| 19-1135 |
Dignity Health, dba Mercy San Juan Medical Center v. Evan Minton |
California |
Denied |
Amici (5)Relisted (7) |
civil-rights employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-association free-exercise free-expression medical-procedure medical-procedures religious-freedom religious-liberty state-law unruh-civil-rights-act |
Does the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment bar a state-law claim that seeks to compel a religiously affiliated hospital to allow medical pro… |
| 19-7862 |
Wesley Paul Coonce, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment confrontation-clause eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment intellectual-disability moral-culpability sentencing-hearing |
Whether the execution of a defendant with intellectual disability that arose after age 18 violates the Eighth and Fifth Amendments |
| 20-1395 |
Phoebe Bochere Omwega, aka Phoebe Omwega v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
None |
|
| 20-1499 |
American Civil Liberties Union v. United States |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (3) |
article-iii-court article-iii-courts constitutional-law first-amendment foreign-intelligence-surveillance-court judicial-jurisdiction public-access statutory-interpretation |
Whether the FISC has jurisdiction to consider a motion asserting a qualified public right of access to its significant opinions |
| 20-1501 |
Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, et al. v. Shirin Emami, Acting Superintendent, New York Department of Financial Services, et al. |
New York |
GVR |
Amici (6)Relisted (4) |
abortion abortion-mandate employment-division-smith first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech health-insurance religious-autonomy religious-exemption smith-v-oregon |
Is New York's abortion coverage mandate neutral and generally applicable under Smith and Lukumi? |
| 20-1530 |
West Virginia, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (4) |
administrative-law clean-air-act congressional-authority congressional-power energy-policy environmental-protection-agency environmental-regulation epa-authority federalism separation-of-powers |
Did Congress constitutionally authorize the EPA to issue significant rules without limits under the Clean Air Act? |
| 20-1531 |
The North American Coal Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
administrative-law agency-authority carbon-dioxide-emissions carbon-emissions clean-air-act clean-power-plan environmental-regulation epa epa-regulation generation-shifting power-plants |
Whether 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d) grants the EPA authority to impose industry-wide systems like cap-and-trade regimes |
| 20-1574 |
Joseph Ocol v. Chicago Teachers Union, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
compelled-speech constitutional-rights exclusive-bargaining exclusive-bargaining-representative first-amendment freedom-of-association janus-precedent janus-v-afscme public-employee public-sector-unions union-representation |
Should the Court overrule Knight and hold that the First Amendment prohibits States from forcing dissident public employees to accept a hostile union … |
| 20-1594 |
Murray Rojas v. United States |
Third Circuit |
GVR |
Amici (1) |
criminal-statute drug-dispensing drug-regulation fdca federal-criminal-law federal-state-balance federalism lenity medical-practitioner statutory-interpretation young-v-united-states |
Whether the FDCA's felony prohibitions on 'dispensing' drugs reach the administering of drugs by practitioners, which has been left to state and local… |
| 20-1603 |
Susan Bennett v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, AFL-CIO, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
affirmative-consent employee-rights first-amendment janus-v-afscme paycheck-deduction public-sector-union public-sector-unions union-dues waiver waiver-requirement |
Whether an employee's signature on a union membership card and dues deduction authorization by itself authorizes a government employer and public-sect… |
| 20-1606 |
Brett Hendrickson v. AFSCME Council 18, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
affirmative-consent civil-rights janus-v-afscme mootness public-worker union-dues |
Whether a union can trap a public worker into paying dues without the 'affirmative consent' required by Janus v. AFSCME |
| 20-1636 |
Douglas Bourdon v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 20-1644 |
Devon Archer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure jury-discretion jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice new-trial new-trial-motion second-circuit |
Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33(a) afford district courts discretion to reweigh the evidence when evaluating a new trial motion |
| 20-1704 |
RonRico Simmons, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
aedpa evidentiary-hearing government-impediment habeas-corpus limitations-period pro-se timeliness |
Whether a court can summarily dismiss a pro se habeas petition as untimely for failure to adequately allege a causal connection |
| 20-1724 |
David James Murphy v. Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., et al. |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
arbitrability arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-law cross-motion delegation-clause motion-to-dismiss res-judicata |
Whether the lower courts should have granted the petitioner's cross-motion to compel arbitration of arbitrability and denied or stayed the respondents… |
| 20-1751 |
Susan Fischer, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-rights first-amendment government-action public-employee standing union-dues union-speech waiver waiver-doctrine |
Whether governments and unions need clear and compelling evidence of a knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver of First Amendment rights to seize p… |
| 20-1775 |
Arizona, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (4) |
administrative-law apa civil-rights immigration mootness standing |
Whether States with interests should be permitted to intervene to defend a rule when the United States ceases to defend |
| 20-1778 |
Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
administrative-law agency-authority carbon-emissions clean-air-act clean-power-plan energy-policy environmental-regulation epa hazardous-air-pollutants section-111(d) section-112 statutory-interpretation |
Whether EPA may employ 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d) to impose standards of performance on existing stationary sources that are regulated under the 'hazardous a… |
| 20-1779 |
Carlos A. Morales-Vázquez v. Óptima Seguros |
First Circuit |
Denied |
|
contract-avoidance disclosure federal-maritime-law insurance-disclosure marine-insurance maritime-insurance maritime-law material-risk materiality reliance uberrimae-fidei |
Does the traditional doctrine of uberrimae fidei continue to apply in its strict form, or is the doctrine limited to cases in which the insurer relied… |
| 20-1780 |
North Dakota v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (4) |
clean-air-act environmental-law environmental-protection-agency epa-regulations federalism performance-standards state-implementation stationary-sources |
Can EPA promulgate regulations for existing stationary sources that require States to apply binding nationwide 'performance standards' at a level, ins… |
| 20-1786 |
JoAnne Troesch, et al. v. Chicago Teachers Union, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-rights first-amendment free-speech government-restrictions janus-vs-afscme union-dues waiver waiver-doctrine |
Under the First Amendment, do governments and unions need clear and compelling evidence of a knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver to seize payme… |
| 20-1791 |
Keila Rosa Camarena, et al. v. Tae D. Johnson, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al., |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 20-8342 |
John Willie Johnson, aka Dewayne Henderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit-review post-borden post-conviction-relief post-johnson resentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Johnson a Certificate of Appealability |
| 20-8458 |
Patrick Eugene Stein v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-act jury-selection standing tenth-circuit weapon-of-mass-destruction |
Does this practice substantially violate the plain language of the Jury Act under 28 U.S.C. § 1861, and was the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals wrong t… |
| 20-8462 |
Roderick Napoleon Harris v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
-habeas-corpus -ineffective-assistance -prejudice-standard -professional-norms -sixth-amendment #NAME? capital-case mitigation-evidence prejudice professional-standards sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether a habeas court must articulate and apply prevailing professional norms to determine ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 20M81 |
Arizona, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
Relisted (4) |
None |
|
| 21-104 |
Robert Timothy Harley v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-possession hearth-and-home second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether there can be a personal, individual as-applied challenge under the Second Amendment to a prohibition on the possession of a firearm for the pr… |
| 21-108 |
Clint A. Krislov, et al. v. Cook County Officers Electoral Board, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
ballot-access civil-rights due-process first-amendment mootness mootness-exception public-interest public-interest-exception signature-requirements |
Whether federal courts recognize a public interest exception to mootness |
| 21-121 |
Christiana Tah, et al. v. Global Witness Publishing, Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
actual-malice civil-rights defamation first-amendment free-speech inference-of-intent pleading-standard pleading-standards public-figure public-plaintiff |
Whether a complaint by a public plaintiff alleging defamation sufficiently pleads actual-malice, in-the-absence-of-direct-evidence, by-presenting-deta… |
| 21-155 |
John M. Custin v. Harold J. Wirths, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-hearing civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process inquisitorial-proceedings misconduct notice property-rights unemployment-benefits |
Does the deprivation of unemployment benefits based on a charge of 'misconduct connected to the work' when the only issue the employer disputed was 'v… |
| 21-214 |
Shantubhai N. Shah v. Meier Enterprises, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 21-226 |
Libertarian Party of Ohio, et al. v. Don Michael Crites, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights election-law first-amendment political-parties public-office standing state-restriction |
Whether a state violates the First Amendment by barring members of small political parties from holding a public office |
| 21-230 |
William Herman Viehweg v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
attorney-conduct bordenkircher-v-hayes civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court disqualification due-process equal-protection judicial-impartiality legal-privilege pro-se-representation |
Whether separate attorneys' representing a defendant corporation and attorneys' representing a non-party key witness, mutual claim of a protective leg… |
| 21-277 |
Betty E. Smith, as Attorney-In-Fact for Paul C. Smith, Individually and on Behalf of the ERISA-Covered Plan v. HPR Clinic, LLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
daubert-standard district-court evidentiary-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-appointment methodology methodology-standards rule-706 |
Whether an expert appointed by agreement of the parties by a District Court under Federal Rule of Evidence 706 must employ methodology that is general… |
| 21-289 |
Randall Winslow v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts certificate-of-merit civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection legal-redress redress right-to-contract standing state-regulation |
Whether Pennsylvania Certificate of Merit Pa.Code Rule 1042.3 comports with equal-justice |
| 21-290 |
