| 20-1709 |
David Ming Pon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-standard government-case harmless-error judicial-review presumption-of-innocence standard-of-review |
Whether an appellate court reviewing a cold criminal trial record may determine that an error at trial was harmless by applying an 'overwhelming evide… |
| 21-1014 |
T. O., a Child, et al. v. Fort Bend Independent School District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment pedagogical-purpose public-school qualified-immunity school-officials |
Whether a public school student is barred from bringing an excessive-force claim alleging a violation of his federal constitutional rights whenever th… |
| 21-1017 |
Carolyn Jewel, et al. v. National Security Agency, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
civil-rights classified-evidence electronic-surveillance in-camera-review mass-surveillance national-security nonjusticiable standing standing-doctrine state-secrets-privilege |
Whether the state-secrets privilege can be used to exclude public evidence establishing standing and dismiss a case as nonjusticiable |
| 21-1046 |
Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences v. New York University |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights discrimination legal-review membership-selection race sex standing title-ix title-vi |
Should the Court summarily reverse the court of appeals' holding that FASORP failed to allege standing in its amended complaint? |
| 21-1064 |
Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure contract energy energy-law ferc ferc-regulation judicial-review mobile-sierra-doctrine settlement settlement-contract tariff-interpretation |
When may FERC and a court interpret a tariff inconsistently with a settlement contract and utility filing letter? |
| 21-1066 |
Washington Bankers Association, et al. v. Washington, et al. |
Washington |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split corporate-taxation discriminatory-proxy discriminatory-taxation dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce out-of-state-entities precedents proxy-discrimination state-taxation |
Does a law that is triggered by a proxy for participating in interstate commerce and that burdens out-of-state entities almost exclusively violate the… |
| 21-1078 |
Office of the United States Trustee v. John Q. Hammons Fall 2006, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
bankruptcy-act bankruptcy-administrators bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-trustees congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-interpretation judicial-districts quarterly-fees uniform-laws |
Whether Section 1004(a) of the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2017 contravened Congress's constitutional authority to establish uniform laws on the bankr… |
| 21-1089 |
Jeff Garvin Smith, Cary Dale Vandiver, Patrick Michael McKeoun, David Randy Drozdowski, and Vincent John Witort v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
Criminal-Procedure Due-Process First-Amendment Free-Speech hypothetical-elements jury-instruction Jury-Instructions RICO-Conspiracy sixth-circuit-precedent |
Should the jury have been allowed to convict the defendants on the hypothetical existence of all of the elements of a RICO Conspiracy? |
| 21-1147 |
Yehoram Uziel v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights discrimination due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct legal-extortion self-representation self-represented-litigant standing |
Can a judge ignore a party's challenge to his impartiality, maintain jurisdiction and abuse his adjudicative authority to extort the challenging party… |
| 21-1211 |
Constance George v. House of Hope Recovery, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant service-of-process service-requirement standing |
Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3 permits a court of appeals to dismiss an appeal because the appellant did not serve the notice of appeal |
| 21-1218 |
Tyler Ayres, et al. v. Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-mootness circuit-split class-action class-members final-judgment intervention-of-right MDL-proceeding mootness multi-district-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does a district court possess subject-matter-jurisdiction to allow class-members to intervene-of-right in an MDL-proceeding? |
| 21-1223 |
Ohana Military Communities, LLC, et al. v. Kenneth Lake, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
concurrent-jurisdiction enclave-clause federal-enclaves federal-jurisdiction federal-policy federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction hawaii-admission-act military-housing |
Whether the grant of concurrent jurisdiction divests federal courts of enclave jurisdiction |
| 21-1228 |
Ameranth, Inc. v. Olo, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 alice-framework alice-two-step claim-construction judicial-exception patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility patent-ineligible-concept question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 |
What is the appropriate standard for determining patent-eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101? |
| 21-1322 |
Jan M. Sensenich v. PHH Mortgage Corporation |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
appellate-review bad-faith bankruptcy-court-enforcement bankruptcy-rule-3002.1 bankruptcy-sanctions inherent-authority inherent-judicial-power judicial-power punitive-fines rule-enforcement |
Whether appellate courts may affirm a bankruptcy sanctions order on an alternate correct ground even if the order does not analyze the ground |
| 21-1324 |
John Zarba, et ux. v. Town of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hearing municipal-liability rule-12b6 section-1983 standing |
Should Rule 12(b)(6) motions be modified? |
| 21-1337 |
Patrick Gillis v. David Gillis |
