| 20-1219 |
Carline Maria Curry v. Douglas Mackenzie |
Ohio |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge damages-calculation default-judgment due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-denial partial-liability resubmission summons-process |
Whether the plaintiff should have been awarded the amount prayed for in the initial complaint under Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 4 and Rule 54(C… |
| 20-1334 |
Bradley Boardman, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
first-amendment harris-v-quinn information-access opt-out-rights public-records public-sector-unions speech-rights viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether a law that skews the debate over the value of public-sector unions and undermines public-sector employees' opt-out rights by giving incumbent … |
| 20-1438 |
Tina Cates v. Bruce D. Stroud, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-law courts-of-appeals due-process fourth-amendment legal-doctrine precedent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the unanimous conclusion of multiple other courts of appeals suffices to clearly establish the law for purposes of qualified immunity |
| 20-1451 |
Tracy Nixon v. General Motors Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review standing |
Whether the U.S. District Court erred in its decision adopting the Magistrate Judge's order |
| 20-1527 |
Michelle Stopyra Yaney v. State Bar of California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process effective-communication government-agency mental-disability reasonable-accommodation reasonable-modification |
Is communication to facilitate understanding regarding procedure by one who suffers from a mental disability, such as anxiety disorder, a statutory re… |
| 20-1614 |
John D. Leontaritis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-determination jury-finding jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof |
Whether jury findings impact sentencing |
| 20-1735 |
Angel Manuel Ortiz-Diaz, et al. v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (2) |
agriculture-improvement-act cockfighting commerce-clause constitutional-power cultural-tradition federal-regulation local-traditions puerto-rico puerto-rico-sovereignty sovereignty |
Whether Congress has power under the Commerce Clause to criminalize cockfighting on the island of Puerto Rico |
| 20-1738 |
Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. United States House of Representatives |
District of Columbia |
GVR |
|
article-iii-standing border-wall border-wall-expenditures congress congressional-standing executive-branch executive-branch-challenge mootness separation-of-powers statutory-authority |
Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment that a single Hou… |
| 20-1744 |
Google, Inc., et al. v. John Doe, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure federal-preemption labor-relations national-labor-relations-act nlra-jurisdiction penalties preemption state-law-claims statutory-preemption |
Whether the National Labor Relations Act preempts a state-law claim for penalties based on the same conduct that formed the basis of relief under the … |
| 20-1755 |
Dean Hotop, et al. v. City of San Jose, California |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
business-records compelled-disclosure criminal-sanctions due-process fourth-amendment judicial-review landlord landlord-rights search search-and-seizure |
Does City of San Jose Ordinance 30032 require a landlord to produce and transmit business records to the City under threat of criminal sanctions witho… |
| 20-1767 |
Sarasota Wine Market, LLC, et al. v. Eric S. Schmitt, Attorney General of Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
commerce-clause nondiscrimination nondiscrimination-principle online-market physical-presence regulatory-interests state-regulation twenty-first-amendment wine-retailers |
Whether Missouri's law prohibiting out-of-state wine retailers from participating in its online market violates the Commerce Clause despite the Twenty… |
| 20-1773 |
Pasadena Republican Club v. Western Justice Center, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-management state-action state-actor viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether the Western Justice Center is a state actor for purposes of the First and Fourteenth Amendments and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985(3) |
| 20-7609 |
Raynal King and Howard R. Ross, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c3a criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause force-clause mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a crime that requires a resulting death categorically includes, as an element, 'the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force ag… |
| 20-7998 |
Tuan Ngoc Luong v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
commercial-transaction craigslist criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce local-robbery |
Does Hobbs Act jurisdiction extend to a local robbery of a local individual not engaged in interstate commerce or any federally regulated activity, by… |
| 20-8112 |
Richard Knider Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process fourth-amendment indefinite-retention personal-property search-and-seizure warrantless-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u… |
| 20-8231 |
Kevin Thomas Seigler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-courts single-transaction |
Is evidence of a single sale of illegal drugs, from one seller to one buyer, sufficient to support a conviction for conspiracy to distribute illegal d… |
| 21-119 |
Postmates, LLC, fka Postmates, Inc. v. Jacob Rimler, et al. |
California |
Dismissed |
Amici (1)Response Requested |
california-labor-code contract-law epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule paga-claims preemption private-attorneys-general-act |
Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali… |
| 21-124 |
Emmanuel Torres v. Bay Area Credit Services, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights consumer-protection debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection federal-jurisdiction federal-statute new-york-business-law private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation |
Does a consumer have a private right of action under New York General Business Law Section 349 for a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Violation? |
| 21-125 |
Constantino Basile v. The Los Angeles Film School, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights copyright criminal-conspiracy due-process racketeering rico |
Whether a Petitioner is entitled to a conservative summary judgement of 1 Billion dollars awarded |
| 21-127 |
Adolfo Gutierrez Avila Jr. v. Vicki Janssen, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
a person of color violate his fundamental-federal-rights 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct systemic-racism |
Where judicial misconduct targeted Petitioner |
| 21-135 |
Vaun Monroe v. Columbia College Chicago, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equitable-estoppel procedural-review racial-discrimination statute-of-limitations title-vii |
Did the court of appeals err in requiring Petitioner Vaun Monroe to show, on a motion to dismiss, that equitable-estoppel can only arise when a defend… |
| 21-138 |
Luz González-Bermúdez v. Abbott Laboratories P.R. Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
|
adverse-employment-action age-discrimination comparator-evidence employer-defense employment employment-discrimination jury-inference jury-verdict pretext retaliation retaliation-claim |
Whether comparator evidence can support an inference of discrimination if the plaintiff and comparators do not share the same position, duties, and su… |
| 21-141 |
Jaimee Carole Finley v. Jon Mark Finley |
California |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-court parental-rights state-discretion |
Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment requires that parents have an automatic 50/50 share in parental time and responsibility abse… |
| 21-142 |
Robert J. Frey v. Anthony Binford Minter, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
choice-of-law defamation diversity-jurisdiction forum-shopping internet-communication internet-publication personal-jurisdiction reputation-injury reputational-injury |
Whether Petitioner, a natural person, domiciled in Florida, who suffered injury to his reputation in Florida from a defamatory multistate internet com… |
| 21-146 |
Christine Clifford, as Administrator of the Estate of John Clifford, et al. v. Richard Federman, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-standard pleadings rule-12 rule-8 shotgun-pleading twombly-and-iqbal |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's 'shotgun pleading' rule used to strike pleadings with prejudice directly conflicts with the Twombly and Iqbal standard … |
| 21-148 |
California Restaurant Association, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
constitutional-law due-process government-action jacobson-v-massachusetts property-rights public-health rational-basis takings takings-clause |
Is due process satisfied, consistent with the decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), where a public health department acts based o… |
| 21-150 |
The Texas Brandon Corporation, Inc., et al. v. EOG Resources, Inc., et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure corporate-dispute district-court due-process judicial-misconduct oil-and-gas-rights severance standing summary-judgment trespassing trial-court |
