Conference: 2022-04-01

94 cases — 0 granted, 94 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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20-7617 Willie Lee Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances-act felony-drug-offense first-step-act sentence-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Does the First Step Act's addition of a definition for 'felony drug offense' to section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 802, also al…
20-7798 Christopher Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit GVR Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance drug-transactions judicial-vindictiveness law-enforcement-officer occasions-different prosecutorial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-recommendation undercover-law-enforcement Are sequential drug transactions over a short time frame 'committed on occasions different from one another' for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal…
21-1040 Corona Clay Company v. Inland Empire Waterkeeper, a Project of Orange County Coastkeeper, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied article-iii-standing citizen-suit civil-rights clean-water-act due-process environmental-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure informational-injury jurisdictional-waters standing Whether a plaintiff can establish Article III standing in a private citizen suit under the Clean Water Act without proving actual or threatened harm
21-1049 Alice Guan v. Ellingsworth Residential Community Association, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied appellate-review automatic-stay bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process final-order judicial-order laws-of-the-united-states rule-3007 Whether bankruptcy court violated Petitioner's rights
21-1053 Randall Hepp, Warden v. Danny L. Wilber Seventh Circuit Denied aedpa-review criminal-procedure deck-v-missouri due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-restraint jury-trial shackling state-conviction state-court-deference Whether the Seventh Circuit's invalidation of Wilber's conviction comports with the limits on federal authority to overturn State convictions under th…
21-1060 Heath Richard Douglas v. Nancy Summers Douglas Sixth Circuit Denied child-abduction family-law habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law settled-purpose wrongful-retention In cases of wrongful retention, must a district court find a settled purpose to abandon a former habitual residence before concluding that a new habit…
21-1061 Courtney Kristek v. The Travelers Home and Marine Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-discrimination diversity due-process jurisdiction removal standing Does the Ninth Circuit have jurisdiction over non-diverse parties when there is no federal question?
21-1062 Keith Robert Caldwell, Sr. v. Department of Transportation, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal-of-defendants due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice safety-act Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals circumvent the appeals process by ignoring significant evidence which demonstrated that the district court trial…
21-1085 Ikorongo Texas LLC, et al. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived convenience convenience-standard forum-non-conveniens judicial-discretion mandamus patent-rights statutory-venue transfer venue venue-transfer Can a district court transfer a matter to a statutorily proscribed district based on expressly disregarding undisputed facts creating the proscription
21-1093 PersonalWeb Technologies LLC v. Google LLC, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived abstract-idea alice-corp-v-cls-bank computer-implemented-invention computer-implemented-inventions federal-circuit innovation patent-eligibility patent-law technical-field How should courts determine whether a patent for a computer-implemented invention is patent-eligible because it 'improve[s] the functioning of the com…
21-1114 Betty Charles v. James Shelton Ellis, Trustee of the James Shelton Ellis Trust CUI 9/2/1998. Arkansas Denied Response Waived civil-procedure farmland heirs-property land-ownership partition-act property-rights timberland timberland-protection uniform-law uniform-partition-of-heirs-property-act Whether the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act #107 provided adequate protection to Betty L. Charles, a timberland and farmland owner, to save he…
21-1155 Natalia Marshall v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights declaratory-judgment fourth-circuit injunctive-relief mootness second-amendment standing Whether a suit seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief is rendered moot on appeal if the plaintiff remains negatively impacted by the law…
21-1159 Balubhai Patel, et al. v. Julie A. Su, et al. California Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights declaratory-relief federal-courts-improvement-act injunctive-relief judicial-immunity quasi-judicial-officers section-1983 Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 extends quasi-judicial immunity to claims for injunctive relief
21-1184 Joyce D. Hutton, et al. v. Hyundai Motor America, et al. Mississippi Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict standard-of-review state-court-review supreme-court trial-court Did the Mississippi Supreme Court violate the due process rights of the Petitioners under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United S…
21-1189 Arthur Dale Lothringer v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived alter-ego circuit-precedent civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-law due-process legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation texas-law Whether Texas statutory law supersedes Fifth Circuit precedent regarding alter-ego determinations
