Conference: 2021-05-13

213 cases — 0 granted, 213 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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19-1392 Thomas E. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et al. v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, et al. Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (141)Relisted (22) abortion civil-rights constitutional-challenge dignity-of-unborn due-process health medical-profession medical-profession-protection pre-viability-abortion standing third-party-standing undue-burden-standard women's-health Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional
19-8464 Jamal Mitchell, aka Boo v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ancillary-proceeding civil-procedure direct-appeal due-process forfeiture-order intervening-change-in-law rule-41g rule-60b standing Does an order have to be first challenged on direct appeal before the order can be later challenged in an ancillary proceeding based on an intervening…
20-1004 Robert Collier v. Dallas County Hospital District, dba Parkland Health & Hospital System Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights employment-law extremely-serious-incident hostile-work-environment mere-utterance racial-discrimination racial-epithets title-vii workplace-harassment Whether an employee's exposure to the N-word in the workplace is severe enough to send his Title VII claim to a trier of fact
20-101 Lloyd Harris v. Maryland Maryland Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) actual-prejudice balancing-test constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial preindictment-delay prejudice-analysis prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-motive Where preindictment delay has caused actual prejudice to the accused's ability to defend himself, does the Due Process Clause require (1) the defendan…
20-1047 Alabama, et al. v. Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, et al. Eleventh Circuit GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-rights interlocutory-appeal mootness sovereign-immunity vacatur voting-rights-act Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unreviewed and unreviewable decision should be vacated
20-1048 Stevenson Ruben Oneal Moore v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied None
20-1061 Dantzler, Inc., et al. v. S2 Services Puerto Rico, LLC, et al. First Circuit Denied article-iii-standing causation circuit-split federal-court federal-jurisdiction injury judicial-standing standing third-party third-party-action Does the causal connection required for standing exist when it is substantially likely that a third party will respond to the defendant's conduct in a…
20-1069 Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. A. Y., et al. Pennsylvania Denied Amici (4) civil-liability drug-labeling fda-regulation federal-preemption impossibility-preemption off-label-use preemption state-tort-law Whether federal law preempts state-law claims that a manufacturer failed to provide adequate warnings relating to the off-label use of their products,…
20-1095 Darius Wayne Haws v. Idaho Idaho Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-waiver appellate-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-agreement Whether a criminal defendant's purported waiver of the right to appeal is knowing, intelligent, and voluntary
20-1110 Sandoz Inc., et al. v. Immunex Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1) biosimilar-product double-patenting exclusivity federal-circuit invention obviousness obviousness-type-double-patenting patent patent-exclusivity patent-ownership substantial-rights May the patent owner avoid the rule against double patenting by buying all of the substantial rights to a second, later-expiring patent for essentiall…
20-1116 Anthony Seward v. United States First Circuit Denied criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process federal-criminal-law federalism interstate-registration sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation venue venue-jurisdiction Whether venue lies in the state where the defendant formerly resided for a prosecution of failure to register as a sex offender
20-1130 Ericsson Inc., et al. v. TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Relisted (3) appellate-review civil-procedure discretion federal-civil-procedure judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law legal-issues preservation-of-issues summary-judgment Whether there is an exception to the rule that a pretrial denial of summary judgment is not reviewable on appeal
20-1143 Denise A. Badgerow v. Greg Walters, et al. Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) arbitration-award circuit-split federal-arbitration-act federal-question-jurisdiction look-through-approach quezada-v-bechtel subject-matter-jurisdiction vaden-v-discover-bank Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to confirm or vacate an arbitration award under Sections 9 and 10 of the FAA where the only ba…
20-1159 Vermont National Telephone Company v. Vermont Department of Taxes Vermont Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-communications-commission federal-license nonbusiness-income situs situs-principle state-taxation whitney-v-graves Whether the Vermont Supreme Court erred in holding that a federal license, that can be used only in one state, lacks a situs in that state under Whitn…
20-1213 Marsha W. Mignott, et al. v. Brian Gardiner Georgia Denied 14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment georgia-court-of-appeals legal-procedure non-party non-party-corporation Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred in ordering a non-party corporation and attorney to pay attorney's fees without due process
20-1221 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Erin Rubin Oklahoma Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process exhibit-evidence gender judicial-procedure legitimate-purpose race race-profiling standing Is Exhibit G. Oklahoma Conversations a complete, consistent and coherent model of the facts of this case? Were those facts already cognizable to this …
20-1227 David Louis Whitehead v. Netflix, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure consolidation constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigation Whether the 9th Circuit Court had full jurisdiction of the appeal, having no notice of appeal filed by petitioner in the District Court until 1 year a…
20-1228 Chris Ann Jaye v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 all-writs-act civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-authority judicial-immunity legal-remedies void-orders What legal authority did this Court have to impair the rights of the governed?