Joseph Chapo, et al. v. Jefferson County Plan Commission |
Indiana |
Denied |
|
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-oath constitutional-structure de-facto-officer due-process injunction jurisdiction standing state-law vacant-office |
Whether the de facto officer doctrine can be applied to individuals claiming to hold a vacant office of a political subdivision |
| 21-293 |
Vincent Alphonso Powell v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights due-process forcible-medication mental-health panel-decision precedent standing waiver-of-rights |
Did the State of Arizona, Superior Court, confront a set of facts that are materially indistinguishable from the decision of this honorable Court in t… |
| 21-294 |
Rukminesh Mehta v. Maggie Kuhl |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-review standing statutory-provisions |
Why is FISC involved in a child custody case in the first place? |
| 21-295 |
In Re America's Frontline Doctors, et al. |
|
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights due-process emergency-use-authorization genetic-vaccine informed-consent medical-rights natural-immunity scientific-consensus vaccine-mandate |
Whether the district court committed an abuse of discretion by neglecting to enforce federal law regarding emergency use authorization (EUA) products … |
| 21-300 |
In Re Joy Garner, et al. |
|
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-crisis due-process medical-experiment national-security public-health scientific-control-group standing standing-doctrine vaccine-injury vaccine-mandates |
Whether the district court committed clear and indisputable error by dismissing this national security case on standing grounds despite the petitioner… |
| 21-301 |
Mario Lamont Sims v. Bank of New York |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process first-amendment first-impression judicial-conduct judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-openness judicial-transparency judicial-tyranny |
Whether the conduct of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals was so outrageous that due process principles would absolutely bar the anonymous three judge p… |
| 21-306 |
Troy Seales v. California |
California |
Denied |
|
counsel-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-hearing ineffective-assistance right-to-be-present right-to-counsel trial-fairness |
Did the Supreme Court err in failing to rule that the exclusion of Petitioner and his counsel from an ex parte hearing violated Petitioner's rights to… |
| 21-308 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights court-record custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment |
Whether the willful refusal and/or failure of a court of record to maintain a complete record is a form of custody, depriving a litigant of due proces… |
| 21-330 |
Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act antitrust-patent appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split due-process federal-circuit local-circuit mandamus patent-infringement supervisory-mandamus usurpation-of-duty |
Which appeals court has the duty to issue supervisory writs of mandamus under the All Writs Act during a combined antitrust and patent infringement la… |
| 21-336 |
Shiyang Huang v. Brian F. Spector, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing civil-procedure class-action class-certification future-harm monetary-damages money-damages risk-of-harm supreme-court-precedent transunion-v-ramirez |
Whether class-action plaintiffs can still rely on mere 'risk of future harm' allegations alone to establish Article III standing, achieve class certif… |
| 21-337 |
George Berka v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
climate-change climate-emergency due-process energy-policy environmental-impact environmental-regulation grid-reliability infrastructure-renewal nuclear-power public-safety regulatory-oversight |
Should the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant be returned to service? |
| 21-343 |
Michelle J. Smith v. Nicholas French, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Martin D. French, Deceased |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-malice child-athletes defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment libel preemption public-figure sports-governance |
Whether the standard of proof in a State Defamation/Libel case arising from a parental complaint to a National Governing Body of Sport, should automat… |
| 21-346 |
Yvonne Reignat-Vodi v. Motor Vehicle Administration |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment administrative-law agency-records civil-rights dismissal driver-license due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process witnesses |
Did the courts follow the Procedural Due Process subject to the 14th Amendment due process protection? |
| 21-352 |
Jason Gonzales v. Michael J. Madigan, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-campaign electoral-misconduct first-amendment summary-judgment |
Do the protections of the First Amendment bar use of a candidate's unproven allegations of electoral misconduct during an election campaign as a basis… |
| 21-354 |
David Solomon v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in dismissing David Solomon's claims when uncontroverted evidence existed that he invoked federal jurisdiction first … |
| 21-356 |
Jermain V. Richards v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury mistrial perez-v-united-states richardson-v-united-states |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause bars a criminal defendant's retrial after the government has had a fair opportunity to prove its … |
| 21-362 |
Reuel Jacques Abale Gnalega v. United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights discovery due-process federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice standing statute-of-limitations summary-judgment va-hospital veterans-affairs |
Whether Appellate review of a grant of summary judgment was de novo |
| 21-368 |
Guy Patterson v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
