Conference: 2022-04-14

169 cases — 0 granted, 169 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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20-1351 Phillip W. Hurd, et al. v. Joy Laskar Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey legal-termination malicious-prosecution section-1983 termination-of-prosecution Whether a plaintiff alleging malicious prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 must show that the broader prosecution against him was terminated in a manne…
20-1788 City of New York, New York, et al. v. Jarrett Frost Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-fabrication fourth-amendment pretrial-detention probable-cause section-1983 Whether a § 1983 plaintiff may pursue a due process-based claim challenging a pretrial detention supported by probable cause, independent of the dispu…
21-1010 Tracy Nix v. Advanced Urology Institute of Georgia, P.C. Eleventh Circuit Denied affordable-care-act civil-rights discrimination-claim effective-communication intentional-discrimination nominal-damages rehabilitation-act spending-clause Whether a discrimination plaintiff who can prove a legal violation is entitled to an award of nominal damages under Spending Clause legislation
21-1071 Stephen Lynch Murray v. Janelle Irwin Taylor, et al. Florida Denied civil-rights cyberstalking-statute defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech government-retaliation judicial-discretion political-speech standing Can the government deputize private actors to attack political speech and thereby abridge political speech?
21-1077 Yacaira Reyes v. Westchester County Health Care Corporation, dba Westchester Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process election-of-remedies employment hostile-work-environment plausibility-standard retaliation retaliation-claim time-bar Whether the election of remedies and New York City impact doctrines barred Plaintiff's NYSHRL and NYCHRL claims
21-1080 Jacky Scott Garrett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied capital-murder constitutional-review extraneous-offense-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review strategic-decision trial-strategy Whether trial counsel's inadvertent act was 'strategic'
21-1091 Edwin Espejo v. Washington Washington Denied clear-and-present-danger community-care-exception community-caretaking domestic-violence due-process fourth-amendment police-entry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Does the community care exception to the fourth amendment allow police officers to remain in a person's home when they have determined that there is n…
21-1094 Jacques Jean Kabongo v. Michigan Michigan Denied appellate-review batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection structural-error supreme-court-review Whether the Michigan Supreme Court's application of Batson was objectively unreasonable
21-1096 Alice Guan v. Ellingsworth Residential Community Association, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied appeal-rights appeals bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure court-order due-process final-order judicial-error procedural-rules standing Whether the Courts Erred by Misstating Alice's Appeal
21-1097 Vinod Kumar Dahiya v. Neptune Shipmanagement Services, PTE, Limited, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied arbitration-agreement compelled-arbitration foreign-arbitration foreign-award interlocutory-order judicial-review jurisdictional-defect new-york-convention preclusive-effect Can a foreign arbitration award be enforced pursuant to the Convention (9 USC 207) where the arbitration agreement does not meet the Convention's defi…
21-1103 Raul A. Pelaez, as Limited Guardian of the Person and Property of John Poul Pelaez, Ward v. Government Employees Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit Denied appeal circuit-court civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness whether-due-process-warrants-judicial-disqualification
21-1104 John Davis v. City of Andrews, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-statements law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in upholding the doctrine of qualified immunity for a police officer who utilized known false statements to ensure the…
21-1110 Travis Boys v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Amici (2)Response Waived batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky due-process Johnson-v-California jury-selection peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case racial-discrimination Whether the Louisiana appellate court applied an impermissibly high burden of proof at the first step of Batson by creating an unattainable statistica…
21-1112 Sonya Gorbea v. Verizon New York, Inc. Second Circuit Denied ada constructive-termination employment-discrimination job-abandonment pretext ptsd reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations title-vii How can Verizon's dereliction of duty and reckless disregard for necessary medical treatment be acceptable under the ADA/Title VII when Verizon refuse…
21-1115 In Re Wanda Bowling Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-mandate due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-review Is the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal's deliberate refusal to adjudicate appealed issues a failure to execute duties or abuse of discretion?
21-1116 Matthew Liebovich, et al. v. Diane Janice Tobin, et al. California Denied civil-procedure discretion due-process notice notice-requirement state-court-discretion state-statute supreme-court-precedent void-judgment Does Peralta compel courts to vacate void judgments entered absent notice, or does the lack of express reference in this Court's opinion to California…
21-1119 Paul Francis v. John O. Desmond, United States Trustee First Circuit Denied Response Waived 11-usc-521 11-usc-727 appellate-review bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure court-of-appeals discharge-denial due-process judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation sua-sponte Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals committed error when affirming judgment from the Bankruptcy Court Appellate Panel refusing to reverse the B…
21-1129 Wen-Ting Zheng-Smith v. Nassau Health Care Corporation, dba NUHealth System, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived academic-reviews attorney attorney-conduct civil-procedure court-discretion evidence evidence-submission government-findings judicial-procedure legal-evidence witness-statements witness-testimony Can evidence presented by defendant's attorney on behalf of plaintiff be updated to include missing information?