20-1231 Jennifer Smith v. Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University Board of Trustees Eleventh Circuit Denied adverse-employment-action burlington-northern collateral-estoppel employment-law equal-pay gender-discrimination salary-discrimination salary-equity Whether employer unlawfully discriminated against female employee by failing to apply salary equity adjustment formula
20-1234 Marianne Baptiste, et al. v. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, et al. Massachusetts Denied 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process juvenile-detention juvenile-rights medical-treatment state-custody Whether a juvenile committed to the custody of the State enjoys the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process clause when evaluating the ju…
20-1236 Jason Avery Anderson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia Denied as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment va-code-18.2-361 va-code-18.2-366 Is Anderson being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment because Va. Code Sections 18.2-361 and 18.2-366 are u…
20-1242 Frances Endencia v. Mario Arce Illinois Denied adverse-possession cloud-of-title due-process illegal-evictions mortgage-securitization property-rights real-estate-taxes securitization title-insurance Where the banks separated the mortgage and the note via securitization and sold the mortgage to numerous investors who did not pay real estate taxes, …
20-1247 Gerald Dix v. Edelman Financial Services, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eviction eviction-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-seizure seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment protects a person and property from seizure by police using force and threats to arrest to effect an eviction in contrave…
20-1248 Kyle Kinzy, et ux. v. First Tennessee Bank, N.A. Illinois Denied arbitrary-and-capricious due-process electronic-filing filing-requirements state-official substantive-due-process Whether a state official arbitrarily and capriciously violates substantive due process by rejecting a timely electronic filing
20-1251 Claud Anderson v. Harbor Bank of Maryland Fourth Circuit Denied bankruptcy civil-procedure commingling deposit-account insurance-proceeds possessory-lien trustee trustee-control Whether a possessory lien on insurance proceeds deposited into a bank account survives notwithstanding deposit and commingling of the proceeds with ot…
20-1253 Charles L. Stringer v. Storesonline, Inc., et al. Mississippi Denied chancery-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment motion-to-strike pro-se-representation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Did the Mississippi Supreme Court break state law when it would not apply the mandatory language in the use of the word 'shall' in Mississippi Code of…
20-1254 Padma Rao v. Midland Trust Company Illinois Denied civil-procedure due-process legatee probate probate-estate property-rights standing survival-act wrongful-death Whether the Petitioner daughter and legatee of the deceased in a probate estate has any standing under the Due Process Clause to protect her property …
20-1257 Aaron Jensen v. West Jordan City, Utah Tenth Circuit Denied civil-rights damages-apportionment equitable-relief jury-determination multiple-claims pecuniary-losses pension-benefits statutory-caps statutory-damages-caps title-vii Whether damages should be apportioned among multiple claims for the same damages, and whether pension benefits awarded for a Title VII violation are s…
20-1265 Ivan Rene Moore, et al. v. Kimberly Martin-Bragg California Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct judicial-review procedural-fairness property-rights Denial of due process and unrestricted access to courts
20-1266 In Re Ivan Rene Moore, et al. Denied california-constitution constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure property-rights redress superior-court supreme-court Shall a writ lie for violation of due process
20-1273 Franek Olstowski v. Petroleum Analyzer Company, L.P. Fifth Circuit Denied arbitration arbitration-award bankruptcy federal-court federal-procedure full-faith-and-credit judicial-proceeding state-court state-court-judgment trade-secret Whether state-court judgments confirming arbitration awards, including state-court orders clarifying such judgments, are 'judicial proceedings' entitl…
20-1275 Vesuvius USA Corporation, et al. v. Royston Phillips Ohio Denied blocking-statutes comity comity-principles data-privacy foreign-discovery gdpr hague-convention international-discovery privacy u.s.-discovery When compliance with discovery obligations in an American court is prohibited by the General Data Privacy Regulation, whether principles of comity req…
20-1277 Richard Meyer v. Kentucky Kentucky Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines forfeitability forfeiture kentucky kentucky-statutes timbs-precedent timbs-v-indiana Does the Kentucky Court of Appeals decision in this case stand in direct contradiction to this Court's decision in Timbs v. Indiana, 139 S.Ct. 682 (20…
20-1291 WPEM, LLC v. SOTI Inc. Federal Circuit Denied 35-usc-282 35-usc-285 clear-and-convincing-evidence district-court-discretion exceptional-case patent-law patent-validity prior-art Does a patent's presumption of validity afforded by 35 U.S.C. §282 limit a district court's discretion to find a case exceptional under 35 U.S.C. §285…
20-1297 In Re Barbara Riley Denied Response Waived administrative-order civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equal-rights judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge slavery Is it constitutional for officers of the courts to be creating, selling and buying facially null and void judge's personal orders entered/issued witho…
20-1299 Eric S. Clark v. City of Williamsburg, Kansas Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived castle curtilage fourth-amendment general-warrant home implied-license law-enforcement physical-intrusion search search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Should the court adopt the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment by holding that a search of a home(castle) is unreasonable when the implied licens…
20-1303 Anthony Pappas v. Joseph Lorintz, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived campaign-funds civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-election judicial-review private-right-of-action standing state-actor third-party-interference Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals commit serious error when it affirmed dismissal of a civil rights action challenging state actor interferences…
20-1310 Genet McCann v. Douglas J. Wold, et al. Montana Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights collusion due-process estate-proceeding fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct probate-rights recusal Is the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated
20-1316 Daniel Fling v. United States Postal Service, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion constitutional-claim district-court due-process federal-common-law standing statute-of-limitations Does the federal common law of claim preclusion bar a party's due-process claim against the United States Government in a United States district court…
20-1317 Holly MacIntyre v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived attorneys-fees civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction fraud fraud-damages monetary-relief rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment Whether a plaintiff in a diversity case who seeks monetary relief — for damages emanating from the defendant's fraud in procuring a state-court judgme…
20-1329 Macarieto I. Trayvilla, et al. v. Japan Airlines, et al. New York Denied Response Waived act-of-state-doctrine airlines federal-preemption foreign-relations judicial-review passport-entry separation-of-powers sovereign-state statute-of-limitations Whether the State Appellate Court's order invalidating the 'act of state' of the Philippines violates the act-of-state-doctrine and separation-of-powe…
20-1335 A. P. v. Vermont Vermont Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment sexual-conduct split-of-authority state-statute Whether Vermont's criminalization of lewd and lascivious conduct violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
