Conference: 2021-09-27

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20-1006 City of Hayward, California, et al. v. Jessie Lee Jetmore Stoddard-Nunez Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 seizure use-of-force 1. Whether an accelerating fleeing driver's sudden turn deprives a threatened shooting officer of qualified immunity? 2. Whether an unintended victim…
20-1026 Eagle Trust Fund v. United States Postal Service, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act article-iii executive-action judicial-review non-apa-review postal-reorganization-act usps-rules In two landmark suits against prior Postmasters General, this Court set bedrock principles of judicial review of executive action in equity. Kendall v…
20-1057 Oracle America, Inc. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-record agency-deference bid-protest conflicts-of-interest criminal-statute federal-law harmless-error procurement procurement-law 1. Whether a bid protest that establishes a violation of federal law may be denied for "harmless error" based on a rationale not present in the admini…
20-1076 SE Property Holdings, LLC, as Successor by Merger to Vision Bank v. Jerry D. Gaddy Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2) 11-usc-523-a-2-a actual-fraud asset-transfer bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law circuit-split creditor-rights debtor-protection fraudulent-transfers husky-international-electronics-inc-v-ritz 1. Does a creditor sufficiently state a claim under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A) to except from discharge a debt "for money, property, services, or an ext…
20-1141 Doe Company v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process perlman-doctrine personal-jurisdiction standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement third-party-disclosure 1. Whether an appealing party's substantial interest in a disclosure order directing a disinterested third party to produce documents provides appella…
20-1144 Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. v. Curtis Ulleseit, et al. Ninth Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights-removal court-of-appeals federal-officer-removal remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation Under 28 U.S.C. 1447(d), courts of appeals generally may not review orders remanding removed cases to state court. But Section 1447(d) also states tha…
20-1184 Kee Food, Inc., et al. v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied civil-forfeiture due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment meaningful-hearing property-rights state-seizure Is the meaningful hearing aspect of due process satisfied when a party — faced with state seizure and retention of property under civil forfeiture sta…
20-1206 Elizabeth R. Bannister, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) None
20-1240 Francisco Javier Palillero v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure discovery-sanctions dna-evidence expert-testimony right-to-defense right-to-present-defense rule-16 sixth-amendment Whether precluding a criminal defendant's DNA rebuttal expert testimony as a Rule 16(d)(2) sanction for a non-willful violation is compatible with the…
20-1246 Anna Valentine, Warden v. Johnny Phillips Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility-determination district-court expert-witness federal-civil-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus standard-of-review (1) Did the Sixth Circuit violate Fed. Rule Civ. P. 52(a)(6) when it failed to apply the proper, heightened and deferential standard to the district c…
20-1279 Angelica Castañon, et al., Appellants v. United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (4) None
20-1287 Recovery Innovations, Inc., et al. v. Kenneth Rawson Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-services state-action state-action-doctrine Whether through the provision of mental health services, a private, non-profit hospital and private healthcare providers become state actors, subject …
20-1298 Demetreus A. Keahey v. Dave Marquis, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 6th-amendment clearly established federal law regarding a defen criminal-procedure jury-trial or is an unreasonable application of self-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-trial self-defense sixth-amendment Whether the failure to give a self-defense jury instruction contradicts, or is an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law regardi…
20-1315 Louisiana v. Aaron G. Hauser Louisiana Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) irreparable-corruption juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-miller-standard montgomery-v-louisiana rehabilitation rehabilitation-evidence sentencing-discretion Does a sentencing court run afoul of Montgomery and Miller by weighing the heinous facts of a juvenile's violent crime more heavily than any subsequen…
20-1324 Charles McManemy v. Bruce Tierney, et al. Eighth Circuit Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct qualified-immunity standing I. A split exists within the Eighth Circuit concerning how narrowly or broadly existing precedent is to be applied in finding clearly established law …
20-1326 Rebecca A. Moriello v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-rule-making due-process federal-regulations non-delegation non-delegation-doctrine notice separation-of-powers vagueness 1) Whether 41 C.F.R. § 102-74.38 and 41 C.F.R. § 102-74.390 are inconsistent with the separation of powers doctrine? 2) Whether 41 C.F.R. § 102-74.38…
20-1327 PDX North, Inc. v. Robert Asaro-Angelo, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-proceeding civil-procedure civil-remedies civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction standing state-court younger-abstention Federal courts have a "virtually unflagging obligation" to hear and decide cases within their jurisdiction. In Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971), …
20-1328 Omar Everton Dale, aka Omar Dale v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) None
20-1346 Calvary Chapel of Bangor v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine First Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) employment-division-v-smith establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-discrimination jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-restrictions preliminary-injunction religious-liberty strict-scrutiny temporary-restraining-order (1) Whether the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from discriminating against houses of worship by restricting the …
20-1349 Rachel Threatt v. Ryan Thomas Farrell, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure class-action fee-awards lodestar lodestar-method reasonable-fees rule-23h Whether, and to what degree, a district court must consider counsel's lodestar in awarding "reasonable attorney's fees" under Rule 23(h).
20-1356 Eduardo Lopez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied appellate-rights conflict-of-interest counsel-disqualification criminal-procedure disqualification guilty-plea sixth-amendment structural-defect wheat-v-united-states 1. Following Class v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 798 (2018), does a criminal defendant's guilty plea result in the automatic waiver of his right to app…
20-1362 Davdrin Goffin v. Robbie K. Ashcraft, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner use-of-force Is an officer entitled to qualified immunity if she shoots a fleeing suspect in the back without warning after watching another officer search the sus…
20-1364 BofI Holding, Inc., et al. v. Houston Municipal Employees Pension System Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) basic-inc-v-levinson disclosure-standards dura-pharmaceuticals efficient-capital-markets-hypothesis efficient-market-hypothesis fraud-on-the-market investor-protection loss-causation market-price securities-exchange-act securities-fraud In Basic Inc. v. Levinson, 485 U.S. 224 (1988), this Court recognized the fraud-on-the-market presumption of reliance for private rights of action bro…
20-1369 Mohammed Jabateh v. United States Third Circuit Denied appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-criminal-rule federal-criminal-rule-52(b) plain-error plain-error-rule sentencing statutory-construction Does the plain error rule permit affirmance of a federal criminal conviction and sentence based on conduct that concededly does not violate the charge…
20-1370 Nidal Ahmed Waked Hatum v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) concealment-money-laundering criminal-forfeiture forfeiture-money-judgment honeycutt-limitation honeycutt-v-united-states mirror-image-transactions money-laundering no-loss-to-bank return-of-tainted-property statutory-interpretation substitute-property tainted-property Whether a criminal defendant's legitimate, untainted property is subject to an extra-statutory forfeiture money judgment or substitute property forfei…
20-1377 William V., et ux. v. Copperas Cove Independent School District Fifth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights due-process educational-services idea-statute individuals-with-disabilities-education-act legal-standard procedural-waiver special-education standing Is not specifically naming non-dispositive factors, when actually arguing the factors, a waiver of claims? When an IDEA-eligible child with a disabil…
20-1378 Linda Rizzo-Rupon, et al. v. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO District 141, Local 914, et al. Third Circuit Denied agency-fees first-amendment janus-v-afscme private-sector-employees railway-labor-act state-action union-representation 1. Does this Court's recent First Amendment agency fee ban announced in Janus v. AFSCME, 138 S.Ct. 2448 (2018), apply to matters involving private-sec…
20-1379 Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority v. Center for Investigative Reporting Third Circuit Denied Amici (3) categorical-ban commercial-speech content-restriction first-amendment free-speech government-speech political-speech public-forum supreme-court-precedent transit-advertising transit-authority 1. Whether this Court's decision in Mansky overruled or abrogated the Court's holding in Lehman that transit authorities have the discretion to catego…
20-1385 Tarek Obaid v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied 28-usc-1355 civil-forfeiture due-process in-rem in-rem-jurisdiction minimum-contacts pennoyer-v-neff property-situs shaffer-v-heitner statutory-interpretation Does the Due Process Clause, as construed by Shaffer v. Heitner, require application of the "minimum contacts" test to true in rem proceedings?; and …
20-1388 Alice Perkins, et vir v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 1842-treaty canandaigua-treaty federal-income-tax federal-tax-law income-taxation internal-revenue-code native-american-rights seneca-nation treaty-interpretation treaty-obligations This Court is presented with a question of first impression, as to the taxability of income derived from the sale of sand and gravel, mined from treat…
20-1390 Mario Nelson Reyes-Romero v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Sixth Circuit Denied None
20-1391 Sportswear, Inc., dba Prep Sportswear v. Savannah College of Art and Design, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split consumer-confusion federal-registration intellectual-property related-goods service-mark trademark-infringement unrelated-goods 1. Does the scope of a federally-registered service mark extend to unrelated goods bearing that service mark? 2. Does the defendant's copying of a ma…
20-1392 Jason Fowler, et al. v. Brittany Irish, et al. First Circuit Denied Amici (2)Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process law-enforcement qualified-immunity state-created-danger Did the First Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to Petitioners where neither this Court nor the First Circuit had ever before recognized the s…
20-1396 Walter A. Tormasi v. Western Digital Corporation Federal Circuit Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection inmate-access patent patent-rights property-rights standing state-agencies takings Does imprisonment (1) forfeit a patent owner's right not to be deprived of personal property without due process of law and (2) render a person wholly…
20-1400 Mark Elliott, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit Denied article-three-jurisdiction bankruptcy bankruptcy-plan constitutional-rights due-process equitable-mootness secured-creditors statutory-appeal statutory-jurisdiction takings 1. In a case in which the appellants have a statutory right of appeal and the court of appeals has Article III and statutory jurisdiction, may the cou…
20-1402 Stephen Hammonds v. Robert Theakston, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied 11th-circuit 8th-amendment appellate-precedent civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care qualified-immunity section-1983 1. When the unconstitutionality of an officials' conduct is reasonably obvious, does that suffice to render the violation of those constitutional righ…
20-1419 Reb Russell, II v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-carry home-defense intermediate-scrutiny second-amendment self-defense standing takings In District of Columbia v. Heller, this Court held that the Second Amendment protects "the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of co…
20-1430 AMA Multimedia, LLC v. Marcin Wanat Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived calder-effects-test circuit-split civil-procedure due-process express-aiming federal-civil-procedure foreign-defendant geotargeted-advertising personal-jurisdiction tort Whether a foreign defendant, whose largest business market originates from the United States through website visitors with geotargeted advertising, wh…
20-1443 Candace Aguilera, aka Candace Sgaggio v. City of Colorado Springs, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment free-exercise implied-license indigenous-rights private-property search-and-seizure spiritual-property standing I ask the Supreme Court to clarify how long the government agents, can stay on the Private spiritual property and continue to search, after the implie…
20-1444 W. A. Griffin v. Coca-Cola Refreshments USA, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived anti-alienation anti-assignment assignment-of-benefits claims-fiduciary erisa fiduciary-duty health-benefits plan-administrator provider-services waiver Whether the anti-assignment provision in the Coca-Cola Plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD ("Dr. Griffin"). Anti-assignment and anti-alienation contained …
20-1453 Cal Cartage Transportation Express, LLC, et al. v. California, et al. California Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) commercial-ramifications federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-statute independent-contractor independent-contractors motor-carrier preemption pricing-regulation statutory-interpretation worker-classification Does the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act, which expressly preempts state laws "related to a price, route, or service of any motor ca…
20-1461 Jairo Acosta, Police Officer for the City of Los Banos v. Tan Lam, as Successor-in-Interest to Decedent Sonny Lam, aka Son Tung Lam Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process evidence officer-credibility plain-error police-use-of-force ptsd ptsd-evidence qualified-immunity reasonable-officer threat-assessment use-of-force 1. Is it plain error to admit evidence of a police officer's remote PTSD diagnosis to challenge the officer's credibility and prove he was more likely…
20-1462 Eni USA Gas Marketing LLC v. Gulf LNG Energy, LLC, et al. Delaware Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-agreement civil-procedure collateral-attack federal-arbitration-act judicial-review prior-arbitration-award prior-award Whether the Federal Arbitration Act permits a court to refuse to enforce an arbitration agreement delegating all questions, including questions of arb…
20-1466 Hermandad de Empleados del Fondo del Seguro del Estado, Inc., et al. v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof constitutional-law contract-clause fiscal-crisis heightened-scrutiny legislative-impairment public-contract reasonableness-and-necessity 1. Whether placing the burden of proof on the plaintiffs regarding the reasonableness and necessity of a legislation that impaired a public contract c…
20-1468 Robert David Dupuch-Carron, et ux. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services Federal Circuit Denied compensation compensation-eligibility foreign-vaccination residency-requirement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vaccine-act vaccine-injury 1. Does the ordinary meaning of the words of section 11(c)(1)(B)(i)(III) of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (the NCVIA or "Vaccine Act"), 42…
20-1471 Jonathan Lozada, Deputy Sheriff, in His Individual Capacity v. Dudley Teel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Susan Teel Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-factors law-enforcement obvious-factual-clarity-rule qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether this Court should clarify the application of the Graham factors to a law enforcement officer's use of force during a call for service that doe…
20-1472 Boechler, P.C. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (6) claim-processing-rule equitable-tolling internal-revenue-code jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement tax-court tax-law time-limit Whether the time limit in Section 6330(d)(1) is a jurisdictional requirement or a claim-processing rule subject to equitable tolling.
