Conference: 2021-06-17
263 cases — 0 granted, 263 denied/dismissed, 0 pending
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20-875 | Sok Kong, Trustee for Next of Kin of Map Kong, Decedent v. City of Burnsville, Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split district-court genuine-issue-of-material-fact interlocutory-appeal material-fact qualified-immunity standard-of-review summary-judgment | Whether, on interlocutory review of a denial of qualified immunity, an appellate court may reject a district court's determination of a genuine issue … | 18.0 |
| 20-579 | Zimmian Tabb v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law guidelines-commentary judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous. 2. Wh… | 17.5 |
| 20-1077 | Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Bernard Waithaka | First Circuit | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | arbitration-exemption circuit-split civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce national-boundaries state-boundaries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers | Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for classes of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce, 9 U.S.C. 1, prevents the Act's appli… | 17.0 |
| 20-1119 | Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. v. Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-103 graham-factors graham-v-john-deere hindsight-bias innovation innovation-protection nonobviousness-indicia objective-indicia obviousness-standard patent patent-law | Whether a court must consider objective indicia of nonobviousness together with the other factors bearing on an obviousness challenge before making an… | 17.0 |
| 20-1202 | William J. Miller v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | email-privacy fourth-amendment government-intrusion government-search private-actor property-based property-rights reasonable-expectation search search-and-seizure | Whether Jacobsen's reasonable-expectations conclusion "does not permit" courts to consider the traditional property approach, Pet. App. 35a, or whethe… | 16.0 |
| 20-1244 | Barbara Tully, et al. v. Paul Okeson, et al. | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | absentee-voting age-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment twenty-sixth-amendment voting-rights | Indiana's absentee voting laws expressly distinguish between voters based on age by giving all voters age 65 or older an entitlement to cast an absent… | 16.0 |
| 20-504 | Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Wilson N. Guadalupe | Third Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | None | 16.0 | |
| 20-1120 | Melissa Belgau, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 collective-bargaining color-of-law employee-rights first-amendment public-employees section-1983 union-dues | 1. Whether it violates the First Amendment for a state and union to seize union dues or fees from employees' wages without proof the employees waived … | 15.0 |
| 20-1123 | Lenwood Hamilton v. Lester Speight, et al. | Third Circuit | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights commercial-speech first-amendment free-speech likeness-rights privacy privacy-rights property-rights right-of-publicity transformative-use video-game-law | 1) whether the First Amendment right to free speech protects using a person's actual likeness without permission when weighed against that person's pr… | 15.0 |
| 20-1204 | Mark Ringland v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | digital-evidence electronic-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence reasonable-expectation search search-and-seizure trespass united-states-v-jacobsen | Whether compelling someone's emails from his or her electronic service provider and opening them is a trespass, and therefore a "search," under the Fo… | 15.0 |
| 20-1149 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., et al. v. Clare E. Connors, Attorney General of Hawaii | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Amici (4) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review sprint-communications standing state-enforcement younger-abstention | Whether, under Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs, 571 U.S. 69 (2013), a federal court must consider the specific characteristics of an underlying … | 14.5 |
| 20-1033 | Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua S.A.B. de C.V., et al. v. Compañía de Inversiones Mercantiles, S.A. | Tenth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arising-out-of-test civil-procedure email-service federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-4(f)(3) foreign-defendants hague-service-convention narrative personal-jurisdiction service-of-process u.s.-contacts | 1. Does service by email on the U.S. counsel of a foreign party pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(f)(3) violate the Hague Service Conventi… | 14.0 |
| 20-1056 | Justin Wolfe v. Virginia | Virginia | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-rights constitutional-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas forfeiture-rule plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct vindictive-prosecution | After petitioner Justin Wolfe obtained federal habeas relief because of "abhorrent" prosecutorial misconduct, the Commonwealth of Virginia vindictivel… | 14.0 |
| 20-1284 | Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso | Federal Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | abstention claim-construction exclusive-jurisdiction federal-abstention federal-jurisdiction patent-infringement patent-jurisdiction patent-law state-court-proceedings | Whether a federal court with exclusive jurisdiction over a claim may abstain in favor of a state court with no jurisdiction over that claim. | 14.0 |
| 20-842 | Maria Maldonado De Calleja v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | None | 14.0 | |
| 20-860 | Ryan Randall Gilbertson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-restitution due-process jury jury-determination procedural-due-process reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits a court from imposing criminal restitution on a defendant based on facts not found by the jury beyond a reasonab… | 14.0 |
| 20-1162 | Maine Community Health Options, et al. v. United States | Federal Circuit | Denied | Amici (3) | affordable-care-act breach-of-contract contract-law contract-law-analogy cost-sharing-reduction government-liability government-obligation shall-pay-command statutory-interpretation | Whether the government is required to pay insurers the full amount of the cost-sharing reduction payments required by the unambiguous shall-pay langua… | 13.5 |
| 20-1293 | AbbVie Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission | Third Circuit | Denied | Amici (3) | antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure due-process litigation-exception noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-immunity objective-baselessness sham-litigation standing subjective-element | Whether the subjective element of the "sham litigation" exception to Noerr-Pennington immunity may be met by an inference from a finding that a challe… | 13.5 |
| 20-291 | Jamell Birt v. United States | Third Circuit | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (3) | circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-penalties statutory-interpretation | Does the term "covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018 include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the pena… | 13.5 |
| 20-886 | Thelma G. McCoy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Amici (3) | bankruptcy bankruptcy-code brunner-test circuit-split student-loan-debt student-loans totality-of-circumstances totality-test undue-hardship | The Bankruptcy Code permits courts to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy if a debtor can show that repaying it would cause her "undue hardship.… | 13.5 |
| 20-1233 | Johnny Gatewood v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Amici (2) | cause-exception circuit-precedent due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-cause petitioner-rights procedural-default supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner's procedural default when near-unanimous circuit precedent foreclosed the petitioner's claim. 2… | 12.5 |
| 20-836 | Marcus Broadway v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | agency-deference due-process judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie rule-of-lenity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines stinson-deference | (1) Do courts owe deference to the Sentencing Commission's commentary when it expands the scope of the Sentencing Guidelines? (2) Do the rule of leni… | 12.0 |
| 20-1200 | Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated v. United States | Federal Circuit | Denied | Amici (1) | affordable-care-act contract-law cost-sharing-reduction cost-sharing-reduction-payments government-liability government-obligation mitigation-defense statutory-interpretation | May the United States invoke a non-statutory mitigation defense to avoid the unambiguous requirement of section 1402 of the Patient Protection and Aff… | 11.5 |
| 20-1017 | Lawrence Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-rights common-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession law-enforcement statutory-interpretation | In Dixon v. United States, 548 U.S. 1 (2006), this Court held that every "long-established common-law" affirmative defense is incorporated into the fe… | 11.0 |
| 20-1295 | United States v. Timothy Zachary Green | Fourth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (2) | circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession plain-error-review prejudice-standard statutory-interpretation | Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction for possessing a firearm following a felony conviction, in violation of 18 … | 11.0 |
| 20-1092 | Brandon Jones v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights document-fraud due-process federal-criminal-law fraud free-speech government-securities legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 514(a) prohibits the use of "any false or fictitious instrument, document, or other item appearing, representing, purporting, or contrivin… | 10.5 | |
| 20-1432 | United States v. Maine Community Health Options, et al. | Federal Circuit | Denied | affordable-care-act appropriations cost-sharing-reduction cost-sharing-reductions government-liability implied-damages implied-right-of-action premium-tax-credits statutory-interpretation | Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that Congress intended to afford insurers an implied money damages remedy as compensation for CSR pay… | 10.5 | |
| 20-1536 | United States v. Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated | Federal Circuit | Denied | affordable-care-act appropriations cost-sharing-reduction cost-sharing-reductions government-appropriation health-insurance-exchange implied-remedy money-damages premium-tax-credit premium-tax-credits | Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that Congress intended to afford insurers an implied money-damages remedy as compensation for CSR pay… | 10.5 | |