20-1355 David M. Johnson v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity jury-trial mandamus-writ seventh-amendment standing Whether a plaintiff is guaranteed the right to a jury trial by the 7th Amendment
20-1363 Merit Medical Systems, Inc. v. Nazir Khan, et al. Federal Circuit Denied 35-usc-285 attorney-fees civil-procedure district-court federal-circuit patent patent-infringement rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions section-285 Whether the denial of additional attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 should be vacated if the Rule 11 sanctions are disturbed on appeal
20-1368 Cynthia Rollo-Carlson, as Trustee for Jeremiah Flackus-Carlson, Deceased v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-claims administrative-law agency-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-claims federal-tort-claims-act jurisdictional-requirement standing statutory-interpretation Whether the requirement that an agency be presented with evidence of the claimant's authority to act during the administrative claims process is juris…
20-1408 Keith Fernandez v. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6)-dismissal academic-fellowship breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights contract discrimination due-process education ethnicity-discrimination federal-precedent standing Breach-of-contract-and-ethnicity-discrimination
20-1411 Starline Tours of Hollywood, Inc. v. EHM Productions, Inc., dba TMZ, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure dismissal district-court-dismissal finality finality-doctrine judicial-participation ninth-circuit-interpretation pragmatic-approach technical-construction Whether the Ninth Circuit's undefined requirement for meaningful judicial participation impermissibly abandons this Court's longstanding mandate that …
20-1414 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Ali Razak, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split economic-reality employee-classification fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor question-of-law right-to-control summary-judgment third-circuit Whether application of the FLSA's 'economic reality' factors to undisputed facts is a question of fact that can preclude summary judgment
20-1416 Dorothy Neske, et vir, Individually and as Parents and Natural Guardians of A. N. v. New York City Department of Education Second Circuit Denied Response Waived educational-services individuals-with-disabilities-act pendency private-school private-school-placement reimbursement special-education unilateral-transfer Does a parent of a special education student forfeit her right to Pendency under §1415G) of the Individuals with Disabilities Act (I.D.E.A.) where the…
20-1418 Sepideh Cirino v. Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge chapter-7 deed-of-trust foreclosure mortgage mortgage-lien nonjudicial-foreclosure promissory-note How can a mortgagor collect on more than the amount of the lien secured by the deed of trust when a debtor in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in California, as…
20-1422 76 Orinda v. Francisca Moralez Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived ada ada-standing attorney-fees circuit-rule civil-procedure ninth-circuit non-compliance rule-11 sanctions serial-litigation standing Should the Supreme Court adopt Chapman v. Pier 1 Imports as a national standard to balance the need to deter abusive serial ADA filings with the need …
20-1423 Robert Grundstein v. Vermont Board of Bar Examiners Vermont Denied Response Waived bar-admission character-and-fitness civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights separation-of-powers What levels of due process are required for bar admission?
20-1427 Levian dela Car Pacheco Pacheco, aka Levian D. Pacheco v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law criminal-law deportation due-process immigration immigration-law sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in interpreting the term 'pending deportation' in 18 U.S.C. §§ 2243(b), 2244(a)(4), 2246(5)(A) to include those awa…
20-1428 Tammy Noergaard v. Christian Noergaard California Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hague-convention judicial-review jurisdiction trial-costs trial-delays trial-jurisdiction Does a reviewing court retain jurisdiction to review lower court decisions for due process violations under the Equal Protection Clause that occur bef…
20-1439 Phillip Dwayne Loyd v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus Whether a district court may deny a habeas corpus petition solely because a petitioner's factual allegations contradict a guilty plea
20-1441 George Beecher v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment fourth-amendment patient-privacy patient-records prescription-monitoring privacy-expectation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-search state-pdmp-laws third-party-doctrine Did the New Jersey Supreme Court err in adopting a ruling that a defendant prescriber does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in patient pre…
20-1442 Andrew Stoveken v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Response Waived fourth-amendment prescription-records privacy-rights state-database statutory-mandate third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement Does the Third Party Doctrine exempt pharmacy prescription records contained in a State-run database from the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendm…
20-1445 Nathan Ray Foreman v. Texas Texas Denied Response Waived affidavit computer-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure surveillance-equipment warrant-application Whether the decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals constitutes an unreasonable application of this Court's clearly established precedent, by …
20-1449 Harold Persaud v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan rule-60b section-2255 trevino-rule trevino-v-thaler Whether under Martinez v. Ryan and Trevino v. Thaler a Petitioner May Use Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) to Reopen a Proceeding Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
20-1460 Rolando Cruz, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit Dismissed Response Waived appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure evidence evidence-standard indictment indictment-variance rico-conspiracy third-circuit united-states-v-rowe Whether the Third Circuit erred in affirming RICO conspiracy convictions based on evidence of a different conspiracy than was charged
20-1463 Mortgage Investors Corporation, et al. v. United States ex rel. Victor E. Bibby, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived agency-actions agency-knowledge false-claims-act fee-noncompliance government-agency government-payment-decision materiality regulatory-compliance veterans-affairs When a government agency pays claims despite actual awareness of widespread noncompliance with certain regulatory requirements, whether evidence of ag…
20-1470 Thomas A. Jeffrey v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process emergency-medical-treatment evidence-collection sexual-assault testimonial-evidence Whether statements made by a suspected sexual assault victim at the emergency room to hospital personnel during the sexual assault evidence collection…
20-1478 Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security v. Lisa Probst, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-5808 In Re Roger Liverman Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure court-access docket-manipulation due-process fraud-upon-court mail-fraud mandamus-writ misprision-felony standing writ-of-mandamus Writ of Mandamus to Correct Fraud Upon the Court
20-5814 Anthony Kinta Webb v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jury-selection probable-cause public-trial search-and-seizure Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings
20-6007 William Harold Wright, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process indictment judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence venue Did the District Court err in denying the defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment?
20-6039 Earl McBride v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process due-process-clause equitable-tolling evidentiary-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition parole parole-board postal-service-form procedural-grounds Does USPS Form 3811 meet 28 USC 2244 evidentiary standard for equitable tolling?
