| 19-1208 |
Erika Jisela Yanez-Pena v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 19-1234 |
Bun Cchay Cheat v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Sixth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 19-1300 |
Jian Chen v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Sixth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 19-1316 |
Gilberto Garcia-Romo v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Sixth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 19-250 |
Oklahoma v. Jesse Allen Johnson |
Oklahoma |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment jury-factfinding jury-trial juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth Amendment require that the individualized sentencing proceeding necessary to impose a life-without-parole sentence upon a juvenile homi… |
| 19-399 |
Barry C. Garcia v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
discretionary-sentencing juvenile-offenses juvenile-offenses-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole resentencing-hearing sentencing |
Whether the constitutional standard announced in Miller v. Alabama applies only to mandatory sentences |
| 19-507 |
Publishers Business Services, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (7) |
circuit-split disgorgement equitable-remedies equity-powers ftc-act ftc-act-section-13b kokesh kokesh-v-sec monetary-relief separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court can award monetary relief under § 13(b) of the FTC Act, consistent with separation-of-powers principles |
| 19-720 |
United States v. Riley Briones, Jr. |
Ninth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure discretionary-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole parole sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether Miller v. Alabama entitles respondent to invalidation of a discretionary life-without-parole sentence |
| 19-825 |
Federal Trade Commission v. Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Granted |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (6) |
circuit-split district-court enforcement-authority federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunction permanent-injunction restitution section-13(b) statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 13(b) authorizes district courts to enter an injunction that orders the return of unlawfully obtained funds |
| 19-8650 |
Sebastian Albert Campbell v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-tools due-process fair-trial legal-standard right-to-counsel self-representation trial-fairness |
Did the state of Maryland err by utilizing an improper legal standard in its determination that compelling Petitioner to relinquish his right to self-… |
| 19-8736 |
Linda Renae Clark v. Washington |
Washington |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adversarial-testing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-evidence public-defender recusal sixth-amendment |
whether-a-criminal-defendant's-sixth-amendment-rights-are-violated |
| 20-1002 |
Cody William Cox v. Don Wilson |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fair-warning government-official legal-standard precedent-comparison qualified-immunity |
Whether a court may uphold a qualified immunity claim on the ground that qualified immunity had been granted in a prior case in which the 'impropriety… |
| 20-1012 |
Charles Guenther v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
breach-of-duty concealment discovery-rule erisa fiduciary-duty fraud fraud-exception statute-of-limitations uniformity-of-decision |
Whether the fraud and concealment exception in 29 U.S.C. § 1113 applies when the underlying breach of fiduciary duty consists of fraud or concealment,… |
| 20-1014 |
Organic Cannabis Foundation, LLC, dba Organicann Health Center v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-law due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment judicial-notice jurisdictional-deadline tax-law tax-procedure |
Is 26 U.S.C. § 6213(a)'s deficiency petition (90-day) filing deadline jurisdictional under current Supreme Court case law? |
| 20-1021 |
Rosa Maria Navarrete-Lopez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 20-1031 |
Northern California Small Business Assistants, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadline statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent tax-law |
Is 26 U.S.C. § 6213(a)'s deficiency petition (90-day) filing deadline jurisdictional |
| 20-1070 |
Fabian Rico Olvera v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 20-1152 |
Guillermo Luna, et ux. v. U.S. Bank N.A. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
|
due-process foreclosure fourteenth-amendment notice power-of-sale property-rights |
Whether the notice of the foreclosure sale of the property of the petitioners under the power of sale in the deed of trust is subject to notice requir… |
| 20-1157 |
Michelle Stopyra Yaney v. Superior Court of California, Riverside County, et al. |
California |
Denied |
|
civil-rights covid-19 disability disability-rights due-process health-status judicial-discretion mortality-risk public-health standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a court has to consider a petitioner's health status or if they would have a higher rate of mortality if infected with COVID-19, prior to deny… |
| 20-1165 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
35-usc-282 access-to-courts collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process patent-law separation-of-powers supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the inferior courts arbitrarily claiming collateral estoppel without once proving it nor applying Supreme Court precedent dating back more tha… |
| 20-1168 |
Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services of Nevada, Inc., et al. v. Sharath Chandra, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing Younger-abstention |
Whether any standard should guide the courts of appeals' discretion to raise Younger abstention sua sponte |
| 20-1171 |
Michael Madison v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment due-process fifth-amendment mental-health mitigation self-incrimination |
