Conference: 2021-06-24

151 cases — 0 granted, 151 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
18-8621 Roummel Ingram v. John Prelesnik, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether Mr. Ingram is entitled to a new trial due to ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
19-1459 Polaris Innovations Limited v. Kingston Technology Company, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit GVR Amici (2)Relisted (3) 35-usc-311 administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause civil-service-protections congressional-intent constitutional-remedy ipr-statute patent-law severance statutory-interpretation tenure-protections Whether severance of the tenure protections for Administrative Patent Judges ('APJs) was unavailable to the Arthrex court to remedy the violation of t…
19-648 CACI Premier Technology, Inc. v. Suhail Najim Abdulla Al Shimari, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (3) alien-tort-statute appellate-jurisdiction civil-immunity civil-rights collateral-order collateral-order-doctrine derivative-sovereign-immunity due-process federal-contractor government-contractors jus-cogens military-operations sovereign-immunity Whether an order denying a federal contractor's claim of derivative sovereign immunity is an immediately appealable final order under the collateral-o…
19-66 George Q. Ricks v. Idaho Contractors Board, et al. Idaho Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause generally-applicable neutral-law neutral-laws religious-exemption religious-exemptions religious-freedom stare-decisis Whether the Court should revisit its holding in Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990)
19-841 United States House of Representatives v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) affordable-care-act article-iii article-iii-standing congress-power congressional-authority constitutional-challenge severability standing tax-provision taxation Whether the individual and state plaintiffs (respondents here) possess Article III standing to challenge the constitutionality of Section 5000A
20-1013 Clarence J. Simon v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied administrative-procedure benefits-disqualification collateral-estoppel compensation-benefits lhwca-section-33(g) longshore-worker longshore-workers-compensation maritime-law settlement-authority third-party-settlement Is a longshore worker permanently disqualified from receiving any benefits from his employer due to a tentative third-party settlement?
20-1029 City of Austin, Texas v. Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC, et al. Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (21)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) billboard-regulation content-based content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech metromedia municipal-law reed-v-town-of-gilbert sign-code strict-scrutiny Is the city code's distinction between on- and off-premise signs a facially unconstitutional content-based regulation under Reed?
20-1043 United States v. Miguel Angel Cano Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) border-crime border-related-crimes border-search digital-contraband digital-evidence electronic-device fourth-amendment physical-smuggling warrant-exception Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in concluding that the scope of a search of an electronic device under the border-search exception to the Fourth Amend…
20-1113 American Hospital Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services District of Columbia Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-deference chevron-deference civil-procedure judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether Chevron deference applies to a statutory interpretation question that determines both the lawfulness of agency action and the court's jurisdic…
20-1129 Scott Phillip Flynn v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (1) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea irs jury-trial klein-conspiracy restitution seventh-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the due process clause requires discussion of the elements of an 18 U.S.C. § 371 conspiracy to defraud the IRS before accepting a guilty plea
20-1138 Cimznhca, LLC v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction good-cause good-cause-analysis intervention motion-to-intervene non-final-order procedural-due-process standing Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously exercised jurisdiction over a non-final order
20-1158 The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Inc. v. Will McRaney Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) employment employment-tort first-amendment ministerial-exception neutral-principles religion-clauses religious-organization secular-court tort-law Whether a secular court can adjudicate a minister's employment-related tort claims against a religious organization using neutral principles of tort l…
20-1163 Gloucester County School Board v. Gavin Grimm Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (3) biological-sex civil-rights equal-protection equal-protection-clause gender-identity restrooms school-discrimination title-ix transgender transgender-rights Does Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause require schools to let transgender students use multiuser restrooms designated for the opposite biologica…
20-1173 Glendy Yocelin Pineda-Sabillon v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied None
20-1174 Kim Lippard, et vir v. Larry Holleman, et al. North Carolina Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) civil-claims defamation ecclesiastical-settings first-amendment neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law religion-clauses tort-claims Whether the First Amendment's Religion Clauses prohibit courts from hearing defamation claims that arise from ecclesiastical settings, even when the c…