20-6138 Jerry Walker v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure declaratory-judgment due-process evidence procedural-error sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied due process in his criminal trial
20-6161 Joey Lamont Brunson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-insufficiency statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence surveillance-law wiretap-order wiretapping Whether a wiretap order that fails to specify the name of the person who authorized the application for such order is insufficient on its face, thereb…
20-6361 Robert L. Davis v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-review standing weight-of-evidence Whether the weight of the evidence supports the defendant-petitioner's claim that counsel lied about a material issue, resulting in ineffective assist…
20-6387 Darrin B. Woodard v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (7)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-justification pre-indictment-delay preindictment-delay prejudice prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct tenth-circuit-standard Whether, as many courts have held, allowing a prosecution to continue after lengthy and demonstrably prejudicial delay in filing criminal charges offe…
20-6395 Howard Griffith v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof coram-nobis defense-counsel-discovery due-process ny-correction-law procedural-default severability sex-offender-registration sora-modification Whether the documents that a defense counsel is entitled to have access to prior to an initial Sex Offender Registry hearing also refer to the documen…
20-6440 Benjamin K. Toscano v. Nancy Adam, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression judicial-misconduct legal-fabrication medical-negligence medical-treatment pain-and-suffering procedural-due-process spinal-injury Does respondent have the right to submit fabricated documents?
20-6448 Eugene Davis v. Herman Quay, Warden Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-split legal-remedy savings-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement Whether courts have jurisdiction to consider habeas claims when the remedy under Section 2255 is inadequate
20-6484 Willie Tyler v. United States Third Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-1512 communication-prevention criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-witness-tampering fowler-v-united-states reasonable-likelihood specific-intent witness-tampering Whether the 'reasonable likelihood' standard applies to cases where the defendant acted with intent to prevent communications only to state officials
20-6510 Lawrence W. Ford v. Anita L. Budde Nevada Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process judicial-discretion judicial-integrity judicial-review plain-error pro-se Whether the appellate court abused its discretion in mischaracterizing the trial court record and relying on erroneous facts
20-6626 Ihab Masalmani v. Michigan Michigan Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process irreparable-corruption juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-hearing Whether the government must bear the burden of proof at a Miller hearing that a juvenile is irreparably corrupt, consistent with juveniles' rights to …
20-6673 David Andrew Diehl v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their constitutional rights
20-6735 Frank A. McClung, Jr., et ux. v. Elia E. Estevez Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jury-trial service-of-process seventh-amendment standing Seventh Amendment right to jury trial
20-6743 Neil Dussard v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Second Circuit's split from other Circuit Courts in addressing the recurring question of the validity of …
20-6751 Roger Darryl Waldrep v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-evidence civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance self-representation sixth-amendment voluntariness-of-plea Does this Supreme Court grant and honor civil rights to all Arizonans and U.S. citizens?
20-6808 Thomas Traficante v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges courts-of-appeals direct-appeal due-process ripeness risk-condition second-circuit sentencing-reform-act sentencing-review supervised-release Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Traficante's constitutional challenges to his risk condition of supervision as unripe on …
20-6822 Rodney Berryman, Sr. v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mitigation-evidence neuro-psychiatric-testing Was the state court's denial of Petitioner's claims contrary to or an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law?
20-6835 Otha S. Hamilton v. Dennis Reagle, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence medical-evidence physical-impossibility priapism-surgery witness-testimony Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in finding no substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right, when trial counsel failed to investigate …
20-6837 Jacob Ray Owens v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure drug-crimes fact-finding judicial-fact-finding methamphetamine-distribution plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's sentence violates the Sixth Amendment
20-6840 Frederick D. Darrington, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-924c criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause intimidation mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation Whether a crime that requires proof of 'intimidation' of the victim satisfies the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), when the offense does n…
20-6841 Steven Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP apprendi apprendi-standard circuit-split covered-offense drug-quantity federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-range statutory-penalties Whether the statutory penalties in § 404(a) of the First Step Act modify the entire phrase — 'a violation of a Federal criminal statute' — or whether …
20-6881 Alan Douglas v. Nancy Zimmerman, et al. California Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation court-procedure due-process judicial-bias medical-malpractice res-ipsa-loquitur standing writ-of-certiorari Reverse and settle personal injury
20-6882 Bo Zou v. Linde Engineering North America, Inc. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-conflict civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-courts injunctive-relief jurisdictional-challenge legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision on injunctive relief conflicts with Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit precedent
20-6923 Christopher J. Abbate v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process first-amendment interpretation pornography supervised-release vagueness Does a special condition of supervised release that prohibits possession or control of 'any pornographic matter' violate due process as unconstitution…
20-6972 Mark Allen Jenkins v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (2)IFP aedpa atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia circuit-court-methodology circuit-split comity federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-decision Whether the Eleventh Circuit's failure to limit its review of a reasoned state-court decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the specific reasons given …
20-6999 Kannha Bounchanh v. Washington State Health Care Authority, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada ada-adaa civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-discrimination Whether the panel of judges at the Ninth Circuit court have violated the petitioner's due-process, equal-protection, ada, civil-rights
20-701 James Calvert v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (6) capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment mental-competency right-to-counsel structural-error Whether the Constitution prevents a State from allowing a defendant to represent himself in a capital case when the defendant is mentally competent to…
20-7030 Devaron Antoine Love v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review new-decision procedural-default section-2255 unlawful-conduct Whether a movant under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can show actual-innocence to overcome a procedural-default
20-7071 Pete Russell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability future-dangerousness habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review strickland Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability, through a merits review, of Russell's claim that he received ineffective assis…
20-718 Mario Nelson Reyes-Romero v. United States Third Circuit Denied attorney-fees civil-rights criminal-procedure eaja equal-access-to-justice-act government-misconduct hyde-amendment standing united-states-position Does the Hyde Amendment inquiry into whether 'the position of the United States was vexatious, frivolous, or in bad faith' encompass actions of non-pr…
20-7205 Leonardo Franqui v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-sentencing statutory-construction Is the Florida Supreme Court's understanding of the proper holistic evaluation to assess a capital defendant's intellectual disability consistent with…
20-7228 Leroy Pooler v. Florida Florida Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state state-v-poole statutory-construction substantive-law Does the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitute substantive law and, if so, does the Due Process Clause of the Fo…
20-7312 Raevon Terrell Parker v. John Pickens, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether probable cause was sufficient to warrant a search and seizure of the Appellant, when the Appellee was only issued a citation for a violation o…
20-7351 Sheena Shaw v. Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-court civil-rights federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations tolling-rules May the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ignore the goals of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when interpreting and applying state statutes of limitations and the coord…
20-7352 In Re Henry Lee Rudolph Denied IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief predicate-offense prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-discretion Did the Utah Supreme Court commit error by stating the Franses' rights were not violated and Rodolph requested, and by stating three flawed reasons fo…
20-7356 Eron Michael Spivey v. Texas Texas Denied IFP custodial-interrogation exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment involuntary-detention law-enforcement-questioning probable-cause wong-sun wong-sun-doctrine Do authorities violate the Fourth Amendment when they involuntarily detain, in back of a patrol car for three hours, then at the police station for tw…
20-7357 Raymond Eugene Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy retroactivity right-of-autonomy sixth-amendment teague-rule teague-v-lane Does McCoy apply retroactively?
