Conference: 2022-05-26

102 cases — 0 granted, 102 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-8209 Delgen Foye v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule federal-trial speedy-trial standing takings Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in refusing to address the violation of the petitioner's 14th Amendment rights
21-1028 International Energy Ventures Management, L.L.C. v. United Energy Group, Ltd. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure clear-error-standard deference fact-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure litigation-conduct rule-52a standard-of-review Whether prejudice is part of the test for litigation conduct waiver in the context of an arbitration clause
21-1047 Annick Roy, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Jean-Guy Veilleux, Deceased, et al. v. Canadian Pacific Railway Company First Circuit Denied Amici (1) appeal appeal-tolling bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure district-court federal-rules judicial-review title-11 Whether the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure govern procedure in district court cases that are merely 'related to a case under title 11
21-1069 Merrilee Stewart v. RRL Holding Company of Ohio, LLC, et al. Ohio Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-stay ohio standing vexatious-litigator whistleblower whistleblower-laws Does the Ohio Vexatious Litigator statute, as applied, violate the United States Constitution and/or Federal Whistleblower Laws
21-1269 Heidi M. Lobstein, et al. v. Washington Mutual Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates WMALT Series 2007-OC1, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied capacity foreclosure foreclosure-fraud legal-identity mortgage mortgage-securitization perjury procedural-misrepresentation securitization standing trust-standing Whether the court must take as true the sworn testimony of the Respondents that they are not a Trust and also take as true that they are a trust when …
21-1276 Ram Mehta, et ux. v. WestRock Co., et al. Delaware Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process embezzlement escrow escrow-funds fraud judicial-misconduct procedural-fairness shareholder-rights Is the refusal to distribute billions of dollars in escrow to the rightful shareholders an act of embezzlement and fraud?
21-1279 Klavdia Thomas, et al. v. Valentin Belevich Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process fair-justice judicial-intent jurisdiction legal-misalignment legal-review standing statutory-interpretation Whether there is a serious misalignment of courts on statute-intent, statute-interpretation, jurisdiction
21-1301 Hector M. Jenkins v. Housing Court Department, City of Boston, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit Denied civil-procedure-amendment civil-rights eeoc eeoc-notice employment-discrimination insubordination retaliation title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether an employee's repeated complaints of unlawful and discriminatory treatment can provide the basis for a legitimate, nonretaliatory reason to te…
21-1320 Robert Campo, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-precedent court-interpretation evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-procedure freedom-of-information-act judicial-discretion judicial-review procedural-rules supreme-court-precedent u.s-constitution Whether federal judges are free to flout and violate FOIA, federal rules, the Constitution, and Supreme Court precedent in FOIA adjudications
21-1321 Yan Sui v. Richard A. Marshack, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure civil-rights discharge-injunction due-process ninth-circuit property-rights standing summary-affirmance takings whether-lower-courts-were-lawless
21-1328 Community Baptist Church, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 due-process free-exercise mootness standing Whether a statute requires strict scrutiny for facial and as-applied claims where officials invoke it as legal authority to issue mandates which depri…
21-1335 Waleed Khalid Abu Al-Waleed Al Hood Al-Qarqani, et al. v. Saudi Arabian Oil Company Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitral-award arbitration cross-appeal foreign-sovereign-immunity jurisdictional-immunity new-york-convention sovereign-waiver united-nations-convention waiver Whether a foreign sovereign may assert FSIA as a defense to enforcement of a foreign arbitral award
21-1343 Victor R. Marshall v. Supreme Court of New Mexico New Mexico Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal lawyer-discipline legal-ethics professional-conduct standing Does the First Amendment permit a state to suspend a lawyer from practice indefinitely because it found statements in a motion, in which the lawyer so…
21-1351 Don Barnes, Sheriff, Orange County, California, et al. v. Melissa Ahlman, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review judicial-error merits-review miller-v-french mootness preliminary-injunction prison-litigation-reform-act standing supreme-court-stay Whether a preliminary injunction issued under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and stayed by this Honorable Court shall evade appellate review …
21-1353 Isabella Nartey v. Franciscan Health Hospital Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act disparate-treatment due-process emergency-medical-treatment medical-negligence supplemental-jurisdiction title-vi Whether Franciscan hospital violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
21-1392 Abigail Simon v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived actus-reus certiorari-review criminal-law criminal-sexual-conduct due-process jury-instructions legal-error sexual-assault standard-of-review trial-court Whether the state trial court judge gave erroneous jury instructions on the critical actus reus element of the crime of criminal sexual conduct
21-1396 Dustin Dillard, et al. v. Vicki Timpa, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Anthony Timpa, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment bystander-liability civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-liability mental-health-intervention qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied the Court's qualified-immunity jurisprudence
