Conference: 2022-02-25

90 cases — 0 granted, 90 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-1001 Hakim Bey v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt Whether a jury instruction is unconstitutional if there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury understood it to allow conviction without proof beyon…
21-1025 Ashwani Sheoran v. Walmart Stores East, LP, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure claim-submission due-process false-claims-act fraud pleading rule-9b statutory-interpretation Whether a circuit split on how to apply Fed. R Civ. P. 9(b) in pleading cases under the False Claims Act requires a more rigorous approach
21-1030 Peter Brimelow v. The New York Times Company Second Circuit Denied Response Waived actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech government-policy media-entity media-liability new-york-times-standard race-intelligence-crime Whether the Sullivan Malice rule should be abandoned
21-1031 Estate of Cheryl Beaudry v. Telecheck Services, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing check-reporting class-action consumer-protection consumer-reports fair-credit-reporting-act injury-in-fact positive-checkwriting-information putative-class-action risk-of-check-declines Whether Cheryl Beaudry suffered an injury in fact sufficient to confer Article III standing for an action under the Fair Credit Reporting Act
21-1041 Michael J. P. v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitrary-and-capricious benefit-eligibility erisa firestone-v-bruch judicial-review metro-life-v-glenn plan-administrator plan-administrator-discretion standard-of-review substantial-evidence Whether the Supreme Court's dicta in Firestone Tire and Rubber Co v. Bruch and the Supreme Court's ruling in Metro. Life Ins. Co. v. Glenn render it i…
21-1051 Mengyang Li v. Shepherd University President's Office West Virginia Denied Response Waived academic-promotion age-discrimination national-origin-discrimination professional-advancement promotion race-discrimination racial-discrimination scientific-contributions scientific-research teaching-university Whether the denial of promotion to Professor rank of an older scientist with significant prior research contributions solely on the basis of lack of p…
21-1059 Citibank, N.A., et al. v. Irving H. Picard, Trustee for the Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 11-usc-550 avoided-transfer bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee burden-of-proof good-faith statutory-interpretation subsequent-transferee Whether a bankruptcy trustee seeking to recover an avoided transfer from a subsequent transferee under 11 U.S.C. 550 bears the burden of pleading and …
21-1063 Elaine Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived conspiracy criminal-acquittal due-process fifth-amendment health-care-fraud presumption-of-innocence statutory-interpretation unjust-compensation unjust-conviction-and-imprisonment Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2513's requirement that a defendant acquitted because of insufficient evidence must affirmatively disprove the factual allegations…
21-1067 Ra Nu Ra Khuti Amen Bey v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-questions original-issue-discount secured-party-creditor standing takings tax tax-liability Whether plaintiffs' erroneously given 'inferior status' and denied the right to redress the UNITED STATES on obligations such as certificates of indeb…
21-1073 Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi, et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-protections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith state-action union-rights waiver Whether a labor union acting in concert with state officials may seize payments for union political speech from an employee absent clear and compellin…
21-1081 L. Lin Wood v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process election-procedure election-procedures equal-protection federal-elections legislative-authority standing vote-dilution voter-rights Whether the Petitioner has standing to challenge the unconstitutional actions of non-legislative officials who altered federal election procedures
21-145 Gordon College, et al. v. Margaret DeWeese-Boyd Massachusetts Denied Amici (10)Relisted (7) academic-disciplines academic-freedom christian-education christian-mission faculty-integration first-amendment good-faith-characterization ministerial-exception religious-colleges religious-organization spiritual-formation Whether professors at religious colleges perform ministerial functions
21-315 Jacquelyn Bouazizi v. Hillsborough County Civil Service Board, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2) age attorney-negligence civil-service eeoc-claim employment-discrimination equal-pay equitable-tolling fmla gender pro-se-litigation race retaliation Should the Doctrine of Equitable Tolling be expanded?