21-1130 Rainey Muoka Mutua v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived None
21-1137 Byron Wendell Phillips v. The Life Property Management Services, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights claim-dismissal conspiracy-allegations court-procedure due-process fraud-and-corruption fraud-claims legal-exclusion personal-jurisdiction standing Whether the courts below erred by excluding and/or failing to constitutionally dispute all essential elements of an argument(s)
21-1148 SB Building Associates Limited Partnership v. Bunce Atkinson, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived article-i article-i-courts article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy bankruptcy-property constitutional-limitations due-process judicial-review property-rights separation-of-powers Whether Congress may consistent with Separation of Powers principles deny Article III courts the power to review an Article I court's decision allowin…
21-1156 Rodric David v. Tony Kazal, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived anti-stalking-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process extraterritorial-application first-amendment foreign-nationals free-speech ninth-circuit standing territorial-jurisdiction Did the Ninth Circuit impermissibly disregard this Court's holding in Agency for Int' Dev. v. All. for Open Soc'y Int'l, Inc.
21-1162 Erika Bailey-Johnson v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act court-of-federal-claims federal-jurisdiction injunctive-relief jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tohono-o'odham-nation tohono-precedent united-states-court-of-federal-claims united-states-v-tohono-o'odham-nation Should the Court revisit its holding in Tohono to determine whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 1500, a U.S. District Court action solely for injunctive or dec…
21-1166 Roland Omar Gramajo-Reyes v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
21-1167 Terry Rene Chapman v. Social Security Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived binding disability-rights federal-pleading-standards final-decision judicial-precedent legislation precedent pro-se-petition stare-decisis unbinding unpublished-opinion How can a decision be final & be final to what; if it is unbinding without a Precedent for Stare Decisis?
21-1186 Michelle Manor, et vir v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights coercive-interrogation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence immigration judicial-review marriage-fraud ninth-circuit unreliable-statements Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in finding that the Manors waived the issue that the trial court erred in relying upon unreliable statements made duri…
21-1199 Sally Gaetjens v. City of Loves Park, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process emergency-aid exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry probable-cause standing warrant-requirement Whether the exigent circumstances doctrine extends to situations where there is time to obtain a warrant or other judicial process?
21-1213 Michael Broaden v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 38-usc-4311 employment-rights federal-agencies federal-agency job-qualification job-qualifications military-discrimination military-status-discrimination national-importance uniformed-services-employment uniformed-services-employment-and-reemployment-rig veterans-protection Whether federal agencies can formulate job qualifications that violate military-status-discrimination laws or refuse to credit equivalent military exp…
21-1226 Michael Washington v. Florida Department of Transportation Florida Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-waiver counsel-representation due-process forfeiture fundamental-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-rights waiver Whether the reasoning in Olano applies in a civil context where the failure of a party's counsel to object to closing argument due to misconduct or ne…
21-1227 MRI Associates of Tampa, Inc. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Florida Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-standard florida-supreme-court stipulation-of-facts summary-judgment unpreserved-issue waived-issue waiver-doctrine Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Petitioner's constitutionally guaranteed due process rights?
21-5050 Kristopher Love v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (12)IFP court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment Whether Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals has decided an important federal question concerning a racially biased juror being allowed on a capital death…
21-5557 Chasmind David Miller v. Government Employees Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest court-conflict due-process judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment Did the appellate court issue a decision that directly conflicted with an earlier decision in a case with the same issues?
21-5938 Brenda M. Johnson v. Electronic Transaction Consultants, LLC Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-hearings administrative-law civil-action civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-litigation government-agencies government-liability legal-jurisdiction social-services standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government agencies' actions
21-6172 Justin Paul Sulzner v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-circuit civil-rights covert-operations due-process emergency-relief injunctive-relief judicial-review national-security odni standing Whether the 8th Circuit Appellate Court should have granted emergency injunctive reliefs against an ODNI covert community operating inside the CCJW, w…
21-6186 Faruq Rose v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-of-appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the majority opinion of the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the petitioner had no reasonable expectation of pri…
21-626 Boyd & Associates v. Bryan K. White, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act first-to-file-bar jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal medicaid-fraud sebelius-v-auburn-regional-medical-center Whether the First-to-File Bar of the False Claims Act is jurisdictional
21-6348 Rafael Ramiro-Medina v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review batson-challenge criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection fact-finding jury-selection procedural-error racial-discrimination standard-of-review Whether a federal court of appeals can conduct appellate fact-finding and resolve the factual question of discriminatory intent under Batson v. Kentuc…
21-640 Five Star Automatic Fire Protection, L.L.C. v. Department of Labor Fifth Circuit Denied burden-shifting civil-rights class-action due-process evidentiary-rule fair-labor-standards-act overtime-pay representative-testimony wal-mart-v-dukes In light of Dukes and Tyson Foods, is this an important decision of a federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court?