21-1208 Eric Andrews v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response Waived 18-usc-3582 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act section-924(c) 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 …
21-357 Lucille S. Taylor v. James W. Heath, President-Elect, State Bar of Michigan Board of Commissioners, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) compelled-speech exacting-scrutiny first-amendment integrated-bar keller-v-state-bar labor-unions policy-positions public-sector public-sector-employees Can the State of Michigan compel practicing attorneys to fund an integrated bar association that takes policy positions, or does such a law fail exact…
21-6180 Marion Alexander v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Second Circuit Denied Amici (2)IFP None
21-6214 Usman Oyibo v. North Shore University Hospital, et al. Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct legal-procedure standing tuskegee-experiment Question not identified
21-641 Ferrellgas Partners, LP v. Director, Division of Taxation New Jersey Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) commerce-clause general-fund internal-consistency interstate-commerce partnership-levy regulatory-fee state-taxation Whether a levy that raises revenue for a State's general fund, and that is not restricted to the in-state activities of the levy-payor, may be charact…
21-6415 Terril Kinchen v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
21-6421 Shirlene Bailey v. Suffolk Public Schools, et al. Virginia Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights doctor-patient-relationship due-process employment employment-rights medical-evidence physician-abandonment workers-compensation Question not identified
21-6434 Robert Alan Fratta v. Texas Texas Denied IFP aiding-and-abetting constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indictment jury-charge jury-instructions law-of-parties Can a law of parties (or aiding and abetting) be added to a jury charge when a person is indicted as the only actor to commit an offense?
21-6448 Joseph D. Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit GVR Relisted (4)IFP acca career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation temporal-analysis Should the courts employ a purely temporal approach or a 'totality of the circumstances' test when interpreting the Career Criminal Act's phrase, 'com…
21-6664 Robert Breest v. John M. Formella, Attorney General of New Hampshire First Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-error due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sullivan-v-louisiana Did the First Circuit err in denying Robert Breest relief from judgment pertaining to the First Circuit's 1981 holding in Breest v. Perrin, 655 F.2d 1…
21-6748 Jose Luis Wong v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts habeas-corpus hobbs-act procedural-default vagueness-doctrine Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence
21-6982 Robert Stanley Gordon v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit Denied IFP benefits-denial conflict-of-interest custody erisa evidence evidence-retention long-term-disability plan-concealment Whether ERISA long-term disability benefits can be denied after years of plan concealment
21-6983 Shahid L. A. Majid, aka Arthur Moseley v. RN Richards, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability qualified-immunity Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims against the City of Chicago and individual police of…
21-6989 Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied IFP certiorari civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review lower-court-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review Whether the petitioner's conviction was supported by sufficient evidence under the standard set forth in Jackson v. Virginia
21-7001 Adam J. Tenser v. Beth Silverman, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-representation civil-rights due-process fairness judicial-interpretation legal-solicitude liberal-construction pro-se self-representation slander standing Whether this Court's articulation of the pro se liberal construction rule in Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 529 (1972) implies a general withdrawal of the…
21-7010 Jabari J. Johnson v. James Johnson Tenth Circuit Denied IFP 35-usc-112 federal-circuit patent patent-act standing written-description Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in its interpretation of the Patent Act's written description requirement under 35 U.S…
21-7011 Jabari J. Johnson v. Kathleen McGuire, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation district-court due-process judicial-review jurisdiction ninth-circuit standing supreme-court takings Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Plaintiff's claims
21-7012 Jessica Ewing v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied IFP burden-of-proof counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocence judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction Whether the previous court erred in denying Ms. Ewing's motion based on its own merits determination of her ineffective assistance of counsel claim
21-7017 Kenneth Lynn Funkhouser v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP federal-preemption habeas-corpus habeas-jurisprudence indian-lands jurisdictional-challenge mcbratney-draper-rule public-law-83-280 retroactivity-jurisprudence subject-matter-jurisdiction void-ab-initio Does Oklahoma's 1906 Federal Enabling Act preempt the State from exercising jurisdiction over 'Indian lands'—despite race—thus rendering petitioner's …
21-7018 Jose Fuentes v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP character-evidence criminal-procedure deposition due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense medical-records subpoena trial-counsel witness-testimony Was counsel's failure to subpoena an important witness considered ineffective assistance of trial counsel?