21-365 Branch Banking and Trust Company v. Sevier County Schools Federal Credit Union, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) arbitration-requirement circuit-court-split contract-law customer-dispute-resolution dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act standard-form-contract state-common-law Whether the Federal Arbitration Act displaces a state common-law rule forbidding companies from adding an arbitration requirement to their standard-fo…
21-628 Ebenezer K. Howe, IV v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-courts civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process irs judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant recusal Do courts of appeal exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY ISSUE presented by the Class of disrespected, unrepresented litigan…
21-6531 Billy Mack Nichols, Jr. v. Gary Kerstein, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment equal-protection medical-care medical-negligence summary-judgment Whether the lower courts failed to address the medical needs of the petitioner's central diabetes insipidus
21-6685 Christopher Dominguez v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent mandatory-minimum plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether Mr. Dominguez's decision to plead guilty was knowingly and intelligently made when he was grossly misinformed about the risks attendant to goi…
21-6773 In Re Robert L. Hedrick Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleadings rule-8(a) standing Did the Court Error in ruling that the 'complaint failed to comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)?
21-6792 Pauline Leslie v. Alexander Bodkin, et al. Massachusetts Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hipaa independent-medical-examiner medical-malpractice Whether the State of Massachusetts has authority to abrogate a citizen's Constitutional rights under the 14th Amendment Due Process
21-6855 Devin Andrich v. Jerome Francis Meyers, et al. Arizona Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure rebuttal-evidence time-limits trial-procedure trial-time-limits witness-examination Whether the court of appeals erred in deciding that a 2-hour trial 'chess clock' did not violate Petitioner's due process rights
21-6934 Donnie Barnes, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP child-pornography circuit-split dost-factors federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition model-jury-instructions statutory-interpretation Whether the definition of 'lascivious exhibition' in the federal child pornography statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2256, is limited by the term it is defining an…
21-7008 Marco Dane Acoff v. Alabama Alabama Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-protocol criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mental-evaluation state-constitution supreme-court-review whether-the-alabama-supreme-court-wrongfully-decided-an-important-issue
21-7098 Thomas G. Landreth v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights indian-law land-use navigable-waters property-rights redress-of-grievances sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Whether 25 U.S.C. @ 1302 preserves the sovereign immunity claimed by the Quinault Indian Tribe/Nation
21-7152 Jeremy Heath Barney v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process post-conviction-relief resentencing undisturbed-conviction Does a defendant have a United States Constitutional 14th Amendment right under due process to attack his undisturbed conviction after being resentenc…
21-7245 Julia Ann Poff v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-filing sentence-reduction sentencing Whether a defendant who is not represented by an attorney can be denied the right to file a pro se motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § …
21-7446 Kristopher Kyle Russell v. Texas Texas Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Texas courts' interpretation of the statute requiring appointment of counsel to determine if biological evidence exists violates due proce…
21-7449 Leonard S. Taylor v. Paul Blair, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-trial closing-argument ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan mccoy-v-louisiana nixon-v-florida sixth-amendment strickland-test strickland-v-washington Whether the decision to forego a closing argument in the penalty phase of a capital murder trial is a tactical decision for trial counsel to make or a…
21-7452 Anthony Atkinson v. New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP civil-confinement criminal-intent criminal-responsibility mental-abnormality mental-hygiene-law psychiatric-evaluation volitional-impairment whether-the-state-of-new-york-should-be-required-to-produce-sufficient-medical-proof
21-7453 Jaime Luevano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit Dismissed IFP administrative-law due-process equal-protection medical-marijuana standing takings Whether the state's denial of a permit to operate a medical marijuana dispensary violates the Due Process Clause
21-7454 Mounir Lebbad v. Raji Donat, et al. California Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process elderly-tenants eviction homelessness judicial-review property-rights public-policy Did the (2DCA) render its Opinion Without Considering the Constitutional Protection to those Evicted Elderly
21-7456 Robert Earl Rowles v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing florida-law ineffective-assistance outcome-of-proceeding post-conviction reasonable-probability right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-decision Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights to counsel where counsel's r…
21-7457 Gregory Wynn v. Alabama Alabama Denied IFP criminal-rehabilitation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-sentence life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-proportionality Whether the sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a childhood offense is grossly disproportionate, in violation of the E…
21-7464 Ioan Lela v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus irreparable-harm pre-trial-detention speedy-trial younger-abstention Whether a pretrial detainee can obtain dismissal of pending state criminal charges in federal court pursuant to 28 USC § 2241 based on willful and unc…
21-7465 Jean Lynn Lillie v. Iowa Iowa Denied IFP abuse-of-power civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process harassment local-government sheriff-liability standing takings Whether a local government can demand money from an American citizen to avoid jail