| 20-1078 | Danyelle Bennett v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | constitutional-protection first-amendment free-speech hecklers-veto pickering-balancing-test political-speech public-employee rankin-v-mcpherson | 1. Whether, contrary to Rankin v. McPherson, 483 U.S. 378 (1987), a public employee's political debate on an issue of national importance may be silen… | 9.5 |
| 20-1337 | APC Investment Co., et al. v. Howmet Aerospace Inc., fka Arconic, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | cercla civil-procedure common-law contribution contribution-claim environmental-law statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation superfund | Is the statutory claim for contribution in section 113 of CERCLA, including the statute of limitations found in section 113(g)(3), governed exclusivel… | 9.0 |
| 20-846 | Club One Casino, Inc., dba Club One Casino, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-procedure-act federal-enclave federal-trust-acquisition indian-commerce-clause indian-reorganization-act land-transfer state-sovereignty tenth-amendment tribal-jurisdiction | A Nevada gambling corporation donated a parcel of private California land to the United States to hold in trust for an Indian tribe for an off-reserva… | 9.0 |
| 20-1560 | Lowndes County Health Services, LLC v. Gregory Copeland, et al. | Georgia | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection juror-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike race-neutrality racial-discrimination | 1. Whether striking a juror based on allegations of racial prejudice, when unsubstantiated, is not a facially race neutral explanation under step two … | 8.5 |
| 20-171 | Isaac L. Hobbs v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3) | 18-usc-922 constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea knowledge-of-status statutory-interpretation structural-error | Does a constitutionally invalid guilty plea resulting from the government's failure to inform a defendant of the knowledge-of-status element of 18 U.S… | 6.5 |
| 18-9639 | Dustin E. Ash v. United States | Tenth Circuit | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | circuit-split crimes-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process federal-firearms-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines reckless-crime reckless-crimes sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 violent-crimes | Whether reckless crimes, like Mr. Ash's Kansas reckless aggravated battery conviction, qualify as crimes of violence under USSG § 4B1.2. | 5.5 |
| 19-5325 | Alan Victor Gomez Gomez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure force-element immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… | 5.5 |
| 20-1094 | Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. v. United States, et al. | Federal Circuit | Denied | administrative-agency administrative-law agency-determination civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit judicial-review methodology procedural-fairness retroactive-application retroactive-methodology | Whether the Federal Circuit erred by affirming, in conflict with the D.C. Circuit, the practice that an administrative agency may penalize the subject… | 5.5 | |
| 20-1099 | Gadsden Industrial Park, LLC v. United States | Federal Circuit | Denied | 5th-amendment court-of-federal-claims due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation property-rights takings takings-clause tucker-act | I. Whether this Court should fill a statutory and jurisprudential void in Tucker Act inverse condemnation "takings" law to resolve the obvious consti… | 5.5 | |
| 20-1151 | Libertarian Party of Erie County, et al. v. Andrew M. Cuomo, Individually and as Governor of the State of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | Denied | 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process heller licensing-discretion may-issue-law mcdonald pistol-permit second-amendment self-defense standing | This case presents one big issue that necessarily requires the resolution of a number of critical subsidiary issues. 1. Should the State of New York,… | 5.5 | |
| 20-1180 | Territory of American Samoa v. National Marine Fisheries Service, et al. | Ninth Circuit | Denied | administrative-law american-samoa constitutional-law deeds-of-cession federal-law federal-obligations large-vessel-prohibited-area maritime-regulation territorial-law territory-of-american-samoa | Whether the Deeds of Cession, by which the Territory of American Samoa became part of the United States, establish binding and enforceable obligations… | 5.5 | |
| 20-1261 | Wi-LAN, Inc., et al. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | Denied | administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officer judicial-review patent patent-office principal-officer separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation uspto | 1. Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of… | 5.5 | |
| 20-1262 | MarySusan Ward v. Louisville Metro Government | Kentucky | Denied | batson-v-kentucky civil-rights equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges supremacy-clause | This Court in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) held that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment prohibited litig… | 5.5 | |
| 20-1276 | Stephen B. McKinney v. Felicia Harkness Dean, Guardian and Conservator for and on Behalf of Janel Harkness, an Incapacitated Adult | Fourth Circuit | Denied | circuit-court-of-appeals clearly-established-law deliberate-indifference due-process intent-to-harm parratt-hudson parratt-hudson-doctrine qualified-immunity substantive-due-process | 1. Did the Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to apply the Parratt-Hudson doctrine to the Respondent's substantive due process claim? 2. Did the… | 5.5 | |
| 20-1285 | Immunex Corporation v. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC, et al. | Federal Circuit | Denied | 35-usc-318 administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause inferior-officers patent-and-trademark-office principal-officers | The first two questions presented here are the same as those presented in Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., No. 19-1458; Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. … | 5.5 | |
| 20-1332 | Eric D. Speidell, et al. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | Denied | cannabis-legality civil-rights controlled-substances-act drug-law-investigation federal-preemption isr-summons standing state-legalization supremacy-clause warrant-requirement | 1. Under the Supremacy Clause, does Colorado's expressly state legal sales of cannabis violate the Controlled Substances Act? 2. Did Congress, under … | 5.5 | |
| 20-1429 | Arcona, Inc. v. Farmacy Beauty, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | Denied | circuit-split lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion registered-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-counterfeiting trademark-registration | The Lanham Act defines "counterfeit" as "a spurious mark which is identical with, or substantially indistinguishable from, a registered mark." (15 U.S… | 5.5 | |
| 20-1452 | Rick C. Sasso v. Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | Denied | 28-usc-1295(a)(1) 28-usc-1338(a) breach-of-contract declaratory-judgment federal-circuit federal-patent-laws jurisdiction patent-jurisdiction removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether this is a case "arising under" federal patent laws under 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a) within the Federal Circuit's jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1295(… | 5.5 | |
| 20-1456 | Walter Osborne v. Douglas E. Kellogg, et al. | Florida | Denied | appellate-procedure change-of-venue civil-rights court-recusal due-process judicial-bias legal-review procedural-fairness recusal standing venue | Can I get an impartial review via 5th DCA. Answer is absolutely no, based on what I have documented for 10 years. So 5th DCA should help me obtain a … | 5.5 | |
| 20-1457 | Adrian Moon v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | California | Denied | attorney-discipline bar-association civil-rights compelled-speech free-speech mandatory-bar | Does SATAN the God we serve under Black lies matter to SATAN have governmental agencies DeviLindhis SATAN and his government have Power or Authority t… | 5.5 | |
| 20-1458 | Jon L. Bryan v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. | First Circuit | Denied | administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure duty-of-fair-representation grievance-procedure grievance-withdrawal labor-law statute-of-limitations union-representation | Whether the court erred by ruling that a union member's duty of fair representation claim, filed two months after the union's withdrawal of his 19-yea… | 5.5 | |
| 20-1477 | Randy R. Bell v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. | Second Circuit | Denied | appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-discretion district-court due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction notice-of-appeal standing | Did Northern New York District Court Judge David Hurd lack jurisdiction to issue a decision, dismissing petitioner's complaint, as a result of fraud u… | 5.5 | |
| 20-1660 | In Re Garvester Bracken | Denied | article-iii criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction probable-cause right-to-be-present right-to-counsel trial-jurisdiction | DID THE TRIAL COURT HAVE JURISDICTION TO PROCEED AND ENTER JUDGMENT AS A MATTER OF LAW? WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT HAD POSSESSED JURIDICTION IN ABSENCE … | 5.5 | ||
| 20-489 | Pedro M. Bess v. United States | Armed Forces | Denied | convening-authority court-martial due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment military-justice racial-discrimination standing | 1. Whether 10 U.S.C. § 825, as applied in Petitioner's case, violates the Fifth Amendment. 2. Whether the lower court erred in declining to remand Pe… | 5.5 | |
| 20M93 | Robert Arthur Moses v. Texas | Texas | Denied | None | 5.5 | ||
| 20M94 | Susan Ferraz v. Howard Speicher | First Circuit | Denied | None | 5.5 | ||
| 20M95 | Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management | Federal Circuit | Denied | None | 5.5 | ||
| 20M96 | Henry E. Gossage v. Merit Systems Protection Board | Federal Circuit | Denied | None | 5.5 | ||
| 20M97 | Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management | Federal Circuit | Denied | None | 5.5 | ||
| 20M98 | Henry E. Gossage v. Merit Systems Protection Board | Federal Circuit | Denied | None | 5.5 | ||
| 19-7764 | Michael Tyrone Simpson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery carter-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-intent federal-bank-robbery force-clause general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | Is federal bank robbery a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of this Court's holding in Carter v. United States,… | 5.0 |
