| 20-1389 |
Kaboni Savage v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-barriers record-on-appeal record-reconstruction statement-of-proceedings supplemental-record third-circuit transcript |
Whether the Third Circuit properly held—in conflict with decades of federal practice endorsing flexible procedures to assemble a complete record on ap… |
| 20-1605 |
Justin Terrell Atkins v. Timothy Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
aedpa brecht-v-abrahamson confrontation-clause habeas habeas-corpus harmless-error harmlessness preservation-rule sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the preservation rule applies to the State's forfeiture of harmlessness in AEDPA cases |
| 20-1626 |
Robert L. Schulz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-response historical-practice judicial-review petition-clause right-to-petition |
Whether the forerunners to this case were fully, fairly and completely litigated |
| 20-1708 |
Jose Leonel Bonilla-Romero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment notice sentencing sentencing-range separation-of-powers |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment require notice of the sentencing range prior to sentencing? |
| 20-1713 |
Symon B. Mandawala v. Era Living, LLC, et al. |
Washington |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1985 attorney-client-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection motion-to-dismiss service-of-process |
As of Matter of Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment right of the U.S constitution: (1) (a) while racially civil rights action is pending, wi… |
| 20-7993 |
Eugene Korte v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech government-surveillance internet-service-providers standing |
Question not identified |
| 20-8063 |
Darius Theriot v. Bob Vashaw, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-by-case-review constitutional-error federal-constitutional-error federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus merits-review plain-error state-court-ruling unpreserved-claim |
Whether a state court's ruling that an unpreserved claim of federal constitutional error does not meet the requirements of the 'plain error' standard … |
| 20-8141 |
Paul Castonguay v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process federal-constitution fifth-amendment post-conviction-relief sexual-assault state-constitution statutory-rights |
Whether the state courts erred and abused their discretion by depriving and denying the defendant of his statutory rights to DNA testing |
| 20-8397 |
Louis A. Banks v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights custodial-interrogation due-process edwards-violation fifth-amendment judicial-immunity law-enforcement rule-23 rule-60 |
Whether law enforcement violated Edwards v. Arizona by interrogating a minor who invoked the Fifth Amendment, and whether claims for declaratory and m… |
| 20-994 |
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. v. The Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
clean-air-act emission-standards federal-authority federal-regulation nationwide-updates preemption state-law state-regulation vehicle-emissions vehicle-regulation |
Whether the Clean Air Act preempts state and local governments from regulating manufacturers' post-sale, nationwide updates to vehicle emission system… |
| 21-107 |
Edward Thomas Kendrick, III v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence constitutional-review constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Was counsel's performance deficient, and did the courts below apply the right standard? |
| 21-183 |
Gas Pipe, Inc., et al. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud constitutional-error criminal-law defraud-clause government-function harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 371's defraud clause reaches any conspiracy whose object is to interfere with any lawful government function, even if not targeted… |
| 21-195 |
Belmora LLC, et al. v. Bayer Consumer Care AG, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
false-advertising false-association lanham-act statute-of-limitations trademark-registration trademark-territoriality |
Whether the Lanham Act's zone of interests extends to the foreign owner of a foreign trademark that has not registered or used the mark in the United … |
| 21-213 |
Nathaniel Borrell Dyer v. Atlanta Independent School System |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
due-process first-amendment free-speech limited-public-forum protected-speech public-figures public-forum satirical-flyer satirical-speech viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether Atlanta Independent School System violated Mr. Dyer's First Amendment right to free-speech by categorically banning him from using protected-s… |
| 21-235 |
Gary Heidel, et al. v. Anthony Mazzola, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process failure-to-enforce fourteenth-amendment kingsley-standard medical-treatment predictable-consequence pretrial-detainee recklessness suicide-prevention |
Whether jail officials violate a pretrial detainee's Fourteenth Amendment right to medical treatment by being reckless to, without actually knowing of… |
| 21-26 |
Brittany Billetts, et al. v. Mentor Worldwide LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
adverse-events common-law-claims defective-manufacture failure-to-warn food-and-drug-administration medical-device-amendments medical-device-manufacturing preemption rule-12(b)(6) |
Whether preemption under the Medical Device Amendments supports dismissal of state common law claims alleging failure to warn and defective manufactur… |
| 21-30 |
Cammie L. Marceaux v. Tiffany & Bosco, P.A., et al. |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure-challenge just-compensation mortgage-transfer property property-rights standing takings |
Question not identified |
| 21-312 |
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, et al. v. Ohio, ex rel. Dave Yost, Attorney General |
Ohio |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
clean-air-act emission-standards epa-authority federal-regulation nationwide-updates preemption state-regulation vehicle-emissions vehicle-regulation |
Whether the Clean Air Act preempts state and local governments from regulating manufacturers' post-sale, nationwide updates to vehicle emission system… |
