Conference: 2022-01-07

453 cases — 0 granted, 453 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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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 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