Conference: 2021-11-19

69 cases — 0 granted, 69 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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19-333 Arlene's Flowers, Inc., dba Arlene's Flowers and Gifts, et al. v. Washington, et al. Washington Rehearing Amici (10)Relisted (13) civil-rights compelled-speech content-based first-amendment free-exercise free-speech public-accommodation religious-freedom religious-hostility same-sex-marriage state-action strict-scrutiny Whether the State violates a floral designer's First Amendment rights to free exercise and free speech by forcing her to take part in and create custo…
20-1322 Michael Neely v. The Boeing Company Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (3) administrative-action administrative-law age-discrimination civil-rights dodd-frank due-process equal-protection sarbanes-oxley standard-of-review whistleblower-rights Do Whistleblowers have a right to the equality of standard review under law, when the adverse effect dismisses the entire causes of action?
20-1598 Project Veritas Action Fund v. Rachael S. Rollins, in Her Official Capacity as District Attorney for Suffolk County, Massachusetts First Circuit Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights facial-overbreadth first-amendment free-speech newsgathering ripeness secret-recording speech-suppression standing Whether the First Amendment protects the right to secretly record oral communications
20-1667 City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Arnold Black Ohio Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process exemplary-damages municipal-liability police-misconduct section-1983 vicarious-liability Whether the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals committed plain error and the Ohio Supreme Court abused its discretion in denying review of this cas…
20-1679 Jitendrakumar Patel v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) None
20-1695 Todd Phillippi v. Humble Design, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees callon-petroleum-v-frontier civil-procedure de-novo de-novo-review frcp-60(b) frcp-60b4 jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements rule-41-dismissal rule-54 standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit can refuse to review the denial of a FRCP 60(b)(4) motion under the de novo standard of review
20-6679 Larry Dortley v. Florida Florida Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights competency criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency trial-rights Whether the Equal Protection and Due Process of Law Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and the United S…
20-7480 Mickey Thomas v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure day-v-mcdonough federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sua-sponte wood-v-milyard Whether a court of appeals can sua sponte raise a habeas defense that a state abandons on appeal
20-772 Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) congressional-approval ex-parte-young interstate-compact interstate-compacts preemption sovereign-immunity state-officials Whether, under the doctrine of Ex parte Young, 209 U.S. 123 (1908), an interstate compact agency may sue a state official to prevent that official fro…
20-7892 Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff New York Denied Relisted (2)IFP annulment civil-procedure civil-rights divorce-appeal due-process fraud international-residence judicial-review jurisdiction qdro standing Can an elderly USA citizen living in Israel continuously since July 9, 1991 except for 1 week August 1992, appeal to the United States Supreme Court t…
20-8096 Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff New York Denied Relisted (2)IFP annulment civil-divorce civil-procedure civil-rights due-process elderly-citizen fraud international-jurisdiction judicial-fraud qdro-challenge standing supreme-court-appeal Can an elderly USA citizen living in Israel continuously since July 9, 1991 except for 1 week August 1992, appeal to the United States Supreme Court t…
20-8180 Benjamin Ross v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation fourth-amendment pretextual-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Whether the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable, articulable suspicion and probable cause to justify a pretextual traffic stop?
20-8317 Maricruz Zavala v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eighth Circuit Denied IFP None
20-8322 Fabian Perpall v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split contested-issue criminal-evidence criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence not-guilty-plea plea-of-not-guilty prior-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b state-of-mind Whether a defendant's plea of not guilty alone makes his prior convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to show 'state of mind'
20-8363 Outhdorm Ros v. California California Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment miranda-rights prosecutorial-argument self-incrimination Whether a suspect's silence after arrest but before Miranda warnings can be admitted and commented upon to prove guilt
20-8390 Gary L. Workman v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct prosecutor-misconduct right-to-counsel witness-subpoena Was Petitioner denied his right to compel witnesses
20-8415 Demario Deshawn Simpson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP count-specific-plea criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdiction partial-guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-entry sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether a defendant has a right under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to enter a partial guilty plea (without a plea agreement or any plea bar…
21-165 In Re Gracie E. McBroom Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment employment-law judicial-appointment judicial-review precinct-judge standing statutory-interpretation Was this a reasonable question in the mind of the State Franklin County Court of Appeal on June 20, 1996 in the Memorandum Decision
21-172 Melvin G. Perry v. VHS San Antonio Partners, L.L.C., dba North Central Baptist Hospital Fifth Circuit Denied circuit-conflict civil-rights contract-enforcement contract-rights contractual-relationships racial-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation third-party-interference Does section 1981 prohibit a third party from interfering, on the basis of race, with the right of an individual to make or enforce a contract?