When a capital defendant intends to present mitigation evidence from mental health experts who have interviewed him, but affirmatively represents to t… |
| 20-1172 |
George Ponik, et al. v. Jamie Williams, Individually and as Administratrix ad Prosequendum of the Estate of Peter Lee Williams, Deceased, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
May a Court refuse to engage in the requisite two step qualified-immunity analysis |
| 20-1176 |
Trustees of the Thomas E. Proctor Heirs Trust v. Keta Gas & Oil Company, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process fourteenth-amendment internet-age mullane-standard mullane-v-central-hanover notice notice-requirements property-rights tax-sale |
Does the Pennsylvania court's refusal to apply 'preconceived notions of what is reasonable in the age of the Internet,' in the context of a tax sale w… |
| 20-1185 |
Douglas Edwards v. Solomon and Solomon P.C. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
concurrent-jurisdiction district-court eleventh-circuit fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-courts federal-district-courts inconsistent-decisions renewal-statute state-courts uniformity |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's affirmation of the District Court's refusal to apply Georgia's renewal statute was in error |
| 20-1186 |
Dynasty Group, Inc. v. Stephen Smith, Trustee for Bankruptcy Estate of Heritage Real Estate Investment Corporation |
Alabama |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure jury-selection prejudicial-statements reversible-error trial-judge voir-dire |
Whether the Trial Judge Committed Reversible Error When He Refused to Strike the Jury Venire Due to the Taint of Prejudicial Statements Made During Vo… |
| 20-1188 |
Marilynn Thomason v. Beneficial Financial I Inc. |
Idaho |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1956 28-usc-1651 appellate-procedure constitutional-authority court-records due-process equal-protection idaho-appellate-rule-28 judicial-discretion |
Whether any State Supreme Court, state appellate court, state district court and/or any clerk of such court has the constitutional and statutory autho… |
| 20-1192 |
Fred Lohr Fouse, et ux. v. Saratoga Partners L.P., et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
|
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-tax-sale property-rights redemption-rights |
Does Pennsylvania law violate the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 20-1196 |
Benjamin McClellan v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment confession-suppression constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility involuntary-confession motion-to-suppress police-interrogation standard-of-review |
Whether the denial of petitioner's Motion to Suppress his confession was proper |
| 20-1201 |
Michael D. J. Eisenberg v. Shirley Swain |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law concurrent-jurisdiction core-bankruptcy-funds court-order-validity federal-bankruptcy-law federal-law-interpretation fraud-discharge judicial-conduct judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct void-orders |
Whether a local court can order release of core bankruptcy funds when it does not assume concurrent jurisdiction per 28-U.S.C.-§-1334(b) |
| 20-1208 |
Salma Agha-Khan v. Pacific Community Mortgage, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts civil-procedure court-records destruction-of-evidence due-process judicial-misconduct |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's deliberate destruction of Petitioner's filings violated Petitioner's due process rights |
| 20-1217 |
Daniel Kristof Lak v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment 14th-Amendment civil-procedure civil-rights consent-to-suit federal-jurisdiction private-right-of-action social-security-act state-immunity title-iv-d |
Whether a state can be shielded from suit in federal court via 11th-Amendment-immunity |
| 20-1235 |
Burgoyne, LLC v. Chicago Terminal Railroad Company, et al. |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process easement-termination national-trails-system-act property-rights state-court-split state-courts surface-transportation-board takings takings-claim |
Whether the National Trails System Act precludes state courts from resolving competing claims to property rights |
| 20-1243 |
Staci Burk v. Doug Ducey, Governor of Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process election-challenge equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment standing stare-decisis voter-registration |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing |
| 20-1245 |
Pedro Vasquez v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-counsel contract-obligations contracts-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fee-advancement impairment indigent-defense sixth-amendment |
Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court impaired the obligation of a contract in contravention of Article I, sec. 10, cl. 1 of the U.S. Const… |
| 20-1256 |
Malcolm A. French v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure impartial-jury juror-bias juror-mendacity mcdonongh-test right-to-jury standard-of-review structural-error |
When a criminal defendant claims the structural error of deprivation of the right to trial by an impartial jury, is that claim appropriately reviewed … |
| 20-1267 |
Ronald E. Byers v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certiorari certiorari-writ circuit-split decision-finality finality fraud-exception fraud-on-the-court jurisdictional-statute post-decision-motions post-decision-relief tax-court |
Is U.S.C. § 7481(a)(2)(B) jurisdictional? |
| 20-1268 |
Michael Suarez v. Alf J. Aanonsen |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-court-conflict appellate-court-decision business-nexus federal-question foreign-corrupt-practices-act national-importance supremacy-clause |
Is the opinion rendered by the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida in conflict with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Supremacy Clause? |
| 20-1271 |
Daryl R. Blanton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