20-1474 Joseph Colone v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, et al. California Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure discovery-rules evidentiary-privilege judicial-subpoena judicial-truth-seeking non-governmental-litigant stored-communications-act subpoena truth-seeking 1. Whether federal statutes must contain express privilege language before courts may decide that Congress intended the statute to create an evidentia…
20-1483 Philip Pilevsky, et al. v. Sutton 58 Associates LLC New York Dismissed Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code federal-law federal-preemption legal-proceedings liability-based-on-bankruptcy misuse-of-bankruptcy preemption state-law state-law-tort-claims tort-claims Whether the federal Bankruptcy Code preempts state-law tort claims that are premised on an alleged misuse of bankruptcy proceedings or that seek to im…
20-1511 Dax Elliot Carpenter v. Julie Elizabeth Carpenter Michigan Denied child-support disability-benefits federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause va-benefits veterans-benefits 1. Congress's enumerated military powers preempt all state law concerning disposition of military benefits. Howell v. Howell, 137 S. Ct. 1400, 1404, 1…
20-1516 Veronica V. Badescu v. Catalin S. Badescu Ohio Denied best-interest-standard child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-interest vagueness 1. Precisely what constitutes a compelling state interest justifying deprivation of a fit parent's—and primary caregiver's—constitutional right to leg…
20-1518 QDOS, Inc. v. Matthew Hayden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied appealable-order appellate-panel bankruptcy bankruptcy-appellate-panel bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-proceeding final-order interlocutory-order involuntary-petition judicial-review Whether a Bankruptcy Appellate Panel's order reversing a bankruptcy court's dismissal of an involuntary petition constitutes a final, appealable order…
20-1519 Ismael Rivera v. Glennis Gelabert-De-Peguero, et al. First Circuit Dismissed appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-doctrine police-conduct police-officer qualified-immunity standing 1. Whether Police Officer Ismael Rivera was correctly denied his entitlement to qualified immunity? 2. Whether the District Court correctly applied c…
20-1520 Diane Gruber, et al. v. Oregon State Bar, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived bar-association compelled-speech constitutional-law first-amendment freedom-of-speech integrated-bar janus-v-afscme keller-v-state-bar legal-precedent mandatory-dues This case involves compelled speech of attorneys and whether that compelled speech unconstitutionally infringes upon the attorneys' Freedom of Speech:…
20-1521 Yann Iannucci v. Macomb County Friend of the Court Michigan Denied child-support disability-compensation due-process federal-preemption military-powers state-court-jurisdiction state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits 1. In Rose v. Rose, 481 U.S. 619, 641-642 (1987), Justice Scalia stated in his concurring opinion: "I am not persuaded that if the Administrator [now…
20-1522 United States v. Malik Nasir Third Circuit GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession plain-error-review statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction following a trial for possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U…
20-1523 Rolando Cruz, Jr., Marc Hernandez, and Roscoe Villega v. United States Third Circuit Denied constitutional-rights drug-conspiracy integrity-of-courts jury-selection plain-error-review public-interest sentencing structural-error substantial-rights 1. The district court excluded the public, including family members, from the courtroom for the entirety of jury selection. Petitioners' counsel faile…
20-1524 Advantageous Community Services, LLC, et al. v. Gary King, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process hope-v-pelzer legal-immunity medicaid-fraud qualified-immunity state-employees 1. Should the doctrine of qualified immunity be limited to defenses at common law when the Civil Rights Act was adopted or should it be abolished by t…
20-1526 Warnock Engineering, L.L.C., et al. v. Canton Municipal Utilities Fifth Circuit Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-pleading-standards first-amendment johnson-v-shelby pleading-standards quantum-meruit retaliation-claim standing summary-judgment 1. Whether the Court of Appeals' decision affirming the dismissal of Petitioners' quantum meruit claim due to alleged inadequate pleading should be re…
20-1529 Luz Del Socorro Cerritos-Quintanilla, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied None
20-1532 Diana Garvey v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied administrative-law agency-deference agency-regulation chevron-deference judicial-review plain-meaning statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits willful-misconduct Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Nat. Res. Def. Council Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 842 (1984), held, the first question when interpreting a statute is "whether Congr…
20-1533 Carline M. Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. Ohio Denied civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-practices job-vacancy ohio-revised-code retaliation title-vii 1. Should Plaintiff Curry been given and Opportunity for Reemployment as other similarly situated employees upon retirement excluding the fact that sh…
20-1538 Angela W. DeBose v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied bad-faith burden-of-proof civil-procedure independent-action judicial-fraud res-judicata rule-60 rule-60(b) rule-60(d) 1. Whether a Rule 60(d) Independent Action to Attack a Final Judgment is a continuation or re-litigation of the prior case, barred by the doctrine of …
20-1540 Victor J. Edney v. Eondra Lamone Hines, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction default-judgment government-liability governmental-immunity legal-action motion-for-default qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity Why should the petitioners ' motion of frivolous claims be granted by this court? Why did the petitioner not negate the respondents qualified immunit…
20-1542 Michael Mogan v. Jeff Henry, et al. California Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment arbitration attorney california-court due-process prevailing-party sanctions Whether a California Court is permitted to impose sanctions against an attorney without violating his rights to Due Process under the 5th and 14th Ame…
20-1549 Jeffrey B. Broadhurst v. Citimortgage, Inc. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consumer-protection contract deposition-testimony due-process loan-modification standing summary-judgment third-circuit UTPCPL Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the District Court's Order Granting Respondent's Motion for Summary Judgment by finding …
20-1550 Xiu Jian Sun v. Rudolph Contreras District of Columbia Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Question not identified.
20-1551 Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina Denied civil-rights conspiracy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment land-encroachment land-use property-rights takings 1. Whether respondents transgressed the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States when appellees on or about December …
20-1552 Naked TM, LLC v. Australian Therapeutic Supplies Pty. Ltd. Federal Circuit Denied circuit-split federal-circuit judicial-precedent lanham-act lexmark standing statutory-cause-of-action statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration trademark-standing 1. A majority of a Federal Circuit panel ruled that respondent has standing under 15 U.S.C. § 1064 to cancel petitioner's trademark registration even …
20-1553 Reiyn Keohane v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process gender-dysphoria mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing vacatur Petitioner Reiyn Keohane is a Florida prisoner who challenged the denial of medically necessary care for gender dysphoria under then-applicable Florid…
20-1555 Ruth McLean v. 800 DC, LLC, et al. Third Circuit Denied due-process fraud fraudulent-measures jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment void void-ab-initio Under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, federal district courts lack jurisdiction to hear cases seeking review of judgments issued by state courts. In this…
20-1556 Dawn Herndon v. Judy R. Upton, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure equitable-considerations habeas-corpus mootness prison-release sentencing supervised-release A defendant in a federal criminal case receives a paradigmatic sentence -- a term of imprisonment, to be followed by a term of supervised release. Whi…
20-1558 Vinay Yadav v. Texas Texas Denied civil-rights conspiracy-against-civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment ninth-amendment sixth-amendment thirteenth-amendment 1. Texas contravenes the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution on multi-count and contradicts SCOTUS. SCOTUS has yet to answer all States con…
20-1561 In Re Barbara Riley Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte-judgment government-misconduct property-rights racketeering standing takings void-judgment 1. Is it constitutional for multiple units of Local government and State government to enter, sell, buy, and record facially void ex parte default jud…
20-1562 Faye Strain, as Guardian of Thomas Benjamin Pratt v. Vic Regalado, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (5) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jail jail-official medical-care pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees subjective-knowledge Whether a pretrial detainee can prevail against a jail official who disregarded an obvious risk of serious harm or whether the pretrial detainee must …
20-1566 David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adverse-possession choice-of-law circuit-split federal-common-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act state-law stolen-property substantive-law Whether a federal court hearing state law claims brought under the FSIA must apply the forum state's choice-of-law rules to determine what substantive…
20-1567 Marshall Abbas Khan v. Clark County Enforcement, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied 11th-amendment administrative-capacity bill-of-attainder civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a County/State judges have authority to preside over a case when He/ She has a conflict of interest Does absolute immunity apply when a judge has…
20-1569 Dawn Desrosiers, et al. v. Charlie Baker, Governor of Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Amici (2)Response Waived content-neutral covid-restrictions due-process first-amendment peaceable-assembly rational-basis time-place-manner Massachusetts reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic by adopting severe restrictions on the First Amendment right of peaceable assembly. Governor Baker exem…
20-1575 Americare Emergency Medical Service, Inc. v. New Jersey Office of Emergency Medical Services, et al. New Jersey Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection property-rights standing On June 16, 2019 Superior Court Judge Lynott reversed AmeriCare's license suspension after findings of provable due process and civil rights violation…
20-1577 John S. Barth v. Adam Buckley, et al. First Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleadings standing 1. Are the 120 paragraphs of detailed factual statements in the Complaint and Appendix, together with numerous public record exhibits of defendant p…
20-1579 Vivian Epps v. CVS Health Corporation Ninth Circuit Denied appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process electronic-record-freedom-of-information-act federal-procedure federal-rule-60 judicial-misconduct natural-justice ninth-circuit standing 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit 3-panel Judges, TASHIMA,SILVERMAN, and OWENS had INFRINGED the Rule of NATURAL JUSTICE for NOT giving the Appellant the …
20-1580 Shenglin R. Chen, et al. v. Alvin Turner, et al. Maryland Denied 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-access emergency-exit equal-protection equal-rights first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct Question 1. Is freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment? Question 2. Whether complied/ substantially complied the equal rights? Question 3…
20-1582 Wei-Ping Zeng v. Texas Tech University Health Science Center at El Paso, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process employer-policy employment-discrimination liberty-interest stigma stigma-harm summary-judgment wrongful-termination Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which the circuit courts of appeals are split: for his/her claim of wrongful termination f…
20-1584 Shelia Holmes v. General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination employment employment-discrimination essential-functions essential-job-functions qualified-individual reasonable-accommodation workplace-accommodation 1. Whether an employer's steel-toed shoe requirement is an essential function of a disabled employee's job for purposes of determining whether she is …
20-1585 Donnahue George v. William Snyder, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial government-agency illegal-seizure pro-se-litigation property-rights standing 1. Are Pro se litigants entitled to the same interpretation and protections of the law when the opposing party is a government agency as litigants rep…
20-1587 Louisiana v. Tazin Ardell Hill Louisiana Denied Amici (1) compelled-speech first-amendment fraud fraudulent-alteration government-speech sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registry state-id state-identification (1) May a State require convicted sex offenders to obtain and carry a state identification bearing the words "sex offender" without facially violating…
20-1588 Michael Konowicz, aka Michael Phillips, et al. v. Jonathan P. Carr, et al. Third Circuit Denied actual-malice commercial-speech constitutional-interpretation defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lanham-act 1. Whether the Court should revisit the fifty-year old "actual malice" doctrine of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its progeny to determine if the …
20-1590 Audrey L. Kimner v. Capital Title of Texas, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction mortgage-fraud standing 4. Whether the California Federal District Court in San Jose and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals intentionally and willfully deprived petitioner of…
20-1591 Ashwin Khobragade v. Covidien LP Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-rules fraud qualified-immunity rico stare-decisis white-collar-litigation 1. Is the Defendant Covidien LP entitled to the absolute qualified immunity? Which is luring, hiding, lying, cheating, stealing, RICO and committing f…
20-1595 Naum Morgovsky and Irina Morgovsky v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied appellate-waiver arms-export-control-act class-v-united-states constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute executive-authority intelligible-principle rule-12(b)(3) separation-of-powers 1. Whether the Executive had the authority to issue the regulations under which the Morgovskys were convicted; if so, whether those regulations and th…
20-1596 Taylor Lohmeyer Law Firm P.L.L.C. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1) attorney-client-privilege circuit-split client-identity confidential-communication irs-audit irs-summons john-doe-summons legal-counsel tax-planning When the Government is aware of a citizen's confidential communication with legal counsel or the motive for seeking advice, but is unaware of the citi…
20-1599 John Doe 7, et al. v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof civil-procedure confidentiality disclosure modification-standard protective-order rule-26c stipulated-order stipulation Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allows courts to grant protective orders, for good cause shown, regarding information produced by a…
20-1601 Xiu Jian Sun v. David B. Cohen, et al. Second Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction divine-intervention due-process judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-standing mandarin-translation religious-freedom religious-petition separation-of-church-and-state standing The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows 1. To fulfill Jehovah, - t…
20-1602 Cornelius S. Berry, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived adjournment amend-complaint case-adjournment circuit-court-review civil-procedure complaint-amendment due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-dismissal standing WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MICH…
20-1604 Biogen MA Inc. v. EMD Serono, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied anticipation claim-construction incentives medical-treatment method-of-treatment novelty patent patent-law patent-validity prior-art recombinant-protein Whether courts may disregard the express claim term "recombinant" so as to render a method-of-treatment patent anticipated—and thus invalid—in light o…
20-1607 Michigan v. Anthony Michael Owen Michigan Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment heien-standard legal-uncertainty police-conduct reasonable-mistake-of-law speed-limit traffic-stop Respondent was stopped for speeding in a residential street within the village, on a road with a 25 MPH sign going the other way, where almost all the…
20-1608 North Carolina v. Norfolk Junior Best North Carolina Denied alternate-suspects appellate-review bloody-fingerprint brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process materiality materiality-analysis post-conviction post-conviction-review Does an appellate court violate the core princ ipals of Brady in post -conviction review where in its materiality analysis it disregards both evidence…
