) foreclose resort to a 42…
20-1232 IBSA Institut Biochimique, S. A., et al. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived foreign-inventors foreign-language indefiniteness national-treatment patent patent-indefiniteness patent-priority patent-prosecution priority-date trips-agreement Whether, pursuant to the United States' obligations under the TRIPS Agreement, codified at 19 U.S.C. § 3511, a court construing the claims of a U.S. p…
20-1249 Gary Victor Dubin v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel Hawaii Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech freedom-of-speech judicial-discretion license-revocation professional-licensing state-constitution Is it a violation of (1) Equal Protection, (2) Due Process and/or (3) Freedom of Speech
20-197 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, et al. Second Circuit GVR Relisted (15) blocking first-amendment free-speech government-official personal-account public-forum social-media twitter-blocking Whether the First Amendment deprives a government official of his right to control his personal Twitter account by blocking third-party accounts if he…
20-551 Jack Witt Voris v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied 18-usc-111 assault assault-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-use multiple-offenses rule-of-lenity sentencing-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether firing multiple gunshots in a single assaultive act can be construed as multiple, distinct offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 111
20-6263 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-court trial-attorney Whether petitioner is entitled to a copy of the state habeas evidentiary hearing record under the Due Process Clause
20-6294 Richard L. Sealey v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP capital-trial continuance continuance-motion due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence penalty-phase prejudice trial-court-discretion Whether the denial of a defense motion for a continuance during the penalty phase of a capital trial violates due process
20-6507 Darrell Berry, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreclosure rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court Whether the Berrys' Fifth Amendment Rights to Due Process were Violated
20-6604 Mark T. Grant v. City of Roanoke, Virginia Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law contract due-process federal-funding federal-spending-clause housing monell-doctrine private-cause-of-action property-rights regulations takings Question 1: When the HUD-City contract was voided, why wasn't the subsequent City-Citizen contract voided with cause?
20-6891 Ronald Knight v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP capital-defense capital-sentencing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigation-investigation postconviction-relief prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether trial counsel has an obligation to conduct a comprehensive mitigation investigation
20-6899 Cynthia Hudson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bench-warrant certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court Is a state habeas corpus petitioner denied federal constitutional due process when the state habeas court refuses to bench warrant the petitioner to a…
20-6970 Charles Maxwell v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP collateral-review due-process equal-justice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pleading-requirements state-statutes Should the constitutional guarantees afforded to prisoners be tied to the constitutional violations raised, instead of to the manner in which a state …
20-6990 Allyn Akeem Smith v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP 4th-amendment Batson-challenge cell-site-location-information csli exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jury-selection search-and-seizure standing Does the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule obviate an illegal seizure of CSLI?
20-7003 Justin Anthony Kudla v. Minnesota Minnesota Denied IFP 4th-amendment criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intrusion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio traffic-stop Did the district court error by denying the suppression motion?
20-7011 Hemmingway Mukora Saisi v. Carolyn Murray, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection protection-claim self-defense stare-decisis state-criminal-procedure state-officials Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to due process and equal protection were violated by the heightened pleading standard applied to his se…
20-7013 In Re William M. Windsor Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-law jurisdiction remand removal removal-and-remand standing texas-courts Can Texas courts be allowed to violate federal law on removal and remand?
20-7014 Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights confrontation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure privileges racketeering Whether the district court and appellate court erred in denying the appellant's due process, confrontation, examination, privileges, and protections i…
20-7015 Sabina Leigh Burton v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure discovery-violations fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion rule-37 rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b speedy-trial-act Whether discovery violations can constitute fraud on the court
20-7016 Andrew David Bruins, II v. Michele Whitman, Associate Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-provisions civil-procedure civil-rights court-proceeding due-process mandate relief remedies standing statutory-interpretation undue-burden Does the act or process of accommodating or accommodative information establish when court proceedings are deemed?
