| 20-1719 |
Allen Bernard Shay v. Alfred H. Siegel |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-due-process constitutional-equal-protection due-process economic-fluctuations equal-rights judicial-fraud pro-se pro-se-rights trustee-discretion |
Does a pro se bankruptcy petitioner have the same 14th-amendment-due-process-protection and equal-rights-protection as creditors during economic fluct… |
| 20-1737 |
Luke Noel Wilson v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
electronic-search email email-scanning fourth-amendment google law-enforcement private-search-doctrine search-warrant warrant-requirement |
Does the private search doctrine place Google's automated electronic scan of all email on its system outside the protection of the Fourth Amendment fo… |
| 20-1790 |
Alston Campbell, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
accomplice-witness accomplice-witnesses appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process sentencing-benefits standard-of-review |
Whether a trial court violates a defendant's rights under the Confrontation Clause by prohibiting cross-examination of accomplice witnesses about the … |
| 20-7674 |
Kuantau Reeder v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process giglio-v-united-states impeachment-evidence materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Whether the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal failed to correctly apply clearly established federal law as announced by this Court when it held… |
| 20-7891 |
Hasan Shareef v. Butler County Public Newspaper, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing |
| 20-7933 |
Erika Jacobs v. 35 West Apartments |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-court judgment-reconsideration judicial-review post-trial-motion standing state-court supreme-court-jurisdiction trial-court-decision |
Whether the Supreme Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal |
| 20-8012 |
Jack Vo v. California |
California |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-law judicial-review public-interest standing supreme-court-discretion supreme-court-review voting-rights |
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review a case of public importance that was denied consideration by the lower courts |
| 20-8031 |
Major Hudson, III v. Rick Whitten, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense procedural-default rule-60 |
Whether a misdemeanor vs. felony distinction is an extraordinary circumstance under Rule 60(b)(6) |
| 20-8032 |
Phillip Scott Grigalanz v. Kristi Lynn Grigalanz |
Indiana |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings |
Whether the government's actions violated the petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 20-8056 |
Aaron J. Bressi v. Tracy McCloud, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
amended-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-justice due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion motion-for-appointment public-issue standing |
How does this motion for appointment of counsel get dismissed and not be granted pursuant to Rule 22 U.S.C. 1915 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedu… |
| 20-8059 |
Hasan Shareef v. Captain Moore, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-standard opinions-below procedural-question standing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Did the lower court properly deny the petitioner's request for a writ of certiorari? |
| 20-8068 |
Stephen Mark McDaniel v. Edward Philbin, Warden |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-probable-cause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-voluntariness weatherford-v-bursey |
Did the Supreme Court of Georgia abuse its discretion by refusing to grant a Certificate of Probable Cause to review the judgment of the Habeas Court? |
| 20-8142 |
Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa v. Howard Finkelstein, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether Ms. Moda has a right to seek pre-trial discovery against the government under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| 20-8147 |
Hasan Shareef v. William O'Donnell, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection standard-of-review |
Whether the evidence presented by the petitioner was sufficient to establish a prima facie case of discrimination under the relevant legal standards |
| 20-8176 |
Leslie Willis v. Lawrence J. O'Toole, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fiduciary-duty fraud judicial-immunity jurisdiction petition-clause standing summary-judgment |
Whether a Court may grant summary judgment without jurisdiction |
| 20-8213 |
James Atwood v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Does the undefined term 'controlled substance' in the federal Sentencing Guidelines refer to substances controlled by federal law or state law? |
| 20-8284 |
Harold Gashe v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-court-split appellate-review criminal-justice due-process equal-protection extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion section-3582 sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Is the application of 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) for relief from 924(c) stacking sentences being applied inconsistently across appellate courts? |
| 20-8331 |
Charlene Walker Rosa v. Michael J. Satz, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attorney-client-confidentiality civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the state attorney's opening statement at the prosecution's closing argument violated the accused's right to due process and a fair trial |
| 20-8345 |
Ricky Parkerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-production burden-of-proof confrontation-clause due-process sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Process … |
| 20-8358 |
In Re Hector David Sanchez |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction retroactivity standing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its determination of the jurisdictional issues under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(A) |
| 20-8426 |
Bin Yang v. California Board of Registered Nursing |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony government-agency government-misconduct licensing-board standing |
Why is Petitioner NOT ALLOWED to withdraw her application from a nursing-board |
| 20-8427 |
Bin Yang v. Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law amendment-xiv civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud fraud-allegations licensing-dispute medical-education nursing-internship |
Question Presented |
| 20-8454 |
In Re Randy Dale Jackson |
|
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-question rule-of-law standing |
Whether petitioner was deprived of equal justice and liberty under the rule of law? |
| 21-100 |
Panya Lerdthaisong, et al. v. Benjamin Cunningham, et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process equal-protection forum-selection-clause mandamus precedents writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the Supreme Court of Texas' failure to follow its precedents in enforcing the forum-selection-clause is a denial of equal-protection |
| 21-130 |
Jack Darrell Hearn, et al. v. Steven C. McCraw, in His Official Capacity as Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights continuing-violations-doctrine discovery-of-injury-rule governmental-conduct separate-accrual-rule statute-of-limitations |
Whether the separate accrual rule or the discovery of injury rule applies to a §1983 claim challenging governmental conduct that occurred within the l… |
| 21-133 |
Jorge Alejandro Rojas v. Federal Aviation Administration |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law agency-records circuit-split consultant-corollary foia-exemption-5 freedom-of-information-act inter-agency-memoranda judicial-circuit-split statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by adopting the consultant corollary and holding that 'intra-agency memorandums or letters' in FOIA's Exemption 5 enco… |
| 21-175 |
P. Z. v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights due-process firearm-possession fourth-amendment heller mcdonald public-safety scrutiny-level second-amendment |
What is the proper level of scrutiny for the Second Amendment right to possess firearms in the home? |
| 21-190 |
Carlos W. Santiago v. Josean Toucet, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appeal appellate-rights confession confession-suppression criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct trial-transparency |
If due process of law is violated when a judge in a hidden trial disappears and erases from his judgment the confession obtained through strong cross-… |
| 21-232 |
Veena Sharma v. Domenic S. Terranova, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure dismissal-without-hearing due-process first-circuit hearing judicial-review jury-trial pro-se-petition procedural-due-process standing statute-of-limitations summons |
Whether the District Court and U.S. Appeals Court for the First Circuit decision of dismissing Petitioner's claim without issuing summons to Responden… |
| 21-239 |
Daniel Loring v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act government-misconduct legal-malpractice obstruction-of-justice public-record |
Whether Petitioners' filing was improperly removed and deleted from the public record |
| 21-243 |
James Warner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
bribery-statute constructive-amendment criminal-procedure indictment indictment-modification jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error substantial-rights |
Whether the constructive amendment of an indictment by an erroneous jury instruction, stating that conspiracy counts alleged agreements to violate a d… |
| 21-250 |
Khamraj Lall v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
brady-material constitutional-rights due-process indictment-transfer ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel right-to-testify simultaneous-indictments speedy-trial |
Whether the Trial Judge erred in not having an on-the-record colloquy with the defendant regarding the right to testify |
| 21-261 |
Carrie Rae Eldridge v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights class-legislation direct-tax due-process equal-protection graduated-taxation jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax |
Does subject-matter jurisdiction exist to enforce the income tax as a direct tax without limitation |
| 21-262 |
The Rouge House, LLC v. 308 Decatur-New Orleans, LLC |
Louisiana |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-rights corporate-representation corporations due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis |
Whether the fundamental rights of Due Process and Equal Protection guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution are violated when a corpo… |
| 21-270 |
BNSF Railway Company v. Robert Dannels |
Montana |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
federal-employers-liability-act non-frivolous-defenses preemption railroad-liability settlement settlement-obligations state-law-claims state-law-duties unfair-settlement-practices uniform-federal-framework |
Whether FELA preempts state-law duties that require a defendant to settle and pay FELA claims even when the defendant has non-frivolous defenses to li… |
| 21-273 |
Buck Gene Brune v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment finality-of-judgment plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty prosecutorial-overreach sentencing |
When does jeopardy attach after a guilty plea? |
| 21-279 |
Grand River Enterprises Six Nations Ltd. v. Mark Boughton |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
dormant-commerce-clause due-process extraterritorial-effect extraterritorial-regulation federal-preemption indian-commerce private-business-data private-data state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause |
Whether Connecticut impermissibly regulates or controls conduct beyond the boundaries of the State in violation of the dormant Commerce Clause |
| 21-303 |
Vignaraj Munsami Pillay v. Public Storage Inc. |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-liability due-process evidence exculpatory-clause motion-to-dismiss negligence property-damage standing tenant-rights |
Can a motion to dismiss a complaint using citations out of context from distinguishable cases,polished and crafted , and completely unrelated to this … |
| 21-304 |
Sharon Brown v. Cherokee County School District |
South Carolina |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usca-1983 administrative-record agency-record due-process equal-protection judicial-review south-carolina teacher-termination |
Whether petitioner's due process and equal protection rights were violated under 42 USCA § 1983 |
| 21-310 |
Erick Adrian Roman-Vega v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
None |
|
| 21-331 |
Alice Jin-Yue Guan v. Bing Ran |
Virginia |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings |
Whether state courts violated Petitioner's federal rights by removing her own property without notice and due process |
| 21-340 |
Orlando Carter v. District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
6th-amendment constitutional-right court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process groppi-precedent groppi-v-wisconsin impartial-jury venue venue-change |
Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals' categorical prohibition on changes of venue deprives defendants of the right to trial by an imparti… |
| 21-342 |
Hong Tang v. RuthAnne Visnauskas, Commissioner, New York Division of Housing and Community Renewal, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 appellate-preservation bolling-v-sharpe due-process equal-protection liberty-interest motion-for-reconsideration pro-se-litigation section-1983 substantive-due-process |
Whether a liberty interest claim was properly preserved for appeal |
| 21-360 |
Joseph Constant v. DTE Electric Company, aka DTE Energy, aka Detroit Edison Company, aka DTE, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights contract-conspiracy fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court judicial-ethics judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct rico rico-act |
Did Judge Kumar and the Executives of the Judges' RICO Enterprise made frauds upon the court |
| 21-374 |
Steven Edward Struve v. Iowa |
Iowa |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cellphone-use civil-rights fourth-amendment investigatory-stop law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion texting-while-driving traffic-stop |
Whether police officers have reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment to initiate a traffic stop for briefly holding a cellphone |
| 21-396 |
Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Dev Anand Oman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
airline-deregulation-act commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation interstate-commerce multi-state-work-shifts transportation-workers wage-and-hour-laws |
Whether California may extend its wage-and-hour laws to flight attendants who spend the vast majority of their workweek outside of California |
| 21-404 |
United States v. Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1) |
contract-workers federal-contract-workers federal-facilities intergovernmental-immunity statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause workers-compensation |
Whether a state workers' compensation law that applies exclusively to federal contract workers is barred by intergovernmental-immunity or authorized b… |
| 21-411 |
Damon B. Cook v. Brian Cates, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence judicial-discretion motion-to-reconsider rule-60b standing |
Whether the petitioner DAMON Cook has made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right pursuant to 28 USC 2253(c)(2) in order to obt… |
| 21-420 |
Postmates, LLC, fka Postmates, Inc. v. Wendy Santana |
California |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
california-labor-code epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule ninth-circuit paga-claims private-attorneys-general-act |
Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali… |
| 21-425 |
Riccardo Green v. Washington State Employment Security Department |
Washington |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection motion-for-reconsideration petition-for-review sanctions state-supreme-court us-constitution washington-state-constitution |
Whether the Washington State Supreme Court erred in judgment and abused discretion |
| 21-428 |
Rocket Mortgage, LLC, fka Quicken Loans Inc., et al. v. Phillip Alig, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights class-action damages due-process financial-injury injury mortgage-lending standing standing-doctrine |
Whether basing Article III standing to seek damages on a mere risk of harm, without evidence that the harm ever materialized |
| 21-433 |
Melvin Alexis Cortez-Ramirez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 21-436 |
In Re Kevin D. Loggins, Sr. |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice unlawful-incarceration void-judgment |
Whether the U.S./Kansas has held petitioner illegally in prison contrary to the U.S. Constitution |
| 21-441 |
Alfred H. Siegel, Trustee of the Circuit City Stores, Inc. Liquidating Trust v. John P. Fitzgerald, III, Acting United States Trustee for Region 4 |