21-7466 Anthony Aanand Patel v. Sonya Bhatia Patel California Dismissed IFP civil-rights congress due-process federal-judges judicial-misconduct judicial-resignation legal-education mandatory-legal-education martial-law national-security standing why-does-wasting-appellant's-time-prove-mandatory-continuing-legal-education
21-7468 Nahid Kadir Moshrefi v. Colorado Colorado Denied IFP constitutional-rights evidence fifth-amendment non-custodial police-questioning pre-arrest self-incrimination Whether the Fifth Amendment protects an individual who invokes her privilege against self-incrimination during pre-arrest, non-custodial questioning b…
21-7470 Reggie Orlando Williams v. Texas Texas Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-charging legal-procedure margin-of-error state-court state-prosecution When the State of Texas failed to elect which charging transaction of the offense the State was going to have Petitioner convicted under, did this res…
21-7478 Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 1st-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts standing takings Whether Bikoner is being deprived of his civil rights by the capital courts' denial of due process of law
21-7481 Timothy K. Prince v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP appellate-review evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias michigan-supreme-court neglected-issues pecuniary-interest procedural-default trial-counsel Did the Michigan Supreme Court err in refusing to review claims of judicial bias, ineffective assistance of trial and appellate counsel
21-7490 Jeremy P. Spencer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing Whether the court failed to provide a reasoned decision and adequate explanation for its ruling
21-7492 In Re Jonathan Manwell Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel forensic-evidence impartial-tribunal Does petitioner have a constitutional right to located and confirmed exculpatory forensic evidence, transcripts, and documents necessary for a meaning…
21-7493 Thomas Carl Bruni v. Craig Apple, Sheriff, Albany County, New York Second Circuit Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights counsel-appointment due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Does appellant prove exemption from certificate of appealability?
21-7496 John O. Williams v. Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing Whether the United States District Court and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the Petitioner's claims of ineffective ass…
21-7498 Eric Lloyd Hermansen v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP atypical-hardship civil-rights constitutional-protection covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus health-complications prisoner-rights Are state prisoners protected from COVID-19 exposure?
21-7499 David Lopez Gonzales v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP brady-v-maryland cullen-v-pinholster due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas fifth-amendment habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct Does Cullen v Pinholster bar consideration of new evidence in federal habeas proceedings when the prosecutor presented false testimony to rebut the de…
21-7501 Helen Tyne Mayfield v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus right-to-confrontation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-in-abstentia Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals abused its discretion in not reviewing a petition for discretionary review and writ of habeas corpus for m…
21-7536 Ramonta Forte v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment counsel-of-choice discretion due-process federal-law habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sentencing Whether the right to counsel at sentencing is clearly established federal law
21-7545 Sloan Patrick Stanley v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-rights constitutional-provisions custody-status due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review statutory-interpretation Is petitioner entitled to be found 'in custody' for purposes of 28 USC § 2254, given the particular facts, in accord with Ninth Circuit Court of Appea…
21-7553 Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights discretionary-relief due-process immigration-law ineffective-assistance judicial-review motion-to-reopen speedy-trial Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the delayed issuance of an arrest warrant and probable cause affidavits
21-7556 Jeffrey L. G. Johnson, et al. v. Stephen R. Clark, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-proceedings civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process federal-claim federal-damages fourth-amendment governmental-privilege search-and-seizure Does violation of an individual's Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure give rise to a federal claim for damages
21-7569 Miguel Scott Arnold v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute human-trafficking jury-instructions rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court third-circuit-court-of-appeals unit-of-prosecution allowable-unit-of-prosecution-for-18-usc-1591(a)
21-7578 Calvin Latimer v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process executive-privilege separation-of-powers standing tax-returns Whether the court has the authority to subpoena the President's tax returns
21-7580 Amos Lamar Burch v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief qualified-immunity standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
21-7582 Francisco Abreu Tartabull v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by deny…
21-7583 Larry Lowery, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit generic-burglary violent-felony Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Crimi…
21-7586 Jaako Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing generic-offense robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-crime Whether Texas robbery is a crime of violence under the United States Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2's generic, enumerated offenses clause
21-7587 Jose Garcia Solorzano v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion reduction-in-sentence sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§3e1.1 u.s.s.g.-interpretation Did the district court err in not granting Mr. Solorzano a reduction in sentence for his acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. §3E1.1?