38-usc-5109a administrative-law clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error due-process federal-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits |
Is the Cook standard to establish CUE in a VA decision erroneously restrictive? |
| 20-1308 |
Roger D. White v. Super Gasoline, Inc., et al. |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection racial-discrimination voir-dire |
Does the trial court's actions in tainting the jury violate the defendant's right to a fair trial and an impartial jury? |
| 20-1359 |
Superama Corporation, Inc., dba USA Sumo v. Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbaugh-v-y-h-corp copyright copyright-act extraterritorial-application jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar morrison-v-national-australia-bank ninth-circuit reed-elsevier-v-muchnick statutory-requirement subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the presumption against extraterritorial application, applied in the context of the U.S. Copyright Act, creates a jurisdictional bar |
| 20-1360 |
Scottlynn J. Hubbard v. State Bar of California |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advocacy-speech false-speech first-amendment free-speech harmless-speech mandatory-bar |
Whether under the First Amendment a mandatory integrated state bar may punish advocacy speech it deems false but also expressly finds to be harmless? |
| 20-1382 |
Emanuel Gettinger, et al. v. Irving H. Picard, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy-code for-value good-faith good-faith-transfer ponzi-scheme securities-investor-protection-act sipa-liquidation statutory-interpretation transfer-avoidance value-transfer |
Whether the Bankruptcy Code's avoidance provisions operate differently in the context of a SIPA liquidation proceeding |
| 20-1393 |
William Henry Keehn, II v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affordable-care-act civil-rights commerce-clause due-process standing taxing-clause |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in upholding the district court's dismissal of petitioner's claims challenging the const… |
| 20-1421 |
Paul Ballerstein, et ux. v. Penelope McHatten, et al. |
Maine |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-bias property property-rights standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements |
Can a civil court arbitrarily override clearly written statutory requirements? |
| 20-179 |
Jose Angel Hernandez-Maldonado v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Sixth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 20-268 |
Jorge Anibal Argueta-Ayala v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 20-356 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Jose Angel Banuelos-Galviz |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
None |
|
| 20-397 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Hector Emiliano Portillo Martinez |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
None |
|
| 20-45 |
Takhir Ashirovich Khaytekov v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Sixth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 20-517 |
Robert Figueroa-Diaz v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 20-554 |
Craig Eugene Smith v. James McKinney, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
atypical-and-significant-hardship atypical-hardship courts-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review liberty-interest prison-conditions wilkinson-v-austin |
Whether a court determining if a prisoner has suffered an 'atypical and significant' hardship must consider factors such as the duration of and justif… |
| 20-559 |
Jane Doe v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service service-academy sexual-assault sexual-harassment sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Was Feres wrongly decided and should it be overruled? |
| 20-5686 |
Lynne Hulsey v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
| 20-6152 |
Reyna Esmeralda Luquin-Coronel v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Sixth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
None |
|
| 20-6407 |
Jonathan Wallace Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
assault-definition bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-offense generic-definition legal-interpretation physical-force reckless-causation reckless-conduct |
Whether a criminal offense defined to include the reckless causation of bodily injury has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of p… |
| 20-6428 |
Ronald Herron v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting criminal-conviction due-process firearm-conduct firearm-related-conduct jury-instruction residual-clause section-924c unconstitutional |
Did the second circuit err by affirming petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) convictions |
| 20-6477 |
Hamid Reza Ardaneh v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias jurisdiction mental-health-detention national-origin nationality |
If the petitioner cannot enforce his equality of rights in lower state courts based on discrimination toward his nationality of being Iranian, then wh… |
| 20-6497 |
Andrey Bridges v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-power access-to-courts appellate-review civil-forum civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-review self-representation |
When the doors of the Court(s] are willfully, maliciously, and improperly closed to non-influential, self-represented persons |
| 20-6595 |
Clara Lewis Brockington v. Salem United Methodist Church, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
baptism baptismal-practices church-membership civil-rights discrimination due-process pastoral-authority procedural-fairness religious-discrimination united-methodist-church |
why-was-my-membership-terminated |
| 20-6617 |
In Re Theresa Romain |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law federal-law-application judicial-error justice-standard legal-interpretation standing state-court state-court-review |
Can a State Court applied clearly established Federal Law erroneously or incorrectly as to cause harm to a Petitioner? |
| 20-6664 |
Roberto Alexis Lepe Moran v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