20-7358 Mariann Harris v. Nevada Nevada Denied IFP access-to-courts assets civil-rights due-process employment expenses in-forma-pauperis income poverty standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's denial of her motion to proceed in forma pauperis
20-7371 Chase Adam Marsh v. Leslie Fleming, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-ruling section-2254 standing statute-of-limitations time-bar Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in time-barring Mr. Marsh's Section 2254 petition despite his proper filing of a state habeas petiti…
20-7373 Christopher Mathew Payne v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP resulting in prejudice capital-punishment death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions parole-ineligibility simmons-precedent Whether a death sentence may be carried out when defense counsel unreasonably fails to inform the jury of parole ineligibility under Simmons
20-7375 Christopher Wooten v. Stan Parker, Sheriff, Howard County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the OSDC, AE, and Txe, violated the 7th Amendment right to a jury trial by allowing a special master to make findings of fact and conclusions …
20-7376 Howard E. Martin, III v. Ohio Sixth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-justice appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis legal-access standing systemic-racism Where are the Justices, Honorable Seer, who is sentencing Petitioner denied an opportunity to present Petitioner's defense, failed to avail the Petiti…
20-7379 Miguel Angel Corujo Mercado v. Florida Florida Denied IFP conspiracy constitutional-protection continuous-act criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment multiple-charges Can a criminal defendant be charged and convicted with multiple conspiracies for a single continuous conspiracy act without violating right to be free…
20-7391 Marcus A. Turner v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a second prosecution and punishment for Felony-murder and Felonious-assault following an acquittal on Aggravat…
20-7392 James Jermaine Woodfork v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence appeals constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-claim oklahoma Did the Oklahoma Appeals Court violate the petitioner's 6th Amendment right to due process by refusing to acknowledge the petitioner's claim of actual…
20-7396 Marlina Calhoun v. Walmart Stores East, LP Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights court-procedure court-representation deposition-misconduct disability-discrimination due-process jury-selection medical-evidence mental-health personal-injury workplace-injury Whether the plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated due to the court's failure to provide an interpreter and accommodate her mental health iss…
20-7397 William Randolph King v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment evidence-suppression prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct Could reasonable jurists debate whether the prosecution committed a Brady violation when it failed to disclose the prior victim's pubic hair found dur…
20-7403 Richard Luna v. Texas Texas Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
20-7407 Alberto Solar-Somohano v. The Coca-Cola Company, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments appointments-clause arthrex-decision article-i constitutional-review patent-appeal secretary-of-commerce separation-of-powers trademark-judges Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that the appointment of administrative patent judges by the Secretary of Commerce violates the Appointmen…
20-7411 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Leah Berean, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-proceedings judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-60b standing Should the lower courts have been so stringent in limiting their review to only one exception of Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) in deciding whether to grant re…
20-7420 Tobi Kilman v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-review civil-rights due-process good-time-credits liberty-interest prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate Whether a prisoner has a liberty interest in receiving good-time credits toward the service of his sentence, when such credits are mandated by statute…
20-7426 Rubin L. Williams v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP burrage-causation burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation criminal-law drug-related-death involuntary-manslaughter mixed-drug-overdose state-cases Can a conviction of involuntary manslaughter stand, when cause of death is a Mixed drug overdose and the accused is charged with only one of the contr…
20-7432 Kevin Leon Lucien v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-law federal-preemption prosecutorial-discretion state-law Whether a state's own articles of law can supercede federal law to further prosecute a defendant in regards to admissable and inadmissable evidence th…
20-7433 Randy Philip Chaudron v. Texas Texas Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence identification law-enforcement-misconduct photo-lineup police-conduct witness-identification Whether the Due Process Clause was violated when the trial court allowed evidence, knowing that law enforcement broke the procedure of Art. 320 CP pho…
20-7434 William Dawes v. California California Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forced-medication judicial-discretion judicial-oversight legal-incompetence mental-health prison punishment-standards state-procedure Whether the involuntary medication of a prisoner without judicial oversight or even a court order violates the 5th Amendment's due process protections
20-7435 Steven G. Knickerbocker v. Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process evidence-destruction excessive-force federal-crime judicial-misconduct law-enforcement-misconduct medical-care Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the alleged physical abuse and denial of medical care while in custody
20-7436 Frederick Dale Knight v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure traffic-stop Does a noncriminal traffic stop and subsequent observation through the window of a stopped vehicle revealing a cylindrical brown object give rise to p…
20-7440 Paul Salazar v. Texas Texas Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-standards double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review standing voir-dire Does a state's initial-review post-conviction collateral procedures meet constitutional standards when they fail to provide prisoners the opportunity …
20-7443 Rotimi Salu, et al. v. Denise Miranda, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-procedure administrative-review confrontation-clause due-process employment-termination healthcare-workers hearsay-evidence state-agency state-agency-adjudication Due-process-rights-of-healthcare-workers
20-7445 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. SunTrust Bank, et al. Fourth Circuit Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation third-amendment Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioners' civil complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
20-745 Ismael Lechuga v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion circuit-split due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit impartiality judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Whether federal circuit courts should review the denial of a motion to recuse a district judge under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) de novo or for an abuse of dis…
20-7455 Jeromey Glenn Jones v. Montana Montana Denied IFP constitutional-assistance court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-protection procedural-due-process right-to-counsel right-to-participate sixth-amendment statutory-provisions Whether the defendant was denied effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
20-7462 Anthony Kirkland v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP capital-defendant death-penalty fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Are a capital defendant's rights to a fair trial by an impartial jury denied when a juror believes the death penalty should be used in all cases of mu…
20-7463 Carlos Lorenzo Jackson v. Florida Florida Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process post-conviction standing Whether the trial court exceeded its lawful authority by entering orders that dispose of the merits of the case while a ruling on the Rule 3.850 motio…
20-7466 Charles L. Burgett v. The General Store No. Two Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-costs civil-procedure cost-waiver costs court-discretion deposition-costs indigency local-rules waiver Whether a party waives costs if it does not file a bill of cost on time pursuant to local rules?