Fourth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5) |
bankruptcy-administrator bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-trustee bankruptcy-uniformity chapter-11 chapter-11-bankruptcy judicial-districts quarterly-fees trustee-program uniform-laws |
Whether the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act violates the uniformity requirement of the Bankruptcy Clause |
| 21-461 |
Carol M. Kam v. John B. Peyton, Jr. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process final-orders judicial-procedure legal-finality rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-orders texas-statutes unsigned-orders |
Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two incomplete, illegal proposed State Court Rulings |
| 21-465 |
James L. Kisor v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit post-traumatic-stress-disorder pro-veteran-canon regulatory-interpretation service-records statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
Whether the term 'relevant official service department records' in 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(c)(1)'s 'reconsideration' provision encompasses all records that … |
| 21-467 |
Clifton Merrill Parish v. Oklahoma, et al. |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus indian-law oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced |
| 21-469 |
Tony B. Jobe, Esquire v. National Transportation Safety Board |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law consultant-corollary foia-exemption-5 foreign-government freedom-of-information-act inter-agency-documents intra-agency-communications intra-agency-memorandums regulated-parties |
Whether FOIA's Exemption 5 includes an unwritten 'consultant corollary' |
| 21-470 |
Eric Lee Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rule-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-standard plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
whether-error-can-be-plain |
| 21-472 |
Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-forfeiture debt-collection due-process false-claims-act rulemaking universal-service-fund |
Whether FCC staff seizure of Universal Service Fund funding via civil forfeiture is 'pure debt collection' under the Debt Collection Improvement Act o… |
| 21-478 |
Ee Hoong Liang v. Panircelvan Kaliannan, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
|
due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure forum-non-conveniens minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction summary-judgment |
Questions Presented |
| 21-479 |
Nicole K., by Next Friend Linda R., et al. v. Terry J. Stigdon, Director, Indiana Department of Child Services, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
abstention abstention-doctrine administrative-process circuit-court-ruling civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstances federal-court-discretion federalism judicial-proceeding procedural-jurisdiction |
Whether a federal court has discretion to put any federal proceeding on hold while a state works its way through an administrative process |
| 21-489 |
Ahmed Ali Muthana v. Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
citizenship citizenship-status diplomatic-immunity due-process legal-inconsistency passport passport-revocation revocation state-department state-department-certification |
Is the U.S. State Department's certification of an individual's diplomatic status reasonably considered conclusive and unreviewable evidence, even whe… |
| 21-490 |
Judith S. Coffey, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
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even if it is subsequently determined that the ta assessment-period bona-fide-resident internal-revenue-code section-6501(a) section-932(c)(2) statute-of-limitations tax-filing tax-return u.s.-virgin-islands |
Whether a Form 1040 (U.S. Individual Income Tax Return) filed with the U.S. Virgin Islands Bureau of Internal Revenue (VIBIR") pursuant to Section 932… |
| 21-5023 |
Donnie Romone Twiggs v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 21-5024 |
Gary E. McKinley v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. |
Nevada |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence exhibits pleadings prisoner-rights pro-se standing state-court-system |
Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for relief |
| 21-503 |
Bo Peng v. F.M. Tarbell Co. |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-corruption jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment |
Whether a court's judgment is void if it lacked jurisdiction over the subject matter or parties, or acted inconsistently with due process |
| 21-505 |
Bank of America Corporation, et al. v. Fund Liquidation Holdings LLC, as Assignee and Successor-in-Interest to FrontPoint Asian Event Driven Fund L.P., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction civil-procedure court-procedure federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction-creation legal-standing new-plaintiff plaintiff-addition rule-17 standing |
Whether a district court lacking Article III jurisdiction can create such jurisdiction by adding a new plaintiff via Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 1… |
| 21-506 |
Amec Foster Wheeler plc v. Enterprise Products Operating LLC |
Texas |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
agency-theory claim-by-claim-analysis corporate-defendant due-process forum-contacts purposeful-contacts specific-jurisdiction |
Whether due process requires a claim-by-claim analysis for specific jurisdiction |
| 21-5076 |
Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process |
Whether the prior criminal proceeding violated the accused's due process rights |
| 21-5099 |
Thomas Javion Guerrant v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
career-offender controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines state-conviction |
Does a state conviction for distribution of a substance not defined as a 'controlled substance' by federal law qualify as a career offender predicate … |
| 21-5104 |
John G. Tomes, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances judicial-discretion sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'Extraordinary and Compelling Reasons' to Reduce a Defendant's Sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) may be based on any Factor a Court … |
| 21-5109 |
Everett Jerome Tripodis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review bail-reform-act dangerousness due-process non-dangerous-offense pretrial-detention prolonged-detention statutory-interpretation |
whether-court-must-resolve-legal-questions |
| 21-5132 |
Michael Curtis Reynolds v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
arson-statute constitutional-law constitutional-voidness covid-19-risk criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-statutes predicate-offense statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Did Davis render 18 U.S.C. §2332b(a)(1)(B) equal to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B), and thus equally make void and Unconstitutional both statute subsections … |
| 21-516 |
Justin Haggerty v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
18-usc-1152 affirmative-defense criminal-procedure element federal-jurisdiction indian-country interracial interracial-offense statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the 'interracial' nature of a minor offense in Indian Country is an element of 18 U.S.C. § 1152, rather than an affirmative defense |
| 21-519 |
Growth Energy v. American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-interpretation ethanol-blending ethanol-waiver fuel-blends reid-vapor-pressure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation volatility-limit |
Whether the United States Environmental Protection Agency may interpret the ethanol-waiver provision in 42 U.S.C. § 7545(h)(4) to apply to fuel blends… |
| 21-5213 |
Zachary B. Taylor v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment habeas-corpus medical-negligence mental-health veterans-affairs |
Whether the federal court, Harris County, GA Superior Court, lacked evidence to prove Petitioner Zachary Bouvier Taylor knowingly and intentionally gu… |
| 21-522 |
Michael Simko v. United States Steel Corporation |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure civil-action civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment employment-discrimination retaliation retaliation-claim title-vii |
Whether a claim of unlawful retaliation for filing an EEOC charge can be addressed in a civil action without a second formal administrative charge |
| 21-5226 |
Faryion Edward Wardrip v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unreasonable-factual-determinations |
Whether Faryion Wardrip's trial counsel was ineffective under Strickland v. Washington |
| 21-5242 |
Joshua Sadat Washington v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence search-and-seizure suppression-hearing |
Did Hee Witdinivk tot trv i wenyng He veogenwng — OF the Suppression hearing , Whee Met vé gt thets Ye levont fo the fete Hinting [(WOCEF? |
| 21-5274 |
Michael Roy Smith v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
| 21-5281 |
Steven Burda v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure lower-court standing supreme-court |
Did the Supreme Court err by not allowing exhibits to be included? |
| 21-529 |
Bataski Bailey v. Fair & Walker Unit Owners Association, Inc., et al. |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment attorney-misconduct civil-rights defamation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding judicial-proceedings legal-ethics |
Do intentional false statements by an attorney violate opposing party's rights? |
| 21-5305 |
Alejandro Rosales-Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ability-to-pay circuit-split constitutional-consideration constitutional-law criminal-fines eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fine-assessment indigent-defendant judicial-discretion |
Whether a defendant's ability to pay a fine is a relevant consideration when determining if a fine is excessive under the Eighth Amendment |
| 21-5307 |
Millard Jerome Strickland, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether a prior conviction involving a substance that is not a controlled substance for the purposes of federal law can render a federal defendant a '… |
| 21-5351 |
Chauntel Jackson v. Transportation Security Administration |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process retaliation standing |
Whether the discrimination and retaliation under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 constitute a violation of due process, and whether there is a right-to-s… |
| 21-5354 |
Bruce S. Joyner v. The News Journal |
Delaware |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights compensation-claim defective-equipment due-process employment-contract employment-contracts industrial-accident labor-law termination-notice workers-compensation |
Whether the plaintiff's employment contract was breached, and the plaintiff is entitled to additional compensation due to an on-the-job injury |
| 21-5361 |
Eduardo Flores v. Sharp Grossmont Hospital |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment ada-1990 americans-with-disabilities-act court-accommodation due-process equal-access meaningful-access meaningful-accommodation self-represented-litigant |
Whether the Superior Court of the State of California, San Diego County and the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District violated the 14t… |
| 21-5369 |
Michael Alexander Rivera v. Unknown |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process executive-power pardon separation-of-powers standing |
Whether the United States Constitution justifies and executes the President's actions as reasonable and necessary when granting a pardon is never a si… |
| 21-5396 |
Joseph Arguello v. Jason Ravnsborg, Attorney General of South Dakota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in addressing the petition on the merits |
| 21-540 |
Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso |
Indiana |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
claim-scope exclusive-jurisdiction federal-circuit federal-patent-law gunn-v-minton jurisdictional-split patent-jurisdiction patent-validity state-court-adjudication state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether a dispute raises substantial issues of federal patent law when its resolution necessarily depends on patent-law determinations regarding claim… |
| 21-5403 |
Charles Edwin Tumlinson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice pro-se-petition standing |
Should lower federal courts be allowed to violate Supreme Court case law and deny pro-se applicants relief for fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice clai… |
| 21-5426 |
Stephen C. Shockley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
cone-v-bell constitutional-claim constitutional-law district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus state-habeas state-relitigation state-relitigation-bar |
When a federal district court refuses to hear the due-process component of a state habeas claim because that claim was twice presented to the State an… |
| 21-548 |
David J. Zawistowski v. Michael D. Kramer, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1331 28-usc-1332 ankenbrandt-v-richards diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the domestic relations exception apply to federal question jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 or is the exception limited to diversity jurisdict… |
| 21-551 |
John J. Watford v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) 18-USC-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-5513 |
Christopher Seckington v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
chapman-v-united-states constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-trafficking eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment urine-testing |
Question not identified |
| 21-5561 |
Tyrone Cade v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-habeas capital-punishment competent-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-responsibilities |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to provide capital habeas petitioners one opportunity to present Sixth Amendmen… |
| 21-5568 |
Carl Anthony Wilson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
blood-evidence blood-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity |
Was evidence favorable to the defendant excluded? |
| 21-5569 |
Patrick Charles v. Caliber Home Loans, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation damages disability due-process elder-abuse emotional-distress fair-debt-collection judicial-bias property-rights wrongful-eviction |
Do the defendants have the right to abuse an elderly and disabled person without the law doing anything about it? |
| 21-5594 |
Daniel J. Heffley v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ada-compliance deliberate-indifference disability-accommodation discriminatory-intent due-process federal-court-obligation rehabilitation-act |
Does the Federal Court have an obligation to follow the spirit and letter of the ADA and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act? |
| 21-5598 |
Cedric D. Mack v. CarHop Finance |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pleadings service-of-process standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's complaint |
| 21-5605 |
Mark E. Sells v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for lack of standing |
| 21-5606 |
In Re Charlene Rosa |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review misconduct standing |
Whether Petitioners are proper Remedy to Confirm the reach of judicial review Court to make a decision on Misconduct pending for a long period |
| 21-5633 |
Roland J. McLain v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law due-process federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) includes substances excluded from the Controlled Substances Act |
| 21-5634 |
Michael D. Forbes v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act guideline-range reasonableness-standard section-404 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
Should the reasonableness standard apply on appellate review of a ruling on a motion under Section 404 of the First Step Act? |
| 21-565 |
Olga Pavlovna Blakley v. Milling, Benson, Woodward, L.L.P. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
contract-location contractual-obligations damages damages-jurisdiction judicial-bias legal-malpractice out-of-state-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction representation-agreement |
Whether an out-of-state law firm is subject to specific in-personam jurisdiction in the client's home state, where the client signed the representatio… |
| 21-5657 |
Chris Eugene Cosner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery career-offender categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether armed bank robbery constitutes a crime of violence under the categorical approach of the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 21-5662 |
Bishop Ruben DeWayne v. United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech |
Whether the lower court's denial of the Petitioner's constitutional rights departed from accepted judicial standards |