non-discriminatory reason for an employment actio agency-employment-practices babb-v-wilkie civil-rights due-process federal-discrimination federal-employment federal-employment-discrimination job-related-tests non-discriminatory-reason professional-ability-standards title-vii |
Does an executive agency articulate a 'legitimate, non-discriminatory reason' for its employment action under the stricter standard applicable to the … |
| 21-394 |
D. F. Pace v. Emily Baker-White, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-speech new-york-times-sullivan standing technological-advances |
Whether the Court should revisit the 'actual malice' doctrine of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan |
| 21-398 |
Jesus Guerrero v. Diocese of Lubbock |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-sexual-abuse defamation first-amendment free-speech religious-organization secular-audience tort-liability |
Whether the First Amendment shields a religious organization from tort liability for defamatory statements made to a secular audience regarding the se… |
| 21-405 |
Emerald Home Care, Inc. v. Department of Unemployment Assistance |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech preemption speech-restriction supremacy-clause tax tax-law |
Whether assessing a tax but withholding notice of information fundamental and necessary for understanding the tax unless the taxpayer first executes a… |
| 21-419 |
Bob Lewis v. Google LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
47-usc-230 censorship civil-liability constitutionally-protected-speech first-amendment free-speech hate-speech packingham-v-north-carolina section-230 social-media |
Does this Court's holding in Packingham v. North Carolina override 47 U.S.C. § 230's civil liability indemnification for censorship of constitutionall… |
| 21-431 |
Grant Lloyd Greenwood v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of appellate counsel, and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, are violated |
| 21-440 |
Miguel Angel Santana v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
constitutional-integrity constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony government-misconduct immunity-agreements prosecutorial-misconduct witness-immunity |
Whether a government witness's uncorrected false testimony about immunity agreements violates due-process when the government informs defense-counsel … |
| 21-457 |
ENCO Systems, Inc. v. DaVincia, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea federal-circuit patent patent-claim patent-eligibility patent-protection patent-system section-101 |
What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is directed to a patent-ineligible concept when determining whether an inventi… |
| 21-464 |
Ohio, ex rel. Robert Merrill, Trustee, et al. v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, et al. |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure class-action constitutional-rights due-process notice property-rights settlement takings |
Whether the failure of a state court to provide individual notice to readily identifiable class members in a class action settlement of a case asserti… |
| 21-473 |
Daniel G. Szmania v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Bear Stearns Arm Trust 2007-3 |
Washington |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction removal-to-federal-court res-judicata service-of-process |
Did the Supreme Court of Washington err in not enforcing the civil court case removal to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1446(d)? |
| 21-492 |
Edeline Julmisse Prosper, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Junior Prosper v. Anthony Martin |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights excessive-force scott-v-harris section-1983 summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton use-of-force video-evidence |
Whether courts must implement the traditional summary judgment requirement to consider all evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmovant when … |
| 21-5039 |
Gavin Wayne Wright v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
co-conspirator-statements co-defendant criminal-conspiracy due-process entrapment false-statements federal-rules-of-evidence government-agent jury-instruction materiality testimony |
Was the quantum and character of this evidence in the record sufficient to entitle him to a jury instruction on entrapment? |
| 21-51 |
Central Payment Co., LLC v. Custom Hair Designs by Sandy, LLC, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification contract-interpretation contractual-rights-and-obligations federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure individualized-defenses rule-23 rules-enabling-act |
Whether a class may be certified under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure when the class claims turn on materially different contractual … |
| 21-5115 |
In Re Lisa A. Biron |
|
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process gatekeeping-mechanism habeas-corpus jurisdictional-duty notice-of-appeal standing threshold-function |
Whether a § 2255-Certificate of Appealability applicant must file a notice of appeal for the circuit court to obtain jurisdiction to consider the appl… |
| 21-5176 |
De'Undre Rashad Robert Turner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment federal-courts noncriminal-violation reasonable-suspicion seizure state-courts |
Whether a seizure can be initiated upon reasonable suspicion of a noncriminal violation |
| 21-5327 |
Mark Anthony Gonzalez v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure juror-substitution jury-deliberation jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure unanimous-verdict |
Whether a trial court's failure to instruct a reconstituted jury to deliberate anew after a juror substitution violates the Sixth Amendment right to a… |
| 21-5414 |
Johnny Tippins v. Anthony Immel, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process factual-dispute legal-standard motion-denial procedural-challenge standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 21-5423 |
Shaheen Cabbagestalk, aka James Cabbagestalk v. William Berley, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 21-5430 |