20-7470 Pablo Ramon Guerrero v. Nevada Nevada Denied IFP actual-innocence batson critical-stage cronic due-process fundamental-fairness mccollum presumed-prejudice strickland structural-error trial-procedure Whether a Batson-McCollum proven violation qualifies as a structural error
20-7478 Paul Eric Lewis v. Southern Connecticut State University, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure pro-bono-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the plaintiff's right to counsel was violated, resulting in a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause and the Sixth Amendme…
20-7481 In Re Ravi S. Vaidyanathan Denied IFP bible-interpretation biblical-interpretation civil-rights due-process ecclesiastical-immunity episcopal-role free-speech health-safety-inspection religious-authority standing state-jurisdiction Is an ecclesiastical bishop a state-appointed health and safety inspector, and is the bishop exempt from ecclesiastical immunity? Can the Court in Cal…
20-7485 Wilbern Woodrow Cooper v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest standing state-agents state-deference sufficiency-of-evidence Due-Process-Clause-Violation
20-7512 Forrest R. Cox, III v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-statute fourth-amendment good-faith-doctrine immutable-evidence independent-source-doctrine search-warrant Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court erred in applying the good-faith doctrine to a search warrant executed after the federal statute and relevant case …
20-7513 Loretta Jones v. New York City Police Department, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment accountability civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process institutional-racism law-enforcement-technology public-oversight public-scrutiny transparency Oversight-of-law-enforcement-technologies
20-7518 In Re Jack Stone Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedures-act custody-after-abduction damages due-process equal-protection international-child-abduction passport-issuance passport-reissuance visa-approval-denial visa-processing International-child-abduction,custody-after-abduction,passport-reissuance,administrative-procedures-act,damages,visa-approval-denial
20-7534 Luis Alfonso Tijerino-Sevilla v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
20-7539 Schenvisky James v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process faretta-warning free-speech right-to-counsel self-representation standing waiver-of-counsel Whether the Michigan legislature's obligation and duty to create a Second Amendment Michigan statute violates the separation of powers principle and i…
20-7550 John Roosevelt Baccus v. South Carolina Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing Whether the court below erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims without adjudicating the merits
20-7557 Wendy Alison Nora v. Office of Lawyer Regulation Wisconsin Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding lawyer-discipline mortgage-foreclosure petition standing Whether Petitioner was denied procedural due process in the lawyer disciplinary proceeding
20-7565 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
20-7566 Florence Chailla, et vir v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
20-7569 Deidre M. Hunt v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus legal-claim post-conviction procedural-dismissal standing state-court substantive-validity Whether an indigent, pro se state prisoner is entitled to a liberal construction of state post-conviction claim premises on inadvertent misapplication…
20-7573 Merrickio D. Harris v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fundamental-fairness judicial-review self-representation structural-error Whether the Nebraska State Courts committed structural error and violated the Petitioner's Federal Constitutional Rights to Self-Representation and Du…
20-7585 Charles D. Bowser v. Kansas Kansas Denied Response WaivedIFP bias criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias north-carolina-v-pearce plea-bargain prejudice sentencing Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the issue if the Due Process Clause and North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711, 89 S. Ct. 2072, …
20-7587 Michelle Brandon v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
20-7607 Perry Burris v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance Did attorney Douglas P. Earl violate Perry Burris' constitutional right of his 5th amendment right to due process of law subsequently violating his 6t…
20-7623 Michael Eric Drake v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-bad-acts sixth-amendment trial-counsel Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court ignore the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when it found no issue with trial counsel's failure to protect his clie…
20-7625 James Arthur Ross v. John Myrick, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-discretion due-process judicial-error prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation property-exemption standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Did the District Court error by ignoring Oregon's Wildcard Exemption Rule
20-7641 Brian Hawkins v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights credibility-analysis criminal-procedure due-process lovasco-standard pre-indictment-delay prosecutorial-discretion trial-court-error united-states-v-lovasco Has the trial court erred by adding a credibility analysis to an unjustifiable pre-indictment delay test of Due Process : prescribed by United States …
20-7644 Skip Hansen v. Kentucky Kentucky Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion fourteenth-amendment right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment witness-testimony Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals allow Mr. Hansen's right to present a full and complete defense, which is protected by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amen…
20-7664 Jessie Willie Green v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process exculpatory-evidence identification-evidence identification-procedures ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated due to issues with identificati…
20-7672 James Michael Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP assault child-abuse criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing serious-bodily-injury Whether the government may pursue an assault charge after a defendant pleads guilty to felony child abuse where the assault charge subsumes the pled p…
20-7673 Atticus Sliter-Matias v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law fifth-amendment plain-error self-incrimination Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's judgment of conviction and sentence by failing to find that the dis…
20-7675 John G. Stroming v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP age-gender-differences child-molestation criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-rules federal-law prior-convictions propensity victim-characteristics Whether prior convictions for crimes of child molestation can be admitted into evidence where — because of differences in the age and gender of the vi…
20-7677 Juan Manuel Fuentes-Morales v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-speech constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt victor-v-nebraska Whether the Fourth Circuit's reasonable doubt charge conflicts with Victor v. Nebraska
20-7679 Troy Allen Lucas, aka Troy Madron v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-rule-of-evidence-807 fifth-amendment forensic-evidence inconsistencies sixth-amendment third-party-guilt Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from denying, under Federal Rule of Evidence 807, the admission of testimony provided …
20-7680 Jonathan Beasley v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether the government must prove the defendant knew his prior conviction prohibited firearm possession
20-7684 Richard S. Glenn, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction government-action judicial-review legal-precedent standing Whether the court applied the wrong standard of proof for a member of the public to establish standing to challenge a government action
20-7689 Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misconstruction Does the court's misconstruction of the habeas corpus claim violate due process of law?
