Conference: 2022-02-18

422 cases — 0 granted, 420 denied/dismissed, 2 pending

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20-7143 Heyangjing Shi, et al. v. Jim J. Mash New York Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-standing standing unauthorized-use void-judgment Whether it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
20-7144 Xue Jie He v. Hairong Xue New York Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment landlord-tenant security-deposit statutory-interpretation Whether it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
20-7846 Angel Ortiz v. Dennis Breslin, Superintendent, Queensboro Correctional Facility, et al. New York Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14)IFP due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homelessness housing-restrictions incarceration indigence liberty parole Does the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit prison authorities from indefinitely detaining supervisees based on an assumption that a municipality will not …
20-8304 Lee Goston v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appealability appellate-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-incompetency statutory-interpretation time-bar Question not identified
20-8377 Herbert Garfield Gardner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP cause-and-prejudice civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process external-interference habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default standing statute-of-limitations Whether state trial court's 'external interference' constitutes rare and extraordinary circumstance sufficient to excuse statute of limitations time-b…
20-8461 In Re Richard Charles Lussy Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-torts due-process federal-questions jury-trial mandamus ministerial-mandamus oath-of-office public-charge standing Whether the petitioner has a clear legal duty for the Chief Justice to perform a ministerial mandamus act, despite the respondents' alleged errors and…
21-1006 Marc S. Kirschner v. Dennis J. FitzSimons, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee corporate-governance corporate-intent fiduciary-duty fraudulent-transfer imputation leveraged-buyout mens-rea section-548 Whether a corporate agent's fraudulent intent can be imputed to the corporation under 11 U.S.C. § 548(a)(1)(A) even if the agent was not 'in a positio…
21-1007 Robert A. Hawkland v. Burke Hall, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived first-amendment free-speech governmental-agency internal-investigation official-duties public-employee retaliation speech-protection Whether statements made by a public employee during an internal investigation by a governmental agency regarding matters of public concern are within …
21-1011 Derwin Patten, et al. v. District of Columbia District of Columbia Denied Response Waived ADA administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination exhaustion public-entity-discrimination randolph-sheppard-act Rehabilitation-Act state-antidiscrimination-statute Does a federal statute that requires an exhaustion of administrative remedies bar a public entity discrimination claim under the ADA, Rehabilitation-A…
21-1012 Brad Heidelberg, dba Rio Seco Resources, et al. v. D.O.H. Oil Company Texas Denied Response Waived constitutional-notice due-process foreclosure judgment judicial-procedure limitations-statute mullane-standard notice property-rights state-limitations Whether a state-limitations statute may preclude challenge to a judgment obtained by notice that is constitutionally insufficient to meet the requirem…
21-1023 Kay Gow v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1348 contract contract-breach federal-statute grant-application grant-funding investment-agreement investor-sophistication misrepresentation subscription-agreement wire-fraud Can a breach of contract by a grant recipient be criminalized under the federal wire fraud statute?
21-1026 Camille A. Walters v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation, et al. Wisconsin Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-ethics procedural-irregularity prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct recusal recusal-requirement standing Was it illegal that the Wisconsin Supreme Court disregarded their own rules of internal operating procedures
21-1035 Joshua Harris v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit Denied Response Waived brady-doctrine civil-procedure constitutional-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial in-limine tax-court Whether the U.S Tax Court and the Second Circuit conflicts with the United States Constitution, Amendment 6 and the Fourteenth Amendment to a fair and…
21-1036 Gamon Plus, Inc. v. Campbell Soup Company, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law appointments-clause arthrex-precedent federal-circuit judicial-remand patent-law patent-review rehearing-petition remand separation-of-powers Whether the Court should vacate the judgment below and remand for further proceedings in light of Arthrex
21-1039 In Re Gregory Charles Kapordelis Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2253 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure extraordinary-writ federal-courts mandamus recusal recusal-orders statutory-jurisdiction Whether this Court should issue a writ of mandamus
21-153 Nagui Mankaruse v. Intel Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment amendment-violations bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech Whether the United States Supreme Court must defend the Bill of Rights of our Great United States Constitution?
21-154 Nagui Mankaruse v. Raytheon Company, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Relisted (2) bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Whether the Honorable United States Supreme Court must defend our Great United States Constitution?
21-210 Wisconsin v. Mark D. Jensen Wisconsin Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure domestic-abuse emergency-exception future-crime ongoing-emergency sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay Can a person's statement expressing fear about a possible future crime be testimonial under the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause?
21-225 Ashley Mere Howard v. Texas Texas Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) credibility-determinations criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal Whether the state court's decision conflicts with Lafler v. Cooper
21-27 Arrow Highway Steel, Inc. v. Robert Dubin California Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) dormant-commerce-clause former-resident interstate-commerce judicial-enforcement non-discriminatory residency-status state-statute stipulated-judgment tolling-law tolling-statute Whether the dormant commerce clause may be used to invalidate the application of a state's neutral, non-discriminatory tolling statute to defeat the e…
21-351 Courtney Wild v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (6) alexander-v-sandoval crime-victims-rights-act enforcement federal-criminal-procedure judicial-enforcement non-prosecution-agreement pre-indictment prosecutorial-discretion rights-creating-language victim-rights Whether the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA) allows crime victims to bring a suit to enforce their right to confer with prosecutors before the Governm…
21-385 Drasc, Inc., et al. v. Navistar International Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure class-action due-process excusable-neglect opt-out reasonable-indication settlement Does an unnamed class member who provides reasonable indication of its intent to opt out sufficiently opt out, or must the class member rigidly adhere…
21-432 Adolfo R. Arellano v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (2) 38-usc-5110 disability-benefits disability-compensation equitable-tolling federal-circuit irwin-v-department-of-veterans-affairs judicial-review statutory-deadline veterans veterans-benefits Does Irwin's rebuttable presumption of equitable tolling apply to the one-year statutory deadline in 38 U.S.C. § 5110(b)(1) for seeking retroactive di…
21-435 Kevin D. Loggins, Sr. v. Rebecca L. Pilshaw, Judge, District Court of Kansas, Sedgwick County, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) §-1983-suit 11th-amendment 11th-amendment-immunity civil-rights due-process fraud-upon-court immunity judicial-conflict-of-interest judicial-misconduct judicial-nullity standing Whether the lower courts ruled in contradiction to long-standing Supreme Court precedent regarding a void judgment or unlawful judicial conduct
21-466 Eric DeWayne Cathey v. Texas Texas Denied Amici (1) capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-criteria medical-standards precedent supreme-court-precedent Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and this Court's precedents in rejecting a trial court's …
21-476 303 Creative LLC, et al. v. Aubrey Elenis, et al. Tenth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (90)Relisted (4) anti-discrimination-law compelled-speech content-based content-based-regulation free-exercise free-speech religious-beliefs religious-liberty viewpoint-discrimination Whether applying a law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent, contrary to the artist's sincerely held religious beliefs, violates the Free Speec…
21-477 Jason Self, et al. v. Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria California Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure immovable-property immovable-property-rule jurisdiction jurisdictional-immunity legal-exception property-exception sovereign-immunity standing tribal-immunity Whether the immovable-property exception applies to tribal sovereign immunity
21-5038 Donnell Bledsoe v. Stockton Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 Whether the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 prohibit law enforcement officers from using excessive force against individuals who are handcuf…
21-507 Lawyers United Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-2071 28-usc-2072 attorney-licensing bar-association constitutional-rights district-court district-court-licensing judicial-council local-rules rule-making-authority Whether local rules that create classes of citizens and lawyers exceed the rule-making authority of the United States District Courts
21-5079 Donnell Bledsoe v. Richard J. Guiliani, Judge, Superior Court of California, San Joaquin County, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law criminal-procedure due-process qualified-immunity Whether Section 242 of Title 18 of the United States Code provides a remedy for the deprivation of constitutional rights under color of law
21-5190 Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Tim Reisch, Interim Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-order district-court-screening final-order judicial-review motion-for-reconsideration rule-59(e) rule-59e rule-60(b) standing whether-appellate-court-erred-in-dismissing-appeal-for-lack-of-jurisdiction
21-5223 Donnell Bledsoe v. CBS Television Network, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights content-moderation copyright-infringement data-collection digital-privacy fair-use fourth-amendment intellectual-property privacy-policy social-media user-consent Whether the plaintiff's copyright and other intellectual property rights were violated by the defendants' unauthorized use of the plaintiff's content …
21-525 Hemant Bhimnathwala v. New Jersey State Judiciary, et al. Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2) child-custody disparate-impact due-process equal-custody equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges statute-of-limitations Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a presumption of equal, joint custody of children in child custody proceedings?
