Conference: 2021-06-03

142 cases — 0 granted, 142 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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20-1019 Jade Thompson v. Marietta Education Association, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights compelled-association first-amendment free-speech knight-v-minnesota labor-union labor-unions public-sector public-sector-employees representative-advocacy Whether it violates the First Amendment to designate a labor union to represent and speak for public-sector employees who object to its advocacy on th…
20-1062 Chad Bennett v. Washington Washington Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-findings sentencing-guidelines vagueness Whether defendants may challenge aggravating factors as vague under the Due Process Clause
20-1093 Just Energy Marketing Corp., et al. v. Davina Hurt, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1) christopher-v-smithkline-beecham circuit-split employment-law fair-labor-standards-act outside-salesman regulatory-approval sales sales-exemption Whether Petitioners' door-to-door solicitors are exempt 'outside salesmen' under the FLSA
20-1148 Robert M. Sellers v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Amici (4) civil-rights claim-scope disability-compensation due-process pro-veteran-canon service-records statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits When a veteran has submitted an application for disability benefits, does the veteran's claim encompass all reasonably identifiable conditions within …
20-1195 Kansas Natural Resource Coalition v. Department of the Interior, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (3) administrative-law agency-action civil-rights congressional-review-act endangered-species-act judicial-review procedural-injury separation-of-powers standing Whether a party vindicating a procedural injury lacks standing unless it can establish with certainty that procedural compliance would change the outc…
20-1197 Eugene Milton Clemons, II v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (4) atkins-v-virginia circuit-split civil-rights court-clerk-error due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus intellectual-disability post-conviction-review procedural-default standing Whether the availability of equitable tolling requires consideration of the totality of the circumstances
20-1210 Seneca County, New York v. Cayuga Indian Nation of New York Second Circuit Denied city-of-sherrill foreclosure immovable-property local-tax-authorities open-market open-market-land property-rights property-taxes tax-collection tribal-sovereign-immunity Whether tribal sovereign immunity bars local tax authorities from collecting lawfully imposed property taxes by foreclosing on real property that a tr…
20-1220 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Promptu Systems Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit Denied administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause appointments-clause-interpretation constitutional-law inferior-officers judicial-review officer-status principal-officers separation-of-powers Whether administrative patent judges are 'principal' or 'inferior' Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause
20-1305 Douglas J. Holdings, Inc., et al. v. Joy Eberline, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (2) all-circumstances discrete-tasks employee-classification employee-status employment employment-status fair-labor-standards-act intern-status labor-law student-intern-trainee workplace-rights Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act requires a court to consider all the circumstances of the parties' relationship, or only those discrete tasks ide…
20-1321 John Ching En Lee v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 18-usc-1001 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-the-case materiality sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Certificate of Appealability
20-1361 Regina B. Heisler, Individually and as the Executrix of the Succession of Frederick P. Heisler v. Girod LoanCo, LLC Louisiana Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) caperton-standard civil-rights due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct loan-enforcement standing supreme-court-review takings vulture-fund Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court erred in failing to enforce Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. and Henson v. Santander Consumer USA
20-1372 John Chambers v. Texas Texas Denied burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-record statutory-defense tampering-statute texas-tampering-with-governmental-record unforeseeable-judicial-expansion Whether the Court of Appeals violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
20-1373 Wanza Cole v. Wake County Board of Education Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-rights detrimental-effect employment-discrimination protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment,' or is its reach limited to only discriminatory empl…
20-1381 Matthew Fox, et al. v. Charles A. Summers Ohio Denied Amici (6) compelling-state-interest constitutional-protection crime-victim due-process fourteenth-amendment government-dissemination informational-privacy public-officials Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process right to informational privacy protects information of a personal, sexual nature related to one's victimi…
20-1384 Amy Everett v. Cobb County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived cease-and-desist civil-rights constitutional-rights custom-and-practice due-process first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-discretion malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity speech-protection Question not identified
20-1386 Dale Sawyer Eisele v. The Estate of Joseph Brodie Smith New Hampshire Denied adoption adoption-law civil-rights dna-paternity due-process exhumation exhumation-request family-rights legal-interpretation pretermitted-heir probate standing Did interpreting this matter by using current adoption laws lead to a comprehension error that was detrimental to this case?