21-212 Dires, LLC, dba Personal Touch Beds and Personal Comfort Beds, et al. v. Select Comfort Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split consumer-confusion initial-interest-confusion internet-trademark-law likelihood-of-confusion online-advertising search-engine-results search-engines trademark-infringement Whether courts can impose liability for a likelihood of consumer confusion in a trademark infringement action based on a consumer's initial interest i…
21-217 Marcy Britton v. Tim Keller, Mayor of the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied civil-rights due-process inverse-condemnation penn-central-test property-rights qualified-immunity regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings takings-clause Did the lower courts err in dismissing Petitioner's Federal Takings claim and claim for inverse condemnation against Defendants with prejudice at the …
21-218 John Pietsch, et al. v. Ward County, North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied dolan-v-city-of-tigard extortionate-exaction fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-takings injunctive-relief nollan-dolan-test nollan-v-california-coastal-commission remedy takings-clause unconstitutional-conditions Does the violation of the unconstitutional-conditions doctrine for an extortionate exaction create a stand-alone cause of action?
21-228 Michael Murphy v. Richard Sarta, et al. Tennessee Denied access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge jury-trial state-court-procedure WHETHER THE TENNESSEE STATE TRIAL AND APPELLATE COURTS ARE USING A CONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE STATUTE TO DENY CITIZENS SIMILARLY SITUATED HEREIN AN OPPORT…
21-248 Philip E. Berger, et al. v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, et al. Fourth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response WaivedRelisted (2) adequate-representation civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-standard intervention intervention-as-of-right judicial-review litigation-intervention standard-of-review standing state-agent state-sovereignty Whether a state agent authorized by state law to defend the State's interest in litigation must overcome a presumption of adequate representation to i…
21-415 Carmen Electra, et al. v. 59 Murray Enterprises, Inc., dba New York Dolls Gentlemen's Club, et al. Second Circuit Denied celebrity commercial-identity commercial-interest false-advertising identity-misuse image-rights lanham-act legal-standing public-prominence trademark-misuse Must an individual prove they have a commercial interest in their identity, or must a person prove they are recognizable, publicly prominent, or a cel…
21-483 David Klug v. Florida Florida Denied Response Waived charging-document criminal-charging due-process fifth-amendment jury-unanimity lewd-and-lascivious-molestation sexual-offenses sixth-amendment Whether a state prosecuting authority may bundle several single-act offenses concerning the lewd and lascivious molestation of a minor into the same s…
21-5184 Elizabeth Pastor v. Partnership for Children's Rights Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment fraud standing Why did the District Court overlook the affidavit attached that showed proof that Respondent had more than 15 employees for the purpose of Title VII?
21-5262 In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression extraordinary-motion habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination Deprivation of federal habeas review
21-5285 In Re Ivar Voits Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence brady-violations constitutional-claim due-process exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct Does it appear that Petitioner Mr. Voits lacked an 'adequate and effective' opportunity to test the validity of his constitutionally substantial actua…
21-5359 In Re Ellis Keyes Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflicts-of-interest constitutional-checks-and-balances nobility open-and-honest-government separation-of-powers standing Does a State have standing to exclude Judiciary Candidates from Election in violation of constitutional-checks-and-balances,conflicts-of-interest,sepa…
21-5375 Douglas Coley v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP collateral-review counsel-abandonment death-penalty death-row-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review right-to-counsel trial-court-duty trial-court-management Can a state provide a rational basis to deny a death row prisoner his right to the state's first collateral, conviction, review process, where the pri…
21-5432 Deangelo Lenard Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession firearms knowledge-of-status mens-rea misdemeanor-conviction rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether the government must prove the defendant's knowledge of the specific elements of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence in a prosecution unde…
21-549 Nicole Hutcheson, et al. v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights discovery discovery-standard municipal-liability plausibility-pleading qualified-immunity summary-judgment training To what extent should discovery be allowed from third-party eyewitnesses when the only evidence in support of 'what actually happened' is a soundless …
21-5491 Alton Alexander Nolen v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability mental-retardation Whether Oklahoma's procedure for litigating the issue of intellectual disability comports with the Eighth Amendment
21-554 Amber Boyer v. Schneider Electric Holdings, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived accidental-death benefits-due crime-exclusion erisa insurance-policy plan-administrator substantial-evidence Whether the ERISA Plan Administrator's interpretation of 'crime' to include speeding and improper passing was unreasonable when denying coverage under…
21-5713 Kirk Johnson, aka Qabail Hizbullah-Ankh-Amon v. New York New York Denied IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law functional-equivalent-life-sentence juvenile-sentencing miller-standard retroactive-effect retroactivity state-collateral-review teague-framework Does the Court have the power to review a State Collateral Review Court's failure to give Retroactive Effect to new substantive rules of Federal Const…
21-5718 Glenn Damond v. Frank A. Marullo, III, et al. Louisiana Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure court-records due-process judicial-misconduct standing Was the petitioner denied due process of law?
21-572 John M. Sweeney, et ux. v. Eastman Kodak Company Third Circuit Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge civil-procedure civil-rights claims-bar-date due-process jones-v-brock latent-injury products-liability rule-12b6 Is a products liability complaint subject to dismissal consistent with the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause?