20-7693 Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. C. Joksch, et al. Ninth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-appeal pro-se-litigant standing three-strikes Is a prisoner who is found to have three strikes pursuant to 28 USC 1915 entitled to a one-time appeal on the merits of this finding?
20-7694 Eusebio Escobar de Jesus v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the denial of Petitioner's Motion for Compassionate Release under the First Step Act
20-7697 Matthew Berckmann v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rule evidence-rule-404(b) evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence motive-opportunity-intent propensity-evidence rule-404b same-victim victim-testimony Whether other act evidence under Rule 404(b) involving the same 'victim' is automatically admissible
20-7702 Covia Dzell Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-errors fair-trial fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether trial counsel's ineffective assistance deprived Mr. Smith of the right to offer evidence in his defense
20-7703 Gary Lamont Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fourth-amendment fourth-circuit individualized-assessment judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision in Gall v. United States
20-7705 Marco Antonio Serrano v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver career-offender district-court-error due-process mandatory-application plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Can a plea agreement that includes an appellate waiver lawfully deprive a defendant of his right to appeal a sentence that was based on the district c…
20-7707 Charles Michael Ledford v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by dismissing Mr. Ledford's meritorious arguments due to the appellate waiver language of the plea a…
20-7708 Jose Noe Castro Orellana v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied Rita v. United States and Gall v. United States by elevating the presumption of reasonableness over a reliance on…
20-7709 Alvin Henry v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material brady-v-maryland due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states prejudice-standard reasonable-probability third-circuit trial-counsel trial-procedure Whether the Third Circuit's focus on trial counsel's effective use of Brady/Giglo material at trial is consistent with this Court's uniform precedent …
20-7716 Milton Mosley v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether the lower courts' finding that suspicion of criminal activity was not 'specific, individualized, and reasonable' is contrary to Terry v. Ohio
20-7723 Dangelo Davis v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-endeavor criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-amount drug-charges due-process RICO sentencing sixth-circuit Did the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err when concluding that Davis adopted the goal of furthering or facilitating the crimi…
20-7726 James Ray Davis v. Gary Musselwhite, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss sentencing statutory-interpretation whether-the-petitioner's-sentence-was-lawful
20-7728 Keith Smeaton v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ada civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel learning-disability plea-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the appellant's constitutional rights under the 1st, 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments were denied
20-7729 Casey Rose v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-hearing confrontation-clause cooperating-witness cross-examination due-process impeachment indiana-v-edwards self-representation witness-impeachment Whether the termination of cross-examination of a cooperating-witness-with-incentives-to-lie prior to being able to impeach the witness violated the c…
20-773 Nazir Khan, et al. v. Merit Medical Systems Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees civil-procedure federal-circuit federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pro-se rule-11 sanctions service-of-process Whether a motion for Rule 11 sanctions may be granted despite the movants' failure to serve the motion prior to filing
20-7730 Fendi Brooks v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appointments-clause attorney-general constitutional-law constitutional-violation federal-vacancies-reform-act prejudice standing statutory-interpretation structural-violation When colorably alleging a structural, constitutional violation, specifically, that an individual illegally exercised the powers of the office of the A…
20-7733 In Re Antwoyn Terrell Spencer Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus mandamus unlawful-detention Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the court of appeals refused to adjudicate his case without reasons
20-7737 Marjuan Shondell Fleming v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act post-conviction right-to-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the First, Fourth, and Sixth Circuits have erred in their interpretation of the 'covered offense' provision of the First Step Act of 2018, inv…
20-7738 Elmer W. Grant, Jr. v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment-14th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury grand-jury-selection judicial-precedent jurisdiction precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction Validity-of-indictment-with-foreman-signature-only
20-7743 William Milliron v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process gun-control legislative-authority public-safety Whether the state's law prohibiting the sale of assault weapons violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms
20-7744 Millard Price v. Delaware Delaware Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disciplinary-actions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole sentencing state-court Question not identified
20-7745 Ronald R. Myles, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing state-courts Whether the federal district court violated the Due Process Clause by failing to allow the petitioner to fully litigate his claims
20-7746 Miguel Angel Mendoza v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fair-trial mens-rea sentencing Whether 21 U.S.C. § 960 requires the defendant to know the type and quantity of the drug involved in the offense?