20-1610 Kaysha Dery Richardson v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-1611 Healthcare Distribution Alliance, et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (2) circuit-split federal-courts fees-vs-taxes opioid-stewardship-act public-benefit regulatory-fee state-law state-tax tax-injunction-act The Tax Injunction Act (TIA) forbids federal courts from enjoining "the assessment, levy or collection of any tax under State law" when state-court re…
20-1612 Monib Zirvi, et al. v. Jay T. Flatley, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constructive-notice fraudulent-concealment inquiry-notice intellectual-property misappropriation patent pleading-stage standing storm-warnings trade-secret trade-secret-misappropriation 1. Did the Second Circuit err in holding, in contrast to the Federal Circuit, that under the "inquiry notice" standard applicable to trade secret misa…
20-1613 John Wayne Collins v. James David Green, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) aedpa aedpa-deference clearly-established-law criminal-joinder federal-constitutional-claim federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-proceedings state-supreme-court unreasonable-application 1. Whether de novo review instead of deferential review under AEDPA applies where a state supreme court's analysis was not conducted deliberately as a…
20-1615 Colin Masseau, et ux. v. Guy Henning, et al. Vermont Denied Response Waived 9-usc-10(a)(3)&(4) arbitration-review contract-of-adhesion due-process federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce manifest-disregard manifest-disregard-of-law motion-to-dismiss notice-pleading Colin and Emily Masseau were a young couple looking to purchasing their first home and hired a local Vermont licensed home inspector to inspect that h…
20-1621 Antonia Lerner v. Citigroup Third Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-review legal-standard non-movant nonmovant opposition procedural-default standard-of-review waiver Whether the proper standard of review and correct legal standard are waived from appellate review merely because the nonmovant did not file an opposit…
20-1623 David Paul Bohler v. City of Fairview, Tennessee Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech garcetti-rule public-employee retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether a rational juror could find that the Petitioner, a police officer, had a First Amendment right to speak to a local prosecutor about corruption…
20-1624 Robert Butts v. William Sperfslage, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act attorney-deception effective-death-penalty-act equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus holland-v-florida section-2254 1. WHETHER, IN LIGHT OF EXPRESS AFFIDAVIT BY PETITIONER DEMONSTRATING ATTORNEY DECEPTION ABOUT COMPLYING WITH DEADLINE, THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT WRIT T…
20-1627 S. S., et al. v. S. B. Pennsylvania Denied Amici (3) child-custody content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-press free-speech gag-order overbreadth prior-restraint vagueness Is such a "gag order" an unconstitutionally vague and overbroad prior restraint and content-based restriction violating Petitioners' First Amendment f…
20-1628 Daniel Tekle v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied 4th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure void-judgment warrantless-search Whether "The right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizers, shall not be violat…
20-1629 George Wingate v. Scott Fulford, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-arrest due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing 1. Whether the Court should permit the qualified immunity defense to extend to a court-invented, hypothetical and demonstrably counter-factual justifi…
20-1632 Patrick H. Stockdale, et al. v. Kim R. Helper Sixth Circuit Denied absolute-immunity clearly-established constitutional-rights first-amendment petition-clause public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation 1. Whether the decisional law regarding retaliation under the Petition Clause of the First Amendment was clearly established to place a public officia…
20-1633 Frank Salazar v. Anthony Anderson, et al. Colorado Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment motor-vehicle-seizure notice-of-dismissal standing substantive-and-procedural-due-process This case is important because it involves lower court decisions that flout this Court's binding precedent, and, denies the fundamental constitutional…
20-1634 Nicole Johnson-Gellineau v. Stiene & Associates, P.C., et al. Second Circuit Denied 15-usc-1692a(4) 15-usc-1692c(b) creditor creditor-definition debt-collection debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act fiduciary fiduciary-duty litigation-communication statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a fiduciary that obtains a defaulted debt, and is owed the debt, may qualify as a person facilitating collection "for another" within the e…
20-1635 Michael Anthony Casillas v. Minnesota Minnesota Denied civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea nonconsensual-dissemination obscenity protected-speech strict-scrutiny Does the First Amendment allow a state to criminalize protected speech by means of a statute aimed at prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of s…
20-1638 Emmanuel Edokobi v. Paul W. Grimm, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct letter-order pre-filing-injunction standing When Reviewing a District Court's ruling to dismiss a civil case against Respondent Judge Paul W. Grimm should the Court of Appeals dishonor its own U…
20-1640 Frederick M. Weber v. Ohio Ohio Denied civil-rights constitutional-review core-rights due-process firearm-regulation home-defense home-possession judicial-standard lower-court-uncertainty second-amendment standard-of-review What is the proper standard of constitutional review of a law that impacts the core value of the Second Amendment—possession and use of a firearm with…
20-1642 Brian Doty v. Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC Second Circuit Denied circuit-court circuit-court-split construction-site jones-act jury-determination maritime-worker seaman-status supreme-court-precedent vessel-navigation 1. Where, in this case, it is undisputed that the injured worker spent 90% of his working time on vessels in navigation, operating cranes and excavato…
20-1643 Arthur Baisley v. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Fifth Circuit Denied constitutional-rights fair-representation first-amendment janus-v-afscme labor-law opt-out opt-out-procedures political-activities railway-labor-act union-fees Whether opt-out procedures for collecting union fees for ideological and political activities violate the First Amendment or the Railway Labor Act.
20-1646 Steven K. Stanley v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus phone-number-obfuscation privacy privacy-expectation res-judicata search-and-seizure 1. Does the intentional use of the *67 feature to obfuscate one's phone number create a justifiable, reasonable, or a legitimate expectation of privac…
20-1647 Valerie Haney v. Church of Scientology International, et al. California Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-procedure civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion religious-arbitration religious-freedom Whether, under the First Amendment, a court may subject a person who has rejected the faith to participate in a religious "arbitration" where arbiters…
20-1649 Ronald Jeremy Hyatt v. California California Denied confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment witness-disclosure Whether the prosecution may refuse to disclose the names and address of the 23 victims and additional witnesses it intends to call at petitioner's pre…
20-1650 Carlos Concepcion v. United States First Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (10) circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing factual-developments first-step-act legal-developments resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n…
20-1651 Michael J. DeMartini, et ux. v. Timothy P. DeMartini, et ux. Ninth Circuit Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure joinder remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) Whether an antecedent court order amending a complaint to join a diversity-destroying defendant is separable from a § 1447(e) remand order and thu…
20-1652 Meghan Belaski, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission District of Columbia Denied Response Waived confidential-information double-jeopardy fifth-amendment intellectual-property related-action securities-exchange-commission securities-law takings-clause whistleblower whistleblower-award Do the statutory rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in order to qualify for whistleblower award, violate the Double Jeopardy Clause in t…
20-1655 W. A. Griffin v. Delta Air Lines, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived anti-alienation anti-assignment claims-fiduciary erisa fiduciary-duty health-benefits plan-administrator waiver Whether the anti-assignment provision in the Delta Air Lines Plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD ("Dr. Griffin"). Anti-assignment and anti-alienation prov…
20-1657 Minor Lee McNeil v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-authority due-process executive-branch federal-jurisdiction federal-power trading-with-enemy-act trading-with-the-enemy-act treason war-powers Whether the use of the federal War power via the amended (TWEA), to establish federal jurisdictions inside the Union States is an act of Treason? Whe…
20-1658 Thomas Rimini v. Department of Labor First Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion appellate-procedure civil-procedure department-of-labor federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure non-waiver-mandate sarbanes-oxley subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Did the First Circuit lack subject matter jurisdiction to rule while an earlier-filed Sarbanes-Oxley matter with identical causes of action is not …
20-1659 50509 Marine LLC, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived chicago-title corporate-dissolution erisa erisa-interpretation federal-common-law stare-decisis state-corporate-law tenth-amendment Whether under Chicago Title & Tr. Co. v. Forty-One Thirty-Six Wilcox Bldg. Corp., 302 U.S. 120 (1937) and the Tenth Amendment to the United States Con…
20-1661 Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia Third Circuit Denied 14th-amendment collective-bargaining due-process employment employment-law fourteenth-amendment grievance-procedure official-discrimination procedural-rights property-rights 1. Whether School District of Philadelphia, on August 25.1992. discharged the petitioner from his teaching position, without due process of law, with…
20-1662 William B. Trescott v. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law agency-deference agency-rulemaking chevron-deference due-process interstate-commerce professional-judgment Is it Constitutional for a court to defer to a person lacking professional experience under Chevron, U.S. A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Counci…
20-1664 Jason Michael Jett v. Michigan Michigan Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection felony-charges illegal-search-and-seizure jurisdiction racketeering state-agent we wish for answers to our questions presented in kind and in writing, by mail, in reasonable time, to our address, properly signed and dated, please …
20-1666 Ashton R. O'Dwyer, Jr. v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-disciplinary-proceeding civil-rights conflicts-of-interest due-process judicial-conflict-of-interest judicial-misconduct panel-member-disqualification procedural-fairness reciprocal-discipline recusal standing Whether, prior to his participating in rendering decision in this reciprocal attorney disciplinary case, the failure of a Panel Member to disclose to …
20-1672 Joan Carol Lipin v. Wisehart Springs Inn, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit Denied attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process first-amendment fraud-on-the-court judicial-authority summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent trust-agreement I. If the sanctity of the express and unambiguous written intent, terms, and conditions of an Act of Congress are inviolate, like the express and unam…
20-1673 Ashley Nettles v. Midland Funding LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied article-iii-standing circuit-split concrete-injury fair-debt-collection-practices-act procedural-rights separation-of-powers spokeo-v-robins 1. Whether, under Spokeo, it is sufficient for standing simply to allege a violation of the procedural rights created by the Fair Debt Collection Prac…
20-1674 Lawrence Mills v. Anthony Hassan, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied None
20-1677 Angel Lee Rankin v. Texas Texas Denied 5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidence-suppression miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress sudden-passion Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the Trial Court's Denial of Ms. Rankin's Motion to Suppress Because She was in Law Enforcement's Custo…
20-1678 Daniel Z. Crowe, et al. v. Oregon State Bar, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (10)Response Waived attorney-regulation compelled-speech constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech keller-v-state-bar mandatory-dues political-speech public-sector-unions state-bar This Court has held that "exacting" First Amendment scrutiny applies to laws that force public employees to subsidize the speech and political activit…
20-1681 Shelton Barnes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-intent due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit medicare-billing obstruction obstruction-statute rule-of-lenity sufficiency-of-evidence (1) Does the Panel Decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, rendered October 28, 2020 (979 F.3d 283 (5th Cir. 2020), WL 6…
20-1682 Jayson Badillo v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections, et al. First Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination disparate-impact due-process employment-discrimination intervention minority-hiring settlement-agreement standing title-vii Whether Petitioner was entitled as a matter of right to intervene in a Title VII enforcement action brought by the United States against the State of …
20-1683 James A. Gideon v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response Waived disciplinary-investigation exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment garrity-doctrine garrity-v-new-jersey professional-license self-incrimination Whether a professional license holder's objectively reasonable, subjective belief that assertion of the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimi…
20-1684 Sean Hartranft v. Midland Funding, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied civil-procedure debt-collection due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intervention standing telephone-consumer-protection-act 1. Whether the Court of Appeals committed reversible error when it denied Petitioner's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 24(a) motion to intervene as a…
20-1685 Scott Fulford, et al. v. George Wingate Fourth Circuit Denied civil-liability fourth-amendment law-enforcement-training qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion terry-stop totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances The Fourth Amendment requires that a Terry stop be supported by some minimal level of objective justification for the stop. In conducting a Fourth Ame…
20-1686 Bobby Lee Hampton v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana Denied collateral-review constitutional-rule criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-counsel teague-v-lane In 2018, this Court held in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct. 1500, that "a defendant has the right to insist that counsel refrain from admitting guilt e…
20-1687 Jules Dylan Stuer v. Susan Duesler Texas Denied amicus-attorney child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-provisions defamation due-process fraud standing victim-rights 1. Is an AMICUS Attorney allowed to side with someone who damages a child repeatedly, perjures themselves in Civil Court numerous times, and defrauds …
20-1688 L. C. v. S. C., et al. New Jersey Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights dna dna-certification due-process full-faith-and-credit sister-state-order Certify DNA attached dated April 18, 2011 and not be in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 1738 since no due process occurred? process and not be violation of …
20-1689 Georgia Stewart v. Monica Palacio District of Columbia Denied Response Waived address case-reinstatement civil-procedure court-procedure due-process legal-notification mailing mailing-address notice notice-of-decision reinstatement Whether the court denied the petitioner due process of law when it counted the time it mailed a decision and order in this matter against the time in …
20-1691 Paul E. Robinson v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law auer-deference constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review veterans-benefits 1) Did the court of appeals violate constitutional rights of "Due process " and "Equal protection " when it deferred to the BVA and failed to review a…
20-1692 Henry Evans v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution expert-testimony health-care-fraud healthcare-fraud medicaid medicare medicare-regulations statutory-interpretation 1.) Are the Medicare rules, regulations, and policies "controlling" in a criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1347; i.e. is evidence of compliance o…
20-1693 Erick Allen Osby v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (4)Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment Whether basing a criminal defendant's sentence on charges of which the jury acquitted him violates the Fifth or Sixth Amendments.
