Conference: 2022-04-29

99 cases — 0 granted, 99 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-1027 Green Haven Preparative Meeting, et al. v. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (1) civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise institutional-rights prison-ministry religious-organization standing substantial-burden Does the standing of a religious organization to protect the fundamental practices of its faith from being abridged by the state cease at the prison w…
21-1154 Speech & Language Center, LLC, et al. v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey New Jersey Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge civil-settlement contract contract-enforcement contract-law debt-obligation discharge non-dischargeable-debt settlement-agreement Can parties to a civil settlement agree that the payments required under the agreement are not dischargeable in bankruptcy?
21-1174 James G. Sweet v. Thornton Mellon, LLC, et al. Maryland Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process estates nail-and-mail personal-representative service-of-process summons-and-complaint Whether purported service of a summons and complaint on a deceased homeowner by publication and 'nail and mail' at the decedent's former home provided…
21-1176 Alice Jin-Yue Guan v. Bing Ran Virginia Denied bribery civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing Whether state court has lost its jurisdiction
21-1178 Subhadra Gunawardana, et vir v. American Veterinary Medical Association, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied amendment-standard circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-claims dispositive-motion due-process federal-rules procedural-waiver seventh-circuit timeliness waiver Whether objections to an untimely dispositive motion are waived if not presented orally prior to the response deadline
21-1236 In Re Kyko Global Inc., et al. Denied Response Waived breach-of-fiduciary-duty california-law choice-of-law conflict-of-laws corporate-director corporate-law fiduciary-duty internal-affairs-doctrine panel-discretion pennsylvania-law whether the Panel abused its discretion and improperly created a new legal rule to evaluate Petitioners' breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims
21-1261 Reynaldo Angeles v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
21-1273 Frank D. Lazzerini v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error right-to-be-present structural-error trial-proceedings voir-dire Whether the exclusion of a criminal defendant from individual voir dire proceedings is a structural error requiring automatic reversal
21-1314 United States, ex rel. Hassan Foreman v. AECOM, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 31-usc-3729 common-law false-claims-act fraud-prevention government-claims materiality motion-to-dismiss qui-tam statutory-interpretation Is materiality an element of all claims brought under 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(A)
21-1317 Rafi Wali McCall v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) acquittal constitutional-prohibition criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-finding jury-trial supervised-release Does the United States Constitution prohibit a judge from revoking supervised release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583 based on a judicial finding that th…
21-1318 Gregory Bogomol v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knock-and-talk motion-to-suppress warrantless-search What is the proper standard for determining when a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255?
21-1325 Estate of Samuel I. Roig, By and Through Its Personal Representative Gail Olivera, et al. v. United Parcel Service, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure consent-judgment diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver Whether a Panel of the Circuit Court erred when it dismissed an appeal holding that there is no appellate jurisdiction to consider on the merits wheth…
21-219 Clear Channel Outdoor, LLC v. Henry J. Raymond, Director, Department of Finance of Baltimore City Maryland Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) billboard-regulation commercial-speech constitutional-scrutiny content-based content-discrimination first-amendment strict-scrutiny takings tax-law zoning Whether a tax singling out off-premises billboards is subject to heightened scrutiny under the First Amendment
21-5862 Micah Lamb v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-on-the-court government-corruption ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's claims of 'fraud on the court'…
21-6033 Larry Gene Francis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial material-facts parole-violation state-misconduct testimony Was petitioner subjected to Double Jeopardy?
21-6424 Elijah Dwayne Joubert v. Texas Texas Denied IFP due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-likelihood Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permit a prosecutor's knowing use of false testimony unless the defendant proves by a preponde…
21-6456 Terry Ray Carter v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment overbreadth-doctrine pornographic-matter pornography supervised-release vagueness Does a special condition of supervised release that prohibits possession or control of 'any pornographic matter' violate due process as unconstitution…
21-6612 Brian Cavitt v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-integrity due-process fair-trial forensic-evidence misleading-jury perjury quality-assurance trial-procedure Where an incomplete DNA profile allegedly from a knife handle is falsely or scientifically concluded to be a 'match' to a victim's complete DNA profil…
21-6696 L. W. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure deadlines due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-termination standing statutory-interpretation texas-family-code trial-court-procedure Did trial court commence prior to losing jurisdiction under Tex. Fam. Code § 263.401
21-6734 Roger Dale Epperson v. Kentucky Kentucky Denied IFP constitutional-law counsel-concession criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy due-process factual-innocence right-to-counsel trial-strategy Does McCoy apply where the defendant made clear to counsel the objective of the defense is to maintain innocence, only for counsel to then concede gui…
21-6800 Abdulkhaliq Mohammed Murshid, aka Andy v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment business-records civil-rights compulsory-process constitutional-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-action law-enforcement prosecutorial-discretion search-and-seizure Whether officers can search a business without a search warrant
21-6845 In Re Willie S. Smith Denied Relisted (2)IFP acquittal appeal appellate-review constitutional-injury criminal-procedure due-process judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion legal-remedy usurpation-of-power Is it clear and indisputable that respondent Judges have a duty to enter a judgement of acquittal pursuant to 'Ball' and Crim. Rule 29?
