| 20-7805 |
Melvin Knight v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Relisted (13)IFP |
brumfield-v-cain clinical-standards death-penalty documentation-requirement intellectual-disability iq-score moore-v-texas supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a State may require a defendant to present an IQ score of 75 or below that was 'documented prior to age 18' to have his intellectual disabilit… |
| 20-8015 |
Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii |
Was decisions under Title VII also recognize that a person claiming that he has been the victim of intentional discrimination may make out a prima fac… |
| 21-1054 |
Shaoming Song v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-U.S.C.-1001 29-U.S.C.-633(a) age-discrimination but-for-causation civil-procedure discovery-rule federal-government fraud plausibility-pleading stare-decisis statute-of-limitations |
Whether a six-year concealed fraud in a federal agency's personnel action can be protected from judicial procedures |
| 21-1070 |
Gabriela Gonzalez v. Harvey Roney, et al. |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-findings due-diligence due-process judicial-error material-fact procedural-default standing |
Whether the Arizona Appellate Court erred in its findings regarding material facts, procedural default, due diligence, and the possibility of a cure b… |
| 21-1088 |
Jose Luis Alvarez v. Gabriel Pinon |
Washington |
Denied |
Response Waived |
best-interest-standard child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process family-law family-life fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights standing |
Whether the state court erred by looking to the best interest of the child as the basis for granting nonparental custody when it is insufficient to ov… |
| 21-1106 |
Thaddeus Gabara v. Facebook, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea data-structure patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption prior-art section-101 two-step-framework |
What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is 'directed to' a patent-ineligible concept under step 1 of the Court's two-s… |
| 21-1107 |
FTS USA, LLC, et al. v. Edward Monroe, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
class-certification collective-action damages due-process fair-labor-standards-act representative-sample representative-testimony seventh-amendment |
Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Due Process Clause permit a collective action to be certified and tried to verdict based upon testimony f… |
| 21-1120 |
Chad Thompson, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
ballot-access civil-rights constitutional-challenge COVID-19-restrictions first-amendment free-speech government-regulation initiative-placement mootness standing |
Whether ever-changing and ongoing government-issued COVID-19 restrictions moot First Amendment challenges to ballot access restrictions |
| 21-459 |
Jane Doe v. Facebook, Inc. |
Texas |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (6) |
communications-decency-act immunity internet-platform-immunity legal-liability platform-misconduct publisher-liability section-230 sex-trafficking third-party-content |
Does Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provide immunity from suit to internet platforms in any case arising from the publication of third-… |
| 21-494 |
Ralph Lewis v. Power Research, Inc., et al. |
Nevada |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
calder-effects-test conflict-of-laws corporate-officer due-process forum-activities nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction walden-v-fiore |
Whether the Nevada Supreme Court correctly held that a State may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a defendant where the defendant does not… |
| 21-5649 |
Javon Pierre Shelby v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky discriminatory-purpose equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes racial-bias racial-discrimination step-three-finding |
When a trial court denies a Batson motion as to one juror at step one and then, in response to a second Batson motion as to a subsequently struck juro… |
| 21-5875 |
Kenneth J. Jackson, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-sentencing de-novo-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the sentencing amendments to 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) apply to a defendant at a post-Act resentencing hearing |
| 21-5919 |
Robert Arthur Moses v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 21-594 |
Alphabet Inc., et al. v. Rhode Island, Office of the Rhode Island Treasurer on Behalf of the Employees' Retirement System of Rhode Island |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
annual-filing circuit-split disclosure-requirements forward-looking past-information quarterly-report risk-factors sec-regulations securities-disclosure securities-regulation |
Whether 'risk factors' disclosed in securities filings must disclose only future risks or must also disclose past risks |
| 21-6072 |
Patsy N. Sakuma v. Association of Apartment Owners of the Tropics of Waikele, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights clause 2 for obstruction-of-justice due-process federal-jurisdiction standing judicial-foreclosure jurisdictional-issue pro-se section-1343 section-1985 sua-sponte |
