Conference: 2021-06-10

118 cases — 0 granted, 118 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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19-1116 LinkedIn Corporation v. hiQ Labs, Inc. Ninth Circuit GVR Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) bot-technology circuit-conflict computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act computer-trespass data-harvesting legislative-history personal-data public-websites statutory-interpretation technical-barriers unauthorized-access website-scraping Whether a company that deploys anonymous computer 'bots' to circumvent technical barriers and harvest millions of individuals' personal data from comp…
20-1022 Jean Coulter v. Jamsan Hotel Management, Inc., et al. Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bias civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure massachusetts-police-accountability police-accountability standing Was Coulter denied Due Process because of Bias?
20-1089 Chevron Corporation, et al. v. City of Oakland, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (4) civil-procedure civil-rights climate-change due-process federal-common-law federal-removal interstate-pollution jurisdictional-challenge standing state-law takings tort-claims Whether putative state-law tort claims alleging harm from global climate change are removable because they arise under federal law
20-1100 Paul Rodriguez, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) electoral-college equal-protection first-amendment political-parties presidential-election summary-affirmance vote-dilution voting-rights Do the Equal Protection Clause and the First Amendment prohibit California's winner-take-all system for appointing presidential electors?
20-1161 Edward J. Kosinski v. United States Second Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review confidentiality-agreement constitutional-vagueness criminal-fraud fiduciary-duty harmless-error insider-trading trust-and-confidence vagueness Whether a simple agreement to keep information confidential can establish criminal insider-trading-fraud
20-1207 Alexander Balbuena v. Brian Cates, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) aedpa amendment appeal appellate-procedure circuit-split federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-petition petition-amendment second-or-successive Whether a district court filing that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal constitutes a 'second or successive' petition under the Antite…
20-1224 O’Reilly Auto Enterprises, LLC, dba O'Reilly Auto Parts v. Brian Bell First Circuit Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination essential-functions essential-job-functions first-circuit reasonable-accommodation Does the ADA require employers to provide accommodations to employees who do not need them?
20-1238 Edgar Garcia-Diaz v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied None
20-1241 Michael Paul Miselis v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (1) anti-riot-act civil-rights constitutional-validity criminal-prosecution due-process federal-prosecution first-amendment free-speech overbreadth protest-rights standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2101, the Anti-Riot Act, is facially invalid under the First Amendment
20-1250 Roberto Enrique Mauricio-Benitez, aka Roberto Sanchez-Farjardo v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit GVR None
20-1252 Stephen J. Simoni v. Jersey Shore University Medical Center, et al. Third Circuit Denied arbitration attorneys-fees circuit-court-interpretation civil-procedure federal-courts federal-labor-law labor-arbitration labor-law supreme-court-precedent union-rights Can arbitrators disregard Supreme Court precedent on awarding attorneys' fees to union members wrongfully denied mandated arbitration?
20-1302 Casey A. McWhorter v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(2) constitutional-rights criminal-defendant death-penalty-mitigation effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias McDonough-Power-Equipment-v-Greenwood mitigation-evidence Whether a federal court violates 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(2) in determining state court's factual findings
20-1383 Arthur Diamond, et al. v. Pennsylvania State Education Association, et al. Third Circuit Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-liability first-amendment good-faith-defense retroactivity section-1983 union-fees Is there a good-faith defense to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional right…
20-1405 Tarek Farag v. Ali Waqas Illinois Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief judicial-discretion legal-procedure religious-freedom religious-law Whether Sharia is contrary to our Constitution and laws?