| 21-328 |
Robyn Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (10)Relisted (2) |
arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle federal-courts litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-requirement state-courts waiver |
Does the arbitration-specific requirement that the proponent of a contractual waiver defense prove prejudice violate this Court's instruction that low… |
| 21-363 |
Wendy Marie Meigs v. Trey Bergman, et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
|
abuse alternative-dispute-resolution court-ordered-mediation courtroom-guidelines family-court judicial-process manipulation mediation mediation-liability pro-se-representation victim-protection vulnerable-victim |
Should mediation participants and mediator be liable for abuse and manipulation of a vulnerable victim? |
| 21-383 |
Wyoming v. William Thomas Mahaffy, V |
Wyoming |
Denied |
|
constitutional-law de-minimis-extension duration-of-stop fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence police-inquiry reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop unrelated-questioning |
Did the Rodriguez Court's rejection of de minimis extensions to traffic stops abrogate or limit Johnson, thereby prohibiting officers from posing any … |
| 21-407 |
James P. Mhina v. Beth Van Doren, Assistant District Attorney of Onondaga County, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-action collateral-estoppel criminal-action due-process issue-preclusion res-judicata |
Whether the doctrine of collateral estoppel bars a criminal defendant from relitigating issues that were previously decided against him in a civil act… |
| 21-422 |
Steven Hatton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his ineffective-assistance-o… |
| 21-424 |
KD, et ux., as Parents, Natural Guardians, and Next Friends of Minor LD v. Douglas County School District No. 001, aka Omaha Public Schools, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-damages civil-procedure civil-rights damages default-judgment due-process jury-trial victim-rights willful-blindness |
Whether a convicted rapist sued by the victim may deprive the victim of trial by jury to determine damages by defaulting and declining to respond to t… |
| 21-445 |
Floyd Calhoun Dent, III v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-kickback-statute federal-healthcare-programs healthcare-fraud independent-contractor independent-contractors marketing medical-referral referral remuneration sales-commission statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Anti-Kickback Statute prohibits the payment of sales commissions to independent contractors who make marketing presentations to physicians… |
| 21-449 |
Bilal Abdul Kareem v. William J. Burns, Director, Central Intelligence Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights d-c-circuit due-process government-media government-transparency judicial-notice online-publication standing sua-sponte technology |
Whether the D.C. Circuit's decision to dismiss the case based on disputed facts noticed sua sponte and without due process was improper |
| 21-452 |
Falisha Bell v. Scott Wagner & Associates |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
answer-brief civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process legal-malpractice standing statute-of-limitations timely-filing |
After filing case within the lower court and being dealt unfairly |
| 21-482 |
Hassan Sharif Ali, aka Big Hassan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-code united-states-v-davis |
Whether a court must apply the modified categorical approach to determine whether a verdict of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) necessarily rests o… |
| 21-493 |
Susan Chen v. Darren Migita, et al. |
Washington |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure court-dismissal due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-challenge legal-representation notice personal-jurisdiction procedural-ambiguity standing unrepresented-minor |
Whether a state court's dismissal order, absent clear languages about the legal effects, and its further refusal to clarify — which has led to four ye… |
| 21-496 |
Martez L. Smith v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
categorical-approach conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure guideline-interpretation overt-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the categorical approach for generic offenses applies to the offense of conspiring under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 Application Note 1 and requires an o… |
| 21-5018 |
In Re Zoe Ajjahnon |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure default-judgment due-process false-claims-act federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pro-se-litigant summary-judgment third-circuit-court |
Whether the False Claims Act statutes preclude established standards of Federal Rules for Civil Procedure Rule 56 in a default/summary judgment conclu… |
| 21-5042 |
John Shields v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error waiver waiver-doctrine |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's blanket policy of relying on the waiver doctrine conflicts with this Court's plain-error-jurisprudence |
| 21-5060 |
Kevin Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-921 18-usc-922 circuit-split criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-hayes |
Whether a defendant must know his prior conviction qualified as a 'misdemeanor crime of domestic violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) |
| 21-5082 |
Benjamin Michael Dubay v. Stephen King, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggregation-of-traits character-protection character-traits comic-book-characters constitutional-rights copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-protection expert-testimony fact-question jury-determination |
Whether comic book characters are protected independently from the copyrighted work due to their original and consistent aggregation of traits |
| 21-509 |
James Lawrence v. Altice USA |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arrest-warrant civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-interpretation media-defamation media-reporting standing substantial-truth |
Can a media lawfully portray a ONE TIME One Count of Second Degree Breach of Peace arrest as 'ARRESTED FOR STALKING SEVERAL WOMEN? |