21-6898 Jasper Stevens, et al. v. Robert S. Whitmore Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11-u.s.c.-521 11-u.s.c.-554 asset-scheduling bankruptcy bankruptcy-abandonment circuit-split debtor-financial-affairs fresh-start statutory-interpretation trustee-administration Whether an asset can be abandoned to a debtor where (1) the asset is not administered prior to the closing of the bankruptcy case; and (2) the asset i…
21-7218 Ryan Antonio Matthews v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit-court fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-certification precedent precedential-analysis standard-of-review Did Petitioner establish that jurists of reason could debate whether he was deprived of his right to the effective assistance of counsel at his juveni…
21-7223 Angel DeLara v. California California Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-trial penal-code sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
21-7224 Johnathan I. Alcegaire v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment due-process false-evidence false-testimony giglio giglio-claim jury-instructions jury-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Florida Supreme Court ignored fundamental principles of due process in rejecting the petitioner's Giglio claim and whether there is a reas…
21-7229 Steven A. Taliani v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing involuntary-intoxication prescription-medication state-prisoner statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Does the Illinois Supreme Court's opinion and analysis constitute an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the Illinois Supreme Court's …
21-7232 Lance Reberger v. Michael Koehn, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment prison prison-medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Whether the Nevada Department of Corrections officials violated the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide adequate medical care to a prisoner during …
21-7241 Darrell Johnson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-instruction evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error pennsylvania-state-court state-court stipulations trial-counsel Was the Pennsylvania State Court's ruling supported by the evidence and free from legal error when it held that Petitioner's trial counsel was not ine…
21-7242 Michael Wayne Kelly v. Texas Texas Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-defense evidence evidence-exclusion right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error witness-testimony Did the Court of Appeals err in excluding evidence that deprived Petitioner of his Sixth Amendment right
21-7243 Jabari J. Johnson v. Stephanie Dalton Tenth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law asylum civil-rights due-process immigration standing whether the district court and court of appeals abused their discretion regarding title 42 asylum claims
21-7244 Walter L. Merritte v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP appeal constitutional-law criminal-information criminal-procedure due-process legal-procedure standing state-court trial-court Whether petitioner's due process rights were violated
21-7247 Kevin Herriott v. Lieutenant Jackson Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-of-appeals due-process evidence federal-courts federal-rules legal-mail mail-room standing statutory-provisions Whether the claimant is entitled to offer evidence to support his claims?
21-7248 John Garcia v. Melissa Robinson Arizona Denied IFP child-custody constitutional-rights court-order due-process evidence judicial-bias judicial-determination parental-rights parenting-plan trial-procedure Does a judge's pre-determination on the record prior to reviewing the evidence at trial violate a constitutional right to due process?
21-7251 Major Hudson, III v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sovereignty indian-law land-title native-american-rights standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether Oklahoma Court's can continue to unlawfully exercise under state law criminal jurisdiction over the lands formerly known as the Unassigned Lan…
21-7253 Luis D. Sambolin-Robles v. Corrections Administration First Circuit Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard judicial-review legal-procedure standing trial-fairness Whether the federal government's prosecution of the petitioner violated the petitioner's constitutional rights
21-7254 Stephen C. Hanf v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights COVID-19-pandemic criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus molestation-charges standing trial-procedure Whether the COVID-19 pandemic qualifies as an extraordinary circumstance for equitable tolling
21-7255 James Robert Hope v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence jurisdiction jury-instructions mistrial prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the lower courts erred in finding that Mr. Hope was not prejudiced by mistrial counters due to his failure to object to the trial court's lack…
21-7257 Jimmy Dale Stone v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP Criminal-Jurisdiction Due-Process Fourteenth-Amendment Indian-Status native-american-rights post-conviction-relief Public-Law-83-280 Treaty-Provisions Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Stone's Fourteenth-Amendment-right-to-Due-Process
21-7262 Bartholomew Antonio Guzman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas-proceeding federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-60(b) Whether a COA is required to appeal the denial of a Rule 60(b) Motion
21-7264 Samuel Lee Gore v. Gus J. Skropas, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing state-law-interpretation Does the United States Constitution guarantee a United States citizen due process and equal protection under the law?