Percy Allen Stucks v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process florida-law judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal pre-trial-motion right-to-trial withdrawal-of-plea |
Does a Florida defendant have the right to withdraw plea before trial? |
| 21-5444 |
In Re Calvin James |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 21-5445 |
Henryk S. Borecki v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1983 1985 1986 airline-passenger civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process self-incrimination standing travel-identification |
Does the plaintiff's complaint, based on Sections 1983, 1985 and 1986 of the Civil Rights Acts, state a claim for relief against both or either of the… |
| 21-5454 |
In Re Samuel L. Quinn |
|
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus innocence-claim judicial-discretion procedural-technicality statute-of-limitations |
Do the court of Appeals abuse its discretion by refusing to recall mandate for miscarriage of justice, not acknowledging the guiding general principle… |
| 21-5465 |
Kent Glen Williams v. Alan Stewart, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection free-speech petition pro-se-litigant procedural-requirements section-1983 standing |
Whether Rule 3.2 of the Idaho Department of Correction violates the First, Fourteenth, and Petition Clauses of the U.S. Constitution |
| 21-5466 |
Roxman C. Castro v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process state-procedure statute-of-limitations |
whether extraordinary Circumstances exist te warrant equitable tolling when, through no fault of his oun, Petikoner mceived notica of his State habeas… |
| 21-5467 |
Michael Denton v. Ron Haynes, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure sentencing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability |
| 21-5471 |
Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Correct Care Recovery Solutions, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process liberty privileges-immunities pro-se-litigation property psychological-injury sexual-violent-predator state-sovereignty |
Does petitioner retain any rights, if so, what are they, and by what standard should they be judged? |
| 21-5482 |
Michael Deshon Matthews v. John Davids, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights court-costs due-process restitution right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial substitute-counsel |
Did trial court err in denying defendant's motion for substitute counsel? |
| 21-5483 |
David Lee Jackson, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation private-property takings |
Whether the government's seizure of private property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| 21-5487 |
Norman Michael Achin v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment impersonation law-enforcement-conduct privacy privacy-rights warrant-requirement |
Does intercepting private electronic messages and cell phone communications without a warrant by impersonating another adult or by impersonating an im… |
| 21-5493 |
Glen Plourde v. Jane Doe |
Maine |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 21-5495 |
José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts certiorari discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights |
Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Section 3(b)(3) and Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980) intentionally bar discretionary review for Petiti… |
| 21-5496 |
José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment petition-clause |
Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Section 3(b)(3) and Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980) intentionally bar discretionary review for Petiti… |
| 21-5497 |
José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-petition-clause fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights petition-clause pro-se-litigant |
Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Sections 3(b)(3), 3(b)(7), and 3(b)(8), Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980), and Grate v. State, 750 So. … |
| 21-5500 |
John Richard Smith v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal errored in denying petitioner's request for a (C.0.A.) claiming Petitioner failed to state a Constitutional vi… |
| 21-5506 |
Michael G. Peters v. Dinah Huffman, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech privacy standing takings |
Whether the right to informational privacy is protected by the Constitution |
| 21-5507 |
Michael Geoffrey Peters v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the court below erred in dismissing petitioner's claims |
| 21-5508 |
Marc Norfleet v. John R. Baldwin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-U.S.C.-3582 access-to-courts civil-rights compassionate-release due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing indigent-status prisoner-rights sanctions sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's imposition of a 2-year ban on Petitioner from filing any civil actions in the district court, and the denial of Petitione… |
| 21-5509 |
Luther McKiver v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent legal-interpretation precedent |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that misapplies the precedent of this Court and as a result, violates the Due Process Clause of the Fo… |
| 21-5510 |
Prayed v. Department of Labor, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-management labor-management-relations lmrda lmrda-interpretation procedural-due-process standing union-representation |
Has the Petitioner's substantive rights been abridged, a violation of 28-USC-2072(b), by the Court rules and procedures effecting encroachment of an A… |
| 21-5517 |
Lonzie Wayne McQuirter v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Dismissed |
IFP |
44th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process evidence-preservation fair-trial fourteenth-amendment innocence miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
whether-petitioner's-claims-should-be-heard-on-the-merits |
| 21-5522 |
Meghan Kelly v. Donald J. Trump |