21-376 Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. v. Chad Everet Brackeen, et al. Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (4)Response WaivedRelisted (5) 10th-amendment anticommandeering article-iii-standing equal-protection indian-child-welfare-act placement-preferences recordkeeping standing tenth-amendment Whether ICWA provisions violate the anticommandeering doctrine
21-377 Cherokee Nation, et al. v. Chad Everet Brackeen, et al. Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Response WaivedRelisted (5) anti-commandeering child-welfare civil-rights equal-protection indian-child-welfare-act morton-v-mancari placement-preferences spending-clause state-commandeering tribal-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in invalidating ICWA provisions as impermissibly commandeering states
21-378 Texas v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Relisted (5) anti-commandeering anticommandeering child-custody child-custody-proceedings commerce-clause equal-protection indian-child-welfare-act indian-commerce-clause nondelegation nondelegation-doctrine Whether Congress has the power under the Indian Commerce Clause or otherwise to enact laws governing state child-custody proceedings merely because th…
21-380 Chad Everet Brackeen, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Relisted (5) adoption-preferences child-custody child-placement congress-authority congressional-authority federalism indian-child-welfare-act racial-discrimination state-law state-sovereignty Whether ICWA's placement preferences violate the U.S. Constitution by disadvantaging non-Indian adoptive families on the basis of race
21-416 Darell Anthony Anderson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) breach civil-procedure contract contract-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process legal-procedure plea-agreement Due process of law, plea-agreement, contract, breach
21-53 James Dale Holcombe v. Florida Florida Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (12) conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joint-and-dual-representation joint-representation presumed-prejudice prosecution-witness prosecutorial-notice trial Whether a criminal defendant establishes an 'actual' conflict of interest that adversely affects counsel's representation
21-558 Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, et al. v. The California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights congressional-review-act due-process employee-retirement erisa erisa-preemption fiduciary-duty payroll-deduction pension retirement state-mandated-savings state-regulation Whether California's CalSavers program requiring private employers to automatically debit employee paychecks and surrender those earnings to the State…
21-5961 David K. Horsley v. Ohio Ohio Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-rule sixth-amendment state-appellate-procedure Whether the holding in Garza v. Idaho, 586 U.S. 10 (2019) applies to Ohio App. R. 26(B)(1) which requires a defendant to prove ineffective assistance …
21-6022 In Re Robert L. Hedrick Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment frivolous plausible-claim rule-8 standing Did the Court Error in ruling that the complaint failed to comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)?
21-6066 R. Susan Woods v. Alina's Real Estate, LLC First Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review disability due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion standing Under what circumstances is it appropriate for the courts to refuse accommodation to the disabled?
21-6073 John Ray Falk, Jr. v. Texas Texas Denied IFP accomplice-liability capital-murder capital-punishment criminal-liability due-process guilty-plea law-of-parties notice plea-bargaining pro-se pro-se-defendant Whether a pro se defendant must be informed of the prosecution's theory of his own criminal liability when pleading guilty to a death-eligible homicid…
21-6098 Hector Enamorado, aka Vida Loca v. United States First Circuit Denied IFP bruton-doctrine bruton-v-united-states codefendant-confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence multi-defendant-trial multi-defendant-trials rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment Whether a confession by codefendant's counsel on behalf of his client during a multi-defendant trial is subject to Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 1…
21-611 Gertrude Coretta Fennell Hamilton v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigation retaliation sovereign-immunity whistleblower Whether a Pattern and/or Practice of Discrimination took place
21-634 Zachariah Brian Wright v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) criminal-procedure due-process equivocal-invocation high-penalty-case intelligent-waiver judicial-discretion right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's otherwise clear invocation of his right to represent himself becomes equivocal when he prefers representation by an attorney who…
21-6374 Howard Paul Guidry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights exculpatory-evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default racial-discrimination Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly addressed the merits of the habeas claims
21-6394 Kyle S. Matthews v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment good-faith-exception indicia-of-probable-cause probable-cause prosecutor-involvement search-and-seizure Where a search warrant affidavit lacks probable cause
21-6397 Viengxay Chantharath, aka OG v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-law Can a nonretroactive change in the sentencing law satisfy the 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' standard for a reduction in sentence under 18 U.S…
21-6426 Lee Dale White 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?
