Conference: 2021-04-23

109 cases — 1 granted, 108 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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19-1194 Jiahao Kuang, et al. v. Department of Defense, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1) administrative-law administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act,civil-procedure,due-p due-process equal-protection injunctive-relief judicial-review military-affairs standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether courts can evade their constitutional and statutory duty to review military decisions under the so-called 'Mindes test', or whether claims see…
20-1132 DeMichael Tyrone Moore and Derrick Darnell Moore v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination effective-cross-examination federal-law hearsay-exception memory-loss prior-recorded-statement witness-testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause is violated by admitting a prior recorded statement of a witness who testifies he has no memory of making the stateme…
20-1137 California Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials v. Tom Torlakson, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2) disfavored-treatment federal-law first-amendment free-exercise-clause government-discrimination ninth-circuit-precedent recurring-issue religious-exercise religious-liberty substantial-burden Whether the Free Exercise Clause permits the government to single out a religion for disfavored treatment so long as it does not 'substantially burden…
20-1145 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam Denied appointments-clause constitutional-violations contract-clause due-process federal-circuit-court judicial-inquiry patent patent-rights separation-of-powers supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether Justice Barrett must accept and grant this Emergency Petition for Writ of Mandamus
20-1146 Pamela Smith v. PacerMonitor, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act conspiracy deprivation-of-rights due-process emotional-distress res-judicata rule-60 standing Whether the process petitioner received in this case is sufficient to satisfy the substantive and procedural due process standard
20-1147 Thomas Jefferson Smallwood v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process confrontation confrontation-clause fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review Should a certificate of appealability issue
20-1150 Shelby L. Haynes, et al. v. Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Health and Welfare Fund, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied agreement common-fund common-fund-rule equitable-lien erisa erisa-fiduciary fiduciary non-contractual-claims plan-administrator retroactive-application retroactivity Can an ERISA plan fiduciary assert equitable lien by agreement claims against persons with which it has no agreement?
20-1169 William Albert Haynes, III, et al. v. World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. Second Circuit Denied appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure consolidated-cases final-judgment hall-v-hall procedural-catch-22 standing timely-appeal Did the Second Circuit err in ruling that it lacked jurisdiction to hear the Petitioners' appeals in three of seven consolidated cases, which were fil…
20-1226 Tracy Will Vaughn v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause constitutional-right-to-present-defense counseling-records due-process evidentiary-privilege privilege right-to-defense sexual-assault testimonial-development Whether a state may declare a sexual assault accuser's counseling records absolutely privileged even when the counseling is used to develop the accuse…
20-1259 Protect Our Parks, Inc., et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment lujan-standard standing takings takings-clause Whether the Plaintiffs possess Article III standing to bring their takings and due process claims
20-1264 Fusion IV Pharmaceuticals, Inc., dba Axia Pharmaceutical, et al. v. Anne Sodergren Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived commerce-clause compounding-quality-act drug-quality-and-security-act drug-regulation fdca-preemption federal-outsourcing-facilities federal-oversight federal-preemption outsourcing-facilities state-licensing state-licensing-requirements Whether 21 U.S.C. §353b preempts California state law licensing requirements
20-1278 Johlen Johnson, et ux. v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. Arizona Denied Response Waived constitutional-violation deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure non-judicial-foreclosure property-rights severability statutory-interpretation takings Does the prevailing Opinions of the Arizona Deed of Trust Scheme produce a constitutional violation, and therefore provide this Court with good cause …
20-1292 Parts Galore L.L.C., et al. v. Jacqueline Harrison Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation americans-with-disabilities-act auer-deference chevron-deference federal-courts judicial-review regulatory-guidance statutory-interpretation Should this Court overrule Kisor v. Wilkie, Auer v. Robbins and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. and direct federal courts to stop giving deference …