Whether a putative claim under 42 U.S.C. §1985(2) |
| 21-6153 |
Suran Wije v. David A. Burns, et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-liberties due-process equal-protection equal-rights fourteenth-amendment immunity leave-to-amend liberty nondisclosure qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Do the interests of 'justice so require' a leave to amend, when purposeful obfuscation, legal trickery, and nondisclosed affirmative defenses like imm… |
| 21-6171 |
Carlos Granda v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c3b circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure harmless-error harmless-error-review johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default |
Whether the Court should resolve the three-way circuit split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default may be exc… |
| 21-6196 |
I. A. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance legal-representation right-to-appeal standing |
Did I.A. have a Fourteenth Amendment right to be informed of his right to appeal? |
| 21-621 |
Vince Flaherty, et al. v. Holly Hill Investments, LLC |
California |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
california-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-adequacy notice-of-judgment service-of-notice service-of-process state-law |
Whether California's no-evidence-allowed rule concerning the adequacy of service of notice of judgment is consistent with the Due Process Clause of th… |
| 21-629 |
Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety, et al. v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process free-speech preemption radio-frequency-radiation right-of-access-to-courts right-to-petition takings telecommunications telecommunications-act |
Whether the preemption by 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(B)(iv) of any State remedy for injury by telecommunications facilities without providing a substitute … |
| 21-6306 |
Jason T. Shortes v. Google, LLC |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
commerce commerce-clause digital-rights first-amendment freedom-of-expression freedom-of-press international-law network-enforcement-law trade |
Whether the First Amendment's protections for freedom of the press and freedom of expression survive Google's enforcement of Germany's Network Enforce… |
| 21-6308 |
Iona Sanders v. Christwood |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
amendment-seven civil-rights covid-19 due-process jury-trial medical-records-privacy pandemic-jury-trial race-discrimination recusal-motion standing summary-judgment |
Whether a pandemic overrides Amendment VII |
| 21-6315 |
Mary Jo Weidrick v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-representation case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process enforcement judicial-review legal-procedure legal-terrorism standing |
Whether the facts alleged in Petitioner's complaint are true and nonfrivolous despite the bizarre and unusual nature of the case |
| 21-632 |
Edith Nohemi Vazquez-Guerra, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 21-635 |
Larry Fields v. Cincinnati, Ohio Police Department, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure magistrate-judge standing trial-fairness |
Whether the magistrate judge intended violation of the federal rules of civil Procedure? |
| 21-6382 |
Askia Mustafa Raheem v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
brain-damage cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus incompetency plain-error seizure-disorder |
Whether the lower courts violated this Court's incompetency and 'right to evidentiary hearing' habeas law |
| 21-6416 |
Bradford S. Davic v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea mandatory-sentences mandatory-sentencing sex-offender-registration trial-court-notification void-plea |
Is a petitioner denied due process of law, and is his guilty plea void, where his plea was not entered knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily, due t… |
| 21-6431 |
Vegas D. Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure explanation judicial-discretion procedural-error record sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit commit error when it affirmed the District Court's decision to deny petitioner's motion filed under 18… |
| 21-6484 |
Thomas Lee Battle v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination hypothetical-justifications jury-selection prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-discretion title-vii |
Should analysis of a prima facie case of discrimination under Batson prohibit reliance upon hypothetical justifications never advanced by the prosecut… |
| 21-6486 |
Gary Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias jury-prejudice shackling statutory-interpretation |
Whether the state court's finding that the defendant was not prejudiced by being shackled in front of the jury, despite juror testimony that they saw … |
| 21-6492 |
Jaime Galvez v. William Muniz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-rights directed-verdict due-process federal-law harmless-error insanity-defense right-to-remain-silent trial-court-error |
Whether a trial court's error of forcing a criminal defendant to testify before hearing all of the prosecution's evidence requires automatic reversal … |
| 21-651 |