20-1412 NetSoc, LLC v. Match Group, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit Denied abstract-idea civil-rights computer-implemented-invention due-process free-speech patent patent-eligibility rating-system social-network standing takings technological-innovation Is the addition of a network computer implemented social network, with a novel and unconventional rating system, to a method of organizing human activ…
20-1415 Hyung Jin "Sean" Moon v. Hak Ja Han Moon, et al. Second Circuit Denied civil-procedure collusion court-jurisdiction ecclesiastical-abstention fraud fraud-exception legal-doctrine religious-organization religious-organizations tortious-conduct Whether there is an exception to this Court's ecclesiastical abstention doctrine that allows courts to resolve disputes over whether control of a reli…
20-1417 Miguel Estivill, et ux. v. Philip Von Kahle Florida Denied appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing fraud-allegations judicial-conduct judicial-duty judicial-review motion-for-rehearing standing Where the 3DCA neglected their prime duty to Rule by affirming the Trial Court's order which was in clear violation of R. Jud. Admin. '2.215(f) and Fl…
20-1420 Roadie, Inc. v. Baggage Airline Guest Services, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied attorney-fees claim-construction exceptional-case highmark-v-allcare infringement infringement-claim judicial-discretion octane-fitness-v-icon patent-law patent-statute-35-usc-285 Whether district courts should consider the weakness of an infringement claim after ruling in favor of the defendant on invalidity
20-1424 ACE American Insurance Company, et al. v. MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived conditional-payment double-damages eleventh-circuit federal-election-commission lexmark-international liability-allocation medicare-reimbursement medicare-secondary-payer policy-considerations statutory-interpretation statutory-standing Should the Court grant certiorari to review and summarily reverse the decision of the Eleventh Circuit holding that Respondent has statutory standing …
20-1435 Glenn Galvan v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Nevada Denied civil-procedure compulsory-counterclaim constitutional-rights court-discretion deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure-proceedings mortgage-assignment procedural-due-process standing vexatious-litigant Whether Nevada courts abused discretion and made errors in fact and law
20-1436 Marty D. Foust v. Lawrence Brothers, Inc., et al. Virginia Denied amendment-rights bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights court-documentation due-process eleventh-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct postal-delay Should an official of the Virginia Supreme Court tell the truth about information that they read in document sent by the Petitioner?
20-1450 Michael C. Murphy v. Melissa Ann Blalock, as Executrix of the Estate of Gloria Kay Murphy-Wallace Tennessee Denied Response Waived access-to-justice civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process judicial-review procedural-due-process standing state-courts tennessee-rules Whether the Tennessee state trial and appellate courts are using a constitutionally vague procedural rule,Tenn.R.Civ. P. 59.04,to deny citizens an opp…
20-1469 Reyna Magdalena Zavala de Gomez, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-1485 JoEllen Mary Crossett v. Emmet County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction immunity-defense indian-law indian-reservation malicious-prosecution treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Is Ms. Crossett on Indian-land, reservation-established, jurisdiction, treaty-rights, tribal-sovereignty, federal-jurisdiction
20-1487 Donna M. Gilbert, et al. v. RADM Michael D. Weahkee, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure contract-law due-process eligibility-requirements federal-agency federal-law non-profit non-profit-corporation standing Whether a federal agency is allowed to enter into a contract with a state non-profit corporation when the state non-profit corporation was established…
20-1489 Russell Baldwin v. Suzanne Seida, et al. Oregon Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-taking due-process eminent-domain lien lien-foreclosure state-court-procedure takings Did the state courts effectuate a taking of petitioner's attorney fees under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments?
20-1490 Quinn Alexander Marez v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-state-defense procedural-requirements state-court state-court-review May a federal court substitute its own reasons for denying a habeas petition when the state court's reasons were legally in error?