| 19-8191 | Benjamin Velasquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre- Booker… | 5.0 |
| 20-5037 | Bruce Zachary Pugh v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | criminal-procedure fairness-integrity judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error public-reputation substantial-rights supreme-court-precedent trial-record | (1) Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense, based upon an intervening U.S. Supreme Court decision, allows cou… | 5.0 |
| 19-6979 | Joassaint Josiah Aristil v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) carjacking categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute force intent intimidation physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119, which may be committed by intimidation, requires an element "the use, attempted use, or threatene… | 4.5 |
| 20-1098 | Tod Houthoofd v. Les Parish, Warden | Michigan | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-error trial-jurisdiction venue venue-challenge | Does Petitioner's convictions violate the U.S. Constitution and prior decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court? (See page 2) | 4.0 |
| 20-1156 | Alan H. Olefsky v. Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, et al. | Illinois | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | abuse-of-discretion administrative-discretion administrative-law agency-review disciplinary-action due-process medical-license medical-license-suspension mitigating-circumstances past-discipline | 1. Whether the IDFPR's Final Order indefinitely suspending Petitioner's medical license for two years pursuant to the first order on remand, or one ye… | 4.0 |
| 20-1239 | Edward Smith v. Ohio | Ohio | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-protection constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure state-court stealthy-encroachment | When the Supreme Court of Ohio "sidestepped," & refused to enforce the protection & privileges of the 5th, 6th, & 14th Amend, to the U.S. Constitution… | 4.0 |
| 20-1447 | Kenneth R. Kunzer v. Lisa A. Hiniker, et al. | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | breach-of-trust civil-procedure embezzlement estate-planning fiduciary-duty fraud probate probate-law resulting-trust testamentary-intent trust-administration | 1. Why did Magistrate Judge Menendez refuse to look at the Last Will and Testament and Codicil of Albert P. Herschler? 2. Why did Judge Menendez refu… | 3.5 |
| 20-1455 | Deborah Cheng v. Mary Raleigh, et al. | Illinois | Denied | Response Waived | 2016-obama's-snt-law 21st-century-cures-act congressional-intent healthcare-law implementation-scope planned-national-implementation probate-exception special-needs-trust statutory-interpretation | 1. Did Congress intend the probate exception to include the 2016 Obama's SNT law in the 21st Century Cures Act? 2. What is the scope of the probate e… | 3.5 |
| 20-1494 | Nob Hill General Stores, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-law due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause ninth-circuit precedent precedential-value publication-rules | Contracting parties use a "notwithstanding any language to the contrary" clause in their contracts to preclude the applicability of competing contract… | 3.5 |
| 20-1497 | Yao Pone v. Board of County Commissioners for Calvert County, Maryland | Maryland | Denied | Response Waived | 8th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights county-regulations covid-19-restrictions due-process standing takings zoning zoning-violations | a. Were the citations issued by the County sufficient notice of violations? b. Were the Petitioner's rights violated when the County continued to imp… | 3.5 |
| 20-1500 | Machiavelli Farrakhan Siberius v. American Public University System, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process education-program employment employment-status fair-labor-standards-act flsa-interpretation free-labor-system labor-exploitation student-employee student-rights thirteenth-amendment | 1. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States court of ap… | 3.5 |
| 20-1502 | Abdikarim Karrani v. JetBlue Airways Corporation | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | air-carrier-discrimination air-transportation cat's-paw cat's-paw-doctrine civil-rights discrimination federal-preemption preemption statutory-interpretation transportation-law | 1. Is 49 US.C. § 44092(b) inapplicable to 42 U.S.C. § 1981 cases? 2. Should the "cat's paw" analysis of Staub v. Proctor Hosp., 562 U.S. 411 (2011) b… | 3.5 |
| 20-1583 | Jeffrey Olson v. Minnesota Commissioner of Revenue | Minnesota | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-procedure appeal commissioner-order commissioner's-order due-process mail-notice ordinary-mail procedural-due-process tax-appeal tax-assessment tax-procedure | Under Minnesota tax procedure, the central procedural event is the issuance of a Commissioner's Order, by which the Minnesota Commissioner of Revenue … | 3.5 |
| 20-1616 | ComicMix, LLC, et al. v. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof circuit-split copyright-act copyright-law de-novo-review exclusive-rights fair-use market-effect | (1) Whether fair use is a right of authors, thus placing the burden on plaintiffs to prove that fair use does not apply on defendants who assert that … | 3.5 |
| 20-1617 | Matthew Earley v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation | Can the "burden of proof" regarding inherency shift if the Court (US Court of Appeals / Federal Circuit) and Board (US Patent Trial and Appeal Board) … | 3.5 |
| 20-1618 | John Anthony Gentry v. Glen Casada, et al. | Tennessee | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-duty legislative-procedure petition standing state-constitution | This Court has not in its entire history been presented a more important case, seeking to restore the cornerstone right of petition oppressed in attem… | 3.5 |
| 20-1620 | Joy McShan Edwards v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-1513 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) was unreasonable, whe… | 3.5 |
| 20-1622 | Ramonica M. Luke v. University Health Services, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1981 admissible-evidence civil-rights civil-rights-act comparator-evidence employment-discrimination honest-belief-rule mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework pretext-analysis similarly-situated title-vii | 1. Applicable to the Title VII of the Civil Rights of 1964 or 42 U.S.C, 1981, did Plaintiff prove pretext by discrimination by showing "weakness, impl… | 3.5 |
| 20-1630 | Susan Chen v. Kate Halamay, et al. | Washington | Denied | Response Waived | access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process guardian-ad-litem judicial-interpretation legislative-power pro-se-representation separation-of-powers | The Courts "have power to say what the law is, not what it should be." Obsergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015) (Roberts, J., joined by Scalia and T… | 3.5 |
| 19-5763 | Jose Lara-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… | 2.0 |
| 19-5908 | Howard Leon Combs v. United States | Fifth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | acca-elements-clause armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause physical-force reckless-offense reckless-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation texas-aggravated-assault violent-crime | 1. A person is guilty of Texas aggravated assault if his reckless driving causes another person to suffer injury; if he transmits a virus to an unwitt… | 2.0 |
| 19-6114 | Antwoyn Anderson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split elements-clause mens-rea reckless serious-drug-offense violent-felony | I. Whether possession with intent to sell cocaine under Fla. Stat. § 893.13 is a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C.… | 2.0 |
| 19-6186 | Latroy Leon Burris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning physical-force reckless-injury statutory-interpretation | (1) Does recklessly causing another person to suffer injury necessarily involve the "use of physical force against" that person for purposes of the Ar… | 2.0 |
| 20-5747 | Ryan Nicholas Haynes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement passenger-rights passenger-search plain-error-review search-and-seizure traffic-stop | (1) Whether a traffic stop of a bus for a minor traffic violation allows law enforcement to order all passengers off the bus to be searched? (2) Whet… | 2.0 |
| 19-6633 | Adrian Ausberry v. United States | Sixth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause mens-rea recklessness u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(a) u.s.s.g.-4b1.2(a) violent-felony | Before this Court decided Voisine v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2272 (2016), all circuits agreed that an offense that can be committed with a mens rea … | 1.5 |
| 20-5157 | Denard Stokeling v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining plea-validity rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | 1. Where a defendant pled guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prior to Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2029), and it is undisputed th… | 1.5 |
| 20-5499 | Savannah Rolle v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements guilty-plea plea-bargaining rehaif-precedent rehaif-v-united-states vacatur | Whether a defendant's guilty plea entered before Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2020), in which the defendant was not advised of the essent… | 1.5 |
| 20-5645 | Virgil Nickens v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-courts criminal-law federal-courts federal-courts-of-appeals jury-instructions jury-verdict plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states united-states-v-olano | In Rehaif, v. United States, this Court held that the government establishes that a defendant aided and abetted an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offense only if … | 1.5 |
| 20-5959 | Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States… | 1.5 |
| 19-6908 | Margarito Olvera-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… | 1.0 |
| 19-7684 | Jeremy Glenn Powell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit physical-force reckless reckless-offenses statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-felony | 1. Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery, Penal Code § 29.02(a), "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force … | 1.0 |
| 19-8190 | George Lyle Cullett, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-sentencing residual-clause section-2255 timeliness timeliness-standard | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … | 1.0 |