21-533 Brad Martin, Individually and as an Employee of the Arizona Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Carlos Castro Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1) clearly-established-law fourth-amendment k9-deployment law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonable-force totality-of-circumstances use-of-force violent-crime when-law-enforcement-officer-deploys-k9-to-restrain-fleeing-suspect
21-541 Travis Tuggle v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (6) curtilage fourth-amendment home home-privacy law-enforcement privacy search search-and-seizure surveillance Whether long-term, continuous, and surreptitious video surveillance of a home and its curtilage constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment
21-5411 Jerome Skee Smith v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa due-process equitable-tolling fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations successive-petition Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it dismissed Jerome Smith's successive §2254 petition as untimely without considering his McQuiggin ac…
21-5416 Donnell Bledsoe v. Facebook, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights first-amendment free-speech petition-government social-media viewpoint-discrimination Whether the First Amendment protects the right of individuals to petition the government for redress of grievances against social media platforms that…
21-5470 Aleksys Lomeli-Garcia v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arizona casey-v-united-states constitutional-review fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus indigent-prisoners indigent-rights judicial-fraud supreme-court-procedure suspension-clause Whether the concealed 28 U.S.C. 2244(c) facts caused the Supreme Court to unwittingly suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus for all Arizona indigent priso…
21-5490 Joseph Montrel Bourgeois v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure deadly-weapon direct-appeal due-process guilty-plea intoxication plea-agreement retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search Whether the trial court and criminal court of appeals of Texas violated established federal law as determined by the United States Supreme Court
21-5554 Joseph H. Gibbs v. South Carolina South Carolina Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process federal-courts fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus harmless-error standing state-court-process state-courts Whether the state court abrogated this court's constitutional holdings in its application of the legal standard of 'fundamental fairness shocking to u…
21-560 Dakota Access, LLC v. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) agency-discretion civil-rights due-process environmental-impact environmental-impact-statement federal-agency judicial-review national-environmental-policy-act nepa pipeline-easement procedural-error standing Whether, under NEPA, an agency that carefully considers all criticisms of its environmental analysis must also 'resolve' those criticisms to the court…
21-562 Kenneth A. Pruitt v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights default-judgment due-process government-authority injunctive-relief magistrate-judge paris-climate-accord standing ultra-vires uncac Can Counsel for Respondent U.S. Government defend or assist RUVA for ultra vires acts outside scope of government authority, when RUVA has not filed a…
21-5621 In Re Patrick Disanto Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-allegations child-custody civil-rights conflict-of-interest disability-rights due-process family-law judicial-bias judicial-hearing-officer parental-rights standing Does the judicial hearing officer possess the ability to view the complicated case from a non-biased perspective, without expressing his own misogyny …
21-5623 Felix Roberts v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review judicial-discretion motion-for-reconsideration motion-for-rehearing procedural-timeline recusal rehearing time-limits Whether the petitioner was denied due process by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in its handling of the petitioner's appeal
21-563 Warren M. Lent, et al. v. California Coastal Commission, et al. California Denied Amici (4) administrative-law administrative-penalty administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings Whether administrative agency can permanently deprive person of millions in fines using summary hearing process
21-5654 Michael Ortega, aka Salvador Amitcar Herrero Flores v. Oregon Oregon Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP affidavit civil-procedure court-access declaration financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis indigent-status judicial-discretion poverty redress Question not identified
21-5677 Randolph Armstead v. Keith Deville, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing Did the state trial court, la. appellant, la. Supreme Court and US District Court, Eastern violate the petitioner's Constitutional Rights (1st Amendme…
21-5696 Fan Gu v. Invista S.A.R.L. Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights contempt discrimination due-process fifth-circuit-review forgery judicial-misconduct perjury pro-se-litigation res-judicata Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in claiming that the claims are barred by Res Judicata
21-5733 Eric Westry v. Victor Leon Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-violation civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment How is it proper and legal for the court to state there were undisputed facts of physical-assault, threatening-behavior, physical-resistance, false-na…
21-5760 Anthony Auriemma v. Broomfield Municipal Court, et al. Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment illegal-searches illegal-trials inhumane-conditions judicial-misconduct retaliation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated thro…
21-5777 Vance Keith Wilson v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment bail civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-challenge judicial-discretion pretrial-detention Whether a district court can, sua sponte and without any question of suspicion, order a pretrial defendant to urinate in front of a bailiff as a condi…
21-5781 Adelaide Lorin Scurlock-Zindler v. Peter Henry Zindler District of Columbia Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process family international-human-rights judicial-misconduct marriage military military-jurisdiction state-department-intervention Why were the Respondent and I, as civilians, permitted to get married and renew our vows on an active-military-carrier, bringing family-and-friends ab…
21-579 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied accomplice-liability burden-of-proof capital-sentencing constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment specific-intent Under Waddington v. Sarausad, does a general jury instruction on accomplice liability relieve the State of its burden to prove specific intent beyond …
21-5826 Armel Baxter v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt structural-error Whether an erroneous reasonable-doubt instruction that would be structural error on direct appeal warrants a presumption of prejudice when raised in a…
21-5832 In Re Leslie Willis Denied Relisted (2)IFP beneficiary beneficiary-designation civil-procedure disclosure disclosure-request financial-institution mandamus pnc-bank safe-deposit-records trust trust-instrument writ-of-mandamus Whether the Court should issue a WRIT OF MANDAMUS to PNC Bank and The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. to disclose the Trust Instrument, Beneficiary…
21-5833 In Re Leslie Willis Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure district-court federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure perpetuate-evidence petition-to-perpetuate-evidence rule-27 rule-27-petition standing trust-litigation writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Whether the Court should issue a WRIT OF PROHIBITION, WRIT IN MANDAMUS/MANDATE, WRIT OF PROHIBITION
21-5897 Shahram Shakouri v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony federal-habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense state-law state-law-interpretation whether-unknowing-use-of-false-testimony-violates-due-process
21-5902 Alhakka Campbell v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP cell-phone-search cell-phones digital-privacy electronic-data-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search particularity-requirement privacy search-and-seizure warrant-particularity warrant-requirements Whether a warrant that authorizes police to seize a smart phone and search it for 'all electronic data' is invalid because it is insufficiently partic…
21-5903 Angela Johnson, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process federal-governing-bodies federal-statutes legal-jurisdiction standing state-law takings victim-rights Can states overturn federal statutes by enforceable governing bodies without rebuke or expiation?
21-5905 Mitchell L. Christen v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment alcohol-intoxication civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession self-defense standing state-regulation takings May the State criminalize Mr. Christen's otherwise constitutionally protected actions purely on the basis of his legal intoxication?
21-5909 Sands Cooper v. Advanced Internet Automation, LLC, et al. Virginia Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure evidence evidence-tampering false-document federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b) judicial-misconduct pro-se procedural-defect workers-compensation Should the defendant be awarded for criminally entering a false document that was used by the Court's Officer as evidence as a result of attorney misc…
21-5928 Paul Andre Jude Mariano Garcia v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied IFP None
21-5972 Alfredo Camargo v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-decision procedural-default reasoned-decision substantial-claim Whether a certificate of appealability should issue as a matter of course
21-5978 Derek Levert Hall v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure indigent-defendant pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel waiver Whether an indigent criminal defendant's waiver of trial counsel requires a clear and unequivocal request to proceed pro se
21-5986 Kathleen C. Hampton v. PROF-2013-S3 Legal Title Trust, by U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee Virginia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fair-trial foreclosure foreclosure-law property-rights summary-judgment unlawful-detainer Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia's Opinion properly addressed the questions regarding the rules on granting summary judgment; or the constitution…
21-5987 Kathleen C. Hampton v. PROF-2013-S3 Legal Title Trust, by U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee Virginia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights demurrer due-process non-judicial-foreclosure res-judicata unlawful-detainer virginia-constitution whether-the-constitutionality-of-the-law-was-properly-addressed
21-6025 Stewart Hines v. Gwendolen Cleopha Nelson South Dakota Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-due-process court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation standing trust trust-law Whether a sole Beneficiary and Trustee can represent that Trust pro se
21-603 Ohio v. George Brinkman Ohio Denied Amici (1) automatic-reversal boykin-advisement boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-review presumption-of-prejudice standard-of-review Does the Due Process Clause prohibit review of the entire record to determine whether a guilty plea was knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily enter…
21-6032 Charles Francis Hurt v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-limits district-court due-process federal-procedure federal-rules judicial-precedent jurisdiction prosecutorial-authority standing territorial-court territorial-jurisdiction Whether the United States district court can prosecute a defendant outside the limited jurisdiction provided to a territorial court
21-605 David Lynn Roberson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied bribery bribery-prosecution circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-programs first-amendment free-speech issue-advocacy official-action quid-pro-quo Whether the government must prove explicit link between issue-advocacy payments and official action in bribery prosecution
21-6052 Lawrence Eliot Mattison v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-circuit administrative-exhaustion administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default standing tort tort-claim Whether the 4th Circuit Appellate court may condone or ignore a tort claim that lacked Administrative-exhaustion
21-6068 Ronald Tingle v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-3582 district-court drug-offenses extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a district judge is categorically prohibited from considering the First Step Act's amendment to penalties for drug offenses when determining w…
21-610 Louis S. Shuman, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) court-rules due-process federal-court-rules federal-statutes fifth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds tax-court Whether an Order of the United States Tax Court is deemed final, and legally enforceable, including enforcement on jurisdictional grounds, when the U.…
21-6120 Javier Perez v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms heller-interpretation immigration second-amendment self-defense standing undocumented-immigrants Whether undocumented-immigrants have 2nd-amendment-rights
21-6139 Yency Nuñez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-courts circuit-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-facts maritime-drug-law precedent statutory-interpretation Whether proof of jurisdictional facts is an element of an MDLEA offense
21-615 Christopher A. Woods, et al. v. Alaska State Employees Association, AFSCME Local 52, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1) first-amendment free-speech public-sector state-action union-dues waiver Do government employers and unions need clear and compelling evidence that employees waived their First Amendment right to refrain from subsidizing un…
21-6159 Michael Skinner v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP evidentiary-hearing fair-trial guilty-verdict impartial-jury juror-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial before an impartial jury would require an evidentiary hearing, following the disposition of a trial …
21-6162 Antwain T. Sales v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority standing state-courts state-law-interpretation Whether the lower courts in Tennessee exceeded the jurisdiction conferred and acted illegally
21-6190 Joe Lewis Finley v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-justice-reform first-step-act section-404 sentencing substantive-reasonableness Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review?
21-6191 Julio Hernandez-Pacheco v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-precedent circuit-split constitutional-violation davis-v-united-states exclusionary-rule hudson-v-michigan identity-evidence illegal-search search-and-seizure vehicle-stop may-identity-related-evidence-be-suppressed-under-exclusionary-rule
21-6202 Charles Gregory Clark v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP capital-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan shackling shackling-claim specific-intent strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the trial court's requirement that Charles Gregory Clark be visibly restrained during his entire capital murder trial without a hearing and ne…
21-6285 Gary Hughbanks v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP admissibility-of-evidence appellate-review brady-materiality brady-v-maryland confession-evidence criminal-procedure due-process materiality-analysis sixth-circuit suppressed-evidence Are another individual's repeated statements confessing to the murders for which the defendant is on trial material for purpose of assessing the impac…
21-6289 Norris Deshon Andrews v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-trial-rights predicate-crimes predicate-crimes-of-violence sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the sentencing court violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment jury trial rights
21-6295 Jmarreon Mack v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review attempt controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference fifth-circuit judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deferring to the Sentencing Commission's use of commentary to expand the definition of 'controlled subst…
21-6309 Patrick Andrew Smith, Jr. v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process health-care healthcare-regulations medical-records prescription-guidelines search-and-seizure strict-scrutiny unsettled-area-of-law Where the plaintiff's fundamental right to medical treatment is violated
21-637 William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility v. James Garlick Second Circuit Denied autopsy-report confrontation-clause deference habeas-corpus harmless-error testimonial Whether the Second Circuit created a circuit split and denied the state court judgment the deference mandated by 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(1) in granting habea…
21-6388 Calvin Roach v. Donald W. Washington, Director, United States Marshals Service, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process federal-law legal-interpretation military-law military-oath oath-of-office retiree-obligations standing Whether military retirees are bound by their Oath to protect the United States Constitution against foreign and domestic enemies
21-6392 Janet Berry v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment bivens-claim civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment medical-records search-and-seizure standing state-actors warrantless-search Where a BERT is created by the government accompanied with private entities acting as state actors under the color of law, via an invalid warrantless …
21-6393 Michael Lawrence Woodbury v. Florida Florida Denied IFP competency-standard due-process fourteenth-amendment indiana-v-edwards mental-illness self-representation sixth-amendment Whether the Florida Supreme Court correctly held that the trial court's inquiry and determination under the lower standard of competency to waive coun…
21-6403 Garland Guillory v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP application-note commentary controlled-substance-offense district-court-discretion fifth-circuit inchoate-offenses kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines u.s.-sentencing-commission Whether a district court may rely on commentary in the U.S. Sentencing Commission's Guidelines Manual to determine a defendant's Guidelines range for …
21-6408 James A. Harnage v. Janine Brennan, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion plea-agreement settlement-agreement state-action Whether a state violates the express terms of a settlement agreement by refusing to affirm the decision maker of their authority to grant approvals th…
21-6413 Betty Caitlin Nicole Smith v. Honorable Jason Fleming, et al. Kentucky Denied IFP child-custody court-procedure domestic-violence domestic-violence-order federal-law jurisdiction truthfulness uniform-act uniform-child-custody-and-jurisdiction-and-enforce Whether a state court can enter a child custody order without contacting the other state with an existing order, ignoring the Uniform Child Custody an…
21-6420 Simona Tanasescu, et al. v. Dorin Coroian, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-rule civil-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-fraud judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigation racketeering Whether the United States Court for the Ninth Circuit departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
21-6430 Michael Cardora Roberson v. Joe Morgan, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process section-1983 serious-medical-needs under-color-of-state-law Whether the defendants' deliberate indifference to the plaintiff's serious medical needs violated the plaintiff's rights and constituted cruel and unu…
21-6432 James Chandler Ryder v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced
21-6438 David Lee Smith v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-order habitual-offenders incarceration pandemic-response public-health sentencing Is a class of convicted habitual felons that have completed their lawful maximum sentences entitled to immediate and unconditional release in order to…
21-6443 Shaun Michael Bosse v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-interpretation McGirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma procedural-law retroactivity Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced
21-6451 Ada Maria Benson v. IHSS DPSS, In Home Supportive Services, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure frivolous-litigation labor-law standing wage-theft workplace-assault Question not identified
21-6462 Clarence Rozell Goode, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactive-application 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
21-6464 John Fitzgerald Hanson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP convictions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 14058. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced
21-6469 Glen Campbell v. J. LaManna Second Circuit Denied IFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-claims counsel-ineffectiveness criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the District Court overlooked Constitutional Claims and Cause and Prejudice
21-6475 Mark Hollingsworth v. Maryland Maryland Denied IFP brady-violation closing-argument criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony jury-argument napue-v-illinois napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial Did the Maryland State Courts err in finding that the Prosecutor did not violate Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959) when the Prosecutor argued to …
21-6478 Endalkachew Merid v. Virginia Virginia Denied IFP caniglia-v-strom community-caretaking exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment police-entry reasonable-belief suicide-intervention warrantless-entry warrantless-search Whether the warrantless entry and search of Merid's apartment violated the Fourth Amendment
21-6479 Earnest Lee Langston v. Don Phillips, Chairman, Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Missouri Denied Response WaivedIFP board-of-probation declaratory-judgment due-process fraud hearing judicial-review missouri-statute parole parole-eligibility procedural-fairness state-statute substantive-due-process Whether the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole violated petitioner's substantive due process rights
21-6480 Francisco C. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sandin-v-conner Whether the district court and the court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit misapplied the Supreme Court's decision of Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 (1…
21-6483 Robert A. McNeil v. Department of State, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process irs judicial-review passport-revocation standing tax tax-law Do courts of appeal nationwide exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY issue presented by the Class of disrespected, unrepresen…
21-6485 R. S. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights section-262.201(0) statutory-interpretation texas-family-code Does Texas Family Code, Section 262.201(0) violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
21-6488 Bertram S. Mann v. Florida Florida Denied IFP civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing petitioners' claims for lack of standing
21-6489 Edward F. Swanson v. Texas Texas Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment judicial-discretion jury-trial preponderance-standard sentencing statutory-scheme Does the trial judge have the authority to make the charge a first degree felony?