Does Russell Wilson, the judge of the 218th District Court of Karnes County, Texas, list the objections, stated by John R. Chiles IV, and Ronald Wilso… |
| 21-152 |
Estate of Madison Jody Jensen, by Her Personal Representative Jared Jensen v. Kennon Tubbs |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights correctional-facilities due-process medical-personnel mental-health mental-health-facilities qualified-immunity |
Whether private medical personnel working in correctional or mental-health facilities can assert qualified immunity |
| 21-156 |
American Contractors Supply, LLC v. HD Supply Construction Supply, Ltd. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jury-trial material-fact summary-judgment |
Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56 permit the court to weigh competing evidence of a material fact from the moving party to grant summary judgmen… |
| 21-160 |
Justin M. Corliss v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability ex-post-facto false-testimony habeas jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct state-court time-barred-charges |
Whether the applications for certificates of appealability were improperly denied |
| 21-167 |
Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Dasler |
Vermont |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-action fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court pre-trial-election standing |
Is it Unconstitutional to allow a party to make pre-trial elections that deprive another party their due process rights? |
| 21-17 |
David Hargreaves v. Nuverra Environmental Solutions, Inc., aka Heckmann Corporation, aka Rough Rider Escrow, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
abstention-doctrine article-three-jurisdiction bankruptcy bankruptcy-law case-jurisdiction equitable-mootness federal-courts judicial-abstention jurisdiction reorganization-plan |
Whether the doctrine of equitable mootness is inconsistent with the federal courts' 'virtually unflagging' obligation to hear and decide cases within … |
| 21-170 |
Rain Computing, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
35-usc-112 35-usc-112f claim-construction federal-circuit indefiniteness nautilus-standard nautilus-v-biosig patent patent-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a patent claim may be invalidated for indefiniteness |
| 21-174 |
David Louis Whitehead v. United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
amended-complaint civil-procedure constitutional-rights fraud fraud-on-court judicial-conflict mandamus pecuniary-interest recusal rule-15 rule-15a standing |
whether-writ-of-mandamus-should-have-been-granted |
| 21-181 |
Lyndon McArthur Ike Peterson v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-182 |
Sean A. Clark v. Mark Schroeder, Commissioner, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment service-of-process social-security social-security-benefits standing student-loans |
Does this action violate the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause? |
| 21-188 |
Eddison Ramsaran v. Candace Lapidus Sloane, et al. |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity administrative-investigation buckley-standard buckley-v-fitzsimmons evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence medical-licensing medical-licensing-board pre-adjudicatory-investigation pre-adjudicatory-proceedings prosecutorial-function prosecutorial-immunity |
Whether non-attorney administrative officials are entitled to absolute immunity for fabricating evidence during a pre-adjudicatory investigation of a … |
| 21-191 |
Sergei Vinkov v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-claims declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech insurance-coverage standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the District Court abused its discretion retaining jurisdiction over the Declaratory Judgment Act (28 USC § 2201(a)) in the insurance dispute |
| 21-200 |
Willie Frank Walker v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment accardi-doctrine civil-procedure due-process foreign-state jurisdictional-challenge personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction transient-foreigner |
Lack of subject-matter and personal jurisdiction |
| 21-205 |
Thomas Rimini v. Department of Labor |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act administrative-record default-judgment department-of-labor frap-17 local-rules res-judicata sarbanes-oxley subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Should an unopposed default judgement be granted because the Department of Labor did not submit the full administrative record to the court as require… |
| 21-220 |
DoorDash, Inc. v. Brandon Campbell |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
california-supreme-court epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration ninth-circuit private-attorneys-general-act |
Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under Californ… |
| 21-223 |
Juan Carlos Mayen-Lopez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-227 |
Venus Y. Springs v. North Carolina State Bar |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-litigation due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline north-carolina standing |
Whether the posting of a deposition video to educate pro se litigants is protected by the First Amendment |
| 21-237 |
James Clay, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
25-usc-2 bureau-of-indian-affairs federal-regulations indian-tribe irs land-compensation secretary-of-interior tax-interpretation tribal-lands tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the clear language of Title 25 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and the exclusive authority over federally recognized Indian Tribes granted… |
| 21-238 |
Keith Foster v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent judicial-procedure legal-conflict prosecutorial-misconduct |
how-can-panels-of-ninth-circuit-court-of-appeals-affirm-decisions-as-matters-of-law-that-are-in-direct-conflict-with-previously-established-binding-pr… |
| 21-242 |
Desire, LLC v. Manna Textiles, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure common-source-defendant copyright copyright-infringement joint-and-several-liability joint-liability secondary-liability statutory-damages |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)(1) limits a copyright holder to a single statutory damages award against multiple infring… |
| 21-245 |
Pyrotechnic Specialties, Inc. v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure contract-appeals due-process right-for-any-reason standard-of-review |
Is a litigant entitled to have the correct standard of law applied by the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals or does a 'right for any reason' do… |
| 21-246 |
Joseph Schneider v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process eavesdropping-warrant extraterritorial-jurisdiction federalism interstate-communications jurisdictional-limits state-judicial-authority state-sovereignty title-iii wiretapping |
Do State Judges have authority under Title III's enabling statute to issue wiretap orders beyond their state borders? |
| 21-249 |
Probir Kumar Bondyopadhyay v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-claims government-taking invention-compensation national-defense patent patent-rights standing takings |
Whether the Jeffersonian claim of an original creature of the U.S. Constitution against the United States under Article 1 Section 8 Clause 8 arising o… |
| 21-256 |
Bilal Hamid Love v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard |
Is defense counsel required to provide an estimate of potential guideline sentence when advising defendant on pleading guilty? |
| 21-272 |
Ralph Abekassis v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-regulations judicial-review mootness second-amendment standing |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in dismissing this case as moot where New York City's actions were designed to evade appellate review |
| 21-276 |
Safehouse v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
commerce-clause controlled-substances-act federalism felony-statute medical-supervision opioid-crisis overdose-prevention public-health public-health-intervention |
Does 21 U.S.C. § 856(a) make it a felony to offer medically supervised consumption services for the purpose of preventing opioid overdose deaths? |
| 21-278 |
John Krakowski, et al. v. Allied Pilots Association, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-1113 bankruptcy-court collective-bargaining discrimination duty-of-fair-representation labor-union railway-labor-act seniority-system |
Where a labor union imposed as part of its collective bargaining agreement a seniority system that admittedly discriminated in bad faith against a dis… |
| 21-280 |
Amy Harrison v. Kevin Lilly, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure frcp-12(b)(6) iqbal judicial-review motion-to-dismiss plausibility-standard pleadings pleadings-stage standard-of-review twombly |
Whether the District Court and the Court of Appeals failed to follow the well-settled standard for a motion to dismiss under FRCP 12(b)(6) and dismiss… |
| 21-281 |
Maria Falcon v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-283 |
In Re Roland N. Patterson |
|
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process reinstatement separation-of-powers substantive-due-process |
Whether Petitioner suffered the violation of his Constitutional Rights to Procedural Due Process |
| 21-284 |
In Re Mathew Ryan Byrd |
|