20-1387 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam Denied 18-usc-241-245-249 42-usc-1983 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct property-rights Whether denial of fundamental rights, denial of property rights, and denial of access to courts warrants remedy
20-1399 Andrew J. Capul, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied coerced-resignation due-process employment-termination loudermill municipal-employment pre-deprivation-process pre-deprivation-rights property-interest property-rights Whether a municipal employer's coerced resignation of an employee with a protected property interest in continued employment requires pre-deprivation …
20-1403 Benny Hernandez v. Excel Contractors, Inc. Louisiana Denied bone-growth-stimulator closed-records federal-court-procedure medical-malpractice spinal-cord-injury workers-compensation Whether the Soeket M50-2018 Spinal Cord Injury Bone Growth Stimulator is Compensable under Workers' Compensation
20-1406 Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina Denied civil-rights conspiracy due-process gross-negligence land-dispute negligence official-discrimination property property-rights will-interpretation Whether respondent acted with gross negligence to deprive appellant of property
20-1433 Arturo Alfredo Aguilar-Molina v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-1454 Vekuii Rukoro, et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany Second Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act gravamen international-law property-rights second-circuit sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation takings-exception Does the Second Circuit's opinion conflict with the D.C. Circuit and this Court's FSIA jurisprudence?
20-1467 Michael Varco v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived civil-rights crime-victims-rights crime-victims-rights-act dc-code district-court due-process federal-law metropolitan-police-department mpd standing statutory-interpretation victims-rights Whether a person harmed by a D.C. Code offense may assert rights under the Crime Victims' Rights Act against the MPD Chief
20-1512 Gregory C. Dacanay v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection law-enforcement sixth-amendment structural-error Whether law enforcement officers can be fair and impartial jury members in a criminal trial
20-1517 Fast 101 Pty. Ltd. v. Citigroup Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6)-dismissal alice-mayo-test claim-construction claim-language inventive-concept patent-eligibility prior-art subject-matter-eligibility Whether a court must evaluate the differences between prior art and the alleged inventive concept to fully appreciate the claim language
20-1554 Citizens Against Corporate Crime, LLC v. Lennar Corporation Third Circuit Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law claim-release false-claims-act government-investigation government-official investigation public-interest qui-tam release Whether a false claims act qui tam claim on behalf of the public may be released in a bankruptcy case prior to the appropriate government official obt…
20-1563 Amin A. Rashid v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process fifth-amendment final-judgment notice notice-and-opportunity rule-60(b) rule-60b4 Whether the court of appeals denies a petitioner due process
20-1565 Michael Ryan Mitchan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines Should defendants in criminal cases be permitted to confront witnesses against them at sentencing when their uncorroborated hearsay statements are sol…
20-1576 145 Fisk, LLC v. F. William Nicklas Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation judicial-review preliminary-agreement rational-basis retaliation standing Whether false information is a rational basis for terminating a development agreement
20-5817 Thomas Lewis v. Jonathan Decker, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-rules grievance-procedure jurisdictional-challenge procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment Whether the appeals court erred in granting summary judgment based on a purported 'waived defense' under FRCP 12(b)(6) and contravening numerous decis…
20-6385 Jason D. Devers v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-claims conviction-of-sole-participant criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pinkerton-doctrine post-conviction-relief state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-attorney-affidavit Did the State of Nebraska commit error when it convicted the defendant of felony murder using the Pinkerton doctrine when there is no principal and th…
20-6399 Duwayne Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit fifth-circuit florida-statute-§-893.13 mens-rea second-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) Is a post-2002 conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver or sell, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a 'controlled substance offen…
20-6404 Henry T. Liggins v. Bob Vashaw, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to the alleged misconduct of the court and prosecution during his criminal trial
20-6614 Derek Jarvis v. Isiah Leggett, et al. Maryland Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights county-liability due-process government-liability legal-precedent malicious-conduct malicious-prosecution official-immunity qualified-immunity stare-decisis venue-transfer Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in holding that Isiah Leggett was not liable for malicious acts by his county officials Michael Subin and …
20-6794 Oscar Guevara Salamanca v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-sentencing illegal-reentry judicial-discretion prior-conviction revocation-of-probation right-to-be-heard sentencing-enhancement state-sentencing May a federal district court enhance a federal sentence based on a prior sentence imposed by way of a clear and complete deprivation of the individual…