| 20-5434 | Treshun Devonte Bates v. United States | Fifth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | borden-case borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence grant-vacate-remand reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines supreme-court use-of-force | Can reckless conduct constitute a "crime of violence" by satisfying the "use of force" clause in the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual's definition of… | 1.0 |
| 20-5584 | David Matthews v. United States | Fifth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal … | 1.0 |
| 20-6130 | Desmond Howard Greer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-offense elements-of-crime force legal-interpretation mens-rea personal-injury reckless-injury recklessness sentencing use-of-force violent-crime | Whether an offense has as an element the use of force against the person of another if it may be committed by recklessly inflicting injury? | 1.0 |
| 20-6192 | Jamal Aikeem Hutchinson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms guilty-plea henderson-v-morgan plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation | In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that "in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and § 924(a)(2), the Government must prove both that the d… | 1.0 |
| 20-6212 | Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether This Court Should Grant the Petition to Resolve a Circuit Split Regarding Whether Under Plain Error Review, a Defendant's Conviction for Felon… | 1.0 |
| 20-6225 | Michael David Lister v. United States | Fifth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-assault texas-penal-code violent-felony | 1. Is Texas aggravated assault—which can be committed by recklessly causing serious bodily injury—a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act… | 1.0 |
| 20-6291 | Christopher Stacy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitle… | 1.0 |
| 20-6305 | Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea plain-error sentencing sentencing-error | Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitle… | 1.0 |
| 20-6373 | Cordarrius Bonds v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession knowledge-of-status plain-error plea-bargaining sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-precedent structural-error | I. When a defendant pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), and the plea was neither knowing no… | 1.0 |
| 20-6388 | Joel Latrent Fletcher v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States… | 1.0 |
| 20-6447 | Michael Anthony Cernak v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause extortion federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law intimidation mandatory-sentencing statutory-interpretation | Federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be committed "by force and violence, or by inti midation . . . or . . . by extortion.… | 1.0 |
| 20-6459 | David Lee Garrett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(e) civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure sentencing-enhancement simple-robbery statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-code texas-offense violent-felony | I. Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery constitutes a "violent felony" under 18 U.S.C. §924(e)? II. Whether the Texas offense of burglary cons… | 1.0 |
| 20-6539 | Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law physical-force reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether a statute has as an element the use of physical force against the person or property of another, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 16(a), when a con… | 1.0 |
| 20-6541 | Alejandro Pineda-Campuzano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… | 1.0 |
| 20-6552 | Ignacio Arreola-Mendoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… | 1.0 |
| 20-6582 | Curtis Ward v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence federal-armed-bank-robbery force-clause mandatory-sentencing statutory-interpretation | Federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be committed "by force and violence, or by intimidation . . . or . . . by extortion."… | 1.0 |
| 20-6601 | Savannah Sifuentes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure elements-of-offense essential-element forfeiture guilty-plea indictment indictment-challenge statutory-interpretation waiver | 1. Whether a defendant who unsuccessfully moves to dismiss an indictment for failure to allege an essential element of the crime waives or forfeits th… | 1.0 |
| 20-6610 | Luis Sanabria-Robreno v. United States | Third Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-922g constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements firearm-possession guilty-plea plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states | When defendant s plead guilty, this Court's precedent —consistent with due process —require s that they understand the offense's essential elements. I… | 1.0 |
| 20-6862 | Montecarlos Gant v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights | (1) When it is undisputed that a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause, is automatic revers… | 1.0 |
| 20-7069 | Martell Roberts v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … | 1.0 |
| 20-7072 | Jean Denis Paul v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-court double-jeopardy fairness-integrity felon-in-possession plain-error plain-error-review rehaif revocation substantial-rights supervised-release supreme-court-decision trial-record | Question One: This Court held in Rehaif v. United States , 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) , that in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g), 924(a)(2), the go… | 1.0 |
| 20-7126 | Dominic Anthony Davis, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery circuit-split fact-based-harmless-error-review harmless-error jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents | I. Where an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction rests on more than one possible predicate offense, the Shepard documents must conclusively establish that a … | 1.0 |
| 20-7137 | Jerald Dean Godwin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 appellate-review bank-robbery crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus meaningful-review section-2255 | I. Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders —issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or succ… | 1.0 |
| 20-7213 | Nathan Ray Dent v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | I. The government concedes that one of the possible predicate offenses used to convict Petitioners under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) —conspiracy—is not a § 924… | 1.0 |
| 20-7280 | Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process federal-courts felony-murder physical-force state-court-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Whether a federal court analyzing a prior state-court conviction to determine whether the offense qualifies as a "violent felony" under the Armed C… | 1.0 |
| 20-7382 | Calvin Thomas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 'bank-robbery' 'crime-of-violence' 'force-clause' 'hobbs-act' 'sentencing-enhancement' 'statutory-interpretation' criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime | 1. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encom… | 1.0 |
| 20-7413 | Zelos Fields v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 'bank-robbery' 'crime-of-violence' 'force-clause' 'hobbs-act' 'sentencing-enhancement' 'statutory-interpretation' criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime | 1. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encom… | 1.0 |
| 19-5727 | Trayvon Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-interpretation state-law | 1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest… | 0.5 |
| 19-5749 | Juan Manuel Perez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest… | 0.5 |
| 20-6953 | Dwyne Byron Deruise, aka Duke v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | IFP | career-offender circuit-split criminal-justice-reform discretion discretionary-review first-step-act resentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current… | 0.5 |
| 20-7253 | Nancy Cole v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | IFP | constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statutes due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability | 1. Whether the knowingly mens rea in the federal drug statutes, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841, 960, applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establis… | 0.5 |
| 20-7414 | James Innocent v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | IFP | circuit-court criminal-procedure greer-v-united-states judicial-review plain-error rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record | Whether when applying plan-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters … | 0.5 |
| 20-7794 | Kamau Davis v. California | California | Denied | IFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process jury-selection meaningful-appeal peremptory-challenge seat-number transcript voir-dire | Whether the voir dire transcript that identifies jurors for the most part by a seat number, which number keeps changing as peremptories are exercised … | 0.5 |
| 20-7800 | Jacqueline Moore v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness-standard federal-criminal-law indictment mens-rea plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-decision trial-record | I. When applying plain error review based on an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, may an appellate court consider information outside … | 0.5 |
| 19-7113 | Raynard Gray v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) bank-robbery categorical-analysis crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law intent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-force | Whether bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2113(a), qualifies as a "crime of violence" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), the so cal… | 0.0 |
| 19-7320 | Jurden Rogers v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause intimidation physical-force statutory-interpretation | I. Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim or by presenting a teller with a demand not… | 0.0 |
| 19-8004 | Lamarcus Harvey v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) attempted-bank-robbery bank-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause intimidation statutory-interpretation | I. Bank Robbery, (the basis for attempted bank robbery) which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim, or by presenting to the telle… | 0.0 |
| 19-8679 | Dan Reed v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states status-knowledge statutory-interpretation substantial-rights united-states-v-reed | In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant knew he possess… | 0.0 |
| 19-6354 | Brent Delvalen Blake v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-statute elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery intent physical-force vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime | Can reasonable jurists debate whether federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 9… | -0.5 |