21-6493 Jarrett Alvin Kinley v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony napue-v-illinois napue-violation polygraph polygraph-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court's holding conflict with Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959)
21-6494 Benjamin Robert Cole v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced
21-6495 Pedro J. Amaro v. New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion prison-conditions procedural-fairness standing summary-dismissal Whether the court of appeals, under the 'abuse of discretion' standard of review, should have reversed the district court's judgment summarily dismiss…
21-6496 Christopher Wood v. Florida Florida Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights confidential-information due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction petition-for-writ-of-certiorari post-conviction pro-se standing supreme-court Did The Supreme Court Violate The 14th, 5th and Other Amendments To The United States Constitution as well as Clearly Established Federal Law when it …
21-6503 Pradeep Gupte v. University of Connecticut Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review child-pornography civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
21-6506 E'Mario C. Allen v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion batson-challenge batson-issue constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas federal-habeas-court federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court supreme-court-review Whether the Habeas Court proceeding and adjudication of the claim regarding a Batson issue did not result in a decision that was contrary to, or invol…
21-6507 Lyle Quinton Brown v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-decision jurisdiction native-american official-authority precedent retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the Matloff v. Wallace, 2021 OK CR 21 non-retroactivity decision conflicts with the holdings in Sharp v. Murphy, 140 S. Ct. 2412 (2020) and Mc…
21-6508 Daniel Jones v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-court-split civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion motion-for-counsel pro-se-litigant standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the appeal pursuant to 25 U.S.C.§ 1915(e) based solely on the denial of the motion for…
21-6509 Adesijuola Ogunjobi v. United Nations, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure complaint-dismissal covid-19-class-action district-court fourth-circuit judicial-discretion judicial-immunity merit-of-complaint procedural-rules standing subject-matter summons-service Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously held that the district court has the absolute authority to dismiss a valid complaint on its own without allowin…
21-6511 Betty Caitlin Nicole Smith v. Zachary Taylor Daniel Kentucky Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-violence domestic-violence-orders due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct standing state-court-procedure Whether State courts can ignore the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and deny hearings and equal protection
21-6513 Christopher Schneider v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-law first-amendment property-rights standing state-courts unlawful-detainer Whether the California courts violated the Petitioners' fundamental due process rights by explicitly citing federal law and issues that directly invol…
21-6516 Martin Robinson v. Sean Bailey Ohio Denied IFP appeals certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-issue due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure lower-court-decision meritorious-claims standing supreme-court-review Whether the trial court falsified the trial docket, whether the trial was illegal, whether the plaintiff was denied the right to present evidence, whe…
21-6526 Darneau Versill Pepper v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus standing Whether Mr. Pepper was denied meaningful access to the courts
21-6527 Ronald Johnson v. Kansas Kansas Denied IFP civil-rights due-process jurisdiction mandatory-minimums sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the State of Kansas can enact a statutory provision that was held to be unconstitutional under the 8th Amendment
21-6528 Tushkahomma J. Leon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure juvenile-justice mcgirt-retroactivity miller-v-alabama retroactivity state-procedural-bar subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies retroactively to final convictions
21-6529 Brandon Lamont Jenkins v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure matloff-v-wallace mcgirt-retroactivity mcgirt-v-oklahoma retroactivity state-procedural-bar subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies retroactively to final convictions
21-653 Harold Lee Harvey, Jr. v. Florida Florida Denied Relisted (2) autonomy-right counsel-override criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy due-process first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Is the Sixth Amendment autonomy right established in McCoy violated where counsel overrode an express agreement with the defendant to not concede guil…
21-6532 Mary Noel Kruppe v. California California Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process homicide malice murder-prosecution recklessness retroactive-law Whether the Appellate court's dramatic expansion of the law of homicides in People v. Watson (1981) 30 Cal. 3d 240 violates the defendant's due proces…
21-6533 Jabari J. Johnson v. Kathleen McGuire, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-court-review Whether the district court erred in its decision regarding the issue at hand?
21-6535 Jennifer Smith v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-injury due-process extraterritorial-warrant fourth-amendment monell search-and-seizure search-warrant section-1983 Does forgery, drug distribution, perjured affidavits, defective extraterritorial search warrants, improper execution of search warrants, coupled with …
21-6543 Craig Steven MacKenzie v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-preclusion court-of-appeals due-process issue-preclusion judicial-doctrine res-judicata standing Can the US. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia deprive petitioner of a full and fair opportunity to be heard by mis-applying the judicial d…
21-6545 Debra A. Nichols v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment ada americans-with-disabilities-act equal-protection fifth-amendment government-employees medical-privacy state-actors warrantless-search warrantless-searches Can state actors and/or government employees violate the equal protection clause of the 5th amendment of people considered disabled under the ADA?
21-6547 Richard Lynn Long, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-health plea-agreement right-to-counsel Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal err in deferring to the state court finding that Mr. Long was not prejudiced by his trial counsel's failure to n…
21-6549 Wade Greely Lay v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-public-defender habeas-corpus standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether the state court of criminal appeals erred in declining to comply with a state law branch to fabricate a false set of facts not corroborating w…
21-6550 Wade Lay v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process execution judicial-discretion standing Whether the execution protocol used by the State of Oklahoma violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
21-6558 Keith Anthony Rosario v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP apparent-authority consent consent-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-belief residence search warrant-requirement Does the apparent authority exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement permit a police officer to reasonably believe a seventeen-year-old…
21-6562 Francis Timothy Plaza v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP case-progress civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing judicial-precedent precedent prisoner-rights procedural-fairness state-court Was it an unreasonable application of this court's precedent to rule that equitable tolling should not apply to the petitioner's case where the state …
21-6563 Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida Florida Denied IFP coerced-confessions coercive-police-activity colorado-v-connelly confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement-threats motivating-cause police-misconduct probable-cause quid-pro-quo voluntariness Whether the appropriate interpretation of Colorado v. Connelly's 'essential link' between coercive police activity and a suspect's confession is a 'mo…
21-6564 Anthony Cruz v. California California Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conclusion constitutional-provisions due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction reasons-for-granting standing statement-of-case writ Was my request for motions acknowledged - Hearing my Proceedings of Court
21-6567 Dion Brown v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP criminal-defense fourteenth-amendment home-invasion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-inconsistent-statement reasonable-doubt reasonable-investigation sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's trial attorney was ineffective
21-6574 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-procedure contracts-clause due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal plea-agreements right-to-petition Can a lawfully perfected interlocutory appeal be mooted prior to resolution
21-6577 Christine Kay Ostopowicz v. United Healthcare Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-delays disability-discrimination due-process medical-evidence mental-health postal-delays procedural-fairness remote-plaintiff united-healthcare Why was my case previously denied without medical expertise, medical records or reports being taken into consideration even when supplied and without …
21-6578 Gregory Leri v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-history downward-adjustment drug-trafficking first-step-act safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-minimum Whether the safety valve criteria under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) are conjunctive or disjunctive
21-6586 Mark James Martinez v. California California Denied IFP california-law civil-rights common-law constitutional-right deadly-force due-process fundamental-right governmental-interest heightened-scrutiny imminent-harm self-defense Whether California's rule that self-defense is not available when a person does not act out of fear alone impermissibly infringes on the right to self…
21-6590 Terry Lynn King v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied IFP 8th-amendment categorical-approach constitutional-vagueness death-penalty death-sentence due-process elements-based-approach johnson-precedent prior-conviction prior-violent-felony sentencing-aggravator vagueness Is the 'prior violent felony conviction' aggravating factor in Tennessee's death penalty statutes unconstitutional under Johnson v. United States, 135…
21-6596 Jimmy D. Woods v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause tenth-amendment veterans-benefits veterans-disability Whether the state court had jurisdiction over the federal claims
21-6602 Brandon Christian v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis habeas-corpus plea-bargaining plea-validity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the plea was not entered knowingly and voluntarily because the trial court failed to ensure a sufficient factual basis and advise the petition…
21-6603 Joanna Blauch v. City of Westminster, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-injury due-process equal-protection false-statements justiciability pro-se public-records standing supervisory-liability Whether ignoring live controversies defies U.S. Supreme Court justiciability standards requiring cause applied to injury-in-fact?
21-6604 Andre Bowers v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violations constitutional-rights criminal-justice due-process faulty-investigative-practices first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct systemic-racism wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions wrongful-convictions,prosecutorial-misconduct,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,faulty-investigative-practices,brady-violations,first-amendment,fourte…
21-6606 Akil Tymes v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP counsel-communication criminal-procedure duty-to-communicate favorable-plea-offer ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does counsel perform deficiently in failing to fully inform a defendant during the plea bargaining process?