21-6444 In Re James Joseph Knochel Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus inaccessibility judicial-process medical-rights mental-incompetence next-friend next-friend-standing standing May a next friend be declared vexatious without considering evidence of fraud on the court?
21-6470 Michael George Kogianes v. Edward Jensen, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-rights state-court Did the state violate the federal due process rights of my petitioner by sanctioning the proper format accepted by the court to deny a sub-trial based…
21-6498 Hye-Young Park v. Board of Trustees for the University of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1915-e-2-b collateral-estoppel judge judicial-remedies plausibility-standard prior-suit res-judicata sexual-harassment university-policy Whether res judicata and collateral estoppel prevent relitigation of claims and issues in a prior suit when a judge's acts in the prior suit led to a …
21-6551 Denis Adrian Aguilera Fernandez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP None
21-6571 Ruben Orlando Benitez v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-review collateral-relief court-manipulation judicial-review legal-procedure litigation litigation-hindrance mississippi-court-of-appeals mississippi-court-of-supreme record-of-facts rehearing Question not identified.
21-6588 Amy Bishop Anderson v. Deidra Wright, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability claim-exhaustion cumulative-error effective-assistance-of-counsel exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-determination voluntariness-of-plea voluntary-plea Whether the 11th Circuit Court used a merits determination to deny my certificate of appealability in violation of federal court holdings
21-669 Jose Benito Guido v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied None
21-6694 Lawrence S. Brantley, Jr. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion clear-and-convincing Colorado-v-New-Mexico due-process evidence-standard legal-precedent parental-rights trial-court-discretion witness-testimony Did the trial court abuse its discretion by allowing a witness with no firsthand knowledge to testify, conflicting with Oakley v. State?
21-6709 Suran Wije v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations disability-rights due-process education educational-discrimination equal-protection invisible-disabilities standing systemic-segregation Whether an exception or immunity to the Fifth Amendment allows reinvented segregation to continue within the United States
21-6719 N. R. v. Kansas Kansas Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender-registration Do the Ex Post Facto Clause and Eighth Amendment permit a retroactive imposition of registration obligations on a person adjudicated of a sex offense …
21-6747 Victor Dewayne Taylor v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky capital-case constitutional-law habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges race-discrimination race-neutral-reason sixth-circuit Is a prosecutor's statement that he believed he could discriminatorily remove African-American jurors from the panel as long as he left one African-Am…
21-6815 Noe Flores-Perez v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-remedies administrative-remedy exhaustion-doctrine immigration-law in-absentia in-absentia-proceeding judicial-review notice-requirements removal-order removal-proceedings Whether a motion to reopen is an administrative remedy that must be pursued before challenging the validity of an in absentia removal order under 8 U.…
21-6840 Sandra Lee Bart v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure criminal-fraud due-process fair-warning false-attestations fraud h2-guest-worker power-of-attorney regulatory-violation Was defendant deprived of due-process, fair-warning, power-of-attorney, false-attestations
21-6846 Juan Jose Reynoso v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-circuit supervisory-power tenth-circuit trial-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
21-6910 Juan Manuel Cruzado-Laureano v. W. Stephen Muldrow First Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion attorney-for-government attorney-for-the-government criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure grand-jury grand-jury-procedure indictment indictment-validity judicial-discretion mandamus mandamus-petition Questions Presented for Court Review
21-6979 Andrew J. Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
21-700 Keith Smith v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 accrual-rule bail bail-conditions circuit-split civil-rights fourth-amendment legal-procedure pretrial-detention seizure seizure-definition Does a claim for wrongful pre-trial detention accrue upon favorable termination or release on bail?
21-7005 Adam M. DeVore v. Kenneth Black, Warden Ohio Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-indictment due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-change location-modification ohio-supreme-court venue Whether the location of an alleged offense can be changed post-appeal and whether such a change violates due process
21-7015 Edward T. James v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-defendant court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incompetency incompetency-claim mental-competency substantive-claim substantive-review Whether a court may refuse to review a capital defendant's substantive incompetency claim?