| 21-5117 |
Christopher Allan Allred v. Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial jurisdiction jury-selection standing |
Whether the Harless v. Calbeaia filing, Can rhebes, if they so choose, substitute a preliminary hearing for a grand jury, by determining whether prose… |
| 21-514 |
Robert Bello v. Rockland County, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process firearm-surrender fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment handgun-ownership mental-health property-rights |
Whether the Fourth Amendment is implicated where law enforcement refuses to release firearms surrendered for mental health reasons to a nonprohibited … |
| 21-5280 |
Robert Craft v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process hurst-v-florida reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires the determination that sufficient aggravating factors exist to justify imposing a death sentence to be made be… |
| 21-531 |
Jerome D. Lee, Stephen E. Brown-Bennett, and Taylor Lee & Associates LLC v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
available-funds civil-procedure cja-vouchers contempt contract-authority due-process fee-inquiry judicial-discretion reimbursement standing statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Did the lower court have the authority to, sua sponte, set aside the petitioners' contracts, and conduct a fee inquiry into whether or not funds were … |
| 21-5352 |
Vernon D. Nelson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
border-patrol circuit-split criminal-activity drug-offense fourth-amendment immigration-enforcement law-enforcement-authority search-and-seizure seizure |
Whether a Fourth Amendment violation occurs when Border Patrol agents seize a person solely on suspicion of a drug-related offense, with no suspicion … |
| 21-536 |
Christopher Chestnut v. Charles Canady, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-injunction-statute civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction protected-class state-bar-discipline younger-abstention |
Whether the district court may abstain from exercising its jurisdiction to enjoin an ongoing state bar disciplinary proceeding, pursuant to the Younge… |
| 21-5372 |
Jessica Graulau v. Credit One Bank, N.A. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitration arbitration-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection jury-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Did the Circuit Court of Appeal violate the U.S. Constitution and federal laws by depriving the petitioner of a jury trial, due process, and equal pro… |
| 21-544 |
Joshua O. Thomas v. Farmers Insurance Exchange |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure genuine-issue-of-material-fact inference-standard judicial-precedent material-fact standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether the district court and court of appeals have effectively abrogated this Court's binding precedent for reviewing a motion for summary judgment |
| 21-547 |
Kevin Tung v. Superior Court of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-ethics civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young federal-law judiciary sovereign-immunity |
Whether the claims of an Officer of the Court with the New Jersey Judiciary System are barred by the Eleventh Amendment when the Officer of the Court'… |
| 21-555 |
Benjamin A. Appleby v. Kansas |
Kansas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alleyne due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial legislative-directive liberty-interest procedural-due-process resentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated |
| 21-556 |
Alexander P. Bebris v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-hearings pretrial-hearing pretrial-hearings sixth-amendment witness-credibility |
Does the Sixth Amendment and Confrontation Clause apply to all pretrial evidentiary hearings implicating the credibility of a witness? |
| 21-5589 |
Michael Lee Gordon v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel sentencing standing |
Whether the United States District Court has jurisdiction to grant relief for a writ of habeas corpus |
| 21-5626 |
Carnell Fitzpatrick v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process equal-protection incarceration prison-library-access |
Whether Fitzpatrick was deprived of due process and equal protection under the 14th and 5th Amendments |
| 21-5628 |
Danny W. Alcoser v. Court of Appeals of Texas, Tenth District |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law judicial-procedure procedural-rights standing supreme-court-review texas-family-code texas-supreme-court |
Did the Texas Supreme Court deprive the petitioner from obtaining the Equal Protection of a procedural right under the Due Process of law |
| 21-5629 |
Alba Duque v. Chabad at the Civic Center, Inc. |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
contract contract-validity enforceability evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion parties quit-claim-deed real-estate real-estate-contract specific-performance |
Can a Real Estate Contract be legally valid and enforceable if not all the required parties signed it? |
| 21-5636 |
Peter Hurley v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process evidence-preservation government-misconduct plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the Commonwealth of Massachusetts allowed the petitioner to back out of a plea agreement and be resentenced to a felony conviction, and whethe… |
| 21-5637 |
Vinicio Jesus Garcia v. Darryl Glenn, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-resources due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus inmate-rights legal-access standing |
Does the denial of the right to file a § 2254 habeas corpus claim with a court violate due-process, access-to-courts, civil-rights |
| 21-5644 |
Michael Hall v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c3a actus-reus aiding-and-abetting categorical-analysis criminal-statute force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement violent-physical-force |
Whether aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery does not require the use, attempted use, or threatened use of violent physical force under 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 21-5648 |
