| 20-1665 |
William S. Palmer v. Harolyn Williams |
Indiana |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
cause-of-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection impartial-tribunal procedural-due-process property-rights standing tax-dispute |
Do I have a constitutional right to be heard at a meaningful time and in a meaningful place in an impartial tribunal to dispute a case in controversy,… |
| 21-1022 |
Daniel Garza v. City of Los Angeles, California |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constructive-notice due-process monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability policy-maker ratification unconstitutional-conduct |
May a municipality be held liable for ratification under Monell v. Department of Social Services |
| 21-1033 |
Edward Mandel v. White Nile Software, Inc., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-procedure discharge due-process judicial-review non-dischargeable-claims settlement-agreement |
Whether the court of appeals erred in declining to allow evidence, witness and expert testimony at trial on the Settlement Agreement |
| 21-1034 |
Peter Kagel v. Jay Laurence Raftery, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud issue-preclusion rooker-feldman vagueness |
Should the 'Inextricably Intertwined' doctrine be abolished? |
| 21-1045 |
I. M. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-custody due-process forum-shopping international-law jurisdiction minimum-contacts parental-rights uccjea |
Whether the UCCJEA comports with the Due Process Clause, where it subjects an international parent to termination of parental rights, where the parent… |
| 21-1048 |
Cesar Caballero, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
equal-protection first-amendment native-american-land-rights native-american-lands political-question-doctrine quiet-title right-to-access-courts sovereign-immunity |
whether-native-american-tribe-barred-from-pursuing-in-rem-quiet-title-remedies |
| 21-1055 |
Lea Jolon-Velasquez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-1083 |
Jay Hoon Choi v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process law-enforcement-contact miranda-rights right-to-attorney right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment state-magistrates |
Miranda-rights-after-assertion |
| 21-1084 |
Janet Heltzel, et al. v. Glenn A. Youngkin, Governor of Virginia, et al. |
Virginia |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
contract-clause due-process executive-power monument monument-preservation property-rights public-opinion restrictive-covenant takings |
Does the Obligation of Contracts Clause prohibit the abrogation of the Commonwealth's agreement to preserve a monument? |
| 21-1099 |
Thomas Clayton Steres v. Kevin Curran, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cell-phone-search certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether Thomas Steres received ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 21-1108 |
Enron Nigeria Power Holding, Limited v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration burden-of-proof civil-procedure commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law legal-immunity yacht-sale |
Whether a foreign state has engaged in commercial activity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act |
| 21-1111 |
Caleb Fares Giha v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-1113 |
Brock Fredin v. Lindsey E. Middlecamp, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights district-court first-amendment free-speech inherent-judicial-powers inherent-powers injunctive-relief prior-restraint public-officials |
Did the District Court have the authority under its inherent powers to issue a wide-sweeping injunction to restrict speech for a period of five (5) ye… |
| 21-1125 |
Matthew Schantz v. Benny Deloach |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-pursuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment traffic-stop use-of-force |
Does the Fourth Amendment allow police to use deadly force to prevent the escape of a joyriding motorcyclist? |
| 21-1131 |
Trudy Mighty, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David M. Alexis, Deceased v. Miguel Carballosa, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights curative-admissibility due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling expert-testimony |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously applied the doctrine of 'curative admissibility' to affirm the district court's admission of inadmissible spe… |
| 21-1133 |
Charles Abrahamsen v. Department of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law anesthesia anesthesia-risks bullying-healthcare medical-disclosure orthopedic-surgery public-health-safety reasonable-belief whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protections |
Whether the scope of the substantial and specific danger to public health and safety provision in 5 U.S.C. § 2302(b)(8) was erroneously limited |
| 21-1139 |
Daikin Industries, Ltd., et al. v. The Chemours Company FC, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act agency-deference appellate-review factual-determination factual-review judicial-review remand separation-of-powers |
Whether a federal appellate court may reverse an administrative agency's decision on a factual ground not addressed by the agency, without a remand to… |
| 21-1141 |