20-7017 Dennis Martin Beyer, Jr. v. Texas Texas Denied IFP constitutional-requirement continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-conviction jury-unanimity sixth-amendment texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Does the constitutional requirement of jury unanimity require a jury to be unanimous as to specific acts of sexual abuse in order to convict a defenda…
20-7022 Amado Reyes Trujillo v. Mona D. Houston, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review language-barriers petition-for-relief pro-se standing Whether the District Court erred in denying petitioner's writ of habeas corpus due to lack of procedures, without considering that petitioner is not a…
20-7023 Raevon Terrell Parker v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Whether the petitioner's First Amendment rights were violated when the respondent, Apple Inc., denied the petitioner access to the Saint Louis Galleri…
20-7027 Susanne Stephanie Nikola Kynast v. Florida Florida Denied IFP civil-rights custodia-legis due-process evidence evidence-custodian motion-to-suppress nolle-prosequi property property-seizure search-and-seizure writ-of-mandamus Is Petitioner entitled to the return of property taken as evidence without a warrant and held in custodia-legis subsequent to a motion-to-suppress in …
20-7097 Alree B. Sweat, III v. City of Las Cruces, New Mexico, et al. New Mexico Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress post-conviction-relief property-rights search-and-seizure takings Whether the New Mexico Supreme Court erred in denying petitioner's motion for post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel
20-7098 Herminio Nicolas Reyes v. Georgia Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule inevitable-discovery police-misconduct search-and-seizure Whether the police officer must actively be pursuing a lawful means of obtaining evidence prior to the occurrence of the illegal misconduct under the …
20-7105 Deyoe R. Harris v. University of Arizona Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments
20-7127 Clyde Pontefract v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bivens bivens-action civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment federal-prisoner federal-prisons injunctive-relief municipal-liability standing Does Ziglar V Abbasi apply to Eighth Amendment claims by federal prisoners?
20-7133 Anthony Reed v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion structural-defects Whether the Arkansas Constitutional Amendment No. 21 violates the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause by allowing prosecution by information rat…
20-7134 Fadeel Shuhaiber v. Illinois Department of Corrections Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process equal-protection rehabilitation-act-of-1973 standing Whether the Illinois Department of Corrections violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 by not providing servic…
20-7136 James Robert Stanford v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell miller-v-cockrell pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-default Does the requisite 'substantial showing' require pro-se-litigants to re-submit supporting-documents
20-7152 Brian Hook v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habitual-offender ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments
20-7169 Lawrence Nunley v. Richard Brown Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-witness criminal-trial evidence-admission ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error prosecutor structural-error testimony trial-counsel witness-testimony Was trial counsel ineffective for silently acquiescing to the structural error, allowing undue emphasis to be placed on the critical testimony, and gu…
20-7172 Dakota Manucy Constantin v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct Was Constantin denied due process when the sentencing court relied upon uncharged conduct in imposing a sentence in excess of that recommended by the …
20-7173 Venecia Depaula v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-offer privileged-communication waiver Was counsel's assistance rendered ineffective
20-7175 Timothy W. Elkins, Jr. v. Tony Guinn, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction pleadings standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's complaint for failure to state a claim
20-7257 Tito Knox v. Elizabeth G. Magera, U.S. Probation Officer, Individually and in Her Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing Whether the court erred in denying petitioner's motion to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that the government's prosecution violated the Double …
20-7265 Jonathan Lindsey v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP curtilage dwelling-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights narcotics-detection reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the government's warrantless use of a narcotics detection dog on a dwelling without curtilage violates the resident's Fourth Amendment right a…
20-7267 Kevin L. Martin v. Cathleen Capron, et al. Seventh Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-112 court-of-appeals enablement invention patent prior-art Whether the court of appeals erred in finding that the claimed invention meets the enablement requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112
20-7288 Nazari Vasilich Cam v. Oregon Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment halbert-v-michigan indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sua-sponte-appointment swenson-v-bosler Whether a state appellate court must appoint counsel sua sponte for an indigent criminal defendant who represents himself at trial, files a notice of …
20-7306 Agustin Madrid, aka Augustin Madrid v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-objection preservation-of-error procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedural unreasonableness
20-7319 Jamaa I. Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-7322 Kelsey Videl Coffee v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process hobbs-act jury-instructions Whether Petitioner Is Actually Innocent Of Counts 4-8, Based On Conspiracy To Hobbs Act Robbery And Aiding And Abetting Hobbs Act Robbery
20-7324 Malcolm Elbray Traywicks, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law attorney-general controlled-substances-act delegation-of-power due-process prosecutorial-discretion scheduling-authority separation-of-powers Does the Congressional delegation of power to the Attorney General permitting scheduling of substances under the Controlled Substances Act violate due…
20-7325 Eric Todd v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-examination disclosure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment government-misconduct witness-testimony Did the timing and method of the Government's disclosure violate Todd's Fifth Amendment right to a fair trial
20-733 Terrill A. Rickmon, Sr. v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied 4th-amendment circuit-split due-process emergency-exception fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio Does the sound of gunshots create an emergency so that the 'individualized suspicion' required by Terry attaches to anyone near the shots?