20-1513 Raj K. Patel v. Trump Corporation, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-discretion due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-intervention permissive-intervention rule-24 standing united-states-v-local-638 Whether the Southern District Court of New York's decision was arbitrary or unfair and violated Due Process
20-1534 Patrick Doughty, et al. v. State Employees’ Association of New Hampshire, SEIU Local 1984, CTW, CLC First Circuit Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 agency-fees compelled-association compelled-speech damages first-amendment restitution section-1983 Does a First Amendment compelled speech and association claim for damages or restitution brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 require a plaintiff to prove m…
20-1548 Natalio Fridman v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived act-of-production collective-entity-doctrine corporate-records fifth-amendment foregone-conclusion-doctrine irs-summons self-incrimination testimonial-evidence Does an individual retain his Fifth Amendment privilege in the face of the 'foregone conclusion doctrine' when an IRS summons requires him, in effect,…
20-1557 Davendra Anand v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-courts international-law jurisdiction lower-courts treaties Whether the lower courts erred in ruling they lacked jurisdiction over claims arising under treaties
20-1568 Teresa Miller v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review Whether the court's decision to order the defendant to a death sentence was necessary to prevent review of their conduct or actions, and whether a tra…
20-1571 Andrew Raymond and Brian Requena v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived analogue-act analogue-enforcement-act controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity sixth-amendment vagueness-doctrine Whether the Controlled Substances Analogue Enforcement Act of 1986 is void for vagueness
20-1578 William A. Graven v. Arizona Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-rights criminal-acts due-process qualified-immunity respondeat-superior service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-official-immunity state-officials Whether state officials can be sued in their individual capacities for alleged criminal acts under Ex Parte Young
20-1581 Malia Arciero v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when defense counsel's deficient advice led to a two-point sentencin…
20-1586 Artavis Desmond McGowan v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-conviction evidence first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-relief wiretap wiretap-evidence Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion for a new trial based on a constructive amendment of the indictment
20-1593 Devon E. Sanders v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response Waived child-pornography criminal-law disaggregation double-jeopardy federal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause takes into account only the essential facts for establishing the elements of two offenses
20-1600 Sae Han Sheet Co., Ltd. v. Eastman Performance Films, LLC Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-procedure contract-action dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-sanctions legal-procedure sanctions warnings Whether lower courts must refrain from using the sanction of dismissal unless egregious conduct justifying dismissal is committed in the face of direc…
20-1619 Expensify, Inc. v. Eddie White Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights declaratory-judgment dignitary-interests due-process free-speech mootness ninth-circuit nominal-damages standing Whether Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski merits summarily granting the petition, vacating the judgment, and remanding to determine whether the Ninth Circuit's…
20-575 Royal Truck & Trailer Sales and Service, Inc. v. Mike Kraft, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) authorized-access circuit-split computer-fraud-and-abuse-act criminal-law federal-statute improper-purpose standing statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access Whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abus…
20-6374 Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-review criminal-law drug-conspiracy fourth-circuit harmless-error sentencing united-states-v-harchulik Whether the Court of Appeals misapplied the harmless error doctrine announced in United States v. Harchulik, regarding Brown's sentence for drug consp…
20-6731 Kevin Francis v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-screening court-procedure criminal-procedure indigent-defendants judicial-error legal-waiver precedent public-defender sixth-amendment waiver Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred when it held that a public defender case screener who did not represent the defendant waived th…
20-6832 Shannon Keith Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP cocaine-sentencing criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums resentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines Whether district courts are required to apply the current, legally correct Sentencing Guideline range or the old Sentencing Guideline range that appli…
20-6905 Christopher Payton May-Shaw v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence pole-camera reasonable-expectation-of-privacy surveillance warrantless-search Was the warrantless long-term surveillance of the parking lot and carport adjacent to Petitioner's apartment building through the use of a pole camera…
20-7083 Jeremy Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process presumption-of-innocence rehau-v-united-states retroactive-application Whether a criminal defendant has substantial due process rights under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution
20-7084 Mindy Hill v. Google LLC, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights closed-captioning digital-content due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech standing terms-of-service youtube-terms-of-service Whether the court should resolve the issues regarding Google's YouTube terms of service, safety concerns, and violation of Ms. Hill's first amendment …
20-7188 Sedric Rashad Marion v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit north-carolina-law taylor-v-united-states violent-felony Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career …
20-7198 Benjamin Edward Henry Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi apprendi-doctrine criminal-forfeiture honeycutt honeycutt-precedent in-personam-judgment in-personam-money-judgments judge-found-facts jury-finding sixth-amendment Whether a court violates the Sixth Amendment's jury-finding requirements by ordering forfeiture based on judge-found facts
20-7207 Manuel de Jesus Gordillo-Escandon v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process interstate-agreement-detainers interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-timing Did the district court err in failing to dismiss the indictment under the Speedy Trial Act and the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act?
