Conference: 2021-11-05

82 cases — 0 granted, 82 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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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 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 None
21M39 Frank L. Amodeo v. United States Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None