20-1183 Tri-State Zoological Park of Western Maryland, Inc., et al. v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied article-iii article-three-standing civil-action civil-rights constitutional-injury havens-realty mission-alignment organizational-standing resource-diversion standing Can an organization that does not claim membership or representational standing, attain first party standing sufficient to satisfy the concrete and di…
20-1194 Arthur Lopez v. Corona Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing Whether the petitioners' First Amendment rights were violated by the respondents' denial of their request to participate in a public forum based on th…
20-1203 Moose Jooce, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (3) administrative-procedure-act agency agency-law appointments-clause due-process government-action ratification ratification-doctrine rulemaking-authority standing Whether a government official has the power to validate the unauthorized actions of other officials is presumptively determined by the law of agency, …
20-1212 Peyman Pakdel, et ux. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit GVR Amici (3)Relisted (4) 42-usc-1983 administrative-remedies exhaustion-of-remedies finality-requirement land-use-regulation property-rights regulatory-takings takings-claim unconstitutional-conditions williamson-county Whether a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 takings claim is ripe under Williamson County's finality requirement when a city has definitively and unalterably imposed a…
20-1215 North American Meat Institute v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) agricultural-regulation animal-welfare commerce-clause constitutional-limits dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation interstate-commerce preemption state-police-power Whether the Constitution permits California to extend its police power beyond its territorial borders by banning the sale of wholesome pork and veal p…
20-1218 Demetrius William Edwards, et al. v. Sherry Burt, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) is entitled to habeas relief thereby giving rise to a presumption of prejudice counsel-deprivation criminal-procedure critical-stage habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-presumption presumption-of-prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant who was deprived of counsel during a critical stage of his trial, thereby giving rise to a presumption of prejudice, is e…
20-1286 Sacramento County, California v. Joseph Hardesty, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) chosen-profession due-process executive-action executive-decisions land-use land-use-regulation legislative-decisions municipal-decision-making occupational-liberty substantive-due-process zoning-ordinance Whether executive land-use decisions may be challenged via substantive due process
20-1294 Simon Campbell, et al. v. Pennsylvania School Boards Association, et al. Third Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 42-u-s-c-1983 civil-rights first-amendment free-speech petitioning petitioning-immunity retaliation retaliation-claim sham-litigation state-action state-actors Are state actors entitled to petitioning immunity for a First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983?
20-1306 Alan Dale Walker v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied capital-case capital-punishment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation mitigation-evidence psychological-trauma sixth-amendment tactical-decisions trial-counsel Did the Mississippi Supreme Court fail to adhere to this Court's Sixth Amendment jurisprudence requiring counsel in a capital case to conduct a thorou…
20-1313 Dimitri Shivkov, et al. v. Artex Risk Solutions, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied aaa-rules arbitration-agreement arbitration-clause class-arbitration dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act gateway-issues procedural-questions Whether an agreement that specifies arbitration before the AAA as the default dispute-resolution method must also specifically mention the AAA Rules t…
20-1339 Richard Sowinski v. California Air Resources Board Federal Circuit Dismissed civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit infringement-suit issue-preclusion patent patent-preclusion preclusion res-judicata Whether the Federal Circuit erred in creating and applying a patent-specific preclusion doctrine that bars new issues and new claims that would surviv…
20-1354 City of Portland, Oregon, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-interpretation administrative-law brand-x fcc-preemption federal-communications-commission local-government-regulation municipal-rights preemption public-property-access statutory-interpretation telecommunications-law telecommunications-regulation Did the court of appeals err in upholding the FCC's interpretation of 'effect of prohibiting' in light of its plain meaning, lack of a limiting standa…
20-1357 Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado v. Laurie Exby-Stolley Tenth Circuit Denied ada adverse-employment-action americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights employment-discrimination reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff asserting a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 must show that the employer's failure to make the requested ac…
20-1376 Michael Abatti, et al. v. Imperial Irrigation District California Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bryant-v-yellen due-process federal-law federal-reclamation imperial-valley prior-appropriation property-rights reclamation-act standing water-law water-rights Whether the District may abrogate the farmers' water rights that it previously conceded, and that this Court recognized, in Bryant
20-1448 Donna Corbello v. Franki Valli, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied copyright-estoppel copyright-infringement factual-work fair-use fiction first-publication ninth-circuit-doctrine original-expression public-claims unpublished-biography Whether the century-old equitable doctrine of copyright estoppel may be invoked to deny protection to original expression in an unpublished biography