20-1694 Gregory Molden v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment health-care-fraud medicare medicare-regulations regulatory-compliance Petitioner in district court appeared in a jury trial with multiple co-defendants three of which like Petitioner were licensed physicians. All of the …
20-1696 Jeriel Edwards v. Steven Harmon, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived bodycam-evidence bodycam-video civil-rights civil-rights 20-1695" civil-rights-litigation de-novo-standard excessive-force fifth-circuit-review frcp-60b4-motion inherent-court-powers jurisdictional-requirements qualified-immunity rule-54-attorney-fees section-1983 summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit can refuse to review the Does Scott v. Harris alter, or merely implement, traditional summary-judgment requirements—especially when a nonmovant § 1983 plaintiff relies on mova…
20-1697 Alice Kimble v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment eighth-amendment excessive-fine fbar foreign-bank-account-report statutory-interpretation tax-evasion tax-penalty willful-violation willfulness 1. Did the Court err in holding that Alice acted willfully, despite the lack of proof either that she had knowledge of the requirement to file an FBAR…
20-1698 Philip Palade, et al. v. Board of Trustees University of Arkansas System, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied academic-freedom contract-rights declaratory-judgment due-process employment-contract property-rights retroactive-application standing standing-doctrine tenure-rights Whether the lower courts erred in holding that Petitioners lacked standing to seek declaratory relief concerning the retroactive application of newly-…
20-1699 E. M. M., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived appeal-rights appeals circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-parte federal-jurisdiction procedural-due-process standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether a "bright line" rule requires post-deprivation notice and hearing for ex parte child seizures, as the FIFTH Circuit holds, or whether the r…
20-1701 Walter P. Vargo, Jr. v. D & M Tours, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1631 civil-procedure court-discretion court-of-appeals federal-courts interest-of-justice jurisdiction jurisdiction-transfer procedural-rules statutory-interpretation transfer The question presented in this appeal is whether 28 U.S.C. §1631 means what it says: that "when a court finds that there is a want of jurisdiction, th…
20-1703 Martin Dekom v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure-procedure judicial-authority judicial-usurpation mortgage-fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine second-amendment standing Can courts alleviate their backlog by letting staffers usurp the authority of judges? Is the Rooker-Feldman doctrine a safe harbor for fraud? Can co…
20-1705 Renovo Services, LLC, et al. v. George Badeen, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied amount-in-controversy class-action-fairness-act district-court-jurisdiction federal-procedure federalism-separation-of-powers removal-statute rules-enabling-act separation-of-powers statutory-deadline statutory-deadlines This appeal presents important questions not yet settled by this Court related to federalism and the separation of powers. Specifically, the case pres…
20-1706 Leevan Roundtree v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Amici (1) 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge civil-rights constitutional-review due-process felon-dispossession firearm-dispossession firearm-rights non-violent-felony second-amendment standing 1. Whether a non-violent felon may bring an asapplied challenge to a state law that permanently denies Second Amendment rights to anyone convicted of …
20-1707 Katherine Jacobs v. Johnson Storage & Moving Co. Holdings, LLC Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-errors civil-procedure due-process evidence flsa-violations fraud material-facts overtime-approval perjury summary-judgment (1) Whether the district court did not uphold F.R.C.P. Rule 56, Rule 60(b) and the Supreme Court's summary judgment standards when weighing and dismis…
20-1710 Zafar Bakhramovich Yadigarov v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived abuse-of-writ appellate-procedure coram-nobis delay due-process judicial-discretion legal-diligence legal-standards procedural-standard sound-reasons writ-of-error As petitions for writs of error corum nobis are not subject to any formal deadlines nor any statutes of limitations, the nation's courts generally den…
20-1711 Kevin K. Tung v. Janet Yijuan Fou New Jersey Denied attorney-discipline attorney-ethics due-process equal-protection fraud-on-the-court hostile-work-environment intervention judicial-criticism judicial-misconduct professional-reputation Whether the New Jersey Judiciary's denial of the motion to intervene by the Petitioner in the an action on the basis that Petitioner does not have "an…
20-1712 Charles Paul-Thomas Phoenix v. The Florida Bar Florida Denied Response Waived attorney-disciplinary-proceeding attorney-discipline charge-not-in-original closing-argument due-process grievance-committee in-re-ruffalo probable-cause quasicriminal-nature Whether a charge, in a state bar attorney disciplinary proceeding for which the attorney grievance committee had determined there was no probable caus…
20-1715 Denise Taylor-Travis v. Jackson State University Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived causation causation-standard civil-rights due-process jury-instructions privacy-rights public-records-act retaliation title-ix 1. The jury was told that for petitioner to prove her claim of retaliation, she must show she was terminated "solely as a consequence" of her protecte…
20-1716 Melvin Trent Walker v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law declaratory-judgment discrimination-claims district-court-jurisdiction employee-definition employee-status punitive-damages standing title-vii Constitutional Question is the Governors Code of Conduct constitutional? 16AM Juris. 2nd Ed.Const. Law. Sect. 177 Declaratory Judgement Act Commonweal…
20-1717 Harris County Hospital District v. Public Utility Commission of Texas, et al. Texas Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights class-action collateral-review cy-pres due-process judicial-procedure settlement-class standing Whether, or in what circumstances, the scope of the collateral review of an alleged absent class member's collateral attack on a class action judgment…
20-1718 Samuel H. Sloan v. Maria Childress, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived child-custody interstate-custody judicial-immunity judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction new-york parental-rights religious-freedom supreme-court third-parties virginia 1. Where the questions of the custody of a child have been decided by the Supreme Court of New York State, when may a family court of a county in Virg…
20-1720 Joanne Taylor-Cotten v. District of Columbia Public Schools District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-law impact-process retaliation 1. Whether the district court erred in holding DCPS and OEA for violation of the IMPACT process by no providing Staff development 2. Whether OEA erre…
20-1721 James Sawyer v. Rosemary Sawyer, et al. California Denied Response Waived child-support civil-rights conflict-of-laws due-process full-faith-and-credit modification state-sovereignty uifsa 1. UIFSA and Procedural Due Process Is the right to Due Process as vested in a citizen of the United States durable, transportable, and enforceable …
20-1722 Damian Cruz v. Glenda I. Lebron Vazquez Puerto Rico Denied administrative-agency civil-procedure default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment in-personam-jurisdiction interstate-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Puerto Rico Court of Appeal departed so far from the due process in direct conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution o…
20-1723 Jane Doe v. James T. DeWees, et al. Maryland Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights common-law-name constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment homelessness privileges-and-immunities standing The fundamental right of all persons to seek remedy for injury via the courts has been variously grounded in Article IV's privileges and immunities cl…
20-1725 David Seidemann, et al. v. Professional Staff Congress Local 2334, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (2) 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-share-fees good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme restitution retroactivity union-fees Petitioners are current and former public-school teachers in the State of New York who declined to join a public union. They seek a refund of the fair…
20-1727 James David O'Brien v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-court-ruling civil-procedure federal-agency immunity legal-interpretation proffer-agreement subpoena testimony testimony-protection Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit err in deciding that a proponent of testimony pursuant to a proffer agreement, entered i…
20-1728 Rico Sanders v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-status life-sentence mitigating-factor parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether this Court's Eighth Amendment precedent clearly establishes that a sentencing court must consider a defendant's juvenile status as a mitigatin…
20-1729 In Re Dimitri Jonthiel Patterson Denied 28-usc-2241 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus legal-documentation procedural-challenge state-custody Should a Petitioner raising a 28 U.S.C. §2241 Habeas Corpus, remain in State custody without certified legal documentation in violation of his constit…
20-1730 In Re Dimitri Jonthiel Patterson Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus legal-documentation procedural-challenge standing state-custody Should a Petitioner raising a 28 U.S.C. §2241 Habeas Corpus, remain in State custody without certified legal documentation in violation of his constit…
20-1731 Trista Oettle v. William J. Cadigan, Chairman, Illinois State Board of Elections, et al. Illinois Denied Response Waived ballot-selfie content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech political-expression political-speech public-forum viewpoint-neutral viewpoint-neutrality 1. Whether a photograph of a completed ballot, commonly called a ballot selfie, is a form of political expression in a public forum or a nonpublic for…
20-1733 Marie Becton v. Social Security Administration Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-1734 Waseem Daker v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process filing-fees intervention joinder prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 standing I. Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires each prisoner filing a lawsuit to pay a separate filing fee. II. Whether the Prison Litigation R…
20-1736 Katrina L. Webster v. Thomas W. Harker, Acting Secretary of the Navy, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived civil-rights deposition-misconduct due-process eeoc eeoc-procedure employment-discrimination evidence-tampering legal-ethics summary-judgment witness-tampering Defendant's Counsel stopping a deposition to direct a deponent [CAPT Patrick Croley] to change his testimony to hide discrimination, should be suffici…
20-1739 Carline M. Curry v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al., Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived bad-faith-affidavit civil-procedure default-judgment informa-pauperis mandamus preponderance-of-evidence summary-judgment In case No. 18 - 5567 & 2018-0212 Writ and Rehearing in the lower and Supreme Court of Ohio: When the City failed to Plead Should Plaintiff Curry been…
20-1740 Silvia Maribel Uceda-Alvares, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-1741 Vincent Tang v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. California Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process equal-protection forgery judicial-process property-rights property-title robo-signing 1. Are forgery and robo-signing one and the same? 2. Are there due process and equal protection issues surrounding the determination as to whether th…
20-1742 Akil Jahi, aka Preston Carter v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied capital-punishment capital-trial counsel-limitations criminal-defense defendant-autonomy ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana penalty-phase sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Does the Sixth Amendment holding of McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct. 1500 (2018) apply to a penalty phase capital trial to protect a defendant's auto…
20-1743 Ruben Ovalles v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-1746 Temor S. Sharifi v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment citizenship due-process fifth-amendment foreign-law just-compensation property-rights takings Petitioner was born in Afghanistan. He immigrated to the United States and became a United States citizen. His siblings and other relatives remained i…
20-1747 Erich Sorenson v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Amici (3)Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection curtilage due-process fourth-amendment home-privacy law-enforcement search-and-seizure standing warrantless-arrest Whether the hallway area immediately adjacent to an apartment, in a private multi-family dwelling that is not open to the public, is part of the curti…
20-1748 Raquel Garcia-Tinoco v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-1749 David Sebastian-Soler v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-1750 Danesh Rahimi v. Troy Kohler Utah Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment group-quiet-title judicial-taking property-rights real-property standing state-courts takings To Resolve Matters of First Impression for The Supreme Court of the United States: Among the present legal doctrines without definitive resolution for…
20-1752 Devar Hurd v. Stacey Fredenburgh Second Circuit Denied Amici (1) civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest prolonged-incarceration qualified-immunity 1. Whether prolonged incarceration past a statutorily-mandated release date is an objectively serious deprivation under clearly established Eighth Ame…
20-1753 Joseph Dennis Gilberti, Jr. v. Adrurra Group, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process environmental-protection government-conspiracy professional-engineering public-health racketeering standing takings water-quality water-resource I. Why did the lower Court with Governor Desantis. EPA, and Florida Department of Environmental protection, along with multiple City/County and State …
20-1754 Lawrence Joey Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-argument prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt 1. Is it objectionable for a prosecutor to argue to the jury that a lack of evidence does not give rise to a reasonable doubt? 2. Is the Eleventh Cir…
20-1756 Ethan Fullerton, et al. v. LG Chem, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived corporate-defendant domestic-corporations due-process fifth-amendment foreign-corporations fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-limits longarm-statute personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Should international corporate defendants with worldwide reach be granted jurisdictional protection not afforded domestic corporations? 2. Does a …
20-1757 Lecia L. Shorter v. Mary Amador, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights class-action class-action-settlement class-certification due-process monelle-liability rule-23-certification standing strip-search unnamed-class-member 1) What are the collateral attack options of an unnamed class member to challenge the classifications and due process violations in a $53 million civi…
20-1758 RD Legal Funding, LLC, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction cfpb-enforcement cfpb-structure constitutional-structure enforcement-action jurisdiction ratification seila-law separation-of-powers standing Respondent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau brought an enforcement action against Petitioners RD Legal Funding Partners, LP, et al., while, as Sei…
20-1759 Israel Sarabia-Arredondo v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-1760 iLife Technologies, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied 35-usc-101 claim-interpretation judicial-framework legal-standard patent patent-claim patent-eligibility question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 standard The questions presented are the same as those presented in the petition for a writ of certiorari filed in connection with American Axle & Manufacturin…
20-1761 Jennifer Berrier, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry v. Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission Third Circuit Denied compact-clause constitutional-law delaware-river-commission delaware-river-joint-toll-bridge-commission interstate-compact sovereign-authority state-sovereignty third-circuit-court-of-appeals Do compacting States, simply by creating an interstate compact, relinquish all sovereign authority over that compact entity unless expressly reserved?