21-6607 In Re Andrew Thomas Burns, Sr. Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-error waiver-inquiry Did the trial court's failure to conduct an affirmative waiver inquiry prior to ordering petitioner to proceed pro se at trial, deny petitioner of his…
21-6608 Wilfredo Torres v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights cointelpro domestic-assassinations domestic-surveillance due-process ethics judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct standing Whether U.S. Judge Edgardo Ramos and U.S. Magistrate-Judge Katharine Parker violated rules of ethics and my right to due process of law
21-661 City of Eugene, Oregon, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived cable-act cable-franchising federal-right local-fees non-cable-services preemption revenue-based-fee rights-of-way Whether the Sixth Circuit properly held, in conflict with the Oregon Supreme Court, that a fee which is consistent with the Cable Act's only express p…
21-6610 Cody Allen Bruner v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process final-judgment finality-of-judgments habeas-corpus mcgirt oklahoma retroactivity statutory-interpretation supreme-court tribal-jurisdiction Whether MeGict v. Dklchema 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020) applies retroactively to convictions that were final when MeGict was announced
21-6611 Yanet Candelario Salazar v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
21-6613 DeAndre Russell, et ux. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-act pro-se standing stare-decisis Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
21-6617 Alan Douglas v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County Ninth Circuit Dismissed IFP american-heart-association civil-rights civil-rights-violation drug-eluted-stents due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice procedural-error res-ipsa-loquitur Reverse and settle personal injury
21-6619 Jeremiah Y. Nation v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-process legal-review procedural-grounds procedural-review state-court state-court-petition Should a Certificate of Appealability be issued on a Fourth Amendment claim in a Habeas Corpus petition where there was a dispute in the U.S. District…
21-6620 Tormu Prall v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fundamental-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the steps the petitioner proposed for regaining access to those letters are a 'watershed rule implicating the fundamental fairness and accurac…
21-6622 Rufus Lawson, Jr. v. Officer West, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines statutory-interpretation tax-evasion Whether the statute prohibiting willful failure to pay income taxes violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines
21-6626 Ronald Dean Ehinger v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech government-action standing takings Whether the Petitioners' First Amendment rights were violated by the government's actions
21-6627 Balitha Greenfield, et al. v. Vanessa Munoz Illinois Denied IFP due-process federal-land-patent jurisdiction property-rights real-estate recording Whether the petitioner has a valid property interest in the land that was the subject of the federal land patent filed with the Cook County Recorder o…
21-6628 Frank McNabb v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 4th-amendment consent-search consent-to-search detention-extension fishing-expedition fourth-amendment official-coercion retroactive-forgiveness traffic-stop warrant-exception Whether consent to search retroactively forgives any and all violations by police prior to consent
21-6633 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. White Bird Clinic Oregon Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-payment due-process fundamental-error judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge poverty procedural-dismissal standing waiver Whether an appellate court can dismiss a case for lack of payment of an 'undertaking' on appeal when the undertaking was not allowed in the first plac…
21-6635 Larry Alonzo Gibbs, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence relevance reliability witness-testimony Does the State of Florida violate a defendant's right to confront witnesses when they allow the State to introduce evidence that a minor vt suffered f…
21-6637 Kenan Ivery v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP appellate-procedure application-for-reopening due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions ohio-law procedural-dismissal state-court-of-appeals Is a petitioner denied due-process and equal-protection when the state-court-of-appeals procedurally-dismisses his application-for-reopening
21-6641 Choo Washburn v. Juana Quico Clark Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Question not identified
21-6647 Kenneth Howard Kerr, III v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-skills due-process equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-speech injury-in-fact re-entry rehabilitation survival Did the Petitioner state enough facts (included in his attachments as well as the text) to present a valid claim?
21-6648 John Cornelius Montgomery v. David Hudson, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech standing Whether the government's indictment of the petitioner violated their constitutional rights
21-6649 Paul J. Hultman v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juror-misconduct presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment Were the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments violated when a juror admitted viewing unadmitted evidence during deliberations and stated that her verdict w…
21-6650 Zachary Jeff Harvell v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction Whether respondent waived/forfeited any of its procedural defenses
21-6652 Salatheo Fluid v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion attorney-representation criminal-procedure district-court federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-standing motion-for-new-trial Whether the lower courts abused their discretion in dismissing petitioner's motion for a new trial
21-6653 Urban Fermin v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Second Circuit Denied IFP business-records confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment Whether the business record exception to hearsay survives the United States Constitution's Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause
21-6654 Donald H. Davidson, Jr. v. Florida Florida Denied IFP aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process hurst-v-florida mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing-determination Whether the Due Process Clause requires the additional determinations under Florida's capital sentencing scheme to be made beyond a reasonable doubt b…
21-6655 Henry Trevillion v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure covid-19 covid-19-pandemic equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure judicial-review lockdown statute-of-limitations Is petitioner Henry Trevillion entitled to an evidentiary hearing regarding his claim that the statute of limitations should be equitably tolled becau…
21-6660 Joshua Vance Jones v. Emily Ridder, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process legal-remedy procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment untimely-filing Did the Appellate Court err when acting in direct violation of the facts of the case, the Rules of the Court, and the codified laws of the United Stat…
21-6661 Alonzo Cortez Johnson v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination reconstruction-hearing waiver Do the normal rules of waiver apply in a situation like this to preclude a reconstruction hearing where the State has failed to offer any reasons for …
21-6662 Bryant Christopher Watts v. Texas Texas Denied IFP affirmative-defense appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process reasonable-doubt self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court Did the court of appeals err in affirming the trial court where evidence is insufficient to rebut the affirmative defense of self-defense beyond a rea…
21-6663 Asher Abid Khan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-deference remand sentencing Did the Court of Appeals fail to accord due deference to the district court's reasons for reimposing the same sentence after remand?
21-6665 Steven William DeLia v. Department of Justice, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
21-6666 Jabari J. Johnson v. James Johnson, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals district-court due-process legal-review military-service standing supreme-court Was the district court's discretion regarding issue A erroneous?
21-6669 Robert Walter Scully v. California California Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances beyond-reasonable-doubt constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances statutory-maximum Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se…
21-6672 Trevor Jim Bishop v. California California Denied IFP due-process evidence-code-section-1109 federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance other-acts-evidence procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel Whether the majority opinion erred not only as to the substantive admissibility of the other acts evidence, but whether the majority also erred proced…
21-6673 John Beatty v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process evitts-v-lucey ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel smith-v-murray strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Is the standards set forth in Smith v. Murray, 477 U.S. 527, 536 (1986) and Evitts v. Lucey, 469 U.S. 387, 396 (1985) the more appropriate test for ap…
21-6675 Robert JW McCleland v. Rick Raemisch, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expert-witness fed-r-evid-706 indigent-party judicial-notice medical-facts pro-bono-counsel standing summary-judgment Whether the appellate courts should apply case law established under Fed.R.Evid. 706 to an indigent party's request for the appointment of pro bono co…
21-6677 Shawn Pinson v. Texas Texas Denied IFP appellate-review conclusions-of-law constitutional-rights due-process findings-of-fact habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process texas-criminal-appeals trial-court-findings Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is violating procedural due process by denying relief to habeas applicants without explanation when the tr…
21-6678 Raul Mendez v. City of Boise, Idaho, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 1983-statute 42-usc-1983 administrative-procedure due-process mandatory-billing municipal-liability pleading-standard pro-se property-tax-roll utility-services Can local government entities take adverse actions against its citizens without Due Process for not using the provided utility services?
21-6680 Jemaine Monteil Cannon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal final-conviction jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim mcgirt-retroactivity post-conviction postconviction-proceeding retroactivity right-to-counsel state-procedure Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies retroactively to final convictions
21-6681 Eric Michael Crapser v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Court should resolve the clear circuit split on whether Strickland-v-Washington prohibits a criminal defendant from obtaining relief due t…
21-6682 Marcus L. Short v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-review leon-standard probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon Whether a reviewing court should ignore the Fourth Amendment analysis and go directly to a good faith analysis under United States v. Leon when an aff…
21-6683 David M. Vines v. City of Black Diamond, Washington, et al. Washington Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-without-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment free-speech police-misconduct warrantless-arrest warrantless-search whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether the State of Washington and the police have decided an important question of Federal law, namely the Fourth Amendment, e.g. arrest without a W…
21-6684 Ferrill Joseph Volpicelli v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. Nevada Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-autonomy civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights judicial-review legal-interpretation reproductive-freedom state-supreme-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause prohibit the government from denying a person's fundamental right to…
21-6686 Garry Lynn Baker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings Whether the state courts' dismissal of the petitioner's due process claims violated the Fourteenth Amendment
21-6689 Daniel Lawrence McGarry v. California California Denied IFP criminal-procedure preliminary-hearing probable-cause sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-criminal-proceeding Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial attaches to a preliminary hearing in a state criminal proceeding
21-6690 Joe Pyatt v. AECOM Technical Services, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination-framework disparate-treatment district-court due-process employment-discrimination judicial-precedent mcdonnell-douglas precedent title-vii Whether the district court, as well as the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, can overrule the precedent of this court set in McDonnell Douglas Corp. …
21-6691 Aaron Hicks v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct conflict-of-interest counsel-representation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion joint-trials right-to-counsel severance When a co-defendant is represented by counsel who previously represented the defendant, thereby creating an actual conflict of interest, may a court c…
21-6692 Alex D. Ramos v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines 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 …
21-6697 Melvin Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-terrorism-and-death-penalty-act civil-procedure court-jurisdiction district-court-authority docket-modification due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Did Congress, with the enactment of 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and the AEDPA, provide District Courts with unquestionable authority to manage their own docket a…
21-6699 J. T. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services Maryland Denied Response WaivedIFP best-interests-of-child child-welfare due-process family-law family-separation mental-health mental-stability parental-rights standing Why the Court of Appeal did not consider the fact that I have been mentally stable for more than 3 years and am dedicated to maintain this status?
21-6702 Oscar Porter v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 alibi-witness alibi-witnesses criminal-trial eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus identification ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether trial counsel violated the Sixth Amendment by prejudging and excluding close friends and family as alibi witnesses
21-6703 Joshua Cumberland v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-provisions timeliness Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
21-6704 Jose D. Drew v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence jury-inference material-element prior-convictions rule-404(b) rule-404b Whether the abuse of discretion review of the introduction of multiple prior convictions as rule 404(b) evidence requires the government to offer some…
21-6705 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest contracts-clause district-court due-process final-judgment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction plea-agreement sixth-amendment Does a United States Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to deny a Motion for a Certificate of Appealability when the District Court's putative Final J…
21-6712 Jermar Jamie Fuller v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure disclosure disclosure-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence prejudice prejudice-inference speedy-trial speedy-trial-analysis Did the court of appeals err in determining that the delay caused by the State's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence did not weigh against the St…
21-6713 Andrew U. D. Straw v. United States Federal Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process fifth-amendment judicial-takings law-license property-rights regulatory-takings takings tucker-act Whether the rule that the Court of Federal Claims cannot review other courts' final orders is wrongly applied
21-6715 Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation psychotherapist-patient-privilege self-representation subpoena-validity Whether a criminal defendant can represent themselves pro se, or does a defendant have to waive their privilege to their attorney-client relationship?