20-7753 In Re Derrick Adrian Johnson Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing Whether the appellate court erred in disregarding the noted issue on standing appeal, can the appellants request a writ of mandamus of the Supreme Cou…
20-7755 Wilbert James Veasey, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-regulations constitutional-rights due-process evidence fact-finding fair-trial judicial-proceedings jury-instructions sixth-amendment Did the district court's jury instruction impermissibly impair and redirect the jury's considerations of the evidence by adding words from civil regul…
20-7764 Jamil Stefon Carter v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection motion-to-suppress plea-withdrawal right-to-appeal Whether due process requires plea withdrawal where the petitioner was unaware that his guilty plea waived his right to appeal the denial of a pre-tria…
20-7767 Zonta Tavarus Ellison v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights due-process enactment-of-2255 fair-trial resentencing what-constitutes-a-fundamentally-just-resentencing-under-28-usc-2255
20-7773 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Toyota Motor Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split civil-procedure daubert-standard discovery-deadline expert-report inter-circuit-split intra-circuit-split motion-procedure sanction-standard sanctions Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit created an intra-circuit and inter-circuit split by wrongly deciding that the Distric…
20-7775 Fita E. Spann v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4246 18-usc-4247 bodily-injury conditional-release due-process federal-mental-health-statutes mental-health-statutes psychiatric-examination risk-assessment substantial-risk Whether Due Process and the federal mental health statutes require a new mental examination prior to revocation of conditional release
20-7779 Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C. civil-rights due-process federal-circuit-court federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-authority prisoner-petition second-or-successive statutory-construction Did the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals err when it affirmed the District Court's construing of Petitioner's Motion as an unauthorized second or successi…
20-7784 Bryan Keith Goins v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process filing-deadline ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-timeliness procedural-requirements sentencing writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner's sentence was unconstitutional
20-7785 Kevino Graham v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel human-trafficking sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether petitioner Graham was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel when counsel failed to challenge
20-7786 Obidiah McCaskill v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-hearing fifth-amendment florida-statutes liberty sixth-amendment supervised-release unconstitutional Whether Florida Statutes and case law have deprived the petitioner of his liberty and a fair hearing, in violation of the 14th Amendment
20-7789 In Re Michael K. Ciacci Denied Response WaivedIFP district-of-columbia district-of-columbia-code due-process exhaustion-of-remedies ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal procedural-exhaustion savings-clause state-remedies Whether the scope of the savings clause under District of Columbia Code Section 23-110(g) is open to a claim supported by judicial failure to recuse?
20-7793 Edgar Ivan Lira Estrada v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
20-7795 Antwan Lamar Hutchinson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure drope-standard due-process mental-health procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review Should the Court reverse the Sixth Circuit's modified version of the three-factor legal test in Drope v. Missouri
20-7801 Cody Lee Herman v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP and sentencing stages plea constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-stage plea-stages pro-se-objections right-to-counsel sentence sentencing sentencing-stage Whether Petitioner's Right to the Effective Assistance of Counsel Was Violated During the Pretrial and Plea Stages
20-7803 Jonathan S. Hall v. Delaware Delaware Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review takings Whether the federal and state laws predicated on the Constitutionally-questionable Gun Control Act of 1968 are unconstitutional or illegal, and whethe…
20-7807 Woodrow Andrew Clark v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claims-assessment constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review legal-standard patent procedural-merit reasonable-jurists standing takings Whether reasonable jurists would find the District Court's assessment of Claims one and two debatable or wrong? Or that the issues presented are adequ…
20-7821 In Re John A. Toth Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel standing unlawful-detention Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of their constitutional rights
20-7833 In Re Demarcus Wright Denied IFP dna-evidence dna-match due-process expert-testimony expert-witness false-evidence false-testimony habeas-corpus inconclusive-evidence judicial-review perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct Has prejudice been shown where the prosecuting attorney allowed false evidence and inaccurate information to go uncorrected?
20-7838 Edward M. Vargas, Sr. v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-charge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process fair-notice indictment jury-conviction jury-instructions ninth-circuit Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's precedents in ruling that Petitioner was not denied fair notice of the charges against him despite t…
20-791 Eglise Baptiste Bethanie De Ft. Lauderdale, Inc., et al. v. Seminole Tribe of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) access-act civil-remedies civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise-clause freedom-of-access-to-clinic-entrances-act off-reservation-conduct religious-worship tribal-sovereign-immunity Is a Native American tribe sovereignly immune from a civil suit for damages caused by the off-reservation violations by its police officers of the 'pl…
20-888 Abdul Razak Ali v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (1) constitutional-rights detention due-process foreign-nationals guantanamo guantanamo-detention habeas-corpus military-commissions Whether the Due Process Clause of the Constitution applies to the detentions of foreign nationals at Guantanamo
20-895 Scott Seldin, Individually and as Trustee of the Selden 2002 Irrevocable Trust, dated October 9, 1993, et al. v. Estate of Stanley C. Silverman, et al. Nebraska Denied actual-bias arbitration-award arbitration-awards evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-review public-policy statutory-interpretation vacatur Whether the FAA categorically forecloses courts from vacating an arbitration award on the ground that the award is contrary to public policy
20-937 Robert Andrews v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution evidence-discovery fifth-amendment foregone-conclusion passcode-disclosure password-disclosure self-incrimination state-supreme-court testimonial-compulsion Does the Fifth Amendment protect against compelled disclosure of a memorized passcode?
20-959 Angela Thigpen v. Board of Trustees of the Local 807 Labor-Management Pension Fund Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant civil-rights, due-process, and equal-protection laws
20-972 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Eggleston, Director of Operation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process failure-to-state-claim federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-mail ninth-circuit panel-rehearing standing Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals committed reversible error
20A156 Sergei Vinkov v. United States District Court for the Central District of California. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M76 Angelo Ralph Bizzarro v. First National Bank Third Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M77 Matthew J. O'Neal v. United States Sixth Circuit Presumed Complete None