Charles Wade v. Gordon Lewis |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fair-warning medical-treatment prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether qualified-immunity-doctrine-demands-identical-fact-pattern |
| 21-1150 |
Sharon Finizie, et al. v. Department of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process factual-findings federal-circuit judicial-review legal-misapplication merit-systems-protection-board standard-of-review |
Did the decisions/opinions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Merit Systems Protection Board constitute erroneous f… |
| 21-1165 |
Janhoi Cole v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigation officer-conduct rodriguez-rule rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop unrelated-crimes |
Whether the extension of a traffic stop for an officer to ask detailed questions about the driver's travel plans violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 21-1198 |
Robert Dexter Weir, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
congressional-power extraterritorial-jurisdiction felonies-clause foreign-flagged-vessels foreign-nationals high-seas piracy-clause united-states-constitution |
Whether Congress's power to define and punish felonies committed on the high seas extends to conduct committed by foreign nationals on a foreign-flagg… |
| 21-1201 |
Michael D. Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury judicial-misconduct jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct |
Will the Eastern District of Kentucky be allowed to ignore our federal laws,Constitution and Bill of Rights and have a 5 week, mock trial on innocent … |
| 21-1209 |
Jennifer B. Miller v. The Bank of New York Mellon, Successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure free-speech judicial-review motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards standing summary-judgment |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing certain counts under Rule 12(b)(6) |
| 21-379 |
Texas, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (9) |
administrative-law affordable-care-act agency-rule medicaid-rates nondelegation-doctrine private-entity rulemaking-authority statute-of-limitations |
Whether an agency rule delegating rulemaking authority to a private entity violates the nondelegation doctrine |
| 21-468 |
National Pork Producers Council, et al. v. Karen Ross, in Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the California Department of Food & Agriculture, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (54)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
animal-welfare dormant-commerce-clause economic-effects extraterritoriality federalism interstate-commerce pike-balancing pork-production state-regulation |
Whether a state law with dramatic economic effects largely outside the state and requiring pervasive changes to a nationwide industry violates the dor… |
| 21-475 |
Deanna Brookhart, Warden v. Kenneth Smith |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review evidence-sufficiency evidence-weighing federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-court-deference |
Whether the Seventh Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)'s strictures in awarding habeas relief to respondent based on its own reweighing of the evide… |
| 21-5402 |
Ronald E. West v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-issue criminal-procedure due-process election-dispute election-procedure judicial-review legal-challenge recidivism rehabilitation sentencing supreme-court |
Whether the lower court erred in not considering the defendant's 30-year-old prior offenses, the COVID-19 emergency amendment, the defendant's 20-year… |
| 21-5717 |
Brandon Demon Blackmon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault criminal-law guidelines sentencing statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 21-5887 |
Miguel Neil v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review case-law constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default |
Whether a lower federal court violates due process when it ignores a petitioner's appropriately cited case law in support that appellate counsel was i… |
| 21-5914 |
Tony Joseph Tabor v. Vincent Coleman |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discovery due-process free-speech retaliation standing |
Whether the petitioner's First Amendment rights were violated due to retaliation for his speech when the defendants used chemical agents against him |
| 21-5988 |
Stephen B. Jones, Sr. v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-reasoning procedural-rules speedy-trial statutory-provisions |
Did the trial court err? |
| 21-6058 |
David James Lola v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-review legislative-review separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-sovereignty |
Does due process pursuant to the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments dictate that a state court clerk may assign a criminal case to a judge who ex… |
| 21-6099 |
Sandchase Cody v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review due-process federal-appellate-courts habeas-corpus remedy-selection section-2255 sentencing |
Whether an individual must obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court's choice of remedy following the grant of relief under 2… |
| 21-6150 |
