| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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None |
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| 21M103 |
Bryan K. Brown v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
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None |
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