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-review covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit incarceration mandamus medical-conditions medical-risk |
whether-the-fourth-circuit-abused-its-discretion-in-failing-to-render-a-timely-decision |
| 21-286 |
Abeba Mekonnen v. OTG Management, LLC, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
discrimination-claims employee-manual employment-laws employment-termination fair-pay-act ledbetter-fair-pay-act mystery-shopper mystery-shopper-report performance-evaluation procedural-due-process termination wage-hour-law |
Whether employers can terminate employees based on a 'Mystery Shopper Score' |
| 21-288 |
Lancy White, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
computer-forensics criminal-procedure cronic-standard e-mail-evidence email-manipulation expert-testimony federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missing-evidence strickland-standard |
Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to file proper notice under F.R.Cr.P. 16 to present expert testimony on computer operations and miss… |
| 21-291 |
Barbara Silva v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-tort-claims-act personal-information privacy-act privacy-act-1974 social-security-number sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Privacy Act of 1974 requires the government to maintain accurate information and not disclose protected personal information, and whether … |
| 21-292 |
Robert H. Healy v. Ledura Watkins |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-tort due-process fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
Whether malicious prosecution is a cognizable tort for § 1983 suit |
| 21-297 |
Travis Croft v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act carjacking categorical-approach force-clause fourth-circuit intimidation south-carolina statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in concluding that a conviction for South Carolina carjacking is categorically a crime of violence under the Armed Ca… |
| 21-298 |
Bobby Wilson v. Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., et al. |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response Waived |
context defamation false-publication first-amendment freedom-of-press freedom-of-speech malice media-liability speech-protection |
Is a fabricated publication sufficient proof of malice? |
| 21-299 |
Montgomery County, Maryland v. Yasmin Reyazuddin |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-relief legal-standing prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff who obtains no judicial relief is a 'prevailing party' entitled to attorney's fees |
| 21-307 |
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C. v. John J. Shufeldt |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-split federal-common-law inconsistent-position judicial-estoppel preliminary-motion standard-of-review |
Whether a prior court's denial of a preliminary motion based on a litigant's prior inconsistent position constitutes judicial acceptance of that posit… |
| 21-314 |
Ed Reynolds, et al. v. Karri Dalton, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Nikki Bascom, and Next Friend to M. B., a Minor Child and A. C.. a Minor Child |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10th-circuit civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights domestic-violence equal-protection police-duty police-protection qualified-immunity Question not identified. section-1983
21-313" section-1983
21-313" |
Did the Tenth Circuit err in denying Petitioners qualified immunity on Dalton's Equal Protection claim |
| 21-316 |
Lorenzo Williams v. Steve Kallis, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus mathis-decision mathis-v-united-states section-2241 section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
What type of change in the law allows a person to file a § 2241 petition? |
| 21-332 |
William A. White v. Daniel Sproul, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-USC-1503 18-USC-373 28-USC-2241 28-USC-2255(e) federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge non-existent-offense post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation |
When, if ever, is relief available under 28-USC-2241 and 28-USC-2255(e), where a person stands convicted and remains in custody for a non-existent-off… |
| 21-338 |
Gary S. Christensen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
16th-amendment criminal-tax due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction irs-determination precedent-interpretation restitution sixteenth-amendment tax-liability |
Where no determination of federal tax liability has been made by the IRS and the court of appeals has ruled patently contrary to this court's decision… |
| 21-344 |
Quest International Monitor Service, Inc. v. Rockwell Collins, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-award federal-arbitration-act limitation-period procedural-rules removal removal-jurisdiction state-court state-court-procedure uniformity vacatur |
Whether the FAA's three-month limitation period for vacatur of an arbitration award is a substantive provision that must be applied to petitions to va… |
| 21-345 |
Manpreet Singh v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-attack counsel due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy restitution writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Is there no avenue for a collateral attack on a restitution award that was the result of ineffective assistance of counsel? |
| 21-349 |
Kent Eric LeBere v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-claim brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus perjury prosecutorial-misconduct wrongful-conviction |
Whether the lower courts should fully decide whether the state knew or should have known that the testimony about Mr. LeBere's 'confession' was false |
| 21-364 |
Sarada Mohapatra 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 alice-doctrine alice-mayo citizen-inventors computer-implemented-invention mayo-framework non-preemptive-solution patent patent-eligibility practical-solutions preemption process-improvement |
Whether computer-based process improvement patent applications for inventions by Citizen Inventors — characterized by narrow and well-defined practica… |
| 21-366 |
Michael Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-intent criminal-prosecution due-process expert-testimony fifth-circuit fraud medicare-fraud medicare-regulations sufficiency-of-evidence |
Are the Medicare rules, regulations, and policies controlling in a criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1347 |
| 21-367 |
Paula Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-intent due-process expert-testimony fifth-circuit medicare-fraud medicare-rules prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence |
Questions Presented |
| 21-375 |
Joshua Gray v. Maine Department of Public Safety |
Maine |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech good-moral-character occupational-licensing professional-license speech-content strict-scrutiny |
Whether an occupational licensing board, consistent with the First Amendment, may deny an occupational license because of the content of an applicant'… |
| 21-387 |
George Berka v. City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. |
Connecticut |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure blight-citation civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection municipal-law property-rights |
Did the subject, February 14th, 2018 Blight Citation that the Defendant City had issued to the Plaintiff, violate many of the Plaintiff's important co… |
| 21-390 |
Christopher Daniel Everson v. Theresa Lantz, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
12b6-motion civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-rule-12(b)(6) federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-rule-60(d)(1) frivolous-standard independent-action res-judicata rule-60 |
In what instances or circumstances, if any, is the doctrine of 'Res-judicata' conjoined with the 'frivolous-standard' of Federal-Rules-of-Civil-Proced… |
| 21-391 |
Paul Alexander, aka David Paul Hayes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-search derivative-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit harmless-error suppression supreme-court-precedent |
Is the Fourth Circuit in violation of Supreme Court precedent and in conflict with other circuits when, in conducting a harmless error review, it inte… |
| 21-392 |
Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc., et al. v. Eric Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause governmental-authority highway-tolling interstate-commerce market-participant-exception state-action state-discrimination |
Whether state conduct constitutes proprietary 'market participation' exempt from the dormant Commerce Clause |
| 21-397 |
Juan Joe Cano v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contamination-of-accusations due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-inconsistent-statements procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-abuse suggestive-questioning witness-impeachment |
Was petitioner denied the effective assistance of counsel? |
| 21-400 |
Melecia Baltazar-Sebastian v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-court bail-reform-act civil-detention executive-branch executive-branch-authority immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-detention separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether the executive branch can keep a person in civil detention despite an Article III court's release order |
| 21-402 |