21-7046 Makeda Haile v. Abdul Conteh Virginia Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment human-rights judicial-discretion privileges-or-immunities standing takings Whether this court is willing to stop the violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right
21-7075 Ian T. Cooke v. John R. Williams, et al. Connecticut Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-plaintiffs favorable-termination heck-bar heck-v-humphrey justiciability legal-malpractice tort-action tort-actions Does the justiciability bar articulated by Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) requiring criminal plaintiffs to favorably terminate their conviction…
21-7091 Zachary E. Coley v. Shaw Industries, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP ada ada-claim administrative-law civil-rights court-review disability-rights discrimination due-process judicial-error legal-procedure reasonable-accommodation standing Whether the lower courts erred in their analysis of the petitioner's ADA claim
21-7096 Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-bar sixth-amendment Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
21-7100 Alkiohn Dunkins v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP cellsite-information constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower courts erred by denying the petitioner's motion to suppress cell-site information
21-7104 Jeffrey Ryan Simmermaker v. Cedar County Sheriff's Department, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment heck-bar heck-barr probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 standing Did the court err in its HECK BARR determination?
21-7108 Kevin Stephen Ryan v. Minnesota Minnesota Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-rights content-based-restriction free-speech government-regulation prior-restraint Whether the government's restriction on the petitioner's speech violates the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech
21-7109 Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington due-process forensic-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice whether-trial-counsel-was-ineffective-for-failing-to-object-to-forensic-dna-evidence
21-7111 David Roy Worthy v. Corizon Medical Group, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights delayed-diagnosis due-process government-liability informed-consent medical-malpractice medical-negligence patient-harm patient-rights professional-liability standard-of-care Whether a delayed diagnosis of a medical problem that results in a patient's health condition worsening constitutes a cognizable injury under the Four…
21-7113 Gerald Wayne Jako, Jr. v. West Virginia West Virginia Denied IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-representation cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance inside-job-theory plea-bargain presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel staged-crime witness-unavailability Whether the standard enunciated in Cuyler v. Sullivan applies when a defendant objects to counsel's representation after a conflict is revealed
21-7114 Robert Noel Smith v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment exigent-circumstances felony-fleeing fourth-amendment fresh-pursuit home-entry lange-v-california misdemeanant-pursuit probable-cause vehicle-registration warrantless-search Can State courts lawfully hold evidence admissible obtained from a warrantless search, seizure, and arrest where an officer entered the residence of a…
21-7118 Joshua B. Davoren v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession home-defense racial-inequality second-amendment standing takings Is a statute that makes it a crime for every person, including responsible, law-abiding citizens, to possess a firearm, rifle, shotgun, or ammunition …
21-7121 Joseph Lamont Wilson v. Phoenix Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the First Amendment's free speech protections
21-7122 Thomas Warner v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP aggravated-battery criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency firearm-discharge jury-instructions sentencing state-testimony witness-credibility Whether Thomas Warner's convictions for aggravated battery with a firearm should be reversed
21-7127 Ngozika J. Nwaneri v. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP District of Columbia Denied IFP appeals bill-of-rights civil-procedure due-process equal-justice fourteenth-amendment judicial-error legal-procedure pro-se pro-se-representation standing Whether the state court erred in omnibus order and subpoena order
21-7130 Jabari J. Johnson v. DeFrancesco, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
21-7131 Bobby Ray Jones v. Phillip Mitchell, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se schlup-v-delo slack-v-mcdaniel Whether the courts below erred in denying Jones a certificate of appealability
21-7138 Roy Franklin Echols, Jr. v. CSX Transportation, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure covid-19 due-process federal-employers-liability-act fela fourteenth-amendment standing summons-service Did the United States District Court err in denying the initial request to expedite process?
21-7159 Garland E. Williams v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-threshold merit-injury money-mandating standing statutory-interpretation tax tax-refund Whether merit injury claims suffice in the undecided open proceedings
21-7166 Mustafa Ozsusamlar v. P. Adams, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies civil-rights discrimination due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-prison free-speech habeas-corpus postal-service prisoner-litigation standing Whether the prison's practice of opening, reading, and forwarding legal mail to the warden or unit manager, which delays or destroys the mail, violate…
21-7168 Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP care-and-protection civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-procedure jury-trial parental-rights standing Whether right to parent of biological parents' can be terminated by a single judge and statutorily transferred to foster parents when a parent raises …
21-7172 Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review equal-protection mootness preliminary-injunction vacatur Whether a final order of dismissal automatically moots an interlocutory appeal of an order denying preliminary injunctive relief
21-7179 Precious Wiley v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eisenhower-army-medical-center federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice medical-negligence pro-se-litigation service-of-process standing wrongful-death Why did the district court dismiss the appellant's Federal Tort Claims Act complaint alleging wrongful death due to medical negligence?
