| 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 |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether reckless crimes qualify categorically as crimes of violence under the force clause of these statutes and guidelines |
| 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 |
Whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence |
| 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 |
Whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether Texas aggravated assault involving reckless driving, virus transmission, or flashing strobe images constitutes 'the use, attempted use, or thr… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
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. § … |
| 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 |
Does recklessly causing another person to suffer injury necessarily involve the 'use of physical force against' that person for purposes of the Armed … |
| 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… |
| 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 qualify as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)? |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Does an offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness qualify as a crime of violence under the identical force clauses in U.S.S.G. § 4… |
| 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… |
| 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 requires an element of 'the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the pe… |
| 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 |
Whether federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 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) … |
| 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 qualifies as a 'crime of violence' |
| 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 |
Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 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) |
| 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 |
Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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) |
| 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 |
Whether bank robbery by intimidation qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s elements clause |
| 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 |
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? |
| 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 |
Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the preBooker care… |
| 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 |
Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the preBooker care… |
| 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 |
Whether the courts of appeals may consider the entire record, including a presentence report, in determining if a defendant's substantial rights were … |
| 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 |
Whether a guilty plea is structural error? |
| 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) |
| 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 |
Whether innocent transitory possession is an affirmative defense to illegal possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. 922(g) |
| 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 |
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-Convention? |
| 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 |
Whether a state court can avoid the federal constitutional issues raised by a vindictive-prosecution claim |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether a public employee's political debate on an issue of national importance may be silenced based solely on the speaker's use of an offensive word |
| 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 |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 514(a) prohibits the use of fake versions of actual, existing types of documents and instruments |
| 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 the practice that an administrative agency may penalize the subject of an agency determination for fail… |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Whether the Court should fill a statutory and jurisprudential void in Tucker Act inverse condemnation 'takings' law |
| 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… |
| 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 |
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 the… |
| 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 |
Whether the First Amendment right to free speech protects using a person's actual likeness without permission when weighed against that person's prope… |
| 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 a federal court must consider the specific characteristics of an underlying state-court civil proceeding to determine whether it is sufficient… |
| 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 |
Should the State of New York's pistol permit process violate the Second Amendment? |
| 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 |
Whether the IDFPR's Final Order indefinitely suspending Petitioner's medical license for two years pursuant to the first order on remand, or one year … |
| 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… |
| 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 establish binding and enforceable obligations on the United States |
| 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 |
Whether the United States may invoke a non-statutory mitigation defense to avoid the unambiguous requirement of section 1402 of the Patient Protection… |
| 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 the property-based approach to the Fourth Amendment applies to the government's warrantless search of email attachments compelled from a priva… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner's procedural default when near-unanimous circuit precedent foreclosed the petitioner's claim |
| 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 |
Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio violated the Petitioner's constitutional rights under the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments by refusing to enforce their… |
| 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 |
Whether Indiana violates the Twenty-Sixth Amendment by giving voters age 65 and older the right to cast an absentee ballot by mail while requiring oth… |
| 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 |
Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause |
| 20-1262 |
MarySusan Ward v. Louisville Metro Government |
Kentucky |
Denied |
|
batson-v-kentucky civil-rights equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges supremacy-clause |
Whether the constitutional principles underlying Batson require trial courts to craft a meaningful remedy when a violation occurs |
| 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 |
Did the Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to apply the Parratt-Hudson doctrine to the Respondent's substantive due process claim? |
| 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 federal patent-law dispute may abstain in favor of a state court with no jurisdiction over … |
| 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 |
Whether administrative patent judges are principal officers under the Appointments Clause |
| 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… |
| 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 … |
| 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 |
Under the Supremacy Clause, does Colorado's expressly state legal sales of cannabis violate the Controlled Substances Act? |
| 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 1138(g)(3), governed exclusive… |
| 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 |
Whether trademark counterfeiting requires a likelihood of confusion |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Issue being raised |
| 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(… |
| 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 |
Did Congress intend the probate exception to include the 2016 Obama's SNT law in the 21st Century Cures Act? |
| 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 |
Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner's request for a change of venue due to bias and impartiality |
| 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 |
Whether the California State Bar's mandatory bar membership and dues requirements violate the First Amendment rights of attorneys |
| 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… |
| 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 the district court lack jurisdiction due to fraud upon the court? |
| 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 |
Whether a contractual 'notwithstanding' clause precludes the applicability of competing contractual language |