Akari Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment general-search-warrant ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress |
Is a defendant entitled to a certificate of appealability to challenge a denied 28-U.S.C-2255 motion on ineffective-assistance-of-counsel when an atto… |
| 21-408 |
Gertrude Parker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conspiracy-charge criminal-intent criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel general-verdict insufficient-evidence jury-verdict medicare medicare-statutes reasonable-interpretation sixth-amendment |
Whether Parker was denied effective assistance of counsel |
| 21-409 |
Anthony Italo Provitola, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-rules article-iii circuit-court civil-procedure federal-rules judicial-review procedural-rules standing summary-judgment tax-court |
Whether the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal have the power to override federal statutory appellate rules |
| 21-414 |
First Midwest Bank, as Guardian of the Estate of Michael D. LaPorta v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights legal-causation municipal-liability off-duty off-duty-conduct official-policy section-1983 |
Can municipalities evade liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for unlawful acts that their official municipal policies undisputedly caused if the municipa… |
| 21-5012 |
Brian David Johnsen v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process jury reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory m… |
| 21-5017 |
Angel Mondragon Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
GVR |
IFP |
aggravated-felony borden-decision certiorari crime-of-violence criminal-law immigration mens-rea sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below and remand for further consideration in light of this Court's recent decision in … |
| 21-5046 |
Ira Lee Wilkins v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
GVR |
IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law reckless-conduct reckless-force sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review tenth-circuit violent-crime |
Whether Mr. Wilkins's conviction for Texas aggravated robbery is a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 in light of Borden v. United States |
| 21-5048 |
Wesley Lynn Ruiz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony expert-witness false-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct |
Should the prosecution be held responsible for presenting false expert testimony at a capital sentencing trial? |
| 21-5232 |
Duane Allen Short v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-decency due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency jury-recommendation jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Is Ohio's capital sentencing scheme, which permits telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation, unconstitutional under Hurst v.… |
| 21-5248 |
Davion L. Jefferson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment crime-of-violence directed-verdict due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Did the district court violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's Jury Trial Clause |
| 21-5259 |
James Plas Sams v. Neil McDowell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
class-of-one contracts-clause due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination habeas-corpus plea-agreement police-misconduct |
Question not identified |
| 21-5260 |
James E. Nottingham v. Laurel Harry, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge perjury standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the writ of certiorari should be granted in favor of the Petitioner James E. Nottingham for false arrest, perjury, fraud, void warrant, ineffe… |
| 21-5273 |
Jerry L. Wheeler v. Randall Hepp, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-strategy due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-notice trial-counsel witness-testimony |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 21-5282 |
Tyrius Green v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process eyewitness-identification jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-united-states trial-by-jury trial-procedure witness-identification |
Whether giving a jury charge on eye witness identification that lacked a factual basis in the evidence produced at trial was contrary to clearly estab… |
| 21-5286 |
Gerald M. Calmese v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
IFP |
conviction criminal-indictment double-jeopardy due-process essential-elements fraudulent-schemes indictment legal-sufficiency multiplicity sentencing-error |
Is there legally sufficient evidence to establish beyond a reasonable doubt the required element for fraudulent schemes for which the petitioner was c… |
| 21-5288 |
Cornelius L. Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review post-conviction post-conviction-review standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the post-conviction pleadings were sufficient |
| 21-5289 |
Gregory Moore, Individually, and on Behalf of J. M., et al. v. County of Orange, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
child-seizure civil-rights due-process federal-funds fourth-amendment fraud res-judicata rooker-feldman standing warrant-requirement |
Whether Rooker-Feldman should be uniformly applied across federal districts |
| 21-5296 |
Patrick C. Lynn v. Debra Lundry |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-144 administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection physical-injury recusal reverse-error statutory-duty statutory-interpretation |
Did the 10th Circuit err in failing to hold its D.C.T. Judge Mclaren had a statutory duty under 28 USC § 144 to refer my affidavit of prejudice to ano… |
| 21-5297 |
Kurzie Lee Curtis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment bureau-of-prisons civil-rights compassionate-release due-process first-step-act |
Whether the Bureau of Prisons' policy of denying compassionate release to inmates who have not served at least 50% of their sentence violates the Firs… |
| 21-5298 |
In Re Rayfield Thibeaux |
|
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process forensic-services medical-records mental-health mental-health-treatment social-security social-security-administration standing |
Question Presented For Review |
| 21-5299 |
John Johnson, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause factfinder-discretion fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict penal-code statutory-interpretation |
Does Texas Penal Code §21.02 discriminate who is and is not protected under the Equal Protection Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment by allowing fac… |
| 21-5300 |
In Re Richard Charles Lussy |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process estate-litigation extrinsic-fraud fraud mandamus mandamus-petition ministerial-duty oath-of-office probate-dispute vexatious-litigant |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to a writ of mandamus to compel the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to ministerially order the setting aside of … |
| 21-5306 |
In Re Richard Arjun Kaul |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of their constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amen… |
| 21-5308 |
Calvin B. Lynch v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law statutory-interpretation witness-intimidation witness-testimony |
Is petitioner entitled to the Pennsylvania courts' clarifying interpretation of the witness intimidation statute, Pa.C.S.A.§4952, under which petition… |
| 21-5309 |
Zachary Cooper v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-bias conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause due-process fraud judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal standard-of-review state-judicial-conduct trial-procedure |
Due-process-recusal |
| 21-5311 |
Thomas Morgan Soper, II v. Idaho |
Idaho |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Does a District Court Judge have the power and/or right to ignore an order of suspension of all persistent felony enhancements? |
| 21-5316 |
In Re Taryn Christian |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
autonomy brady-v-maryland brady-violation counsel-strategy habeas-corpus mandamus mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-autonomy sixth-amendment strickland |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to autonomy over the objective of one's defense, as recognized in McCoy v. Louisiana, applies retroactively on colla… |
| 21-5317 |
Mauricio Melendez v. Renee Baker, Warden |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-concession criminal-autonomy criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-defense stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the right to secured autonomy over one's defense requires express objection to an attorney's concession of guilt |
| 21-5320 |
Trenton John Tompkins v. Lauren Leigh Hackett |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure prison-conditions pro-se |
Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to submit his appellant's brief and appendix due to a prison lockdown and lack of access to legal materials cons… |
| 21-5334 |
Cecile A. Brown v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-defendants governmental-defendants judicial-review legal-presumption presumption standing supreme-court-doctrine voluntary-cessation |
Whether the doctrine of voluntary cessation applies less stringently to governmental defendants than to private ones? |
| 21-5337 |