20-1465 Chang Wang, et al. v. Terilyn Carter-Garrett, et al. California Denied civil-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated to deny Petitioners a fair trial due to the bias of the presiding…
20-1473 Alan W. Crittenden v. Mariko C. Crittenden Georgia Denied due-process equal-protection military-powers military-service sofa status-of-forces-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaty-powers Did the State of Georgia deny Petitioner equal-protection, due-process by dismissing his divorce complaint for lack of subject-matter-jurisdiction, wh…
20-1475 Wesley Perkins v. John Mischtian, Judge, County Court at Law 2, Bell County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied arbitration civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-arbitration due-process jurisdictional-challenge probable-cause standing statutory-challenge transportation-code Statutory Challenge ; Compelled Arbitration
20-1482 Cheri Lynne Melchione v. Timothy Temple Florida Denied civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights court-review district-court-power due-process judicial-jurisdiction judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing supreme-court supreme-court-access Did the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal's unchecked power to withhold or strip jurisdiction from the Florida Supreme Court to hear cases involv…
20-1491 Wael Lasheen v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio Denied civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judges-and-attorneys judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality organizational-conflict recusal recusal-standard standing state-supreme-court Is being a stakeholder in an organization which solicits donations and memberships from Judges and Attorneys a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment a…
20-1495 Karen V. McIntyre v. Kevin L. McIntyre, et al. Maryland Denied Response Waived contempt-of-court fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty judicial-discretion state-law trust-accounting trustee-obligations Question not identified
20-1496 Ali Mohamed Elatrache v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived capital-murder constitutional-rights due-process first-degree-murder jury-instructions jury-trial lesser-included-offenses procedural-default trial-by-jury whether-petitioner-was-deprived-of-due-process-and-jury-trial
20-1505 Zainab Merchant, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. First Circuit Denied Amici (2) border-search border-searches digital-contraband electronic-device electronic-devices fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment require that searches of electronic devices at the U.S. border be conducted pursuant to a warrant based on probable cause, o…
20-1508 Susan Pierson v. Hudson Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 25-usc-5321-c-8-a collateral-estoppel insurance-liability issue-preclusion privity public-policy recovery sovereign-immunity tort tort-claim Did the resolution of the tort claim against Thorne in Pearson v. Thorne decide the same issue or claim that plaintiff raises in the present suit agai…
20-1509 Pamela Timbes v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee Georgia Dismissed article-iii-standing collateral-estoppel discretionary-appeal due-process fourteenth-amendment georgia-rico mortgage-fraud property-rights res-judicata standing Whether the stated claims for relief of this Case arising directly under the due-process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Const…
20-1510 Louis Tafuto v. Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights electoral-college equal-protection free-speech gerrymandering injury-in-fact standing vote-dilution voting-rights Is a diluted vote an injury-in-fact when Plaintiff is in a 'packed' Electoral College district (New York) in a U.S. federal election?
20-1514 Robert John Dodd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia Denied child-sexual-abuse criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-proceeding statute-of-limitations trial-counsel Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object on Double Jeopardy grounds to nine identical carbon copy indictments
20-1515 Jason Assad v. Todd Wasmer, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal due-process prejudice-presumption sixth-amendment united-states-v-cronic Did the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit apply an incorrect standard by denying a Certificate of Appealability
20-1525 Lewis Archer v. America's First Federal Credit Union Eleventh Circuit Denied equal-protection equitable-tolling non-judicial-foreclosure respa statute-of-limitations supremacy-clause Whether the lack of a defense for federal mitigation wrongdoing by lenders in non-judicial state courts violates the Equal Protection Clause and Supre…
20-1535 Kevin Diaz v. Ashley Johnson First Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-action administrative-procedure-act agency-action apa arbitrary-and-capricious chevron-deference ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-review statutory-interpretation technology tucker-act Whether the Lower Court erred in not admitting nexus evidence
20-1537 Terence K. Dickinson v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived congressional-act constitutional-law federal-courts federalism judicial-review legal-interpretation legislative-authority legislative-intent separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the [Act] passed by Congress is to be adhered to by the United States Federal Courts, or whether the lower court was correct in relegating the…
20-1543 Adam P. McNiece v. Town of Yankeetown, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived bill-of-attainder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment municipal-law notice redress-of-grievances self-representation statutory-reference Can a violation of law or code be charged and tried without any statutory reference of code chapter and section indicated?