20-1296 Walter Skipper v. A&M Dockside Repair, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived affirmative-defenses circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-amendment scheduling-order summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent Does precedent in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit allow defendants to circumvent FRCP 15 and FRCP 16 requirements for amendin…
20-1338 Li Li v. J.C. Penney Company, Incorporated Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 363-motion asset-sale bankruptcy-code chapter-11 equity-committee good-faith good-faith-requirement standing sub-rosa-plan Whether the lower courts erred in authorizing the sale of J. C. Penney's crown jewel assets pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 363 under an impermissible sub ros…
20-1341 Volvy Smilowitz v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived bribery civil-rights election-fraud election-statute federal-elections federal-oversight state-elections state-law travel-act voter-fraud voting Whether federal government may regulate fraud in purely local state elections under 52 U.S.C. §10307(c)
20-1344 Jeffrey T. Maehr v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived 16th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process income-definition irs standing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent tax-law taxation Can the IRS/United States consistently call U.S. Supreme Court standing case precedent (stare decisis) on the definition of income, as 'legally frivol…
20-1350 Go New York Tours, Inc. v. Gray Line New York Tours, Inc., et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived anticompetitive-conduct antitrust antitrust-conspiracy circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure parallel-conduct pleading-standards plus-factors section-1 sherman-act twombly Whether a plaintiff must allege evidence of 'plus factors' in addition to parallel anticompetitive conduct to plead an antitrust conspiracy under Sect…
20-1352 Alexander Christian Miles v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-waiver collateral-attack collateral-attack-waiver contract-interpretation contract-law judicial-interpretation plea-agreement plea-colloquy Whether oral pronouncements by the court or the government at a plea colloquy which clarify the extent of an appellate and collateral attack waiver in…
20-1366 Jesus Gomez-Arzate v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment attenuation civil-rights consensual-encounter consent consent-to-search due-process fourth-amendment standing traffic-detention unlawful-extension Whether a continued contact can be deemed a 'consensual encounter' emanating immediately from a period of unlawfully extended detention
20-1371 Bart Posey, Sr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process duty-to-consult habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel Whether the duty to consult about an appeal requires the effective assistance of counsel
20-5764 Rodney Berryman, Sr. v. Robert K. Wong, Warden Ninth Circuit Granted Relisted (2)IFP counsel-representation dna-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal judicial-error motion-denial new-trial ninth-circuit prejudice pro-se pro-se-motion Did the Ninth Circuit err in finding no basis for interlocutory appeal and refusing to allow the petitioner to show district court prejudice
20-6041 Raymond Lewis Perry v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-stage-proceeding robbery sentencing sentencing-hearing statutory-interpretation Whether Vekimoner Peseuy's sentence was properly corrected under the First Step Act
20-6359 Andrew Rey Ybaben v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography discretionary-conditions due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p…
20-6668 Christopher Zamarripa v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-interpretation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy procedural-ambiguity Does a district court's mischaracterization, during the plea colloquy, of an appeal waiver create an ambiguity that must be construed against the gove…
20-6756 David Ray Wallace v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-statute due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing successive-motion texas-robbery violent-crime Whether Texas robbery has 'the use of physical force against the person of another' as an element
20-6796 Simon A. Sanchez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure deadly-weapon due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions Whether Trial Counsel failure to object a factual withholding with Guilty modifications in two (Pharenteticals) of Jury instructions, prevented Juror'…
20-6799 Kosoul Chanthakoummane v. Texas Texas Denied IFP bitemark-identification criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony forensic-evidence scientific-evidence trial-fairness Is Petitioner's conviction the product of a fundamentally unfair trial that was prejudiced by the admissibility of flawed forensic scientific evidence…
20-6801 Mauro C. Palacio v. B. Sullivan Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process federal-courts standing Did the appeals court's decision conflict with other appeals courts on the issue of due process?
