Conference: 2021-11-05
82 cases — 0 granted, 82 denied/dismissed, 0 pending
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1. Whether a cause of action exists under Bivens for First Amendment retaliation claims. 2. Whether a cause of action exists under Bivens for claims … | 32.0 |
| 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 | A physician otherwise authorized to prescribe controlled substances may be convicted of unlawful distribution under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) if his presc… | 20.5 |
| 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 | (1) Congress enacted the Medicare Secondary Payer Act as a means to conserve Medicare resources. Among other things, the Act provides that group healt… | 18.5 |
| 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 | In enacting and amending the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Congress vested the Secretary of the Treasury with the authority to administer, interpret, and en… | 12.5 |
| 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 | The Digital Millennium Copyright Act protect s the integrity of copyright management information ("CMI"), a defined term. 17 U.S.C. § 1202(c). Section… | 12.0 |
| 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 | The forum non conveniens ("FNC") doctrine only allows a court to dismiss a case to a more convenient forum if that forum is fair and adequate. Piper A… | 11.0 |
| 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 | 1. Does retroactive application of the inter partes review process violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitu… | 9.0 |
| 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… | 8.5 |
| 20-1828 | Fernando Munoz-Rivera v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Amici (1) | None | 6.5 | |
| 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 | The question presented is whether preemption under the Medical Device Amendments to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act supports Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal … | 5.5 | |
| 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 | Section 506(a)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code states that "[a]n allowed claim of a creditor secured by a lien * * * is a secured claim to the extent of the… | 5.5 | |
| 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 | 1. Does the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) require the plaintiff to prove that age was the sole reason for her termination? 2. Is the em… | 5.5 | |
| 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 | 1. Whether the agency records at issue in this case are exempt from disclosure under any of the nine exemptions under the FOIA. 2. Whether non-exempt… | 5.5 | |
| 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… | 5.5 | |
| 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 | 1. Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ("Eleventh Circuit") err by denying Larry Klayman, Esq. ("Mr. Klayman") admission pending th… | 5.5 | ||
| 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 | 1. Does the State of Hawaii lack legal existence because of illegalities in Hawaii 's statehood process? (including the removal of Queen Lili 'uokala… | 5.5 | |
| 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 | 1. Whether this Court's decisions interpreting the Eleventh Amendment, see e.g. Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer; Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corp. v. Feeney, ba… | 5.5 | |
| 21A29 | Elizabeth Harding Weinstein v. Robert J. Miller, Judge, et al. | Second Circuit | Denied | None | 5.5 | ||
| 21M39 | Frank L. Amodeo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | None | 5.5 | ||
| 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 | By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The plai… | 4.0 |
| 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 | 1. Does 14th Amendment Equal Protection apply to Medical Marijuana Card Holders in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania? (Suggested Answer Yes) | 3.5 |
| 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 | Petitioner is a songwriter, music publisher, singer /rapper, artist/composer that wrote, produced and recorded 5 in particular original demo/demonstra… | 3.5 |
| 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… | 3.5 |
| 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 … | 3.5 |
| 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 | 1) As a matter of statutory construction and application, is petitioner entitled to the exercise of the authority of the United States Federal Court o… | 3.5 |
| 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 | 1. Whether the successful appeal of a final judgment by a "closely interwoven" co-defendant equitably relieves a non-appealing defendant of the preclu… | 3.5 |
| 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 of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit a State from convicting a person of murder based almost exclusively on an expert opin… | 3.5 |
| 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… | 3.5 |
| 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 | 1. Where the government prosecutes a medical practitioner under the Controlled Substances Act for issuing a prescription outside "the usual course of … | 1.0 |
| 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, pursuant to United States v. J… | -1.0 |
| 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 | 1. Whether Mr. Thompson's plea of guilty to brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence was voluntary, knowing, and intelligent, where… | -1.0 |
| 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 invalidated in Unit… | -1.5 |
| 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 | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to vacate the district court's order because the court based its analysis on two clearly erroneous facts—the a… | -1.5 |
| 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 when the background testimony of multiple law enforcement witnesses about their an… | -1.5 |
| 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 | I. Did Trial Counsel Render Ineffective Assistance by Failing to Investigate and Present a PTSD Expert?; Was an Evidentiary Hearing Was Required? II.… | -1.5 |
| 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 where confinement is due solely to the irrefutable fact that police fabricated the only evidence used to conv… | -4.0 | |
| 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 | 1. Whether Or Not The Lower Court Erred And Abused Its Discretion In Dismissing The Deprivation Of His Constitutional Right And Civil Rights Violation… | -4.5 |
| 21-5588 | Ivan Goodlaw v. California | California | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination standing takings | grocde and complering 9th pychicti problens efc deennt c a firtil? admenti nonitionh b | -4.5 |
| 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 | 1. Was Petitioner denied due process by the district court when his complaint was dismissed as a failure to state a claim? 2. Was Petitioner denied d… | -4.5 |