Garrett McElveen v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics |
Whether the Sixth District Appellate Court of Illinois erred in finding that the defendant's original public defender became the victim's attorney, th… |
| 21-5338 |
Michael Vincent Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mistrial probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Whether the prosecutor's submission of an affidavit for probable cause listing a tan animal hair found in a wicker trunk, when the DNA report received… |
| 21-5341 |
Vernon Norman Earle v. Shreves, C/O, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
policy-based judgments that present special Biven administrative-grievance bivens Bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-violation correctional-officer due-process policy-based-judgment policy-based-judgments retaliation special-factors |
Whether a rogue correctional officer's unlawful retaliation against an inmate for utilizing an administrative grievance process implicates the sort of… |
| 21-5343 |
Jimmie Washington, aka Jim Washington v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure cheney-standard cheney-test civil-procedure immediate-relief injunction injunctive-relief judicial-review mandamus mandamus-petition stay writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a court of appeals failure to grant a first and second amended petition for writ of mandamus conflicts with this court and other court of appe… |
| 21-5349 |
Chris Allen Miller v. Jason R. Ravnsborg, Attorney General of South Dakota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-trial prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the state court erred in denying the petitioner's due-process, civil-rights, criminal-procedure, jury-trial, double-jeopardy, prosecutorial-mi… |
| 21-5363 |
Christopher Cope v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
client-autonomy constitutional-right criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy |
Whether petitioner was denied his constitutional right to have effective assistance of counsel |
| 21-5366 |
Abram K. Sollman v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence witness-testimony |
whether-the-nebraska-courts-reliance-on-witness-statements-induced-erroneous-or-prejudicial-hearsay-evidence |
| 21-5371 |
James Roland Henderson v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-intent criminal-procedure evidence-exclusion familial-violence first-degree-murder homicide imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions parental-relationship religious-beliefs self-defense special-circumstances |
Whether the trial court improperly instructed the jury with a pinpoint instruction on imperfect self-defense |
| 21-5373 |
Bernard Hollomond v. Tracy Ray, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
confusion constitutional-rights due-process evidence-consideration jury-trial knowing-and-intelligent sentencing trial-procedure voluntariness waiver |
Whether the defendant's statements show that he knowingly and voluntarily waived his right to a jury trial |
| 21-5376 |
Samuel Roy Abram v. David Leu, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies prison-litigation-reform-act standing |
Was petitioner required to request consideration of an unwritten grievance, for a valid reason under PLRA? |
| 21-5378 |
Anthony Kirkland v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
Is a capital sentence invalid when the prosecutor leads the jury to believe the judge has already decided the defendant should be sentenced to death? |
| 21-5380 |
Luke Edward Fleming v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circumstantial-evidence cold-case constitutional-law criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence murder sexual-battery |
Whether the Petitioner's convictions for murder and sexual battery violate the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution because the eviden… |
| 21-5384 |
William A. Masters v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process executive-taking fourteenth-amendment property-rights property-seizure standing state-remedies takings |
Must a Citizen exhaust his State's remedies before filing in the Federal Court for a decision upon a Constitutional issue? |
| 21-5387 |
Roland Adams, aka Peter Brown, aka Harold Whiteker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-agreement statutory-authority statutory-interpretation void-judgment |
Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction to enter judgement under 18 U.S.C § 1956(h) |
| 21-5388 |
Wilbert Kelly, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-restriction burden-of-proof constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process legal-standing post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence public-official sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's application for post-conviction relief despite the lack of evidence proving the … |
| 21-5394 |
Michael Nathaniel Boyd v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression false-evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether the court should grant certiorari, vacate the circuit's ruling, and demand further consideration in light of Strickland v. Washington and Napu… |
| 21-5405 |
George A. Luna v. Anna Valentine, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause domestic-violence due-process evidentiary-rule federal-jurisdiction forfeiture-by-wrongdoing hearsay-exception pleadings standing witness-unavailability |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 21-5409 |
Antonyo Reece v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion pepper-precedent pepper-v-united-states rehabilitation-evidence sentencing sentencing-variance upward-departure |
Whether imposing an upward departure of 200 months to a criminal defendant who has exemplary rehabilitation evidence is incongruous to this Court's ho… |
| 21-5410 |
Joydeth Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion district-court judicial-remand legal-procedure limited-remand plain-error substantial-rights |
Whether courts of appeals should order a limited remand to determine whether a plain error has affected a party's substantial rights |
| 21-5413 |
Antoine L. Wallace v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does the undefined term 'controlled substance' in the federal Sentencing Guidelines refer to substances controlled by federal law or state law? |
| 21-5418 |
Sergio Bucio v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-role money-laundering role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 |
Whether the district court erred in calculating the amount of laundered funds attributable to Mr. Bucio |
| 21-5419 |
Dilang Dat v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defense criminal-plea deportation deportation-consequences due-process-advice immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-united-states strickland-test |
Does trial counsel advising a criminal defendant that he 'could' be deported for entering a guilty plea breach trial counsel's duty to give 'clear and… |
| 21-5425 |
Jay J. Sawatzky v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession first-amendment judicial-discretion racist-paraphernalia racist-views sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Whether a sentencing judge may impose an upward variance on a defendant convicted of possessing firearms and ammunition as a felon, based on that defe… |
| 21-5428 |
Crystal V. L. Rivers v. United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights crime-victims-rights-act criminal-procedure federal-investigation government-disclosure government-misconduct ongoing-investigation rico victim-notification |
Whether the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA) requires the government to inform a victim of her rights under the CVRA and the status of the investigati… |
| 21-5429 |
Pedro Reyes v. Jeff Jensen, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement standing state-action |
Whether State action is implied by the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) anomalous codification |
| 21-5431 |
Jereme Eugene Mackey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel pre-trial-custody sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred in finding the appellant guilty due to ineffective counsel |
| 21-5434 |
Demontrae Wilson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
authentication circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standards lay-witness social-media social-media-evidence |
Proper authentication for social-media evidence |
| 21-5436 |
William D. Dickerson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-analysis civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-review court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard legal-procedure procedural-error sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 804 of the First Step Act of 2018's definition of 'covered offense' covers a 'dual-object' conspiracy that includes both crack cocaine… |
| 21-5437 |
Jean Crump v. Social Security Administration, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisons medication-access prisoner-retirement prisoner-rights retirement-funds retirement-plan room-and-board social-security |
Is the Social Security Administration employee funded retirement a retirement plan? |
| 21-5441 |
Brandon Mark Bjerknes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment article-1-section-3 constitutional-construction double-jeopardy executive-branch federal-government federal-lawmaking judicial-minimalism senate-representation state-representation |