21-7023 Toni Marie Rambo v. Texas Texas Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing Does the sentence imposed on Mrs. Rambo constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of her Eighth Amendment rights?
21-7027 Raul Mendez v. Ada County, Idaho, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection-clause frcp-12(b)(6) mandatory-services motion-to-dismiss pro-se property-tax-lien standing Is a Motion to Dismiss pursuant to FRCP 12(b)(6) a ruling on a question of law? If so, is this Motion inappropriate when applied to Pro se complaints?
21-7029 David Pedder v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment actual-innocence appellate-review brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus substantial-availability-test whether-federal-habeas-petitioner-deprived-of-constitutional-rights-to-due-process
21-7030 Darrin Lynn Pickens v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure enabling-act federal-jurisdiction federal-land-restrictions indian-country state-enabling-act state-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction Does the State of Oklahoma have subject matter jurisdiction over any person who commits an offense within the boundaries of Indian Country?
21-7040 Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. J. Woodson, Warden Virginia Denied IFP closing-argument constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial false-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Does the prosecutor's deliberate use of known false evidence during closing argument violate the accused's Constitutional rights?
21-7044 Marc Fishman v. Office of Court Administration New York State Courts, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-function americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split court-access disability-discrimination judicial-immunity meaningful-access reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations Whether a judicial court attorney is shielded from a claim that she violated a litigant's rights under the ADA by refusing to provide a reasonable acc…
21-7045 Michael James Hoffman v. Arizona Department of Corrections Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process free-speech legal-mail mail-obstruction obstruction-of-mail prison-communication takings Did ADOC violate Petitioner's constitutional rights to free-speech, due-process, and access-to-courts by removing his documents from the authorized US…
21-7048 Christopher Gerken v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP constitutional-rights courtroom-procedure due-process emotional-display fair-trial free-press motion-in-limine prejudicial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Was Christopher Gecen's constitutional right to a fair trial violated when a pre-read newspaper article containing information barred from trial had a…
21-7049 Arthur R. Holloway, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process product-liability standing takings Whether the FEA's decision to recall a model of car violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment
21-7051 Demarcus Antwon Chatmon v. Texas Texas Denied IFP body-camera body-camera-recording confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-exception police-evidence primary-purpose testimonial-statement Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the admission of accusatory statements found on a police body camera recording without requiring the State to…
21-7056 Joseph Lamont Wilson v. MCSO Legal Liaison Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process property-rights standing takings Whether the government's seizure of petitioner's property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
21-7058 Adam Pelletier v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure fraud-upon-the-court gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus jurisdiction motion-to-reconsider rule-60(b)(3) state-court-dismissal Is Petitioner's claim of prosecutorial 'Fraud Upon The Court' a valid claim under Rule 60(b)(3)?
21-7059 Timothy George Muller v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining substance venue Whether the trial court erred in denying Mr. Muller's motion to withdraw his plea and vacate his conviction for delivery of a controlled substance cau…
21-7084 Dwight David Jordan v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-instructions legal-precedent lesser-included-offense principal-liability waiver Whether the court can depart from clearly established law on case by case basis?
21-7105 Charles E. Sisney v. Denny Kaemingk, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment less-restrictive-alternative penological-interest prison-censorship prison-policy turner-factors turner-v-safley Whether the Eighth Circuit's approval of the prison's broad 'pornography' policy that prohibits inmates from accessing a wide range of written and pic…
21-7154 John Walters v. Michael Martin, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Under the prejudice analysis in Missouri v. Frye and Strickland v. Washington, does the acceptance of a later, less favorable plea show prejudice even…
21-7177 Maurice O. Byrd, Jr. v. Raymond Byrd, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abandonment-of-appeal conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prejudice structural-error Structural-error-on-appeal
21-7199 Bryan Matthew Brewer v. Oklahoma Bar Association Oklahoma Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-rules bar-association civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emolument-violation free-speech judicial-procedure oaths-and-emoluments remedies republican-form-of-government state-government Where does the law originate from?
