| 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 … |