| 19-7067 | Michael Baird Jordan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause general-intent intent intimidation physical-force specific-intent statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that bank robbery by intimidation is less culpable than a specific in… | -0.5 |
| 19-7079 | Bryan Mark Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause intent intentional-force statutory-interpretation | Whether federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) … | -0.5 |
| 19-7569 | Stanley Noel Ames v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c bank-robbery carter-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law-procedure federal-bank-robbery force-clause general-intent intent sentencing-standard specific-intent | Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that federal bank robbery is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of this C… | -0.5 |
| 19-8044 | Brian Vidrine v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 924(c) career-offender criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-enhancement section-924c sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Are Vidrine's § 924(c) convictions invalid in light of this Court's decision in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and its progeny? … | -0.5 |
| 20-5640 | Michael Wayne Northcutt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process intentional-conduct mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Where the circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct woul… | -0.5 |
| 20-6027 | Michael Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing gvr mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 1. Petitioner questions wehether even if §924(e)(2)(A)(ii) does not call for a generic-offense-matching analysis, does it require knowledge of the sub… | -0.5 |
| 20-6242 | Devontate Mauryce Davis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | administrative-law controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate offenses to the USSG § 4B1.2(b) definition of "controlled su… | -0.5 |
| 20-7296 | Dane Schrank v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | appellate-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum oral-argument reasoned-decision sentencing-guidelines standing | I. Must Circuit Courts provide reasoned decisions to deny parties oral argument under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34(a)(2)? II. Does a policy… | -0.5 |
| 20-7291 | John L. Harris v. Illinois | Illinois | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea non-consensual-reinstatement plea-bargaining plea-opportunity presumption-of-innocence sentencing trial-court | Whether a trial court's non-consensual reinstatement of a defendant's guilty plea, without admonishments or the opportunity to plead anew, violates th… | -1.0 |
| 20-8116 | Carlos Bayon v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion legal-interpretation rule-of-exclusion rule-of-inclusion | Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) permits the admission of evidence of any other crime, wrong or act to prove a criminal defendant's motive, opportunity… | -1.5 |
| 20-8120 | Gary Lee Willingham v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-review post-conviction section-2255 standard-of-review summary-reversal | After obtaining the prefiling authorization required by 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), Mr. Willingham moved to vacate his ACCA-enhanced sentence. The Governm… | -1.5 |
| 20-6436 | Daniel Lovato v. United States | Tenth Circuit | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP | administrative-law commission-commentary crime-of-violence guideline-interpretation judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock-deference sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Commission commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous. 2. Wh… | -2.0 |
| 19-5652 | Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States | Tenth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline circuit-split force-clause reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Do reckless crimes qualify categorically as crimes of violence under the force clause of these statutes and guidelines? | -3.0 |
| 20-5407 | Dominique Mack v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidence jailhouse-informant mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing plain-error sentencing statements-against-interest | 1. Should the Court should grant certiorari in order to consider whether this Court's jurisprudence concerning the admission of statements against int… | -3.0 |
| 20-5773 | William C. McGee v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure essential-element judicial-determination jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error | I. Whether omitting an essential element of the crime in both the indictment and jury instructions may be reviewed for harmlessness as held by the Eig… | -3.0 |
| 20-5939 | Kadeem Burden v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession jury-instructions plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment | In a conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g), after a jury trial held prior to this Court's ruling in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. … | -3.0 |
| 20-5949 | Timmy Scott v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | criminal-indictment criminal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession indictment jury-instructions mens-rea prohibited-status rehaif rehaif-challenge | 1) Whether Rehaif's mens rea requirement is limited to whether or not the defendant knew he was a convicted felon alone, or whether it requires him to… | -3.0 |
| 19-6025 | Javier Segovia-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing force force-against-person immigration-law mens-rea mental-state reckless-conduct reckless-mental-state recklessness statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… | -3.5 |
| 19-6466 | Eric Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Does aiding and abetting armed bank robbery —which can be accomplished without the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force —qualify as… | -3.5 |
| 19-6504 | Franklin Roosevelt McGee v. United States | Sixth Circuit | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness qualifies as a "violent felony" for purposes of the Armed Career Crim… | -3.5 |
| 19-8816 | Willie Edward Blackshire v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-validity due-process guilty-plea henderson-v-morgan rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states structural-error | This Court has long held that, for a guilty plea to satisfy constitutional due process requirements, the defendant must have been informed of all elem… | -3.5 |
| 20-5400 | Gary Allen Kachina v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Does (8 U.s.c.S9a4ca) provide For criMinal penalties TO Fesons Who possess FireArMs Absent proof that They Knew of their Felon STatUs under plaln Err… | -3.5 |
| 20-5404 | Jermaine Isaac Ross v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea non-elemental-facts prior-offenses rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense | 1. Whether a federal court may increase a defendant's sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) by relying on its own finding about non-elem… | -3.5 |
| 20-5453 | Jose Luis Sanchez-Rosado v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy standard-of-review | Whether an unconstitutional conviction based on a plea colloquy that omitted an element of the offense must be reversed where the defendant objected t… | -3.5 |
| 20-5489 | Rodney Lavalais v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 2k2.1(b)(4)(a) appellate-review due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-voluntariness prejudice sentencing-guidelines stolen structural-error | 1. When it is undisputed that a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause, is automatic reversa… | -3.5 |
| 20-5558 | Anthony Smith v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element mens-rea plain-error prohibited-possession | 1. Whether the district court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the evidence must establish both that appellant Anthony Smith… | -3.5 |
| 20-5646 | Sean Justin Owens v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-conviction firearm-possession jury prior-conviction prior-convictions rehaif-v-united-states sentencing serious-drug-offense | 1. Whether, in cases charged and tried to a jury before this Court decided Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), courts of appeals may affi… | -3.5 |
| 20-5742 | David Tachay Heard v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure cross-racial-identification due-process eyewitness-identification federal-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error standard-of-review | 1. Should federal district courts be required to give a cautionary jury instruction, upon a defendant's request, to guide the jury's evaluation of eye… | -3.5 |
| 20-5796 | Isaac Thomas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 922(g)(1) 922(q)(2)(A) commerce-clause due-process guilty-plea rehaif-v-united-states | 1. Whether a defendant's guilty plea entered before Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2020), in which the defendant was not advised of the ess… | -3.5 |
| 20-5824 | Trenard Caldwell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit fourth-circuit guilty-plea plea-withdrawal rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation structural-error | Where a defendant pled guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prior to Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2029), and it is undisputed that … | -3.5 |
| 20-5852 | Robert Louis Brandon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review automatic-reversal circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea prejudice-inquiry rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error | 1. Is a district court's error under Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), a structural error that warrants automatic reversal of a guilty … | -3.5 |
| 20-5955 | Charles Lynch Pettis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing | IS A DEFENDANT'S PLEA OF GUILTY VALID WHERE THERE IS NO UNDERSTANDING OF THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF A STATUTE OR THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENT AT THE TIME OF TH… | -3.5 |
| 20-6109 | Rashawn D. Watson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession guilty-plea indictment indictment-sufficiency knowledge-element mens-rea plea-bargaining rehaif-decision rehaif-v-united-states | A. Whether the decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) requires that Petitioner's guilty plea and conviction be vacated when (1) t… | -3.5 |