21-7185 Brian Arthur Tate v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. Maryland Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders liberty-interest parole parole-hearing sentencing-procedure Whether the Eighth Amendment extends to governmental release systems for juvenile offenders
21-7194 Mainor Canales v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investigation post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment trial-preparation witness-investigation Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
21-7197 Dennis Lee Shaffer v. Kansas Kansas Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law ex-post-facto kansas-offender-registration-act punishment-clause retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe Do the cumulative burdens of the Kansas Offender Registration Act constitute punishment under the test set out in Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84 (2003), su…
21-7198 Remel Ahart v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether Massachusetts's appellate review prov appellate-review collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel postconviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment When a court issues a procedural ruling not to extend the benefits of a new rule collaterally to those who did not preserve their claim, does the Sixt…
21-7206 Chuck Duckworth v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-injunction creditor-recovery creditors criminal-procedure fresh-start restitution restitution-award state-prosecution Whether a state prosecutor can recover previously discharged debts on behalf of bankruptcy creditors following a criminal prosecution and by way of a …
21-7207 Robert Brewer v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity precedent state-courts supreme-court-precedent Whether Saad v Arizona continues to apply following Ramos v. Louisiana and Edwards v Vannoy
21-7208 Theresa Bailey v. New York Law School, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process indigent-plaintiff judicial-review pro-bono-counsel procedural-errors standing title-ix Whether the underlying case presents one or more Questions of Fact for a jury; and, if no, Whether the case presents one or more cognizable claims tha…
21-7213 Kwasi McKinney v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection postconviction-relief speedy-trial When does the direct appeal of a jury trial conviction of six (6) different criminal offenses and sentence become final?
21-7228 Timothy Donald Dingle v. Brian Kendall, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure competency due-process psychiatric-evaluation response-time standing Question not identified
21-7231 Caleb L. McGillvary v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process faretta-inquiry Faretta-motion right-to-counsel self-representation waiver Whether the denial of a defendant's motion to self-represent without a Faretta inquiry constitutes a waiver of the right to self-representation if the…
21-7240 Robert Carr, Jr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review legal-standard standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the lower courts erroneously employ the wrong legal standard?
21-7250 Michael Ray Fortuna v. Robert Hudgins, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment disability-accommodations due-process eighth-amendment inmate-safety isolation-conditions medical-neglect prison-conditions prisoner-rights Whether an inmate's placement on a top bunk after suffering injuries from a previous fall constitutes a constitutional violation
21-7261 Ezeani Gregory Ifesinachi v. Guy Cirillo, Warden Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review procedural-inconsistency state-court Whether the District Court's refusal to review the legality of the petitioner's detention due to the government's failure to timely adjudicate his pen…
21-7278 Calvin James v. John T. Wilcher, Sheriff, Chatham County, Georgia Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights double-jeopardy due-process federalism jurisdiction service-of-process summons Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits successive state and federal prosecutions for the same offense
21-7280 Sammie Carroll v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-special-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jail-call-evidence standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Did the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland err in ruling that the evidence adduced at trial was sufficient to sustain a conviction?
21-7303 Edward Pinchon v. Raymond Byrd, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing miller-precedent Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in concluding that the Miller v. Alabama holding applies only to sentences expressly articulated as life without the p…
21-7308 Deon D. Colvin v. Howard University District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion pleadings pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process standing Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process by failing to consider all of the pet…
21-7320 Devin Marques Carter v. Iowa Iowa Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard federal-rights irrational jury-verdict privileges-and-immunities reasonable-doubt Did the state of Iowa violate petitioner's federal privileges and immunities and due process rights when it upheld an irrational jury verdict?
21-7330 Japher Yosuf Rajab v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute law-enforcement mens-rea non-existent-victim statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422 (b) authorizes a conviction based on an imaginary, non-existent victim
21-7332 Marlon Sisnero-Gil v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness supervisory-power Whether the Petition should be granted because the Court of Appeals' decision holding that Petitioner's sentence was not substantively unreasonable co…
21-7333 Andrew Michael Penny v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense sentencing-enhancement state-law-interpretation taylor-v-united-states violent-felony Whether the categorical approach requires federal courts to defer to a state supreme court's interpretation of state law when identifying the elements…
21-7334 Gregory Todd Numann v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability child-pornography criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel password-protected-device plea-bargaining Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in denying Mr. Numann's motion for certificate of appealability
21-7339 Robert Donald Gordon v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-limits due-process federal-state-powers fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default standing Did the courts act outside of their jurisdictions?