21-6716 Fernando Romero v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion counsel-appointment district-court-discretion expert-opinion ineffective-assistance investigation pro-se right-to-counsel state-court-claim Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying petitioner's motion to appoint counsel
21-6717 Kenneth Lamont Sanders v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking domestic-disturbance due-process emergency-aid fourth-amendment greenlaw-v-united-states party-presentation warrantless-search Whether the 'principle of party presentation' is violated
21-6720 Ali Al-Maqablh v. Daniel Cameron, Attorney General of Kentucky Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia mixed-question state-law When does AEDPA grant habeas petitioners complete relief or just review?
21-6721 Tyrone Anderson v. Delaware Delaware Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction standard-of-review trial-counsel Does it constitute ineffective assistance of counsel to fail to object to a state's chief witness's testimony that a non-testifying declarant stated t…
21-6722 Daniel Dario Trevino v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power controlled-substances-act due-process federalism interstate-commerce legal-landscape marijuana-regulation medical-marijuana standing-akimbo state-legalization Should this court reconsider its decision in Gonzales and determine that Congress cannot regulate solely intrastate marijuana distribution due to the …
21-6723 Jeremy L. Watson-Buisson v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights computer-aided-solicitation constitutional-challenge criminal-classification equal-protection indecent-liberties jurisdictional-comparison sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registry standing statutory-interpretation Does the Petitioner lack standing to raise an Equal Protection challenge to Code of Va. § 9.1-902(F) (formerly effective 2018)
21-6724 Carl Thompson v. Alaska Alaska Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incompetent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Can a trial court lose its jurisdiction when a defendant has incompetent representation, as it does when there is a physical absence of counsel at tri…
21-6725 Russ Scohy v. Pinellas County Code Enforcement Division Florida Denied IFP 4th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-trespass pro-se pro-se-access property-rights search-and-seizure takings warrant-violation Whether trespass by government officials without a warrant, illegal search and seizure, and excessive fees resulting in loss of property violate const…
21-6726 Mark Jason Davis v. Florida Florida Denied IFP 4th-amendment drug-detection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment k9-sniff police-dog private-property probable-cause search search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether an open-air sniff conducted by a police K9 on private property without a warrant or probable cause constitutes a search
21-6727 Zane Dickinson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP deficient-performance direct-appeal habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-preservation prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-probability trial-counsel Whether a federal habeas petitioner whose trial counsel performed deficiently by failing to preserve a meritorious issue for appeal satisfies the prej…
21-6728 David Schied v. U-Haul International, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-oath criminal-allegations due-process fiduciary-duties government-accountability judicial-immunity judicial-oaths whistleblower Are U.S. courts operating under the U.S. Constitution or the UN's International Association of Judges?
21-6729 David Schied v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-accountability criminal-allegations due-process fiduciary-duties judicial-immunity judicial-oaths standing whistleblower Are U.S. courts operating under the Constitution or the UN's International Association of Judges?
21-673 Robert Allen Austin v. James McCann, Judge, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process free-speech judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation What statute grants federal and state judges the use of defamation 18 U.S.C. § 4101(1) to deprive a U.S. citizen of a protected right under the 14th A…
21-6730 Mehmet Fatih Biyikoglu v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver breach-of-contract criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Whether petitioner's appellate waiver was enforceable after the district court found him in breach of his plea agreement
21-6731 Curtis James McGarvey v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process property-rights standing Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…
21-6737 James P. Donoghue, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP general-intent judicial-oath judicial-regulation judicial-remand judicial-review objective-review perjury specific-intent statutory-interpretation tax-court Whether the lower courts erred in framing the decision under the doctrine of general-intent, using subjective deduction, being inconsistent in objecti…
21-6738 Kadeem Willingham v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582c1a 924(c)-sentences 924c-sentences district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act nondelegation-doctrine sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sub-delegation whether-us-sentencing-guidelines-1b1-13-binds-district-court
21-6741 Jamor J. Demby v. County of Camden, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-tolling due-process incarceration legal-procedure standing statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations tolling Is the petitioner constitutionally entitled to the tolling of the statute-of-limitation due to being a class-member in a previous-class-action
21-6742 Raudel Salgado-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility-of-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-credibility fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions theory-of-defense Whether it violates an accused's right to a fundamentally fair trial to have a judge refuse a theory-of-defense jury instruction because the judge per…
21-6743 Juan Carlos Reyes v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law intentional-force statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force Can reasonable jurists debate whether federal armed bank robbery by intimidation, under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), is a crime of violence under the elements…
21-6744 Jose D. Resto-Figueroa v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule first-circuit in-forma-pauperis pro-se-petition probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained from a warrantless search of his vehicle
21-6745 Anthony Tyrone Garrett v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583g 5th-amendment 6th-amendment jurisdiction supervised-release transfer-order Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction to revoke supervised release
21-6746 Adan Ramirez-Rubio 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 …
21-6749 Matthew Sullivan v. Daniel Sproul, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-united-states criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-clarification misinformation plea-validity post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty May a criminal defendant attack the validity of his guilty plea when a post conviction clarification in law reveals that he was misinformed regarding …
21-675 Jeffrey G. Carswell, et al. v. E. Pihl & Sons, et al. First Circuit Denied administrative-law administrative-support congressional-intent director-standing federal-review-jurisdiction jurisdictional-review labor-director longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act private-fund statutory-interpretation wage-loss-claims workers-compensation Whether the First Circuit's finding that a US Labor Director could oppose Petitioners' wage-loss claims to protect a privately-financed Fund violates …
21-6750 Claude Jerome Wilson, II v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-rule habeas-corpus johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing-enhancement violent-felony When the record is silent as to which enhancement clause applied, what showing is a § 2255 movant required to make to prove he is entitled to relief o…
21-6751 Rudy Mendoza v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights deportation due-process material-evidence materiality victim witness witness-testimony Whether the government must provide notice to a defendant prior to unilaterally deporting the sole witness and sole alleged victim of a pending crimin…
21-6754 Chad Mink v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-prosecution eighth-circuit false-statement felon-in-possession procedural-jurisdiction venue waiver-rule Question not identified
21-6755 Kenny Pugh v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule in-forma-pauperis judicial-district legal-representation search-and-seizure state-court state-courts Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the trial court denied his motion to suppress evidence obtained from an unlawful sea…
21-6757 Dimitar Petlechkov v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-review judicial-reviewability perjury sixth-amendment Is judicial reviewability of a trial attorney's failure to impeach a key prosecution witness with regard to the most critical and material aspect of t…
21-6758 Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law Does the term 'controlled substance offense' as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede…
21-6759 Darla Ray Jones v. D. K. Johnson, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant criminal-threats drug-possession due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel forgery habeas-corpus prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct Is a criminal defendant deprived of the effective assistance of counsel due to her lawyer's conflict of interest?
21-6760 Deandre Spencer Cotton v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-court-certification federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-criminal-statute statutory-interpretation If a state criminal statute's divisibility is ambiguous when the defendant is convicted in state court, may a federal court later certify its divisibi…
21-6761 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment mlat mlat-evidence search-warrant sixth-amendment Whether this Court should visit the issue of allowing law enforcement to gather information initiated by the United States to use a Mutual Legal Assis…
21-6762 Karina Lizett Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit's review of the facts related to a mitigating adjustment under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 violated federal law
21-6767 Bryce Clair Clark v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
21-6768 Emanuel E. Goines, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether a felon's intrastate possession of a firearm violates 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) solely because the firearm previously crossed state lines
21-6769 Luke Joseph Burning Breast v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-921(a)(20) 18-usc-922(g) civil-rights-restoration criminal-prosecution felon-in-possession firearm firearm-components interstate-commerce rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Can the government establish the interstate commerce element in a § 922(g) prosecution by showing that a single interchangeable part of a firearm trav…
21-6775 Temne Adah Hardaway v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure financial-transactions money-laundering sixth-amendment specified-unlawful-activity venue venue-jurisdiction whether-a-person-who-obtains-proceeds-and-makes-a-separate-and-distinct-agreement-from-the-anterior-criminal-conduct,-to-engage-in-a-financial-transac…
21-6776 Wesley R. Carey v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance michigan-v-mosley post-conviction-relief self-incrimination state-court-decision Has the State of Illinois altered a decision in conflict with the decision in United States Supreme Court case, Michigan v. Mosley, thereby, violating…
21-678 Big Sandy Rancheria Enterprises v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 28-usc-1362 cigarette-sales federal-charter federal-indian-law indian-reorganization-act indian-tribe preemption tribal-sovereignty Whether an Indian tribe incorporated by federal charter under section 17 of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 is authorized to bring suit under 28…
21-6781 Matthew James Dury v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing document-fraud due-process evidence-tampering federal-procedure fraud immigration judicial-misconduct release-conditions standing Whether a federal judge has the authority to order the use of fraudulent documents to circumvent federal, state, and local laws
21-6785 Jarvis Thomas v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-witness hypothetical-question hypothetical-questions rule-704b Whether Fed. R. Evid. 704(b) precludes a government expert in a criminal case from opining that the defendant knowingly participated in the charged cr…
21-6786 Semaji Warren v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3582(c) 18-usc-3582c1a1 18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act 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 …
21-6788 Bernard Lindsey v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review cell-phone-search cell-phones drug-crimes drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-particularity Whether the mere presence of two cell phones in the petitioner's home provided sufficient grounds to search their entire contents
21-6789 Gurpreet Singh v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standing takings Question not identified
21-6790 Timothy Ryan v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-violations discretionary-review due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing Whether the district court erred in denying Ryan's § 2255 habeas corpus petition without holding an evidentiary hearing
21-6793 Markette Tillman v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court attorney-dismissal attorney-firing clear-error constitutional-rights interlocutory interlocutory-appeal sixth-amendment speedy-trial Where the appeals court previously found that it was clear error to fire a defendant's attorney in an interlocutory context, does the Sixth Amendment …
21-6795 Jerry White v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process freestanding-claim habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether the constitution prohibits the continued incarceration of a person who proves, with new evidence in the form of a confession by the true perpe…
21-6797 In Re Lawrence Earl Wilson Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equitable-tolling exceptional-case habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Whether a person denied counsel at a critical stage and received ineffective assistance on first appeal has been unconstitutionally deprived of libert…
21-6799 Erich William Norris v. Brook Forest Community Association, Inc. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-removal judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation racial-inequality rule-of-law state-court-procedure state-remedy texas-constitution Does patently unequal, disparate state administration of the Rule of Law and failure to provide state remedy in strict accordance with the Texas Const…
21-6803 Javier Rosales v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion amendment-782 discretion drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment opportunity-to-be-heard retroactive-amendment sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in deciding that the District Court's order denying relief under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) did not comprise an abuse of d…
21-6812 Manuel Gerardo Velasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court-hearing due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper life-sentence Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in refusing to grant a certificate of appealability when the record showed Velasquez received ineffective assistance o…
21-6814 Eleazar Flores-Mora v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-jurisdiction niz-chavez-v-garland notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court has jurisdiction to remove a noncitizen where the removal proceedings were initiated by a notice to appear (NTA) that di…
21-6816 N'Neka L. Crews v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response WaivedIFP accident-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment mens-rea public-welfare-offense strict-liability Whether Colorado's interpretation of a criminal leaving the scene of an accident law conflicts with Supreme Court precedent
21-6817 Rufus B. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment stand-your-ground victim-deposition Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability
21-6819 Christopher Varner v. Stan Shepard, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedy booth-v-churner civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-requirement internal-investigation prison-conditions prison-grievance ross-v-blake section-1997e Whether a prison grievance procedure is an available administrative remedy when it automatically refers a grievance for an internal investigation and …
21-6821 Francis Schaeffer Cox v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-liability contingent-conspiracy criminal-intent federal-employees federal-jurisdiction feola-test martial-law stalinesque-martial-law subjective-belief sufficiency-challenge Whether a contingent conspiracy may be based on a condition outside the conspirators' control that they subjectively believed was likely to occur, eve…
21-6823 Richard M. Arnold v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence credibility federal-petition habeas-corpus reasonable-juror recantation reliability schlup-standard standard-of-review Whether the district court must determine the credibility and reliability of new evidence of actual innocence before assessing its legal effect
21-6824 Dwight Frederick Barnes v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment geolocation-warrant good-faith-doctrine nexus search-and-seizure warrant-requirements warrantless-searches Can the good faith doctrine allow a police officer to rely on a geolocation warrant that lacks any showing of nexus in the application between the lis…
21-6825 Diana Bustamante v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law modified-categorical-approach predicate-offenses sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Do statutes criminalizing simulated controlled substances count as predicate 'controlled substance offenses' for applicability of the career offender …
21-683 John C. Kitchin, Jr., et al. v. Bridgeton Landfill, LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied circuit-split civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act defendant-conduct federal-jurisdiction local-controversy-exception significant-basis statutory-interpretation Whether the local defendant's alleged conduct can satisfy the 'significant basis' requirement of CAFA's local controversy exception where it is the sa…
21-6831 Albert L. Richardson, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability drug-effects habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment taped-interrogation Could reasonable jurists find ineffective an attorney's failure to investigate the identity and effects of a drug administered to an accused at the ti…
21-6833 Jason Lee Sarabia v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-standard fifth-circuit jury-conviction jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses multiplicity Do convictions of greater and lesser-included offenses violate the Double Jeopardy Clause when the prosecution uses the same evidence to obtain both c…
21-6834 In Re Hosea Jackson Denied IFP acquittal aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability double-jeopardy fifth-amendment hobbs-act insufficient-evidence jeopardy judicial-precedent Whether judicial precedent concerning double jeopardy defines an acquittal to encompass any ruling that the prosecutions proof is insufficient to esta…
21-6838 Bernard Steven Boyd v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guideline-sentence guideline-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance Did the Trial Court provide insufficient information or explanation to an upward variance in the Petitioner's Guideline Sentence, from a range of 51 t…
21-6839 Frank L. Amodeo v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction laches void-judgment waiver Does the doctrine of laches apply to a jurisdictional challenge that if proven, renders the judgment void?