| 19-8899 | Michael Wayne Blanche v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law jury-finding jury-instructions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether aiding and abetting armed bank robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A). Whether the verdict and 7-year sentence on the … | -4.0 |
| 20-5075 | Jorge Hiram Baez-Martinez v. United States | First Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split depraved-heart force-clause mens-rea recklessness violent-felony | Whether crimes that may be committed recklessly with a depraved heart mens rea — as opposed to willfully or intentionally — can qualify as a "violent … | -4.0 |
| 20-5396 | Austin Peterson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be committed "by force and violence, or by intimidation... or... by extortion" and… | -4.0 |
| 20-6074 | Timothy Jarred Paige v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-charge criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation | WHEN CHARGED WITH VIOLATING 18.U.S.C § 922(9)(1) COUPLED WITH § 924(a)(2) DOES THE DISTRICT COURT RETAIN JURISDICTION TO CHARGE AN OFFENSE THAT ISN'T … | -4.0 |
| 20-6090 | Reginald Ferguson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights consensual-encounter consent criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion testimony | 1. Can a court determine that an encounter was initially consensual when the officer testified that he did not remember how it was initiated, nor is i… | -4.0 |
| 20-6098 | Lamont Owens v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation intervening-supreme-court-decision judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error plain-error-review substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record | Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense, base upon an intervening U.S. Supreme Court decision, allows courts t… | -4.0 |
| 20-6129 | Matthew R. Jones v. United States | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review due-process jury-instructions plain-error | The Fifth Amendment requires that no person be held to answer for a felony unless on indictment of a grand jury or without due process of law. The Six… | -4.0 |
| 20-6162 | Frank Trujillo v. United States | Tenth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense federal-courts guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness rehaif-v-united-states standard-of-review | When a defendant argues for the first time on appeal that his guilty plea was not knowing and voluntary because he was not informed of the elements of… | -4.0 |
| 20-6165 | James Edward Sandford, III v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance plain-error-rule rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit sixth-amendment | 1. Should the Court grant certiorari to resolve the Circuit split regarding the plain error rule between the Second and Fourth Circuits as it applies … | -4.0 |
| 20-6197 | Gregory C. Raymore v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law due-process firearms indictment jury-instructions mens-rea | A. Whether Petitioner's conviction must be vacated because (1) the indictment failed to alleg e an essential element of the offense–that Petitioner kn… | -4.0 |
| 20-6226 | Carlos Maez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-instructions jury-verdict olano-standard plain-error plain-error-test sixth-amendment standard-of-review | The Sixth Amendment requires that no person be convicted of a felony except on a finding by a jury that the government has proved its case beyond a re… | -4.0 |
| 20-6227 | Cameron Battiste v. United States | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury plain-error-review sixth-amendment | 1. If a grand jury indicts a defendant for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), but omits the statute's knowledge-of-status element, has the defective ind… | -4.0 |
| 20-6284 | D'Angelo Domingo Davis, aka D'Angelo Dominico Davis, aka Deangelo Domingo Davis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-intent federal-bank-robbery force-clause statutory-interpretation | 1. Is federal bank robbery a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of this Court's holding in Carter v. United Stat… | -4.0 |
| 20-6347 | Christopher Mikelinich v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-possession knowing-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-agreement plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-elements | Where a defendant claims his plea was not knowing and intelligent because he was unaware of all the elements of the offense, does it matter whether he… | -4.0 |
| 20-6460 | Reginald Hollie v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-offense interstate-commerce jury-trial plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether, in cases charged and tried to a jury before this Court decided Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), courts of appeals may rely… | -4.0 |
| 20-6486 | Rakeem Asaad Davis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-history firearm-possession jury-instructions rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation substantial-rights | When determining whether a defendant's substantial rights were affected by an indictment and jury instructions that omitted an essential element of a … | -4.0 |
| 20-6551 | Andy Williams v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rehaif-v-united-states warrantless-search | Question One: Was the second warrantless search of the car - which followed the completed inventory search and was prompted by an officer's later-deve… | -4.0 |
| 20-6569 | Quincey Frye v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit trial-record | Should the Court of Appeals have looked beyond the trial record to Frye's presentence investigation report to decide that there was no plain error tha… | -4.0 |
| 20-6572 | Deshawn Legrier v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-consideration felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions plain-error-review rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record | In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court held that knowledge-of-status was an element of the crime set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 922(g… | -4.0 |
| 20-6583 | Edgar Espinoza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-defect criminal-indictment criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment guilty-plea indictment jurisdiction mens-rea sixth-amendment | 1. Circuit courts are split on whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea … | -4.0 |
| 20-6662 | Ian D. Goolsby v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | specifically allowing review beyond the trial rec circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process element-of-offense jury-instruction plain-error-review presentence-report rehaif-v-united-states scope-of-review supreme-court-decision | In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191, 2194 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove not o… | -4.0 |
| 20-6688 | Arthur Tyrone Lee, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether, on plain error review and following this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), a defendant's stipulation at tr… | -4.0 |
| 20-6690 | Randolph Burleson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment indictment jurisdiction mens-rea sixth-amendment | 1. Circuit courts are split on whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea … | -4.0 |
| 20-6693 | Tarcisio Valencia-Barragan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | attenuation-doctrine flight fourth-amendment illegal-stop police-authority seizure | 1. Whether a suspect's flight alone, after submitting to police authority, is sufficient to establish attenuation from an illegal stop and seizure to … | -4.0 |
| 20-6714 | Jevonne Martell Coleman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights | (1) When it is undisputed that a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause, is automatic revers… | -4.0 |
| 20-6742 | Edward Davis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis violent-crime | WHETHER PETITIONER'S ARGUMENT UNDER UNITED STATES V. DAVIS, 139 S.Ct. 2319 (2019), DESERVES CLOSER SCRUTINY, WHERE APPLYING THE SAME STANDARDS IN DAVI… | -4.0 |
| 20-6745 | Demetrius Elishakim Jefferson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3742 404b-evidence attempt-offenses auer-deference circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure expert-testimony sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether this Court should resolve a Split among the Circuit s and find a District Court's use of Application note 1 to U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, which purp… | -4.0 |
| 20-6781 | Bernard Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felon-status jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing substantial-rights | In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant knew he possess… | -4.0 |
| 20-6788 | Brian Gene McCoy v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c criminal-law federal-crime-of-violence felony-definition firearm-statute person-of-another prenatal-conduct reckless-conduct statutory-interpretation voluntary-manslaughter | 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) prohibits the use of a firearm during and in relation to a federal "crime of violence." "Crime of violence" is defined in § 9… | -4.0 |
| 20-6807 | Jamal Clinton, aka Moreless v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | bostock-precedent bostock-v-clayton-county career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance-offense drug-conspiracy fair-and-not-arbitrary sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-3553a6 | 1. Whether sentencing courts are required by Title 18, United States Code section 3553(a)(6) and Supreme Court precedent interpreting unambiguous stat… | -4.0 |
| 20-6811 | Jesus Eder Moreno Ornelas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | attempted-murder due-process felon-in-possession firearms jury plain-error-review rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | A. The government failed to overcome the presumption of innocence when the jury could not reach a verdict on an attempted murder count. Did it violate… | -4.0 |
| 20-6949 | Neally Cunningham v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | cocaine-base criminal-law criminal-resentencing drug-offenses federal-drug-offense first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation | Whether Appellant's offense of conviction, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) occurring before August 3, 2010, and involving cocaine base, is a "… | -4.0 |
| 20-6975 | Cortez Maurice Crumble v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-court-conflict criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea outside-trial-record plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights trial-error | When evaluating Rehaif-derived trial errors under Rule 52(b) plain-error review, should prejudice under the "substantial rights" prong be presumed? 2… | -4.0 |