20-1544 Felicia Ross v. Peregrine Health Services, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel counsel-request district-court-dismissal due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process standing Did the District Courts err by not allowing Due Process?
20-1545 TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 Federal Circuit Denied 35-usc-271 claim-construction industry-standard infringement judicial-precedent literal-infringement patent patent-infringement statutory-interpretation Whether a patentee may prove literal infringement by relying solely on the essentiality of its patent to an industry standard
20-1564 James M. Perna v. Health One Credit Union, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived access-to-courts arbitration civil-rights due-process first-amendment forum-selection jurisdiction petition-clause sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether a grant of a writ of certiorari is warranted
20-1597 Kathryn MacEwen Conti v. Arrowood Indemnity Company Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge commercial-lending consumer-protection contract-law debt-classification non-dischargeable-debt promissory-notes student-loans Whether commercial lenders can create non-dischargeable debts by using language in promissory notes that identifies the loan as a 'student loan' or 'e…
20-1609 David R. Seaton v. Blake Johnson, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights de-escalation electronic-evidence evidence-standards police-brutality pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation recent-rulings summary-judgment use-of-force Question not identified
20-1625 David Lillie v. ManTech International Corporation Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived california-labor-code civil-procedure false-claims-act retaliation retaliation-statute rule-50 rule-50-motion statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-statute Whether Section 1102.5(b) requires a whistleblower to identify a specific statute, rule, or regulation
20-1637 Janice Dickinson v. Ryan Seacrest Productions, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived actual-malice defamation first-amendment lanham-act new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure rogers-test rogers-v-grimaldi Whether a defendant who willfully creates a false narrative about a public figure that is marketed to the public as a true story, for the intentional …
20-1645 Don Wilburn Collins v. Texas Texas Denied Response Waived capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto juvenile-jurisdiction juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-jurisdiction Did the Texas appellate courts fail to realize that the retroactive expansion of jurisdiction over a previously exempt juvenile for capital murder vio…
20-1656 Carmen Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived asset-forfeiture civil-rights coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance restitution supervised-release May an individual challenge non-custodial aspects of a criminal judgment through a petition for writ of error coram nobis?
20-1663 Matthew D. Norwood v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule forensic-interview hearsay hearsay-exception jury-deliberation prior-consistent-statement repetition trial-procedure truth-effect witness-testimony Whether admission of a recorded hearsay statement as a physical exhibit, permitted to be reviewed during deliberations, is a fair application of the e…
20-1671 Chi Ping Patrick Ho v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure federal-courts foreign-corrupt-practices-act indictment money-laundering prosecution-exemption reference-canon statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court may decline to apply the reference canon to the money laundering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1956, which makes specific reference to …
20-1675 Melvin L. Phillips, Individually and as Trustee for Melvin L. Phillips, Sr., et al. v. Oneida Indian Nation Second Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived deed-validity discovery federal-courts indian-nation jurisdiction land-jurisdiction land-ownership necessary-party state-involvement state-sovereignty tax-map trust-property Can the federal court exercise jurisdiction over this case when the land is listed on a tax map and the tax rolls in the name of New York State?
20-1680 ACI Information Group v. MidlevelU, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived copyright-infringement copyright-registration fair-use fraud implied-license internet-publication internet-publications statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate Whether a party has an implied license to use and redistribute internet content that an author has made freely available without any effort to protect…
20-271 Vilox Technologies, LLC v. Andre Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Relisted (2) administrative-judges administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause congressional-intent executive-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board severance-remedy tenure-protections Whether the court of appeals' severance remedy of the Appointments Clause violation of Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) is consistent with congress…
20-28 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, et al. v. Timothy Laurent, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Second Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation equitable-relief equitable-remedies erisa erisa-interpretation monetary-damages plan-reformation remedial-sections statutory-construction Whether the Second Circuit improperly combined parts of two separate remedial sections under ERISA, interpreting § 502(a)(3) to permit reformation of …
20-314 RPM International Inc., et al. v. Alan Stuart, Trustee for the Cecil G. Stuart and Donna M. Stuart Revocable Living Trust Agreement, et al. Federal Circuit GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3) administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law judicial-procedure officer-status patent patent-trial-and-appeal-board standing us-constitution-article-ii Whether the court of appeals erred by vacating and remanding the case based on an Appointments Clause challenge
20-319 Comcast Corporation, et al. v. Viamedia, Inc. Seventh Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (2) anticompetitive-conduct antitrust business-justification circuit-conflict circuit-split refusal-to-deal sherman-act trinko Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that a refusal-to-deal claim under § 2 of the Sherman Act may proceed despite the presence of valid busin…
20-391 Jody Lombardo, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Relisted (21) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity reasonable-jury Whether a reasonable jury could find that officers used excessive force when they put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the ground and pre…
20-402 Chad Richardson, et ux., Individually and as Parents and Next Friends of L v. Omaha School District Eighth Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-procedures administrative-proceedings attorneys-fees attorneys'-fees circuit-split civil-rights due-process IDEA idea-statute judicial-review limitations-period What type of state statute of limitations should courts borrow for attorneys'-fees-actions under 20-U.S.C.-§-1415(i)(3)(B)(i)(I)?