21-7594 Orin Kristich v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-counsel attorney-misconduct court-discretion de-novo-review due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure plea-bargaining plea-waiver sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether appeal counsel can dismiss appeal without client consent
21-7597 Clifford Idris Bell v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-residence probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the issuance of a warrant and the subsequent search of a personal residence based solely on a confidential info…
21-7598 Irvin Garces v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense exceptional-importance federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines whether-the-fifth-circuit-violated-federal-law
21-7599 Neil Timothy Aho v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority due-process enumerated-powers federalism necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment Whether Section 2252 of Title 18 of the United States Code is void ab initio and no law at all on the ground Congress has no authority to enact the St…
21-7600 Christopher Hibshman v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3583 18-USC-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-standards supervised-release Whether the imposition of a 24-month sentence consecutive to a 2-year Indiana prison term for violation of supervised release is unreasonable and at o…
21-7601 Eugene Kevin Pugh v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Whether appellate court erred by concluding there was no error in denying appellant's motion to suppress on reversible error in overruling objections …
21-7628 Cedric Lee Goliday v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review constitutional-infringement constitutional-rights federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-review pro-se Whether a federal habeas court can intentionally slight, dissemble, and neglect a pro se applicant's petition
21-7631 Johnell Lee Carter v. Hunter Anglea, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process pro-per pro-per-status right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court denied Petitioner's right to self-representation
21-7663 Guy Adam Rook v. Donald Holbrook Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus harmelin-v-michigan lockyer-v-andrade state-constitutional-law supreme-court-precedent Whether a state constitutional test that is less protective than the federal constitutional test fails to 'adjudicate[ ... ] the merits' of the federa…
21-7666 Izell Delorean Grissett, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi apprendi-ruling collateral-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure guidelines mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires the fact of a first-degree murder cross reference under § 2A1.1 to be treated as an element when that finding is …
21-7669 Thomas Hoey, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment legal-precedent sixth-amendment Does new precedent need to be set to protect the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, and the attorney-client privilege?
21-7673 Dimitar Petlechkov v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-853 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture forfeiture-law money-judgment personal-money-judgment statutory-interpretation substitute-assets Can a district court order forfeiture of substitute assets far in excess of the personal money judgment balance owed?
21-7674 Jamie Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit reversible-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by refusing to hear Mr. Allen's meritorious claims that the district court committed reversible erro…
21-7677 Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-amendment human-trafficking illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an illegal search and seizure without a warrant and probable cause affidavit
21-7681 Oniel McKenzie v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP canine-sniff curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-interest privacy-interests search search-and-seizure storage-unit Whether a warrantless canine sniff of the exterior of a private storage unit to detect contraband inside the unit constitutes a search in violation of…
21-7683 Nelson Conto v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit interview-evidence judicial-error motion-in-limine standard-of-review trial-procedure Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's meritorious appeal of the denial of appellant's…
21-7686 Robert Maillet v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process sex-offender-registry supervised-release Question not identified
21-7687 Earl Jones v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-review fact-inference jackson-standard reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-ohio Whether a reviewing court must consider all the evidence in determining whether inferences from basic facts to ultimate facts are reasonable to prove …
21-7688 Raleigh Rogers v. Wells Fargo Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-compliance civil-procedure class-action due-process individual-notice notice opt-out rule-23 wells-fargo Can the court disregard that Wells Fargo failed to provide promised next steps, failed to provide individual notice and opt-out opportunity as require…
21-7689 Deverick Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prisoner-rights retaliation screening-process section-1983 Did Defendants violate Scott's right to be protected from assault by another inmate?