20-1762 Ross R. Caliguri v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association New York Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment appellate-review conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-decision mortgage-foreclosure state-court (1) Whether the Court of Appeals of the State of New York was in a "conflict of interest" position when it issued its Memorandum Decision dated Decemb…
20-1763 Fenyang Stewart v. Wilbur L. Ross, Secretary of Commerce, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law burden-shifting but-for-analysis disability-discrimination disability-related-interference merit-systems-protection-board rehabilitation-act retaliation retaliation-claims statutory-interpretation statutory-text Should disability-related interference claims brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 12203(b) be analyzed as retaliation claims susceptible to a burden-shift…
20-1764 Donnahue George v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-1765 Donald S. Harden v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived but-for-causation circuit-split controlled-substances-act death-results ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing For a death-results sentence under the Controlled Substances Act, must a jury be instructed as to but-for cause if the evidence of causation is confli…
20-1766 In Re John H. Todd Denied Response Waived civil-rights confession constitutional-safeguards criminal-investigation due-process evidence evidence-exclusion police-conduct search-warrant Does Oregon's conflicting statutes on search warrants that exist between ORS 133.545(5) which requires a fully trained police officer and ORS 167.345 …
20-1768 Ron Fenn v. City of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability government-actor qualified-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent As the jurisprudence becomes broader on when a government actor enjoys qualified immunity and the instances where a citizen can hold that government a…
20-1769 Cheryl Fritze v. Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. Sixth Circuit Denied civil-rights education off-campus off-campus-internship public-body sexual-harassment student-intern title-ix whistle-blower I. Whether Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 affords a student intern the same legal protection against sexual harassment during an off…
20-1770 Xiu Jian Sun v. Northwell Health, et al. New York Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-relief legal-procedure mandamus-petition religious-doctrine religious-freedom separation-of-church-and-state standing The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows 1. The angel of the Lord A…
20-1771 Charles Simonson v. Borough of Taylor, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process independent-investigation probable-cause warrantless-arrest witness-statement The Third Circuit held that probabl e cause can be based solely on the statements of a victim and an alleged 1 ½ hour investigation that failed to inc…
20-1772 Branden Edward Shumate v. California California Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship attorney-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure motion-for-new-trial post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-court I. Whether a Trial Court Deprives a Defendant of His Right to Counsel by Discharging a Defendant's Hired Attorney of Choice Just Before Trial Was to S…
20-1774 Shaun Allahyari v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 26-usc-7403 contract-defenses federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure standing standing-doctrine tax-debtor tax-liens third-party-creditor third-party-lienholder united-states-v-rodgers 1. (a) Whether the United States of America, as a junior lienholder on a tax debtor's property, has standing to sue to enforce the tax debtor's contra…
20-1776 Owen Marlon Alexander v. Breaking Ground, et al. Second Circuit Denied administrative-procedure agency-deference civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process guardianship immigration-law intervention public-charge rule-making standing Whether States with interests should be permitted For some reason it seems like when I became a citizen of the United States my family, friends, management of the Hegeman, CUCS, and other members of s…
20-1777 Willard Hall v. Edward Bickham, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied 6th-amendment community-representation due-process effective-assistance fair-cross-section fair-trial fifth-circuit impartial-jury jury-composition probable-cause (1) Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana properly concluded…
20-1781 Frederick B. Wright v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived adverse-action federal-water-pollution-control-act motivating-factor reasonable-belief safe-drinking-water-act whistleblower-protection Whether an employer's professed motivating factor in taking adverse action against a whistleblower employee under the Safe Drinking Water Act and the …
20-1782 Regina Therese Drexler v. Theresa Spahn, et al. Colorado Denied 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-protection-order civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint section-1983 1. Whether the First Amendment permits the issuance of a civil protection order to (i) punish a "pattern" of conduct where such conduct includes only …
20-1783 Jacob Christine v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit Denied and an ex-post-facto violation jury instruction errors ada-pleading-5th bagley-exception brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process jury-instruction pcra-hearing pinholster self-defense unavailable-declarant Certiorari is sought re the erroneous denial of a C.O.A. or Reergument in the 3rd Cir. Ct. of Appeals, perhaps most notable among the questions presen…
20-1784 Ohio v. Daniel Deuble Ohio Denied 4th-amendment digital-communication fourth-amendment identity-corroboration law-enforcement law-enforcement-sting probable-cause search-and-seizure social-media 1. Whether probable cause existed under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution to detain a person suspected of soliciting sexual activ…
20-1785 Ronald W. Ogle, et al. v. Sevier County Regional Planning Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitrary-and-capricious board-of-regents-v-roth due-process entitlement-test fourteenth-amendment land-development property-interest regional-planning substantive-due-process Whether initial approval in a land development scheme creates a legitimate claim of entitlement for the purpose of establishing a property interest th…
20-1787 YourMechanic, Inc. v. Jonathan Provost California Dismissed arbitrability california-labor-code delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act independent-contractor paga representative-claims (1) Whether the FAA requires enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement that includes a pre-dispute waiver of representative claims, including u…
20-1789 Lorna Y. Channer v. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Authority Second Circuit Denied bankruptcy federal-law governmental-unit jurisdiction state-law statutory-interpretation title-11 Does the term governmental unit under title 11 include any entity created or organized pursuant to state law or only those that fit within the boundar…
20-1792 Patricia Earnest, et al. v. Joann Ellison, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review due-process due-process-clause issue-preservation legal-basis procedural-fairness trial-court Does a court of appeals deny a party due process under the 14th Amendment when it decides the case on a basis never litigated or passed on as a matter…
20-1793 Aura Moody, on Behalf of Her Minor Child, J. M. v. National Football League Second Circuit Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-amend procedural-due-process standing 1. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS HAD THE AUTHORITY TO DISMISS THE APPEAL BECAUSE IT ALLEGEDLY "LACKS AN ARGUABLE BASIS EITHER IN LAW OR IN FACT " WITHO…
20-1794 Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches, et al. v. Department of the Navy, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived access-to-courts chaplain-selection civil-rights due-process equal-protection establishment-clause government-neutrality religious-discrimination standing The First question presented is whether the Navy's grant of unbridled power to reject Non-denominational chaplains to serving as chaplain selection bo…
20-1795 Gregory Melvin Haynes v. State Bar of California California Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline california-supreme-court clear-and-convincing-standard due-process reciprocal-discipline selling-v-radford summary-judgment Does the California Reciprocal attorney discipline statute —Business and profession code 6049.1 - violate the standard set forth in Selling v Radfor…
20-1796 Justin Strolis v. Lucas Heise Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-rights co-defendant-identification fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity summary-judgment witness-identification I. In this civil malicious prosecution claim, is it error to replace the Fourth Amendment's totality-of-the-circumstances test for probable cause as t…
20-1797 Fedie R. Redd v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination disparate-impact fair-housing-act foreclosure housing-discrimination mortgage-lending property-rights 1. Did the respondents engage in the practice of peddling subprime mortgages to unsuspecting Black American mortgagors? Was this practice discriminato…
20-1798 Sylvanus Rene v. Texas Texas Denied appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-hearing findings-of-fact habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-court-proceeding witness-credibility Does it violate procedural due process for an appellate court, in denying relief on federal constitutional claims in a state habeas corpus proceeding,…
20-1799 Hozie Rowell v. Joan Ferreira, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Did the court of appeals contravene Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) when in affirming the peremptory striking of the only qualified African-Ame…
20-1800 Harold Shurtleff, et al. v. City of Boston, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (24) content-discrimination establishment-clause first-amendment flag-display free-speech government-speech public-forum religious-expression religious-viewpoint viewpoint-discrimination 1. Whether the First Circuit's failure to apply this Court's forum doctrine to the First Amendment challenge of a private religious organization that …
20-1801 Darrel Mendez v. NRZ REO X LLC Arizona Denied civil-procedure consumer-protection deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-waiver takings trustee-sale Does the Arizona Deed of Trust Scheme provide good cause for removal of one or more of its provisions under severability?
20-1802 Joyce Rowley v. City of New Bedford, Massachusetts First Circuit Denied animal-welfare-act breeding captivity circuit-court-interpretation de-novo-review endangered-species harassment-exception preliminary-injunction usda-aza-substitution 1.A. Does the harassment exception only apply to members of endangered species in captivity for breeding to promulgate the selected species to meet th…
20-1803 Evelyn Sineneng-Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived alien-status constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute due-process first-amendment immigration-law standing statutory-interpretation vagueness 1. Do the terms "encouraging" and "inducing" an alien to reside in the United States, within the meaning of 8 U. S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv), extend to t…
20-1804 In Re Peter R. Culpepper Denied arbitration-act arbitration-award contract-interpretation employment-agreement federal-arbitration-act federal-law judicial-discretion preemption state-law tennessee-uniform-arbitration-act vacatur Whether, under the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), respondent-chancellor abused her discretion in applying the Tennessee Uniform Arbitration Act ("th…
20-1805 Wylmina Elizabeth Hettinga v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-civil-rights ninth-circuit standing summary-judgment Are the United States District Courts routinely deciding disputed facts in favor of the defending state court actor 's motion for summary judgment …
20-1806 Kim R. Helper v. Patrick H. Stockdale, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied absolute-immunity civil-rights first-amendment giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying Helper absolute immunity for communicating to the officers' employer her decision regarding them under Giglio v. …
20-1807 Dontour D. Drakes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c2 amendment-782 career-offender criminal-sentencing retroactive-amendment sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance united-states-v-hughes 1. WHETHER A CAREER OFFENDER WHO PROVIDED SUBSTANTIAL ASSISTANCE WHOSE SENTENCING JUDGE-VARIED FROM THE INITIAL INTRODUCED CAREER OFFENDERS IS THE JUD…
20-1808 Adam E. Billings v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-booker united-states-v-roach 1. Whether the Sentencing Guidelines §2D1.1 Application Note 4 violates procedural due process. 2. Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision in United St…
20-1809 VoIP-Pal.com, Inc. v. Apple, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied 35-usc-101 innovation innovation-incentives judicial-framework legal-uncertainty patent-act patent-eligibility patent-law patent-system statutory-interpretation subject-matter-eligibility What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim "directed to" a patent-ineligible concept under step one of the Court's two-st…
20-1810 Charles Landon Roberson v. Hanesbrands, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection in-forma-pauperis labor-law protected-activity restitution retaliation wrongful-termination Question not identified.