20-408 Fredman Bros. Furniture Company, Inc. v. Bedgear, LLC Federal Circuit Dismissed Relisted (2) administrative-officers administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officers judicial-review patent-law principal-officers separation-of-powers united-states Whether administrative patent judges are 'principal' or 'inferior' Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause
20-414 Rovi Guides, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-officers patent separation-of-powers tenure-protections Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
20-6199 Jacob Townley Hernandez v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (11)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim counsel-communication gag-order habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-order trial-procedure Whether a trial court's unjustified gag order prohibiting defense counsel from discussing a critical witness's declaration with the defendant violates…
20-645 Standing Akimbo, LLC, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (13) 16th-amendment 4th-amendment controlled-substances-act fifth-amendment fourth-amendment preemption self-incrimination state-rights supremacy-clause tax-law Does Colorado's state-legal cannabis sales violate the Controlled Substances Act?
20-6600 Throne Thomas Smiley v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP collateral-review criminal-defendant due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
20-6767 Marlon Thomas v. Illinois Illinois Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process mental-competence pre-trial-evaluation right-to-counsel sentencing Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the trial court denied his request for a pre-trial competency evaluation despite eviden…
20-679 Micron Technology, Inc. v. North Star Innovations, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Relisted (2) appointments-clause inferior-officers inter-partes-review patent-and-trademark-office principal-officers standing Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
20-6929 Stephen Hugueley v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Does the Martinez exception apply when post-conviction counsel's deficient representation resulted in a procedural default?
20-6948 Beau Brandon Croghan v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 8th-circuit child-pornography criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-retention knowingly-receives mens-rea statutory-interpretation website-viewing Whether the Eighth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant knowingly receives child pornography by viewing it on a website, even without any evidenc…
20-7160 Emmett Garrison, IV v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole presumption sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether the Eighth Amendment forbids a sentencing court from applying a presumption in favor of life without parole for a juvenile offender
20-7170 In Re Abhijit Prasad Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus pro-se standing supervised-release Question not identified
20-7189 Bernard Thomas v. United States Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP brief-filing counsel-assignment criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-defenders fourth-amendment harmless-error local-rule search-and-seizure standing Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment
20-7210 Tesfa Connell v. New York New York Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-warrant-requirement community-caretaking fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search law-enforcement-discretion standardized-criteria vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment mandates that standardized criteria govern an officer's antecedent decision to impound a legally and safely parked car
20-7327 Timothy A. Ward v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-guidelines federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-schedules state-law Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the federal sentencing guidelines should be defined by federal law or the law of the state where the prior …
20-74 Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Eugene H. Luoma, et al. Federal Circuit GVR Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law america-invents-act enablement intellectual-property judicial-review obviousness patent-eligibility patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-validity prior-art written-description Whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's application of the statutory requirements for patentability under 35 U.S.C. §§ 101, 102, 103, and 112 was …
20-7460 Carlos Rodriguez Fernandez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP child-pornography context-test due-process first-amendment four-corners-test jury-instruction lascivious-exhibition Whether courts must apply a 'limited context' test rather than an expansive 'context' test or a 'four corners' test in determining whether an image of…
20-7474 Ezralee J. Kelley v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP as four circuits hold as three circuits hold or whether a resentencing court must correct a Gu career-offender circuit-split fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court imposing a reduced sentence under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act is prohibited from correcting an erroneous Sentencing …
20-7522 Joshua R. Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson v. United States applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (200…
20-7523 Joseph M. Bryant v. Louisiana Louisiana GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus non-unanimous-jury ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Is Petitioner convicted by a non-unanimous verdict, whose case is not yet final, entitled to the benefit of the holding in Ramos?