21-6844 Pedro Rafael Caraballo-Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction multiple-theory-error predicate-offense statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-vagueness united-states-v-davis vagueness Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) may be sustained based on the reviewing court's finding that the jury relied equally on a valid pr…
21-6849 Edwin Vaquiz v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-relationship constitutional-rights criminal-defendant-rights criminal-defense due-process judicial-discretion right-to-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment trial-counsel-strategy witness-testimony Whether a trial attorney can prohibit or forbid, by coercion (threat to withdraw representation from defendant's criminal case), the defendant to resi…
21-6852 Joedon Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP assets constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process employment-history felon-in-possession firearms in-forma-pauperis indigence monthly-income second-amendment support-obligations Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence for possession of a firearm by a felon under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment
21-6858 Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 851 922(g) 922(g)-conviction acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender first-step-act government-concession rehaif sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent Whether the ACCA, 851, and Career Offender enhancements should be removed in light of the First Step Act Section 401 and the First Step Implementation…
21-6859 Jaquirro T. Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review plea-bargaining procedural-standard standing Whether a guilty plea without establishing a case against the United States is a structural error
21-6860 Lanny Jay Lyerla, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law court-correction due-process harmless-error judicial-error manifest-injustice plain-error procedural-fairness witness-testimony When an action of the court causes a harmless error to become plain error, is there due process for the defendant to apply to the court?
21-6861 Piyarath S. Kayarath v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP adolescent-brain compassionate-release extraordinary-circumstances mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimums neuroscience neuroscience-evidence procedural-error section-3553 section-3582 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform Whether Booker's invalidation of the mandatory sentencing regime, and post-Booker neuroscience facts about the adolescent brain constitutes extraordin…
21-6863 Nesly Loute v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remand section-2255 Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability
21-6864 Dennis Devone Jackson v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation crim-r-33-motion due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-petition res-judicata Whether a petitioner who files a post-conviction petition asserting ineffective assistance of counsel is barred by res judicata from raising similar a…
21-6874 Joshua Britt v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 blackledge-v-allison counsel-misadvice dilang-dat-v-united-states due-process eighth-circuit-review evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief section-2255-motion Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred in Affirming the conviction
21-6876 Leroy Alfonso Bryan, aka Frederick Karl Jost, aka Frederick Kirk Jost v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
21-6878 Ronald Cox v. Benjie Nobles, Deputy Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment prea-regulations prison-rape-elimination-act qualified-immunity transgender transgender-vulnerability Should the requirements of the Prison Rape Elimination Act be followed to protect the vulnerability of the transgender Petitioner in determining wheth…
21-6879 In Re Allen Fitzgerald Calton Dismissed IFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus innocence innocence-claim life-sentence original-jurisdiction state-court-review Whether transfer to the Supreme Court for hearing pursuant to the court's original habeas jurisdiction is warranted in this exceptional life sentence …
21-6882 Alexi Lenin Argueta-Urbina v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6884 Hermin Rodriguez-Monserrate, aka Cano, aka Canito v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP coronavirus-act coronavirus-aid-relief-and-economic-security-act criminal-procedure defendant-absence due-process educational-condition learning-disability sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release Should the district court have conducted the petitioner's sentence and revocation hearing in his physical absence?
21-6885 Miguel Gonzalez Segovia v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment pretrial-motion probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-stop Whether the Court erred when it denied Mr. Gonzalez Segovia's pretrial motion to suppress evidence seized pursuant to the vehicle stop
21-6886 Roberto Martinez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fair-and-just-reason plea-withdrawal presumption-of-innocence rule-11 Whether a defendant who enters a plea of guilty, but moves to withdraw such plea prior to sentencing, while at the same time properly articulating a p…
21-6887 Sergio Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent 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)?
21-6888 Ryan Kenneth Richmond, aka Rich v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-review attempted-murder criminal-defendant criminal-procedure plea-agreement relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines Does a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a within guideline's sentence bar appellate review where the district court used a cross ref…
21-6890 Robert William Moats v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights consensual-encounter consent constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment police-detention probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the majority opinion of the United States Fourth Circuit of Appeals, which held that the defendant had a consensual encounter with police and …
21-6894 Arnoldo Alvarado v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-111 18-usc-924c borden-v-united-states constitutional-review criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime whether-alvarado's-conviction-qualifies-as-violent-crime
21-6897 Ramon Torres Ruelas v. Troy Bowser, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-sex-case child-sex-crimes credibility-of-witnesses criminal-defense evidentiary-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-admissions lack-of-eyewitness-testimony lack-of-physical-evidence trial-strategy witness-credibility Whether trial counsel need not investigate witnesses with critical information relating to the putative victims' credibility in a child sex case where…
21-690 Rodney Earl Cannady, aka Camp Earl v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied career-offender cocaine-base-offense criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act plain-error retroactive-amendment retroactivity sentencing-reduction Did the district court err by denying defendant Cannady relief pursuant to the retroactive First Step Act of 2018 and Fair Sentencing Act of 2010
21-6901 Wilbert Mathes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-quantity-enhancement evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel leadership-enhancement sentencing sentencing-errors Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability
21-6905 Ramon Diaz-Quintana v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6908 Jessie Flores v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP competence-to-stand-trial competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-defense mental-state-defense psychosis specific-intent substance-abuse willful-deliberate-and-premeditated-murder Does defense counsel unreasonably fail to investigate and present a mental state defense to a charge of willful, deliberate and premeditated murder?
21-6911 Stanley Aron Cavienss v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest civil-rights due-process property-rights search-and-seizure standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the actions of the respondents
21-6912 Jamar Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review cell-phone-data constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
21-6915 Maxwell Gaffney v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking federal-law foreseeability judicial-review jury-instructions proximate-cause sentencing Whether the enhanced penalty provision of 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(C) requires a showing of proximate causation
21-6918 Robert Rodriguez Trevino v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-circuit inmate-rights liberty-interest medical-condition medical-supervision parole parole-review tex-gov-code-508.146 texas-criminal-procedure texas-department-of-criminal-justice Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
21-6919 Kevin Vigil v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure evidence-of-continuous-excitement excited-utterance federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-exception indian-country-status indian-law pueblo-lands-act Whether a hearsay statement may be properly admitted as an excited utterance
21-692 Sergeant Haystings, et al. v. Albert B. Korb Third Circuit Denied administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights exhaustion-requirement federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act standing supplemental-pleading Whether a prisoner can cure a violation of the Prison Litigation Reform Act's mandatory pre-suit exhaustion requirement by filing a supplemental plead…
21-6920 Perry Cousins, aka Pzo v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process jury-trial sentencing Whether the Sentencing provision of Statute 1963 violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments by denying the right to a Trial by Jury
21-6921 Sedale Pervis v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court family-impact judicial-discretion mitigating-factor procedural-background respect-for-law respect-for-the-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the District Court err in not finding that promoting respect for the law, in the context of this case is a mitigating factor?