20-1811 Jackie Chagolla, Parent on Behalf of B. C. and P. C. v. Liz Vullo, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-information false-information government-employees investigation-stage spending-clause Whether absolute immunity shields government employees who report false information/omit exculpatory information in the investigation stage as well as…
20-1812 Donald C. Kupperstein v. Irene Schall, Personal Representative of the Probate Estate of Fred Kuhn, et al. First Circuit Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay civil-jurisdiction civil-money-judgment civil-procedure governmental-collection jurisdiction police-power-exception 1. Whether a state court has jurisdiction or authority to determine whether a civil action before it is subject to the automatic stay of 11 USC §362. …
20-1813 Terry Foster, et al. v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1516, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied 501b due-process fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty good-cause labor-law lmrda subject-matter-jurisdiction union-member union-membership 1. Did expulsion of a union member without his presence constitute a lack of due process, good cause as defined by 157.01 LMRDA, Section 501(b)? 2. D…
20-1814 Donnie Rudd v. Illinois Illinois Denied arrest-warrant criminal-complaint criminal-procedure prosecutorial-involvement right-to-counsel rothgery-v-gillespie sixth-amendment Whether the Court's decision in Rothgery v. Gillespie eliminates attachment of an individual's Sixth Amendment right to counsel prior to his appearanc…
20-1815 Dale J. Richardson v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-procedure habeas-corpus immigration-court judicial-suspension obstruction-of-justice torture torture-prevention Is it constitutional to leave a person in the custody of someone they alleged torture against? Is it constitutional to use a grievance policy to obst…
20-1816 David L. Whitehead v. Paramount Pictures Corporation, et al. District of Columbia Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-review recusal standing Whether the High Court has jurisdiction (Authority) to conduct judicial review from the Circuit court's Order refusing to accept petitioner's relate…
20-1818 Ashlee R. Hull, Individually and in Her Capacity as Co-Executrix of the Estate of John Edward Hull, Sr., et al. v. Muhammed Samar Nasher-Alneam, et al. West Virginia Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights court-precedent due-process motion-to-dismiss standing suicide suicide-litigation wrongful-death 1. Whether the denial of a person's right to pursue litigation based solely on the fact that the person died via suicide is a violation of the 14th Am…
20-1819 Lawrence B. Hughes v. Georgia Georgia Denied 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-clarity jury-charge jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense standard-of-review Is it a requirement within State Statute of Fed eral law for an indictment to be clear and precise within accusation? In review of deliberation stag…
20-1821 Anton Shifchik, et al. v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, et al. New Jersey Denied Response Waived corporate-contacts due-process ford-motor-co-v-montana fourteenth-amendment general-jurisdiction international-shoe internet-commerce personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction 1. Whether it is consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for a state to exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign corpo…
20-1823 K. S. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources West Virginia Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-timeframe due-process good-cause notice-of-appeal procedural-fairness state-supreme-court Whether a due process violation under the 14 Amendment exists when a State Supreme Court refuses to permit the docketing of a late notice of appeal fi…
20-1824 Vincent Lucas v. Tricia Moore, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied balancing-test driver's-privacy-protection-act government-disclosure government-use-exception highly-restricted-personal-information litigation-use-exception motor-vehicle-record personal-information social-security-number statutory-exception The Driver's Privacy Protection Act ("DPPA"), 18 U.S.C. §§2721-2725, prohibits the disclosure of "personal information" and "highly restricted persona…
20-1825 Jeffrey McClatchy v. Texas Texas Denied brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct united-states-v-ruiz 1. RELEVANT ISSUES : Brady v. Maryland , 373 U.S. 83 (1963), enshrined the principle that the prosecu-tion is obligated to provide a criminal defendan…
20-1826 Robert H. Newell v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
20-1829 Deafueh Monbo v. Eric Blair Fourth Circuit Denied bad-faith-filing bankruptcy bankruptcy-code chapter-7-bankruptcy copyright copyright-infringement discharge in-re-green-v-staples trademark trademark-infringement willful-and-malicious 1. Question: Whether the Bankruptcy Court erred when the Bankruptcy Court failed to recognize that Section 523(a)(6) of the Bankruptcy Code prohibits …
20-685 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Sierra Club, et al. Ninth Circuit GVR Amici (1) 10-usc-2808 administrative-law appropriated-funds cause-of-action federal-funding military-construction national-emergencies-act section-2808 standing statutory-authority If the President declares "a national emergency in accordance with the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) that requires use of the arme…
20-869 David E. Henry v. Castle Medical Center Ninth Circuit Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure foman-standard foman-v-davis judicial-discretion motion-to-amend post-judgment-amendment rules-59-and-60 standards-for-amendment In spite of this Court's long-standing precedent that a post-judgment motion to amend the complaint must be decided under the same standards as a simi…
20-905 Independent School District No. 283 v. E. M. D. H. ex rel. L. H. and S. D. Eighth Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-complaint administrative-procedure continuing-violation-doctrine education-law federal-circuit-split individuals-with-disabilities-education-act negative-consequences statutory-time-limit Whether the continuing violation doctrine applies to the two-year statutory time limit to file an administrative complaint under the Individuals with …
20-990 Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois v. Anthony Mays, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bell-v-wolfish civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees In 2015, this Court decided Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 135 S. Ct. 2566 (2015), announcing for the first time that Fourteenth Amendment due process claim…
20-997 Arlane James, et al. v. Noah Bartelt Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) civil-procedure civil-rights deadly-force johnson-v-jones law-enforcement officer-involved-shooting qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment third-circuit use-of-force 1. Whether the Third Circuit's decision to exercise jurisdiction over an appeal of the District Court's denial of qualified immunity on a motion for s…
21-1 Shilo Abell v. United States First Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment mandatory-victim-restitution-act marital-property pension-rights Whether Congress intended to deprive married spouses of rights to their husband's pensions which are afforded to divorced spouses under Massachusetts …
21-10 Lori Braun v. Brian Burke, Arkansas State Trooper, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process emergency-response high-speed-driving intent-to-harm objective-test police-liability 1. Whether a court should apply the intent-to-harm standard of liability to all police high-speed driving, as have the Eighth and Ninth Circuits, or i…
21-101 Kevin Scott Karsjens, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Tony Lourey, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit-precedent involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-law treatment-progression treatment-rights Whether an involuntarily committed individual whose continued commitment depends on treatment progression has a constitutional right to treatment?
21-103 In Re Charles Landon Roberson Denied academic-freedom academic-progress civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process graduate-admission mandamus medical-disability retaliation standing university-liability In your capacity as; Presiding Justice over the Fourth Circuit I, as Plaintiff in Roberson v. Hanesbrands, and Appellant In Re: Roberson (or Roberson …
21-105 Harmon L. Taylor v. City of Sherman, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied compelled-commerce compelled-consent disqualification due-process illegal-seizure judicial-discretion malicious-prosecution municipal-court pro-se-litigation transfer-of-venue venue-transfer 1. Was it abusive to deny that extension? 2. Is the TEX. TRANSP. CODE "unconstitutional," as applied? 3. Did Respondents illegally seize Taylor's va…
21-106 Audrey L. Kimner v. Berkeley County, South Carolina Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement civil-rights contract-forgery due-process federal-crimes federal-jurisdiction fraud judicial-misconduct jurisdiction procedural-due-process 1. Whether the California Federal Courts ignored the federal laws concerning a public official forging her name on petitioners house contract involvin…
21-109 California State Lands Commission v. Eugene Davis, Liquidating Trustee of the Venoco Liquidating Trust, et al. Third Circuit Denied 11th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction inverse-condemnation liquidating-trust post-confirmation-claim sovereign-immunity state-agency state-lands state-treasury 1. Whether the States' consent to suit in the bankruptcy courts, found to exist in Katz, reaches a suit brought against a State, after the effective d…
21-112 Juliet Erickson, et al. v. Nevada County, California California Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights deed-restriction due-process exaction land-use municipal-ordinance permit-denial property-rights takings Does an exaction occur when a County, in violation of its own ordinances, refuse s to issue a building permit it previously approved for a single-fami…
21-113 UJ-Eighty Corporation v. City of Bloomington Board of Zoning Appeals Indiana Denied Amici (2)Response Waived constitutional-law due-process economic-self-interest municipal-regulation regulatory-power rivals self-interested-entity standing zoning zoning-ordinance The question presented is whether the Due Process Clause prohibits the government from vesting an economically self-interested entity with regulatory …
21-114 John A. Clifford v. New York New York Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-civil-case jury-deliberation second-amendment standing witness-testimony (1) Does the 2nd Amendment apply here; (2) Does the granting of immunity in a federal civil case prohibit cross examination of a complaining witness a…
21-115 Ivan Rosario v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-factfinding jury jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's right to trial by jury protect criminal defendants from being sentenced bas…
21-116 Missouri, ex rel. Michalene Hagan v. Milan Berry, Judge, 45th Judicial Circuit, Pike County, Missouri, et al. Missouri Denied criminal-procedure due-process excessive-bail federal-constitution missouri-constitution pretrial-detention I. When a judge sets bond on the initial warrant for arrest, whether the Excessive Bail Clauses are preempted or stayed because of Missouri Supreme Co…
21-12 Federal Election Commission, Appellant v. Ted Cruz for Senate, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (13) None
21-122 Davin Seth Waters v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mutual-mistake plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal voluntariness 1) Does the doctrine of mutual mistake provide a cognizable basis to find a guilty plea involuntary?
21-123 Marguerite T. Martin v. Teleperformance Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination medical-condition privacy reasonable-accommodation security-breach termination wrongful-termination • The plaintiff/Appellant act of committing a security breach were not mentioned throughout the case. * Symptoms of the Plaintiff/Appellant's anemia …
21-128 Roger Waldner, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process enforcement-order garnishment recoupment restitution statute-of-limitations takings-clause 1. Would a GVR Order for a hearing below reveal that no court below gave Glenn a hearing on his recoupment defense? 2. Would a GVR-ordered hearing be…
21-129 Arthur Lopez v. Manuel A. Ramirez, Presiding Justice, Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Two, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing Question not identified.
21-13 KinderCare Education, LLC v. Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, et al. California Denied arbitration-agreement contra-proferentem federal-arbitration-act lamps-plus-v-varela preemption state-common-law state-law supreme-court-precedent Notwithstanding the express holding of this Court in Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela, 139 S. Ct. 1407, 1417 (2019) ("Lamps Plus") that the Federal Arbitrat…
21-131 Blanche A. Brown v. Joseph Friel, Police Chief, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived abuse-victim-protection civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process free-speech patient-abuse probable-cause retaliation summary-judgment IT IS BELIEVED that: A Permanently Disabled Medically Vulnerable Patient's RIGHT to: (1) REPORT Patient ABUSE: Elder ABUSE to an abuser's Govt Medical…
21-137 Amanda P., et vir, as Parents and Next Friends of T. P., a Minor Individual with a Disability v. Copperas Cove Independent School District Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived clear-error de-novo-review endrew-f-standard endrew-f-v-douglas-county free-appropriate-public-education individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-deference retrospective-assessment standard-of-review 1. Whether de novo review or clear error is the standard of review applicable to the question of whether a school district has provided a free appropr…
21-14 Elizabeth Harding Weinstein v. Village of Briarcliff Manor, et al. Second Circuit Denied civil-rights covid-restrictions due-process government-overreach government-services judicial-immunity mask-mandates medical-exemption medical-exemptions pro-se-litigation retaliation May a citizen be deprived of government services, or access to a government building, for not wearing a mask, even if the citizen can not medically to…
21-140 Rosemary Garity v. APWU National Labor Organization Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived ada-discrimination circuit-court-conflict circuit-courts civil-rights discrimination due-process precedent precedent-interpretation pro-se-considerations summary-judgment union-liability 1. Is "But for" the standard for ADA discrimination claims as determined here? 2. Did the Ninth Circuit err, in contrast to all other Courts of Appea…
21-143 Raymond Rodriguez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response Waived agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines The United States Sentencing Guidelines define a "controlled substance offense" as one that includes "the offense[] of * * * conspiring * * * to commi…
21-149 Rodolfo Rivera, Jr. v. John Granillo Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-proceedings legal-standard material-facts probable-cause qualified-immunity The questions presented are whether the lower Court err in their decision granting Qualified Immunity and Probable Cause on grounds, which conflicts w…
21-15 Don Peterson, et al. v. Russ Jones, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech Question not identified.