20-7261 Randell Joseph Redmond v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech just-compensation property-rights standing takings-clause tax-foreclosure Whether the court of appeals erred in denying a motion to dismiss a civil-rights, due-process, free-speech claim
20-7266 Kevin L. Martin v. Cathleen Capron, et al. Seventh Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing Whether the court of appeals erred in rejecting a fundamental constitutional challenge to a statute
20-7295 Isidro Sauceda v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appealability-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights exculpatory-evidence factual-innocence ineffective-counsel lesser-included-offense ninth-circuit reasonable-jurists willits-instruction Whether the Ninth Circuit utilized an unduly burdensome certificate-of-appealability standard that contravenes Supreme-Court-precedent
20-7355 Cleophus Reed, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
20-7368 Antonio Dewayne Hooks v. Kayodi Atoki, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force failure-to-protect fourteenth-amendment medical-needs objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson's objective-reasonableness standard applies to pretrial detainees' deliberate-indifference claims
20-7377 Benjamin Drake Daley v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP anti-riot-act civil-rights civil-unrest criminal-prosecution due-process facial-constitutionality federal-statute first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce overbreadth standing Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2101, the Anti-Riot Act, is facially invalid under the First Amendment
20-7386 Andrew Chapnick v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation timeliness-provision Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
20-7406 Lionel Robinson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-petition gross-negligence habeas-corpus postconviction-counsel Does gross negligence of postconviction counsel warrant equitable tolling for federal habeas filing?
20-7567 Brent Douglas Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-rights search-and-seizure standing Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant for a warrantless search of a person's home based on exigent circumstances when the person is not pres…
20-7599 Kevin L. Tucker v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-conflict legal-interpretation veterans-claims Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the United States Court of Appeals for Vetera…
20-7615 Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-case constitutional-claims criminal-procedure death-penalty equal-protection florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus penalty-phase procedural-history retroactivity supreme-court-review Whether Petitioner was denied equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the Florida Supreme Court decline…
20-7688 Roderick B. Lewis v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default standing state-court Can a state's procedural default rule preclude a federal court from reviewing a defendant's federal constitutional claims?
20-7691 Ernest Donald Washington v. Tammy Williams, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction ninth-circuit procedural-default Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to try the petitioner
20-7692 Donald Violett v. John R. Grise Kentucky Denied IFP actual-innocence attorney-client-privilege civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus state-court-review void-judgment Can a state court convict and incarcerate a petitioner on dismissed and fabricated charges based on new evidence?
20-7695 Gregory D. Jones v. Andrew Tilden, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the case
20-7704 Daghrib Shaheed, et al. v. Stephan Kroski, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-entry-order civil-rights family-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure new-york-state probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant Is a civil New York State Family Court Investigation Entry Order the equivalent of a search warrant?
20-7706 JaKara Vester v. Henlopen Landing Homeowners Association, Inc., et al. Delaware Denied IFP autism disability-discrimination disparate-treatment fair-housing-act housing-discrimination housing-provider-liability pretext-discrimination reasonable-accommodation special-needs Whether the Fair Housing Act requires housing providers to reasonably accommodate a disabled resident's request for a fence to protect their autistic …
20-7712 Gwendolyn Singleton v. Orangeburg County Disabilities Special Needs Board Fourth Circuit Denied IFP affidavit civil-procedure court-fees declaration financial-disclosure financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis indigent-status judicial-discretion poverty standing Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis
20-7713 Anthony Keenan Sharp v. Lawrence Long, Judge, Second Judicial Circuit Court of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence fair-trial freedom-of-speech prosecutorial-misconduct unlawful-search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to due process, equal protection, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, and freedom from unlawful …
20-7715 In Re Richard DeCaro Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP double-jeopardy ex-post-facto federal-statute first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-life second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause is violated
20-7717 Chadd A. Morris v. Shan Jumper, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process inadequate-treatment judicial-misconduct professional-judgment self-incrimination summary-judgment systemic-changes treatment-standards Whether the lower courts erred in granting summary judgment to the defendants despite the plaintiff's evidence of judicial-misconduct, failure-to-comp…
20-7719 Robert L. Tatum v. Thomas Trettin, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process free-speech in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation prisoner-litigation-reform-act standing three-strikes-rule Whether the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) 3-strike rule is unconstitutional
20-7721 Shannon Demond Dotson v. Tunica-Biloxi Gaming Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure consent-extension-of-time due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-standing service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-law Why the courts never acknowledged that the plaintiff never consented to the Defendant request for Extension of Time?