| 21-5666 |
William Marcellus Campbell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment abuse-of-discretion appellate-review confrontation-clause cooperating-witness criminal-procedure de-novo-review sentencing |
Whether a Defendant's 6th Amendment Confrontation Clause Rights are violated when a district court judge prohibits questions to a cooperating accompli… |
| 21-5673 |
Timothy Brandon Fredrickson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography consensual-transmission constitutional-law constitutional-overbreadth criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech image-production statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 18 USC 2251 (a) is overbroad |
| 21-568 |
Jason Jarvis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-law federal-law-change judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 21-5680 |
Heather Matthews v. California State University |
Nevada |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-activity due-process first-amendment sovereign-immunity state-jurisdiction |
Does a large public entity or state university or government agency have the right to claim sovereign-immunity when committing criminal-activities aft… |
| 21-570 |
Ralph Keller v. Chippewa County Board of Commissioners, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination discrimination due-process individualized-assessment medical-devices reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act |
Did the Lower Courts err in failing to recognize the discrimination against Petitioner, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities and Rehabilita… |
| 21-571 |
Infowars, LLC, et al. v. Marcel Fontaine |
Texas |
Denied |
|
class-action defamation first-amendment free-speech media-organization public-concern rosenblatt-test speech-rights sullivan-test tort-actions |
Whether the First Amendment bars tort actions seeking damages for speech on matters of public concern directed at a loosely associated, large class of… |
| 21-5711 |
Irving Alexander Ramirez v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights courtroom-conduct courtroom-decorum due-process fair-trial jury-influence public-passion spectator-displays |
Whether spectator displays in a criminal jury trial should be prohibited as inherently prejudicial |
| 21-5722 |
Gregory Dew v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process evidence-review gateway-claim house-v-bell newly-supplemented-record procedural-bar |
Is a petitioner denied due process when the courts fail to review all relevant evidence in the overall, newly supplemented record for an actual innoce… |
| 21-5726 |
Dexter Earl Kemp v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)IFP |
civil-procedure district-court error-of-law excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment inadvertence mistake relief-from-judgment rule-60b surprise |
Whether Rule 60(b)(1) authorizes relief based on a district court's error of law |
| 21-573 |
John L. Roseman, Sr. v. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights collateral-estoppel disability disability-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination pro-se-litigation second-amendment termination |
Whether courts below relitigated issues of disability, legitimate termination, and medical advice contrary to collateral estoppel |
| 21-5731 |
Sheridan Sisk v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) include substances excluded from the Controlled Substances Act? |
| 21-5754 |
Cedrin Farodd Carter v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure different-occasions judicial-fact-finding jury-fact-finding prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Is a different-occasions finding under the Armed Career Criminal Act confined to matters essential to the fact of a prior conviction? |
| 21-5778 |
Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard merits-analysis merits-ruling standard-of-review |
Does a court of appeals violate the threshold certificate of appealability (COA) standard when it adopts the district court's merits rulings as its ow… |
| 21-578 |
John Raynor v. Dennis Walker, et al. |
Nebraska |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection internal-affairs-doctrine nebraska-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the Equal Protection Clause circumscribe the Nebraska Supreme Court's discretion to disregard a Color of Law adjudication? |
| 21-5785 |
Gregory Albert Darst v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights coram-nobis due-process irs-records judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation record-falsification standing |
Does a pattern and practice exist whereby appellate courts refuse to adjudicate every issue presented by the Class of unrepresented litigants appealin… |
| 21-5795 |
Ethan Guillen v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
circuit-split confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure interrogation-procedure law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warnings officer-intent question-first-interrogation seibert-v-missouri |
In determining the admissibility of post-warning confessions given during question-first interrogations, should courts apply the Seibert plurality's o… |
| 21-580 |
Vitaly Korchevsky v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process evidence grand-jury grand-jury-clause insider-trading material-nonpublic-information securities-exchange-act securities-fraud stock-trading |
Whether the evidence at trial so dramatically changed the type, number, and scope of the specifically alleged trades that the defendant was denied his… |
| 21-5804 |
Kenneth Randale Door v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency judgment-of-acquittal jurisdiction plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states |
Is review of a claim that the evidence was insufficient to establish the knowledge of status required by Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (201… |
| 21-585 |
Kari Leanne Riggin v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
Denied |
|
business business-restrictions civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment executive-orders legislative-power pandemic-response takings |
Whether Kari Riggin's federal constitutional rights to conduct business, engage in employment, and earn a living were denied by the state governor's e… |
| 21-5850 |
Lawrence E. Mattison v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law equal-protection federal-employment federal-law policy-procedure race-discrimination racial-discrimination |
Whether this Federal employer may use a Substantive Procedure contrary to Federal law and DVA Policy & Procedure |
| 21-586 |
Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion discovery due-process judicial-procedure litigation-strategy lucky-brand-v-marcel rehiring sineneng-smith-v-us summary-judgment |
Is the Seventh Circuit decision contrary to Supreme Court precedent on later claims and preclusion of later events? |
| 21-5867 |
James Dean Kendrick v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting-liability criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure indian-reservation indian-reservations sentencing-guidelines title-21-usc title-21-usc-section-841(b)(1)(A) title-21-usc-section-848(e)(1)(A) title-21-usc-section-848(g)-(p) |
Can-the-Government's-alleged-motive-for-the-murder-of-a-non-Indian-committed-by-another-non-Indian-override-139-years-of-this-Court's-precedent-as-to-… |
| 21-5886 |
Sasha Trieste McGarity v. Birmingham Public Schools, dba West Maple Elementary - Bloomfield Hills |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1652 28-usc-8004 civil-procedure court-rules due-process electronic-filing federal-procedure legal-service service-of-process statutory-interpretation |
Does filing an answer with the court via electronic means but failing to serve the plaintiff satisfy service of process in accordance with 28 U.S. Cod… |
| 21-5889 |
Anibal Alejandro Hernandez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
closing-argument courtroom-security criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-statements shackling trial-shackling |
Was Petitioner denied the effective assistance of counsel when his trial counsel failed to object to Petitioner being ordered to be shackeled during t… |
| 21-5911 |
Michael Herman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
complete-defense compulsory-process due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-standards mens-rea right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment |
Can a defendant's right to present a complete defense be violated by the arbitrary and disproportionate application of a general evidentiary standard … |
| 21-592 |
Jeffrey Isaacs v. USC Keck School of Medicine, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contract-interpretation decade-and-a-half Gibson-Dunn inconsistent-positions judicial-estoppel legal-ethics medical-license oath settlement-agreement USC whistleblower-claims |
Under the doctrine of judicial estoppel, should the lower courts have upheld the sanctity of the oath and estopped USC and Gibson Dunn from arguing in… |
| 21-5922 |
Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certiorari-petition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process individual-rights judicial-review statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Should this Court grant writ of Certiorari addressing constitutional issues, correcting a miscarriage of justice |
| 21-5933 |
Kevin Deon Loggins, Sr. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection sentencing speedy-trial |
whether-the-kansas-state-court-finding-that-petitioner-sentence-is-not-an-illegal-sentence-is-an-abuse-of-discretion-repugnant-to-the-due-process-clau… |
| 21-5941 |
Angela Michelle Morelli v. Joshua B. Hyman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process federal-jurisdiction hearsay-evidence life-liberty-property procedural-hearing victim-protection |
Why are Women's Constitutional Rights being violated under the 14th Amendment, for both procedural Due Process and Life, Liberty and Property? |
| 21-5942 |
Michael Woolen v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-due-process sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the cumulative effect of deprivations of equal protection of laws, failure to appoint counsel, and procedural due process deficiency issues re… |
| 21-5943 |
Brandon Ward v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability character-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel use-of-force witness-testimony |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) |
| 21-5959 |
Darwin J. Fifield, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights coerced-statement counsel-ineffectiveness due-process excessive-force fifth-amendment fourth-amendment involuntary-confession law-enforcement self-representation sixth-amendment |
Whether law enforcement's unprovoked excessive use of force during an arrest should invalidate as coerced by threat or force a Petitioner's later stat… |
| 21-5968 |
Timothy Stemen v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel police-misconduct search-and-seizure self-incrimination |
Did law enforcement violate the petitioner's due process rights under the 14th Amendment regarding the recordings |
| 21-5979 |
Leihinahina Sullivan, aka Jennifer Sullivan v. Reneau Kennedy, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-subpoena medical-records patient-privacy psychotherapist-patient-privilege standing |
Does a judge vested by statute to subpoena a criminal defendant's treating psychotherapist-patient records, cannot over a criminal defendant's express… |
| 21-5981 |
Ray Sarabian v. Halliburton Logging Services |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech school-discipline student-rights |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right of a public school to discipline a student for off-campus speech |
| 21-5983 |
Jennifer L. Kammerer v. State Bar of California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act disability-rights discrimination equal-protection mental-illness mental-illness-discrimination professional-license professional-licensing rehabilitation-program |
Does the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit punishing an individual for being mentally ill by revoking their professional license and denying th… |
| 21-5990 |
Randy Alana v. Michael Martel, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
None |
|
| 21-5994 |
Choo Washburn v. John Nunez, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction divorce-proceedings due-process erie-doctrine personal-property property-rights real-property takings |
Does the meaning of the word 'PROPERTY' in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments indicate 'PERSONAL PROPERTY' or 'REAL PROPERTY |
| 21-5996 |
Jayson Thomas Weiss v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the evidence presented was sufficient to support the conviction |
| 21-600 |
Wade Steven Gardner, et al. v. William Mutz, in His Capacity as Mayor of the City of Lakeland, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-speech legacy-monuments legal-doctrine monument-display public-forum public-forums summum summum-precedent |
Should the government speech doctrine as recognized in Pleasant Grove City, Utah v. Summum be modified in cases involving legacy monuments already in … |
| 21-6008 |
Keyaira Porter v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge comparative-juror-analysis criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination standard-of-review trial-procedure |
Whether a trial court must make express rulings at Batson's third step |
| 21-6012 |
Michael Rimmer v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-trial confrontation-clause criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-unavailability |
whether-the-courts-below-erred-by-upholding-the-trial-court's-determination-that-the-only-witness-to-petitioner's-purported-jailhouse-confession-was-u… |
| 21-6013 |
Zachary Scott Reed v. Michael Dixon, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clear-error due-process judicial-fairness pro-se-plaintiff qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the failure of the district court and the appellate court to ensure an earlier legal decision is fair and just and subsequent disregard of a p… |
| 21-6015 |
Robert Lee Walden v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-v-florida legal-precedent reasonable-diligence unsettled-circuit-law |
Whether equitable tolling is available when a habeas petitioner relies on unsettled circuit law that is later upended by legal developments |
| 21-6016 |
Zelda Ware v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-warrant state-agency |
Whether a court order directing a state agency to pick up a child is the functional equivalent of a search warrant |
| 21-6018 |
Gary F. Compelleebee v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-proceedings due-process jurisdiction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception |
Whether respondent waived/forfeited any of its procedural defenses |
| 21-6019 |
James Paul Arlotta v. His Holiness Pope Francis, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appearances-of-impropriety bankruptcy-court civil-rights conflicts-of-interest constitutional-questions court-jurisdiction due-process establishment-clause judicial-proceedings legal-review recusal |
Whether the court will adhere to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment in light of the apparent conflicts of interest and impropriety involv… |
| 21-6021 |
Elroy William Robinson v. David Holbrook, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process jurisdiction military-law |
Whether the military court-martial jurisdiction extends to a civilian spouse of an active-duty service member |
| 21-6026 |
Barton R. Gaines v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-standard trial-counsel |
Whether a defendant has a reasonable expectation that his trial counsel will comply with Strickland, or does that reasonable expectation evaporate upo… |
| 21-6030 |
Keith Elmo Davis v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process jurisdiction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception tribal-sovereignty |
Whether respondent waived/forfeited procedural defenses |
| 21-6031 |
William Greg Thomas v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance |
When a court-appointed CJA counsel sacrificed a petitioner's federal habeas review by intentionally filing an untimely petition, does due-process allo… |
| 21-6036 |
Brian David Hill v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus |
Where the U.S. Court of Appeals didn't properly grant a Certificate of Appealability to an improperly dismissed § 2255 Motion/Case asserting Actual In… |
| 21-6037 |
Brian David Hill v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fraud hazel-atlas hazel-atlas-motion judicial-fraud motion-to-vacate supervisory-powers uncontested-motions |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals properly applied its supervisory powers to ensure the proper application of Local Rule 7.3 MOTION PRACTICE |
| 21-6038 |
In Re Brian David Hill |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitution constitutional-violations district-court due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-rebellion north-carolina supreme-court-authority uncontested-motions |
