| 20-1410 |
Xiulu Ruan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (5) |
controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-liability good-faith-defense medical-ethics medical-prescribing prescription professional-practice statutory-interpretation |
Whether a physician alleged to have prescribed controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice may be convicted under Section … |
| 20-1641 |
Marietta Memorial Hospital Employee Health Benefit Plan, et al. v. DaVita Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
dialysis-treatment dialysis-treatments end-stage-renal-disease group-health-plan medicare-benefits medicare-eligibility medicare-secondary-payer medicare-secondary-payer-act non-discrimination uniform-reimbursement |
Whether a group health plan that provides uniform reimbursement of all dialysis treatments observes the Medicare Secondary Payer Act's prohibition on … |
| 20-1648 |
James H. Fischer v. Sandra F. Forrest, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split copyright copyright-management-information digital-millennium-copyright-act licensing plain-text-interpretation |
Whether the name of the author or copyright owner of a copyrighted work is copyright-management-information |
| 20-1700 |
Ultratec, Inc. v. CaptionCall, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
5th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-rule-36 inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-validity retroactivity |
Does retroactive application of the inter partes review process violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitutio… |
| 20-1822 |
Amber Brooks, et al. v. Mentor Worldwide LLC |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
|
adverse-events defective-manufacture failure-to-warn food-drug-cosmetic-act medical-device-amendments medical-device-manufacturing preemption rule-12(b)(6) state-common-law |
Whether preemption under the Medical Device Amendments supports dismissal of state common law claims alleging failure to warn and defective manufactur… |
| 20-1828 |
Fernando Munoz-Rivera v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
None |
|
| 20-7001 |
Aaron J. Bressi v. Jeffrey Brennen, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
amendment civil-procedure due-process federal-rules free-speech judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss pleading pleading-standards standing |
How does this Amended Complaint not comply with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure? |
| 20-8053 |
William Leroy Sanders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act iowa-interference-with-official-acts johnson-precedent mathis-analysis mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-overbreadth violent-felony |
Whether Mr. Sanders was improperly denied 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief from his fifteen-year Armed Career Criminal Sentence |
| 20-8057 |
Raymond Idemudia Aigbekaen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
border-search civil-rights electronic-devices electronic-privacy forensic-examination fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion warrantless-search |
Whether a warrantless forensic search at a border by agent of the United States of electronic cell phones and computers, lacking a reasonable suspicio… |
| 20-8205 |
In Re John L. McKenzie |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-evidence habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice perjury prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether Petitioner is illegally confined due to fabricated evidence and false testimony |
| 20-8275 |
Paul Xavier Espinoza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actus-reus circuit-split criminal-law hobbs-act plain-language robbery robbery-definition statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force |
Whether the Circuits have interpreted the actus reus of Hobbs Act robbery too narrowly and against its plain language by requiring violent physical fo… |
| 20-8286 |
Kemon Dominique Thompson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach constitutional-error crime-of-violence guilty-plea hobbs-act-robbery jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether Mr. Thompson's plea of guilty was voluntary, knowing, and intelligent |
| 21-134 |
Jesus Vasquez, Jr., et ux. v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee of Stanwich Mortgage Trust F |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-code debtor-rights dewsnup-v-timm judicial-precedent lien lien-valuation secured-claim secured-claims statutory-interpretation unsecured-claim |
Whether Dewsnup v. Timm, 502 U.S. 410 (1992), should be overruled |
| 21-136 |
Melanie Pelcha v. Watch Hill Bank |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
adea age-discrimination but-for-causation but-for-test causal-standard causation employment employment-law summary-judgment workplace-termination |
Does the ADEA require proving age was the sole reason for termination? |
| 21-147 |
Erik Egbert v. Robert Boule |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (21)Relisted (2) |
bivens bivens-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-damages federal-officer-liability first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation fourth-amendment immigration immigration-enforcement reconsider-bivens |