Edmond Lumaj v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 21-6624 |
Arthur F. Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-court-procedure federalism habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdiction-dispute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the axon exclusive soars decision rule should have precluded the district court and the appellate court from exercising jurisdiction over the … |
| 21-6636 |
Leroy Fears v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-review death-penalty due-process homophobia judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct partiality racism religious-bigotry supreme-court |
Was Due Process Violated when A State Supreme Court Justice Showed Partiality |
| 21-6752 |
Franklin McPherson v. William Keyser, Jr., Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
AEDPA-deference cause-and-prejudice circuit-split de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
Does de novo review or AEDPA deference apply when a habeas petitioner advances a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel as cause to excuse a proce… |
| 21-6763 |
Jabari J. Johnson v. Lambkins, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims |
| 21-6774 |
Brandon Shane Harris v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process ex-post-facto |
Whether petitioner's 27-year sentence for trafficking should be vacated or reduced to the 20-year statutory maximum |
| 21-6777 |
Carol Garrard, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appearance-of-impropriety civil-rights due-process first-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics paupers-penalty standing |
whether-an-allegation-of-infra-judicial-acts-of-bias-is-required-for-standing |
| 21-6779 |
Troy Allen Hite v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel michigan-state-courts procedural-default right-to-counsel |
Is-certiorari-appropriate-where-Michigan-state-courts-refused-to-address-petitioner's-denial-of-his-constitutional-right-to-counsel |
| 21-6780 |
In Re Lori Sklar |
|
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief retroactive-disqualification |
Whether the California Supreme Court should be ordered to grant an appellate review do-over when due-process compels a permanently-removed-judge's ret… |
| 21-6794 |
John W. Winningham, Jr. v. City of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-rights federal-action federal-civil-rights-act kidnapping kidnapping-robbery property-rights robbery section-1983 |
Whether kidnapping and robbery can be considered legal under Title 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 Federal Protected Civil Rights, Liberties, Property and Empl… |
| 21-6796 |
Larry E. Webster, Jr. v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 21-6798 |
Daniel Everett v. Justices of the Supreme Court of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-proceedings civil-rights disability due-process involuntary-inactive-status licensee-rights standing state-bar state-bar-court younger-abstention |
Whether the Younger abstention doctrine applies to a challenge against California State Bar rules which allow that agency to place licensees with phys… |
| 21-6811 |
Stephen Cummings v. Lightstorm Entertainment, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity legal-discovery standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in denying the petitioner's constitutional rights, including the right to call witnesses, conduct discovery, and present… |
| 21-6827 |
Ryan Thomas Pick v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment electronic-surveillance fifth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech miranda-rights search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing |
4th-amendment-rights,electronic-communication-privacy-act,5th-amendment-rights,6th-amendment-rights,8th-amendment-rights,sex-offender-registration |
| 21-6832 |
Douglas D. True v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-mandate due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-voluntariness supreme-court-review |
whether-the-supreme-court-overruled-boykin-v-alabama |
| 21-6851 |
Joel Quiles v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-conviction double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder fifth-amendment first-degree-murder trial-procedure |
Did the defendant's conviction for first degree felony murder violate his constitutional right against double jeopardy? |
| 21-6866 |
Richard R. Lawless v. Kat Mulder, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-slapp anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure civil-rights court-discovery discovery due-process jury-trial prejudice-dismissal seventh-amendment state-appellate-court |
Can a State court deny access to a jury trial and court discovery through the inappropriate application on an AntiSLAPP statute? |
| 21-6868 |
Michael D. Webb v. Anthony S. Fauci, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether summary judgment can be granted in a administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-information-act freedom-of-religion standing |
Whether a requester is entitled to compel a district court to enjoin an agency from withholding records and order production of improperly withheld re… |
| 21-6883 |