Where the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina had systematically and repeatedly deprived a Petitioner of Due Process of Law … |
| 21-6039 |
Stanley Blair Hill v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process expert-testimony junk-science scientific-evidence strickland-prejudice |
Whether the trial court erred in admitting unreliable scientific testimony and evidence, in violation of the petitioner's due process rights |
| 21-6040 |
Louis Holger v. State of Alaska, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings |
Whether the United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) denial of patent applications violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| 21-6043 |
Vedrick Lamonte Symonette v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland constitutional-violations criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-error fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice judicial-procedure jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice vague-indistinct-indefinite |
Whether the information provided to the defendant was so vague, indistinct, and indefinite that it resulted in a due process violation, a Brady v. Mar… |
| 21-6047 |
Fortuno Jeanfort v. Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees, aka Florida Atlantic University |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
absolute-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-guarantees due-process pleading-standards public-official standing tort-liability |
Whether a university defendant can claim they are a public official to avoid liability for bank fraud, gross negligence, or tort liability |
| 21-6057 |
Eugene Korte v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination standing voting-rights |
Question not identified |
| 21-6061 |
John Rodney Johnson v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias sixth-amendment |
Does a Prosecutor's conduct to interject race comments into a State trial as an appeal to a racial prejudice based on the fact the trial having the in… |
| 21-6065 |
Michael Belcher v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment post-mortem-photographs prejudice-analysis prejudicial-evidence |
Whether the admission, without an analysis of the risk of prejudice, of over 40 gruesome photographs of the victim's body, depicting post-mortem decom… |
| 21-6067 |
Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Karen Pszczolkowski, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility |
West Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states recidivism recidivist-statute residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a judicially crafted residual clause unconstitutional? |
| 21-607 |
Maura Lee Wahlberg, Individually and as Trustee of the Grever-Burke Trust Agreement v. Roy Grever |
Florida |
Denied |
|
extrinsic-fraud fraud full-faith-and-credit interstate-judgment intrinsic-fraud judicial-fraud legal-preclusion procedural-comity sister-state-judgment state-court state-court-judgment |
Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause permit a state court refuse to give a sister state's judgment full faith and credit based on its belief that the… |
| 21-6074 |
Nikolas Gacho v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-admonishment plea-negotiations prejudice sixth-amendment |
Does a plea admonishment cure all prejudice and preclude a defendant from challenging counsel's representation during the plea negotiations process? |
| 21-6083 |
James Osgood v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment credibility-determinations death-penalty juror-challenge jury-selection sentencing-determination sixth-amendment trial-court witherspoon-v-illinois |
Can a reviewing court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, uphold a challenge for cause in a capital case on the basis of a potential juror's persona… |
| 21-6084 |
Jacquelyne Jones v. Nicole Jobe |
Kansas |
Denied |
IFP |
canon-of-judicial-ethics civil-rights court-procedure due-process ex-parte ex-parte-proceeding judicial-canon judicial-conduct judicial-ethics procedural-rules state-courts supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Kansas Supreme Court fail to follow the law and rules of the judiciary in condoning a procedure of one of its state courts in violation of Kan… |
| 21-6085 |
Robert George Knecht, Jr. v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing |
Whether the State Court of Appeals erred and departed from the essential requirements of the law and federal constitutional claims |
| 21-6088 |
George Brass v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standing state-court takings |
Whether reasonable jurists would find the rulings as to the issues related to the withdrawal of claims and related issues debatable of wrong |
| 21-609 |
Loriann Anderson, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech nonmember-employees public-employees state-action union-dues union-membership waiver |
Whether government employers and unions need clear and compelling evidence of employees' knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver of First Amendment… |
| 21-6093 |
Jeffrey D. Leiser v. Karl Hoffmann, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-treatment summary-judgment wanton-suffering |
Did the District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the legal presidents that 46 days of severe 'unnecessary inflict of wanton pain… |
| 21-6094 |
Jabari J. Johnson v. Lewis T. Babcock, Senior Judge, United States District Court for the District of Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process frcp-12(c) motion-to-dismiss standing |
Did the district court abuse its discretion in denying the plaintiff's motion under FRCP 12(c)? |
| 21-6095 |
Jabari J. Johnson v. Donald Nunez, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction pleadings remedies standing statutory-provisions supreme-court writ-petition |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying the plaintiff's request |
| 21-6097 |
Dashon Hines v. Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance Staff, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights due-process medicaid |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a state to provide free legal assistance to a disabled individual seeking to challenge … |
| 21-6101 |
Paul D. Timms v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court-review due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
When a federal district court denies a state prisoner's 28-U.S.C.-2254-petition based upon an improper standard-of-review |
| 21-6103 |
Moses D. Estrada v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-relationship collaborative-discovery constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation procedural-rights right-to-counsel victim-rights |
Does an accused have a right to effective assistance of counsel when the accused does not collaborate with counsel? |
| 21-6104 |
Christopher Michael Hitt v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the Commonwealth of Virginia's actions in this case violated the Petitioners' First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights? |
| 21-6108 |
Paradise L. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-general clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-rights witness-exclusion |
Whether the termination of mother's parental rights was supported by clear and convincing evidence as required by the due process clause |
| 21-6114 |
Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment racial-discrimination standing systematic-exclusion |
Was Petitioner Racially Discriminated because he is Black? |
| 21-6121 |
Luis Enrique Lario-Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
commentary crimes-of-violence criminal-enhancement guideline-commentary prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Sentencing Commission can use commentary to expand an unambiguous Guideline that applies to enhancements for prior convictions for crimes … |
| 21-6125 |
Roberto Griego Jimenez v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
corroboration credibility criminal-informant fourth-amendment law-enforcement magistrate-warrant probable-cause quid-pro-quo reliability |
Did the trial court and Texas Court of Appeals err in their Fourth Amendment analysis? |
| 21-6138 |
Armando B. Cortinas, Jr. v. Jo Gentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
Brecht-v-Abrahamson confession constitutional-error federal-habeas federal-review felony-murder habeas-corpus harmless-error premeditation-and-deliberation section-2254 state-court-decision |
Whether the state court's harmless error determination was unreasonable under 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(1)-and-(2) |
| 21-6149 |
Domingo Palma v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Are the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments violated by a trial court's refusal to grant a mistrial where a prosecution witness injects groundless, irrele… |
| 21-6151 |
Gary DuBose Terry v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-review summary-judgment trial-counsel |
Whether a federal habeas court may summarily dismiss a petition alleging a substantial but defaulted claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel … |
| 21-6158 |
Delilah Colarte v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-limits fourth-amendment passenger-identification rodriguez-limits rodriguez-v-united-states seizure-duration traffic-stop warrant-check |
Whether law enforcement can require passengers to identify themselves during a traffic stop |
| 21-6165 |
Davenell L. Ash v. Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process electromagnetic-harassment human-trafficking standing terrorist-watchlist whistleblower whistleblower-retaliation |
Did the United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit deny Ms. Ash of her 14th amendment right of due process |
| 21-6167 |
Harry Sharod James v. Roy Cooper, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure law-library legal-access prisoner-rights |
Whether the petitioner was deprived of his fundamental constitutional right of access to the courts by not having access to a meaningful, effective, a… |
| 21-6170 |
Michael D. Webb v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law chevron-deference executive-order executive-privilege foia foia-request jacobson-v-massachusetts justiciable-issue public-health public-health-emergency separation-of-powers |
Whether the President's interest in confidentiality can be overcome by a FOIA request |
| 21-6174 |
Antonio Smith v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does the Arkansas Code's application of Ark. Code Ann. § 16-49-101 et seq. deprive necessary parties of due process and equal protection under the Fou… |
| 21-6182 |
Erick Argueta Larios v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a federal district court may use relevant conduct not proven by clear and convincing evidence to disproportionately raise a defendant's senten… |
| 21-6188 |
Johnathan Andrew Doody v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-withdrawal coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance involuntary-confession right-to-testify |
Whether Doody was denied his right to testify |
| 21-6189 |
Michael John Turnbull v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 21-6194 |
Rahmatullo Fayzalievic Hikmatov v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 21-6195 |
Ronald C. Fairchild v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment martinez-claim martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment |
Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals allow Mr. Fairchild's rights under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, as… |
| 21-6197 |
Lance Arnold Kingbird v. Vicki Janssen, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists similar-facts statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about the denial of relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 where other courts hav… |
| 21-6198 |
Billy Dean Smith v. Lynnie Einerson, Acting Superintendent, Spring Creek Correctional Center |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protections death-penalty disadvantaged-groups due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-review prisoner-rights standing state-prisoners state-procedure |
Can the US Supreme Court find that when litigating a state by way of a federal habeas corpus, the matter of what race, color or creed a state prisoner… |
| 21-6199 |
Robert M. Samson v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights free-speech government-speech prior-restraint public-forum viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether the Director of the MCSB violated the First Amendment rights of the petitioner by denying his request to post a message on the MCSB's public f… |
| 21-6203 |
Michael Walker v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins rule-60(b)(6) strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that a petitioner asserting actual innocence in a Rule 60(b)(6) motion was not entitled to relief on the ba… |
| 21-6206 |
Joel Barcelona v. Sergeant Parish, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-threatening life-without-parole medical-treatment refusal-of-care |
Whether the Respondents, Nurse J.M. Chunnu and Nurse M.M. Kelly, exhibited deliberate indifference to Petitioner's life-threatening medical condition … |
| 21-6209 |
Angelo Cobbins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance evidence-suppression intellectual-capacity motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel trial-court waiver |
Whether the ruling on the Motion to Suppress was error as it was demonstrated the Petitioner did not possess the intellectual capacity to waive his Cu… |
| 21-6213 |
Rosemary I. Mergenthaler v. R. Kenneth Barnard |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-misconduct justice legal-authority |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit criminally abuse and/or exceed its legal authority |
| 21-6216 |
Robert J. Kulick v. Leisure Village Association, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-stirling-act due-process freedom-of-speech freedom-of-the-press homeowners-association quasi-government unconstitutional |
Question not identified |
| 21-6218 |
Matthew Manuel Barnett v. Colorado |
Colorado |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari civil-rights criminal-law due-process influence-statute private-corporation public-servant state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether an employee of a private corporation can be considered a 'public servant' for purposes of a state statute criminalizing attempts to influence … |
| 21-6219 |
Martin Lindstedt, et al. v. Bryan Anthony Reo |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-lawfare civil-procedure defamation false-light jurisdiction monopoly-license public-figure punitive-damages statutory-limitations white-supremacy |
Question not identified |
| 21-6220 |
Jehoni Kierre Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
2255-motion abuse-of-discretion amendment civil-procedure direct-appeal district-court-discretion evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-civil-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal |
Whether the District Court denying petitioner's request to Amend is in conflict with The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 15? |
| 21-6222 |
Marc E. Bercoon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
bank-of-nova-scotia-v-us chapman-v-california constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury harmless-error judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether Feritiener's rights were violated |
| 21-6225 |
Edwin Guzman and Herzzon Sandoval v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accessory-after-fact accessory-after-the-fact circuit-split equipoise expert-testimony gatekeeping-function general-understanding mens-rea RICO-conspiracy RICO-predicate-offenses specific-understanding |
Whether the First Circuit misapplied RICO-conspiracy, RICO-predicate-offenses, general-understanding, specific-understanding, equipoise, accessory-aft… |
| 21-6227 |
Misael Cordero v. Jonathan Gramp, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel false-testimony government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether a due process violation occurs when the government knowingly uses false testimony even if the defense knows of the false testimony |
| 21-6240 |
Michael Roger Clemons, aka Chinaman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error standard-of-review |
Whether any procedural sentencing error can be deemed harmless if the district court announces, without further explanation, that it would have impose… |
| 21-6249 |
Daniel Rosa v. Bruce Gelb, Superintendent, Souza Baranowski Correctional Center |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Court of Appeal's decision that failed to provide a reasoned justification for denying a Certificate of Appealability, but rather stated onl… |
| 21-625 |
Robert Palmer v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process judicial-relief remedies state-liability wrongful-conviction |
Does the Constitution require South Carolina to provide a remedy for a wrongful conviction? |
| 21-6253 |
Baltazar Aguirre-Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment special-interrogatory |