Whether a Bivens cause of action exists for First Amendment retaliation |
| 21-305 |
Angela DeBose v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees |
Florida |
Denied |
|
agency-records constitutional-access exemptions fee-waiver foia foia-exemptions freedom-of-information privileges-and-immunities public-information public-records |
Whether agency records are exempt from FOIA disclosure |
| 21-33 |
Máxima Acuña-Atalaya, et al. v. Newmont Mining Corporation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
adequate-forum comity corruption forum-non-conveniens home-forum personal-jurisdiction |
Does the forum non conveniens doctrine permit dismissal from a defendant's presumptively fair and convenient home forum when the adequacy of the forei… |
| 21-333 |
Amro Elansari v. Maite Ragazzo, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection medical-marijuana pennsylvania standing state-law |
Does 14th Amendment Equal Protection apply to Medical Marijuana Card Holders in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania? |
| 21-341 |
William J. Cost, et al. v. Borough of Dickson City, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment 911-call civil-rights domestic-disturbance due-process emergency-assistance exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrantless-entry |
Whether the court of appeals erred when it held exigent circumstances existed based solely on a 911 call about a domestic disturbance from a disgruntl… |
| 21-355 |
In Re Larry Klayman |
|
Denied |
|
bar-admission bar-discipline client-interests constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice disciplinary-proceeding due-process legal-ethics presumption-of-innocence right-to-counsel |
Did the Eleventh Circuit err in denying admission pending a disciplinary proceeding, presuming guilt and harming client interests? |
| 21-358 |
Melvin Keakaku Amina, et ux. v. U.S. Bank National Association |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
annexation-legality armed-invasion citizenship-status diversity-jurisdiction executive-agreement hawaii-statehood hawaiian-independence international-law queen-liliuokalani self-determination sovereignty-dispute statehood-process |
Does the State of Hawai'i lack legal existence? |
| 21-361 |
Guangcun Huang v. Tim Hui-Ming Huang, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
academic-freedom eleventh-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing state-immunity title-vi title-vii |
Whether SCOTUS decisions on Eleventh Amendment, Title VII, Title VI, First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, standing, Texas Tort Claims Act, and acade… |
| 21-384 |
Moreh J. Buchanan v. Sony Music Entertainment Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access access-evidence copyright-infringement demonstration-songs dissemination entertainment-lawyer intellectual-property music-industry unauthorized-copying will-smith |
Whether the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's copyright-infringement claims |
| 21-393 |
Sanford A. Mohr, et ux., Individually and as Co-Trustees of Their October 15, 1996 Unrecorded Revocable Trust v. MLB, SUB I, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure hawaii-law quiet-title summary-judgment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii denied Petitioners Mohrs' Constitutional ri… |
| 21-426 |
Elias Karkalas v. Linda Marks, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure dismissal federal-complaint federal-rules-of-civil-procedure personal-knowledge pleading pleading-standard source-of-knowledge standing |
Is a federal complaint subject to dismissal when the plaintiff fails to identify the source of his knowledge of specific information contained in the … |
| 21-430 |
Luke T. West v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-estoppel court-martial due-process federal-claims first-amendment judicial-review military-justice privacy-act statutory-construction united-states-constitution |
As a matter of statutory construction and application, is petitioner entitled to the exercise of the authority of the United States Federal Court of C… |
| 21-491 |
William T. Schmitt, et al. v. Craig M. Stephens, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights co-defendant due-process final-judgment preclusion preclusive-effect res-judicata |
Whether the successful appeal of a final judgment by a 'closely interwoven' co-defendant equitably relieves a non-appealing defendant of the preclusiv… |
| 21-504 |
Joshua Eric Hawk Clark, aka Joshua Clark v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment judicial-reliability murder-conviction scientific-evidence scientific-reliability second-degree-murder shaken-baby-syndrome |
Does the Due Process Clause prohibit a conviction based on unreliable expert testimony? |
| 21-510 |
PDVSA US Litigation Trust v. Lukoil Pan Americas, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
and raised in the appellate briefing to such an e appellate-procedure appellate-review argument-abandonment civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court issue-preservation judicial-review legal-briefing merits-determination waiver |
Whether a court of appeals may deem an argument to have been abandoned when it was properly raised and fully briefed in the district court, and raised… |
| 21-5261 |