21-6922 Jeffrey Charles Rodd v. Leann LaRiva, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights deliberate-indifference discovery district-court due-process eighth-circuit procedural-error standing summary-judgment Did the District Court err in dismissing Mr. Rodd's complaint without the benefit of discovery to further support his deliberate indifference claim
21-6924 John T. Veysey v. Louis Williams, II, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burrage-v-united-states controlled-substance-act habeas-corpus mandatory-guidelines pre-booker sentencing-guidelines Whether § 2255 (E) 'savings clause' conflicts with SCOTUS and other courts' decisions on bringing a Burrage-type argument
21-6926 Willie Wilcher v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-law due-process firearms judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard procedural-requirements rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the Lower Courts had jurisdiction to decide the case based on Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 814 (2019), and the government never proved …
21-6929 Rozelle Summerise v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
21-6930 Juan Rivera-George, aka Tio v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation cross-examination-limitation fair-trial hearsay-admission impartial-jury impeachment-evidence jury-bias jury-impartiality sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right Whether Juan Rivera-George was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial by an impartial jury
21-6933 Carlos Rivera-Alejandro, aka Homero v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-factors barker-v-wingo circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process speedy-trial standard-of-review trial-length Whether the Supreme Court should resolve a circuit split concerning the standard of review for a constitutional speedy-trial-claim
21-6936 Charles Roland Cheatham, aka Chi-Chi v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-investigation criminal-investigation evidence-derivation law-enforcement-procedure material-misstatement necessity probable-cause transfer wiretap wiretap-authorization May the government obtain a wiretap to investigate whether an individual is a member of an alleged conspiracy, by relying in part upon evidence from t…
21-6937 Colin Michael v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion judicial-presumption rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-sentencing-commission Should an appellate court automatically presume that a within-or-below-guideline sentence is substantively reasonable when the underlying rationale fo…
21-6939 Clarence Tramiel Beard v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP detention fourth-amendment investigatory-detention law-enforcement-procedure mail mail-seizure package-transportation reasonable-suspicion transportation united-states-v-place whether-the-investigatory-detention-and-subsequent-transportation-of-an-item-seized-from-the-mail-intrudes-on-a-possessory-interest-protected-by-the-f…
21-6940 Ferney Salas Torres v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court-discretion minor-role-adjustment pilot-enhancement plea-agreement procedural-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Ferney Salas Torres' judgment of conviction and sentence which was procedurally unreaso…
21-6942 Alison Gu v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1542 circuit-court-split criminal-law false-statements oath-requirement passport-application statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether making false statements on a passport application form violates 18 U.S.C. § 1542
21-6944 Juan Coreno-Garay v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
21-6955 Erica Umbay v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-commerce plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines Whether a Criminal Defendant Can Withdraw a Plea Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(8) if the Plea Lacked an Adequate Factual Basis?
21-6960 Jonathan C. Roush v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3161 18-usc-3164 court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-order griggs-v-provident-consumer-discount-co retroactive-exclusion speedy-trial speedy-trial-act time-calculation zedner-v-united-states Whether a district court may enter a post-appeal order to place findings and calculations on the record of a case to explain an earlier oral ruling de…
21-6977 Lavont Flanders, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1591 constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-petition postal-service-interference pro-se-litigant sex-trafficking sua-sponte-dismissal Question not identified
21-6984 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Oregon Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process fraud judgment judgment-standard legal-appealability motion-dismissal procedural-rules standing Question not identified
21-6985 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Oregon Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal case-review civil-procedure contempt court-jurisdiction due-process fraud-upon-court judicial-review legal-standing petition-review standing sub-judice Is it fair, just, sound, and prudent that the denial and dismissal of a motion for relief from a judgment for fraud upon the court be considered to be…
21-6988 Paul E. Pavulak v. Warden, FMC Butner Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-§-2241 28-U.S.C-§-2255(e) federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan postconviction-review section-2241 section-2255 May a federal prisoner seeking review of a defaulted claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel seek postconviction review under 28-U.S.C-§-2241…
21-6991 Lloyd George Kenney v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act california-penal-code-207 categorical-analysis criminal-statute divisibility force-clause implicit-threat-of-arrest kidnapping violent-felony Whether California's simple kidnapping offense as it existed in 1974 was a 'violent felony' under the 'force clause' definition of 'violent felony' fo…
21-705 Oklahoma v. Ted Roosevelt Yargee Oklahoma Denied Amici (1) civil-rights criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federalism jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law standing tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled
21-706 Joel Iverson Gilbert v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied bribery bribery-statute federal-bribery-laws first-amendment issue-advocacy jury-instruction jury-instructions official-action prosecutorial-standard Whether the government must prove explicit link between issue-advocacy payments and official action in bribery prosecution
21-716 David Sivella v. Township of Lyndhurst, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied criminal-investigation employer-liability first-amendment free-speech protected-speech public-employment retaliation whistleblower Does the First Amendment bar a public employer from initiating a baseless criminal investigation in retaliation for a public employee engaging in prot…
21-717 John Does 1–3, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. First Circuit Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) covid-19 covid-19-mandate free-exercise free-exercise-clause healthcare-workers preemption preliminary-injunction religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii Whether a state governor's order mandating that private healthcare employers, on penalty of revocation of their business licenses, terminate their hea…
21-718 Hermandad de Empleados del Fondo del Seguro del Estado, et al. v. United States, et al. First Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights decolonization disenfranchisement due-process insular-cases self-governance territories-clause voting-rights Whether Petitioners have standing to challenge the constitutionality of PROMESA
21-720 Rodney S. Ratheal v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-process discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act ftca no-admit-no-deny no-admit-no-deny-policy sec-policy securities-and-exchange-commission whistleblower whistleblower-notice Does the SEC publishing a defaming whistleblower notice that implies guilt in violation of its own No Admit No Deny policy directive that after settle…
21-724 New York University v. Dr. Alan Sacerdote, et al. Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2) class-action class-shares employee-retirement-plans erisa fiduciary-duty mutual-funds prudence retirement-plans Whether the bare allegation that New York University offered retail-class shares of certain mutual funds rather than lower-cost institutional-class sh…
21-734 Oklahoma v. Justin Dale Little Oklahoma Denied Amici (1) criminal-appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-indian-law federalism jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled
21-789 Casey Benton v. Mary Bradley, as Administrator of the Estate of Troy Robinson, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser-deployment tennessee-v-garner Whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity for deploying a taser to stop a fleeing person on top of an eight-foot wall
21-801 Barry McCabe v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. Virginia Denied civil-rights contract-clause contracting due-process iqbal-twombly product-liability sovereign-immunity tort-claims uniform-commercial-code Do animal 'adoption' laws conflict with the Constitution's Contract Clause and the general principles of contracting?
21-803 Wendy Dale v. Algernon Lee Butler, III Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived bad-faith bankruptcy-conversion bankruptcy-court chapter-13 means-test pending-lawsuit pro-se-debtor social-security social-security-disability May a bankruptcy court deny a Motion to Convert to Chapter 13 Bankruptcy on the basis of bad faith and inability to qualify as a Chapter 13 debtor
21-804 Philippe Zogbe Zatta v. Steven Charles Eldred, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived child-support civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud immunity parental-rights rooker-feldman-doctrine state-jurisdiction Whether Petitioner can be prosecuted for not providing support to his child
21-805 Douglas Norberg v. Nevada Center for Dermatology, et al. Nevada Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights common-law court-rules due-process judicial-precedent precedent stare-decisis unpublished-opinions Is Nevada Supreme Court Rule 36 allowing appellate decisions to be unpublished and unable to the cited as precedent a violation of the rule of stare d…
21-807 In Re Amelia Eng Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction disqualified-judge due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-procedure retroactive-disqualification standing writ-of-mandate Whether the California Supreme Court should be directed to order appellate review of Petitioner's appeal before a court of appeal having jurisdiction
21-810 Luis Lorenzo Vargas v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-civil-litigation federal-civil-procedure heck-v-humphrey mcdononugh-v-smith preclusion preclusive-effect section-1983 state-criminal-conviction vacated-judgment Whether a wrongful state criminal conviction retains preclusive effect in a later federal action under 42-U.S.C-§1983 challenging the constitutionalit…
21-811 Yanbin Yu, et al. v. Apple Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived claim-construction diamond-v-diehr federal-circuit mayo-test mayo-v-prometheus parker-v-flook patent-claim patent-claims patent-eligibility point-of-novelty Whether patent claims should be considered 'as a whole' or only the 'point of novelty' in determining patent eligibility
21-820 Louisiana v. Christopher Alexander Louisiana Denied circuit-split coerced-confession due-process fifth-amendment fruits-doctrine miranda-violation Whether a later voluntary statement must be suppressed as the fruits of statement taken in violation of Miranda?
21-821 Mary J. Farrier v. George Phillip Leicht, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
21-824 Cecelia F. Abadie v. Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board Louisiana Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech freedom-of-speech judicial-misconduct legal-paternity Whether suspending respondent for a year and a day, after ignoring evidence that supported her allegation, violated due-process, free-speech
21-831 Matt P. Jacobsen v. Rushmore Loan Management Services, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived claim-preclusion factfinding federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice logically-consistent mortgage-dispute prior-action res-judicata statutory-interpretation Does Res Judicata apply when the earlier action(s) did not cover all the claims and allegations of the later case?
21-832 Terrance Walker v. Intelli-Heart Services, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied anti-slapp circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure federal-rules necessary-and-proper ninth-circuit rules-of-civil-procedure shady-grove Is applying state law Anti-Slapp procedure in Federal Court consistent with Shady Grove?
21-833 David Louis Whitehead v. Traveler's Insurance Company, et al. Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2) attorney-general circuit-court civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process injunctive-relief judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus-writ recusal standing Whether the Second Circuit Court had jurisdiction to hear the case: appeal or writ of mandamus
21-839 Thomas H. Oehmke v. Patrick Andrew Guinan Michigan Denied Response Waived actual-malice civil-rights constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment free-speech malicious-reporting qualified-privilege Qualified Privilege for FBI Crime Tips
21-841 Michael Smallwood v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment government-agency government-liability liberty-interest search-and-seizure standing Can state and federal agencies use private entities as agents to commit unlawful search and seizure and deprivation of liberty interest to medical car…
21-845 David Pitlor v. TD Ameritrade, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement cause-of-action civil-procedure complaint-dismissal conspiracy due-process federal-arbitration-act pleading-supplement res-judicata Does res judicata preclude a cause of action for conspiracy that arises after a Complaint was filed, but prior to that initial claim's dismissal, if t…
21-850 Chelsea C. Eline, et al. v. Town of Ocean City, Maryland Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection gender-classification gender-discrimination government-interest governmental-interest moral-sensibilities tailoring Is protecting traditional moral sensibilities an important governmental interest on which the government may lawfully base a discriminatory gender-bas…
21-853 Reza Heidari v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
21-855 Paul M. Mahoney v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three California Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt contempt-citation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings petition-for-rehearing Whether the California Court of Appeal's contempt citation for statements made in a petition for rehearing violates the First Amendment and equal prot…
21-856 Barry D. Bilder v. Janice Dykstra Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived agreement-construction civil-procedure clean-hands contract-ambiguity contract-interpretation contract-law contract-terms due-process fact-determination fraud good-faith legal-definition In contracts, after signing an agreement, is the term, 'new fact,' applicable to a fact that is new and previously unknown to one party, or new and pr…
21-858 Classic Cab Company v. District of Columbia Department of For-Hire Vehicles District of Columbia Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-review appeals-process due-process hearing-process independent-adjudication judicial-review sham-hearing Is the use of a sham hearing process where the agency subject to an appeals process has the authority to overturn the determination of an independent …
21-861 First Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company v. Giorgio Armani Corporation Ninth Circuit Denied circuit-split co-fiduciary contribution employee-benefits erisa fiduciary fiduciary-duty indemnity statutory-interpretation Whether a fiduciary can seek contribution and indemnity from a co-fiduciary under ERISA
21-862 Samuel Hartman v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived §2254-litigation 28-usc-2254 circuit-split comity comity-doctrine deference federal-habeas procedural-default state-court-deference state-post-conviction Whether the majority of circuits are correct that comity prevents Federal courts in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 from overturning legal conclusion…
21-863 Alfredo Nicolas Talamantes-Enriquez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived None
21-864 Geoffrey M. Young v. Garland "Andy" Barr Kentucky Denied ballot-challenge civil-procedure due-process judicial-review kentucky-law kentucky-revised-statutes motion-to-dismiss motion-to-set-aside standing statutory-interpretation Whether a trial court in Kentucky may dismiss a civil action for failure to state a claim without construing the pleading in the light most favorable …
21-874 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination search-and-seizure Whether respondents acted in a conspiracy to violate petitioner's constitutional rights
21-875 Harry Barnett v. Menard, Inc. Seventh Circuit Denied civil-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-power local-rule local-rules procedural-authority separation-of-powers Whether a district judge has the power to enact a local rule that contravenes the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?