20-6839 Henry Alexander Townsend v. Jeri Taylor, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP absent-homeowner common-authority fourth-amendment search-and-seizure third-party-consent warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures requires the government to obtain a warrant before conducting a searc…
20-6847 Christopher Bryan Torres v. Brad Livingston, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights involuntary-servitude legal-rights prison-labor pro-se pro-se-complaint section-1983 thirteenth-amendment Do 13th Amendment slaves, or those under involuntary servitude, have legal rights when filing pro se § 1983 complaints for serious injuries received f…
20-6981 Phillip Jay Walter, Jr. v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment appellate-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-appeal pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment venue Is an Appellate Court duty bound to ensure that an Appellant - whether Represented or Pro Se - is afforded a full, fair, and meaningful appeal
20-7101 Anthony Jerome Billings, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence Eleventh-Circuit florida-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is a conviction for sale of cocaine a 'controlled-substance-offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) without proof of defendant's knowledge of the illicit n…
20-7117 Dervanna H. A. Troy-McKoy v. Mount Sinai Beth Israel New York Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process fraud fraudulent-signature judicial-review legal-motion procedural-misconduct punitive-damages standing Question not identified
20-7141 Curtis Jerome Brown, Sr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-review fraud habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing state-court Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated under the 4th Amendment, 5th Amendment, and 6th Amendment
20-7162 Jose Aguilar, et ux. v. Specialized Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure insurance-proceeds loan-ownership loan-servicing mortgage-fraud ocwen-loan-servicing phh-mortgage-services predatory-lending private-mortgage-insurance Whether the defendants engaged in private mortgage insurance fraud by placing private mortgage insurance on the plaintiff's paid-off loan and collecti…
20-7185 John Anthony Esposito v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2254 capital-case habeas strickland-v-washington wilson-v-sellers Whether the Eleventh Circuit should be allowed to flout the Supreme Court's clear instruction in Wilson v. Sellers that federal courts must focus on t…
20-7282 Earl Malloy v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms-offense guilty-plea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether this petition should be held pending the decision in United States v. Gary, No. 20-444, given that both this petition and Gary present the sam…
20-7284 Tyrell Donte Curry v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's 'serious drug offense' definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th…
20-7285 Cedric Durand Collins v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the drug conduct in the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline. § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit n…
20-7286 Kashus Davis v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's 'serious drug offense' definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th…
20-7287 Viguens Cius v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the drug conduct in the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na…
20-7304 Robert Phillip Ivers v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (1)IFP attorney-client-privilege chilling-effect common-law communication-scope confidential-communication eighth-circuit evidentiary-privilege federal-common-law legal-advice legal-profession privileged-communication Whether a confidential attorney-client phone call made for the primary purpose of obtaining legal advice is protected in its entirety by the attorney-…
20-7321 Alan Douglas v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-judgment due-process judicial-bias legal-procedure medical-malpractice personal-injury res-ipsa-loquitur standing Whether the appellant's U.S. constitutional and civil rights were violated
20-7326 Tyrone Valentine v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-statute criminal-statutes drunk-driving extreme-indifference physical-force violent-felony Whether criminal statutes encompassing drunk driving constitute a 'violent felony' under 18 U.S.C.
20-7330 James Marcus Lloyd, III v. J. Hutchinson, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 922(g) actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance rehaif right-to-trial structural-error whether-petitioner's-constitutional-right-to-due-process-was-denied
20-7341 James Coddington v. Jim Farris, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error material-evidence mens-rea right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment Can the suppression of material evidence helpful to the defense ever be harmless error, not least when the exclusion violated the Sixth Amendment's ri…
20-7348 Anthony Ray Ybarra v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split force-clause mens-rea physical-force violent-felony Does a criminal offense without mens rea qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
20-7359 Karen Gagarin v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split consent criminal-law criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft means-of-identification statutory-interpretation supreme-court Does 'another person' in the aggravated identity theft statute include someone who consented to the felonious use of her identifying information?