21-7340 Joseph Louis Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process judicial-review legislative-intent patent sentencing standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether a petitioner's false carrier letter must be considered as the ultimate basis of a defendant's commission of a crime under 35 U.S.C. 35530
21-7341 Jerry Fruit v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law direct-appeal fourth-amendment full-and-fair-litigation habeas-corpus stone-v-powell trial-litigation Whether habeas corpus petitioners have been afforded the opportunity for full and fair litigation of their Fourth Amendment claim
21-7342 Alejandro Salinas Garcia v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 drug-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act least-harsh-sentence multiple-drug-types sentencing-parameters statutory-penalties statutory-sentencing Does the record demonstrate that a defendant was sentenced in accordance with the FSA1 for violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841, involving multiple drug type…
21-7343 Harry Hueston v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion legal-remedy procedural-default timeliness Whether it was error for the Second Circuit to deny Huestion the right to file an appeal or COA when timeliness was the result of facts beyond his con…
21-7344 Edwin Calligan v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP anticipatory-warrant contraband fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-warrant triggering-event Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit decision conflicts with United States v. Grubbs
21-7345 David Wayne Aring v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split due-process eighth-amendment first-time-offender judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether lifetime supervised release is appropriate for a first-time, non-violent offender convicted of receiving and watching child pornography
21-7346 Avian Brule v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion revocation-standard sentencing supervised-release What is the appellate standard of review applicable to sentences imposed following revocation of supervised release?
21-7347 Anthony Phillips v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Does the legal standard for equitable tolling apply to the one-year deadline for filing a notice of appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 2107(c)
21-7349 Charles Johnson, Jr. v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
21-7351 Miguel Angel Cruz-Polanco, aka Luis Hernandez v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure federal-sentencing plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines Whether the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Mandate a Plea of Guilty and Guarantee a Point Reduction on Acceptance of Responsibility
21-7352 Pedro Intzin-Guzman 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 …
21-7353 Alejandro Chavarria v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-estoppel judicial-error plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing Whether a trial judge's erroneous FED. R. CRIM. P. 32(j)(1)(B) advice regarding the defendant's right to appeal his sentence, and the Government's fai…
21-7354 Joseph Patrick Keel v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-precedent apprendi-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process identity judicial-interpretation prior-convictions prior-record-exception sentencing sixth-amendment Whether courts have incorrectly applied a 'prior-record' exception to Apprendi and Alleyne
21-7355 Jon Charles Vance v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury reasonable-doubt Whether the Petitioner Jon Charles Vance was denied his fundamental right under the Fifth Amendment to Due Process
21-7356 Stacey Tremaine Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence firearm-possession guideline-calculation jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-proof uncharged-conduct Whether there was sufficient evidence for the jury to find the petitioner guilty of drug-trafficking,firearm-possession
21-7357 Joel Castro-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion guidelines judicial-reasoning legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a district court errs should reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range?
21-7359 Kaleb Gattis v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
21-7360 Marc N. Greenberg v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fundamental-fairness notice-of-appeal supervised-release Whether the technical requirements of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3(c)(1)(B) trump an individual's due process rights
21-7362 Kyle Kurtz v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto free-speech habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt rules-of-court self-defense Are the rules promulgated by the United States Supreme Court being enforced?
21-7366 Raymond L. Rogers v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-counsel criminal-appeal due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance mandate-recall tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Remedy-for-CJA-attorney-failure-to-file-cert-petition
21-7367 Adam Shane Swindle v. S. Ma'at Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation court-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pandemic-review record-review Should an inmate be punished for an act they could not have known to be prohibited?
21-7369 Dannie Simon Parker, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-instructions precedent statutory-interpretation substantial-rights Whether the acting Leon Vhs Corl in Cape v. United States, 556 U.S. 255, 268, 129 S.Ct. 2155, 173 L.Ed.2d 1208 (2008), trial court's robbery under 18 …
21-7372 Aaron Abadi v. Department of Transportation Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-discretion discrimination-laws failure-to-act judicial-review mandamus petition-for-review standing unreasonable-withholding Can a petitioner file a petition for review of an agency action for a failure to act, relying on the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)
21-7373 Steven M. Chapman v. Warden, FCC Coleman - USP II Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis court-martial due-process legal-representation military-justice post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing writ-of-coram-nobis Whether Petitioner received full and fair consideration in the military justice system
21-7374 William A. Noguera v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-right counsel-representation cuyler-v-sullivan holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment successive-representation Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion create a conflict with relevant decisions of this Court in concluding that Sullivan's standard applies only when a def…
21-7375 Rodolfo Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review consensual-encounter consent criminal-procedure investigative-detention investigative-stop law-enforcement-interaction search-and-seizure standard-of-review voluntary-consent What is the appropriate standard to be applied in determining whether an encounter with police was consensual or an investigative stop?