O. B. Davis, Jr. v. Johnny Sumlin, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel nolo-contendere prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-review witness-testimony |
Whether the Court's adjudication of this case ensue from a decision that was to, or involve an unreasonable application of, clearly established law as… |
| 21-5651 |
Taniko C. Smith v. Brian E. Williams, Sr., Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurisprudence ninth-circuit state-court state-law supreme-court-precedent |
Does a federal habeas court owe deference to a state's wider jurisprudence when a state court arbitrarily fails to follow its own law? |
| 21-566 |
Teresa Ward Cooper, as Next Friend of Jane Doe/D. T. v. First Financial Bank, N.A. |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-review declaratory-judgment equal-protection mootness standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
When did the Bank have standing to sue Petitioner/D.T. to remove a claimed uncertainty? |
| 21-5660 |
Kevin McBride v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process evidence-suppression false-conviction police-misconduct presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct suppression-of-evidence wrongful-conviction |
When fraudulent police reports deceive the lower court into a false conviction, shouldn't the fraud precede the false conviction and be overturned imm… |
| 21-5664 |
Maurice L. Ross v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c appellate-review attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. 924(c) |
| 21-5668 |
Freddy Angel Trujillo v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang-evidence joinder joinder-of-charges prejudicial-evidence summary-reversal |
Did the Ninth Circuit's finding that Trujillo's Due Process rights were not violated by the joinder of unrelated charges so clearly misapply the law a… |
| 21-567 |
Horizon Christian School, et al. v. Kate Brown, Governor of Oregon |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief mootness-doctrine pandemic pandemic-restrictions religious-schools standing takings |
Whether a plaintiff must show a 'constant threat' of being closed again to obtain injunctive relief against a state governor during the pandemic and s… |
| 21-5674 |
In Re Gregory Scott Savoy |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech mandamus standing |
Is there no escape ever? |
| 21-5675 |
Jayson Neil Sparks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigenous-rights jurisdiction native-american-law sentencing |
Whether the petitioners' rights were violated under the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution |
| 21-5681 |
Joe Johnson, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure collateral-post-conviction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity seminoles-nation-consent subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception |
whether-respondent-waived-forfeited-procedural-defenses |
| 21-5682 |
Sheila Davalloo v. Amy Lamanna, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process faretta-hearing mckaskle-v-wiggins right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment standby-counsel |
Did the Faretta hearing in this case result in a decision that was contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law, as… |
| 21-5685 |
Robert Pugh v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
IFP |
None |
|
| 21-5688 |
Larry Donnell Dunlap v. Corizon Health, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure disputed-facts facts-unavailable judicial-interpretation legal-standard motion-procedure petitioner respondents summary-judgment |
Did the trial Court Judge abuse its discretion by granting the Respondents Summary Judgment, when facts were unavailable to Petitioner |
| 21-5689 |
Harold V. Hoskins v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Was the petitioner denied his Sixth Amendment right to be represented by counsel? |
| 21-5691 |
Juan Guzman Zuniga, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule federal-courts fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search |
Whether the denial of a writ of habeas corpus by the district court was proper |
| 21-5692 |
Thomas George Craaybeek v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure legal-review loretto-v-teleprompter takings |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process under the Fourteenth Amendment and the protections of the Takings Clause, as established in Loretto v. T… |
| 21-5695 |
Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Tim Reisch, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cares-act civil-rights constitutional-exemption due-process federal-exemption prisoners-rights state-seizure stimulus-payments supremacy-clause |
Whether states' seizure of prisoners' stimulus payments violate the federal exemption statutes within the CARES Act and the Supremacy Clause of the Un… |
| 21-5697 |
Shawn Mayreis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights courtroom-closure due-process fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial right-to-counsel strickland voir-dire |
Whether prejudice can be presumed when counsel's defective advice results in an unlawful and total closure of the courtroom to a defendant's family me… |
| 21-5699 |
Al-Kareem Rasool-Rachmaan Collier v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated during the criminal proceedings against him |
| 21-5700 |
Stanley Renard Tilley, Sr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence capital-case forensic-pathology habeas-corpus herrera-standard ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default schlup-standard strickland-standard |
actual-innocence,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,capital-case,forensic-pathology,procedural-default,habeas-corpus |
| 21-5701 |
Michel Cherfrere v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
competency competency-examination criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california right-to-counsel self-representation speedy-trial standby-counsel |
Right-to-self-representation |
| 21-5702 |
Ronald Webster v. Scott Dauffenbach, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling procedural-rulings |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability |
| 21-5703 |
Mark French v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel trial-counsel trial-court-discretion |
