Conference: 2021-04-30

125 cases — 1 granted, 124 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

← All conferences

Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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