Jacques S. Gholston v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment illinois-v-caballes police-investigation rodriguez-v-united-states time-extension traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure |
Whether a traffic stop unreasonably prolonged beyond the time needed to address the purpose of the stop violates the Fourth Amendment regardless of wh… |
| 21-6154 |
Shawn Ford v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment apparent-authority consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment reasonable-belief residence search-and-seizure third-party-consent |
Whether a third party's apparent authority to consent to a search of a criminal suspect's residence requires that the police reasonably believe that t… |
| 21-6168 |
Vance L. White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review blakely-v-washington constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Did Judge Katsten M. Culney violate the strictures of Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004) self-incrimination? |
| 21-6169 |
Donald Stephen Yaag v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender |
Whether Petitioner's exculpatory evidence claims reflect actual innocence of sexual assault |
| 21-6200 |
Jesus Ruiz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-conviction harmless-error non-concurrent-sentence sentencing |
Whether a conviction carrying a non-concurrent prison sentence for an act the law does not make criminal can ever be considered harmless |
| 21-622 |
Susan Elaine Devine v. Absolute Activist Value Master Fund Limited, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure dismissal district-court-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction modification motion-modification protective-order rule-41 voluntary-dismissal |
Whether the voluntary dismissal of a plaintiff's suit under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1) permanently strips the district court of jurisdic… |
| 21-6229 |
Kyle Shirakawa Handley v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi charging-document criminal-procedure due-process notice notice-requirements sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment |
Whether the 1936 rule set forth in People v Britton, 6 Cal.2d 1 violates Apprendi, Alleyne and the notice requirements of the Sixth Amendment |
| 21-6267 |
Adrienne Brown-Mallard v. Potomac Concrete Company, Inc., et al. |
Maryland |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection j-e-b-v-alabama jury-selection |
Whether the use of peremptory challenges removing available potential jurors of both the same race and same gender (White Men, White Women, also Black… |
| 21-6383 |
Harinder Singh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split concealment criminal-conviction drug-proceeds federal-statute insufficient-evidence money-laundering regalado-cuellar statutory-interpretation |
Where the evidence at trial was insufficient was insufficient to prove that the design or purpose of the cash transmittals was to 'conceal or disguise… |
| 21-6386 |
Antjuan Sydnor v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-absence criminal-prosecution critical-stage jury-deliberations right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error |
In a criminal prosecution, if a trial court permits the prosecutor and counsel for a codefendant to present supplemental arguments to the jury during … |
| 21-6396 |
Tamara Jeune v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence prejudice prior-bad-acts probative-value propensity-evidence |
How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)? |
| 21-6477 |
Michael E. Parker, Sr. v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
| 21-6576 |
Nicholas G. Peacock v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-review free-speech habeas-corpus marriage state-court statutory-law underage |
Do minors have a right to entice an individual for the purposes of marriage if similarly aged individuals are allowed to and being married in their re… |
| 21-6597 |
Jason Whren v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
d-c-code-23-110 exceptional-circumstances hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Court of Appeals failed to apply the applicable standards |
| 21-6740 |
Teddy Chiquito v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection indian-civil-rights-act restitution-damages self-defense tribal-bill-of-rights tribal-law |
Whether the Government and a Tribal Law Enforcement Employer can arbitrarily convict a Tribal Police Officer |
| 21-686 |
Maria Esparraguera v. Department of the Army |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-service-reform-act constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board senior-executive-service |
whether-the-federal-circuit-erred-in-holding-that-neither-it-nor-the-mspb-may-review-a-career-senior-executive's-removal-from-the-senior-executive-ser… |
| 21-6909 |
Mark Allen Geralds v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
brady brady-materiality cumulative-analysis due-process giglio-violation materiality prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct strickland strickland-prejudice trial-confidence |
Whether the materiality inquiry for Brady and the prejudice analysis for Strickland require a cumulative analysis in determining whether confidence is… |
| 21-6914 |
Michael Patrick Kennedy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal-standard due-process fifth-circuit-interpretation judicial-proceedings pro-se-representation standing successive-petitions supervisory-power |