21-655 Max Ray Butler v. S. Porter, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) adequate-medical-care bivens bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-rights eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-prisoner federal-prisoners medical-care Whether Bivens remedies are categorically unavailable to federal prisoners in any other context
21-6733 Freddie Cleveland v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby mens-rea rule-60b6 third-circuit Did the District Court and the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretion when not granting Petitioner's certificate of appealability
21-6756 Tracy Clare Micks-Harm v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP absolute-immunity administrative-function civil-rights constitutional-rights HIPAA hipaa-immunity judicial-immunity proprietary-functions qualified-immunity retaliation search-and-seizure third-party-doctrine Whether rie, retaliation, deliberate indifference to the violation of civil-rights, acts committed within the scope of administrative-function, acts c…
21-6771 Charles Reddicks v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-records equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-selection race-neutral racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether permitting the Government to run criminal records for potential jurors, then use the records of the record check to strike jurors of color, vi…
21-6778 In Re Mark Thomas Garrett Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights court-discretion due-process equal-protection exceptional-circumstances extraordinary-relief legal-remedy qualified-immunity standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
21-6784 Brian James Talbot v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-consistency legal-precedent plea-withdrawal precedent Can the decision in the present case and the-prior decision of the Court of Appeals of Virginia in Williams v. Commonwealth and its progeny, be reconc…
21-6808 Zenith E. Vivas, aka Rodolfo Martinez-Lara, aka Wilson Lopez-Santos v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
21-6836 Daniel Locus v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification federal-courts judicial-review state-court-review state-courts wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions Did the District Court's ruling consistent with the holdings in Neil v. Biggers
21-6856 Darrell Wayne Butler v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force material-facts prison-officials summary-judgment Whether the court erred in granting summary judgment to the officials on the ground that there was a genuine dispute of material fact concerning wheth…
21-6875 Dontaie Anderson v. Kyle Russell, Warden, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection evidence judicial-procedure sentencing supreme-court Whether the governments need to secure court appearance outweigh the security of person from severe harms, mental and physical, due process and punish…
21-6902 Daliyl Raaid Muhammad v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-prejudice-standards harmless-error jury-verdict jury-verdicts supreme-court-precedent Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that United States v. Powell precludes consideration of the jury's other verdicts when conducting harmless …
21-6923 Raymond V. DiGiacomo v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco California Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-1990 appellate-rights court-funding disability-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-review legal-access procedural-technicalities reasonable-accommodation state-court-procedure Whether a disabled litigant be allowed a reasonable accommodation to cover which requires one or more of said court's judges to lower their vocal tone…
21-6946 Gregory Lozado v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-decision circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-menacing force-clause general-intent guidelines guidelines-interpretation sentencing Does Colorado felony menacing qualify as a crime of violence under the Guidelines force clause after Borden v. United States?
21-6948 Robert Earl Ramseur v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury indictment prosecutorial-vindictiveness self-surrender sentencing superseding-indictment Is it prosecutorial vindictiveness to have a superseding indictment after completion of the trial proceedings and sentencing-without resubmission to t…
21-6951 Jacob Allen Adair v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-analysis categorical-matching civil-procedure descamps-ruling due-process fifth-circuit generic-offense generic-offenses state-offenses taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-descamps Whether—in contravention of this Court's precedent and every other circuit—the Fifth Circuit's approach allowing for variations between a given offens…
21-6956 Roman Enrique Delgado-Montoya v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-prisoner-relief first-step-act sentencing-commission sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation Whether the district court is limited to the 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' given in application note 1 of the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13
21-6966 Juan Sampel v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-withholding government-misconduct judicial-discretion sentencing Does an appellate court violate principles of Due Process when it disregards substantial evidence which questions a district court's drug quantity fin…
21-6969 Alton Jackson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines booker circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing guideline-enhancement lapsed-statute legal-interpretation mandatory-guidelines sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in upholding the district court's enhancement of the defendant's sentence under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1 based on an expire…
21-6972 Maria Haydee Luzula v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons circuit-split first-step-act non-delegation-doctrine sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 binds district courts in considering defendant-filed motions for sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)
21-6987 Marcus Antonio Grubbs v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-waiver sentencing Whether a defendant can knowingly, voluntarily, and/or intelligently execute an appeal waiver of conduct yet to occur in the proceedings, vis-à-vis se…
21-6992 Michael Rocky Lane v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing summary-affirmance Whether the denial of Michael Lane's motion for compassionate release was an abuse of discretion?