| 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 | In a murder case, may a defendant's inherently assaultive felonious conduct - ie, the use of a knife for the purpose of unreasonagle self-defense - af… | -4.5 |
| 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 | Question not identified. | -4.5 |
| 21-5998 | In Re Anthony Terry | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-precedent circuit-split criminal-procedure elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | In a previous holding (Borden v United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817 (2021)), this Court determined that a mens rea element of "knowing and purposeful" is re… | -4.5 | |
| 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… | -5.5 |
| 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 | 1. How does this Amended Complaint not 2. How does this Amended Complaint not be granted pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(2) which freely gives the … | -6.0 |
| 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 | Trial Court Erred in Denyng motion to Suppress hear case Prosecutor's comments During his opening statement nAhmeony he Co Deat Hoe Asserted his Seven… | -6.5 |
| 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 | 1. In Limited Government terms, when are effective limitations so tangible as to define Fraud on the Court and Criminal Contempt in terms of judicial … | -6.5 |
| 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… | -6.5 |
| 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 | Question not identified. | -6.5 |
| 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 | 1. The declaration of Independence says that United States Citizens have the right, the duty, and the privilidge to alter, and abolish laws 'and to fo… | -6.5 |
| 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 | (1) Whether the Intermediate Court of Appeals for the State of Hawaii improperly applied mootness to dismiss the case by bypassing the federal questio… | -6.5 |
| 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… | -6.5 |
| 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, in light of U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Appendix: New Jersey and Miller YAUW the Court … | -6.5 |
| 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, as establi… | -6.5 |
| 21-5743 | Rafael Fernandez Garcia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Is it appropriate for a court to apply old policy statements, specifically reserved for agencies to follow, to new statutory constructions that eli… | -6.5 |
| 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 | In 2016, the United States Sentencing Commission promulgated United States Sentencing Guideline (USSG) § 2L1.2(b)(3), which applies exclusively to non… | -6.5 |
| 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 | 1. The Sixth and Ninth Circuits are split on whether, during a plea colloquy in a child pornography case, the district judge must explain to the defen… | -6.5 |
| 21-5749 | Krishna Mote v. United States | Third Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure injury-in-fact jurisdiction standing | (1) Whereas can a Court of Appeals implicate a statement by the Middle District Court on assumption to rectify the Statement? (2) Whereas does the fi… | -6.5 |
| 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 | Question not identified. | -6.5 |
| 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 | I WHETHER thE DUE PROCESS ClOUSE ANC THE SIth AMENdMENT PRotECTS ThE ACCUSEd FROM A PlEA of Guly To MatRial FActs Of SIMple PosSESSION OF CocaINe aNd … | -6.5 |
| 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 set… | -6.5 |
| 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 | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that the traffic stop of Petitioner was not unlawfully extended in violation of the Fourth Amendment,… | -6.5 |
| 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 | 1. In light of the fact that actual innocence supported by newly discovered evidence acts as a de facto suspension of habeas corpus by applying 2244(b… | -6.5 |
| 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 | I. Does the uncertainty engendered by the lack of uniform application of Federal Rules of Evidence 413/414 and the 403 balancing test permit district … | -6.5 |
| 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 | 1. Whether officers had the right to be at Appellant house do to the fact the search warrant for his house was in his Alleged Codefendant's name Dougl… | -6.5 |
| 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 | I. When the Appellate Court Interprets"Promotion" Of A Chimical that "Could" be used to Manufacture as a "Serious Drug" is Remand Required ? II. If… | -6.5 |
| 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 | Question not identified. | -6.5 |
| 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 | Question not identified. | -6.5 |
| 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 … | -6.5 |
| 21-5784 | Joe Vonzo Readon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation | Question not identified. | -6.5 |
| 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 | It is a federal offense for a person who is required to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act to knowing… | -6.5 |
| 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… | -6.5 |
| 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… | -6.5 |
| 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 | 1. Whether testimony from a suppression hearing may be used for impeachment purposes if a defendant testifies at trial. | -6.5 |
| 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… | -6.5 |
| 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 | 1. Does the rule of United States v. Mezzanatto, 513 U.S. 196 (1995), that a statutory right is waivable in a plea agreement absent an affirmative ind… | -6.5 |
| 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 | If an employee/plaintiff is a member of a racial majority (white female) is she legally considered to be viewed as an unprotected class, stated below,… | -6.5 |
| 21-5831 | Damion Glenroy Vando Davis v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Third Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | None | -6.5 | |
| 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… | -6.5 |
| 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 | Question not identified. | -6.5 |
| 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 | 1. Could reasonable jurists debate whether the district court abused its discretion by denying as untimely Petitioner's motion to amend to add a Brady… | -6.5 |
| 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 | Question not identified. | -6.5 |
| 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 | 1. DOES IT VIOLATE THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, TO PUNISH AN INDIVIDUAL FOR BEING MENTALLY ILL, BY SUMMARILY REVOKING THEIR PROFESSIONAL LICEN… | -6.5 |