| 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 |
Were the citations issued by the County sufficient notice of violations? |
| 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 |
At what point does a student become an 'employee' for an employer, due to the various types of abuses and exploitation of a free labor system, in an e… |
| 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 |
Whether 49 U.S.C. § 44092(b) preempts 42 U.S.C. § 1981 claims |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether striking a juror based on allegations of racial prejudice is a facially race-neutral explanation under Batson |
| 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 |
Whether issuance of a Commissioner's order by ordinary mail meets constitutional requirements of procedural due process |
| 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 |
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 they… |
| 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 |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 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 |
Whether the state government has a duty to present a correct version of the Tennessee Constitution to the public |
| 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 |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability was unreasonable, where Petitioner has demonstrated a su… |
| 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 |
Pretext-by-discrimination |
| 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 |
Whether RCW 4.08.050 deprives a minor's constitutional right to counsel and effective representation as well as his right to access the courts |
| 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 |
Whether the trial court had jurisdiction to proceed and enter judgment without the defendant and defense counsel being personally present during any s… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether 10 U.S.C. § 825 violates the Fifth Amendment |
| 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 |
Whether plain-error review allows courts to review beyond the trial record |
| 20-504 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Wilson N. Guadalupe |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
None |
|
| 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 can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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 |
Whether a guilty plea entered without knowledge of the knowledge-of-status element is reversible error per se |
| 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 |
Whether federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(… |
| 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 |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 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 |
whether-federal-court-may-increase-sentence-under-acca |
| 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 |
Whether the district court's admission of jailhouse informant testimony violated this Court's jurisprudence on statements against interest |
| 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 |
Whether reckless conduct can constitute a 'crime of violence' under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines |
| 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… |
| 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 |
When a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made, is automatic reversal required? |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether the district court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the evidence must establish both that appellant Anthony Smith kn… |
| 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 |
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 Act… |
| 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 |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in treating the limiting language 'against the person of another' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) as mere surplusage |
| 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 |
Can the appellate courts' divergent approaches to plain error review of pre-Rehaif jury verdicts be reconciled with one another? |
| 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 |
Whether courts of appeals may affirm a defendant's conviction by relying on facts about the defendant's prior convictions that were not proven to the … |
| 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 |
Should federal district courts be required to give a cautionary jury instruction, upon a defendant's request, to guide the jury's evaluation of eyewit… |
| 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 |
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? |
| 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 |
Whether omitting an essential element of the crime in both the indictment and jury instructions may be reviewed for harmlessness |
| 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 |
Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant's guilty plea entered before Rehaif v. United States constitutes a due-process-violation |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant's guilty plea to a violation of 18 U.S.C. §922(g) is reversible error per se where the plea was neither knowing nor voluntary due … |
| 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 |
Is a district court's error under Rehaif v. United States a structural error that warrants automatic reversal of a guilty plea? |
| 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 |
Whether a reviewing court may affirm a conviction under plain error review based on speculation about the defendant's knowledge of his prohibited stat… |
| 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 |
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 kn… |
| 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 |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable sear… |
| 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 |
Whether error under Rehaif v. United States constitutes plain error |
| 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 |
Whether §924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of the substance's illicit nature |
| 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(g), does the district court retain jurisdiction to charge an offense that is not a 'crime of violence' as … |
| 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 |
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 it c… |
| 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, based upon an intervening U.S. Supreme Court decision, allows courts … |
| 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 |
Whether the decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) requires that Petitioner's guilty plea and conviction be vacated |
| 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 |
Whether a conviction after (a) an incomplete indictment, (b) incorrect jury instructions, (c) failure of the petit jury to make a finding on an essent… |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant's guilty plea was knowing and voluntary when the defendant was not informed of an element of the offense |
| 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 |
Should the Court grant certiorari to resolve the Circuit split regarding the plain error rule between the Second and Fourth Circuits as it applies to … |
| 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 |
Can the appellate courts' divergent approaches to plain error review of pre-Rehaif guilty pleas be reconciled with one another? |
| 20-6197 |
Gregory C. Raymore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms indictment jury-instructions mens-rea |
Whether Petitioner's conviction must be vacated due to Rehaif violation |
| 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 a defendant's conviction for felon-in-possession can be affirmed despite failure to prove knowledge of prohibited status |
| 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 |
Is Texas aggravated assault a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 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 |
Whether a conviction following incorrect jury instructions, failure of the petit jury to make a finding on an essential element of a crime, and an app… |
| 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 |
Whether a defective indictment that omits an element of the charged offense deprives the defendant of Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Is federal bank robbery a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 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 is automatically entitled to plain error relief if the district court did no… |