21-6993 Damon Willis v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions prohibited-status rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment sovereign-citizen Does Rehaif v. United States preclude a jury instruction that the federal government must prove a defendant knew his prohibited status made it illegal…
21-6994 Fernando Lara v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the result of an alleged search of Petitioner's cell phone violated his Fourth Amendment rights
21-7003 Latique Johnson v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility admissibility-standard ballistics ballistics-testimony evidence expert-testimony expert-witness federal-rules-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence firearm forensic-science scientific-reliability Whether testimony by ballistics toolmark experts that a particular firearm fired recovered bullets or casings is presently so flawed as to be inadmiss…
21-7004 Adam L. Ware v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-deficiency civil-procedure deterrence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception recurring-negligence standing systemic-negligence Should the good-faith exception apply when an affiant has been repeatedly warned not to submit deficient affidavits?
21-7006 Juan Jaime-Guzman v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indictment prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a court can impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on a prior conviction not alleged in the indictment, consistent with the Sixth Amendm…
21-7013 Michael John Wolfe v. Oregon Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-crime constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto legislative-amendment retroactivity Does the ex post facto prohibition preclude a state from charging a defendant with a newly defined capital crime under a retroactivity provision
21-7014 Vicente Lopez-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP assault criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement mens-rea Whether the district court erred by denying the defense's jury instruction
21-7020 Charles David Gordon v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility mental-health segregation self-incrimination voluntariness voluntary-statements Whether a defendant's statements may be admitted into evidence when the statements were made while she was placed in segregated confinement based on m…
21-7024 Edgar Manuel Sierra-Serrano v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exceptions fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrantless-search Has the progeny of 'probable-cause' and the innovations of 'exceptions' to the Fourth-Amendment concerning the justification to advance in a warrantle…
21-7025 Derrick Garrell Samuels v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-composition jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether Samuel's Fifth Amendment rights were violated when he was forced to proceed to trial as the only black person in the courtroom
21-7026 Nehemias Samayoa v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-withdrawal civil-rights coercion dual-sovereignty due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-jurisdiction indigent-defendant standing state-court-judgment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a court to appoint new counsel to represent an indigent defendant who wi…
21-7032 Adrian Hunt v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2d1.1(b)(1) 5th-circuit criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade tools-of-the-trade-presumption Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio…
21-7034 Jeriton Lavar Curry, aka Cheese v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-procedure district-court-error due-process hobbs-act legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a Conviction for Hobbs Act Robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the Sentencing Guidelines
21-7035 Seville Williams v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582c1a1 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act judicial-discretion sentence-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 …
21-7038 Jeremy William Lillich v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment identification reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop warrant-execution Did the lower courts depart from the accepted course of judicial proceedings by allowing detention based on dispelled reasonable suspicion?