Walter Delaney Booker, Jr. v. M. E. Engelke, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights compelling-interest constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-exercise-clause prison prison-rights religious-exercise religious-freedom standing |
Whether RLUIPA requires courts to evaluate claims under the 'compelling interest' test or the 'least restrictive means' test |
| 21-6906 |
Samantha J. Jackson v. AT&T Retirement Savings Plan, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure de-novo-review employer-capacity erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty motion-to-dismiss plan-amendment plan-sponsor settlors-function two-hats-doctrine |
Question not identified |
| 21-6947 |
Rayshawn J. Christmas, aka Rayshaun J. Christmas v. Jeff Jackson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fifth-circuit jurisdiction mandamus qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying the appellants writ of mandamus |
| 21-6959 |
Kenneth J. Cox v. Ed Caley, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
AEDPA constitutional-rights federal-law jurisdiction procedural-default representation-right SAOC-elements sentence-enhancement sentence-enhancers state-court-judgment state-prisoner state-prisoners-claim |
Whether the jurisdiction of this court is invoked under 28-U.S.C.-1257(a) |
| 21-6974 |
Alfredo Gonzalez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Connecticut |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accessory-liability burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms jury-determination manslaughter sentencing |
Does Connecticut's statutory scheme of accessory to manslaughter in the first degree with a firearm violate Due Process? |
| 21-6976 |
Tej Bahadur Karki v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disparate-impact due-process fair-housing-act standing |
Whether the application of the Fair Housing Act to disparate impact claims is valid |
| 21-6990 |
Roger D. Roberts v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process evidence-standard habeas-corpus informant-credibility police-misconduct search-and-seizure state-court-review |
Whether the prosecutor's use of evidence obtained from a confidential informant was lawful, where the informant's credibility was questionable |
| 21-6996 |
Robert Stivers v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights coerced-confession confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation-procedure police-interrogation right-to-silence |
Whether the police violated a suspect's constitutional rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when they ignored clear and unambiguous invoca… |
| 21-6998 |
Robert Lars Pape v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion right-to-present-defense standard-of-review third-party-culpability |
Does the Constitution permit the exclusion of a defendant's presentation of substantial evidence of third-party culpability simply because the court b… |
| 21-7000 |
Dominic Dean Adams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Did the court of appeals err in affirming Mr. Adams' conviction? |
| 21-7002 |
Jeffrey Charles Wren v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights court-filing due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-document pleadings scotus-petition standing supreme-court |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 21-7021 |
John Matthew Gayden, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh 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 governing the case |
| 21-7031 |
Joseph D. Davis v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-of-columbia-court-of-appeals federal-procedure guidelines inconsistent-opinions judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the opinion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals concerning the Petitioner's motion for Compassionate Release is inconsistent with oth… |
| 21-7037 |
Robert Breest v. New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dismissal dna-testing expert-testimony favorable-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus new-hampshire retrial statutory-interpretation |
Whether the DNA tests were favorable under New Hampshire RSA 651-D-2, VI (b) and warrant dismissal of the charge |
| 21-7042 |
Craig Nelsen v. Southern Poverty Law Center |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-malice constitutional-protection defamation diversity-jurisdiction first-amendment free-speech public-figure summary-judgment |
Whether the US Court for the 8th Circuit wrongly allowed the District Court's improper statement of a Missouri Supreme Court ruling |
| 21-7054 |
Ervin Walker, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction ussg-1b1.13 |
Whether the District Court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner's Motion for Compassionate Release |
| 21-7057 |
Victor Nava, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states career-offender-guideline crime-of-violence enumerated-offense-clause reckless-aggravated-assault reckless-assault sentencing-guidelines texas-law |
Does a reckless injury-causing robbery qualify as a 'crime of violence' under the Career Offender Guideline? |
| 21-7062 |
Michael Devell Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines section-3553a sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparities |
Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 24-month sentence considering the facts of this case and the Guidelines sentence range of 12 to 18 … |