None |
|
| 20-6829 |
Joseph J. Buttercase v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment nebraska postconviction-relief pro-se |
Whether there is a federal constitutional right for a prisoner to be released upon proof of actual innocence? |
| 20-6914 |
Ryan Clark Petersen v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
IFP |
buchanan-v-kentucky capital-trial criminal-procedure due-process estelle-v-smith expert-testimony fifth-amendment mental-health-evaluation psychological-evaluation self-incrimination |
Where a court-appointed mental health expert assures a criminal defendant that the evidence gathered in his psychological evaluation will not be used … |
| 20-6957 |
Alfred Paul Centofanti, III v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split collateral-order district-court habeas habeas-corpus interim-release interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit standard-of-review |
Is a district court's order granting or denying an interim release motion in a habeas case an appealable collateral order? |
| 20-709 |
Eduardo Fuentes-Angel v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 20-7258 |
Toi Horn v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-limitations bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-appeal due-process estate-claims fifth-amendment standing takings trust-property |
Whether the infant/minor's denial of their constitutional appeal be final from the District Court District of Maryland, Greenbelt division and the Cou… |
| 20-7263 |
Darryl A. Robinson v. Yee |
Sixth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
equal-protection first-amendment gerrymandering redistricting standing voting-rights |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the plaintiffs lack standing to challenge the constitutionality of Michigan's congressional districtin… |
| 20-7279 |
Ong Vue v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment laches procedural-bar state-criminal-appeals |
Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals application of a state procedural bar and laches to Petitioner's actual innocence claims is contrary to… |
| 20-7281 |
Michael J. Wright v. Mario Cardenas, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights failure-to-state-a-claim federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-requirements rule-interpretation summary-judgment |
Proper-Procedure-for-Defenses-under-Rule-12 |
| 20-7293 |
Willie Safford v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation defense-counsel due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offense mitigating-evidence post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing-phase standard-of-review |
Whether the defendant has a right to a jury instruction on a lesser-included offense when requested by defense counsel at the end of the defendant's t… |
| 20-7297 |
Demetries Sturgis v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process government-benefits mathews-v-eldridge standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Mathews v. Eldridge balancing test for procedural due process claims |
| 20-7298 |
Andrew Watson Bunn v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review capital-case civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction petition-for-review right-to-appeal standing |
Whether a right to appeal is preserved when the questions presented remain unanswered |
| 20-7299 |
Michael Dean Adkisson v. Nevada |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentence criminal-sentencing custody due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights prison-custody separate-offense separate-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether state prison officials violate an inmate's due process and jury trial rights when they hold an inmate in custody pursuant to an additional con… |
| 20-7303 |
John Joseph Barrera v. Jessica Newsome, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure haines-v-kerner judicial-review pleading-standard prisoner-rights pro-se standing |
Whether the courts below held the pro se prisoner plaintiff to a higher pleading standard |
| 20-7308 |
Michael N. Kelsey v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance post-conviction-motion right-to-appeal sentencing-judge-advisement |
Are New York's criminal appellate procedures deficient or prejudicial to due process? |
| 20-7309 |
Phillip Maldonado v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington supremacy-clause |
Does the federal constitution's supremacy clause mandate state courts to apply the Strickland test for ineffective assistance of counsel claims on dir… |
| 20-7311 |
Juan Matthews v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection jury-verdict racial-discrimination ramos-v-louisiana standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Louisiana's jury verdict scheme that convicted the petitioner violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution |
| 20-7316 |
Jose Luis Morales v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review district-court-discretion effective-counsel first-appeal post-conviction post-judgment-appeal sixth-amendment state-statutory-right statutory-right |
Does the Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel on appeal apply to a case when the appeal takes place years after conviction and the defendant had… |
| 20-7317 |
Darex Antonio Chester v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review petition-denial standing |
Whether the United States District Court decision to deny Petitioner's §2254 Habeas Corpus Petition as untimely is constitutional |
| 20-7318 |
Alex Warren Klinger v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-liability double-jeopardy due-process jackson-standard search-warrant self-defense treaties |
whether-state-disproved-self-defense-beyond-reasonable-doubt |
| 20-7323 |
Salvatore J. Moretti v. Borough of Paramus, New Jersey |
New Jersey |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-history due-process judicial-misconduct military-control political-economics standing state-court-procedure surveillance takings veterans-exemption |
issue-being-raised |
| 20-7328 |