Delaware |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure establishment-clause executive-order free-exercise-of-religion government-religion mootness religious-freedom-restoration-act ripeness service-of-process standing substitution-of-parties |
Whether failure to serve the brief was fatal error |
| 21-5535 |
Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Indiana |
Indiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process cronic due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Is the Indiana state appellate court's opinion that its trial court did not abuse its discretion when, over multiple objections, it permitted surprise… |
| 21-5536 |
Eddie Dewayne Lee v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus legal-library prison-access procedural-barriers |
Should a criminal defendant be afforded Equitable Tolling of the One Year Filing Deadline for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 USC 2254 when the priso… |
| 21-5539 |
James Takchuan Woo v. Colorado |
Colorado |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights continuance-request discovery-violation discovery-violations effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial harmless-error right-against-unlawful-search unlawful-search video-surveillance |
Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals erred in concluding that Woo's constitutional rights to effective-assistance-of-counsel, fair-trial, right-again… |
| 21-5542 |
Camilo Jose Arango Latorre v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico |
Puerto Rico |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rule discriminatory-act due-process fair-trial perjured-testimony reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Whether the nonretroactive application of the constitutional rule of Ramos v. Louisiana, in this case being substantive and/or discretionary for the s… |
| 21-5545 |
John Richardson v. Mobile Sheriff's Department |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-justice due-process government-accountability police-brutality systemic-issues |
Question not identified |
| 21-5546 |
Fernando Rodriguez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest counsel-switching due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-ethics state-court state-legislature |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in deferring to the state court's ruling that Mr. Rodriguez was not prejudiced by his counsel switching sides in the s… |
| 21-5547 |
Yimoe Siddha v. Donald B. Sealing, II, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus standing |
Does Petitioner's conviction violate his constitutional rights? |
| 21-5549 |
William D. Lauga v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-federalism privilege-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities procedural-bar racial-discrimination sixth-amendment |
Is the state of Louisiana violating the due process clause of the Sixth Amendment by not addressing claims raised by petitioner on a law that is based… |
| 21-5550 |
Darrel Welch v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-fines incorporation takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states |
| 21-5551 |
Floyd Flugence v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process intent jury-evidence louisiana second-degree-murder specific-intent sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the evidence was sufficient to support the finding of guilt in accordance with La. B.S. 14:30.1 (Second Degree Murder) where there was no spec… |
| 21-5552 |
Brian Green v. Clinton Perry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment warrantless-search warrantless-search-and-seizure |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that no constitutional violations in Green's trial |
| 21-5556 |
Bret Davis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-bias media-influence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment unbiased-jury |
Were my Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair trial by an unbiased jury and due process of the law violated? |
| 21-5558 |
William Paul Langrum, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitations appeal criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investigation pre-trial-investigation presumption-of-prejudice statute-of-limitations strickland-standard |
whether-the-facts-supporting-the-first-and-fourth-grounds-became-or-could-have-become-known-prior-to-the-date-on-which-the-conviction-became-final |
| 21-5562 |
Richard C. Curran v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment case-reassignment due-process equal-protection government-interference judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal reassignment recusal |
Did President Judge William Harvey Wiest abuse his authority by recusing the entire Northumberland County Court of Common Pleas from hearing any of my… |
| 21-5567 |
Damond Dean v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
corroborating-evidence criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance reasonable-investigation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington therapist-testimony trial-counsel witness-credibility |
Question not identified |
| 21-5573 |
Richard M. Miller v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-appeal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review post-conviction standing writ-of-certiorari |
Did The Intermediate Appellate Court Of Special Appeals Of Maryland Err When Denying Petitioner His Absolute Constitutional Right To An Appeal Or Bela… |
| 21-5576 |
Victor Shawn Brown v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Whether prosecutors can attack the credibility of the petitioner's witnesses by calling them 'liars' when the state's own witnesses lack credibility |
| 21-5578 |
Guy Don Minze v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-facts jurisdiction notice penal-code prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vindictiveness standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence tex-r-app-p |
Did the Court of Appeals err in failing to base its Opinion on the evidentiary and adjudicated facts in the record |
| 21-5579 |
Emmanuel Perez v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-rule evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined judicial-interpretation standard-of-review |