| 21-7063 |
Salahudin Shaheed v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-introduction due-process exculpatory-defense legal-standard plea-bargaining sentencing sexual-misconduct standing |
Whether the lower courts have properly used their 'physical force' when declaring certain conduct, such as 'drug introduction' and 'illicit sex acts' … |
| 21-7065 |
Lori Majors v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness ransom-demand sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-adjustment vulnerable-victim |
Did the district court err in assigning a two-level upward adjustment and a six-level upward adjustment? |
| 21-7066 |
Kevin Brewer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arkansas-sex-offender-registration-act certificate-of-innocence constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment lambert-v-california notice scienter sex-offender-registration |
Can petitioner be liable for constituting any offense, in which the scienter requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has no… |
| 21-7069 |
Javar Dinsdale Clarke v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether bank robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 21-7070 |
Anderson Curtel Duke v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-deference agency-interpretation attempt-crimes circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis stinson-v-united-states |
Should courts defer to Sentencing-Guidelines-commentary when there is no ambiguity in the underlying-text? |
| 21-7071 |
Keaon Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process juror-misconduct juror-numbers jury-selection mix-up sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure |
Is it structural error in violation of the Sixth Amendment for a juror to sit on a jury when that juror was not actually selected to be on the jury du… |
| 21-7072 |
Dontrell R. Wise v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-dealing due-process expert-testimony sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Dontrell Wise's conviction which was not supported by sufficient evidence to prove his … |
| 21-7074 |
Benny Dennis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining standing supreme-court-precedent |
Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the Court to justify the denial of a certificate of appe… |
| 21-7078 |
Jawan Fortia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights drug-trafficking due-process interstate-commerce judicial-fact-finding racketeering rico-act taylor-v-united-states |
Whether the government can obtain a RICO conviction without proving the targeted enterprise's activities affected interstate commerce, if members enga… |
| 21-7080 |
Galvin Gibson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-claim brady-v-maryland collateral-review criminal-appeal due-process hung-jury napue-claim napue-v-illinois section-2255 strickler-v-greene united-states-v-gibson united-states-v-houston |
WHETHER BRADY AND NAPUE CLAIMS WHICH RELATE TO A FIRST TRIAL WHICH RESULTED IN A HUNG JURY ARE COGNIZABLE IN A § 2255 MOTION OR WHETHER THE APPEAL OF … |
| 21-7081 |
Marko Stasiv v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion jury-coercion jury-trial motion-for-new-trial |
Was the Defendant entitled to a hearing on jury coercion? |
| 21-7089 |
LeAndre Jordan v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-reasonableness exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause unreasonable-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-arrest |
Are warrantless, probable cause arrests reasonable when no exigency or contemporaneous crimes are present to excuse the failure to obtain a warrant? |
| 21-7090 |
Larry O'Neal v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation customs-and-border-patrol federal-agents in-custody-interrogation law-enforcement-procedure miranda-rights miranda-warning ruse |
Did the Appellate Court err in finding Larry O'Neal was not in custody for Miranda purposes? |
| 21-7092 |
Epati Malauulu v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2255 constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief section-2255 waiver |
Whether, Despite a Waiver, Malauulu Can Properly Raise Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims Under 18 U.S.C. § 2255? |
| 21-7099 |
Edwin Disla v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure eleventh-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus precedent remand rule-60b3-motion second-and-successive supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a Rule 60(b)(3) Motion for Fraud on the Court overcomes a Second and Successive Ruling Pursuant to the dictates of Supreme Court Precedent set… |
| 21-7101 |
Martavis Shawn Demar James v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search fourth-amendment-seizure reasonable-expectation-of-privacy standing |
Whether the Fourth Amendment protects an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy in the historical cell site location information of their cell… |
| 21-761 |
OptumHealth Care Solutions, LLC v. Sandra M. Peters |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split erisa fiduciary fiduciary-duty party-in-interest prohibited-transaction service-provider tenth-circuit-rule |