20-7389 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Becky Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability covid-19 covid-19-impact due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington Whether the district court applied an incorrect standard of review
20-7390 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-restrictions deportation due-process immigration immigration-law Whether the Supreme Court holding in Session v. Dimaya vacates administrative charges under the 'residual clause' of 18 U.S.C. §16(b)
20-7536 Timothy L. Coleman v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP brady-violation capital-habeas capital-punishment confessed-murderer due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-phase right-to-appeal right-to-due-process Whether a federal appellate court violates a capital habeas petitioner's rights by refusing to consider additional arguments and authorities in suppor…
20-7601 Lynn Z. Smith v. New Jersey Bureau of Securities Third Circuit Denied IFP additional-documents bankruptcy bankruptcy-claim claim-objection creditor creditor-documents debtor debtor-rights evidence-discovery judicial-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine When a Bankruptcy Debtor files a formal objection to the amount of a Creditor's claim and requests that the Creditor provide the Additional Documents …
20-7605 Cody James Martinez v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-trial cumulative-error due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pecuniary-gain right-to-counsel statutory-aggravator strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether trial counsel's complete abdication of responsibilities by meeting with a capital defendant for only 1:08 total in 2-4 years preceding trial c…
20-7613 Carl Womack v. Merrimon Oxley North Carolina Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process gatekeeper-order judicial-conflict record-falsification standing supreme-court unconstitutional Is the gatekeeper order a matter of significance to the united states
20-7627 Khaled Shabani v. City of Madison, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-court free-speech judgment malicious-prosecution police-department qualified-immunity related-cases state-court Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the police and prosecutors
20-7630 Scott Paul Madlock v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit's decision sanctioned a departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proc…
20-7631 Bradford Thompson v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. California Denied IFP adversarial-system civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud judgement-annulment judgment-annulment judicial-misconduct legal-remedy standing trial-procedure Can a party prevail at court through misconduct and extrinsic-fraud preventing his adversary from presenting an issue at trial
20-7638 Cesar Gomez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial grand-jury harmless-error indictment-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the district court applied the harmless-error review in an 'objectively unreasonable' manner
20-7642 Daniel Fetzer v. Shevaun Harris, Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights due-process kansas-v-hendricks liberty liberty-interest mental-abnormality mental-health sexual-violence substantive-due-process Can the State of Florida and federal courts in Florida, including the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, deprive Mr. Fetzer of his substantive constitutio…
20-7643 Nafis Antuan Faison v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 arrest-warrant constitutional-standard expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus minnesota-v-olson probable-cause standing third-party-residence Whether the federal court impermissibly added an element to the expectation-of-privacy standard for a third-party overnight guest, in violation of 28 …
20-7646 Kennis Earl Gatson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar schlup-exception schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the district court finding that petitioner's Schlup v. Delo exception to overcome the procedural bar was not…
20-7650 In Re Bo Zou Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion contempt copyright-infringement judicial-discretion judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct liljeberg-standard magistrate-disqualification perjury procedural-irregularity How did the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit disregard and ignore the facts and factual evidence, and prohibition criteria, which …
20-7651 Gonzalo Curiel v. California California Denied IFP exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-rule police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the prosecution must prove that the alleged alternative police conduct was an ongoing legitimate investigation simultaneously occurring at the…
20-7653 Jeffrey Denton v. John Davids, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-error due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence procedural-gateway prosecutorial-misconduct trial-confidence Whether petitioner can pass through the gateway to argue merits of underlying claims
20-7654 Alan Douglas v. State Bar of California California Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice res-ipsa-loquitur standing Reverse and settle personal injury
20-7658 Johnny Rice v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process franks-v-delaware ineffective-assistance standing Was trial counsel ineffective when he failed to suppress the affidavit due to the insufficiency of Count I and Rape, and when counsel failed to seek a…
20-7665 Donald David Dillbeck v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty due-process evolving-standards habeas-corpus medical-evidence mental-health post-conviction post-conviction-relief scientific-advancements scientific-evidence What constitutes diligence in raising newly discovered medical and/or mental health evidence and diagnoses?
20-7666 Willie Ponder v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability
20-7668 Mary Jo Weidrick v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conference civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process grand-jury legal-complaint republic standing terrorism terrorism-allegation Whether the facts alleged in the complaint are true and nonfrivolous
20-7669 Moses Jackson v. Alabama Alabama Denied IFP alabama-supreme-court due-process fair-trial innocence newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the Alabama Supreme Court violated the Sixth Amendment's right to a fair trial and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by denyi…
20-7670 Faizah Dean v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-employment-action civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process labor-discrimination prima-facie-case procedural-dismissal standing statutory-interpretation workers-compensation Question not identified
20-7682 Antoine Barnes v. Salinas Superior Court Judge Ninth Circuit Denied IFP case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection firearms first-amendment jurisdiction legal-provisions standing supreme-court writ Whether Senate Bill 16 violates the First Amendment, due process, and equal protection rights of individuals who wish to have production or possession…
20-7685 Terrance Heard v. Grady Perry, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ATC-claim constitutional-claim district-court-review district-courts factual-development ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard Martinez-v-Ryan Miller-El-Cockrell-standard procedural-default Whether the Tennessee District Courts are correctly considering whether a procedurally defaulted ATC claim is substantial, having merit, presented und…
20-7690 Jon Terrance Winzer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-review section-2254 standing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal err in allowing the Western District Court to deny his 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254 petition as being improperly filed?