21-7267 William Roy Thietje v. Ken Clark, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP due-process harmless-error intervening-cause jury-instructions malice malice-aforethought provocative-act-murder sixth-amendment Due-process,jury-instructions,provocative-act-murder,intervening-cause,malice,harmless-error
21-7273 Terron Gerhard Dizzley v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review double-jeopardy false-imprisonment federal-question lack-of-jurisdiction supreme-court-decisions trial-court-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Did the United Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit decide an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of thi…
21-7275 David Nowakowski v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-presentation judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-error separation-of-powers state-court-system Where a district attorney fails to exercise discretion in the decision not to prosecute, can continued and mounting evidence be presented to the distr…
21-7277 Sadeen Jones v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery initial-illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement Is this matter so identical to Carpenter v. United States that like that case, this Petition for WRIT OF CERTIORARI should be reviewed, and granted re…
21-728 Pedro Dino Cedado Nuñez, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure customary-international-law drug-enforcement international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-test maritime-drug-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-nationality Whether the three ways to identify nationless vessels enumerated in 46 U.S.C. § 70502(d)(1) are exhaustive
21-7281 Kevin Debnam v. Javier Salazar, Sheriff, Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process police-misconduct probable-cause unlawful-arrest Whether police violated the Fourth Amendment by arresting the petitioner without probable cause
21-7282 Joshua Davis Bland v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP censorship compelling-interest equal-protection fourteenth-amendment least-restrictive-means r-l-u-i-p-a religious-freedom religious-practice rluipa Does a state prison have the right to void an inmate's religious practice?
21-7283 Earnest J. Matthews v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified
21-7288 Rolandis Larenzo Chatmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force inmate-treatment prison prison-policy standing Has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit created a harmful precedent that would establish that an officer/prison guard could give a citize…
21-7290 James L. Caudle v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-parte-communication impartial-jury life-imprisonment presumption-of-innocence Whether the right to due process of law has been denied
21-7304 Wilfredo Torres v. New York City Police Department, et al. Second Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct presidential-power standing torture-allegations warrantless-search warrantless-surveillance Whether United States Judge Ronnie Abrams and United States Magistrate-Judge Kevin Nathaniel Fox violated rules of ethics and my right to due process …
21-7312 Daniel Viveiros v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP complaint-testimony due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault trial-error trial-procedure uncorroborated-allegations Whether the trial court erred in admitting evidence without expert medical testimony
21-7328 Glen S. v. Connecticut Connecticut Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-canvassing probation-violation right-to-testify testimony-rights trial-court-duty waiver waiver-of-rights Should an affirmative duty be imposed on trial courts to canvass criminal defendants about their right to testify?
21-7378 Andrew Long v. Oregon State Bar Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-discipline bribery disbarment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indefinite-suspension state-attorney-discipline state-bar-misconduct witness-bribery Did the Oregon Supreme Court violate Long's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process prior to deprivation of his property interest
21-7399 Rosalind A. Clayton v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights due-process eeoc-administrative-remedies employment-discrimination equal-protection exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies federal-employees subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii Where the Courts decision egregiously conflicts with Supreme Court Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis 18-525 and 29 C.F.R. 1613.513, as amend. Was petit…
21-7416 Trevor Dawson Ewers v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights concerted-action constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pretextual-stop reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop Where officers work together in concerted action to 'produce' reasonable suspicion when there is none to affect a traffic stop with the sole purpose o…
21-7419 Gilberto Mulgado v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP child-hearsay child-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-evidence custodial-offense due-process fair-trial hearsay sexual-battery Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional due process right to a fair trial is violated by the admission at trial of needlessly cumulative child h…
21-7437 Steven Hutchinson v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky constitutional-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection presumption-of-prejudice racial-discrimination strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington Should prejudice under Strickland v. Washington be presumed for an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim based on counsel's failure to object to unc…
21-7467 Patrick Muraca v. Securities and Exchange Commission First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts attorney-representation civil-rights court-deadlines due-process incarcerated-rights incarceration legal-access procedural-rules right-to-counsel speedy-trial Does an incarcerated individual have the timely and speedy right to an attorney before important court decisions are made, such as missing a deadline …
21-7469 Jermeal White v. Ronald Erdos, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process legal-proceeding pro-se summary-judgment video-evidence Did the district court and the United States Court of Appeals fail to consider Petitioner's opposition to Respondent's cross-motion for summary judgme…
21-7491 Cassandra Bonita Charles v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-action civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process eleventh-amendment false-claims-act federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does Eleventh Amendment immunity apply when an officer of the court violates 31 U.S. Code 3729?