20-7722 Charles Erskine Church v. Virginia Virginia Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism marriage same-sex Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to recognize a same-sex marriage license from another State
20-7735 DeAndre Harris v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP advocacy-appearance constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-breach evidentiary-issues fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias judicial-impartiality prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court reversibly erred in admitting highly prejudicial and irrelevant evidence related to an alleged threat to Ms. Branson by Petiti…
20-7736 John H. Schoppe v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-agencies administrative-law agency-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-claim due-process injunctive-relief pro-se standing Whether the petitioner has standing to bring claims against the defendants for alleged abuse, negligence, incompetence, conspiracy, malfeasance, and d…
20-7739 Patrick J. Gage v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel good-faith habeas-corpus reasonable-decision sixth-amendment state-criminal-defendants state-criminal-procedure Does habeas corpus exist for state criminal defendants?
20-7748 Cavin Burns Francis McKen v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto sentencing sex-offender-registration Whether the designation of the petitioner as a sexual offender pursuant to Florida Statutes §943.0435 is illegal as applied to the petitioner
20-7751 Efrain Lopez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel speedy-trial Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying Lopez's COA on his speedy-trial-violation, due-process, ineffective-assistance-of-counsel, and false-testimony cl…
20-7754 Robert Roland Yerton, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-relief post-conviction standing state-court state-courts Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) erred in denying a writ of mandamus
20-7758 Benjamin E. Vance v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Did the lower courts violate Petitioner's Constitutional rights under the 14th Amendment to Due Process, Equal Protection clause, and U.S. Amendment V…
20-7765 Jared Andrew Martin v. California California Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute culpability due-process evidence jury mens-rea standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified
20-7825 Carlon McGinn v. Kansas Kansas Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-vagueness criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'PERSON FELONY' in Kansas Statutes is unconstitutionally vague
20-7850 Aaron J. LaRose v. Missouri Missouri Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance napue-standard napue-v-illinois post-conviction-relief strickland-v-washington Whether the state courts denied due process, equal protection, and access to courts by misapplying Brady v. Maryland, Napue v. Illinois, and Stricklan…
20-7857 Benjamin Ayala v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction double-jeopardy dwelling-entry fifth-amendment multiple-convictions single-entry state-court-conflict uniform-decision Whether petitioner's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy was violated
20-7899 Christopher Middleton v. Georgia Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements harmless-error indictment-sufficiency jury-disbelief self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a finding of guilt can be predicated on the jury's disbelief of a defendant's statements where the defendant does not testify and the State fa…
20-7901 Chalin Merrihew v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation Was Petitioner denied a fair trial?
20-7952 Pablo Bastidas v. Matthew Atchley, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254(d) alibi-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit prejudice Whether the Ninth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability on the petitioner's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim is contrary to this C…
20-7953 Alena Aleykina v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent due-process evidence expert-testimony fifth-amendment legal-separation prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Was it fair to affirm 18-U.S.C-1519-charge
20-7955 Alton D. Pelichet v. Wayne Circuit Court Judge, et al. Michigan Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence due-process equal-protection felony-murder fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was denied his right to a fair trial, due process and equal protection
20-7990 Jose Meza v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-v-united-states co-defendant-statements co-defendants confrontation-clause constitutional-procedure crawford-v-washington criminal-evidence informant ninth-circuit-interpretation testimonial testimonial-statements Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004) effectively and silently overruled Bruton v. United States, 391 U…
20-8002 Jason Andrew Cavazos v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing plain-error relevant-conduct sex-offense u.s.s.g.-§2g1.3(b)(4) Whether the court of appeals failed to properly apply the plain error analysis to the question of whether the sentencing court erred by including a tw…
20-8003 Cynthia Metivier v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP but-for-causation civil-rights discrimination federal-sector hostile-work-environment motivating-factor personnel-actions Question not identified. retaliation retaliation 20-8002" retaliation 20-8002" sex-discrimination title-vii Whether the federal-sector provision of Title VII requires a plaintiff to prove sex was a 'motivating factor' rather than a 'but for' cause of the cha…
20-8004 L. M. C. v. West Virginia West Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation cause-of-death child-endangerment due-process expert-testimony failure-to-provide-necessities judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal murder murder-of-a-child w-va-code-61-8d-2a Is it a violation of due process for a trial court to deny a motion for judgment of acquittal when there is no proof of cause of death in a prosecutio…
20-8013 Jesus Manuel Anchondo-Quezada v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing 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 …