21-878 Carl Michael Seibert v. Jeremy McIntire, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit's purported 'inextricably intertwined' standard for evaluating jurisdictional claims under Rooker-Feldman arbitrarily and…
21-879 Gregory Mayer v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company Second Circuit Denied Response Waived benefit-determination benefit-determinations choice-of-law commerce-clause de-novo-review erisa erisa-preemption judicial-review preemption Whether state law prescribing de novo judicial review for challenged benefit determinations is preempted by ERISA, and whether enforcing such a state …
21-883 Glen D. Gore v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied chickasaw-nation conviction-finality criminal-procedure federal-native-american-relations habeas-corpus indian-major-crimes-act judicial-precedent McGirt-retroactivity mcgirt-v-oklahoma Oklahoma-law retroactivity substantive-rule Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies retroactively to convictions
21-886 Ismet Islami v. Kemper Independence Insurance Company Wisconsin Denied civil-dissolution due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise legal-separation marital-property religious-freedom religious-rights statutory-entitlement Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court's decision deprives persons domiciled in Wisconsin of their fundamental liberty right to exercise their statutory …
21-889 Bilal Hussain v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
21-891 Benjamin Wey, et al. v. NASDAQ, Inc., et al. New York Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity commercial-interests false-reporting federal-law-enforcement nasdaq-conduct non-existent-rule regulatory-function regulatory-functions securities-rule self-regulatory-organization self-regulatory-organizations Does absolute immunity attach to actions taken by Nasdaq consisting of fabricating a non-existent securities rule; knowingly falsely reporting Petitio…
21-892 Micah James Patterson v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction constitution constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury judicial-authority Does any court have the authority to amend the United States Constitution by fiat and extinguish a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights?
21-893 Apotex Inc., et al. v. Cephalon, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied 35-usc-103 drug-reformulation inventive-process ksr-v-teleflex motivation motivation-to-combine obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-law person-of-ordinary-skill prior-art Whether claimed inventions involving reformulating and administering an old drug in ways that are no better than prior techniques, and which had been …
21-894 Helen Gardner v. New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, et al. New York Denied 42-usc-1981 access-to-courts certificate-of-merit civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment section-1981 wrongful-death Whether the Supreme Court of the State of New York erred in dismissing Petitioner's Wrongful Death Case for lack of a Certificate of Merit
21-896 Jimmy Martin, Warden v. Alonzo Cortez Johnson Tenth Circuit Denied anti-terrorism-act batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky direct-appeal federal-court-proceedings habeas-corpus jury-selection standard-of-review state-court-proceedings tenth-circuit whether-the-tenth-circuit-violated-the-antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act
21-897 Brian Benson, et al. v. Ann Kemske, et vir Eighth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation res-judicata standing Whether pro se litigants are entitled to liberal construction of pleadings
21-904 Charles G. Kinney v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-act civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity malicious-prosecution ministerial-act rico rico-elements vexatious-litigant whistle-blower Whether judges intentionally abused a 'ministerial' act to conceal or cover-up that other judges had intentionally abused an 'administrative' act to e…
21-905 Nathaniel Rimpson, III, Charles Scott, and Carl Buggs v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing 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 …
21-907 Kenda R. Kirby v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied civil-rights discrimination due-process educational-amendments non-discrimination retaliation sex-based-characteristics sex-discrimination title-ix Whether Plaintiff has a right to redress under Title IX or other policies and statutes
21-910 David Zaitzeff v. City of Seattle, Washington Washington Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment blade-length civil-rights constitutional-rights fixed-blade-knives knife-carry municipal-code second-amendment self-defense standing Whether the Second Amendment allows the government to prohibit ordinary law abiding citizens from carrying fixed blade knives, or knives of a specific…
21-911 Dan V. Sharp v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause constructive-possession criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearms-offense ineffective-assistance joinder motion-to-suppress severance Whether the Court erred in failing to sever the counts by date
21-912 Jeffrey T. Maehr v. Department of State Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-action civil-rights constitutional-rights debt-collection due-process government-sanction passport passport-revocation tax tax-debt travel Whether the federal government may collect tax debts by revoking citizens' constitutional right to travel internationally
21-913 Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, et al. v. Lummi Nation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived federal-indian-law fishing-rights geographic-boundaries maritime-boundaries native-american-law ninth-circuit treaty-interpretation treaty-precedent treaty-rights tribal-rights Whether the Ninth Circuit properly abrogated the long-settled and original understanding of the treaty term 'usual and accustomed grounds and stations…
21-915 Hugh McKinney v. Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious civilian-board deference judicial-review military-records standard-of-review Whether a civilian board's administrative decisions concerning the correction of military records pursuant to 10 U.S.C. § 1552(a)(1) are properly revi…
21-916 Abrahim Mohamed Fofana v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
21-917 Abel Diaz v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Bennettsville Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived drug-offense drug-offenses habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-trial savings-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether the district court had jurisdiction under the savings clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) to adjudicate the merits of petitioner Diaz's § 2241 petit…
21-919 Rodenburg LLP, dba Rodenburg Law Firm v. The Cincinnati Insurance Company Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived boilerplate-exclusion commercial-liability commercial-liability-policies illusory-coverage insurance-coverage jurisdictional-split north-dakota-law policy-interpretation property-rights split-of-authority substantive-law Did the court of appeals' expansive reading of a boilerplate exclusion used nationwide by insurers in their commercial liability policies, a reading w…
21-921 Mark A. Witaschek v. District of Columbia District of Columbia Denied administrative-summons carpenter-v-united-states digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception government-surveillance probable-cause tax-evasion third-party-doctrine Whether the Fourth Amendment's third-party doctrine should be overruled, limited, or held inapplicable
21-922 James Combs v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response Waived fourth-amendment open-view-doctrine plain-view-doctrine pre-textual-search private-property vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment's plain view and/or open view doctrines permit a police officer, uninvited and without a warrant, to enter upon private p…
21-923 Delila Pacheco v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma 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
21-924 Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-question frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se standing statutory-interpretation surveillance wiretapping Whether the opinion of the Eleventh Circuit affirming the lower Court's decision in dismissing the Pro se, federal question in forma pauperis complain…
21-927 Donald Clinton Crabtree v. Christine Crabtree South Carolina Denied 1st-amendment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-expression gender-bias gender-discrimination judicial-misconduct religious-expression Did Judge Monet Pincus violate the 1st Amendment protection of freedom of expression and generally condemn religious expression of men?
21-932 Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States v. Bennie G. Thompson, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (7) congressional-oversight constitutional-law executive-privilege preliminary-injunction presidential-records-act records-request separation-of-powers Whether the Committee's records request violates the Constitution or laws of the United States entitling President Trump to a preliminary injunction p…
21-935 McIlwain, LLC, aka Timothy J. McIlwain, Attorney at Law v. Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection osborn-v-bank-of-the-united-states pro-hac-vice pro-se rowland-v-mens-colony subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment transunion-llc-v-ramirez Did the court below err in not considering the subject-matter-jurisdiction
21-937 Christopher Lee Holloway v. Minnesota Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived based solely on the relative age of the actor violates the constitutional right to equal-protec while permitting it to another affirmative-defense age-discrimination constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-law legislative-intent rational-basis Whether the denial of an affirmative defense to one class of offenders in a criminal case
21-940 Kentucky v. Jared McCarthy Kentucky Denied Amici (1)Response Waived blood-test criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourth-amendment impaired-driving mandatory-minimum search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the admission of a defendant's refusal of a blood test in an impaired-driving prosecution
21-946 Michael Coscia v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-U.S.C-2255 adversely-affected conflict-of-interest Cuyler-v-Sullivan-446-U.S-335-1980 evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance Machibroda-v-United-States-368-U.S-487-1962 section-2255 supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Whether a petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28-U.S.C-2255 to resolve his claim under Cuyler-v-Sullivan-446-U.S-335-1980
21-947 Tettus Davis, et ux. v. Jonathon Hodgkiss Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment franks-challenge interlocutory-appeal probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 summary-judgment Franks-v-Delaware-violation
21-954 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (24) administrative-discretion administrative-law agency-discretion border-policy due-process homeland-security immigration-law immigration-policy judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether 8 U.S.C. 1225 requires DHS to continue implementing MPP
21-957 Marci M. Webber v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response Waived civil-rights confinement due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-detention ngri not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity Whether a State's indefinite confinement of an NGRI acquittee, who is no longer psychotic, mentally ill, a danger to herself or others, or in need of …
21-964 Sherrie Rye v. Lucas County Department of Job and Family Services Ohio Denied Response Waived adoption-and-safe-families-act burden-of-proof child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law parental-rights santosky-standard standard-of-proof termination-of-parental-rights Should the Court expand the minimum burden of proof to terminate parental rights to a standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt and prohibit burden-sh…
21-982 Timothy O. Markland v. Asset Acceptance, LLC Oklahoma Denied Response Waived civil-procedure debt-collection default-judgment due-process extrinsic-evidence service-of-process statute-of-limitations time-bar Whether rigid invocation of the non-extrinsic evidence rule denies due process
21-983 Rhonda Meisner v. Zymogenetics, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure corporate-membership diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction incorporated-parent-company legal-ethics limited-liability-company procedural-standing standing Does diversity jurisdiction exist when the sole member of a named Limited Liability Company defendant, is its incorporated parent company?
21-985 Oklahoma v. Gage Christopher J. Shriver Oklahoma Denied Amici (1)Response Waived criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled
21-996 Yonell Allums v. United States Second Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived as-applied-challenge booker-decision criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonable-sentence rita-decision sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation Whether a criminal sentence violates the Sixth Amendment when the sentencing court relies on its factual findings about a criminal defendant's conduct…
21M62 Vernell Conley v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M63 M. D. v. Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division, et al. Montana Presumed Complete None
21M64 Terry G. Watson v. Karey L. Witty, et al. Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M65 Willie Conner v. Sharon Folks, Warden Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M66 Jose Montalban v. Mr. Powell, et al. Third Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M67 Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts Presumed Complete None
21M68 Peter Lundstedt v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. Second Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M69 Latwon James v. United States Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M70 Michael T. Rand v. United States Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M71 Gary Leonard Clair v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M72 Tomas Caesar Popson v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M73 Dwayne Kamar Sybbliss v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Third Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M74 Michael A. Deem v. Lorna M. DiMella-Deem New York Presumed Complete None
21M75 William Baskerville v. United States Third Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M76 Robin Lee Sherwood v. George A. Neotti, Warden Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M77 Christopher Michael Salisbury v. United States Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M78 Dennis Spencer v. Colorado Colorado Presumed Complete None
21M79 Gary Maye v. United States District of Columbia Presumed Complete None
21M80 B. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida Presumed Complete None
22O145 Delaware, Plaintiff v. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin Pending Amici (2)Relisted (4) None
22O146 Arkansas, et al., Plaintiffs v. Delaware Pending Amici (1)Relisted (4) None