21-7509 Jean Carlo Ferreira v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute davis-precedent due-process jury-instruction procedural-default sentencing standing vagueness Whether the Court should address the Circuit Split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default can be excused becau…
21-7510 Ramon Lopez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-corrections federal-sentencing-guidelines sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Criminal Defendants may use the 'recently amended' Compassionate Release Statute to reduce or correct an excessive, and/or defective or illega…
21-7517 Damilola Animashaun, aka Damilola Animshaun v. Correctional Officer Regner Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the complaint and disregarding the merits of the lawsuit
21-7519 Nathan Lee Tamez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP discretionary-review due-process firearms guidelines sentencing supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with decisions of this Court on an important matter
21-7520 Isaiah Wilson v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 2nd-amendment burglary-statute career-offender civil-rights crime-of-violence due-process federal-sentencing free-speech sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court should exercise its discretion under Romer v. Evans to resolve a circuit split amongst the sister circuits regarding New Jersey's th…
21-7524 Matthew Staszak v. John P. Yates, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 8th-circuit actual-innocence circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus local-rule-47a(a) section-2241 summary-disposition Should petitioner's due-process right to meaningful-review of 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence claims be foreclosed by 8th-circuit's local-rule-47a(a) sum…
21-7529 Jesse Dean Mince v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause?
21-7530 Paul M. Weadick v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1512 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute federal-witness-tampering fowler-v-united-states reasonable-likelihood specific-intent statutory-interpretation witness-tampering Whether the 'reasonable likelihood' standard applies even when the witness may not have made any communication to any officials at all
21-7534 Alan L. Gallagher v. Capella Education Company, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-capricious civil-procedure contract contract-disclaimer contract-elements educational-malpractice failure-to-state-cause-of-action motion-to-dismiss reciprocity standing university-immunity Are elements of contract properly pled (to survive motion to dismiss for failure to state cause of action)?
21-7535 Antonio Alejandro Gutierrez v. Steve Shelton, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 bruce-v-samuels civil-procedure due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Question Presented
21-7538 Clyde Otis Alston, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment sentencing Whether the Court below erred in denying relief upon the substantially unreasonable sentence
21-7540 In Re Rufus Paul Harris Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right fair-trial in-absentia pro-se-defendant pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment stand-by-counsel trial-court Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a trial court to permit existing stand-by counsel to assume representation for an 'in absentia' pro-se defendant?
21-7543 Gerardo Castillo-Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 constitutional-ruling district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction preponderance-of-evidence section-2255 standard-of-proof successive-motion successive-petitions Whether a district court is authorized to dismiss a successive § 2255 motion for lack of jurisdiction after a court of appeals has authorized the fili…
21-7544 Erskine D. Salter v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review conflict constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit federal-question legal-procedure united-states-constitution Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decide a federal question in a way in conflict with the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution…
21-7547 Gabriel Gonzalez v. John P. Yates, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment prison-conditions sentencing sentencing-guidelines Does continued imprisonment under unconstrained exposure to a lethal contagion violate Eighth Amendment rights?
21-7549 Ernesto Palacios-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure immigration-law indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States was wrongly decided
21-7550 Sharon Neal v. Natalia Neal Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process equal-protection indigent involuntary-dismissal judicial-discretion sanctions Is it a violation of due-process to involuntarily dismiss a case with prejudice for a party's failure to pay a monetary sanction that bears no relevan…
21-7557 Maria Andrea Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3161 criminal-procedure due-process ends-of-justice federal-district-court findings-of-fact speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-continuance Does the Speedy Trial Act require specific findings of fact when excluding days from a criminal defendant's speedy trial clock?