When a jury's answer to a special interrogatory negates an element of the charged offense, must a district court enter a judgment of acquittal when th… |
| 21-6255 |
Ofelio Arvizu-Loredo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-6256 |
Macario Andrew Gomez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 21-6259 |
Shelly Margaret Arndt v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-provisions discretionary-power due-process internet-research judicial-discretion juror-misconduct prejudicial-error remmer statutory-provisions verdict-integrity |
Whether a lower court can rule that a verdict was not affected by juror misconduct when the exact websites and content viewed by the juror are unknown… |
| 21-6262 |
Guadalupe Padilla v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-review dna-mixture-analysis dna-testing due-process governmental-body governmental-immunity judicial-oversight post-conviction post-conviction-dna-testing statutory-requirements |
Is a non-profit corporation, acting as a governmental body to review criminal convictions involving the re-calculation, re-analysis and/or re-testing … |
| 21-6268 |
Cesar Martinez v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment trial-by-jury |
Whether basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which the jury acquitted him violates his rights to due process and … |
| 21-6272 |
Igor Perlov v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
credibility credibility-determination criminal-charge due-process harmless-error jury-instruction reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Is it a violation of the Due Process Clause and defendant's Sixth Amendment right to require the State to prove a criminal charge beyond a reasonable … |
| 21-6273 |
Nathan R. Rollins, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-sentencing-guidelines booker-standard criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-booker |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's holding perpetuates the error this Court sought to address in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005) |
| 21-6274 |
Ricky Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with decisions of this Court and creates a split in the Cir… |
| 21-6275 |
David Wayne Dooley v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arizona-v-youngblood burden-of-proof civil-procedure confrontation-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-spoliation separation-of-witnesses state-action |
Is Due Process violated when a criminal defendant must bear the burden of showing bad faith in order to be entitled to a missing evidence instruction,… |
| 21-6284 |
Marc Blane Baccus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
border-trafficking criminal-sentencing drug-importation drug-trafficking guideline-enhancement importation methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense mexico sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Appellant's Sentence should have been enhanced for methamphetamine Importation from Mexico under §2D1.1(B)(5) |
| 21-6286 |
Patrick Lawrence Henderson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
Whether Henderson's revocation sentence violates Apprendi and its progeny |
| 21-6287 |
Mario Hernandez-Galarza v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history discrimination due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration-law liberty noncitizen-rights sentencing-guidelines |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(3) is unconstitutional |
| 21-6290 |
George Steven Burch v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent consent-search data-retention digital-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure smartphone-data warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment tolerates the government duplicating, retaining, and warrantlessly searching the entire digital contents of a smartphone … |
| 21-6292 |
Jason R. Bohlinger v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-district-court habeas-corpus section-2254 standing |
Whether the Northern District of Indiana erred by denying Bohlinger habeas relief as untimely under section 2254 habeas corpus Rule 4, and by redactin… |
| 21-6296 |
James Paul Desper v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association parental-rights prison-regulations prison-visitation |
Whether a prison's indefinite ban on visitation between a minor child and her parent without any particularized justification violates the right of fa… |
| 21-630 |
Harry Barnett v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-reconsider pro-se standing |
Whether a District Court's striking of a timely-filed Motion to Reconsider violates due process rights |
| 21-6300 |
Ricky Cardenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-procedure objection-standard presentence-report sentencing unjust-incarceration |
Whether the defendant bears a burden to disprove adverse conclusions of a Presentence Report? |
| 21-6305 |
Eric Volk v. State Bar of California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence disciplinary-proceedings due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement legal-representation professional-conduct search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Can The Spate bar of CAIIFOCWA cJos2 . a Complaint an my BHerreo Ms. Lance Brown, Where rules ef profcfsyone| Condect, dnd ng Ave proces Whrk Ve oat l… |
| 21-631 |
Emily S. Wilson, as Executrix of the Estate of Joseph A. Wilson, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law chevron-deference foreign-trust irs-policy irs-reporting statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-penalty |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in not resolving the ambiguity in the statutory provisions of 28 U.S.C. §§ 6048 and 6677 in favor of Petitioners |
| 21-6310 |
Carlos Santos v. Christine Brannon-Dortch, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split extraneous-information habeas-corpus jury-deliberations prejudice remmer-hearing |
Whether the state is still required to bear the burden at a Remmer hearing when the issue is litigated in the context of a habeas corpus petition, whe… |
| 21-6312 |
Manuel Melgar-Diaz and Joaquin Benito-Mendoz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law congressional-delegation constitutional-authority constitutional-law executive-power government-branches legislative-delegation legislative-power non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers |
Whether Congress can delegate its authority to another branch of government consistent with the Constitution by merely providing an 'intelligible prin… |
| 21-6314 |
Carl Alvin Cushing v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-trials evidence-evaluation expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-702 federal-rules-of-evidence jury-function law-enforcement law-enforcement-experts percipient-witnesses prosecutorial-discretion |
Whether law enforcement expert testimony contradicting percipient witnesses satisfies Federal Rule of Evidence 702 |
| 21-6318 |
Michael Aaron Aldridge v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the district court exceeded the statutory maximum sentence |
| 21-6320 |
Devon Carl Jordan-McFeely v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguous-statute criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-inquiry federal-court federal-sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancement state-court state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-ambiguity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a federal court may certify the divisibility inquiry to state court and rely on the newly created judicial interpretation of state law to enha… |
| 21-6321 |
Fernando Rodriguez-Macedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-6322 |
Gustavo Trejo-Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-6323 |
D'Arde Lee Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure escape halfway-house plain-error sentencing u.s.s.g.-2p1.1 |
Whether the court of appeals failed to properly apply the plain error analysis to the question of whether the sentencing court erred by failing to gra… |
| 21-6324 |
Jesus Alfredo Ramirez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure communication-interception criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression probable-cause title-iii wiretap |
Whether the district court erred in authorizing a wiretap of Petitioner's communications under Title III and in failing to suppress the evidence inter… |
| 21-6325 |
Leslie Reed v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question judicial-precedent judicial-review precedent standard-of-review supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals had decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions… |
| 21-6327 |
Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission expert-testimony fair-trial free-exercise standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Should the petitioner's matter have been allowed to progress to a court-ordered trial since the respondent was incarcerated for exercising his constit… |
| 21-6329 |
Steven Blakeney v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard summary-reversal |
Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's denial of a COA where the underlying issues were clearly debatable by jurists of reas… |
| 21-6332 |
Daeron Johnson Merrett, aka Reez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court-split buyer-seller-instruction circuit-split conspiracy-distribution controlled-substance drug-conspiracy federal-drug-offenses mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony |
issue-being-raised |
| 21-6333 |
Eddy Jean Philippeaux v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment disability-process due-process mental-disability military-discharge traumatic-brain-injury |
Is the Secretary of the Department of Defense or the respective Secretary of the Military Branch of Service of the U.S. Armed Forces or the Servicemem… |
| 21-6334 |
Christopher Jason Henry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard circuit-court harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states procedural-error procedural-reasonableness rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Whether the sentencing adjustment in U.S.S.G. § 5G1.3(b) is completely advisory |
| 21-6335 |
Chi Mak v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure judicial-review sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors statutory-factors statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court abused its discretion and acted unreasonably in denying Mak's motion for compassionate release |
| 21-6336 |
Darrin Lashaon Betts v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 21-usc-841(a)(1)-(b)(1)(a) amendment-782 criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-11(c)(1)(c) fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-law type-c-agreement |
Whether a defendant is eligible for 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(2) relief |
| 21-6338 |
Danquan A. Fanning v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii article-iii-authority article-iv-court constitutional-authority court-judgment criminal-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-usurpation territorial-court |
Whether the United States District Court, as an Article IV Territorial Court, illegally usurped Article III Constitutional Authority and illegally ent… |
| 21-6339 |
Sushila Gaur v. Department of Defense |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified |
| 21-6341 |
Donald D. Foltz, Jr. v. Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment implied-bias jury-bias jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Was the seating of juror who should have been dismissed for cause requires reversal because implied biased applies to Juror foreman, 1301, married to … |
| 21-6342 |
Belinda Hernandez v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 21-6343 |
Jonathan Robins v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing state-court-convictions |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's habeas corpus petition challenging his state court convictions for lack of jurisdiction |
| 21-6345 |
Jeremy Schenck v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
benign-information evidence-description judicial-scrutiny legal-review paragraph-structure probable-cause scrutiny search-warrant vulgar-slang warrant-application |
Whether allegations in a warrant application are entitled to lesser scrutiny when the district court concludes they are essential to the probable caus… |
| 21-6346 |
Jason W. Reed v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sexual-predator sexual-predator-designation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether counsel's admitted misadvice regarding Petitioner's designation as a sexual predator and the resulting lifetime supervision amounted to gross … |
| 21-6347 |
Justin Dwight Sholley-Gonzalez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process intimate-partner-violence plain-error rehaif-error restraining-order second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a new trial based on plain Rehaif v. United States error is required |
| 21-6351 |
Holly Harvey v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-standard standing |
Whether the right to a direct appeal can be waived, diminished or abandoned due to a silent record? |
| 21-6352 |
Alberic Israel v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 21-6353 |
Stephen Allwine v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts court-funding due-process equal-protection financial-status in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion legal-procedure post-conviction post-conviction-relief |
Did the Trial Court err in denying In Forma Pauperis funding based on financial status at start of prosecution rather than post-conviction action? |
| 21-6355 |
Everett Earl Parker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-felony |
Whether Mr. Parker's life sentence for count 1 should be vacated due to lack of two prior qualifying 'serious violent felony' convictions |
| 21-6357 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-sentencing-act federal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the district court erred in denying Mr. Reid a fair hearing for resentencing and failing to bring him back to court for the application of the… |
| 21-636 |
Rubens Aspilaire v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-6360 |
Qian Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-procedure factual-findings federal-court federal-custody federal-jurisdiction grand-jury-indictment judicial-discretion search-warrant speedy-trial-act |
Did the court of appeals properly affirm the trial court's decisions? |
| 21-6361 |
Marcus Crawley, aka Holyfield v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states due-process judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a reviewing court may search plea documents for evidence of another predicate to sustain a § 924(c) conviction when that predicate was not pro… |
| 21-6362 |
Rocky Krupa v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker booker-standard district-court-discretion due-process family-circumstances probabilistic-model procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness u.s.s.g.-§5h1.6 |
Procedural-and-substantive-reasonableness-of-sentence |
| 21-6364 |
Kenneth R. Friend v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2518 authorization-defect dahda-v-united-states deputy-assistant-attorney-general deputy-attorney-general fourth-amendment good-faith-exception warrant-requirement wiretap-statute |
Does the good-faith-exception apply to wiretap-statute-violations? |
| 21-6366 |
Juan Alberto Ceron-Ortiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial recidivism sentencing |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) |
| 21-6367 |
Dacoby Reshard Wooten v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-theories criminal-procedure felony-murder first-degree-murder jury-unanimity premeditated-murder sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires jury unanimity as to whether a defendant committed premeditated murder or felony murder when the state proceeds o… |
| 21-6368 |
Suzanne Elizabeth Wexler v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-detention miranda miranda-custody police-authority search-warrant terry-stop |
Whether Fourth Amendment reasonableness concerns have any bearing on a determination of custody under Miranda |
| 21-6369 |
Jeremy Denson v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-standard boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-discretion judicial-oversight plea-bargaining plea-canvass record-development |
Did the judge err in accepting the defendant's guilty plea without asking him about the contradictory statements? |
| 21-6370 |
Omil Cotto, aka Omil Gomez, aka Omil Alfredo Gomez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone-seizure cellphones criminal-procedure fourth-amendment overbreadth probable-cause road-rage search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant warrant-overbreadth |
Whether the search warrant was constitutionally overbroad in authorizing the seizure of 'any cellphones' in the house when officers had no reason to b… |
| 21-6371 |