20-7528 Jonathan Figueroa-Serrano v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review conditional-plea criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-rules harmless-error plea-bargaining sentencing In conditional plea appeals, is an error harmless when (1) the error did not affect the defendant's choice to plead guilty; or (2) the error did not a…
20-7533 Preston James v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether it is a misapplication of the Sentencing Guidelines for a sentencing court to defer to guideline commentary that expands the definition of a c…
20-7549 Shane Arnold v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure defense district-court due-process evidence evidence-introduction knowledge-of-status plain-error rehaif-standard Rehaif-v-United-States trial-error Whether a defendant satisfies the final two prongs of plain-error review for a Rehaif-v-United-States trial error
20-7611 Jamar Garrison v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied IFP brady-rule brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-obligations due-process harmless-error rule-16 sixth-circuit should-a-writ-of-certiorari-issue-to-review-the-brady-and-rule-16-due-process-violations
20-7667 Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 5th-circuit falsified-evidence franks-standard franks-v-delaware judicial-review law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause sentencing-guidelines wiretap wiretap-evidence When a law enforcement agent falsifies and misrepresents wiretap evidence to establish probable cause for a second wiretap, can a reviewing court rely…
20-7815 Sylvester O. Barbee v. Jason Boyd, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-7823 Alan Trowbridge v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review counsel-deficiency criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decide an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with this Court's holding in Strickland v. …
20-7827 Glen D. Plourde v. Stephen C. Bellavia Maine Denied IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-bias police-misconduct torture Whether the petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights to substantive and procedural due process were infringed upon due to the father-son relationship betwe…
20-7828 Kevin Norris Mitchell v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 attorney-death attorney-performance civil-procedure constitutional-rights equitable-tolling federal-tolling ineffective-assistance judicial-opinions legal-procedure post-conviction post-conviction-relief Whether the death of a petitioner's retained attorney during post-conviction relief proceedings establishes equitable tolling for not securing federal…
20-7835 Steven Cooper v. Florida Florida Denied IFP adverse-possession circuit-court constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mandamus right-to-counsel trespass Whether a defendant has the right to waive presence at pretrial conferences
20-7836 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Ted Wire, et al. Fourth Circuit Dismissed IFP administrative-law age-discrimination appointment-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-employment federal-question standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in affirming the order of the district court to dismiss the Title VII civil rights and Age Discrimination in E…
20-7841 Sylvia J. Manor v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit Denied IFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure contract contract-interpretation date-of-accrual insurance-law legal-interpretation life-insurance statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions What is the proper and legal Date Of Accrual in this case?
20-7843 Timothy Howard Johnson v. Renee Baker, Warden Nevada Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion retroactivity right-to-counsel right-to-defense right-to-jury-trial trial-court-discretion waiver witness-testimony Whether the state district court lost subject matter jurisdiction by rendering the judgment of conviction void when it failed to comply with the requi…
20-7848 Astarte Davis v. Joseph Wilson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Judge, Superior Court of California, Marin County, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud individual-capacity judicial-jurisdiction non-judicial-acts official-capacity Is non-judicial acts by judges and clerk in their official capacity under color of law, and in their individual capacity for non-judicial acts subject…
20-7859 Denver Lee v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied IFP 6th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-sufficiency due-process felon-in-possession jury-finding jury-trial knowledge-of-status old-chief-stipulation plain-error rehaif substantial-rights Whether, when applying plain-error review based on the Court's intervening decision in Rehaif, a circuit court of appeals errs in relying on a petitio…
20-7865 Terry Lee Froman v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-duty death-penalty fair-trial jury-selection racial-bias structural-error voir-dire Does trial counsel have an obligation to conduct a meaningful and comprehensive voir dire as it relates to racial bias, explicit or implicit, of juror…
20-7867 Howard Allen Groffel v. Virginia Virginia Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession firearms protective-order protective-orders status-crime status-crimes Does the Double Jeopardy Clause permit charging multiple 'status crimes' for a single criminal act?