Is it a constitutional violation when a trial court fails to inquire or address a defendant's written request about his concerns about his trial couns… |
| 21-5706 |
Susan Neal Matousek v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 21-5708 |
Rodney Dale Hood v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
contract-law contractual-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fraud fraud-in-judicial-proceedings judgment judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining state-power |
Whether the current Due Process standard for interpreting the obligations of parties in plea agreements is appropriate |
| 21-5709 |
Miguel Gonzalez v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error legal-precedent mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation |
Did the Supreme Court, Superior Court and trial Court commit reversible error in their holdings regarding the retroactivity and creation of a new cons… |
| 21-5734 |
Tony Lamar Vann v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process police-misconduct racial-discrimination standing |
whether-police-can-plant-drugs-on-black-men |
| 21-5744 |
Joseph George v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation criminal-conspiracy due-process federal-law law-enforcement prisoner-rights public-officials standing |
Does Alowg AUN NING, Goeanmesst ruc/ Onegai eed Crimirirel Couspiieaey AAegedtissg Anil faanatng Ppetrtinier Aor. bahay cnses Meet the PLRA 3-sfhakés … |
| 21-5765 |
Tyrus D. Coleman v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder constitutional-review double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-procedure murder retrial self-defense state-court-review |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes retrial for attempted murder after acquittal for murder in self-defense |
| 21-5793 |
Cyrus Sarvestaney v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 21-5805 |
Jean Leonard Teganya v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure false-statements obstruction-of-justice perjury sentencing-guidelines significant-further-obstruction |
Whether the obstruction-of-justice enhancement under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines can apply when a defendant testifies at trial and repeats the fals… |
| 21-5806 |
Antonio Medina Puerta v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-provisions coram-nobis due-process judicial-impartiality legal-remedy standing witch-hunt |
Whether the split in the Circuits regarding tests to grant coram-nobis-relief should remain unresolved |
| 21-5807 |
Christian Estrada Comacho v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause covid-19 covid-19-exception criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process interpreter-testimony two-way-video video-testimony witness-demeanor witness-testimony |
Did the district court err in allowing testimony via two-way interactive video over confrontation objections due to witness' COVID-19 concerns? |
| 21-5808 |
In Re Tommy Rutledge |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-mandate mandate procedural-review res-judicata sentencing supreme-court-order vacatur |
When a District Court Judge has executed a mandate of the United States Supreme Court by vacating a charge and its sentence, can that same Judge reins… |
| 21-5812 |
Carlos Velazquez-Fontanez v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) actual-innocence crime-of-violence davis-precedent davis-v-us first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to find that appellant Carlos Velazquez-Fontanez is 'actually innocent' of violating … |
| 21-5813 |
Anthony Foster v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach general-verdict habeas-proceeding harmless-error-review predicate-offenses Stromberg-error |
Should the categorical approach be used in a habeas proceeding to evaluate which of several predicate offenses support a jury's general verdict? |
| 21-5815 |
Jose Antonio Morales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statutory provisions |
| 21-5818 |
Cynthia Lozano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judgment judgment-amendment legal-rights notice-of-appeal time-to-file |
Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly split from the well-established rule of the Court and other Circuits |
| 21-5819 |
Rahem Lipford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
curtilage fourth-amendment home-privacy search-and-seizure trash-pull trespass |
Whether a trash pull which took place at Lipford's home, from a location where trash cans were not kept when they were put out for regular collection,… |
| 21-5820 |
Hector Manuel Bossio v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process evidence-destruction federal-jurisdiction silver-platter witness-intimidation |
Whether the government's use of coercive relationships with federal agencies to obtain evidence violates the Constitution's due process and silver pla… |
| 21-5822 |
Tahji Antonio Eley, et al. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act-robbery section-924(c) sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act Robbery is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8) |
| 21-5823 |
Salvador Vasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment marijuana-decriminalization probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law state-marijuana-laws vehicle-search warrantless-search |
When a state has decriminalized marijuana possession and use, does evidence of marijuana use inside a car—combined with nonspecific indications that t… |
| 21-5827 |
Jerry Ray Craine v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession government-prosecution mens-rea second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government must prove, as an element of a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), that defendant knew his constitutionally protected cond… |
| 21-5829 |
Amar Taylor v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 2nd-amendment crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
Whether Petitioner's conviction for using a firearm during a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) remains valid in light of United Sta… |
| 21-5835 |