Alberto Matias-Martinez v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan state-impediment statutory-limitations |
Whether the lower courts erred in failing to find that Mr. Matias-Martinez's § 2254 habeas application was timely filed, or in the alternate, that he … |
| 20-7329 |
Justin L. Knight v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the police had reasonable suspicion for an investigative stop |
| 20-7335 |
Raymond E. Carr v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech government-action habeas-corpus retaliation standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the Texas state government retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment… |
| 20-7337 |
Kevin Thurlow v. Michelle Edmark, Warden |
First Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation counsel-representation ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-conflict-free-clause strickland-standard witness-testimony |
Did the petitioner's counsel provide ineffective assistance by failing to call, interview, and subpoena a witness? |
| 20-7338 |
Foster Lee Tarver v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment judicial-abuse-of-discretion juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama statutory-construction |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in upholding the illegal mandatory maximum life sentence imposed upon the Petitioner |
| 20-7344 |
Carl Dwight Davis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 20-7350 |
Adam DeVore v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct indictment-misconduct manifest-miscarriage-of-justice sixth-amendment waiver-of-indictment |
Whether the service of a fake indictment and threats to foster a child constitutes a due process violation |
| 20-7354 |
In Re Michael Robinson |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-power access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct mandamus self-representation |
Question not identified |
| 20-7374 |
Demitrius Wayne Alexander v. Joseph Headley, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel search-and-seizure |
Whether the state and federal courts erred when evidence obtained from an unconstitutional search and seizure was used against petitioner Demetrius Wa… |
| 20-7429 |
William Davis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-examination mental-health post-conviction-relief |
Whether a reasonable COVID-19 debate |
| 20-7450 |
Anthony A. Patel v. Regents of the University of California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion mental-health mental-health-diagnosis political-discrimination political-speech trump-presidency |
Does the U.S. Constitution permit the State of California to misdiagnose an American Citizen as Suffering from a Mental Disorder for supporting Presid… |
| 20-7464 |
Stephen D. Long v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment anonymous-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant standing totality-of-the-circumstances |
Can a search warrant issue for a private residence based solely on the uncorroborated statement of an anonymous citizen informant? |
| 20-7499 |
Kevin Dean Brewer, aka Michael Green v. Marcus A. Pollard, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing |
Whether the Jucists of CHOASOW would have a valid claim of the deprivation of a Court's decision |
| 20-7500 |
Christopher Nathaniel Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence self-defense state-courts victim-history |
Does Florida state courts deny defendants their Due Process Rights when the courts exclude extrinsic evidence which would corroborate defendant's know… |
| 20-7561 |
Melissa Pocopanni v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-responsibility cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intent-to-commit-murder juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment second-degree-murder |
Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a nineteen-year-old defendant convicted as a principal to second-degree m… |
| 20-7562 |
Kamme O v. Texas A&M University and System, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-rights gender-bias legal-representation standing whistleblower-protection workplace-discrimination |
Are employment-rights-for-everyone-or-just-lawyers? |
| 20-7570 |
David Travis Frazier v. Herbert H. Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-review limitations-period standing statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-judgment |
When a court enters a judgment that is later determined to be void ab-initio, and a petitioner appeals from that decision, does that start the limitat… |
| 20-7572 |
Jim Bass Holden v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion procedural-default right-to-counsel |
Whether the use of a Brecon ment / wmnte wukecwautt Seven s\\k ¢ QQ violates the Sixth Amendment right to counsel |
| 20-7582 |
Lonzell Green v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-review fourteenth-amendment procedural-challenge standing state-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified |
| 20-7626 |
Robert Frank Miller v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standards criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion probable-cause waiver |
Whether certiorari should be granted to clarify that probable cause must be based on actual facts, rather than mere assumptions interposed by the cour… |
| 20-7628 |
Daryl Fitzgerald Johnson v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure standing supreme-court trial-court writ-of-certiorari |
Did the Supreme Court of Mississippi have jurisdiction to hear a direct appeal from the Court of Appeals where there are two duty members who refused … |
| 20-7632 |
Shannon D. Hixon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causation criminal-law criminal-statute death-results drug-overdose drug-trafficking due-process foreseeable-result jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing |
Whether a defendant may be convicted under the 'death results' provision of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) without instructing the jury that it must decide … |
| 20-7633 |