Whether a dismissal without prejudice is in fact a dismissal with prejudice |
| 21-6916 |
Joachim Martillo v. Twitter, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights common-carriage constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process free-speech internet-law public-accommodation section-230 |
Correct interpretation of 47 U.S. Code § 230 |
| 21-6917 |
Joseph Earl Clark, II v. Shawn Lindsey Britt, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing-mitigation standing |
Whether the petitioner's civil rights were violated by state prison officials |
| 21-6925 |
Chong Su Yi v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. |
Maryland |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights court-rules due-process equal-protection judicial-deference judicial-discretion legal-interpretation procedural-fit statutory-interpretation |
Could the court apply rules that do not fit the person? |
| 21-6935 |
Richard Roy Blake v. City of Northglenn, Colorado |
Colorado |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-code vagueness |
Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free-speech, free-assembly on January 4, 2020 wh… |
| 21-6945 |
Johnnie W. Byrd, III v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process federal-due-process-protections federal-judicial-system food-stamps judicial-review ohio-law sixth-circuit |
Can the citizens of the United States have confidence in the fairness of our criminal-justice-system and its reforms if our system tolerates the total… |
| 21-6949 |
Reno Fuentes Rios v. Ken Clark, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole sentencing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying all claims under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and 28 U.S.C. § 2255 related to th… |
| 21-6950 |
Stephen Rosa v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law civil-rights constitutional-violation court-procedure criminal-procedure district-attorney due-process sentencing standing statutory-rights |
Was the court in violation for not following its own case laws? |
| 21-6957 |
David Kent Thacker, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-due-process civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process exclusionary-rule federal-intervention investigation-scope miranda-rights pecuniary-interest self-incrimination |
whether MERANDA is part of the 5th Amendment's protection |
| 21-6961 |
Mauro C. Palacio v. Justin Caraway, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion procedural-error |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the petitioner abandoned, through failure to brief, a separate claim that he is subject to an illeg… |
| 21-6963 |
Vincent X. Lee, aka Imam M. Khalifa Al-Amin v. Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese… |
| 21-6964 |
Carlton Smith v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment standing takings |
Whether the state supreme court erroneously departed from the essential requirements of the law and denied petitioner's federal constitutional claim |
| 21-6967 |
Lemonta Markuis Maddox v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights coerced-confessions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law interrogation involuntary-statements plea-bargaining state-law |
Whether the use of coerced statements obtained through false promises of leniency violates federal and state constitutional rights to due process |
| 21-6968 |
Jay Anthony Jones v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-protection criminal-procedure criminal-remand double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion north-carolina-v-pearce sentencing sentencing-enhancement twigg-v-state |
Is the State of Maryland's case Twigg v. State, 447 Md. 1 (2016) afoul of the long standing principal set forth in North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. … |
| 21-6971 |
Byron Case v. Douglas County, Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-preemption military-benefits military-disability spousal-support state-court-jurisdiction state-courts supremacy-clause veterans-affairs veterans-rights |
Whether federal laws 10 U.S.C. § 1408 and 38 U.S.C. § 5301 can be overridden by state laws regarding military veterans' disability income or assets |
| 21-6975 |
David James Lola v. Rick Ramsay, Sheriff, Monroe County, Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech incarceration legal-resources prisoner-access |
Does an innocent citizen representing themselves against criminal allegations, also known as pro se, and incarcerated prior to trial have a due proces… |
| 21-6981 |
In Re Benny David Gibson |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-review court-jurisdiction default-judgment dismissal due-process judicial-procedure legal-rights procedural-dismissal settlement standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case without prejudice |
| 21-7007 |
Amador Rodriguez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act fintiv-factors inter-partes-review patent-act patent-office |
Whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's use of the Fintiv factors to deny institution of inter partes review violates the Administrative Proced… |
| 21-711 |
Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. v. Hasbro, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