21-157 Anderson & Anderson LLP-Guangzhou, et al. v. North American Foreign Trading Corporation Second Circuit Denied Response Waived amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction foreign-trading motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred when it affirmed the United States District Court for the Southern District of…
21-158 Bobcar Media, LLC v. Aardvark Event Logistics, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-circuit rule-36 seventh-amendment 1. Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 36 (wherein a minority of circuit courts issue judgmen…
21-16 Robert Paul Magtulis Cledera v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment bivens civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy redressability search-and-seizure standing In Carpenter v United States, No. 16-402, 585 U. S. _ (2018), this court held that the Government 's acquisition of Carpenters cell-site records was a…
21-162 Mark Lee Williams v. State Bar of Arizona Arizona Denied Response Waived arizona-supreme-court attorney-disciplinary-proceedings bar-complaint bar-disciplinary-proceedings constitutional-rights due-process legal-ethics notice notice-of-charges respondent Whether Petitioner was denied his right to notice and Due Process in Arizona bar disciplinary proceedings? Whether the Arizona Supreme Court and Resp…
21-163 George Cantu v. Providence Hospital, et al. Washington Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights discovery-rule due-process equal-protection healthcare-providers medical-malpractice right-to-jury-trial special-privileges-and-immunities statute-of-limitations I. Does Washington State's RCW 4.16.350(3), granting one year statute of limitations after discovering medical malpractice and eight year repose compa…
21-166 Leonel Cervantes-Meraz v. Oregon Oregon Denied Response Waived criminal-defense criminal-plea fourteenth-amendment immigration immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance padilla padilla-precedent sixth-amendment (I) Did the State of Oregon violate the Petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel guaranteed him by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of …
21-168 Dennis De Jesus v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived alternative-holding appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure dicta judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-error merits merits-denial When a court erroneously holds that it lacks jurisdiction to decide a matter, can a cursory statement that the court would deny relief on the merits i…
21-173 Marilyn Tillman-Conerly v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived agency-closure alternative-service civil-procedure covid-19 due-process good-cause judicial-discretion ninth-circuit procedural-rules service-of-process 1.) Whether the Ninth Circuit Court abused its discretion by finding and deciding that the District Court did not abuse its discretion by dismissing P…
21-176 David J. Tatara v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus judgment-of-acquittal mens-rea superseding-information 1. Does a conviction of a crime submitted to the jury through a superseding information filed after jeopardy attached and after the court granted judg…
21-177 Danos Kallas v. Theresa L. Egan, Executive Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles of the State of New York Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-enforcement civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection information-sharing low-threshold-offenses police-community-relations public-perception-of-police 1. "Whether the civil enforcement system should be modified nation-wide to integrate an educational option (with limitations for repeat offenders an…
21-178 Charles G. Kinney v. Three Arch Bay Community Services District, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law citizen-lawsuit civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process environmental-enforcement environmental-law judicial-procedure npdes-permits standing storm-water-runoff The ocean near Laguna Beach, CA, is plagued by muddy storm-water runoff events, and some of the best beaches in the U.S. are suffering. Sufficient en…
21-179 Nehemiah Rolle, Jr. v. Norman St. George Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process equity equity-lawsuit federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jury-trial section-1983 1. Does a state court judicial officer like Respondent Norman St. George have the right to malicious criminally slander and libel and malicious defame…
21-18 Skyler Thomas Rice v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction mootness prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se standing Whether the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated, where the appeal was moot at the time the opinion issued because Petitioner two months earli…
21-180 Michael Patrick Lathigee v. British Columbia Securities Commission Nevada Denied Response Waived civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement-order due-process foreign-judgment-enforcement foreign-judgments international-law international-legal-comity penalties penalty-characterization supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada's opinion enforcing the BCSC's $21.7 million (CAD) Canadian "Disgorgement Order" against Lathigee as a judgment in…
21-185 Scott Solomon v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, District Council 37, AFL-CIO Second Circuit Denied agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme restitution section-1983 state-law Section 1983 provides that "every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State" deprives a citizen of…
21-189 Patrick Okey v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived and Fourteenth Amendments and whether the Commonw Eighth constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment laches laches-doctrine sixth-amendment speedy-trial 1. Whether Speedy trial Rule( 600) is protected by due of law of the Sixth Amendment; Eighth Amendment Fourtheeth Amendment:-section 1, of the United…
21-19 Christopher Sullivan v. Texas A&M University System Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived eleventh-amendment federal-funding federal-funds fifth-circuit human-rights-act sovereign-immunity state-entity state-immunity texas-commission-on-human-rights-act texas-labor-code-chapter-21 waiver-of-immunity Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted that a State Entity who receives Federal funds waives its Eleventh Amendment Immunity from the Texas C…
21-192 Gregory S. Simpson v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response Waived aiding-and-abetting contraband criminal-liability due-process guilty-plea mens-rea statutory-construction 1. Is it a constitutional due process violation for Petitioner's guilty plea to distribution of indecent images to be accepted based on a theory that …
21-193 Centripetal Networks, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived accessibility patent patent-publication patent-statute printed-publication prior-art public-accessibility software software-disclosure trade-secret Can a document qualify as a printed publication if it is stored on a password-protected website, not accessible to the public, and available only to c…
21-197 Yvonne Reignat-Vodi v. Motor Vehicle Administration Maryland Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-petitioner procedural-due-process sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari Did the courts follow the Procedural Due process subject to the 14th (i) Amendment due process protection? Did the courts violate the rule and the ri…
21-2 K. Wendell Lewis, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation District of Columbia Denied administrative-law agency-deference chevron-deference erisa fiduciary-duty pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation pension-benefits plan-termination statutory-interpretation Has the D.C. Circuit improperly extended Chevron deference to PBGC's construction of ambiguous statutory provisions in informal, non-binding adjudicat…
21-20 Jack Albert Chappell v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure evidence-handling fair-trial government-witness prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), does prosecutorial misconduct and mishandling of evidence constitute a Brady violation when the Governmen…
21-203 John A. Mandacina v. Frederick Entzel, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived brady-claim brady-rule due-process due-process-clause evidence-withholding federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation 1. Did the court of appeals correctly conclude that petitioner's Brady claim fell outside the scope of the "savings clause" of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e). 2…
21-207 Behrman Capital IV, L.P., et al. v. Thomas E. Reynolds, Trustee Eleventh Circuit Denied derivative-jurisdiction federal-courts lambert-run-coal-co-v-baltimore-o-r-co personal-jurisdiction removal state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the derivative jurisdiction doctrine precludes federal courts from exercising personal jurisdiction following removal from state courts that l…
21-209 Huping Hu, et al. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 intellectual-property judicial-exceptions natural-phenomenon operability-standard patent-eligibility person-having-ordinary-skill-in-the-art quantum-entanglement reproducibility-of-results scientific-discovery section-101 Whether the PTO's varied standards, buttressed by the decisional law of the lower reviewing courts, for determining operability under § 101 are biased…
21-21 Caroline Ross v. Judson Independent School District Fifth Circuit Denied administrative-law cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence non-renewal procedural-rules school-board school-board-non-renewal state-law-violation 1. Petitioner was deprived of due process when the tribunals below materially misapprehended the record. They held that there was no objection to admi…
21-222 Ferrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 18-usc-3583(k) constitutional-provision double-jeopardy fifth-amendment plain-error sentencing 1. Whether, on plain error review, the defendant's right not to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the …
21-224 Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure common-law-agency employee-classification erisa-employee-definition final-judgment standard-of-review 1. Does a court of appeals have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 to decide an appeal from a final judgment that asks the court to reconsider its pr…
21-24 Curt Daniels, et al. v. John Holtz, et al. Iowa Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-sale property-rights res-judicata 1. What are the parameters of constitutionally acceptable dismissal and dismissal that rises to unconstitutional violation of due process? 2. Is a fi…
21-240 KWS Inc., a Member of the Thiele Group v. Eric Scalla Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived civil-procedure default-judgment federal-removal federal-rights federal-statutory-right federal-supremacy procedural-prerequisites state-court-procedure state-procedure supremacy-clause Whether a state court may require a federal-court litigant that has exercised its federal statutory right of removal following the state court's entry…
21-25 Richard Janusz v. Illinois Illinois Denied arraignment arraignment-delay constitutional-rights criminal-procedure delay due-process fourteenth-amendment speedy-trial 1. Whether a defendant is denied due process of the fourteenth amendment to United States Constitution where his arraignment is delayed, for no appare…
21-28 Wayne A. Jones, Ed.D. v. Virginia State University, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment academic-freedom civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment property-interest public-university tenure-review 1. Whether a non-tenured, but tenure-eligible, professor at a public university has a minimal property interest in a fair tenure review process under …
21-282 Brian Russell Turner v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response Waived arizona-v-youngblood body-camera-footage brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement prosecutorial-misconduct youngblood-standard Whether the Supreme Court of Mississippi Erred in Denying Petitioner's Claim that the Prosecution Withheld Exculpatory Evidence Pursuant to Brady v. M…
21-285 In Re Dimitri Jonthiel Patterson Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus standing state-custody Should a Petitioner raising a 28 U.S.C. §2241 Habeas Corpus, remain in State custody without certified legal documentation in violation of his constit…
21-287 Benjamin Caleb Trott v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response Waived anonymous-tip drunk-driving fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion terry-stop vehicle-stop 1. Whether or under what circumstances the Fourth Amendment permits courts to balance the risk of harm posed by drunk driving against the intrusivenes…
21-29 Blake Leitch, et al. v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, AFL-CIO Seventh Circuit Denied 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme section-1983 state-law wyatt-v-cole Section 1983 provides that "every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State" deprives a citizen of…
21-3 Eric S. Schmitt, Attorney General of Missouri, et al. v. Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit Denied abortion abortion-rights civil-rights down-syndrome due-process eugenic eugenic-abortion gestational-age reproductive-rights roe-v-wade state-regulation Missouri's House Bill 126 ("HB 126"), enacted in 2019, prohibits medical providers from performing abortions when the provider knows that the sole rea…
21-317 Dean Koch v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 bostock-v-clayton-county civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-of-1871 constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment judicial-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-construction 1. Does the Decision of the Sixth Circuit herein violate the canons of statutory construction especially those enunciated in Bostock v. Clayton County…
21-318 Mark Leyse v. Bank of America, National Association Third Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing congress-lawmaking-authority congressional-intent consumer-protection intangible-harms spokeo-v-robins statutory-harm telemarketing-regulation telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-telemarketing The text of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. § 227 ("TCPA"), demonstrates Congress's determination that certain types of unsolicited t…
21-32 Elizabeth C. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services California Denied child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-v-kramer state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process requirement articulated in Santosky v Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 (1982) that parental rights only be termina…
21-334 In Re Jody Tremayne Wafer Denied article-iii constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process liberty liberty-interest marijuana-laws political-question standing Federal marijuana laws are constitutional because marijuana is not a fundamental right. Judicial review of these criminal laws has been rational basis…
21-34 George Boutros v. Cory Hony, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied civil-rights district-attorney-immunity due-process equal-protection judicial-review prosecutorial-immunity retaliation retaliatory-prosecution standing In California Butte County, District Attorney, Michael Ramsey, perceived the petitioner to be Mentally ill, discriminated against the petitioner, deni…
21-35 Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5-usc-702 administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process employment-law federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction opm standing 1. Whether the Federal Circuit has Jurisdiction or "lacks jurisdiction " to determine its original and lower court 's jurisdiction in OPM Investigatio…
21-36 Henry E. Gossage v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction jurisdiction-on-the-merits jurisdictional-review merit-systems-protection-board opm personnel-suitability standing 1. Whether Petitioner has standing to correct a jurisdictional error before the Lower Courts for "want of jurisdiction " or "jurisdiction on the merit…
21-37 Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law constitutional-claims default-judgment federal-circuit-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge merit-systems-protection-board mspb-judgment office-of-personnel-management opm-investigation statutory-review void-judgment 1. Whether the Federal Circuit has Jurisdiction or "lacks jurisdiction " to determine its original and lower court 's jurisdiction in OPM Investigat…
21-38 Henry E. Gossage v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure claim-processing-rule due-process equitable-tolling foia-request jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadline misconduct opm-investigation subject-matter-jurisdiction want-of-service 1. Whether the 60-day filing deadline is subject to equitable tolling beyond the control of the Petitioner or under "Unique or Personal Circumstances …
21-39 Benjamin Ramirez Ruiz v. California California Denied Response Waived child-protective-services confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-law ongoing-emergency sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statement Was a statement made to a child protective services investigator testimonial for the purposes of the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause as establish…
21-4 C. Al Buis v. DLI Assets Bravo, LLC Virginia Denied Response Waived borrower-agreement consent consent-clause due-process forum-selection forum-selection-clause guaranty-agreement loan-guaranty personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction In a suit on a loan guaranty, can specific personal jurisdiction be involuntarily created over an out-of-state guarantor based solely on a co-defendan…
21-41 James Allen Jackson v. Texas Texas Denied Response Waived closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-due-process racist-testimony right-to-silence trial-counsel wiccan-testimony I. Was petitioner denied the effective assistance of counsel when defense counsel failed to object to irrelevant, inflammatory testimony that petition…
21-42 Sylvia Black v. Peace Officer Christine Vitello, et al. Second Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment illegal-entry judicial-authorization law-enforcement-misconduct search-and-seizure standing warrant-forgery Where Peace Officers violated Plaintiffs Fourth Amendment Rights by Forging Judge Hannah's Signature on a Warrant that allowed Erie County Offices to …
21-43 Moe M. Al-Dolemy v. Michigan Michigan Denied appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error michigan-court-of-appeals record-contradiction record-evidence Did the Michigan Court of Appeals commit reversible error through issuing a opinion affirming Petitioner 's conviction where the opinion is contradict…
21-44 Kevin Lee Boutte v. Yvonne Renea Boutte Louisiana Denied disability-pay federal-preemption federal-statute military-benefits military-powers res-judicata supremacy-clause veterans-benefits veterans-rights The Supreme Court of Louisiana denied Petitioner's appeal on purely state law grounds of estoppel and res judicata in affirming a Court of Appeals' op…
21-45 Peter C. Benedith v. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived attempted-murder civil-rights due-process electronic-harassment free-speech legal-system-integrity pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation right-to-life Question presented to the court were factual and by nature of the crime alleged, a trial was warranted to guarantee public safety. By nature of the c…
21-46 Joseph John Plany v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived case-severance caseloads civil-procedure constitutional-violation district-court-jurisdiction due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-caseload jurisdiction standing 1. Whether the District Court had jurisdiction over Mr. Plany's case? 2. Whether Mr. Plany received ineffective assistance of counsel? 4. Whether Mr…
21-47 Khai Quang Bui v. Abdul Alshaer Virginia Denied Response Waived causes-of-action civil-procedure claim-preclusion issue-preclusion judicial-review legal-procedure question-not-identified res-judicata standing supreme-court The question asks this Court should separate and distinct causes of action overrule res judicata defense.