Boubakf Darme, aka Boubacar Drame v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 21-6372 |
James Michael Bartley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights competency-proceeding constitutional-challenge due-process gun-rights judicial-review mental-competency mental-illness right-to-bear-arms second-amendment standing |
Whether the government may deny a law-abiding citizen their right to bear arms under the Second Amendment based solely on a competency proceeding that… |
| 21-6378 |
Severo Garcia-Meza v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law board-of-immigration-appeals civil-rights compassionate-release cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process immigration-law incarceration ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing |
Whether a district court has authority to reduce a sentence under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A) when determining a compassionate release motion |
| 21-6379 |
Keith R. Gomez v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-remedy sentencing state-court substantive-rights |
Whether Petitioner had a Constitutional right to be informed and/or Notified of 'right to appeal' after erroneously being sentenced, via 'corrected or… |
| 21-638 |
David R. Watkins, et al. v. Brian F. Spector, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-procedure class-action data-breach due-process ex-parte judicial-procedure legal-ethics settlement settlement-agreement state-law-claims |
Whether it violates due-process for a district-court to adopt verbatim a final-opinion on discretionary-matters ghostwritten by a prevailing-party's l… |
| 21-6384 |
Kimani I. Sterling v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review criminal-appeal eighth-circuit judicial-procedure preservation-of-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-objections standard-of-review waiver waiver-doctrine |
Has the Eighth Circuit imposed upon Mr. Sterling an unlawful burden by finding Sterling waived his argument that the District Court violated procedura… |
| 21-6390 |
Marcial Carrillo-Serna v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-error guidelines-calculation molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 21-6391 |
Hai A. Duong v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Can Louisiana's 1997 and 1998 legislative amendments to La. R.S. 14:42 (C) and (D) qualify, absent a constitutional amendment, as the attendant provis… |
| 21-6395 |
Seitu Sulayman Kokayi v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights electronic-surveillance first-amendment fisa-surveillance foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act fourth-amendment probable-cause standing |
Whether electronic surveillance of a U.S. citizen under FISA violates FISA and/or the First and/or Fourth Amendments |
| 21-6398 |
Roy M. Belfast v. M. Breckon, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure judicial-review standing takings |
Did the Rope, Aly Covell, Bid to the Violation of the Equal Powers U.S. to the Writ of Certiorari? |
| 21-6400 |
Sonya R. Edwards v. Mesquite Independent School District |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure civil-rights eeoc-charge employment-discrimination procedural-waiver statute-of-limitations title-vii |
In light of the Supreme Court's holdings that an EEOC intake questionnaire may constitute a charge and a charge may be verified after the filing perio… |
| 21-6402 |
Nyambui Joe Gipson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreements sentencing waivers-of-appeal |
Whether this Court should recognize a 'miscarriage of justice' exception to waivers of appeal in plea agreements? |
| 21-6404 |
Ngoc Hong Nguyen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-6406 |
Damoni Owens 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… |
| 21-6407 |
Roy Thomas Phillips v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constructive-denial-of-counsel due-process ineffective-counsel liberal-reading merits plea-proceedings plea-stage pro-se pro-se-petitioners |
Whether the factual determination for denying the certificate of appealability was wrong and reversal is warranted |
| 21-6409 |
Stephen Harmer v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney automatic-reversal conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure defendant due-process holloway-doctrine ineffective-assistance judicial-inquiry sixth-amendment trial-judge |
Does Holloway demand automatic reversal when a trial judge fails to inquire into a known conflict that a defendant could not object to because his att… |
| 21-6411 |
Harley David Sharp v. Barry Goodrich, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-review pro-se-litigation prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Is a Brady Violation claim procedurally barred from Federal review? |
| 21-6417 |
Mausean Carter v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review miranda-rights search-and-seizure standing state-law |
Whether the lower courts' decision conflicts with an important federal question |
| 21-6418 |
Emmanuel Ashemuke v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law circuit-split due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference legal-interpretation plain-meaning plain-meaning-rule sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal courts should defer to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines when it expands the definition of a term used in the text o… |
| 21-6419 |
Roberto Aguilar-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-6425 |
Maycol Mendez-Maradiaga v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-activity entrapment government-inducement inconsistent-verdicts jury-verdicts predisposition prior-experience willing-participant |
Whether the government must show predisposition at the time of inducement in an entrapment case |
| 21-6427 |
Antonio Lorensito Garrido v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-crimes mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the two-level enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. §2D1.1(b)(5) for the importation of methamphetamine requires some level of intent or knowledge |
| 21-6433 |
Jaimian Rashaad Sims v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-cases fifth-circuit-review jury-conviction sex-trafficking standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the appeals court conducted an adequate review of the district court's denial of a judgment of acquittal and the jury's decision to convict ba… |
| 21-6435 |
James Worley v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-conviction capital-punishment constitutional-rights fair-jury fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Is a capital conviction and sentence invalid and imposed in violation of the capital defendant's constitutional rights to a fair jury under the Fifth,… |
| 21-6436 |
Korey Stewart v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure speedy-trial |
Whether a reasonable law enforcement officer could have concluded that the evidence provided to the agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration cons… |
| 21-6437 |
J. S. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance right-to-appeal sixth-amendment |
Did J.S. have a Fourteenth Amendment right to be advised by the Court of his right to appeal? |
| 21-6441 |
Sonny Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment attorney-performance constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington warrantless-search |
Was counsel's refusal to file a meritorious, dispositive motion to suppress the fruits of a warrantless search unreasonable under Strickland v. Washin… |
| 21-6442 |
Armando Cardon-Cortez, aka Vatto v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction |
Ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 21-6445 |
Ruben Vazquez-Ovalle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Vazquez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time? |
| 21-6447 |
Logan Bailey Lawrence v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process estoppel government-discretion waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Government should be estopped from precluding appellate review of the District Court's refusal to impose a below-Guidelines sentence by in… |
| 21-6449 |
Pizarro Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-conduct criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-policy reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-seizure |
Was there reasonable suspicion for Terry stop? |
| 21-6450 |
Steven Zinnel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure gall-v-united-states jury-determination sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness |
Whether any fact that increases the penalty to which a defendant is exposed constitutes an element of a crime that must be found by a jury, not a judg… |
| 21-6452 |
Donnell Murray v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting conviction count-one criminal-procedure davis insufficient-evidence jury-instruction predicate-acts racketeering trial-errors |
Whether Murray's conviction on Count One should be reversed due to insufficient evidence |
| 21-6454 |
Kyle Leroy Myers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conversion criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit guidelines narcotics supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with decisions of this Court on an important matter and thu… |
| 21-6455 |
Anthony Pretty On Top v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-violation appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-standard |
Whether the court erred in affirming the district court's decision that petitioner's Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were not violated? |
| 21-6457 |
Ervin Anibar Lopez-Ordonez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
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… |
| 21-6458 |
David A. Callison v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit civil-procedure due-process law-enforcement proof-of-insurance rodriguez-analysis traffic-stop trial-record |
Whether the 8th Circuit erred by refusing to perform a Rodriguez analysis |
| 21-6459 |
Daniel Lowell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1(a) carjacking criminal-procedure criminal-statute defendant-burden federal-criminal-law felony-murder-rule legal-standard temporary-safety |
When applying the felony murder rule under 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) to the crime of carjacking, what must a defendant show to establish that he has reached a … |
| 21-6460 |
Truman Jones v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-discretion prejudice remand sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's refusal to accurately compute the extent of a Speedy-Trial-Act violation and to consider the government's district-wide i… |
| 21-6461 |
Andreea Dumitru, aka Andreea Dumitru Parcalaboiu v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1028a aggravated-identity-theft asylum asylum-application circuit-split criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft lawful-authority lenity statutory-interpretation statutory-purpose |
Whether a defendant commits 'aggravated identity theft' under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1) when she 'uses' a client's identifying information in submitting… |
| 21-6463 |
William Martin Cresham v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process evidence evidence-law prior-acts propensity propensity-evidence |
Whether the admission of prior acts of domestic violence to establish the petitioner's propensity to commit such crimes violated his right to due proc… |
| 21-6465 |
Andrew John Gibson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process non-delegation-doctrine overbreadth sentencing-conditions supervised-release third-party-notification vagueness |
Must federal appellate courts adjudicate direct appeal challenges to the illegality or unconstitutionality of supervised release conditions imposed at… |
| 21-6467 |
John D. Glenn, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud bank-fraud-statute circuit-court-split common-fraud definitional-term fraud-enforcement fraud-enforcement-and-recovery-act mortgage-lending-business statutory-interpretation third-circuit-ruling venture-capitalist-firms |
Whether the Third Circuit's overbroad interpretation of what is a 'mortgage lending business' requires this Court's intervention |
| 21-6468 |
Joshua Fernandes v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-discrimination constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-cross-section jury-selection peremptory-challenge race-neutral-reasons |
Whether age is a protected class and whether excluding young potential jurors violates Equal Protection |
| 21-647 |
Janet Perdue v. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
ada-accommodation ada-reasonable-accommodation disability-discrimination job-sharing neutral-work-rule pretext reasonable-accommodation summary-judgment us-airways-v-barnett work-rule |
Whether an employer's neutral work rule can trump the ADA's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation |
| 21-6471 |
Jose Francisco Noesi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-step-act retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Dottonr is eligible for a Tile IF U.S.0 Secton 3559) CAV), based on the moditiaben of Secbm 3589 COM MG, through the First Step Act of 901% |
| 21-6473 |
Michael Stumph v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
Appellate-Review Cruel-and-Unusual-Punishment Due-Process eighth-amendment Equal-Protection fourteenth-amendment Procedural-Due-Process sentencing-discretion |
Whether Ohio Revised Code § 2953.08(D)(3) violates the Eighth-Amendment |
| 21-6476 |
Aaron Michael Murray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process frivolous in-forma-pauperis judicial-interpretation legal-precedent standing |
Whether the district court and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated this Court's decision in Ellis v. United States |
| 21-6482 |
Calvin Wayne Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms 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… |
| 21-6487 |
Lisa Marie Cano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-procedure court-of-appeal court-of-appeals evidence historical-facts inevitable-discovery investigating-officer investigation verification |
Whether a court of appeal's inference regarding the future course of an investigation, unsupported by testimony from the investigating officer or by e… |
| 21-649 |
Walder Vacuflo, Inc. v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. |
Illinois |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts circuit-split civil-rights discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech human-rights-commission religious-freedom standing |
Whether the Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Court's refusal to consider this matter violates the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Petitio… |
| 21-6491 |
Lucas Montagne v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure exception illegal-sentence invited-error judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing |
Should an exception to the doctrine of invited error be recognized in a case in which an illegal sentence is imposed? |
| 21-6499 |
Henry Pratt v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias civil-litigation civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility insurance-bias motive restitution restitution-claim settlement-agreement trial-court-discretion |
Whether the trial court erred by precluding the use of a civil settlement agreement between the parties, which was admissible to show the defendant's … |
| 21-650 |
Arif A. Durrani v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-6500 |
Jermaine Neal v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constructive-amendment criminal-investigation due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment perjury self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
When a citizen of the United States becomes a suspect in a criminal investigation for homicide and is induced to give false statements, does the due-p… |
| 21-6501 |
Luke D. Patterson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6505 |
Bryan Bostick v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights juror-impartiality jury-bias remmer severance sixth-amendment trial-court voir-dire |
Was appellant deprived of a meaningful opportunity to demonstrate jury bias after his Sixth Amendment safeguards were violated when the trial court de… |
| 21-6510 |
Luis Solis-Vasquez v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense federal-statute jury-determination jury-instructions mandatory-victim-restitution RICO rico-offense state-law state-law-predicates |
Whether state law RICO predicates are elements of a RICO offense that must be found by the jury |
| 21-6512 |
Jason Kiger v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-offense constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial legislative-amendment legislative-power sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation unanimous-verdict |
Can Louisiana's 1997 and 1998 legislative amendments to La. 14:42 (C) and (D) qualify, absent a constitutional amendment, as the attendant provision n… |
| 21-6514 |