Sam Sterling Alford v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability consolidation consolidation-risks counsel-performance criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent right-to-counsel |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28-U.S.C-2253(c) on his claim that his counsel rend… |
| 20-7647 |
Gerti Muho v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process criminal-justice-system evidentiary-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment financial-disability pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment witness-subpoena |
Whether the deprivation of essential, singular witness testimony supporting an indigent defendant's theory of defense violates the right to compulsory… |
| 20-7655 |
Lisa Bershan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure downward-departure judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines variances |
Should a sentencing judge be required to rule on downward departure requests before considering variances? |
| 20-7656 |
James Robert Monson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights intentional-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing united-states-attorney |
Whether the United States Attorney Offices' standard appeal waiver violates due process of law |
| 20-7657 |
David Erike MacLloyd v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure mailbox-rule notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-standard standing |
Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue because the Sixth Circuit failed to apply the Pro-Se-Litigant-Standard to a Pro-Se-Defendant's-Pleadings |
| 20-7659 |
Ilma Alexandra Soriano Nunez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail-reform-act civil-detention criminal-defendant homeland-security pretrial-release statutory-interpretation statutory-time-period |
Whether section 3142 (d)(2) of the Bail Reform Act (BRA), 18 U.S.C. § 3141 et seq. prevents the United States Department of Homeland Security from civ… |
| 20-7661 |
Rodney Russell v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process ex-parte-communication juror-bias juror-dishonesty jury-selection motive structural-error |
Whether the district court violated due process by appointing the Federal Defender to represent a juror and inform the juror of the legitimacy of the … |
| 20-7663 |
Andre Watson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-hook murder-for-hire tenth-amendment |
Did the United States, under our federal-state jurisdiction as set out in our Constitution, fail to establish Watson was properly guilty of Use of Int… |
| 20-7699 |
DeAngelo Horn v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility banks-v-dretke brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas pretrial-discovery prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether courts may impose a due diligence requirement for Brady claims that focuses on the defense rather than the government |
| 20-832 |
Edwin Dolores Nunez Castro v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Sixth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
None |
|
| 20-849 |
P. F. v. J. S., et al. |
Kansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
adoption adoption-law biological-parenthood constitutional-standard due-process evolving-family-landscape family-dynamics family-rights gender-assumptions liberty-rights parental-rights |
Can the 'biology-plus' standard still be considered constitutional when it can no longer be justly applied? |
| 20-855 |
Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., et al. v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
certification certification-doctrine constitutional-interpretation due-process horne-v-department-of-agriculture maryland-constitution personal-property property-rights takings-clause |
Whether the Takings Clause protects lawfully acquired personal property banned by the State legislature |
| 20-861 |
Arlene Fry v. Rand Construction Corporation |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bostock-v-clayton-county burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation causation-standard circuit-split employment-action fmla-claim fmla-retaliation legal-interpretation motivating-factor negative-factor |
Whether the lower court erred in adopting a 'sole cause' standard for FMLA retaliation claims, in direct conflict with this Court's holdings in Burrag… |
| 20-866 |
Francesca Allen, et al. v. Wells Fargo & Company, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (4) |
duty-of-loyalty duty-of-prudence employee-stock-ownership-plan erisa fiduciary-duty fifth-third-v-dudenhoeffer insider-trading prudence-standard securities-law securities-laws stock-ownership |
Whether ESOP fiduciaries are effectively immune from duty-of-prudence liability for failure to publicly disclose inside information |
| 20-881 |
Huong L. Tran, et al. v. City of Holmes Beach, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-access equal-protection finality-requirement section-1983 shotgun-pleading |
Whether strict shotgun pleading rules are permissible to dispose of complaints and deprive litigants equal access to federal courts |
| 20-923 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Rodrigo Acosta-Pena |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
None |
|
| 20-989 |
City of Newark, New Jersey v. Fraternal Order of Police, Newark Lodge No. 12 |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights department-of-justice due-process equal-protection municipal-authority police-oversight racial-discrimination |
Does a state supreme court violate the Equal Protection Clause by reading state statutes to preclude its largest city from protecting Black citizens f… |
| 20-999 |
Lloyd Industries, Inc. v. Ronald Watson |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny due-process free-speech punitive-damages ratio ratio-analysis reprehensibility title-vii |
Should this Court grant a Writ of Certiorari |
| 20M73 |
Gabriel G. Quintana v. James Mulheron, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 20M74 |
Under Seal v. Virginia Board of Medicine |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 20M75 |
Cheryl Kunkle v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|