| 20-7019 | Kourtney Williams v. United States | First Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury jury-finding mens-rea petit-jury plain-error | Does Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) grant an appellate court discretion to independently find an essential element of an offense for which the defendant was n… | -4.0 |
| 20-7036 | Emmanuel Ravell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | automatic-relief circuit-split criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession guilty-plea plain-error rehaif structural-error | Petitioner asks this Court to grant review to determine whether a guilty plea to possessing a firearm as a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) a… | -4.0 |
| 20-7077 | Derrick Lakeith Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-claims constitutional-provisions federal-procedure first-step-act gall-v-united-states habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-standards sentencing-reform statutory-provisions supreme-court-review united-states-v-booker | The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header … | -4.0 |
| 20-7081 | Nijul Quadir Alexander v. United States | Third Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c bank-robbery crime-of-violence element-clause general-intent intimidation sentencing-enhancement | Did the Third Circuit err in holding that "Federal Bank Robbery is a Crime of Violence under the Element Clause of 18 U-S.C. §924(c )(3)( A) of this C… | -4.0 |
| 20-7099 | Brandon Lamonte Sorenson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-interpretation controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offenses promulgation-of-guidelines sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction | Whether enabling the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) to expand the guideline definition of "controlled substance offense" to add inchoate offenses n… | -4.0 |
| 20-7120 | Alfred Montgomery,III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-statute-interpretation felon-in-possession generic-burglary plain-error rehaif sentencing-enhancement state-burglary-offense | 1. Whether a state burglary offense is categorically broader than generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act when it can be committed withou… | -4.0 |
| 20-7183 | Shameke Walker v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery identification-evidence jury-instruction plain-error violent-crime | 1. Should the Court grant certiorari to review whether Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b), categorically fails to constitute "a crime of violence"… | -4.0 |
| 20-7194 | Lamar Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record | "Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matter… | -4.0 |
| 20-7223 | Angelo C. Douglas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery crime-of-violence davis-precedent federal-criminal-law force-and-violence intimidation sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | WHETHER PETITIONER'S ARGUMENT UNDER UNITED STATES V. DAVIS, 139 S.Ct. 2319 (2019), DESERVES CLOSER SCRUTINY, WHERE APPLYING THE SAME STANDARDS IN DAVI… | -4.0 |
| 20-7235 | Michael Alvarez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation | The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct would be p… | -4.0 |
| 20-7277 | Niles O'Neil v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the U.S. Sentencing Commission acted within its authority by its commentary to $ U.S. Sentencing… | -4.0 |
| 20-7300 | Robbull Bryant v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plain-error rehaif rehaif-error second-circuit standing | Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI and this Court's decision in Rehaif when it denied Bryant's co… | -4.0 |
| 20-7314 | Willard Lee Moss, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law domestic-violence due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit legal-error mens-rea rehaif rehaif-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed Moss's conviction for possession of a firearm by a domestic violence offender, where the evidence in… | -4.0 |
| 20-7360 | Emmanuel Feaster v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1), "[i]t shall be unlawful" for certain individuals to possess firearms that have traveled in interstate… | -4.0 |
| 20-7387 | Vaughn Lewis v. United States | First Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | agency-deference career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | When "controlled substance offense" is defined in the text of the Career Offender Guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), whether the commentary can add consp… | -4.0 |
| 20-7405 | Jorge Rangel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | direct-appeal drug-cases first-step-act mandatory-minimum plain-error rehaif | 1. Does the provision of the First Step Act, Pub. L. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194 (Dec. 21, 2018), that amended 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1) to reduce mandatory-m… | -4.0 |
| 20-7424 | Alan Douglas v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-error due-process judicial-bias medical-malpractice personal-injury res-ipsa-loquitur standing writ-of-certiorari | I. The Relief Sought - Reverse and Settle Personal Injury [ 9th Circuit FRAP 21(a)(2)(B)(i)] II. The issues (The Questions Presented for Review) [9th… | -4.0 |
| 20-7378 | Israel Ernesto Palacios v. United States | Fourth Circuit | Denied | IFP | case-law-interpretation circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-foreshadowing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | This case presents a question on which the circuit courts are split: to what extent must a claim to be "sufficiently foreshadowed in existing case law… | -4.5 |
| 20-7447 | Elijah Hasan Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force use-of-force-clause | Whether the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of reckl… | -4.5 |
| 20-7495 | Angel Santiago-Gonzalez v. Florida | Florida | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict | Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … | -4.5 |
| 20-7732 | Tina LaSonya Brown v. Florida | Florida | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors appellate-review capital-sentencing constitutional-procedure death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto jury-finding jury-findings sixth-amendment | ONE: Petitioner Tina Brown sought state postconviction relief from a 2012 death sentence imposed under the procedure subsequently held unconstitutiona… | -4.5 |
| 20-7763 | Brian David Hill v. Virginia | Virginia | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus indecent-exposure procedural-defect state-custody supervised-release | Where the Virginia Supreme Court didn't think that the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus should apply to the case of Brian David Hill being convicted… | -4.5 |
| 20-7768 | Byron L. Hagans v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment | Does it violate a defendant's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights to be present at trial when he is not informed of the consti… | -4.5 |
| 20-7769 | James Hightower v. Ladonna H. Thompson, et al. | Sixth Circuit | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief standing takings | Question not identified. | -4.5 |
| 20-7776 | Ismael Sanchez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing | Question not identified. | -4.5 |
| 20-7777 | Paul Smith v. Teri Kennedy, Warden | Seventh Circuit | Denied | IFP | administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process property-rights standing takings | Question not identified. | -4.5 |
| 20-7780 | James Plas Sams v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-violation content-based-regulation expressive-association first-amendment free-speech group-grievance retaliation | The Constitution guarantees a right to expressive association for activities protected by the First Amendment. Similarly, the Constitution limits cont… | -4.5 |
| 20-7783 | Michael A. Farrell v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden | Seventh Circuit | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus lower-court-ruling perjured-testimony standing supreme-court-precedent | 1. Are the lower court's rulings in direct conflict with Supreme Court precedent? 2. Did petitioner make a substantial showing he's in custody in vio… | -4.5 |
| 20-7788 | Alexander Olivieri v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-bar trevino-v-thaler | Is The Fifth Circuit effectivly overturning The Supreme Court, and it's own rulings in not granting Olivieri a Certificate of Appealability to conside… | -4.5 |
| 20-7791 | Shalamar Carmon v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. | Third Circuit | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-homicide due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-defect sixth-amendment specific-offense vague-statement | (1) Was Petitioner denied due process of law, in violation of the 6th amend. of the U.S.Const., on the grounds that the information he was confronted … | -4.5 |
| 20-7802 | Michael Green v. Illinois | Illinois | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-doctrine precedent public-policy standing statutory-interpretation | Whether there exist a Fivadde mee fe ( Misterstas 2 0 f Seshee bere the dst/onen's Conviction Rested On Pan Jig bye of the New Ss Cio biti ca his . St… | -4.5 |
| 20-7804 | Michael William Ledford v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Prison | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | IFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky capital-sentencing civil-rights due-process gender-discrimination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel j.e.b-v-alabama jury-selection psychopathy-evidence | 1. Whether this Court meant it when it wrote that "a pattern of strikes against black [or here, women] jurors included in this particular venire might… | -4.5 |
| 20-7811 | Danny R. Pennebaker v. Randee Rewerts, Warden | Sixth Circuit | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process public-trial standing | I. SHOULD PETITIONER BE ALLOWED RETROACTIVELY TO REJECT A PLEA OFFER WHEN HE REFUSED TO ADMIT GUILT TO ONE SINGLE COUNT OF FELONIOUS ASSAULT BY EJECTI… | -4.5 |
| 20-8158 | In Re Larry E. Starks | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 collateral-attack collateral-review constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge jurisdictional-challenges subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause | Question not identified. | -4.5 | |
| 20-6934 | Fred Cartwright v. Silver Cross Hospital, et al. | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-rehearing equal-protection legal-counsel medical-condition post-traumatic-stress-disorder standing writ-of-certiorari | The Petitioner does not know what he are doing, please view the next page labeled "List of Parties " for more details and everything that listed may h… | -6.0 |