20-6876 Leon Tollette v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254(d) eleventh-circuit federal-habeas-review harrington-v-richter ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Whether, on federal habeas review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), a federal court may refuse to 'look through' to the last reasoned state court decision, a…
20-7115 Christopher A. Carter v. Frank Lawrence, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights comity due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review standing Whether the Seventh Circuit ruling which is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit, other circuits, is debatable and wa…
20-7184 Mitchell Wagner v. Archie D. Scarborough, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis legal-complexity legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigation right-to-counsel standing Whether the failure of an appellate court to recognize an already approved and accepted in forma pauperis status violates the petitioner's constitutio…
20-7191 Curtis Shuler v. Kenneth E. Lassiter, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings Whether the Petitioners' constitutional due process and equal protection rights were violated
20-7196 Kristy Renee Rasnick v. Dickenson County Department of Social Services Virginia Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protection counsel counsel-representation due-process parental-rights state-court state-court-appeal statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner was deprived her constitutional right affording her due process
20-7201 Jerry Neil Alfred v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Dismissed IFP 2254-petition civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel successive-petition trial-counsel Whether doctrine of equitable tolling could be properly invoked and ultimately applied by district court to render an otherwise untimely claim that ex…
20-7211 In Re Jeremy L. Dale Denied IFP affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights court-fees declaration financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-procedure poverty redress Whether the petitioner's affidavit or declaration in support of motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is sufficient to establish poverty and e…
20-7212 Kareem Davenport v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-adequacy defendant-fitness due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency state-statute trial-court Can a defendant waive their right to file a motion to vacate due to being on the wrong medication that heavily sedates them?
20-7219 Cedric C. Westbrook v. California California Denied IFP arbitrary-action arbitrary-classification civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-classification procedural-hurdles standing state-court Does the State Court have an arbitrary right to re-classify a legal document into a specific classification of filings that the State knows has surimo…
20-7222 Ian Lamonte Cormier v. Riverside County District Attorney, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-access judicial-review standing Whether petitioner's case can be denied in forma pauperis
20-7225 Derek Michael Rigsby v. Colorado Colorado Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-remedy mutually-exclusive-verdicts sixth-amendment Whether the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment require that a defendant receive a new trial where a jury returns mutually exclusive guilty ver…
20-7227 Marcus Conner v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights due-process prejudice-factor pretrial-incarceration sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether lengthy pretrial incarceration can be sufficient to weigh the prejudice factor in the accused's favor under the Sixth Amendment speedy trial b…
20-7233 John Dan Bumphus, Jr. v. Unique Personnel Consultants, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
20-7236 Vincent E. Boyd v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability court-procedure due-process legal-representation pro-se-defendant self-representation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right standby-counsel Should courts have to clearly define, on the record, the proper role of standby counsel in the proceedings?
20-7239 Hung Linh Hoang v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit reasonable-probability standard-of-review Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Hoang's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim contrary to this Court's jurisprudence?
20-7245 Jeremy Kerr v. John Collier, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Henry County Ohio Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process notice notice-of-proceeding procedural-due-process receiver-appointment state-court substantial-right substantial-rights Does a State Court violate an individual's right to procedural due process under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, when it issues …
20-7248 Jonathan Lee Page v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-law court-limitation criminal-procedure independent-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-objection primary-offense primary-offenses trial-procedure Whether counsel was ineffective when he failed to timely object to the lower court expressly limiting the independent act jury instruction to the prim…
20-7249 Derrick Miles v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-appeal due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-identification Whether the State of Illinois Appellate Court ruling denying petitioner's claim
20-7264 Graham Jay Sonnenberg v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP adverse-effect brady-material conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-standard cuyler-v-sullivan indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel Whether the prophylaxis of Cuyler should be extended to define the term 'adverse affect' to establish a demonstration test involving actual conflicts …
20-7271 Ramon A. Boyce v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP 4th-amendment illinois-v-caballes k9-deployment rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the rule in Illinois v. Caballes, 543 U.S. 405, 135 S.Ct. 834, 160 L.Ed. 2d 842 applies to the deployment of a K9 during a traffic stop
20-7292 Matthew Lee Staszak v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-2251 18-usc-2423 due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct section-2251 section-2423 Whether the Supreme Court should grant the writ where prosecutorial-misconduct, ineffective-assistance-of-counsel, due-process, plea-bargaining, 18-us…