| 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 is automatically entitled to plain error relief if the district court did no… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant who pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm is entitled to automatic plain-error reversal when the plea was neithe… |
| 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 |
Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States, 1… |
| 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 |
Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Commission commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous |
| 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 |
Whether federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(… |
| 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 |
Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery constitutes a 'violent felony' under 18 U.S.C. §924(e)? |
| 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 |
Whether courts of appeals may rely on information not proven to the jury to affirm a conviction on plain-error review |
| 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 |
Whether a reviewing court may consider a defendant's criminal history facts not admitted at trial when determining if an omission of an essential elem… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Was the second warrantless search of the car -which followed the completed inventory search and was prompted by an officer's later-developed suspicion… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether an appellate court can consider evidence outside the trial record to conclude that a Rehaif-based error did not seriously affect the fairness,… |
| 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 |
Does federal armed bank robbery qualify as a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)? |
| 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 |
Whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea element of the offense |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant who unsuccessfully moves to dismiss an indictment for failure to allege an essential element of the crime waives or forfeits the a… |
| 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 defendants plead guilty, can a court treat a plea as constitutionally valid when it was entered without knowledge of an offense element? |
| 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 |
Whether plainerror-review-for-failure-to-instruct-on-an-element-of-the-offense-based-upon-an-intervening-U.S.-Supreme-Court-decision-allows-a-federal-… |
| 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 the defendant's stipulation at trial was plain error warranting relief on the sufficiency of the evidence |
| 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 |
Whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea element of the offense |
| 20-6693 |
Tarcisio Valencia-Barragan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attenuation-doctrine flight fourth-amendment illegal-stop police-authority seizure |
Whether a suspect's flight alone, after submitting to police authority, is sufficient to establish attenuation from an illegal stop and seizure to pur… |
| 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 |
When a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made, is automatic reversal required? |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Whether this Court should resolve a Split among the Circuits and find a District Court's use of Application note 1 to U.S.8.G. § 4B1.2, which purports… |
| 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 |
Whether the courts of appeals may consider the entire record, including a presentence report, in determining if the defendant's substantial rights wer… |
| 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 |
Whether federal voluntary manslaughter qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 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 |
Whether sentencing courts are required to consider the need to avoid unwarranted sentencing disparities |
| 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 |
Whether a sentence may be enhanced for an offense tried to but not found by the jury |
| 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 |
Whether automatic reversal is required when a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause |
| 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 |
Whether the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights were violated due to the dismissal of his case and denial of his motions for rehearin… |
| 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 is a 'covered offense' under § 404 of the First Step Act |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether prejudice should be presumed under the 'substantial rights' prong of plain-error review for Rehaif-derived trial errors |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether a guilty plea to possessing a firearm as a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) and 924(a) that was entered before Rehaif v. United State… |
| 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 |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of 'controlled subs… |
| 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 |
Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters… |
| 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 |
Whether the first step act sentencing reform wreak havoc with the United States v. Booker (2005) and Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007) precede… |
| 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) |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether a state burglary offense is categorically broader than generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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 |
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 jur… |
| 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 |
Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders as binding precedent deprive inmates of due process? |
| 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 |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery constitutes a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 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 matters… |
| 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 |
Whether an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction resting on more than one possible predicate offense is unconstitutional where at least one predicate does not… |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) can serve as a predicate offense for the substantial sentencing enhancements under § 924(c)(1) |
| 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 |
Whether the knowingly mens rea in the federal drug statutes applies to the elements of drug type and quantity |
| 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 |
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 Gu… |
| 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 |
Whether a federal court is bound by a state supreme court's interpretation of a statute of conviction for Armed Career Criminal Act purposes |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Must Circuit Courts provide reasoned decisions to deny parties oral argument under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34(a)(2)? |
| 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 denying Bryant's constitutional challenges to his guilty plea to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g… |
| 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 in affirming Moss's conviction for possession of a firearm by a domestic-violence-offender, where the evidence indica… |
| 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 |
Whether the district court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the evidence must establish both that petitioner Emmanuel Feaste… |
| 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 |
To what extent must a claim be 'sufficiently foreshadowed in existing case law' for counsel's failure to raise that claim to constitute deficient perf… |
| 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 |
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) |
| 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 |
Whether the commentary can add conspiracy and other inchoate offenses not included in the guideline definition of 'controlled substance offense' |
| 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 |
Does the First-Step-Act apply to defendants on direct-appeal? |
| 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 |
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) |
| 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 plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters… |
| 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 |
Reverse and settle personal injury judgment |