| 20-7551 | Dennis Roger Bolze v. Warden, FCI Coleman | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | counsel-deprivation criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice right-to-counsel state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction | QUESTION ONE: When a State intentionally abandons State law and deprives an individual of counsel during a critical stage in the criminal proceedings… | -6.0 |
| 20-7799 | Susan W. Vaughan v. Shannon Foltz, et al. | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association family-law fourth-amendment liberty-deprivation qualified-immunity standing state-statute | Is Troxel v Granville correctly applied to a case that has nothing to do with grandparents' visitation requests, but is used, nevertheless, as grounds… | -6.5 |
| 20-7814 | Brandon Bowie v. Hamilton County Juvenile Court, et al. | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 11th-amendment 14th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights court-access disability-discrimination due-process rehabilitation-act sovereign-immunity | Did the Americans with Disability Act violate the sovereign immunity doctrine of the 11th Amendment when, based on Congress's 14th Amendment enforceme… | -6.5 |
| 20-7830 | Firas M. Ayoubi v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof canton-analysis civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process likelihood-on-the-merits monell-claim preliminary-injunction seventh-circuit supreme-court-precedent | 1: Did the Seventh Circuit s decision put an unreasonable require ment and hieghtened burden of proof in establishing likelihood the merits at the p… | -6.5 |
| 20-7852 | John Elmer v. Louisiana | Louisiana | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process in-re-winship jackson-v-virginia sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that the State failed to meet the stringent burden of proof as established by Jackson v. Virginia and In re: Win… | -6.5 |
| 20-7860 | Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards | California | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-law pro-se-litigant property-rights sanctions statutory-interpretation | Is the statutory law taking of a person's property arbitrary, too broad and discriminatory under Dusenbery v. United States, 534 U.S. 161 (2002) and v… | -6.5 |
| 20-7864 | James E. Mason, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-framework teague-v-lane watershed-rule | 1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on state collateral review, where the state follows th… | -6.5 |
| 20-7874 | Ted A. McCracken v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, et al. | Third Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 7th-amendment causation-evidence civil-rights expert-testimony jury-trial pro-se-plaintiff pulmonologist-analysis seventh-amendment summary-judgment tobacco-litigation | WAS IT NOT A DENIAL OF PETITIONER'S 7th AMENDMENT RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL FOR THE DISTRICT COURT TO GRANT RESPONDENT(S) SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON THE ISSUE OF L… | -6.5 |
| 20-7880 | Scott Peters v. MTGLQ Investors, LP | Illinois | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings | Whether the Appellant was denied his constitutional rights of Due Process. II. Whether the Appellees followed the Foreclosure Laws and Homeowner Laws… | -6.5 |
| 20-7897 | Steve L. Stanaland, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence firearm-possession right-to-counsel second-amendment self-defense | This may very well be in this case and across the Nation . the most important and the biggest question is. (Specifically) [If] y°u live in the middle … | -6.5 |
| 20-7918 | Jasper Pollini v. Amy Robey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-counsel habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lockhart-v-fretwell sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review smith-v-robbins strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | 1. Whether Lockhart v. Fretwell's suggestion that "mere outcome determination" is not sufficient to establish prejudice under Strickland v. Washington… | -6.5 |
| 20-7928 | Brandon Robinson v. Robert May, Warden, et al. | Third Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-proceedings brady-violation discovery-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-claim martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-record | 1. Was counsel.ineffetiye. within the meaning of Strickland, and did the ineffectiveness present a Martinez claim irfthe'petitioner's appellate proce… | -6.5 |
| 20-7978 | Todd Alan Winkler v. California | California | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness inflammatory-propensity propensity-evidence | Did the California Court of Appeal err when it concluded that inflammatory propensity evidence, pervasively used and erroneously admitted in the petit… | -6.5 |
| 20-8006 | Antonio Jose Cooks v. Dean Naylor, et al. | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing | (1) Does feta debnee Neoresen Jed! YY Own AdukO0) ot cul bor}}y hive the. right fo have. gecess of Courts ty relpyeke all -noPters® (2) Do He jada' p… | -6.5 |
| 20-8021 | Jason Scott Pedro v. United States | Tenth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-maximum | Can a significant procedural error be deemed harmless when the sentencing judge uses the statutory maximum as the baseline for imposition of sentence? | -6.5 |
| 20-8046 | Shawn Bishop v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. | Third Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | codefendant-confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure curative-instruction due-process ineffective-assistance scant-evidence witness-testimony | 1. Does a curative instruction remedy a Confrontation Clause violation where the evidence used to convict is scant and the codefendant's alleged confe… | -6.5 |
| 20-8070 | Michael Mejia v. Randy Pfister, et al. | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process sleep-deprivation | 26 0.6.C-S. $ S&? <fc?Yl?SZ0 TP f&0 TT> B&r AiJD wmetm ^rr' -oax^ACfct' sue^crso OT^TA^ gmrtr IX<3KTX^6 vwm | -6.5 |
| 20-8074 | Anibal Lucas Garcia v. United States | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony appellate-review categorical-approach duenas-alvarez formal-law generic-crime immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine state-law statutory-interpretation | This case concerns a methodological problem in applying the categorical approach. The categorical approach compares the elements of a state crime with… | -6.5 |
| 20-8076 | Tyrone Price v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights community-impact criminal-procedure due-process public-safety sentencing | Ded Ha dati wach ond appeals Court abuse (ts diseredven | iM velyrity on Vefertant's Stule puventlhe wruretidas when sf | boncluded! that Beterwlint… | -6.5 |
| 20-8081 | Melvin Roshard Alfred v. United States | Tenth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence intrinsic-evidence misconduct-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b social-media uncharged-misconduct | Whether uncharged misconduct evidence that does not directly prove the charged crime may be deemed "intrinsic evidence" and admitted without the admis… | -6.5 |
| 20-8083 | Derrick Baer v. United States | Third Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation franks-hearing law-enforcement-delay search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent | Whether the decision of the Third Circuit denying petitioner's request for a Franks hearing conflicts with the United States Supreme Court's decision … | -6.5 |
| 20-8085 | Michael James Barnes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 covid-19-pandemic extraordinary-circumstances federal-statute health-conditions prisoner-relief sentencing sentencing-modification | Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Barnes' Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). | -6.5 |
| 20-8094 | Corey L. Johnson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | covered-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy federal-sentencing first-step-act multi-object-conspiracy rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Where there is ambiguity as to which penalty applies in a multi-object conspiracy that is a "covered offense" pursuant to the First Step Act of 2018, … | -6.5 |
| 20-8097 | Brandon Marquis Jennings, aka Mustafa Beezy Bey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction professional-misconduct | Question not identified. | -6.5 |
| 20-8103 | Sayda Powery Orellana and Manuel Porras Salas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure forfeiture jury-instructions plain-error procedural-default waiver | A. Whether agreement to a set of joint jury instructions as directed by a court order is a waiver completely precluding review of instructional errors… | -6.5 |
| 20-8108 | Roy Lee Dykes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal? | -6.5 |
| 20-8119 | Peter Anthony Ciraulo v. Oregon | Oregon | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error unanimous-verdict | Whether a trial court commits structural error for purposes of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, when the trial court instructs a… | -6.5 |
| 20-8123 | Verlan Perez, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal precedential-ruling | CAN AN APPEALS COURT DENY A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO A PETITIONER WHO HAS SHOWN THAT THE DISTRICT COURT IGNORED PRECI DENTIAL RULINGS FROM THIS… | -6.5 |
| 20-8125 | Raymundo Eusebio-Noriega v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-appointed-counsel due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus language-barrier miranda-rights motion-to-suppress self-incrimination voluntariness-of-statements | 1. Where petitioner was denied Court appointed counsel by the District Court of Oregon, where such petitioner denied his Due Process of law, 1. where … | -6.5 |
| 20-8126 | Charles Wesley Kincheloe v. Oregon | Oregon | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error unanimous-verdict | Does a trial court commit structural error for purposes of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, when the trial court instructs a jur… | -6.5 |
| 20-8127 | Guillermo Martinez-Torres v. United States | Tenth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment admissibility-of-evidence burden-of-proof circuit-split evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search suppression-of-evidence | Once a Fourth Amendment violation is established, does the defendant have the burden to prove the violation was the "but for" cause of the subsequent … | -6.5 |
| 20-8135 | Gregg McNamara v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-impairment sixth-amendment | 1) Under the Sixth Amendment right to know the nature and the cause of the action against a person, can a person convicted while suffering from sever… | -6.5 |