1909-act 1976-act copyright copyright-law copyright-ownership employer-employee independent-contractor statutory-interpretation work-for-hire |
Whether a party that commissions a work from an independent contractor qualifies as the creator's 'employer' within the meaning of the Copyright Act o… |
| 21-7112 |
Sophana Sovann v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus notice-of-judgment pro-se right-to-appeal |
Was a pro se state prisoner denied his right to appeal the District Court's order denying his habeas corpus petition? |
| 21-7171 |
Robin Lee Sherwood v. George A. Neotti, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
competency competency-to-plead-guilty guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's prejudice standard for an ineffective assistance of counsel claim concerning competency to plead guilty conflicts with Str… |
| 21-7175 |
Keith Smeaton v. United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus international-human-rights judicial-discretion mandamus-petition obstruction-of-justice |
Question not identified |
| 21-7181 |
Mary Ellen Samuels v. Janel Espinoza, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-supreme-court conflict-of-interest due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice performance prejudice prejudice-presumption supreme-court-precedent |
Did the California Supreme Court unreasonably fail to apply clearly established Supreme Court precedent that requires prejudice to be presumed where a… |
| 21-7189 |
Deimeyon Xavier Allen v. Vance Laughlin, Warden |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-probable-cause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-be-present subpoena |
Is the Petitioner afforded due process when filing his Application For Certificate Of Probable Cause? |
| 21-7204 |
Corey Louis Hines v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Can the Broad of Versions encumber the Act to vote of a 'cpt order? |
| 21-721 |
Transpacific Steel LLC, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
delegation-of-legislative-power federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng national-security presidential-authority separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tariff-imposition tariffs trade-expansion-act-1962 trade-regulation |
Whether the President exceeded statutory authority under section-232 |
| 21-7219 |
Lorenzo Suttles v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure federal-courts first-step-act miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether a pre-FSA defendant's circumstances changed by Congress's clarification of §924(c) may constitute extraordinary and compelling reasons for com… |
| 21-7220 |
Jesse Kyle Skyberg v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction precedent-interpretation standing |
Whether the Exclusive Jurisdiction Doctrine applies to criminal cases |
| 21-7221 |
Alfred Lavoris Moody v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion juvenile-justice mitigating-factors mitigation-factors proportionality rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
Whether the 78-month sentence imposed on Mr. Moody was 'greater than necessary' considering his troubled childhood |
| 21-7222 |
Hugo Valencia Mendoza v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness-doctrine |
Is the term 'involved' under Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines Unconstitutional under the Vagueness Doctrine through the … |
| 21-7226 |
Christopher Ronald Martin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing generic-robbery mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether generic robbery, as used in federal sentencing enhancement provisions, encompasses robbery offenses that only require a mens rea of mere reckl… |
| 21-7227 |
Daniel Isaiah Thody v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the current implementation of Supervised Release, (18 U.S.C. §3583), as a 'separate sentence' in addition to the 'sentence of imprisonment', i… |
| 21-7230 |
Gemar Morgan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-standard probation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the words 'a house' in the Fourth Amendment apply both to the defendant's conduct as a renter of a house and to the defendant's period of 2 to… |
| 21-7238 |
Holli Wrice v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 3553(a)-factors compassionate-release congressional-intent criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-circumstances retroactive-sentencing sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether district courts can reduce a defendant's sentence based on the reason that the defendant is serving a sentence for an offense for which the pe… |
| 21-7239 |
Michael Arrington v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment |
Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion for a new trial based on ineffective assistance of trial counsel |
| 21-7249 |
Jacob Ivan Hill v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-punishment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel self-defense sentencing-phase sixth-amendment |
Whether the failure of Tezai Covnser's to Jueoerm fys Cizenr Juwr He feces fh 'Menanrony' Lee Seusence Le He Cnwases To bo to Tarn) & hse, Nor fi elro… |
| 21-7252 |
Terrance Stinson, aka T-Rock v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-guarantee jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether sentencing based on acquitted conduct violates the Sixth Amendment jury guarantee and the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause |
| 21-7256 |
Clemente Rosales-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7258 |
Fernando Contreras-Rojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7266 |
Fredy Zamora-Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure notice-clause prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction never… |
| 21-7268 |
Ross Anthony Farca v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-restitution false-statement mental-health military-recruitment property-damage restitution statutory-interpretation |
Whether petitioner's offense of making a false statement about his mental health history resulted in 'damage to or loss or destruction of property' of… |
| 21-7269 |
Joseph Peter Clarke v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion covid-19 criminal-history downward-variance drug-offenses juvenile-offenses sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines stash-house-robbery |
Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the district court's abuse of discretion |
| 21-7274 |
Kaleb L. Basey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2703 digital-privacy electronic-communications email-preservation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-jurists search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether reasonable jurists could disagree with the district court's decision that the initial and continuous, nine-month warrantless preservation of B… |
| 21-7276 |
Julio Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus harmless-error residual-clause standing unconstitutional-vagueness |
Whether a certificate of appealability can be issued despite controlling circuit authority to the contrary |
| 21-7279 |
Charlie Foster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law detention due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether a law enforcement officer may extend a traffic stop by asking for a driver's license and registration after confirming no traffic violation oc… |
| 21-7294 |
Daniel Gerard Lacey v. Brian M. Gootkin, Director, Montana Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari circuit-split foreshadowing ineffective-assistance judicial-review jurisdiction legal-doctrine timeliness writ-of-certiorari |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to address and resolve a circuit split on the doctrine of foreshadowing and its application to ineffective … |
| 21-7297 |
Jaime B. Garcia v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus jury-instructions legal-theory prosecutorial-concession reasonable-jurists standard-of-review |
Whether a certificate of appealability should have been issued when the jury was instructed on an invalid legal theory to convict the petitioner of fi… |
| 21-771 |
Justin Herrera v. Theresa Cleveland, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure identity-of-parties john-doe mistake-of-identity notice-requirement pleading-amendment relation-back |
Does Rule 15(c)(1)(C) categorically exclude relation back if the plaintiff initially used John Doe placeholders in the complaint due to inadequate kno… |
| 21-797 |
Serge Matthew Aluker v. Simin Yan, aka Simin Aluker |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
child-abduction custody-agreement custody-rights fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-child-abduction-convention hague-convention international-law parental-agreement parental-rights treaty-interpretation |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision improperly wrote out the Article 3 requirement of the Hague Child Abduction Convention that a parental agreement… |
| 21-846 |
John Montenegro Cruz v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
capital-punishment collateral-review due-process federal-law parole-ineligibility retroactivity state-court-decisions supreme-court |
Whether the rule in Simmons v. South Carolina, as applied in Lynch v. Arizona, must be applied retroactively to cases pending on collateral review |
| 21-860 |
Jane Doe v. Timothy White, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process fourteenth-amendment goss-standard goss-v-lopez higher-education liberty-interest procedural-due-process property-interest qualified-immunity |
Whether students at public colleges and universities have a liberty and property interest when facing suspension or expulsion |
| 21-869 |
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Lynn Goldsmith, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (41)Relisted (2) |
artistic-intent copyright copyright-law fair-use judicial-interpretation meaning message second-circuit source-material transformative transformative-work |
Whether a work of art is transformative when it conveys a different meaning or message from its source material |
| 21M96 |
DeMarco Nichols, et al. v. Illinois Department of Transportation, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
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None |
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| 21M97 |
Chris Allen Simcox v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M98 |
Jessie D. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 21M99 |
Edward James Rose v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Presumed Complete |
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None |
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