Guillermo Gonzalez-Zea v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights identity immigration investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion terry-v-ohio |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's reasonable suspicion determination can be reconciled with Terry v. Ohio |
| 21-5840 |
Daniel Kofi Awuku-Asare v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 21-5843 |
Brandon Lamar Pruitt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming a jury instruction that allowed conviction for sex trafficking under 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1) without proof… |
| 21-5844 |
James Malcolm Hale v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-disposition federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion pretrial-motion pretrial-motions procedural-waiver waiver |
Whether a defendant may appeal an adverse pretrial motion determination despite not reserving the right in writing under Rule 11(a)(2) |
| 21-5845 |
Danny Collins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certiorari criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing service-of-process solicitor-general supreme-court-rule |
Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violated his constitutional rights |
| 21-5848 |
Zackie Thomas Reed, IV v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
black-v-romano criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit narcotics narcotics-violation preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard revocation supervised-release |
Whether the preponderance of the evidence standard utilized by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a supervised release revoca… |
| 21-5849 |
Jason August Eisenach v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standing plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial was violated |
| 21-5855 |
Jeremiah Kyle Blaber v. Oregon |
Oregon |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process individual-standard medical-appropriateness medical-coercion mental-health mental-health-standard physician-opinion trial-fitness |
Can the court medicate a defendant against the opinion of the defendant's treating physician under a 'Sell order' for the sole purpose of restoring a … |
| 21-5857 |
Justin P. Stahmer v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeals civil-rights due-process miscarriage-of-justice rule-60(b) |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals deprived jurisdiction from the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court to renew petitioner's Rule 60(b) appeal motion |
| 21-5858 |
Enrique E. Quintana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure indictment indictment-deficiency plea-agreement waiver |
actual-innocence,plea-agreement,waiver,indictment,collateral-attack,commerce-clause,gonzales-v-raich |
| 21-5866 |
Francisco Carbajal, aka Frank X. Carbajal, Jr. v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice supremacy-clause wrongful-conviction |
Whether fair-minded jurists could disagree with a reviewing court's decision to ignore a claim of actual innocence |
| 21-5868 |
Ryan Russell Parks, aka Dinero v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment constitutional-rights constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial indictment ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief variance |
As the amended charge of 'SQ' (33) a constructive amendment? |
| 21-5870 |
Kirby Gant v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-principles due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-standard standing state-courts takings |
Does this Court's decisions in Greer and Gory override the government's and the court's duty to ensure the facts? |
| 21-5872 |
Antonio Donnel Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of 'controlled subs… |
| 21-5873 |
Justin Douglas Jones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence federal-prisoner hobbs-act ninth-circuit physical-force sentencing-enhancement |
Should the Ninth Circuit have issued a certificate of appealability on the issue of whether conviction for Hobbs Act robbery qualified as a 'crime of … |
| 21-5879 |
Dheadry Powell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act guidelines justification money-laundering resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Under the First Step Act, did the district court fail to provide a sufficiently compelling justification that thoroughly explains its above the guidel… |
| 21-5883 |
Davon Nelson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split collateral-proceeding direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement remand sixth-amendment |
Whether a defendant on direct appeal should receive a remand for an evidentiary hearing upon showing a colorable Sixth Amendment ineffective-assistanc… |
| 21-5891 |
Archie Ned Williams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process hobbs-act-robbery physical-force pinkerton-liability section-924c statutory-interpretation |
Must the use of physical force required to establish a predicate crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) be personal to the defendant convict… |
| 21-5898 |
Ernest Gabriel Verdugo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abandoned-address criminal-procedure fourth-amendment independent-access law-enforcement motel-room probable-cause residence residence-definition search-and-seizure |
Whether police officers establish probable cause that a motel room is a suspect's 'residence' when they learn that he has abandoned his reported addre… |
| 21-5899 |
Joseph Vasquez, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender guidelines individualized-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-review |
Whether a below guidelines sentence can still result in a substantively unreasonable sentence? |
| 21-5901 |
Shawn R. Erpelding v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief pro-se pro-se-application state-criminal-judgment |
Whether pro se applications to vacate and set aside a state criminal judgment toll the limitation period under the 'properly filed' clause of 28 U.S.C… |
| 21-5906 |
Michael Jerome Pettway v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance notice-of-appeal rule-11 section-924(c) sixth-amendment |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 21-5910 |
Carlos Sauzo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights credibility due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment inconclusive-record judicial-review sixth-amendment |