Whether the 'inextricably intertwined' standard is a proper exception to Fed.R.Evid. 404(b) |
| 21-5580 |
Marion Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-question judicial-proceedings judicial-review standing supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions… |
| 21-5581 |
Raoul Lafond v. Richard S. Glaser, Jr., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 21-5591 |
Veretta Burnett v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment freedom geographical-profiling justice law-enforcement liberty section-242 standing |
Whether the plaintiff's constitutional and statutory rights were violated when the FBI and City of Highland Park failed to pay the plaintiff for geogr… |
| 21-5593 |
Dennis Akaazua v. Walker Novack Legal Group, LLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court equitable-relief equitable-tolling filing-deadline postal-delivery postal-service pro-se timeliness weather-conditions winter-conditions |
Whether the U.S. District Court could equitably rule that the Petitioner's reply brief was untimely despite postal delivery suspension due to extreme … |
| 21-5602 |
Charles E. Garza, Jr. v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause residence search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant warrant-scope |
Whether petitioner had expectation of privacy in parked vehicle |
| 21-5618 |
Jesus Manuel Moran v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arizona-judicial-system certificate-of-appealability coa-issuance federal-claims human-rights inter-american-commission judicial-system state-court-review state-courts |
Whether the court erred in not issuing a COA when the state courts were deprived of their primary responsibility to decide on the petitioner's federal… |
| 21-5622 |
Michael C. Sullivan v. Karen Carrington, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure fifth-amendment forest-service government-liability judicial-canon judicial-conduct takings |
Whether the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation |
| 21-5635 |
Jamail D. Hairston v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error miranda-rights miscarriage-of-justice police-testimony right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the appeals court err in holding that no substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice resulted from officer Pagan's erroneous testimony about Hair… |
| 21-5643 |
Kaon-Jabbar East El v. United Parcel Service, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination judicial-bias judicial-ethics race-classification religious-accommodation religious-discrimination standing title-vii |
Can an employer justify zero accountability for wrongful employee discrimination with a federal policy or statute, as a loophole to pressure an employ… |
| 21-5665 |
Ramon Jauregui-Garcia v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 21-5669 |
Thomas Woods v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment adversarial-system compelled-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury racial-disparities self-incrimination |
Where a target of a grand jury investigation is compelled under threat of the pains and penalties of the law to appear to testify at the grand jury an… |
| 21-5672 |
Wayne C. Doty v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing due-process jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona |
Whether the Due Process Clause and right to a jury trial require additional determinations under Florida's capital sentencing scheme to be made beyond… |
| 21-5683 |
Jerome McBride v. Jeff Nines, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-supremacy criminal-procedure due-process federalism habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief separation-of-powers standing |
Did the State Division and the Federal-Nutsion unconstitutionally convict, deprive, or breach the Effective Executive (Maryland Statute/U.S. Constitut… |
| 21-5684 |
Zaire Paige v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-confrontation constitutional-rights courtroom-presence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illinois-v-allen judicial-discretion second-circuit trial-rights |
Whether petitioner was denied his constitutional right to be present at his trial |
| 21-57 |
Levi Frasier v. Christopher L. Evans, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-conduct police-recording public-conduct qualified-immunity |
Whether training or law enforcement policies can be relevant to whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity |
| 21-5710 |
Charles L. Fieldgrove v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant's initial habeas corpus action to determine the validity of the statutes under which they were convicted and sentenced is… |
| 21-5715 |
Ronald George Whitehouse v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof co-defendant criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process fifth-circuit probation-officer reversible-error sentencing |
Whether the district court committed reversible error in holding the petitioner responsible for 10 kilos of methamphetamine based on the probation off… |
| 21-5735 |
Juan Manuel Lira-Salinas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fifth-circuit sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Process … |
| 21-5737 |
Elizabeth Maya v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equity equity-principle fair-trial legal-proceedings takings |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses have been violated |
| 21-5751 |
Charles Elmer Kovary v. Willis Chapman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi-witness constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief trial-counsel witness-testimony |
Was Appellate Counsel Ineffective for Failing to Raise Certain Claims? |
| 21-5752 |
Ivan Alexandrovich Vetcher v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-court civil-rights controlled-substances court-access-rights deportation-challenge dismissal-with-prejudice due-process immigration immigration-law pleadings pro-se pro-se-pleading |