21-49 James Tolle v. Rockwell Collins Control Technologies, Inc., dba Rockwell Collins, Inc., dba United Technologies Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process factual-allegations free-speech judicial-review pleading-standards presumption-of-truth rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 standing summary-dismissal I. Without any indication from the District Court's Opinion that it found a defect in Plaintiff's pleadings or factual allegations of his Complaint, t…
21-5 Solomon Adu-Beniako v. Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Michigan Denied Response Waived administrative-law cdc-guidelines civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process expert-testimony government-liability judicial-review standing substantial-evidence Does the Respondent's unfairly tasking, and blaming the Petitioner for the DOJ/DEA responsibility violate the Petitioner's Constitutional rights ? Wh…
21-50 D. R. S. v. D. P. H. L., et al. Florida Denied Response Waived child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment government-overreach interstate-commerce parental-rights Should the Government, with assistance of family courts, have the sole and final say on the Frankensteining of the American Family? Does this deny bas…
21-52 Emmanuel Edokobi v. Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-disability standing subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment 1. When reviewing a district court's ruling to dismiss a civil case dismissed on Motion for Summary Judgment should the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal…
21-54 In Re Chad Anthony Ray Denied constitutional-rights controlled-substances criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus liberty liberty-rights marijuana-criminalization political-question search-and-seizure Whether "liberty" in the due process clause still means freedom from physical restraint by government police power? Whether the operation and effects…
21-55 Genet McCann v. Ward E. Taleff, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-integrity due-process fraud judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct legal-standards ninth-circuit rule-11 rule-of-law standing vexatious-litigant 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit 's departure from "the settled course of antecedent principles " in disregard of this Court 's and its own well-establis…
21-56 Timothy Muir v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived creditor-status criminal-law criminal-rico knowledge-of-law legal-element predicate-offense rico scienter statutory-definition truth-in-lending usury The Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Practices Act ("RICO") does not impose an explicit scienter requirement beyond that of a corresponding predicate o…
21-58 Sassine Razzouk v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived categorical-approach circuit-split lagos-v-united-states mandatory-victims-restitution-act offense-against-property property-offense restitution-obligation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether courts should apply the categorical approach in determining if an offense is an "offense against property" under the MVRA?
21-6 Lawrence Marano v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Second Circuit Denied Response Waived attribution commercial-use copyright-fair-use copyright-infringement fair-use licensing-market statutory-factors transformative-use 1. Whether The Metropolitan Museum of Art's commercial use of a photograph on its Website to sell tickets to its museum exhibition, as well as in the …
21-60 Logan Brooks Drinkard v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy greater-offense jury-verdict lesser-included-offense In a case where the prosecuti on charged both a greater offense and a lesser included offense in the same charging document, and where the jury found …
21-61 CHS-Glenwell Inc., et al. v. Ohio Department of Medicaid Ohio Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference due-process federal-preemption federal-regulation judicial-deference judicial-review medicaid-agency medicare state-medicaid 1. Is a state Medicaid agency entitled to deference in judicial review of the agency's interpretation of an unambiguous, inapplicable federal Medicare…
21-64 Danny James McLaughlin v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review bajakajian-factors criminal-fine criminal-fines eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-challenge excessive-fine judicial-review proportionality united-states-v-bajakajian When deciding whether a criminal fine is disproportionate to the gravity of a defendant's crime, and thereby unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendme…
21-66 PBS Coals, Inc., et al. v. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment coal constitutional-law equal-protection physical-occupation property-rights real-estate subsurface-estate takings takings-clause Issue 1: When a State Agency permanently physically occupies a right-of-way and thereby completely blocks physical access to a subsurface owner's reco…
21-67 Gerson Rodas Rosales, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Response Waived None
21-69 John Allison Huckabay v. Idaho Idaho Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felonies felony-prosecution public-welfare-offenses scienter scienter-requirement Without any requirement or proof of scienter, Petitioner was convicted of unlawful possession of a moose carcass out of season, a felony under Idaho l…
21-70 Gary E. Albright, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived certification constitutional-federalism erie-doctrine fifth-amendment railroad-deed state-law state-law-interpretation takings-claim takings-clause Does constitutional federalism require a federal court that confronts an outcome-determinative and unresolved State law issue that is particularly wit…
21-71 Washington County, Utah v. Martin Crowson Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-medical-care municipal-liability section-1983 supreme-court-precedents Whether a municipal government can be liable under the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution for a denial of inmate medical care under § …
21-72 Khalid M. Turaani v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived adverse-effect constitutional-rights government-disclosure privacy-act reputation second-amendment sixth-circuit-review standing standing-doctrine traceability Whether the standing analysis for Privacy Act improper disclosure claims requires determining if the plaintiff sufficiently alleged an "adverse effect…
21-73 Albon Diamond v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-U.S.C.-§-2254 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-standard Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence is cognizable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 proceeding.
21-74 Shawna Cannon Lemon v. Myers Bigel, P.A., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived bostock-v-clayton-county but-for-causation causation-standard civil-rights civil-rights-act clackamas-factors employment-discrimination race-discrimination shareholder-status title-vii 1. Whether the six factors set forth in Clackamas Gastroenterology Associates, P.C. v. Wells, 538 U.S. 440 (2003), addressing whether director-shareho…
21-75 Ojin Kim v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure deprivation-of-liberty due-process liberty-deprivation methodology-challenge restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines 1. In cases where the methodology to calculate the guidelines range for sentencing mirrors the methodology to calculate the restitution amount, if a c…
21-77 Technical Education Services Inc. v. Steven Pinkerton Missouri Denied arbitrability arbitration-act arbitration-agreement arbitrator collateral-estoppel delegation-provisions federal-arbitration-act threshold-arbitrability Whether a dispute over the collateral estoppel effect of a prior arbitration decision must be submitted to and decided by an arbitrator pursuant to th…
21-78 GLM DFW, Inc. v. Windstream Holdings, Inc. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeals creditor-priority critical-vendor-payments critical-vendors delegation-of-judicial-function equality equitable-mootness judicial-delegation transparency transparency-principle This case concerns the dismissal of bankruptcy appeals as equitably moot without evaluating the merits of the appeals. Early in the Windstream bankru…
21-79 Jonathon Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly decided Petitioner's Motion for a Certificate of Appealability on the merits of his § 2255 petition rather than e…
21-81 Burt W. Newsome, et al. v. Clark A. Cooper, et al. Alabama Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appellate-review civil-claims civil-liability civil-rights criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process newton-v-rumery release-dismissal 1. Whether a release-dismissal order entered in a criminal case is enforceable under the standards set forth in Newton v. Rumery wherein said order wa…
21-83 William H. Sorkpor v. The Harlo Fenway First Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing housing-discrimination minority-rights section-1982 spending-power statutory-interpretation title-viii Whether Congress intended the Fair Housing Act to be construed — technically and broadly —to ensure that the Title VIII protection of a minority home-…
21-87 Jeffrey Angelo Campbell v. Sylvia Betta-Cole, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction parental-rights section-1983 state-court-jurisdiction state-courts 1. Kelson v. Springfield, 767 F 2d 651, HN2, HN3, A child cannot be removed unless the child's life is in danger. If there is no proof of any life-thr…
21-88 Christina Paylan v. Darrell Dirks, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived accountability civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-accountability judicial-bias judicial-recusal standing Whether the standard for judicial recusal requires a second look with establishment of a strict uniform criteria whereby the largely relied upon discr…
21-89 Mati Leeal, et ux. v. Ditech Financial, LLC Sixth Circuit Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-claims Sixth-Circuit summary-judgment WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MICH…
21-9 Vincenza Presti v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination federal-employment retaliation title-vii workplace-discrimination workplace-retaliation 1. Whether the Judicial system can be biased towards federal employee petitioners by denying them due process and a hearing? 2. Whether Title VII ban…
21-90 Abel Belmonte v. City of Dallas, Texas Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights discrimination due-process judicial-review race-discrimination sovereign-immunity title-vii 1. Whether under the 14th amendment and in addition to title 7 and 42 U.S.C.§200e-16(a) (race, color, religion, sex or national origin) a claim on, an…
21-91 Wesley Perkins v. Whitney Brewster, Executive Director, Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights compelled-arbitration constitutional-challenge criminal-sanctions due-process pleading-standard standing statutory-challenge statutory-interpretation transportation-code vehicle-definition Statutory Challenge 1. Is the TEX. TRANSP. CODE "unconstitutional," as applied? 2. Are sanctions abusive? Pleading standard 3. Was it abusive to orde…
21-92 Dolores Machuca v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived ada administrative-exhaustion disability-discrimination employment hostile-work-environment postal-service-employment reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations rehabilitation-act 1. Whether the Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies is allowing the United States Postal Service as an employer to discriminate against disabled empl…
21-93 Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Christopher A. Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived 9-11-transparency article-iii-standing attorney-general department-of-justice federal-judicial-disqualification-statute federal-procedure government-accountability judicial-disqualification legislative-history recusal supervisory-power A. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Depart from the Accepted and Usual Course of Judicial Proceedings to Su…
21-94 Lt. Colonel Patrick Schreiber v. Tracy Renaud, Acting Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-issue-exhaustion administrative-law carr-v-davis child-definition constitutional-claim federal-common-law immigration-law immigration-nationality-act legitimation state-law statutory-interpretation The definition of "child" in Section 1101(b)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act includes "a child legitimated under the law of the child's [or …
21-95 David W. Foley, et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. Florida Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 colore-officii fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy public-servant-immunity state-court-discretion statutory-interpretation virtute-officii Is a state court free under the Fourteenth Amendment to deprive a plaintiff of a remedy in 42 USC §1983 by granting a public servant immunity from sui…
21-96 Paul Daniels, et al. v. County of Alameda, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights federal-law malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation section-1983 state-law Where absence of probable cause to prosecute is an element of a federal section 1983 civil rights claim – for example a malicious or retaliatory prose…
21-97 Anne Georges Telasco v. The Florida Bar Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-procedure defamation due-process ex-parte-judgment false-criminal-report felony-conviction florida-bar free-speech sovereign-immunity standing Whether Sovereign Immunity as deployed by Welch v. Texas Dep't of Highways & Pub. Transp., 483 U.S. 468, 472 (1987) and its progeny, are inapplicable …
21-98 Frank C. Warner v. Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Education Eighth Circuit Denied circuit-confusion civil-procedure contract contract-enforcement debt-collection economic-policy legal-standard promissory-note statute-of-frauds Circuit Confusion exists in the matter of Promissory Notes. This Court must resolve this issue and set one standard for all 50 states. Failure to do…
21-99 Hensley K. McCalla v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston, et al. Second Circuit Denied civil-procedure contract district-court enforcement federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-authority jurisdiction legal-enforcement settlement-agreement 1) Did the District Court maintain jurisdiction to enforce the settlement agreement that defendant placed before it ? 2) Did the District Court have …