20-7315 Ursula Owens v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process felony-murder jury-determination mens-rea merger-doctrine reckless-homicide strict-liability Is Ohio's felony murder statute, and Petitioner's conviction and 15-years-to-life sentence thereunder, unconstitutional in violation of the Fifth, Six…
20-7331 Kevin L. Martin v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-care prison-conditions procedural-default Whether the state failed to provide the inmate with the necessary medical care and treatment as required, violating his constitutional rights
20-7332 Justin Laster v. Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing takings unidentified-issue Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims against the State of Georgia …
20-7334 Raymond E. Carr v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ada civil-rights employment perceived-disability record-of-disability rehabilitation-act Whether the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit discrimination against a federal employee based on the employee's perc…
20-7347 Warren Tarver v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-felony constitutional-standards death-penalty due-process federalism state-law state-laws unconstitutional Whether it is a violation of due process to detain a person under a statute that classifies an offense as a capital felony where the death penalty is …
20-7401 Ronald Brandon v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights contemporaneous-objection criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing state-court-procedure Whether the handling of the handling of the Old Faction Roll below the Abba, Lo filed, and the following additional questions defy the jurisdiction of…
20-7431 Anthony O. Wint, Jr., By and Through His Next Friend, Oral Wint v. Ric Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-court-procedure incompetent incompetent-litigant legal-standing parental-representation pro-se-representation standing Where a federal case is brought by a non-lawyer parent on behalf of an incompetent who cannot represent him or herself pro se, should no issues concer…
20-7442 Ahmad Shalash v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard legal-precedent prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct recantation standing undue-burden Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit imposed an improper burden and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) stand…
20-7454 Delwyn Manuel v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether $77 Mauer 1S KT Med To be hesEestGed
20-746 South Bay United Pentecostal Church, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit GVR Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-review first-amendment free-exercise free-speech jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-restrictions religious-liberty strict-scrutiny Do Governor Newsom's lockdown orders and reopening restrictions under the 'Blueprint' framework, placing strict limitations, including closures, on al…
20-748 PHI Air Medical, LLC v. Texas Mutual Insurance Company, et al. Texas Denied Amici (3) air-ambulance air-carriers airline-deregulation-act mccarran-ferguson-act medicare-rate preemption rate-regulation workers-compensation Whether the ADA preempts a state workers' compensation system that limits the prices an air-ambulance company can charge and collect for its air-trans…
20-7492 Justice Towan Roundtree v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-sentence appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a Guidelines error is harmless when the district judge issues an alternative sentence
20-7505 Olin Matice Gaskins v. West Virginia West Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process equal-protection federal-law fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure retroactivity state-court supreme-court Did the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia violate clearly established federal law and petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights when it failed …
20-7511 Carlos A. Espinoza v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review circuit-court concession habeas-corpus mattox-remmer-presumption non-jurisdictional-ground state-concession state-court summary-disposition May a circuit court affirm the denial of a habeas corpus petition on a non-jurisdictional ground not raised in either the state court or district cour…
20-752 Gavin B. Davis v. California California Denied Relisted (2) appeal appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing totality-of-circumstances Did the 4% Dist., Div. 1, Court of Appeal, California, err in its inquiry and application of Boykin-Tahl analysis under its 'totality of circumstances…
20-7543 Victor Real-Alomar, aka Toston v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment ninth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining pretrial-detainee waiver Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of nonapplicability of a waiver of appeal in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the governme…
20-7544 Demian Dominguez, aka Demain Dominguez v. Brian E. Williams, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-death certificate-of-appealability effective-counsel ninth-circuit prejudice procedural-default reasonable-jurists Whether the Ninth Circuit's order denying a certificate of appealability was clearly erroneous
20-7547 Saloman Martinez v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion kentucky-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-proof supreme-court-precedent Whether the defendant's conviction and sentence are in conflict with the Supreme Court's precedents in (1) Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004),…
20-7548 David Antoine Luster v. Bradley M. Trate, Warden Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law career-offender constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in concluding that the petitioner's prior conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) was not a valid predicate offense for p…
20-7554 Eron Jordan v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction speedy-trial Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to dismiss and ordering the defendant to stand trial within five days without a hea…
20-756 Christopher Gary Baylor v. Ayano Eto, fka Ayano Eto Baylor Minnesota Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parent-child-relationship parental-rights standing state-court May a state court terminate the rights of a parent without notice or due process of service?