20-7696 Hamid Reza Ardaneh v. United States, et al. First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discriminatory-arrest due-process equal-protection false-arrest false-indictment forced-medication human-rights malicious-prosecution selective-prosecution Why were the defendant discriminated against and illegally arrested?
20-7718 Deidre Antoinette Pierre v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP adolescent-brain-science constitutional-rights cruel-punishment eighth-amendment life-without-parole miller-mandate rs-15-574-4-d sentencing-discretion Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits excessive or cruel punishment
20-7720 Corey Denard Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-rules sentencing standing state-court-procedure Are Ferecal Couels Allowed fo Tatecfees with pendine Stete Couet PROCEEDINGS
20-7724 John K. Wilson v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-standard de-novo-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea no-contest-plea plea-bargaining standard-of-review state-court-proceedings Whether a defendant is entitled to de novo review of a claim that his guilty plea was involuntary under the Fourteenth Amendment
20-7740 Jason Robert Vickers v. Kenneth Diggs, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct wrongful-conviction Whether a criminal defendant can challenge an indictment and/or conviction after a coerced guilty plea
20-7741 Wen Dong Zhao v. Department of State Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights department-of-state due-process embassy-communication federal-investigation freedom-of-information government-misconduct intellectual-property judicial-review letter-disposition standing Denial-of-access-to-letters
20-7747 Anthony A. Patel v. Charles Robinson, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ninth-circuit political-discrimination standing Does Article III of the U.S. Constitution belong to the legal profession or to the American people?
20-7756 Brandon Lamar Tademy v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidence sanctions spoliation Whether the district court erroneously denied the petitioner's motion to dismiss or impose other appropriate sanctions for destruction of evidence, in…
20-7759 Roderick Williams v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-relief Whether the failure to disclose exculpatory evidence results in a Brady violation warranting the grant of habeas relief?
20-7760 John Worthington v. Office of National Drug Control Policy, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure docket-management final-agency-action level-playing-field local-rule-7b official-capacity summons-and-complaint tort-claim tort-claims trial-court-arguments Whether the trial court erred by failing to apply local rule 7(b)
20-7762 Biner Ma v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process federal-rules jurisdiction misrepresentation reliance standing Whether a plaintiff has standing to sue while she did not act in reliance on the defendant's misrepresentation but another party acted in reliance on …
20-7766 Lyndon Davis v. Dennis Reagle, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-analysis civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-requirement federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process standing state-court-proceedings Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit exceed its scope of the COA (Certificate of Appealability) analysis when the court deni…
20-7771 Anthony J. Bator v. David Nilsson, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process legal-jurisdiction property-rights property-seizure siskiyou-county supreme-court-rulings takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights, including property rights, were violated by the wrongful taking of his property without due process of…
20-7781 Abdu-Salim Gould v. Leslie Bess, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-proceeding civil-rights constitutional-violation final-judgment jurisdiction Whether a 1963 civil rights action can be treated as an administrative proceeding, whether a court has jurisdiction to adjudicate the matter presented…
20-7787 Lee Charles Millsap v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error fair-opportunity federal-habeas federal-review full-and-fair-litigation habeas-corpus post-conviction-process post-conviction-review procedural-fairness state-court-jurisdiction state-court-ruling state-court-jurisdiction,federal-habeas,constitutional-error,post-conviction-process,full-and-fair-litigation,fair-opportunity
20-7809 Julian J. Miller v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-of-court access-to-court actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-bar ineffective-assistance statute-of-limitations Does §2244(d)(1)(A) apply to a habeas petitioner's access-of-court claim that is barred by Heck & can't accrue until the state habeas corpus remedy is…
20-7849 Ismael Lopez v. United States, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment accomplice-liability constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process factor-based-analysis mandatory-sentencing mens-rea nexus proportionality-test sentencing Whether mandatory sentences are constitutional
20-7854 David Olson v. Stephanie Olson New York Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-division child-support civil-contempt conflicting-rulings downward-modification due-process incarceration legal-procedure Did the New York Appellate Division, First Department err in upholding the Trial Court for adjudging Petitioner in civil contempt and ordering incarce…
20-7869 Wilfredo Torres v. The Blackstone Group Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bias case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct legal-mail standing whether-a-federal-judge-violated-due-process
20-7873 Kenneth McBride v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-duress criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process pro-se-representation right-to-counsel Whether a state can force a U.S. citizen to face criminal charges without the assistance of counsel