21-7215 Clayton Walker v. Freeman's Electric Service, Inc., et al. South Dakota Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights cross-examination disputable-facts due-process federal-statute medical-records subpoena witness-examination Does the Petitioner have the right to his own medical records after they are subpoenaed, and when those records are not given to the petitioner by the…
21-7216 Cory Mendrell Welch v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant civil rights statutes and constitutional provisions
21-7271 Matthew Moore v. Thomas Mackie, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-conduct due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Was denied effective assistance of counsel and unconstitutionally coerced into taking a paternity blood test
21-7272 Delila Uwasomba v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights corporate-misconduct due-process employment-discrimination employment-interference financial-burden financial-harm job-security judicial-review legal-remedy standing wrongful-termination Whether the Federal and Circuit Court erred in finding it acceptable for Bank of America and its affiliates to remove the petitioner from their positi…
21-7284 Jesus Ruiz v. Louis Williams, II, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence conviction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus section-2241 section-2255 sentence statutory-interpretation Whether a new statutory interpretation from this Court allows a federal prisoner to redress the legality of his conviction or sentence pursuant to 28 …
21-7287 Ivan Cruz-Rivera v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment informant informant-tip law-enforcement police-officer probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Whether it is not necessary to evaluate the basis of knowledge underlying an informant's tip if the informant is a police officer
21-7289 Katrina Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-argument criminal-procedure fair-trial judicial-error motion-for-severance prejudice right-to-counsel severance standby-counsel whether-the-district-court-committed-error-by-ordering-the-defendant-to-go-forward-with-closing-argument-without-standby-counsel
21-7291 Bonifacio Eduardo Trujillo-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7293 Jose Rodriguez-Vasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
21-7295 Miguel Lerma-Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
21-7299 Rasheed Ali Muhammad v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction Whether petitioner's conviction was reviewed in violation of due process and equal protection rights
21-7301 Bogdan Nicolescu v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-devices congressional-intent criminal-enhancement criminal-sentencing guideline-commentary identity-theft sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access-device wireless-telephone-protection-act Whether Application Note 2 bars the 2-level enhancement for trafficking of unauthorized access devices in Aggravated Identity Theft cases
21-7305 Steven Bryant v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-deal prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony Where the state's only eyewitness and linchpin of its case, the co-defendant, struck a deal whereby she would plead to a lesser offense and testify ag…
21-7306 Jonathan Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellant-standard appellate-review circuit-conflict civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error district-court due-process judicial-error legal-prejudice prejudice What degree of error and of prejudice must an appellant show with respect to individuals errors of the district court before those errors may be consi…
21-7307 Jennifer McFarland v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination venireperson Whether the government's preemptory strike of Prospective Juror 128, the sole black venireperson in the 31-member pool of potential jurors, violated M…
21-7309 Jaime Calderon, aka Jaime Arredonde, aka Jaime Rene Calderon v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-testimony gatekeeping-function judicial-reliability kumho-tire law-enforcement law-enforcement-experts reliability Whether district courts have a duty to assess the reliability of law enforcement officers testifying as experience-based experts
21-7313 Domonick Deshay Wright v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the lower courts have sanctioned a dangerous expansion of qualified immunity that shields police officers from liability for violating clearly…
21-7315 Michael Lynn Cash v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights court-decision due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-reasoning pro-se procedural-fairness standing successive-petitions Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion as successive without considering the petitioner's claims on t…
21-7318 Abraham A. Augustin v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-court mandatory-sentence resentencing right-to-counsel section-2255 section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-requirements Whether the trial court erred by not complying with 18-U.S.C-3553(a) and conducting a plenary resentencing hearing after vacating a conviction and rem…
21-7319 Abraham A. Augustin v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ancillary-jurisdiction civil-action criminal-investigation due-process equity federal-court property-seizure return-of-property rule-41(g) rule-41g Whether the United States indictment of a defendant created ancillary jurisdiction over the property
21-7322 James Earl Harper v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-agreement breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process government-contract government-motion incarceration plea-agreement sentencing Whether the Government should have been bound by the provisions of the Plea Agreement as the Petitioner did not breach the provisions contained therei…