20-7871 Jemone Lawrence Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure criminal-indictment fairness-integrity-public-reputation federal-jurisdiction intervening-supreme-court-decision plain-error-review subject-matter-jurisdiction substantial-rights trial-record Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction
20-7875 Lisa Truong v. UTC Aerospace Systems Eighth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-review civil-rights discrimination due-process emotional-damage emotional-damages employment employment-discrimination harassment personal-file-disclosure workplace-harassment Whether the Supreme Court will authorize the release of Petitioner's 'complete' Personal File to determine the reason and legitimacy of job terminatio…
20-7881 Steven Lynn Oppel v. Minnesota Minnesota Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-misconduct judicial-reputation wrongful-conviction Are Minnesota courts more interested in protecting a judge's reputation than the constitutional rights of the people?
20-7908 Derrick Martin King v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
20-7919 Edward Shane West-El v. C. K. ONeal Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights delegated-authority due-process indigenous-status judicial-hearing jurisdiction standing tax tax-compliance Where does the IRS agent have delegated authority to request tax forms from a Moorish American?
20-7926 Sadat El-Amin v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-procedure Fourteenth-Amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity Sixth-Amendment teague-framework Teague-v-Lane Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on State collateral review
20-7971 Derek A. Rivera v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the defendant was denied a fair trial due to improper other-acts evidence
20-7980 Takiese Naceer Bethea v. West Virginia West Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendants criminal-procedure equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-fairness prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing Does the unequal treatment of African-American co-defendants violate the equal protection clause?
20-7987 Gregory K. Clinton v. Cheryl Dean Riley Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law endangered-species-act environmental-law national-environmental-policy-act standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in its interpretation and application of the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act in up…
20-8001 In Re Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. Denied IFP and the presentation of false testimony denying s constitutes a violation of Brady and Napue warran brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression extraordinary-writ false-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct napue-v-illinois napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering Whether Mr. Pizzuto is entitled to habeas relief or an extraordinary writ due to the State's suppression of evidence and presentation of false testimo…
20-8017 Subrina Brenham v. Joseph Kemp, et al. Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-8087 William Edward Erickson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review coercion conditional-plea constitutional-claims criminal-procedure evidence extraneous-statements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-plea pretrial-motions sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner is entitled to constitutional review and relief on his claims at the appeal level regarding his ineffective assistance of couns…
20-8105 Daniel Littlepage v. First District Court of Appeals of Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process judicial-bias new-trial structural-error trial-procedure Is a Petitioner Entitled to a New Trial when the 'Bias' and 'Partial' behavior of a Trial Judge exceeds the Requirement to prove 'Structural' Error?
20-8129 Joseph Miller v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-v-mcdaniel Whether an attorney's failure to advise a client of the adverse ramifications of raising certain claims on direct appeal constitutes a substantial den…
20-8132 George Verkler v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining presumption-of-innocence right-to-appeal right-to-counsel Does the presumption of innocence and due process require a judge to rule in favor of the defendant if the judge will not read everything submitted or…
20-8136 Ebone Jazmine McAfee, aka Jazzy v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-review circuit-split sentencing supervised-release supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of this Court on an important matter, an…
20-8137 Marilynn M. McRae v. Donnie Harrison, Sheriff, Wake County, North Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights disability due-process eeoc-duty employee-protection employment government-agency light-duty-policy workplace-discrimination Whether EEOC has a duty to protect employees from discriminatory light duty policies
20-8138 Eddy Pena v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-846 conspiracy conspiracy-liability controlled-substances pinkerton-doctrine reasonable-foreseeability sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether under 21 U.S.C. § 846 it is proper to base a defendant's sentence on the weight of all controlled substances possessed by all members of a con…
20-8146 Edward Lee Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory district-court district-court-interpretation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker Whether the District Court committed significant procedural error when it mistakenly interpreted section 7B1.3(f) of the United States Sentencing Guid…
20-8152 Miguel Martinez-Figueroa v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
20-8156 Ricardo Renteria v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion specific-facts statute-violation traffic-stop Whether reasonable suspicion to support a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment requires a showing of specific facts that the suspect violated the r…
20-8157 In Re Blake Joseph Sandlain Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-circuit mandamus personal-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus to compel the district cour…
20-8160 Tamaran Edward Bontemps v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether a sweatshirt bulge alone gives an objectively reasonable and particularized suspicion to stop a person under Terry v. Ohio
20-8168 Ross Colby v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial juror-sympathy jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the statements of a prosecutor invoking juror sympathy and telling the jury that it has a duty to convict violate the defendant's Sixth Amendm…
20-8169 Yessenia Jimenez v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hispanic jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes pretextual-reasons Whether the government violated Batson v. Kentucky
20-8173 Lenroy McLean v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling government-misconduct judicial-discretion judicial-integrity standing Whether the Government sought to diminish the likelihood of Petitioner's finding of a Brady violation, by interjected a manufactured declaration to mi…
20-8174 Esad Lemo v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability language-access language-interpretation mental-capacity police-interrogation right-to-interpretation sixth-amendment Is the Constitution violated where a defendant who speaks only Bosnian and has an IQ of 57 receives no interpretation during the suppression hearing t…
20-8177 Michael T. Brooks v. Agate Resources, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure due-process federal-rules informa-pauperis judicial-procedure pro-se-plaintiff rehabilitation-act retaliation standing Can the federal courts ignore the Federal Rules?