20-7898 Edward Tyrone Ridley v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-consequences due-process equal-protection legal-stigma sex-offender-registration Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the state's failure to properly register him as a sex offender and the resulting legal st…
20-7912 Jorge Gomez-Gomez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Petitioner's 99-month sentence was substantively reasonable
20-7913 Dallas Jerome Wims v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance-act eighth-amendment first-step-act sentencing serious-drug-offense Whether the First Step Act's amendment redefining 'serious drug offense' applies to the ACCA
20-7931 Oscar Segura-Resendez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-due-process due-process ex-post-facto fifth-circuit guidelines harmless-error post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-retroactivity Whether violation of the ex post facto clause of the U.S. Constitution is harmless if the specific definition of the conduct was done by the court
20-7936 Jose Oribel Ponce-Ulloa v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines temporal-connection ussg-2d1.1 weapon-possession Whether a sentencing court can add two offense levels for possession of a weapon under USSG § 2D1.1(b)(1) when the gun is not used nor present in the …
20-7937 Isaac Lee Loggins, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by not following well-established procedures and instead making decisions for their own convenience, …
20-7940 Khaled Elbeblawy v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-forfeiture due-process fact-finding forfeiture jury-trial restitution sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury trial on forfeiture, and whether the Sixth Amendment forbids a judge from finding facts that increase fine…
20-7941 Kiandrick Onick v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process parole sentencing sixth-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-7944 Peter Bobal v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment internet-access sex-offender supervised-release Does the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina apply to offenders on supervised release?
20-7945 Troy Arnaud v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-framework teague-v-lane watershed-rule Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on State collateral review
20-7946 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure equitable-exceptions federal-appellate-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-proceeding statutory-interpretation time-bar time-limits Whether the First Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding as untimely under 28 U.S.C. § 2107 and Federal Rule of Appe…
20-7950 Antonio Serrano-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process felony-offense illegal-reentry immigration-law prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States and hold that a prior conviction is an element of the aggravated form of the ille…
20-7956 Bryan Montalvo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure downward-departure federal-courts judicial-discretion motion-for-departure sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation Whether a circuit court of appeals has jurisdiction to review the denial of a motion for downward departure?
20-7959 Thomas J. Connerton v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process judicial-inquiry juror-discharge jury jury-selection reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Should certiorari be granted where the District Court discharged a juror, without 'good cause' under rule 23(b)(3) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Pr…
20-7961 Antonio Olmeda v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial multiplicitous-conviction sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a Judgment and Conviction on two counts, under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1.(a), for unlawful 'receipt' of a firearm and 'Possession' of that firearm is m…
20-7964 John Riley, aka P. J. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice criminal-sentencing district-court federal-jurisdiction first-step-act motion-denial motion-to-modify sentence-reduction sentencing Whether the district court erred by denying the Motion for Sentence Reduction under The First Step Act of 2018
20-7966 James L. Rudzavice v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 3582(c)(1)(a)(i) compassionate-release constitutional-rights due-process first-step-act judicial-bias judicial-discretion procedural-fairness sentencing-review Did the courts misconstrue the First Step Act and 3582(c)(1)(A)(i)
20-7969 Refugio Agustin-Pineda v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure due-process immigration-law immigration-proceedings jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the government may commence removal proceedings by serving a noncitizen with a 'notice to appear' that fails to specify the hearing's time and…
20-7970 Christopher R. Glenn v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review counsel-misconduct due-process evidentiary-hearing fraud ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings supervisory-power Did the Eleventh Circuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of this Court's superviso…
20-7973 Zavion Nunley v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split data-availability judicial-discretion nationwide-statistics reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statistical-analysis unwarranted-disparities Whether statistics demonstrating that judges in the sentencing district impose sentences much more frequently than their peers in other district are r…
20-7976 Treyton Lee Thomas v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision court-filing due-process excessive-fines incorporation jurisdictional-issue legal-document scotus-petition writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