20-7563 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Becky Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 actual-innocence cares-act certificate-of-appealability covid-19 federal-court-authority prison-conditions prisoner-rights sentence-execution whether-federal-court-has-authority-to-order-release-of-state-prisoner
20-7564 Emem Ufot Udoh v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief recantation witness-recantation Whether Honorable District Judge Paul A. Magnuson Failed To Consider Petitioner's Habeas Claim
20-7580 Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing individualized-circumstances judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether formal objection to sentencing is necessary to invoke plain error review of the reasonableness of a sentence
20-7586 Phillip Blough v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-conduct due-process judicial-error jury jury-instructions legal-prejudice right-to-fair-trial trial-by-jury trial-procedure Does the right to a trial by jury include the right to a jury informed of relevant and non-confusing jury instructions?
20-7591 Herminio Perales-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
20-7593 Fernando Clarke v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2252 child-pornography criminal-law file-sharing government-action peer-to-peer peer-to-peer-network statutory-interpretation transportation-statute Whether the government's own action in uploading a file containing child pornography from the defendant's folder on a peer-to-peer network to the gove…
20-7594 Rashawn Donnell Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal conviction criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the 3-judge panel incorrectly upheld the petitioner's conviction and sentence despite the holdings in U.S. v. Davis and Davis v. U.S. that wer…
20-7597 In Re Gary Peel Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay mandamus seventh-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue
20-7598 Marcellus Thomas v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified
20-7603 In Re Bruce Allen Rutherford Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255-motion Unreasonable delay in ruling on 28 U.S.C. §2255 motion
20-7608 Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3161 diligent-preparation due-process government-motion speedy-trial-act trial-continuance Whether the district court violated the Speedy Trial Act
20-7619 Thomas Powers v. Greg Scott Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-delay due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-health sexual-offender sexual-violent-persons-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the courts should have conducted a Barker-v-Wingo analysis on the 8-year delay for civil commitment hearing
20-7624 Jeremy Randolph Martin v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ashcroft-v-free-speech-coalition constitutional-rights due-process electronic-devices fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech internet-monitoring supervised-release united-states-v-holena Do the conditions of petitioner's supervised release violate the First Amendment and Due Process?
20-7629 Robert Earl Martin v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states legal-precedent residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether application of Johnson to the virtually identical residual clause in § 3559(c) does not require a new rule of constitutional law, but merely r…
20-7634 Nevia Abraham v. United States Eleventh Circuit Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appeals-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction motion-review rule-60b Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to review the District Court's February 13, 2019 Order granting Petitioner's Federal Ru…
20-7635 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-statute federal-habeas fundamental-defect gonzalez-v-crosby intent-element procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 state-prisoner When the trial court's misunderstanding or the mental intent element of a federal criminal statute becomes apparent in a conclusory footnote in its de…
20-7636 Marcus Anthony Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice false-information false-testimony government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia judicial-proceedings motion-to-vacate procedural-default Whether and to the extent the criminal justice system tolerates false testimony and false information relied upon by the United States Court of Appeal…
20-7639 Joseph A. Harris v. Michael Pacheco, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation corrections department-of-corrections due-process inmate-rights judicial-authority judicial-review sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers Is the Department of Corrections above the Judicial Branch in such a way that it may increase a judicially given Maximum sentence without judicial ord…
20-7640 Nicholas Corey Garner v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure email-search ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report restitution search-and-seizure sentencing sixth-circuit Whether counsel was constitutionally ineffective for failing to object to presentence report and failing to raise objection to lack of restitution rec…
20-7652 Lawrence L. Colton v. J. A. Terris, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus interests-of-justice procedural-validity sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the district court abused its discretion in determining the appropriateness of a habeas corpus petition
20-766 David Archer v. Winn Dixie Stores, Inc., et al. Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct oath-of-office recusal standing Can States Statues Judges or Attorneys violate that State's Constitution, the Federal Constitution and Federal laws, pertaining to conflict-of-interes…
20-771 Debera P. v. Maine Department of Health and Human Services Maine Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) None
20-804 Houston Community College System v. David Buren Wilson Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) censure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech legislative-speech local-government member-conduct standing Does the First Amendment restrict the authority of an elected body to issue a censure resolution in response to a member's speech?