21-7690 Anthony J. Springer v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure entrapment-by-estoppel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel michigan-supreme-court pre-trial-defense reasonable-jurist Whether trial and appellate counsel provided ineffective assistance for failing to investigate and present the pre-trial defense of entrapment by esto…
21-7698 Daniel Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause correctional-officer evidence hearsay prison sixth-amendment Was the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation violated by the introduction of a correctional officer's statement and testimony about another officer'…
21-7699 Eugene Nicholson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when the affidavit supporting a search warrant fails to establish a nexus between th…
21-7700 Ronald Hunter v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider changes in sentencing law as a possible 'extraordinary and compelling' reason warranting a sentence reduction un…
21-7701 Francisco Rosales Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit plain-error remand remand 21-7700" rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider nonretroacti When should a case be remanded for resentencing under the plain-error standard of review if the district court failed to announce its calculation of t…
21-7702 Marvin Lewis v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process fifth-circuit presentence-investigation-report sentencing-enhancement supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the Fifth Circuit conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on sentencing enhancements
21-7704 Kerry Vanderpool v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3742 appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing Does the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3742(f) deprive the federal Courts of Appeals of jurisdiction to vacate a sentence when it is uncontested that …
21-7705 Nolan Woods v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-of-acquittal judicial-remedy re-prosecution Whether this Court will create a bright-line rule delineating that the only cure for a double jeopardy violation caused by dual convictions of the sam…
21-7706 Irving Ernesto Arias v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining sentencing Did the district court err in denying the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea?
21-7707 Jerome Lamar Pitts v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process legal-remedy plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines Whether a miscalculated Sentencing Guideline violates Due Process enough to count as a 'sentence in violation of the Constitution or laws of the Unite…
21-7710 Hernandez Lopaz Daniels v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-v-california appellate-review counsel-withdrawal due-process eleventh-circuit frivolous-appeal frivolous-case meaningful-review Whether counsel can withdraw without finding the case to be 'wholly frivolous' as required by Anders v. California
21-7714 Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis crime-of-violence federal-predicate federal-statute generic-definitions judicial-review predicate-offense state-law statutory-interpretation Whether categorical analysis of the predicate crime of violence for a 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) offense allows a reviewing court to 'look through' the …
21-7723 Freddie Galan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargaining rule-11 supreme-court-review Whether Mr. Galan's guilty plea to facts which do not constitute a conspiracy offense as a matter of law is an invalid and unintelligent guilty plea w…
21-7724 Anthony Fields v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment court-of-appeals evidence-suppression Faretta-v-California fourth-amendment Koon-v-United-States legal-error precedent-interpretation self-representation traffic-stop Whether the court of appeals' decision affirming the denial of Petitioner's request to exercise his right to self-representation while ignoring comple…
21-7728 Antonio M. Branco v. Massachusetts First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-appeals Whether the dismissal of a Section 2254 petition based on failure to exhaust state remedies should be overturned, given that the judgment conflicts wi…
21-7750 Corey Duran Steward v. Tiffany Sims, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process negligence standing Were the respondents negligent for failure to protect me and violation of 5th and 14th Amendment rights?
21-7792 John Joseph Dedeaux v. Marc McClure, Superintendent, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility Fifth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-questions due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation vagueness whether-the-retroactive-application-of-mississippi-statute-creates-a-significant-risk-of-prolonging-the-petitioner's-stay-in-prison
21-938 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes Fourth Circuit GVR Relisted (2) capital-punishment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice-analysis procedural-default strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Fourth Circuit violated Strickland v. Washington in its prejudice analysis
21-956 Sojourner Rudisill v. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-review arbitration civil-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction labor-law railway-labor-act Whether the Railway Labor Act permits courts to exercise jurisdiction over due process challenges to decisions rendered by RLA arbitration panels
21M120 Alejandro Evaristo Perez v. LinkedIn Corporation Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
21M121 Pietro Pasquale Antonio Sgromo v. Target Brands Inc. Federal Circuit Presumed Complete None