Does the Fifth and Sixth Amendment require the lower court to address an evidentiary hearing when the record before the court is inconclusive as to wh… |
| 21-5912 |
Mark Wayne Gray v. Dean Borders, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
Whether the 5th Amendment (right to be free from self-incrimination) and 6th (denial of assistance of counsel) and 14th amendments were violated |
| 21-5913 |
Desmond S. Gaines v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 911-tip anonymous-tip anonymous-tips corroboration drug-sales reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure terry-stop totality-of-circumstances |
Whether an anonymous 911 tip that implies the person sold drugs in a public area provides reasonable suspicion to seize the person without first corro… |
| 21-5916 |
Ramiro Medina-Oliden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-5930 |
Albert M. Ranieri v. Vicky Moser, Warden |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3613(b) ex-post-facto mandatory-victims-restitution-act mvra plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victim-witness-protection-act vwpa |
Is the VWPA or MVRA the controlling law regarding payment of the Order of Restitution, and is the Ex Post Facto Clause being violated? |
| 21-5932 |
Michael R. Burns v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chain-of-custody civil-rights dna-fabrication due-process evidence-substitution evidence-tampering fabrication forensic-evidence forensic-integrity laboratory-procedure substitution |
Whether the DNA and fingerprint evidence was fabricated by substituting the gloves examined for fingerprints with different gloves examined for DNA, r… |
| 21-5936 |
Allen Fong v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-forfeiture in-personam-forfeiture jury-trial reasonable-doubt statutory-authority |
Whether the Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to a jury finding beyond a reasonable doubt any fact necessary to the imposition of a mandatory crimi… |
| 21-5937 |
Odilon Martinez-Rojas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
Whether a plea agreement's appeal waiver can bar a defendant from challenging the unconstitutionality of a sentencing procedure |
| 21-5940 |
Jovani Jacobo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons federal-courts federal-prisoners judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 3582(c)(1)(A) permits sentencing courts to consider personal observation and anecdotal data in deciding motions for compassionate release |
| 21-5944 |
Casey Ray Culp v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment reform sentencing |
Whether a guideline sentence of seventy-five months imprisonment violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment |
| 21-5945 |
Bobby Joe Barton v. Scott Lewis, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissible-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pretrial-orders right-to-object right-to-present-evidence |
Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to timely comply with a pretrial order to provide a prompt plea offer |
| 21-5947 |
Jorge Petter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals covid-19 due-process fifth-amendment filing-deadlines incarcerated-filers pandemic-response standing-order |
Whether the Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth Amendment by failing to issue a standing order extending fil… |
| 21-5956 |
Nolan Nathaniel Edwards v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act incarceration notice resentencing sentencing-modification supervised-release |
Whether § 404 of the First Step Act allows a district court to impose a term of supervised release not previously imposed, as it was not a component o… |
| 21-5957 |
Manuela Villa de Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-v-kentucky civil-rights fifth-circuit jury-selection racial-discrimination supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the decision of the United States Magistrate Judge denying M… |
| 21-5958 |
Aaron Christopher Pleasant v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-firearms-regulation federal-power firearms statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause |
| 21-5963 |
Norris Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment habeas-corpus investigation right-to-silence self-incrimination |
When does an investigation stop after a defendant says 'No'? |
| 21-5964 |
Robert L. Kelly v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-access due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-procedural-requirements |
Whether the Court should issue a grant of certiorari, vacatur, and remand |
| 21-5970 |
Fredrick Devone Flemming v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-delinquency prior-conviction sentencing-factor sentencing-factors sixth-amendment stare-decisis |
Whether the Almendarez-Torres 'prior conviction' exception to the Sixth Amendment should be expanded to include prior juvenile delinquency adjudicatio… |
| 21-5973 |
Jesus Lopez-Mejia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable? |
| 21-5974 |
Eduviges Ayala-Bello and Walter Velez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-policy alienage alienage-classification citizenship-distinction due-process equal-protection immigration rational-basis-review strict-scrutiny |
Whether agency policies that distinguish on the basis of citizenship automatically receive rational-basis-review |
| 21-5980 |
Jerome Curtis Stancil v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause controlled-substances-act distribution serious-drug-offense social-sharing |
Whether socially sharing drugs with a friend qualifies as 'distribution' under the ACCA's 'serious-drug-offense' definition |
| 21-5982 |
Marcus Matthews v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-precedent controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines georgia-criminal-code sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Does a conviction under OCGA § 16-13-30 qualify as a 'controlled substance offense' for purposes of enhancing a defendant's sentence under USSG § 2K2.… |
| 21-5984 |
Zacharia Allen Clark v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute failure-to-act force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-force |
Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent force requirement of the A… |
| 21-5985 |
DeCarlos Titington v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing discharged-sentences due-process equal-protection relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines undischarged-sentences |
Equal protection and due process rights for discharged vs. undischarged sentences |
| 21-5989 |
Jeffrey G. Boyd v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split contested-element criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element standard-of-review |
Whether the harmless error standard should apply to a failure to instruct the jury on a contested element of the offense |
| 21-5992 |
Jose Miguel Ramirez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
COVID-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection felony-convictions judicial-discretion medical-records procedural-error sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines time-served |
Whether the sentencing court erred in its application of the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 21-5993 |
Michael Lee Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce |
Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm and ammunition on the sole basis that the firearm and ammunition once moved, befor… |
| 21-5997 |
Jeremiah Ybarra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process effective-counsel fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether appellant was denied his Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury presentment or indictment |
| 21-5999 |
Steven Dewayne Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guideline-interpretation holguin-hernandez procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the holding in Holguin-Hernandez that a defendant's argument in the district court for a lower sentence preserves appellate review of the subs… |
| 21-6000 |
Marius A. Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appointed-counsel criminal-procedure fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree miranda-rights probable-cause search-warrant wanton-endangerment |
Whether probable cause exists to issue a State search warrant to seize firearms, ammunition, and associated equipment, when the affidavit fails to all… |
| 21-6003 |
Eli Erickson, aka Black v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing |
| 21-6004 |
Olufolajimi Abegunde v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conspiracy-charges criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure indictment indictment-allegations rule-8-joinder venue venue-impropriety |
Should the propriety of joinder under Rule 8 be judged strictly by the allegations on the indictment or should factors beyond the indictment be consid… |
| 21-6005 |
Terrell Hunter v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-statute drug-proceeds drug-robbery federal-jurisdiction federal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
Did the decisions of the district court and the court of appeals, that the commerce element of the Hobbs Act is satisfied by the robbery of moneys int… |
| 21-6006 |
Cory Wayne Kilgore v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment address-connection appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure fourth-amendment prior-conviction probable-cause search-warrant |
Did the Tenth Circuit err in holding that the search warrant affidavit provided adequate basis for probable cause? |
| 21-6011 |
Robert Leslie Stencil v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-defendant clean-energy criminal-procedure defendant-prejudice due-process fraud-intent prejudice severance trial-severance |
Whether due process is violated when a trial court denies a motion to sever the trial, resulting in prejudice to petitioner |
| 21-6014 |
Yina Maria Castaneda Benavidez, aka La Reina, aka Ingeniera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-standard knowledge-element sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Did the Eleventh Circuit reversibly err in affirming a conviction for which the Government failed to prove the essential element of knowledge or reaso… |
| 21-6029 |
Daronnie Thompkins v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery coercion criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-enhancement interrogation interrogation-tactics involuntary-statements self-incrimination sentencing |
Whether Thompkins' incriminating statements were involuntary and should have been suppressed |
| 21-6034 |
Clifton James Jackson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-conduct criminal-procedure discovery-violations federal-jurisdiction government-agencies indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states speedy-trial-act |
Whether an indictment defect can strip federal courts of jurisdiction |
| 21-6049 |
Aaron Christopher Pena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offenses importation knowledge-standard mens-rea methamphetamine offense-level-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Whether an offense level enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines applies when the defendant did not know that the drugs were imported |
| 21-6063 |
Jason William Custer v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-6th-14th-amendments due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions miranda-rights pauper-defendant postconviction procedural-bar self-defense |
When trial and direct appeal counsel are one and the same, can a pauper defendant's due process rights be undermined when the state refuses to appoint… |
| 21-68 |
Brendon Janis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
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constitutional-delegation delegation-of-authority due-process probation-officer risk-notification sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate authority to the probation officer? |
| 21M40 |
Cesar Martinez v. United States |
First Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
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None |
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| 21M41 |
Johnathan Dewayne Mitchell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
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None |
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