21-7041 Anthony Andrews v. Bryan K. Dobbs, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process parole revocation sentencing supervised-release Whether the district court erred in revoking the petitioner's supervised release under 18 U.S.C. 3583(e)(3)
21-7047 In Re Daren Kareem Gadsden Dismissed IFP constitutional-violation criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-authority Whether the U.S. District Court exceeded its authority and/or jurisdiction
21-7052 Lewis Taylor, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing meaningful-opportunity parole parole-eligibility rehabilitation-consideration sentencing solem-v-helm Whether a 129-year sentence for a non-homicide offense committed as a juvenile violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punish…
21-7053 Iramm Wright v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine Whether a movant's procedural default may be excused due to a constitutional vagueness challenge not reasonably available prior to Johnson v. United S…
21-7055 Eugene Willis v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brandishing carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-intent due-process-rights firearm ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent judgment-of-acquittal jury-instructions statutory-interpretation Whether an attorney was ineffective for failing to argue the government failed to prove intent under 18 U.S.C. § 2119(a)
21-7060 Christopher N. Bilynsky v. Maine Maine Denied Response WaivedIFP boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial self-incrimination sentencing-exposure stipulation waiver Do the Due Process Clauses and Boykin v. Alabama mandate a colloquy before accepting stipulations to offense elements that increase sentencing exposur…
21-7087 In Re Wesley Thompson Denied IFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing Was Mr. Thompson's convictions affirmed despite constitutional violations?
21-767 Clinton Williams v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1) 18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion 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 …
21-769 Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1) allotment congressional-intent federal-reservation indian-land-rights indian-law sixth-circuit-ruling statutory-interpretation superintendence treaty-interpretation treaty-of-detroit treaty-rights Whether the 1855 Treaty of Detroit established a federal reservation for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians?
21-773 Oklahoma v. Harold Denton McCurtain Oklahoma Denied Amici (1) criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled
21-782 Rodney Renia Young v. Georgia Georgia Denied Amici (4) burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability state-law Does requiring a capital defendant to prove his intellectual disability beyond a reasonable doubt violate the Due Process Clause and the Eighth Amendm…
21-798 Oklahoma v. Stephen Tanner Vineyard Oklahoma Denied Amici (1) criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled
21-814 Christopher Castagna, et al. v. Harry Jean, et al. First Circuit Denied 4th-amendment cady-v-dombrowski community-caretaking home-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-entry Did this Court's opinion in Cady v. Dombrowski, 413 U.S. 433 (1978) clearly establish that the community caretaking exception applied only to warrantl…
21-930 Xiu Jian Sun v. Barack Hussein Obama District of Columbia Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law divine-law due-process free-speech government-accountability judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus religious-petition standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
21-931 Ameenah Salaam v. Jeffrey Allen McAuley California Denied 14th-amendment amendment-xiv child-custody civil-rights constitutional-violation custody-change due-process petition physical-custody state-courts superior-court Did the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento violate the United States Constitution, Amendment XIV right to due process of Ms. Salaam wh…
21-933 Vdare Foundation v. City of Colorado Springs, Colorado Tenth Circuit Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-action hate-speech municipal-services retaliation retaliation-claim section-1983 Whether a complaint based on a local government's public announcement that the plaintiff's speech may be illegal 'hate speech' and that, therefore, th…
21-939 Peter Beasley v. Society of Information Management, Dallas Area Chapter, et al. Texas Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination racial-discrimination standing vexatious-litigant Whether Texas courts may discriminate against Black people in violation of Due Process and Equal Protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment thr…
21-944 Josephine Tripodi, et al. v. North Coventry Township, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-liability mold-remediation property-rights state-court takings Does the Due Process Clause prohibit a state court from compelling a real property owner to pay for mold inspection and remediation without legal duty…
21-952 Lamont Lendell Bagley v. Virginia Virginia Denied detention fourth-amendment investigatory-detention protective-search protective-search-exception roadside-encounter terry-stop traffic-stop unoccupied-vehicle vehicle-search warrant-requirement Whether the protective search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement extends to an unoccupied vehicle if the former occupant is detai…
21-965 Arthur Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-statutes constitutional-deprivation emotional-distress federal-tort-claims-act governmental-liability property-taking property-takings title-42-usc-1983 title-42-usc-1985 Should the U.S. government be held liable for persecution of a religious Catholic Christian, Mexican-Heritage U.S. born male father causing personal i…
21M81 Ryan Antonio Matthews v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M82 Praveen Kevin Khurana v. Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Idaho Presumed Complete None
21M83 Jeffrey E. Bellamy v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Second Circuit Presumed Complete None