20-819 Duy T. Mai v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1) 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-ban juvenile-commitment juvenile-justice mental-health second-amendment standing Can the Second Amendment tolerate a lifetime firearm ban on Mr. Mai, a mentally healthy, stable, and law-abiding individual, because of a juvenile inv…
20-820 Denise Jackson v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-programs federal-rules hearing-notice judicial-fairness Whether the court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's complaint without providing proper notice and opportunity to be heard
20-827 United States v. Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, aka Abu Zubaydah, et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (20)Relisted (5) cia cia-contractors civil-procedure classified-information discovery discovery-proceedings executive-privilege foreign-proceedings national-security state-secrets-privilege Whether the court of appeals erred in rejecting the United States' assertion of the state-secrets privilege
20-837 Tua Mene Lebie Bakor v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (1) None
20-843 New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc., et al. v. Kevin P. Bruen, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of New York State Police, et al. Second Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (89)Relisted (4) 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-prohibition handgun-carry heller law-abiding-citizens mcdonald second-amendment self-defense standing Whether the Second Amendment allows the government to prohibit ordinary law-abiding citizens from carrying handguns outside the home for self-defense
20-889 The Sherwin-Williams Company v. Delaware County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing chilled-speech civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-action standing Whether the Third Circuit violated clearly established precedent, in conflict with other Circuits, in denying Article III standing by considering the …
20-907 SFR Investments Pool 1, LLC v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conservatorship due-process federal-agency federal-statute foreclosure property-interest quiet-title separation-of-powers standing takings Whether the FHFA's structure violates separation of powers and whether its conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must be set aside
20-908 SFR Investments Pool 1, LLC v. M&T Bank, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) conservatorship federal-agency foreclosure foreclosure-bar property-rights quiet-title statute-of-limitations Whether the FHFA's structure violates separation-of-powers and whether its conservatorship of Fannie-Mae and Freddie-Mac must be set aside
20-931 Wynship W. Hillier v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure agency-declaration agency-records civil-rights classified-records judicial-review privacy-act summary-judgment terrorism Shall summary judgment be awarded in favor of an agency in a Privacy Act suit to compel notice of records existence based on agency declaration
20-940 Alaska v. Sean Wright Ninth Circuit GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) custody custody-status federal-conviction federal-jurisdiction habeas habeas-corpus maleng-v-cook registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration speedy-trial state-conviction When an offender has fully served the sentence imposed pursuant to a state conviction, does a federal habeas court have jurisdiction to consider a § 2…
20-953 Michael D. Ellis v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston Tenth Circuit Denied choice-of-law civil-procedure erisa federal-courts insurance-contract insurance-contracts preemption state-law What is the correct test to apply in deciding whether an otherwise applicable state law—here, a state law prohibiting provisions in insurance contract…
20M70 Etenat Zegeye v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. District of Columbia Presumed Complete None
20M71 Arnold King v. Edward Klem, et al. Third Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M72 Montana Department of Public Service Regulation v. MTSUN, LLC Montana Presumed Complete None
22O153 Texas, Plaintiff v. California Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (12) None