Jorge Hernandez Rivera v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-of-crime felon-in-possession firearm-offense information-defect second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether an information is defective for failing to state the proper elements for the crime of felon in possession of a firearm |
| 21-6518 |
Kassie Bond Carpenter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional criminal-procedure federal-courts guideline sentencing statutory |
Whether application of 18 U.S.C. §3147 increases the total range of imprisonment to which the defendant may be subject? |
| 21-652 |
Lynette Duncan, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Duncan, Deceased v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing breach-of-contract circuit-conflict injury-in-fact insurance-coverage medical-reimbursement medicare-secondary-payer-act private-cause-of-action |
Does a person suffer Article III injury-in-fact when an insurer breaches its contractual obligation to pay for the person's medical care? |
| 21-6520 |
Mark J. Zimny v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-court due-process motion-for-summary-disposition reasonable-jurists substantial-question summary-disposition supreme-court-precedent |
Did an appellate court contravene Supreme Court precedent by granting the government's motion for summary disposition? |
| 21-6521 |
Jamar Allen v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-provisions court-filing due-process hallucinogenic-drug judicial-process legal-document procedural-rules reasons-for-granting-writ scotus-petition victim-testimony |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires the burden of proof to be met if the only evidence justifying the petitioner as the shooter is the victim's te… |
| 21-6523 |
Edward Soybel v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carpenter-v-united-states fourth-amendment internet-protocol ip-address pen-register privacy-expectation probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search third-party-doctrine |
Whether the use of a pen register to identify internet protocol (IP) addresses is a Fourth Amendment search requiring a warrant |
| 21-6524 |
Joshua James Mjoness v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-language crime-of-violence criminal-law mathis-precedent modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court may place determinative weight on the government's charging language when applying the modified categorical approach under Mathis v. U… |
| 21-6525 |
George Patrick v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
class-of-felony criminal-procedure error-correction felony-classification judicial-authority revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether a district court has the authority to correct an error in its original determination of the class of felony at a revocation hearing |
| 21-6530 |
Tyreese Thompson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial precedent-review reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether any facts that increase the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum need to be submitted to a jury and proved beyond a rea… |
| 21-6534 |
Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error jury-verdict residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a general verdict that was obtained in reliance on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) may be sustained b… |
| 21-6536 |
In Re Michael Robert Everett |
|
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process evidence federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief state-court-record suppression-hearing unreasonable-determination |
Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to present to the court during suppression hearing evidence that the petitioner seeks to raise when invoki… |
| 21-6537 |
Stephen Condon Peters v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
asset-forfeiture asset-restraint counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process financial-conflict luis-v-united-states right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Does it violate the Sixth Amendment where the trial court deprives a defendant of the use of untainted assets without following proper procedure, and … |
| 21-654 |
Judith Frei, et al. v. Taro Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure complaint-dismissal dismissal due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion pleading pleading-standards standing |
Whether a court has discretion to dismiss a plaintiff's complaint without leave to replead |
| 21-6540 |
Alfred E. Daking, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-1b1.13 |
Whether the expanded compassionate release statute, 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A), triggers any sentencing guideline policy statements when defendants file… |
| 21-6542 |
Juan Trujillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-discretion limited-remand plain-error remand-standard sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a limited remand to assess the impact of a plain error on a defendant's substantial rights extends to miscalculations of the statutory maximum |
| 21-6544 |
Omar Leonides Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit civil-rights court-costs declaration due-process financial-declaration in-forma-pauperis incarcerated-prisoner legal-redress monthly-income standing |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis |
| 21-6548 |
James Calhoun-El v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights comparative-treatment constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-precedent relief-standards standing |
Whether the lower courts violates the equal protection clause |
| 21-6552 |
Keith Carr v. Steve Kallis, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-u.s.c.-2241 due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus liberty-interest miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-851 sentencing-enhancement title-21-enhancement |
whether-an-unlawful-application-of-an-enhancement-pursuant-to-title-21-u.s.c.-851-amounts-to-a-fundamental-misscarriage-of-justice |
| 21-6554 |
Frank L. Amodeo v. FCC Coleman - Low, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-conflict constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-remedy procedural-review |
Whether §2255 is inadequate or ineffective when binding precedent forecloses relief even when a meritorious claim of actual innocence is proven |
| 21-6555 |
Malik Saunders v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crimes-of-violence criminal-offenses culpable-omission culpable-omissions injury-or-death intentional-causation physical-force sentencing-guidelines u.s.-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether all criminal offenses that require proof of an intentional causation of injury or death, including those which may be committed by way of culp… |
| 21-6556 |
Richard Bernard Grundy, III v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california fifth-amendment judicial-discretion self-representation sixth-amendment |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the District Court deprived Richard Grundy of his Fifth and Sixth Amendment rig… |
| 21-6557 |
Tekoa Glover v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea non-jurisdictional-claim sixth-amendment waiver withdrawal |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by ruling that Mr. Glover waived his Sixth Amendment claims by entering a guilty ple… |
| 21-656 |
John Oirya v. Brigham Young University |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
|
10th-circuit administrative-discretion due-process gender-bias judicial-review school-discipline student-rights substantial-evidence summary-judgment title-ix |
Should federal courts review school disciplinary decisions for substantial evidence of guilt? |
| 21-6565 |
Edmond Maynor v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights covid-19 due-process lockdowns standing takings |
Whether the COVID-19 lockdowns and related government actions violated the constitutional rights of individuals and businesses |
| 21-6566 |
Steven Craig Bethea v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discretion eighth-amendment judicial-abuse sentencing sentencing-discretion substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the appellant to a greater sentence than necessary |
| 21-6568 |
Manuel Nunez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-6569 |
Jonathan Hilliam McDougal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alcohol-treatment criminal-sentencing delegation-of-authority drug-treatment due-process judicial-discretion probation-terms sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. McDougal to undergo alcohol and drug treatment as a special condition of supervised release |
| 21-6570 |
Bo Jack Kelley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 21-6572 |
Jose Luis Ramos-Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6573 |
Michael Roy Sharpe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-guarantees criminal-law due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial maximum-sentence sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release trial-by-jury |
Does § 3583(e)(8) as applied here violate the Fifth and Sixth Amendments by authorizing punishment beyond the maximum for a conviction, based solely o… |
| 21-6581 |
Derek Jerome Moore v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-power firearms interstate-commerce |
Whether Congress exceeded its Commerce Clause power when it enacted 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)? |
| 21-6582 |
Genaro Alberto Nunez-Ugarte v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6583 |
Roger Edward Picard v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mental-health-assessment rule-35 rule-35-motion sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Did the First Circuit err in denying a jurisdictionally sound motion filed pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P. 35(a) |
| 21-6585 |
Freddy Crespo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's rule on certificates of appealability conflicts with Supreme Court precedent |
| 21-6587 |
Marcus Termaine Darden v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert harmless-error hearsay hearsay-testimony sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err by holding the district court's errors in admitting police 'gang expert' and other hearsay testimony were h… |
| 21-6589 |
Lamont Guinyard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) is unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause |
| 21-659 |
Asociación de Periodistas de Puerto Rico v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-closure domestic-violence due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings press-rights public-access standing |
Whether courts may summarily close judicial proceedings and deny access to the official recordings of those proceedings without determining whether th… |
| 21-6592 |
Donald Stanley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea ninth-circuit-precedent rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the knowingly mens rea in 21 U.S.C. § 841 applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establish mandatory minimum and enhanced maxi… |
| 21-660 |
Freelancer International Pty Limited, et al. v. Upwork Global, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
counterfeit-mark fair-use fair-use-defense irreparable-harm preliminary-injunction retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-law |
Whether the courts may rewrite the trademark statute to include a fair use defense for use of an incontestable mark to describe users |
| 21-6600 |
Willis Wheeler v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split fourth-amendment key-insertion law-enforcement multi-unit-dwelling privacy probable-cause reasonable-expectation search warrantless-search |
Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless insertion of keys into a locked apartment door, within a secured multi-unit dwelling, to gain informat… |
| 21-6615 |
Fabian I. Sanchez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure |
Whether a person may be detained on a hunch after the officer's suspicions have been dispelled |
| 21-6616 |
Gabriel Schaaf v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process in-custody-interrogation miranda-rights police-questioning right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent |
Whether police must wait for counsel to be present, before questioning a suspect who has invoked his right to remain silent and to have counsel presen… |
| 21-662 |
Michael Bright-Asante v. Saks & Company, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process human-rights-law jury-trial section-1981 seventh-amendment standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Did the Second Circuit apply the correct standard of review? |
| 21-6632 |
Charles Dalton Shoemake v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exemplary-prison-record juvenile-sentencing life-with-parole proportionality rehabilitation |
Whether Charles Dalton Shoemake's life-with-parole sentence imposed for a crime he committed at the age of seventeen is disproportionate under the Eig… |
| 21-6638 |
Michael Lewis Gibbons v. Missouri |
Missouri |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment alleged-victim contradictory-testimony criminal-procedure due-process impartial-juror inconsistent-statements judicial-impartiality no-physical-evidence physical-evidence sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Question not identified |
| 21-664 |
Patrick J. Downey v. City of Toledo, Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment home-rule municipal-ordinance police-powers statutory-interpretation |
Do federal courts have authority to alter the plain meaning of a state or municipal law? |
| 21-665 |
James Terry v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-6651 |
Laqunn Gary v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fair-trial federal-constitutional-rights federal-issues federal-treaties ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief state-procedural-bar state-procedural-bars |
Whether Miss. Code Ann. 99-39-21 was unreasonably used to bar the petitioner's fundamental issues of severe importance that revolve around federal tre… |
| 21-6659 |
Glen Seals v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky habeas-corpus johnson-v-california judicial-review mixed-question-of-fact-and-law peremptory-strike prima-facie prima-facie-case race-discrimination standard-of-review |
whether-courts-may-consider-potential-race-neutral-reasons-at-batson-prima-facie-stage |
| 21-666 |
Parker Waichman, LLP, et al. v. Arnold Levin, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
Alyeska-Pipeline-Serv.-Co.-v.-Wilderness-Soc'y attorney-fees Boeing-Co.-v.-Van-Gemert Common-benefit-doctrine common-fund-doctrine diversity-jurisdiction Equitable-common-fund-doctrine erie-doctrine Erie-R.-Co.-v.-Tompkins federal-equity-power Hensley-v.-Eckerhart multi-district-litigation |
Authority-of-court-in-diversity-jurisdiction-to-allocate-contractual-attorney-fees |
| 21-6667 |
Thomas Orville Bastian v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-rights procedural-default right-to-counsel shackling waiver-of-counsel |
Whether state courts denied Bastian the constitutional protections due to him under the Fifth Amendment by finding that he had voluntarily waived the … |
| 21-667 |
Nathan Ernest Hatch v. State of Minnesota, City of Minneapolis Metropolitan Airports Commission |
Minnesota |
Denied |
|
2nd-amendment carry-permit civil-rights constitutional-analysis due-process fundamental-rights minnesota-law second-amendment standing strict-scrutiny |
Whether a state statute that infringes on a U.S. citizen's Second Amendment fundamental rights must be subjected to strict scrutiny analysis |
| 21-668 |
Charles G. Kinney v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-process civil-procedure due-process ftca ftca-exception judicial-immunity malicious-prosecution pre-filing-order vexatious-litigant whistle-blower-rights |
Can the 'law enforcement proviso' exception to the FTCA's exclusion of intentional torts by law enforcement officers (acting within the scope of their… |
| 21-670 |
Gustavo G. Gonzalez, Jr. v. Quality Loan Service Corporation |
California |
Denied |
|
corpus corpus-privileges delivered document-execution legal-privileges parchment parchment-document privileges sealed trust-formation trust-law trusts |
What privileges does a trustor of corpus in respect to a trust upon parchment signed, sealed and delivered have? |
| 21-671 |
Tori Evans v. Cooperative Response Center, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada americans-with-disabilities-act employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework prima-facie-case qualified-employee reasonable-accommodation |
Whether courts can weigh the employer's reason for discharge in determining whether an employee satisfies her prima facie case that she is qualified t… |
| 21-672 |
Steven B. Barger v. First Data Corporation |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
cost-savings employee-rights employer-obligations employment-rights fmla fmla-restoration leave-of-absence restoration-entitlement statutory-interpretation termination |