Does the Senate's constitutional construction link state governments to the federal lawmaking process? |
| 21-5451 |
John M. Wasson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions legal-counsel mining-claim right-to-counsel |
Was defendant provided adequate counsel? |
| 21-5452 |
Elliot Joseph v. Daniel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel miranda-v-arizona strickland-v-washington |
Whether the lower courts incorrectly found petitioner's petition for writ of habeas corpus failed to demonstrate a substantial showing of the denial o… |
| 21-5453 |
Charles J. Senke v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel strickland-standard substitution-of-counsel |
Whether a district court's failure to inquire into an indigent defendant's colorable motion for substitution of counsel is cognizable on direct appeal… |
| 21-5455 |
Emmanuel Granados v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power firearms firearms-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause |
| 21-5456 |
Yarlin Garcia v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-standard motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court erred by denying Mr. Garcia's Motion to Suppress? |
| 21-5462 |
James Michael Kerns v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence plea-bargaining plea-validity sentencing-challenge sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
Whether Count 3 conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924 is valid given the unconstitutionality of the predicate crime of violence in Count 2 |
| 21-5463 |
Christopher Jonell Tyler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process fourth-circuit government-breach judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the 'interests of justice' and this Court's ruling in Puckett v. United States |
| 21-5468 |
Fredrick Mackie v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-appeal due-process in-forma-pauperis knowing-and-intelligent-waiver pro-se-appeal right-to-appeal right-to-counsel |
Whether a court must ascertain that a defendant-appellant's decision to abandon a criminal appeal is knowing and intelligent |
| 21-5472 |
Vincent Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 21-5474 |
Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act jurisdiction resentencing standing |
Whether Petitioner is being deprived of his civil-rights, due-process, 5th-amendment, first-step-act |
| 21-5475 |
Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act sentencing-review standing |
Whether Petitioner is being deprived of his civil-rights,due-process,fifth-amendment,first-step-act |
| 21-5477 |
Clifford Senter v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack criminal-law due-process federal-procedure federal-sentencing non-existent-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law |
Where state law holds that a particular offense is non-existent, but a defendant has a conviction for the non-existent offense, and a federal sentenci… |
| 21-5478 |
Ulises Alvarado v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conditions-of-release COVID-19 covid-19-test criminal-law due-process federal-law federal-procedure revocation supervised-release |
Is it a violation of due-process for a defendant to have his supervised-release revoked for declining to take a COVID-19 test that was not clearly a c… |
| 21-5484 |
Sylvia Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law due-process equal-protection firearms licensed-dealer mens-rea selective-prosecution straw-purchase |
Whether the 'straw purchase' offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6) requires the defendant to have known the seller was a 'Licensed Dealer' |
| 21-5485 |
Yamilet Diaz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-kickback conspiracy criminal-liability due-process federal-health-care government-burden-of-proof intended-victim jury-instructions medicare-fraud |
Whether jury instructions control the validity of a conviction rather than case law |
| 21-5486 |
Scott Sanford v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights intelligent-waiver jury-trial knowing-waiver sixth-amendment voluntary-waiver waiver |
Minimum requirements for waiving jury trial right |
| 21-5488 |
John Patrick Blackmon v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-inquiry prior-testimony right-to-testify testimony-waiver trial-procedure waiver |
Did events in the second trial establish additional process due the Defendant in any subsequent trial? |
| 21-5492 |
Marcus Phillips v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure drug-agent-testimony drug-enforcement expert-testimony first-impression legal-admissibility mental-acuity perceptive-ability witness-credibility |
Whether expert testimony about mental acuity is admissible to show a person's ability to observe and to act to exercise dominion and control over a ho… |
| 21-5499 |
Joel Reyna-Aragon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof court-of-appeals-division federal-sentencing-guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states presumption-of-prejudice sentencing-error |
Whether an error in applying the Federal Sentencing Guidelines occasions a presumption of prejudice? |
| 21-5502 |
Lucio P. Munoz v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-in-limine postconviction-relief |
whether-the-nebraska-courts-decisions-concerning-hearsay-conform-to-the-established-rule-of-evidence |
| 21-5503 |
Eric Henry Woodberry and Bradford Marselas Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-length firearms mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea prosecutorial-burden sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(B)(i) requires the government to prove that a defendant knew of the length of the firearm carried during the commission … |
| 21-5504 |
Eric Worley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the government failed to prove the drug quantity used to determine the defendant's base offense level by a preponderance of the evidence, in v… |
| 21-5516 |
In Re Freddy Perkins |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
841-b-1-a 846 851-enhancement actual-innocence cocaine-base criminal-procedure mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-enhancement |
Whether Mathis applies retroactive to Petitioner Perkin's claim of 'Actual Innocent' under 841 (b)(1)(a) & 846, 280 grams or more Cocaine Base and 851… |
| 21-5518 |
John Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
atascosa-county base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-quantity mass-marketing relevant-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines traffic-stop |
Was it improper for the Court to find the base offense level was 34 because Mr. Perez should only have been held accountable for the 15 pounds of 'bot… |
| 21-5520 |
Brunson Roberts v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process individual-liberty judicial-review legal-precedent patent standing statutory-interpretation |
Does a district court abuse its discretion when it upholds and does not reconsider 35 U.S.C. 101 factors for eligibility, and does a district court ab… |
| 21-5523 |
Amos Kiprop Koech v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof cell-phone-evidence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-statutes interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element jury-instruction reasonable-doubt |
Does the jurisdictional element 'in or affecting interstate commerce' in federal criminal statutes require an actual effect on interstate commerce and… |
| 21-5524 |
Miguel Andres Lara-Unzueta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1252 8-usc-1326 deportation deportation-proceeding due-process immigration-law judicial-review procedural-rights removable-alien |
Does a deportation proceeding deprive a removable alien of the opportunity for judicial review under 8 U.S.C. §1326(d)(2)? |
| 21-5525 |
Thomas Richardson v. Nevada |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstance court-martial death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief rompilla-standard rompilla-v-beard |
Whether the Nevada Supreme Court misapplied the law by failing to examine or analyze the failure of counsel to investigate readily available informati… |
| 21-5526 |
Duane Kelly v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-hearing inconsistent-verdict inconsistent-verdicts post-conviction-relief reasonable-jurist state-court-decision |
Was the district court's findings that the state court reasonably applied the inconsistent verdict law in this case correct? |
| 21-5528 |
Gabriel Samar Martinez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify standing alone 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence anonymous-tip corroboration fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop vehicle-stop |
Whether an uncorroborated anonymous tip, standing alone, can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify a seizure |
| 21-5530 |
Luis Gomez-Castro v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines |
When a defendant objects to a sentencing enhancement for obstruction of justice based on perjury, must the court make specific findings on the element… |
| 21-5531 |
Garlin Raymond Farris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-principles appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process excusable-neglect indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pioneer-investment-services procedural-hurdles sixth-amendment |
Whether appointed counsel's misconduct can serve as excusable neglect for an indigent federal criminal defendant's late filing of a dispositive motion |