21-7376 Khalil Stafford v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-dismissal murder new-jersey rico rico-offense sixth-amendment state-law-prosecution vicar Does the Double Jeopardy Clause preclude a Federal jury from considering petitioner's guilt for murder under New Jersey law after a New Jersey jury ac…
21-7382 Adolfo Huerta v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-ii constitutional-law due-process inpatient-treatment judicial-authority non-delegation probation-officer supervised-release treatment-program Does a supervised release condition imposing 'inpatient or outpatient' participation in a treatment program constitute an impermissible delegation of …
21-7385 Juan M. Alcaraz v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit err in finding that Mr. Alcaraz did not make a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right regarding trial couns…
21-7386 Sandchase Cody v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release district-court district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Section 121.15 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines on 'Applicable Data Statement' binds a district court when considering a motion for …
21-7387 Henry E. Wood v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cellphone circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement mobile-phone parolee parolee-rights search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision allowing law enforcement officers to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee's mobile phone upon arrest has c…
21-7389 John Peyton Alexander, II v. Mississippi Mississippi Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis parole post-conviction-relief sentence-computation sentence-modification standing supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute Whether a financially solvent prisoner has a constitutional right to receive in forma pauperis status to file a meritorious petition for writ of certi…
21-7390 Choya Dwayne Hailey v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5k1.1 5K1.1-motion breach-of-contract criminal-procedure downward-departure government-breach government-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Whether the government breached the supplemental plea agreement
21-7391 Isaiah Ramon Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 'controlled substance[s]' in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede…
21-7393 Travis Ryan Skaggs v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-802 21-usc-841 concurrent-sentences first-step-act sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation term-of-imprisonment Whether the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by holding that Mr. Skaggs' conviction in Wise County, Virginia on July 27, 2…
21-7403 James Calvin Breeden v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states rule-29 rule-29-motion Whether the district court erred under Rehaif v. United States by denying requested jury instructions and a Rule 29 motion for acquittal on the felon-…
21-7404 Jose Antonio Barahona-Paz 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 …
21-7405 Joshua Guity-Nunez v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-section-1594 appeal base-offense-level criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner, who was convicted of 18 U.S.C. § 1594(c), is subject to a Base Offense Level of 34 or 14?
21-7409 Jory Russell Strizich v. Montana Montana Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense due-process evidentiary-ruling evidentiary-rulings flight-evidence fourteenth-amendment holmes-precedent holmes-v-south-carolina sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to defend in a criminal case can be denied on unique state evidentiary rulings?
21-7414 Gregory M. Hawes v. Michael Pacheco, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-maximum Whether Patterson v. New York has been abrogated by Apprendi and Alleyne
21-7415 Matthew Rausenberg v. Don Langford, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights custody-analysis custody-determination due-process habeas-corpus interrogation-circumstances miranda-warnings police-interrogation Whether reasonable jurists could debate the issue of custody for Miranda purposes
21-7418 James Roland L'Heureux v. West Virginia West Virginia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contract-law contractual-breach due-process fourteenth-amendment mabry-v-johnson plea-agreement pre-sentence-investigation sentencing sentencing-arguments Whether the prosecution's conduct in making sentencing arguments outside the pre-sentence investigation report constitutes a breach of the plea agreem…
21-7423 Delbert Keyes v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
21-7427 William Gregory Snow v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rule excited-utterance hearsay hearsay-exception impeachment prior-consistent-statements witness-testimony Whether the Third District Appellate Court of Illinois' ruling unconstitutionally expanded the scope of the excited utterance exception to hearsay as …
21-7429 Damon Ramon Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law auer-deference constitutional-law crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation seminole-rock seminole-rock-deference sentencing-guidelines Does the Sentencing Commission's commentary impermissibly expand the unambiguous definition of 'crime of violence' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 to include atte…
21-7430 Roberto Padilla Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit-review judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly approved the district court's decision to increase the petitioner's sentence based on unscored prior convictions
21-787 Gina Russomanno v. Dan Dugan, et al. Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claims due-process material-fact new-evidence res-judicata same-claim-preclusion standing title-vii Whether the Supreme Court will consider the merits of the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third District, pursuant to res-judicata, barr…
21-788 Apartment Association of Los Angeles County, Inc., dba Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights contracts-clause covid-19-moratorium due-process eviction-moratorium judicial-scrutiny lease-impairment municipal-law takings Whether a municipal law challenged under the Contracts Clause as impermissibly impairing private contracts is subject to variable scrutiny based on th…
21-796 Marchand & Rossi, L.L.P., nka Marchand Law, L.L.P. v. Bryan K. White, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) false-claims-act first-to-file-rule fraud fraud-prosecution jurisdictional-bar parallel-state-laws qui-tam statutory-interpretation whistleblower Whether the FCA first-to-file rule allows dismissal of independently viable claims
21-8 Wilma M. Pennington-Thurman v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights creditor-rights due-process fraud-on-court judicial-ethics preclusion priority-rules standing Question not identified.