| 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… |
| 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 are violated when jury instructions do not require all determinations required by state statute for sentenc… |
| 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 |
When a State intentionally abandons State law and deprives an individual of counsel during a critical stage in the criminal proceedings, does the stat… |
| 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 |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's procedure for imposing a death sentence violates the Sixth, Eighth, or Fourteenth Amendments |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights were violated when he was tried in absentia without being informed of th… |
| 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 |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment |
| 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 |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standards for determining standing and the merits of the petitioner's claims |
| 20-7777 |
Paul Smith v. Teri Kennedy, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process property-rights standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the lower courts denied the petitioner's request for a hearing to challenge the governm… |
| 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 |
Did California's actions violate the right of expressive-association and constitute content-based-discrimination? |
| 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 |
Are the lower court's rulings in direct conflict with Supreme Court precedent? |
| 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 effectively overturning the Supreme Court and its own rulings in not granting Olivieri a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 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 |
Was Petitioner denied due process of law |
| 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 by a changing seat number violates the due process right to a meaningful appeal when there wer… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether an appellate court may consider information outside the trial record to determine if a Rehaif error affected the fairness, integrity, or publi… |
| 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 exists a factual basis to support petitioner's conviction |
| 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 |
Whether Batson v. Kentucky allows an inference of discrimination based on a pattern of strikes against black or women jurors |
| 20-7811 |
Danny R. Pennebaker v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process public-trial standing |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was violated when the trial court closed the courtroom to the public during the testimony of certa… |
| 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 |
Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act violated sovereign immunity under the 11th Amendment when it allowed individuals to sue states for denying… |
| 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 |
Did the Seventh Circuit's decision put an unreasonable requirement and heightened burden of proof in establishing likelihood on the merits at the prel… |
| 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 |
Whether the State failed to meet the stringent burden of proof as established by Jackson v. Virginia and In re: Winship |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on state collateral review |
| 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 |
| 20-7880 |
Scott Peters v. MTGLQ Investors, LP |
Illinois |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the Appellate Court erred in denying Appellant's claims that his constitutional rights were violated |
| 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 |
Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense in one's home in a desolate area far from law enforcement |
| 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 |
Whether Lockhart v. Fretwell's suggestion that 'mere outcome determination' is not sufficient to establish prejudice under Strickland v. Washington is… |
| 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 |
Was counsel ineffective under Strickland, and did the ineffectiveness present a Martinez claim in the petitioner's appellate proceedings? |
| 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 in concluding that inflammatory-propensity-evidence,pervasively-used,erroneously-admitted did not render the tr… |
| 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 |
Do the plaintiffs have the right to have access to courts to litigate all matters? |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Does a curative instruction remedy a Confrontation Clause violation? |
| 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 |
Whether the application of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process … |
| 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 |
Whether under Duenas-Alvarez and Virginia state decisions, Va. Code § 18.2-168, forgery of public records, is an aggravated felony as a crime relating… |
| 20-8076 |
Tyrone Price v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights community-impact criminal-procedure due-process public-safety sentencing |
Whether the district court and appeals court abused their discretion in concluding that the defendant would be a danger to the community |
| 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… |
| 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 … |
| 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) |
| 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, do… |
| 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 |
Does the defendant have the right to effective assistance of counsel |
| 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 |
Whether agreement to a set of joint jury instructions is a waiver or forfeiture |
| 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 |
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? |
| 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 |
Is Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) a rule of inclusion or exclusion? |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether Mr. Willingham waived his argument that the district court had jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of his § 2255(h) motion |
| 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 precedential rulings from this … |
| 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 |
Where petitioner was denied Court appointed counsel |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Does the defendant have the burden to prove the violation was the 'but for' cause of the subsequent discovery of contraband or is it the prosecution's… |
| 20-8135 |
Gregg McNamara v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-impairment sixth-amendment |
Whether a person convicted while suffering from severe mental impairment can invoke the Sixth Amendment right to know the nature and cause of the acti… |
| 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 |
Whether the denial of review on jurisdictional claims under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) is an unconstitutional suspension of the writ of habeas corpus |
| 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 |
Whether courts owe deference to the Sentencing Commission's commentary when it expands the scope of the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 20-842 |
Maria Maldonado De Calleja v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
None |
|
| 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 |
Does the Indian Reorganization Act unilaterally transfer state jurisdiction to the federal government and tribes? |
| 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… |
| 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-… |
| 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 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in applying the Brunner test instead of the totality test to determine whether a debtor would suffer an 'undue hardshi… |
| 20M93 |
Robert Arthur Moses v. Texas |
Texas |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 20M94 |
Susan Ferraz v. Howard Speicher |
First Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 20M95 |
Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management |
Federal Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 20M96 |
Henry E. Gossage v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 20M97 |
Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management |
Federal Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 20M98 |
Henry E. Gossage v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
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