Whether the FMLA prohibits an employer from refusing to restore an employee to work when the employee has timely requested restoration and satisfied a… |
| 21-680 |
Lawrence Salisbury v. City of Santa Monica, California |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
consideration disability-accommodation disability-rights fair-housing-act fair-housing-amendments-act federal-common-law housing-discrimination landlord-tenant landlord-tenant-law procedural-requirements reasonable-accommodation rental-housing |
Whether the Fair Housing Amendments Act requires landlords to accommodate the disabilities of individuals who occupy rental housing, even where the re… |
| 21-685 |
Alexander Khochinsky v. Republic of Poland |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bad-faith bad-faith-litigation civil-rights diplomatic-immunity extradition foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity personal-property religion-ethnicity sovereign-immunity |
Whether a foreign state that seeks to resolve title to moveable personal property because it is owned by an individual of a particular religion or eth… |
| 21-689 |
Orlando Fernandez Taveras v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-691 |
FG SRC LLC v. Microsoft Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-review arthrex-ruling civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-circuit gvr-order patent standing summary-decision takings |
Whether the Federal Circuit's summary decisions should be vacated and remanded to cure the constitutional violation in accordance with Arthrea v. Unit… |
| 21-695 |
Bennie Anderson v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-scrutiny eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause national-importance pension-seizure public-pensions punitive-forfeiture punitive-forfeitures state-action |
Can a state insulate its punitive forfeitures from federal constitutional scrutiny by limiting the definition of what constitutes a 'fine' for purpose… |
| 21-696 |
Stand Up for California!, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
congressional-termination federal-supervision indian-reorganization-act indian-services land-in-trust land-trust rancheria-termination rancheria-termination-act |
Whether the Secretary can acquire land in trust on behalf of Indians whose federal supervision was terminated by Congress |
| 21-697 |
Paul C. Clark, Sr., et al. v. Council of Unit Owners of the 100 Harborview Drive Condominium |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-court bankruptcy bankruptcy-tribunal civil-rights due-process equitable-mootness judicial-review property-rights standing |
Whether review of a civil rights discrimination violation holding from an Article I bankruptcy tribunal is precluded by an Article III court based on … |
| 21-698 |
Butler County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
capable-of-repetition civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process government-response mootness-doctrine pandemic-response pandemic-restrictions standing takings voluntary-cessation |
Whether the doctrine of mootness applies |
| 21-701 |
Oakley Grain, Inc., et al. v. M. Randy Rice, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-court circuit-split civil-procedure district-court injunction interpleader standing state-court-lawsuit |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's Order affirming the Bankruptcy Court's ruling that the State Court lawsuit did not … |
| 21-709 |
Jacob Clark, et ux. v. Bernadette Stone, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment burden-of-proof child-protective-services civil-rights home-invasion home-privacy qualified-immunity warrantless-search warrantless-searches |
Whether qualified immunity applies to shield from liability child protective services case workers who repeatedly conduct warrantless searches of a ho… |
| 21-712 |
Derrick Tyrone Jenkins v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response Waived |
clear-and-present-danger contempt contempt-of-court due-process extrajudicial-speech first-amendment free-speech habeas-review judicial-criticism political-speech |
Does the clear and present danger standard apply in contempt proceedings brought to sanction a litigant's extrajudicial criticism of an elected judge … |
| 21-714 |
Judy Morrow Wright, et vir v. Matthew G. Buyer, et al. |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appearance-of-bias constitutional-rights due-process judicial-neutrality judicial-recusal recusal structural-error structural-right williams-precedent williams-v-pennsylvania |
Whether the Tennessee Supreme Court's Rule 10B unconstitutionally impedes Petitioners' structural right to an impartial judge |
| 21-715 |
In Re Jody Tremayne Wafer |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-liberty criminal-justice drug-crime drug-policy due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus |
Is the incarceration of the petitioner for a marijuana-related offense a violation of their constitutional rights? |
| 21-722 |
Melvin Salveson, et al. v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
american-express antitrust antitrust-law consumer-rights direct-purchaser illinois-brick price-fixing transaction-fee transaction-fees two-sided-platform two-sided-platforms |
Whether a consumer in a two-sided transaction platform is a direct purchaser of transactions, where the platform operator takes the transaction fee di… |
| 21-732 |
Abullahi Jamale Jama v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-733 |
Clyde Dandridge v. Walmart Stores, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-shifting causation civil-rights eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas retaliation title-vii |
Does a petitioner who files an EEOC charge and asserts a claim of retaliatory discrimination for engaging in protected activities under the anti-retal… |
| 21-736 |
Aristeo Sanchez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-737 |
David Saxon Bagley, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Jeremiah Ray Bagley v. Ramona Rogers, M.D., et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights dismissal-with-prejudice excessive-force expert-report mandatory-dismissal medical-liability preemption section-1983 state-healthcare state-healthcare-institutions |
Whether the Texas Medical Liability Act's expert report and mandatory sanction of dismissal with prejudice for failure to serve an expert report provi… |
| 21-743 |
Donald Lempar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2254 custody custody-definition federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-judgment |
Whether a habeas corpus petitioner who is subject only to sex offender registration requirements when he or she filed his or her petition is 'in custo… |
| 21-745 |
Robert L. Alexander, et al. v. PSFS 3 Corporation |
Iowa |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forum-selection full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure res-judicata state-court |
Was it a violation of the Full Faith and Credit Clause and Statute for the Supreme Court of Iowa to refuse to give effect to the ruling of the federal… |
| 21-748 |
Chinyere U. Nwoke v. University of Chicago Medical Center |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination district-court due-process employment employment-discrimination judicial-review motion-to-amend pay-equity standing university-employment |
Whether the lower courts judged Petitioner's claims correctly |
| 21-749 |
Howard Tanner, Village of Union Springs Code Enforcement Officer, et al. v. Cayuga Nation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights disestablishment due-process fee-lands indian-gaming-regulatory-act reservation reservation-status Sherrill-doctrine sherrill-v-oneida tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether New York tribes exercise 'concurrent' jurisdiction over fee lands within the plenary taxing and regulatory authority of the state and local go… |
| 21-750 |
Jasper Knabb v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 21-751 |
Dr. Ralph Slaughter v. Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compensation-calculation constitutional-challenge equal-protection judges law-enforcement retirement-benefits state-employees statutory-interpretation supplemental-pay |
Does the statutory scheme of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System violate the Equal Protection Clause? |
| 21-754 |
Travis Levi Parrott v. Murray Tatum, Warden |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-denial certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-probable-cause constitutional-right effective-assistance-of-counsel extraneous-evidence georgia-supreme-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions procedural-default |
Whether the Georgia Supreme Court Erred in Denying Mr. Parrott's Application for Certificate of Probable Cause to Appeal the Denial of His Petition fo… |
| 21-755 |
Carter Page, et al. v. Democratic National Committee, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
28-usc-1332 carden-v-arkoma citizenship complete-diversity diversity diversity-jurisdiction domicile newman-green partnership partnership-defendant stateless-citizen |
Whether a U.S. Citizen domiciled abroad who is a member of a partnership defendant destroys the complete diversity required by 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a), wh… |
| 21-756 |
Samath Doung v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-774 |
Michelle Munger, et al. v. Brenda Davis, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights federal-rights inmate-rights inmate-services prison private-contractor qualified-immunity |
Can an employee of a private contractor providing services to inmates in a county jail or state prison facility assert qualified immunity in response … |
| 21-776 |
Billy Duncan, as Next Friend of Charles Inness Thrash, et al. v. Tonya Barina, as Guardian of the Estate of Charles Inness Thrash, et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights due-process guardianship jurisdiction next-friend pre-trial-sanctions sanctions standing |
Whether Charlie had a right to appeal through his next friend and the sanctions order was contrary to the evidence |
| 21-780 |
Ewin Oscar Martinez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-2119 actual-innocence carjacking carjacking-statute crime-of-violence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause |
Whether a person violates the federal carjacking statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2119, by taking a motor vehicle not in the presence of its owner and without any… |
| 21-785 |
Richard Riccardi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-establishing-exception collateral-review legal-theory procedural-default retroactive-effect substantive-change substantive-change-of-law supreme-court-precedent yates-v-united-states |
Whether the exception to the procedural default rule of Yates v United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957) applies |
| 21-786 |
James P. Crocker v. Steven Eric Beatty, Deputy Sheriff, Martin County, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech police-activity public-recording public-space qualified-immunity recording-rights |
Whether a First Amendment right to record police activities in public has been clearly established |
| 21-799 |
Kenneth Pritchard v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure effective-date employment-law national-defense-authorization-act ndaa-provision protected-activities retaliation retaliation-claim retroactivity statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
Whether whistleblower provision of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) protects employees from retaliation occurring after the provisio… |
| 21-812 |
WhitServe LLC v. Dropbox, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 enablement patent-eligibility person-having-ordinary-skill-in-the-art presumption-of-validity rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 section-101 technological-improvement |
If a patentee makes factual assertions and provides supporting evidence that its claimed invention is directed to patent-eligible subject matter under… |
| 21-822 |
Donna Patrick, et al. v. The Alaska Public Offices Commission |
Alaska |
Denied |
Response Waived |
campaign-finance certiorari constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech independent-committees institutional-corruption originalism political-contributions standing |
Whether the original meaning of the First Amendment permits regulations against contributions to independent political action committees |
| 21-827 |
Darek J. Kitlinski, et ux. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
burden-of-proof discriminatory-animus employee-rights employment-discrimination employment-rights federal-employment military-service protected-status reemployment-rights userra |
Whether the employee must prove that protected status or activity was a motivating factor or prove that the employer had hostility to military service… |
| 21-829 |
Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
18-usc-2252 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent categorical-approach criminal-law federal-sentencing minor sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction under state statutes criminalizing consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-old constitutes a predicate offense for fed… |
| 21-830 |
In Re Special Investigation Misc. 1064 |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
None |
|
| 21-834 |
Libertarian Party of Minnesota, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-rights political-parties political-party |
Whether a government can threaten criminal prosecution against voters who sign petitions supporting minor political party candidates without notice th… |
| 21-836 |
Sara Gonzalez Flavell v. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction interlocutory-appeal judicial-discretion mandamus procedural-due-process prohibition writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a writ of certiorari is appropriate due to the district court's failure to establish and stay within its limited jurisdictional authority |
| 21-84 |
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, et al. v. Victim Rights Law Center, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-litigation governmental-litigant intervention intervention-as-of-right presumption-of-adequacy presumption-of-adequate-representation standing title-ix |
Whether a movant who seeks to intervene as of right on the same side as a governmental litigant must overcome a presumption of adequate representation |
| 21-849 |
Slidewaters LLC v. Washington Department of Labor and Industries, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
emergency-powers executive-authority legislative-authority legislative-delegation nondelegation-doctrine police-power separation-of-powers state-governance state-of-emergency |
Does a state legislature's delegation of unlimited and inherently legislative police power to a state executive violate the separation-of-powers, even… |
| 21-872 |
Amoneo Lee v. Shannon Meyer, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aedpa-tolling alleyne-rule collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus innocence retroactivity sentencing statute-of-limitations substantive-law |
whether-aedpa's-one-year-statute-of-limitations-should-be-equitably-tolled |
| 21-873 |
Damon Goodloe v. Christine Brannon, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure custody due-process show-up show-up-identification sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution to introduce statements elicited at a show-up conducted after the lone… |
| 21-876 |
John G. Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-liability due-process general-verdict jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-sufficiency wire-fraud yates-rule |
Whether a general guilty verdict on charges of wire fraud must be set aside on Due Process grounds if the jury could have or might have found guilt ba… |
| 21A159 |
James Tolle v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21A190 |
Anesh Gupta v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M49 |
Andre Terrell v. Ed Sheldon, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M50 |
Beverly A. Gladney v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Seventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M51 |
Sam Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M52 |
Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M53 |
Kristina Merle Larson v. American Home Products, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M54 |
Curtis Bernard Seals v. R. Smith, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M55 |
Jorel Shophar v. Johnson County, Kansas, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M56 |
Horacio Sequeira v. Gate Safe, Inc. |
Florida |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M57 |
Carla Young v. Brian Lundstrom, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M58 |
A. M., aka A. G. v. Colorado, In the Interest of J. G. and C. G., Children |
Colorado |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M59 |
Larry Michael Bollinger v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M60 |
Brad Jennings v. Daniel F. Nash, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M61 |
Lee Williams v. Dawn Burgess, et al. |
Mississippi |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|