Shakeel Kahn v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substances-act disjunctive-conjunctive good-faith-defense legitimate-medical-purpose mens-rea usual-course-professional-practice |
where-government-prosecutes-medical-practitioner-controlled-substances-act |
| 21-542 |
Michael Zito, et ux. v. North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment due-process federal-claims federal-takings-claims fourteenth-amendment just-compensation just-compensation-clause sovereign-immunity state-immunity state-sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's incorporation of the 'self-executing' Just Compensation Clause abrogates state sovereign immunity from federal taki… |
| 21-5587 |
Calvin Jarrod Hester v. Folashade Ituah |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-conflict motion-to-amend standing |
Whether the lower court erred and abused its discretion in dismissing the deprivation of constitutional rights and civil rights violations claim |
| 21-5588 |
Ivan Goodlaw v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination standing takings |
Question not identified |
| 21-5590 |
Ray Scott Heid v. Algenon L. Marbley, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process pleading standing |
Was petitioner denied due process by the district court when his complaint was dismissed for failure to state a claim |
| 21-5596 |
Carl William Frazier v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment criminal-negligence due-process involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions knife-assault lesser-included-offense self-defense sua-sponte-instruction |
Whether a defendant's use of a knife for the purpose of unreasonable self-defense can support a jury instruction on the lesser-included offense of inv… |
| 21-5619 |
Jaime Luevano v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Due Process Clause to the petitioner's claims |
| 21-5646 |
Peter Klah v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights digital-contacts due-process ineffective-counsel jurisdiction-analysis online-interactions personal-jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel standing |
Whether the trial court erred in denying the motion to suppress evidence |
| 21-5652 |
Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-procedure civil-petition civil-rights constitutional-challenge contempt due-process fraud fraud-on-court in-forma-pauperis judicial-misconduct judicial-misrepresentation standing |
Whether effective limitations on government power can define fraud on the court and criminal contempt in judicial misrepresentation of citizens' civil… |
| 21-5656 |
Omar Cebrero v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction due-process felony-murder jackson-v-virginia jury-finding major-participant special-circumstance sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the state court's determination that there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's special circumstance finding that Petitioner was a 'm… |
| 21-5658 |
Elias G. Montalvo v. Isidro Baca, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-search criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-instructions lesser-included-offense motion-to-suppress open-murder voluntary-manslaughter |
Did the trial court commit reversible error by failing to instruct the jury on Voluntary Manslaughter as a lesser-included offense of Open Murder? |
| 21-5663 |
Justin Michael Rossi v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation declaration-of-independence declaratory-relief due-process executive-power government-formation international-law pro-se-petition revolution sovereign-immunity sovereignty |
Whether United States citizens have the right, duty, and privilege to alter, abolish, and form a new government |
| 21-5676 |
Patsy Naomi Sakuma v. Association of Condominium Homeowners of Tropics at Waikele, et al. |
Hawaii |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process equal-protection foreclosure foreclosure-proceeding jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge mootness |
Whether the Intermediate Court of Appeals improperly applied mootness and the collateral order doctrine |
| 21-5705 |
Lazaro Fernandez v. Jonathan W. Blodgett |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence forensic-analysis post-conviction-relief saliva |
Whether it was error for the Court of Appeals to uphold the District Court in denying to order testing of the biology found at the crime scene, the al… |
| 21-5724 |
Devin Lee Rintye v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel miller-v-alabama mitigating-evidence sentencing youth youth-mitigation |
Does a State Court violate a defendant's due process rights, contrary to Apprendi v. New Jersey and Miller v. Alabama, when the court does not afford … |
| 21-5729 |
Frank R. Stevenson v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-court-appeals writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Whether the New York Court of Appeals precedential case, on confrontation violation claims, is contrary to clearly established federal law |
| 21-5743 |
Rafael Fernandez Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant civil-rights statutes and constitutional provisions |
| 21-5747 |
Juan Carlos Osorto v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history due-process equal-protection federal-agencies immigration-law noncitizen-rights noncitizens sentencing-guidelines |