Whether a service provider must have a preexisting relationship with a plan to qualify as a 'party in interest' under ERISA § 406(a) |
| 21-792 |
Michael Billioni v. Bruce Bryant, Sheriff, York County, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
chain-of-command civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech internal-investigation law-enforcement-misconduct pickering-balancing-test public-employee-speech whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
Whether a public employee's speech about serious law enforcement misconduct has limited weight in the Pickering First Amendment balancing analysis |
| 21-793 |
Pennsylvania v. William Henry Cosby, Jr. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity immunity-promise press-release prosecutorial-discretion |
Whether a public press release grants a defendant transactional immunity |
| 21-816 |
Melvyn Gear v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law due-process firearms greer-v-united-states legal-status plain-error rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether other subdivisions of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) require knowledge of collateral law |
| 21-828 |
The Estate of Omar Fontana, et al. v. ACFB Administracao Judicial LTDA-ME |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy bankruptcy-finality chapter-15 courts-of-appeals discovery-order discrete-dispute finality ritzen-group-v-jackson-masonry |
Should the Court grant certiorari to resolve a conflict among the courts of appeals over whether a stand-alone discovery order entered in a Chapter-15… |
| 21-955 |
Khristy Goins Rismiller, Tutrix for Daniel Edward Goins, et al. v. Gemini Insurance Company, et al. |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adoption adoption-law biological-classification civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection intermediate-scrutiny levy-v-louisiana wrongful-death |
Do children given in adoption have a constitutional right to sue for the wrongful death of their biological parent and siblings under the 14th Amendme… |
| 21-958 |
A. A. v. M. A. |
New Jersey |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rule free-speech freedom-of-religion medical-exemption religious-exemption sincerity-test vaccination-mandate |
Whether Petitioner's fundamental right to freedom of religion, and exemption from vaccination, was violated when the trial Court applied a 'sincerity'… |
| 21-961 |
Oklahoma v. Patrick Wayne Olive |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
|
criminal-law criminal-procedure federalism jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-963 |
Neil McNaughton v. Eric Adams, Mayor of the City of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process erickson-precedent federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-accountability judicial-reasoning pleadings pro-se-pleading standing twombly twombly-plausibility |
Does the persistent misapplication of the Twombly plausibility test by Federal judges invariably lead to a violation of this Court's mandate in Ericks… |
| 21-971 |
Nahed Abdulnabi v. Fatma Adel Sekik |
Tennessee |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure consolidation divorce divorce-action due-process jury-trial marital-assets procedural-rights tort tort-consolidation valuation |
Whether the trial court's orders consolidating a tort case into a divorce action violated the petitioner's due-process rights |
| 21-987 |
Owolabi Salis v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction witness |
Whether facts brought by a witness before a jury and tried by that jury can be reexamined by the same witness before another body who was also a witne… |
| 21-990 |
Aldrich L. Boss, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stewart R. Crane v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment bona-fide-purchase fifth-amendment forfeiture innocent-owner-defense property-forfeiture public-record standing takings-clause |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause permits the establishment of a new category of property for forfeiture purposes |
| 21-992 |
Dori Yates, et al. v. Hillsboro Unified School District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
belgau-v-inslee first-amendment janus-precedent janus-v-afscme membership-agreement political-speech public-employees public-sector-unions union-dues waiver |
Do boilerplate union membership agreements supersede employees' First Amendment rights when it comes to government unions taking employees' money for … |
| 21A398 |
Matthew Keil, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
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| 21M84 |
Suzzette Thomas v. Patricia L. Martin-Gibbons, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M85 |
Rhonda Nanette Polite v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M86 |
Linsay Lorine Gatsby v. Kylee Diane Gatsby |
Idaho |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M87 |
Steven R. Donzinger v. Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department |
New York |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M88 |
Irina Collier v. University of California, Berkeley |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M89 |
Michael Broaden v. Department of Transportation |
Federal Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
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