20-8033 Ivan Ignacio Minjarez-Molina v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-8036 Antonio Kevin McKoy v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP continuing-criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure drug-penalties fourth-circuit-review jury-instructions plain-error sentencing-enhancements special-verdict Whether the jury should be required to return a special verdict form addressing all essential elements of continuing criminal enterprise (CCE), in tha…
20-8039 Matthew J. O'Neal v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography criminal-law eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by expanding the scope of the 'relating to' language in 18 U.S.C. §2252A(b)(2) to include conduct under a state statut…
20-8051 Lucas Kenneth Sabatino v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity prejudicial-error sixth-amendment trial-strategy Whether defense counsel committed prejudicial ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to raise issues relating to defendant's mental capacity at …
20-8052 Vicente Quiroz v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus systemic-breakdown Whether the denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) by the district court, without any meaningful review by the court of appeals, violates due …
20-8054 Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals failed to apply the law on deceased out-of-court testimonial statements by a non-testifying witness
20-8055 Julio Aviles, Sr. v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-system material-perjury perjury prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure trial-procedure Whether the entire affidavits of probable cause are based on completely material perjury
20-8058 Kenneth Rose v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-bias judicial-proceedings search-warrant sixth-circuit Has the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
20-8062 Erold Martin Panopio v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing sentencing-reform supervised-release youthful-offender youthful-offenders Whether a near twenty year prison sentence followed by a fifteen year term of supervised release for a youthful offender such as Panopio violates the …
20-8064 Derrick Grant v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP assault assault-statute criminal-law federal-agency federal-officer-employee federal-state-balance prison-employee statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether a private prison employee assisting federal marshals is covered under 18 U.S.C. § 1114
20-8065 Arthur Greaves v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment miranda-doctrine miranda-warning new-york-v-quarles private-property public-safety-exception search-and-seizure Does the public safety exception to the Miranda doctrine as set forth in New York v. Quarles, apply to private property, simply based on allegations t…
20-8066 James Hill v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-prosecution federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation Whether the federal government may obtain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) based on the purely local possession of a firearm that has previous…
20-8067 In Re Jeremiah Ybarra Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct Is an American citizen's Fifth Amendment violated when his case is not presented to a grand jury to gain an indictment on the alleged offense?
20-8069 Walter L. Merritte v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP court-order due-process illinois-supreme-court judicial-review jurisdiction legal-nullity procedural-authority separation-of-powers standing supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court Orders Denying Review are Null and Void For Want of Authority?
20-8080 Jason C. Johnson v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing Whether Jason Johnson should be held culpable for the untimely death of J. Peed, given that he was represented by ineffective counsel
20-8091 Steven Zapata v. Kentucky Kentucky Denied Response WaivedIFP competency constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure cronic-standard cronic-v-united-states guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the constructive denial of counsel standard under Cronic v. United States or the ineffective assistance of counsel standard under Strickland v…
20-911 Michael Jackson v. Don Hudson, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (1) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent federal-custody habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective overruled post-conviction-motion saving-clause section-2255 Whether Section 2255 is 'inadequate or ineffective' when, at the time of petitioner's initial Section 2255 motion, circuit precedent foreclosed a pote…
20-925 Sebhat Afework v. Velanta Monique Babbitt, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied 28-usc-1442 28-usc-1447(d) 28-usc-1448 appellate-review civil-rights-removal district-court-order federal-officer-removal remand-jurisdiction removal-statute Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou…
20-939 Colette Marie Wilcox v. Nathan H. Lyons, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-rights constitutional-provisions discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment invidious-discrimination retaliation standing Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits retaliation against a person who has complained about invidious discriminati…
20-948 Kobe v. Beverly Buscemi, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) 42-USC-1396a(a)(8) 42-USC-1985(3) Americans-with-Disabilities-Act civil-rights congregate-settings integration-mandate medicaid-act Olmstead-v-L-C reasonable-promptness summary-judgment Reasonable-promptness-mandate-under-Medicaid-Act
20M89 Leslie Gordon Smith v. Tehama County Sheriff's Department, et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M90 David L. Whitehead v. Paramount Pictures Corporation, et al. District of Columbia Presumed Complete None
20M91 David James Murphy v. Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., et al. New York Presumed Complete None
20M92 Antoinette Marques v. JP Morgan Chase, N.A. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None