21-815 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Bruce S. Rogow, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts jurisdictional-limits notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant rules-of-civil-procedure service-of-documents standing Has a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the relevance of the resetting of the end date for the filing of the Notice of Appeal under FRAP …
21-838 Penobscot Nation v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. First Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived alaska-pacific-fisheries indian-canons indian-canons-of-construction indian-settlement-acts maine-indian-settlement-acts penobscot-nation reservation reservation-boundaries statutory-interpretation tribal-rights Whether the Maine Indian Settlement Acts codify the historical understanding of the Penobscot Nation's reservation
21-840 United States v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. First Circuit Denied Amici (1) indian-reservation land-claims maine-indian-claims-settlement-act native-american-rights natural-resources penobscot-nation settlement-act statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction tribal-rights tribal-sovereignty Whether the Penobscot Indian Reservation includes the surrounding River
21-848 Spire Missouri Inc., et al. v. Environmental Defense Fund, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (1) administrative-law agency-decision energy federal-energy-regulatory-commission judicial-review natural-gas public-interest remand remand-without-vacatur vacatur Whether remand without vacatur is the appropriate remedy where the record indicates that an agency's inadequately reasoned decision could be corrected…
21-854 Rachel Maniscalco, et al. v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights covid-19-mandate due-process employment employment-rights executive-order government-action professional-restriction public-health public-sector substantive-due-process vaccination Does the Executive Order violate the substantive due process rights of New York City public-school teachers whose sole employer is the DOE by preventi…
21-870 Michigan v. Treshaun Lee Terrance Michigan Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ashe-v-swenson constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion jury-acquittal michigan-courts perpetrator-identity yeager-v-us Should issue preclusion apply in criminal cases?
21-871 Louisiana v. David H. Brown Louisiana Denied capital-case death-penalty faretta-right faretta-v-california mccoy-v-louisiana self-representation structural-error trial-counsel Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court erred in vacating the three death sentences
21-881 Linda Shao v. McManis Faulkner, LLP California Denied Relisted (2) appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflicts-of-interest court-jurisdiction due-process filing judicial-bias procedural-irregularity vexatious-litigant Question not identified
21-898 Blake Conyers, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment inventory-search municipal-policy property-rights property-seizure May a municipality, consistent with the Fourth and Fifth Amendments and pursuant to an explicit policy, destroy or sell property seized during the inv…
21-906 Klickitat County, Washington, et al. v. Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) boundary-dispute congressional-act congressional-authority indian-reservation land-disposition ninth-circuit-error statutory-interpretation treaty-interpretation Whether a court may override an Act of Congress adopting a boundary for an Indian reservation
21-934 Lana Weinbach v. The Boeing Company, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) amendment-interpretation capable-of-ascertainment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit escheat-laws fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-scrutiny ninth-amendment Whether the Eighth Circuit exceeded its scope in determining a capable-of-ascertainment criterion, and in so doing, infringed upon constitutional-righ…
21-951 Rio Grande Foundation v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied ballot-initiative chilling-effect civil-rights constitutional-challenge donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech nonprofit-disclosure speech-rights standing standing-doctrine Did the Tenth Circuit err?
21-966 New York, et al. v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Second Circuit Denied 10th-amendment 16th-amendment article-1-section-8 constitutional-limits federal-taxation federalism-principles legislative-power sovereign-authority state-sovereignty state-taxes tax-deduction tax-policy Whether Congress's imposition of a $10,000 cap on the SALT deduction violates Article I, Section 8 and the Tenth and Sixteenth Amendments of the Unite…
21-978 Carmela Rivero v. Fidelity Investments, Incorporated Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adequate-remedy-at-law anti-injunction-act declaratory-judgment-act legal-forum property-rights south-carolina-v-regan subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-exception Is the DJA's tax exception barred by the AIA?
21M102 Jacqueline M. Tauscher v. Pamela Donison, et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M103 Bryan K. Brown v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit Presumed Complete None