21-5736 Brandon Joshua Bailey v. Florida Florida Denied IFP fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gps gps-tracking location-records probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle warrant-requirement Whether the government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses a vehicle's historical GPS location records
21-5738 Daniel Jose Gomez v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-trial statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court denied his request for a jury trial in his criminal case
21-5740 Tiffany Becker v. John Minkiewicz California Denied IFP child-abduction child-acclimation custody-dispute habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law parental-agreement parental-intent wrongful-removal Where a child is too young to acclimate to his surroundings, whether a subjective agreement between the infant's parents is necessary to establish his…
21-5741 Jonathan Godwin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 abandonment-of-claims certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-claims district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling procedural-rulings slack-v-mcdaniel Whether an applicant must demonstrate both the debatability of constitutional claims and the debatability of procedural rulings to obtain a certificat…
21-5745 Juan Francisco Turcios v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-appeal right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-stage trial-counsel Was reversible error committed when trial counsel abandoned petitioner during a critical stage of the trial
21-5750 Richard A. Waite v. Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility New Hampshire Denied IFP appellate-procedure bar-regulations civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process ethical-rules judicial-standards lawyer-conduct legal-ethics professional-responsibility standing Whether the conflict of interest between a public defender's office and its appellate division violates a defendant's constitutional right to effectiv…
21-5755 Kevin L. Frost v. Kansas Kansas Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-factors constitutional-rights due-process mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether the sentencing court's improper weighing of mitigating and aggravating facts at sentencing resulted in a violation of the petitioner's due pro…
21-5756 Gettus Leroy Mintz v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection false-testimony forensic-evidence grand-jury sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the State of Arizona violated the Petitioners' 5th and 14th Amendment rights to due process and equal protection when it used false testimony …
21-5759 Kevin Hall v. Kul Sood, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-treatment prison-healthcare supervisory-power wexford-health-sources Did prison medical professionals and the prison's healthcare contractor violate the Eighth Amendment?
21-576 Benjamin Forrest Carter v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error prior-testimony remedy sixth-amendment Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in affirming the defendant's convictions where the Circuit Court erred in admitting victim-witness hearsay…
21-5762 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. City of Eugene Police Department, et al. Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal legal-standing oregon-supreme-court service-of-process standing Was the Appellate Commissioner justified in dismissing the appeal on jurisdictional grounds
21-5764 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Roberto Rios, et al. Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-parties appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-dismissal due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal legal-review service-of-process standing Was the Appellate Commissioner justified in denying the application for appellate court filing fees?
21-5799 Robert Ronald Perales v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment law-enforcement online-persona outrageous-government-conduct Did these police actions constitute outrageous government conduct?
21-5860 Antonio Franklin v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-process cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection final-judgment-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel judicial-dereliction Whether the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendments protect inmates from an allegedly faulty appellate process due to ineffective counsel
21-59 Carl Gordon v. Regents of the University of California, et al. California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act administrative-record california-public-records-act california-state-law daca due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court preemption Does the de facto nullification of California state law [Cal. Gov. Code §§ 6258 and 6259] (resulting in fraud upon the court) by the Regents of the Un…
21-5950 James Henry Abel v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection intervention standing Whether the district court's denial of petitioner's motion to intervene violated the petitioner's due process rights
21-5976 Jude Joseph David Lovchik v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-investigation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing expectation-of-privacy forensic-evidence fourth-amendment search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the police were required to obtain a search warrant before submitting trash items to a forensic lab to extract DNA and create a DNA profile fo…
21-598 Dipankar Chandra v. Leonardo DRS, Inc., et al. Texas Denied Response Waived causation civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations summary-judgment TWCA-claim Whether the courts below erred in their application of the federal and Texas summary judgment standards, the TWCA claim, and the statute of limitation…
21-6042 Marques Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-hour criminal-procedure discovery discovery-review due-process fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-preparation Does the District of South Dakota's Standing Order 16-04 prohibit a defendant from independent review of discovery, denying their Sixth Amendment righ…
21-6044 Kenneth Jay Still v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit firearm-possession firearms justification justification-defense police-contact prohibited-person self-defense Whether the Eighth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant prohibited from possessing a firearm may not present a justification defense if he or she…
21-6045 Melissa Richardson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency involuntary-confession judicial-error miranda-rights motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel Whether the 5th Circuit erred in denying Richardson's motion to suppress
21-6046 Jacques Lisbey v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional
21-6056 Terrance V. Frelix v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
21-6069 Artavius Horne v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review supervisory-power third-circuit Did the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit fail to award the Petitioner a new trial as the result of error in the District Court where the Court a…
21-6071 Aldridge Robinson, et al. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act section-1951 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act Robbery is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)
21-6078 Melvin Jackson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation whether application of USSG § 2A2.1(b)(1) requires a finding of specific intent to cause bodily injury
21-6089 Edward N. Daniels v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-precedent bruton-v-united-states co-conspirator co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-admissibility precedent Did the lower court err when they refused to apply this court's precedent in Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123 (1968) when the co-conspirator / co…
21-6096 In Re Byron T. McCollum Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge mandate-recall pro-se-prisoner procedural-due-process void-judgment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals can refuse to consider and rule upon a duly filed Motion to Recall Mandate
21-6122 Malek Lassiter v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-conspiracy sentencing standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals erred by affirming the district court's denial of Lassiter's motion for judgment of acquittal on the RICO conspiracy char…
21-619 Hugo Reyes-Morales v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response Waived criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
21M42 Kenneth R. Friend v. United States Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None