20-7981 Stephen Nivens v. J. Phillip Morgan, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document constitutional-rights double-jeopardy duplicitous duplicitous-charging fifth-amendment jury jury-trial multiplicitous multiplicitous-charging Whether the Petitioner has a right to be free from Double Jeopardy
20-7991 Bulmaro Contreras-Figueroa, aka Israel Contreras v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury sentencing statutory-interpretation Is the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury violated when a defendant is sentenced for a conspiracy offense that exceeds the maximum penalty for the …
20-7994 In Re Lee Robert Scott Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-authorization civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction government-misconduct judicial-misconduct legal-immunity procedural-protection standing state-prosecution Does the Supreme Court allow lower courts to cover up victorious and malicious prosecution cases when vindictive legal sentencing is clearly on the re…
20-8008 Eric Christopher Conn v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act conspiracy-to-escape criminal-conspiracy custody escape-statute federal-corrections federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus home-confinement jurisdictional-review parole-violation prisoner-rights Whether an individual released on bond under the Bail Reform Act is in 'custody' and as to a 'conspiracy to escape' or a 'walk away' parole violation
20-8009 David Calhoun v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim discovery due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review public-record public-records state-supreme-court Whether the district court was correct in denying petitioner's motion to compel production of documents and whether the court of appeals denied petiti…
20-8011 Troy Webb v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922(g)(1) 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-statute discarding-firearm due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co…
20-8014 Kelvin Baez v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence-admission exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine police-procedure search-and-seizure unlawful-search warrant-requirement Did the Court of Appeals err in expanding the inevitable-discovery doctrine to affirm the admission of evidence obtained during an unlawful search?
20-8018 Deshaun Tisdale v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP assault assault-with-dangerous-weapon common-law-self-defense criminal-law firearms-offense jury-instruction michigan-common-law michigan-law racketeering racketeering-conspiracy self-defense use-of-firearm Whether the Petitioner should have been permitted a common law self-defense jury instruction in a racketeering conspiracy case involving convictions f…
20-8024 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP non-promulgated procedural process 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-due-process When there is no requirement to file a notice of appeal when applying for a certificate of appealability, is the COA seeker's Fifth Amendment right to…
20-8044 In Re Annamalai Annamalai Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights custody-release due-process habeas-corpus judicial-order privity-of-judgment specific-performance state-court warden-liability Whether Petitioner Annainalai is entitled to be released from custody pursuant to the specific performance (Execution) ordered & adjudicated by the In…
20-828 Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yassir Fazaga, et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) civil-procedure ex-parte-proceedings fisa foreign-intelligence foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act government-surveillance in-camera-review national-security state-secrets-privilege Whether Section 1806(f) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act displaces the state-secrets privilege and authorizes a district court to resolve,…
20-850 Big Time Vapes, Incorporated, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (2) administrative-discretion administrative-law constitutional-limits executive-authority executive-power legislative-authority legislative-delegation non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers tobacco-control-act tobacco-product-regulation Whether Petitioners have stated a claim that § 387a(b) grants excessive policymaking discretion to the executive branch to determine which tobacco pro…
20-896 Teresa M. Graham v. Shannon L. Barnette, et al. Eighth Circuit GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-entry home-search qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement whether-the-community-caretaking-exception-extends-to-the-home
20-928 National Coalition For Men, et al. v. Selective Service System, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (4)Relisted (3) combat-roles constitutional-challenge equal-protection fifth-amendment gender-discrimination military-draft rostker-v-goldberg selective-service Whether the federal requirement that men but not women register for the Selective Service, authorized under 50 U.S.C. § 3802(a), violates the right to…
20-938 Vilma Walker, et al. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Harborview Mortgage Loan Trust Mortgage Loan Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-6 Florida Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of standing
20M84 James Edward Rose, Jr. v. Chris Sununu, Governor of New Hampshire, et al. First Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M85 James L. Toliver v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M86 Tomas Zavalidroga v. Samuel Hester, et al. Second Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M87 L. C. v. S. C., et al. New Jersey Presumed Complete None
20M88 John Doe v. United States Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None