20-8183 Themba Bernard Sanganza v. Warden, Allenwood FCI Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitution-supremacy constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federalism governmental-branches judicial-review legislative-precedence separation-of-powers state-sovereignty Does the Constitution take precedence over other forms of legislation?
20-8184 Ronald Centeno v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constructive-amendment mens-rea specific-intent whether-aiding-and-abetting-can-be-submitted-to-jury-when-not-charged
20-8186 Michael James Young, Jr. and Vance Edward Volious, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law explosives first-amendment fourth-circuit law-enforcement mail-fraud non-mailable-matter postal-service statutory-interpretation Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by ruling that 18 United States Code Section 1716 prohibits as non-mailable an inert…
20-8189 Heather Dawn Griffith v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether, in a prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 846, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) requires a statement sufficient to show an agreement to d…
20-8191 Steven E. Hill v. C. V. Rivera, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-courts due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdictional-status limited-jurisdiction military-tribunals reconsideration supreme-court-review united-states-v-briggs Whether the status of military tribunals as Article I courts of special limited jurisdiction warrants reconsideration of United States v. Briggs
20-8192 Jorge Ramon Newball-May v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-drug-law maritime-law pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. 70501 et. seq., is unconstitutional on its face and in violation of the Sixth Amendment right…
20-8194 Irvin Moreno v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act bureau-of-prisons drug-trafficking nonviolent-offense sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the BOP violated the plain meaning of the relevant sentencing statutes and regulations by categorically disqualifying a prisoner convicted of …
20-8198 In Re Khayree Smith Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus property-rights racial-classification reconstruction-amendments slavery What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (negro, black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865?
20-8209 Dennis J. Edwards v. Kim Larson, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-testimony Whether the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights were violated by the denial of his habeas corpus petition without explanation
20-8212 Dany L. Brandao v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home home-search narcotics narcotics-prosecution probable-cause prosecution search search-and-seizure vehicle Should the Fourth Amendment prohibit a search of a person's home when all drug sales occurred elsewhere?
20-8222 In Re Marshall DeWayne Williams Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner is entitled to habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254
20-8226 In Re Francis Boyd Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice murder murder-degrees third-degree-murder trial-procedure Can a trial judge instruct a jury during a jury charge that they cannot find the petitioner guilty of a certain degree of murder after entertaining a …
20-853 Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Fall Line Patents, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3) administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation department-head inferior-officers officer-status patent-office principal-officers separation-of-powers us-patent-and-trademark-office Whether administrative patent judges are principal officers or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
20-92 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Promptu Systems Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Relisted (2) administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause appointments-clause-interpretation constitutional-law inferior-officers officer-status principal-officers separation-of-powers Whether administrative patent judges are 'principal' or 'inferior' Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause
20-979 Pankajkumar S. Patel, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) administrative-law citizenship citizenship-misrepresentation discretionary-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration-law inadmissibility judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) preserves the jurisdiction of federal courts to review a nondiscretionary determination that a noncitizen is ineli…
20M100 David Louis Whitehead v. United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M101 Ronnie J. Rice v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M102 Dontour D. Drakes v. United States Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
20M99 June Johnson v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22O152 Montana and Wyoming, Plaintiffs v. Washington Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) None
22O154 New Hampshire, Plaintiff v. Massachusetts Denied CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (2) None