Whether USSG § 2L1.2(b)(3) is unconstitutional |
| 21-5748 |
Kyle Evan Peterson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule knowledge-element plea-bargaining plea-colloquy post-hoc-warrant united-states-v-x-citement-video |
Whether the district judge must explain the knowledge element in a child pornography plea colloquy |
| 21-5749 |
Krishna Mote v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure injury-in-fact jurisdiction standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the test for standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution |
| 21-5757 |
Calvin Tinsley v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 abuse-of-discretion civil-rights denial district-court due-process |
Did the court err in denying petitioner's claim under 42 U.S.C. Code §1983 that the district court abused its discretion in the order of denial? |
| 21-5758 |
Bobby Martin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law harmless-error statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) that was obtained in reliance on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause may be sustained bas… |
| 21-5766 |
Dionte Dortch v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment criminal-procedure deportation due-process firearm immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining rico-statute simple-possession |
Whether the Due Process Clause and the 5th Amendment protects the accused from a plea of guilty to material facts of simple possession of cocaine and … |
| 21-5767 |
James Felton v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process implicit-bias jury-impartiality jury-selection racial-bias racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Does our society's evolving understanding of the impact of implicit bias on jury behavior justify overturning the 'substantial circumstances' test |
| 21-5768 |
Jeffrey William Forget v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
drug-interdiction fourth-amendment inventory-search k-9-unit passenger-seat-belt traffic-stop warrantless-search |
Whether the traffic stop was unlawfully extended |
| 21-5769 |
Joseph R. Dickey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2244(b) 2255 60(b) actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation federal-prisoners habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation |
Has the 11th Circuit constructed a legal framework that acts as a de facto suspension of habeas corpus? |
| 21-5770 |
Arthur Perrault v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
403-balancing-test due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence jury-unanimity sexual-misconduct |
Does the uncertainty engendered by the lack of uniform application of Federal Rules of Evidence 413/414 and the 403 balancing test permit district cou… |
| 21-5771 |
Sirshun Dontrell Burris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions |
Whether officers' search of a defendant's house without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 21-5772 |
Charles Eason v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court armed-career-criminal-act chemical constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure drug-classification drug-manufacturing remand sentencing-enhancement serious-drug statutory-interpretation |
When the Appellate Court of a chemical that 'could' be used to manufacture a 'serious drug' is remand required? |
| 21-5774 |
Joseph Hilton Dierks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct habeas-corpus |
Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the lower court denied his request for an evidentiary hearing to present evidence that … |
| 21-5775 |
Peter George Noe, aka Ghost v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion for post-conviction relief under 28 U.S.C. 2255 |
| 21-5776 |
Bobby John Kobito v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process federal-crime sentencing-guidelines silencer silencer-possession terrorism terrorism-enhancement trial-court-discretion |
Whether the trial court erred in finding that the defendant's possession of a silencer was intended to promote a federal crime of terrorism, pursuant … |
| 21-5782 |
Cenobio Humberto Herrera, Sr., aka Bert Herrera, aka Cenobio Herrera Lanz, aka Cenobio Humberto Lanz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure custodial-status district-court methamphetamine methamphetamine-production ninth-circuit pseudoephedrine section-3553a sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to vacate the district court's order based on clearly erroneous facts? |
| 21-5784 |
Joe Vonzo Readon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
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's Due Process Clause |
| 21-5789 |
KT Burgee, aka Kape Teal Burgee v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-classification federal-offense minor minor-protection residual-clause sex-offender-registration sex-offense sorna statutory-interpretation |
Should courts apply the categorical approach to determine if a prior conviction qualifies as a sex offense under the SORNA residual clause in 34 U.S.C… |
| 21-5792 |
Karl Roye v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-amendment-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing |
Whether the Second Circuit erred, in violation of the Eighth Amendment, when it concluded that Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012) condoned the imp… |
| 21-5797 |
George Verkler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct plea-agreement presumption-of-innocence right-to-appeal right-to-counsel sentencing |
Does the presumption of innocence and due process mean that if a judge will not read what a defendant in a criminal case submits to the court, or if t… |
| 21-5798 |
Willie Israel Navarette v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence evidence-law impeachment suppression-hearing trial-testimony |
Whether testimony from a suppression hearing may be used for impeachment purposes if a defendant testifies at trial |
| 21-5801 |
Carlos Benitez Penalosa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error |
Did the Ninth Circuit err when it failed to find that a sentencing error can amount to a 'miscarriage of justice' allowing appellate review even if th… |
| 21-5802 |
David A. Bridgewater v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brooklyn-savings-bank compassionate-release contractual-principle department-of-justice first-step-act plea-agreement public-interest statutory-right statutory-waiver |
Does the rule of United States v. Mezzanatto preclude application of the contractual principle expressed in Brooklyn Savings Bank v. O'Neil? |
| 21-5803 |
Joseph Wayne Attaway, II v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-gang due-process fair-trial inflammatory-inference law-enforcement prejudice street-gangs witness-testimony |
Whether Petitioner was denied his due process right to a fair trial |
| 21-5824 |
Mary Jill Allgeyer v. City of Cincinnati, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination magistrate-review prima-facie protected-class reverse-discrimination standing title-vii wage-disparity |
Reverse-discrimination |
| 21-5831 |
Damion Glenroy Vando Davis v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 21-5837 |
Carlos Amezcua v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-molestation corpus-delicti due-process insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia state-court-decision |
Can appellant be convicted of three charges of child molestation when the testimony received in trial was totally and materially different than the th… |
| 21-5839 |
Antonio Darnell Mays v. Tracy Johnson |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule false-documents false-evidence false-statements fourth-amendment fundamental-question probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals made its decisions on the basis of false statements, documents, and evidence, and whether the petitioner wa… |
| 21-5841 |
Rafiq Sabir v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arabic-language-expert brady-claim brady-v-maryland district-court-discretion exculpatory-evidence factual-dispute government-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-amend rule-33 |
Could-reasonable-jurists-debate-whether-the-district-court-abused-its-discretion |
| 21-5929 |
Jean Lynn Lillie v. Iowa |
Iowa |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech jury-trial repeat-offender sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing takings |
Can a state violate the Constitution of the United States and arbitrarily trample on the constitutional rights of individual innocent American citizen… |
| 21-5965 |
In Re Jennifer L. Kammerer |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination disciplinary-program disparate-treatment equal-protection license-revocation mental-illness professional-license professional-licensing |
Does it violate the Americans with Disabilities Act to punish an individual for being mentally ill by summarily revoking their professional license an… |
| 21-5971 |
Adrian Torres v. Warren Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-trial cumulative-error doyle-error due-process evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct ptsd right-to-present-defense |
Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to investigate and present a PTSD expert; whether the prosecutor committed misconduct… |
| 21-5998 |
In Re Anthony Terry |
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Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-precedent circuit-split criminal-procedure elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Borden's substantive interpretation of statute should be extended to Terry in light of the fact that Eleventh Circuit precedent prevents him f… |
| 21-82 |
Alpine Securities Corporation v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law agency-authority bank-secrecy-act enforcement-authority mens-rea sec-enforcement securities-and-exchange-commission securities-exchange-act statutory-interpretation treasury-department |
Does the SEC have independent authority to interpret and enforce the Bank Secrecy Act? |
| 21A29 |
Elizabeth Harding Weinstein v. Robert J. Miller, Judge, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
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None |
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| 21M39 |
Frank L. Amodeo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
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None |
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