Oregon |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment court-procedure cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard probate-law standing |
Whether state courts are directly responsible for notifying parties with standing about hearings in cases before them, ensuring all parties have an op… |
| 21-1350 |
Jack Jordan v. Department of Labor, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-sanctions constitution constitutional-precedent free-speech freedom-of-speech judicial-review petition precedent strict-scrutiny |
Whether federal judges are free to flout and violate the APA, Constitution, and precedent |
| 21-1356 |
M. H. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
West Virginia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
best-interest-analysis best-interests child-welfare due-process due-process-clause foster-care foster-child-bill-of-rights grandparents statutory-interpretation west-virginia-law |
Whether the Supreme Court of Appeals misinterpreted the Foster Child Bill of Rights under West Virginia statutory law to the detriment of the child in… |
| 21-1359 |
Robert Corliss v. Crossroads Financing, LLC, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-waiver california-state-court contract-law contractual-rights court-inconsistency equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-standard waiver |
Whether prejudice is required to prove waiver of arbitration rights |
| 21-1363 |
Brandon Scott Lavergne v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-without-parole plea-agreement rule-60b-petition solitary-confinement |
Is a criminal sentence of life without parole in solitary confinement a cruel and unusual sentence? |
| 21-1365 |
Moulay Tidiri v. The Board of Regents, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process fabricated-document fraud judicial-review motion-to-dismiss post-tenure-review standing |
Whether the federal circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaints under FRCP 12(b)(6) despite evidence that the 2012 Post-Tenure Review Repo… |
| 21-1388 |
Best Payphones, Inc. v. Public Service Commission of New York, et al. |
New York |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-communications-commission federal-preemption payphone-service payphone-services preemption public-service-commission state-regulation state-requirements tariff-compliance telecommunications-act telecommunications-act-1996 |
Is the finding of the Public Service Commission of the State of New York, which was affirmed by the Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Thi… |
| 21-1415 |
John Doe v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-right-to-informational-privacy constitutional-rights freedom-of-information-act government-records informational-privacy privacy-act relevance single-publication-rule statute-of-limitations timeliness |
Does the single publication rule deprive citizens of their statutory right to timely Privacy Act relief? |
| 21-1420 |
Yili You v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-1421 |
Valerie Kline v. Kiran Ahuja, Director, Office of Personnel Management |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination fruit-of-poisonous-tree mcdonnell-douglas pretext prima-facie unlawful-detail |
Whether an unlawful detail into a position prior to officially filling it is relevant to raise an inference of pretext, when the prima facie stage und… |
| 21-1425 |
Darvin Castro Santos v. Craig White, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights correctional-officers due-process excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey prison-disciplinary-proceedings prisoner-rights section-1983 |
Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a prisoner's excessive-force claim against correctional officers for damages under § 1983 where the claim does not direc… |
| 21-1433 |
Faye Boatright v. U.S. Bancorp, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights de-novo-review deemed-admitted discrimination due-process retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether Diebold and the Seventh Amendment prohibit a circuit court reviewing a grant of summary judgment from sanctioning a non-movant under a local '… |
| 21-1439 |
Jairus Collins v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit mississippi speedy-trial statutory-construction supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability |
| 21-1452 |
Matthew David Cwik v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial military-testimony military-uniform victim-testimony witness-appearance |
Were Petitioner's due process and fair trial rights violated when the victim was allowed to testify in a military uniform? |
| 21-1459 |
Thomas Levien, et al. v. HIBU PLC, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alternative-forum american-federal-forum burden-of-proof conditional-dismissal forum-non-conveniens judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-analysis statute-of-limitations |
Whether a proposed alternative forum is adequate and/or available if its statute of limitations has expired |
| 21-1461 |
Nathan Vercellino v. Optum Insight, Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
equitable-lien erisa medical-expenses minor minor-rights real-party-in-interest statute-of-limitations subrogation |
Can an ERISA fiduciary claim an equitable lien for medical expenses paid for the benefit of the parents against a judgment or settlement of their chil… |
| 21-151 |
Feanyichi Ezekwesi Uvukansi v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (16) |
brady-violation burden-of-proof due-process eyewitness-identification false-testimony habeas-corpus materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the state courts disregarded Supreme Court precedent by requiring the petitioner to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the prosecut… |
| 21-6001 |
Terence Tramaine Andrus v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Amici (8)Relisted (17)IFP |
capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment stare-decisis strickland-v-washington vertical-stare-decisis |
Whether the Texas court rejected this Court's conclusions in Andrus v. Texas and disregarded the Court's express guidance for conducting a prejudice a… |
| 21-6630 |
Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-455 appeal appellate-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute guilty-plea judicial-recusal recusal waiver-of-rights |
Whether an unconditional guilty plea waives a federal criminal defendant's right to appeal a district court's failure to recuse under 28 U.S.C. § 455(… |
| 21-6791 |
Daryoush Javaheri v. U.S. Bank N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure capable-of-repetition civil-procedure constitutional-rights crawford-vs-us due-process judicial-review res-judicata spencer-v-kemna spencer-vs-kemna standing |
Did the lower courts fail to apply the 'capable of repetition yet evading review' doctrine? |
| 21-6952 |
Sunrise Lee v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-court judgment-of-acquittal legal-sufficiency physician prescription-drugs |
Whether a non-physician may be convicted of conspiring with a physician to prescribe controlled substances outside of the course of professional pract… |
| 21-7036 |
Jeffrey Davis v. Orange County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
arrest-validity civil-rights criminal-procedure detention-challenge district-court-procedure due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard prima-facie-evidence standing |
Whether the district court departed from the essential requirements of the law |
| 21-7061 |
John Lezell Balentine v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-sentencing circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence schriro-v-landrigan sentencing trial-counsel |
Under Schriro v. Landrigan, does a capital defendant forfeit his right to allege trial counsel's ineffectiveness for failing to adequately investigate… |
| 21-7076 |
Richard Maurival v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-trial eleventh-circuit evidentiary-inquiry juror-statements jury-deliberations peña-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias sixth-circuit |
racial-bias-in-jury-deliberations |
| 21-7082 |
William Speer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's resolution of the prejudice prong under Strickland v. Washington contravenes settled Sixth and Eighth Amendment precedent … |
| 21-7083 |
Michael Kenneth Rich v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
conspiracy criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-of-law future-tense-instruction individualized-responsibility individualized-sentencing panel-decision rico-conspiracy rico-enterprise |
Whether a RICO enterprise with legitimate and illegitimate purposes violates due process and individualized sentencing |
| 21-7095 |
Paul Anthony Darrah v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
enterprise enterprise-existence first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech jury-instruction jury-instructions necessity-requirement rico-conspiracy title-iii-wiretap wiretap-authorization |
Should the jury have been allowed to convict on the hypothetical existence of a RICO enterprise? |
| 21-7119 |
Victor Carlos Castano v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure enterprise fifth-amendment grand-jury jury-instructions proffer-agreement rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the government was impermissibly relieved of its burden to prove each element of RICO Conspiracy |
| 21-7126 |
Quincy Deshan Butler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-offense constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions plain-error-review procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-enhancement texas-law |
Whether Cortificate of APPEALABILETY SHOULD HAVE BREA GeenTen? |
| 21-7167 |
M. D. v. Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division, et al. |
Montana |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection parental-rights standing |
Why was TL not afforded rights to due process? |
| 21-7311 |
Linda Baldwin v. Office of Injured Employee Counsel |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-statute qualified-immunity reckless-conduct section-1983 |
Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, is a public official liable for reckless conduct that proximately injured another, even with qualified immunity? |
| 21-7329 |
Von Lester Taylor v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certification comity federal-court federalism judicial-certification legal-ambiguity state-law state-law-interpretation tenth-amendment |
Does a federal court violate principles of federalism and comity enshrined in the Tenth Amendment by selecting one possible interpretation of an ambig… |
| 21-7335 |
Charles Don Flores v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation death-penalty due-process habeas habeas-corpus state-procedural-law |
Is the right to due process violated when a death-sentenced individual is barred from developing substantial habeas claims by the arbitrary applicatio… |
| 21-7570 |
Vander Clayborne v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea juvenile-justice mental-capacity mental-competency miller-v-alabama parole sentencing |
Should this Court review the decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to deny the Petitioner the right to have his unwarranted guilty plea looked in… |
| 21-7572 |
Rebekah Rachell Shropshire v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial right-to-present-a-defense |
Whether the trial court's failure to allow the defendant to present evidence and argument that was crucial to her defense violated her constitutional … |
| 21-7573 |
Jean Lynn Lillie v. Iowa |
Iowa |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-abuse judicial-discretion motion-to-continue standing takings trial-continuance witness-availability |