| 21-5532 |
Guy Harvey Spruhan, IV v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
equal-protection non-delegation-doctrine retroactive-relief retroactive-sentence-reduction sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act separation-of-powers |
Is the limitation in U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10 consistent with the statutory directive to avoid unwarranted sentencing disparity? |
| 21-5537 |
John Creech v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-materiality brady-v-maryland conviction criminal-procedure defense-strategy disclosure due-process evidence-disclosure litigation-strategy materiality prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit |
Is evidence material for purposes of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), if its disclosure would affect defense litigation strategy? |
| 21-5538 |
Michael Joseph Edmondson v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus self-representation sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel |
Whether the trial Judge fulfilled his duty of determining whether there was an intelligent and competent waiver of accused's right to assistance of co… |
| 21-5540 |
Guadalupe Urbina-Rodriguez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g1 18-usc-924a2 8th-amendment 8th-circuit carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-firearm-possession criminal-history eighth-circuit-precedent felony-enhancement second-amendment-rights sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction |
whether-prior-offenses-constitute-felony-for-enhanced-sentence |
| 21-5541 |
Dan Kenny Delva v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joint-trial right-to-counsel severance sixth-amendment trial-severance |
Whether Mr. Delva was denied effective assistance of counsel |
| 21-5543 |
Louis Matthews v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-charge federal-law indictment judgment-acquittal ninth-circuit plain-error |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in upholding a conviction for a conspiracy other than the conspiracy charged in the indictment? |
| 21-5544 |
Thomas Charles Scott v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment |
Were petitioner's rights under the Fourth and Sixth Amendments violated by trial counsel's failure to challenge a search warrant obtained via intentio… |
| 21-5548 |
Brent Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-counting firearm-possession plain-error reckless-endangerment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vehicular-flight |
Did the district court plainly err when it applied a 2-level enhancement for 'reckless endangerment during flight' after already applying a 4-level 'i… |
| 21-5559 |
Selvin Leonell Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidentiary-standard federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea |
Whether possession of a firearm is 'in or affecting commerce' when there is no evidence that the defendant moved the firearm across state lines or tha… |
| 21-5560 |
Gary Lamar Henry v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law pinkerton-liability sentencing supreme-court violent-crimes |
Whether Pinkerton liability applies to 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) violations |
| 21-5563 |
William Ferguson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-242 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-ruling due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense section-924c statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether a defendant's convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) should be vacated |
| 21-5564 |
Russell Jay Reger v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process jurisdictional-challenge legal-nullity personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment |
Is an uncontested void judgment still viewed by this court as being 'mere waste paper'? |
| 21-5565 |
Fortrell Latrae Sain v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cross-examination discovery-violations due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-violation sentencing |
Whether the defendant was denied the opportunity to fully cross-examine the key government witness |
| 21-5566 |
Razhden Shulaya v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-interference due-process judicial-bias jury-instruction jury-instructions right-to-counsel structural-error trial-procedure |
Whether the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York provided a constitutionally flawed trial and committed structural error… |
| 21-5570 |
Richard Boyle v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court due-process evidence-admission federal-rules-of-evidence prior-convictions stare-decisis undue-prejudice witness-testimony |
Whether the federal courts are free to withdraw the protection from undue prejudice which emanates from the required four-step process as set forth in… |
| 21-5571 |
Jerald E. Holcomb v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 21-5572 |
Kamau Alan Israel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense mental-illness plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether counsel for a person suffering severe mental illness throughout his entire life should have taken minimal steps to investigate his mental illn… |
| 21-5574 |
Walter Manuel Marques-Mejia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-5575 |
Frederick Arayatanon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defendant-rights district-court due-process evidence evidentiary-admission fair-trial jail-telephone-calls presumption-of-innocence |
Did the District Court's admission of jail telephone calls by the defendant during trial undermine the defendant's presumption of innocence? |
| 21-5577 |
Terry Darnell Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split circuit-split cumulative-error cumulative-error-doctrine fair-trial federal-habeas-corpus fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Does the cumulative error doctrine apply to ineffective assistance of counsel claims? |
| 21-5582 |
Marlon Darrel Evans v. Amy Miller, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-review due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the state court unreasonably applied SCOTUS precedents in concluding that trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to challenge an eyewit… |
| 21-5583 |
Jordan Lee Bell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing due-process first-amendment pornographic-matter supervised-release unconstitutionally-vague |
Does a special condition of supervised release that prohibits possession or control of 'any pornographic matter' violate due process as unconstitution… |
| 21-5584 |
Guerly Alexis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit equal-protection fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant whose offense preceded the enactment of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, and who was sentenced after its enactment, but not necess… |
| 21-5585 |
Willie Lee Davis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing |
Whether the lower courts misinterpreted the 1994 amended version of Title 35 U.S.C. § 101 |
| 21-5595 |
Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-crimes drug-distribution due-process overdose proximate-cause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
whether-the-enhanced-penalty-for-death-resulting-from-use-of-a-substance-requires-proof-of-proximate-cause |
| 21-5597 |
Johnathan Holt v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process property-rights standing takings-clause |
Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims under the Takings Clause and Due Process Clause |
| 21-5599 |
Robert Nathan Hensley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions |
Whether the petitioner's conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon was unconstitutional due to ineffective assistance of counsel and improper … |
| 21-5600 |
Linda Hardison v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-law constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-procedure documentary-evidence due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error judicial-review legal-adjudication |
Can the district court and the appeals' court overlook a blatant error of law when the petitioner presented all documentary evidence and declarations … |
| 21-5601 |
Abdullah Hamidullah v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
colloquy constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing |
Did the district court violate the defendant's substantial due process rights during the mandatory Rule 11 colloquy? |
| 21-5603 |
Alphonse Gainer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeal appellate-discretion criminal-justice criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit first-step-act motion-for-reconsideration motion-reconsideration sentence-reduction sentencing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion in denying Gainer's Motion for Reconsideration of Denial of … |
| 21-5604 |
Daniel Chase Harris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3261 18-usc-7 circuit-split civilian-jurisdiction due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-law military-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether U.S. military or civilian courts have exclusive jurisdiction of service members for their overseas conduct on foreign U.S. military installati… |
| 21-5607 |
Terry R. Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