Whether the district court and court of appeals properly applied the requirements for pleadings as applied in most circuits |
| 21-5786 |
Jerry R. Tippett v. John Myrick, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-and-prejudice free-standing-constitutional-claim habeas ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan trial-counsel |
Whether Martinez v. Ryan may be utilized to excuse the default of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim in § 2254 habeas proceedings |
| 21-5790 |
Patricia Ann Brown v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process felony-definition life-imprisonment sentencing-enhancement state-statute vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a state statute, providing for an enhanced punishment (life imprisonment) for one convicted of a 'crime of violence,' unconstitutionally vague, whe… |
| 21-5817 |
James E. Pearson v. Bridget Hill, Attorney General of Wyoming |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-uscs-2254 constitutional-standards federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel malloy-v-hogan miller-el-v-cockrell state-court-procedure supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers |
Does the reasoning within Malloy v Hogan require specifically apply to claims of insufficiency or ineffective counsel, and were the federal habeas rev… |
| 21-5821 |
In Re Eduardo Pineda |
|
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process liberty liberty-interest marijuana-regulation police-power strict-scrutiny |
Does the constitutional right to 'liberty' as contained in the due process clause still mean freedom from physical restraint by government police powe… |
| 21-5836 |
Christopher Wilson v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights due-process expert-witness fraud |
Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court and the Mississippi Court of Appeals erred in denying Christopher Wilson's motion to vacate his conviction and s… |
| 21-5853 |
Noah Gaston v. Maine |
Maine |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment general-intent intent mens-rea murder murder-statute specific-intent |
Does Maine's murder statute violate the Fourteenth Amendment because it does not require the state to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Noah Gaston… |
| 21-5856 |
Raymond LeQuan Gibbs v. Neil McDowell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias confrontation-clause credibility criminal-trial cross-examination informant-testimony informant-witness sixth-amendment witness-credibility |
Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause was violated when the defendant was prevented from cross-examining an informant witness on topics i… |
| 21-5920 |
In Re Jason Brooks |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-vagueness due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction securities-act suspension-clause vagueness |
Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence can overcome AEDPA's gatekeeping provisions and/or whether a prisoner may be entitled to federal habe… |
| 21-5924 |
In Re Jose Victor Hernandez-Cuellar |
|
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment immigrant-status immigration judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Does a immigrant in the United States of America, whether here legally with visa or illegally, receive Constitutionally guaranteed Rights? |
| 21-5927 |
In Re Lindsey Orr |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-authorization detention-authority due-process federal-law first-time-offender legislative-intent patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Did the Thomas Act have legislative authorization to generate by means of implementation their holding that stashing FAZCO's towards first time offend… |
| 21-5934 |
Charles Ivan Branham v. Montana, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 direct-appeal direct-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus montana-supreme-court sentence-review statute-of-limitations |
Whether proceedings of the Sentence Review Division of the Montana Supreme Court are part of the 'direct review' process under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(… |
| 21-5948 |
In Re Henryk S. Borecki |
|
Denied |
IFP |
citizen-privilege civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-travel due-process freedom-of-movement habeas-corpus jury-trial standard-of-review supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the final and conclusive determination of the right of a United States citizen to his unfettered privilege of domestic travel shall be determi… |
| 21-7 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Leymis Carolina Velasquez, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
adjustment-of-status administrative-law admission-criteria immigration immigration-law lawful-permanent-resident permanent-residency statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status |
Whether a grant of temporary protected status must be treated as an admission into the United States for purposes of a foreign national's application … |
| 21-80 |
Outdoor Amusement Business Association, Inc., et al. v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-law clear-statement-rule h-2b-visa immigration-law labor-certification legislative-rulemaking nondelegation-doctrine |
Whether Congress impliedly authorized the Secretary of Labor to promulgate legislative rules for the admission of H-2B workers and adjudicate H-2B lab… |
| 21A41 |
Regina Heisler v. Girod LoanCo, LLC, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M32 |
Jerome D. Lee, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M33 |
Antoine L. Johnson v. R. C. Schaefer, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M34 |
Dolores Lloyd v. Presby's Inspired Life, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M35 |
Antonio Rene Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M36 |
Anton Purisima v. Arlington County, Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M37 |
Zachariah Brian Wright v. Indiana |
Indiana |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M38 |
Michael Blas Rivera v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|