21-7560 Martin Andres-Tomas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7561 Ana Duarte-Pineda v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-review conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance pro-se-response sixth-amendment sua-sponte-replacement Whether an appellate court has a duty to replace a defendant's appellate counsel with unconflicted counsel when the defendant's pro se response to an …
21-7563 Alexander Kates v. New York Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure custody-determination district-court-discretion due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-law state-law-precedent Are district courts allowed to disregard State law and controlling federal precedent when handling state habeas corpus petitions?
21-7564 Armstead Kieffer v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech patent sixth-amendment standing takings Whether the unconstitutionally vague language, struck down by the Court in 185 OG, violates 35 USC 112(b)
21-7567 Cornell Devore Rhymes v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-confrontation credibility criminal-defendant-rights evidence-rule-412 federal-rule-of-evidence-412 prior-sexual-history sex-trafficking witness-testimony Does a court violate a defendant's constitutional right to confront witnesses against him when, the court relies on Federal Rule of Evidence 412 to pr…
21-764 Patrick Huff v. Florida Florida Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure first-amendment public-access sixth-amendment trial-procedure waller-analysis waller-v-georgia Whether trial courts may close a courtroom pursuant to a closure statute without undertaking the Waller analysis
21-770 Shelby Hawkins v. Johnny Banks, III Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-rights eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force Whether the use of force was reasonable
21-806 Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, et al. v. Ivanka Talevski, Personal Representative of the Estate of Gorgi Talevski, Deceased Seventh Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction medicaid medical-malpractice nursing-home-amendments nursing-homes private-rights section-1983 spending-clause statutory-interpretation third-party-beneficiaries Whether Spending Clause statutes give rise to privately enforceable rights under Section 1983
21-842 Mark Donelson v. Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-litigation civil-procedure class-action federal-rules federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-strike pleading-standards pleadings separation-of-powers standards Whether class allegations can be struck under FRCP 12(f)
21-852 Christopher D. Lischewski v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust constitutional-principle criminal-antitrust criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial per-se-rule reasonable-doubt separation-of-powers sherman-act Whether the operation of the per se rule in criminal antitrust cases violates the constitutional principle that every element of an offense must be su…
21-900 City of Cincinnati, Ohio, et al. v. Lamar Advantage GP Company, LLC, et al. Ohio Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) billboard billboard-advertising business-privilege commercial-speech first-amendment freedom-of-press freedom-of-speech municipal-tax state-court-conflict Whether a municipal excise tax on the business privilege of charging for the use of billboard space abridges the freedom of speech, or of the press
21-908 Kate Marie Bartenwerfer v. Kieran Buckley Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 11-usc-523 bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-liability discharge discharge-exception fraud imputation imputation-liability statutory-interpretation Whether an individual can be subject to liability for another's fraud barred from discharge in bankruptcy under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A) by imputation…
21-909 Khai Quang Bui v. Hernan Ruiz Cabaellero Virginia Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment adverse-decision amendment-fourteen civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-procedure due-process evidence judicial-decision procedural-due-process Does the U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV Section 1 Procedural Due Process contradict the process, procedure, evidence, and decision of a U.S. court in…
21-941 Aldo Daniel Gastelum v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied circuit-split consensual-search fourth-amendment police-detention probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure state-supreme-court-rulings voluntary-consent whether-search-is-consensual
21-942 Clark County Bancorporation v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for Bank of Clark County Ninth Circuit Denied administrative-claims declaratory-judgment federal-common-law firrea jurisdiction jurisdictional-rule tax-refund Whether the Ninth Circuit Memorandum conflicts with the Supreme Court decision in Rodriguez
21-943 Gerald G. Lundergan v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied campaign-finance civil-rights constitutional-law corporate-contributions family-corporation federal-ban first-amendment free-speech scrutiny-standard Whether the federal ban on corporate contributions is unconstitutional as applied to intrafamilial contributions from a closely held, family-run corpo…
21-984 Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc., et al. v. Michael J. Hewitt Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 000 each year is entitled to overtime pay because daily-rate-compensation executive-duties fair-labor-standards-act highly-compensated-employee highly-compensated-employees overtime-exemption overtime-pay regulatory-exemption regulatory-interpretation salary-basis Whether a supervisor making over $200,000 each year is entitled to overtime pay
21M105 In Re Grand Jury Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M106 Nicolas Subdiaz-Osorio v. Robert Humphreys Seventh Circuit Presumed Complete None