autopsy autopsy-requirement black-lung-disease cause-of-death civil-rights compensation-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidence medical-evidence |
Whether the defendant was convicted beyond a reasonable doubt due to the split decisions in the circuit court division |
| 21-5609 |
Matthew Staszak v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege confidential-communications constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment interception legal-interception sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were deprived and violated when his attorney-client confidential communications were intercepted… |
| 21-5610 |
Willie M. Hardy, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender confession crime-of-violence criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions malicious-wounding sentencing sentencing-factor sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether Virginia Code 18.2-51 is a crime of violence |
| 21-5612 |
Geontay Patterson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substances prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the district court and appellate court improperly found justification for the search and seizure of Mr. Patterson |
| 21-5613 |
Byron McCollum v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review merits-determination slack-v-mcdaniel unauthorized-merits-determination |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability can be construed as an unauthorized merits determination |
| 21-5615 |
Carlos Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-preservation criminal-justice due-process importation mens-rea methamphetamine-importation plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
whether-defendant-failed-to-preserve-argument-by-not-raising-it-at-sentencing-hearing |
| 21-5616 |
Felix Antequera Rivera, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards separation-of-powers standing |
Whether the court below erred in allowing the petitioner to bring a claim for a writ of mandamus |
| 21-5617 |
Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-protections civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment government-seizure |
Does the Federal Government have the authority to seize individuals' bank accounts? |
| 21-5620 |
Raymond L. Crum v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split plain-error prison-term rehabilitation rehabilitation-consideration sentencing-reform-act tapia-precedent tapia-v-united-states |
Whether a district court commits plain error by relying to any extent on a defendant's rehabilitative needs in imposing a prison term |
| 21-5624 |
Ryan Scott Kibble v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion chronic-health-conditions chronic-health-issues compassionate-release district-court-discretion global-pandemic incarceration pandemic-incarceration sentencing-modification |
Whether a district court abuses its discretion by refusing to grant compassionate relief |
| 21-5625 |
Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation legal-conflict procedural-review remand remand-order sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the opinion of the court below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United States, Stinson v. United States, and Davis v. United … |
| 21-5627 |
William Brinson Ball v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction international-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) extends to conduct occurring outside the United States |
| 21-5632 |
Eliseo Carrillo, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons criminal-law district-court due-process liberty liberty-interest mental-health sentencing supervised-release upward-departure |
Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by upward departing in re-sentencing Peti… |
| 21-5638 |
Davin Griffin v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights due-process factual-innocence first-step-act habeas-corpus sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court's denial of relief in a habeas corpus petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2241 on the question of factual and actual innocence depa… |
| 21-5639 |
Siliaivaoese Fuimaona v. D. Hudson, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences criminal-appeal custody federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas erred in holding that the petitioner wa… |
| 21-5640 |
Todd Dalton v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-sexual-abuse child-sexual-abuse-accommodation-syndrome csaas-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing hearsay in-absentia-trial ineffective-assistance taint-and-memory-expert trial-procedure |
Did the California Courts' Unreasonable Refusal to Hold an Evidentiary Hearing Entitle Dalton to an Evidentiary Hearing? |
| 21-5641 |
Conoly Freddie Franklin, III, and Andre Anthony Franklin, aka Tommy Martin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-document circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review sufficiency |
Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(8) bar reviewing the sufficiency of a charging document absent a showing of good cause |
| 21-5642 |
Terry Dibble v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burglary certificate-of-appealability district-court-conclusion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jury-instructions legal-standard reasonable-jurists residential-burglary |
Did Mr. Dibble present a ground for relief as to which reasonable jurists could differ concerning the correctness of the district court's conclusion, … |
| 21-5645 |
In Re Donald Mack |
|
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson procedural-rules |
Can a mentally incompetent defendant challenge his conviction under the Fourteenth Amendment despite procedural rules? |
| 21-5647 |
Adolphus Symonette v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-proceeding certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court-discretion habeas-corpus post-offense-rehabilitation reasonable-jurists resentencing sentencing |
Whether reasonable jurists would find the district court's decision to vacate Count 3 of the second superseding indictment while simultaneously denyin… |
| 21-5653 |
In Re Matthew Phillips |
|
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 21-5659 |
Willie Powell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms united-states-v-lopez |
Whether the 'minimal nexus' test employed by the Eleventh Circuit to affirm Mr. Powell's conviction under 18 U.S.C. §922(g) as a felon in possession o… |
| 21-5661 |
Raymond Moya v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causation causation-of-death criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution evidence evidence-suppression expert-testimony motion-in-limine motion-to-dismiss |
Whether the District Court erred in denying Moya's Motion to Dismiss Count 2 |
| 21-5670 |
Elijah Vines v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-seizure circuit-split expectation-of-privacy fourth-circuit law-enforcement password-protected password-protection privacy-expectation tenth-circuit third-party-consent |
Whether a third-party possesses authority to consent to the seizure of another's cell phone when that phone is password-protected, the owner has denie… |
| 21-5678 |
Shawn Kelly Thomason v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law court-practice due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure pronoun-usage transgender-rights |
Does the Eighth Circuit's failure to use a transgender litigant's preferred pronouns violate the Equal Protection Clause? |
| 21-5679 |
Toye Tutis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-site-simulator criminal-procedure fourth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure wiretap wiretap-order |
Whether employment of a 'cell-site simulator' constituted a Fourth Amendment violation? |
| 21-5686 |
Tobias Soto-Melchor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlling-precedent counsel-of-choice ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-rule right-to-counsel right-to-counsel-of-choice right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-delay |
Proper-standard-for-substituting-retained-counsel |
| 21-5693 |
Eleno Guillen-Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5694 |
Shawn Travis Paschal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights elements-of-offense federal-sentencing maximum-sentence minimum-sentence sentencing |
Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be treated as elements of the defendant's offense for constitutional… |
| 21-5721 |
In Re Michael Wappler |
|
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights covid-19 due-process prison-conditions |
Whether a prisoner who is among a group identified by the CDC as vulnerable to the more contagious COVID-19 'D' variant is entitled to early release t… |
| 21-5746 |
In Re Conghau Huu To |
|
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court-procedure due-process federal-review gatekeeping habeas-corpus judicial-integrity newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by making misstatements of facts … |
| 21M24 |
Edward Hedican v. Walmart Stores East, L.P., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M27 |
Kimberly Michelle Dubois v. Daniel Lee Tucker, Jr. |
Texas |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M28 |
Daeshawn D. Williams v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M29 |
Billie Odell Stone v. Mary K. Viegelahn |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M30 |
Jovani Jacobo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|