20-7333 Nolberto Martinez v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Low Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights habeas-corpus right-of-redress saving-clause statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc. unconstitutionally foreclosed Petitioner'…
20-7336 Donovan Jonathan Tillman v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing pretrial-hearing public-trial-clause sixth-amendment state-court-decision witness-exclusion Did the state court, contrary to rulings of this Court and of the supreme and intermediate appellate courts of other states, violate the Public Trial …
20-7340 Christopher Welshans v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-prosecution oath-of-office positive-law standing Can the United States claim a constitutionally viable cause of action against the people?
20-7346 In Re David A. Diehl Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process en-banc rehearing standing Whether the denial of Petitioners' en banc petition to the Fifth Circuit should have been considered late, and were there grounds not to have accepted…
20-7362 Charles Braye v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-step-act opportunity-to-be-heard remand sentence-reduction Whether Mr. Braye's due process rights were violated when the court of appeals determined that Mr. Braye was eligible for a sentence reduction under t…
20-7363 Lerone Bernard Butler v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process law-enforcement-misconduct possession-with-intent sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence whether-the-verdict-was-supported-by-sufficient-evidence
20-7365 Ronald Brount, aka Ronald Brunt v. Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in denying the petitioner a certificate of appealability?
20-7369 Antonia Janai Hickmon v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt?
20-7381 Larry Wilkerson v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict evidence-based-concerns juror-discharge legal-disagreement rule-23(b)(3) sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-court-discretion voir-dire Whether the court should resolve the conflict in the circuits regarding the standard applicable to determining when the Sixth Amendment prohibits disc…
20-7383 Jorge Zamora-Suarez, aka Pedro Moncada v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
20-7385 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-conditions community-safety constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-considerations due-process pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention public-safety sentencing Whether Petitioner is entitled to release pending trial
20-7388 Alejandro De La Torre v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review downward-departure due-process sentencing Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with decision of this Court, as well as other Circuits, on …
20-7393 Edward Coleman, aka Keith, aka Tiny Keith v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
20-7398 Khemall Jokhoo v. Lola Velaquez-Aguilu, Assistant United States Attorney Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-7402 Sylas Glenn Brownridge v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
20-7412 Anthony W. Gardner v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-statutes force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crimes statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
20-7416 James Lee Herman, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment driving-under-the-influence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether police officers who violated a driver's Fourth Amendment rights had probable cause to arrest the driver for driving under the influence and wo…
20-7422 Antuan V. Little v. Dan Cromwell Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standards legal-reliability witness-testimony whether-the-witness's-statements-and-testimony-were-unreliable-due-to-coercion
20-7423 Jose Jesus Cruz v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment destruction-of-evidence evidence-destruction exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Is it reasonable for law enforcement to enter a suspect's home under the exigent-circumstances exception when there is no genuine exigency?
20-7425 Cornelius Kenyatta Craig v. Andre Matevousian, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-circuit Whether the 'same evidence' standard for double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment is unconstitutional as applied to the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Pr…
20-7430 Carlos Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act predicate-offense robbery-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether a completed Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a predicate crime of violence
20-753 Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation v. Yakima County, Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) agency-deference consent criminal-jurisdiction federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law public-law-280 public-safety retrocession statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty Can the United States change the scope of its reassumption of Pub. L. 83-280 jurisdiction in Indian Country years after the reassumption became effect…
20-826 Mike Brown, Acting Warden v. Ervine Davenport Sixth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) 28-usc-2254(d)(1) brecht-test chapman-standard chapman-test constitutional-error federal-habeas-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-adjudication May a federal habeas court grant relief based solely on its conclusion that the Brecht test is satisfied, or must the court also find that the state c…
20-83 Jacob Jones, et al. v. Wayne Duke Kalbaugh Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity tenth-circuit Did the Tenth Circuit improperly focus on the knowledge and intentions of the suspect, rather than the facts knowable to the officers, in reversing th…
20-872 Shane Davis v. Mike Carroll, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process factual-reasonableness judicial-interpretation legal-standard qualified-immunity Whether qualified immunity absolves a defendant of § 1983 liability, despite knowledge of clearly established law, unless the plaintiff shows the viol…
20-952 Construction Cost Data, L.L.C., et al. v. The Gordian Group, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied business-disparagement defamation false-statements first-amendment jury-findings noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine reckless-disregard state-law-liability Whether the Noerr-Pennington doctrine has been improperly expanded beyond its First-Amendment-protections to insulate knowingly-false-statements
20-969 Freedom Watch, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc., et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6) 1st-amendment antitrust appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech human-rights-act political-discrimination sherman-act standing Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit err by failing to find that the District of Columbia Human Rights Act's prohibition on political di…
20M67 Mary E. Lynn v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None