21-7323 Russell Hampton v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conspiracy jury-instructions juvenile-delinquency juvenile-delinquency-act post-majority-misconduct presentence-report presumption-of-retaliation sentencing-guidelines Whether a jury must be instructed that it cannot convict unless it finds the defendant 'ratified' his participation in a charged conspiracy by post-ma…
21-7324 Caleb Guerrier v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-arrest law-enforcement-procedure protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrant-exception warrant-requirement Whether the search of the second floor of the petitioner's home was within the 'protective sweep' exception to the warrant requirement when the police…
21-7326 Edison Burgos-Montes v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prisoner-motion record-development summary-dismissal Whether a court of appeals may deny a certificate of appealability to a prisoner whose 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion is summarily denied even though the rec…
21-7327 Tina Carol Ortega v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error probation probation-officer sentencing separation-of-powers Did the district court plainly err when it delegated to a probation officer the authority to determine the duration of a residential treatment program…
21-7337 In Re Aurlieas D. McClarty Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
21-7338 Chandler Saxton v. Georgia Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction cumulative-error due-process fair-trial judicial-review medical-issues procedural-error trial-court Whether the cumulative errors in the lower court proceedings, including the failure to properly consider medical issues, resulted in a denial of the p…
21-7363 Jessie Vornell Lewis v. John Davids, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurists-of-reason sixth-circuit united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-district-court Did the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erroneously den…
21-762 Lena Lasher v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) brady-violation criminal-prosecution good-faith-defense medical-practitioner medical-practitioners misbranding pharmacist prescription prescription-validity scope-of-practice Mens rea-requirement-for-misbranding
21-775 Thomas Edward Rubin v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) cancellation-of-debt congressional-authority debt-cancellation due-process income-recognition ninth-circuit summary-judgment tax tax-law Did the Ninth Circuit err in disallowing a taxpayer from recognizing cancellation-of-debt income
21-779 Mark E. Schell v. Richard Darby, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bar-dues compulsory-fees constitutional-scrutiny exacting-scrutiny first-amendment ideological-speech mandatory-bar-dues political-speech union-fees Are mandatory bar dues that subsidize the political and ideological speech of bar associations subject to 'the same constitutional rule' of exacting F…
21-781 NVS Technologies, Inc. v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit Denied administrative-law consideration contract-law contract-termination due-process federal-agency funding-limitation good-faith good-faith-dealing government-contracts termination Can a federal agency refuse to allot available funds to an incrementally funded contract for any reason or no reason, and so terminate that contract, …
21-800 Tony K. McDonald, et al. v. Sylvia Borunda Firth, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights compelled-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech ideological-speech legal-membership mandatory-bar political-activities political-activity standing state-bar-association Does the First Amendment prohibit a state from compelling attorneys to join and fund a state bar association that engages in extensive political and i…
21-895 John Rodrigues, Jr. v. County of Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied civil-rights due-process federal-preemption firearms firearms-law law-enforcement leosa preemption qualified-retired-officer statutory-interpretation Does LEOSA (18 U.S.C. Sec. 966C) preempt State firearms laws that prohibit the transport, carrying and possession of firearms by a Qualified Retired L…
21-945 Wisconsin v. Manuel Garcia Wisconsin Denied confession criminal-confession criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment miranda-warning miranda-warnings misleading-jury witness-testimony Can a criminal defendant's cross-examination of a witness for the State, designed to mislead the jury, open the door to the introduction of the defend…
21-949 George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. v. Samuel Randolph Third Circuit Denied continuance continuances counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure forfeiture right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court waiver Whether a criminal defendant can forfeit or waive his or her Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice
21-950 Ker'Sean Olajuwa Ramey v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied 28-usc-2254 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance martinez-trevino peremptory-strike racial-bias In rejecting Ramey's claim for relief under Batson v. Kentucky, did the Fifth Circuit decide an important federal question in a way that conflicts wit…
21-953 Richard Leake, et al. v. James T. Drinkard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Assistant City Administrator of the City of Alpharetta, GA, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-speech historical-context parade-participation public-forum Whether the government can limit private citizens' speech in government-sponsored parades
21-974 Sylvia Borunda Firth, et al. v. Tony K. McDonald, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied administrative-agency civil-rights first-amendment free-speech free-speech-clause government-speech judicial-department keller-v-state-bar overrule-precedent state-bar Whether the State Bar of Texas qualifies as a government agency for purposes of the government speech doctrine
21M100 In Re Rafael Cezar Danam Presumed Complete None
21M101 Rafi Wali McCall v. United States Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None