Whether the state government's alleged deceptive or fraudulent practices to obtain monies from American citizens, including through the use of predato… |
| 21-7577 |
Nicholas N. Kerr v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
automobile-exception carroll collins-v-virginia constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure |
Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic… |
| 21-7584 |
William O. Dickerson v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-strikes post-conviction-review racial-discrimination standing voir-dire |
Did the state postconviction court violate Batson-and-its-progeny |
| 21-7591 |
Donald Morris Lee v. Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-remedy judicial-review resentencing sentencing sentencing-error state-action |
Can the court void the illegally obtained 3&S? |
| 21-7592 |
Detrick Deroven v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Napue-v-Illinois napue-violation schlup-claim Schlup-v-Delo substantive-claim XIV-Amendment |
Whether the Petitioner made a substantive claim of actual innocence to sustain a Schlup v. Delo or Napue v. Illinois violation under the XIV Amendment… |
| 21-7593 |
David T. Young v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-treaty judicial-review state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
Did the State of Maho ma Violate Rtboners Louth and Fourtunth Amend ment igh bs |
| 21-7602 |
Karyn Kelley v. Mary Feeney |
New Hampshire |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-court supreme-court-review tribunal-judgment |
Whether the State of New Hampshire Supreme Court erred in affirming the tribunal court's judgment that violated the requirement for Due Process under … |
| 21-7603 |
Glen S. Evans v. Bill Stange, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence motion-to-suppress prejudice reasonable-suspicion second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence |
where-the-trial-court-has-erred-and-abused-its-discretion |
| 21-7607 |
Devunaire Damorea Sims v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-hearing sixth-amendment |
Did the Michigan Supreme Court err in denying this issue when Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel w… |
| 21-7608 |
Rufus Lamar Savin Spearman v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the Mandatory Vaccine Provision of the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional |
| 21-7614 |
Jacqueline M. Tauscher v. Pamela Donison, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection equal-rights gender gender-discrimination legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Does 'all persons' as stated in 42 U.S.C. 1981 Equal Rights Under the Law also include the female gender? |
| 21-7620 |
Arizona Hall v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-and-race constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection federal-judiciary missouri-laws racial-discrimination |
Whether white federal judges of the Eastern District of Missouri under color of Missouri laws willfully subjected petitioner based on his color and ra… |
| 21-7637 |
Marecellus Adams v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defense-strategy due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Did trial counsel violate Adams's right to choose the objective of his defense when he conceded guilt over his express objection? |
| 21-7642 |
Brandon J. Weathers v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-court-conviction |
Whether the petitioner was denied counsel in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 21-7695 |
Allen Wayne Hatcher v. Anna Valentine, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 extraordinary-circumstances federal-statute habeas-corpus limitations-period prisoner-diligence prisoner-rights procedural-sufficiency |
Can extraordinary circumstances be established by the same facts that establish a prisoner's diligence? |
| 21-7708 |
Amit Patel v. Mark Rockwood |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus in-custody |
When the District Court sua sponte dismissed a habeas corpus petition, was the petitioner's freedom of speech, right to petition the government, due p… |
| 21-7713 |
William Neely v. Superior Court of California, Sacramento County |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-tampering due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest post-trial-discovery |
Do the safegards provided by the 14th Amendment apply to the state's unreasonable denial of post-trial criminal discovery where Petitioner, with newly… |
| 21-7719 |
Gary Wall v. Jeffrey Kiser, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process executive-detention habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-rules retroactivity teague-nonretroactivity teague-v-lane |
Does the Fourth Circuit's holding that new procedural rules cannot apply to any federal habeas proceeding, even where federal habeas is a petitioner's… |
| 21-7737 |
Justin L. Douglas v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights counsel criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence search-and-seizure standing trial-strategy |
Did the Supreme Court of Wisconsin err in ruling on the defendant's right to effective counsel? |
| 21-7769 |
Lonnell Tucker v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review base-offense-level circuit-split drug-quantity narcotics-prosecution relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Court should resolve the circuit conflict by requiring de novo review for contested methodologies used to determine Base Offense Levels in… |
| 21-7787 |
Faith M. Hibbard v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure claim-filing due-process procedural-law service-connected-disability standing statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
Whether the court erred in denying benefits based on a hypothetical-entitlement-theory |
| 21-7848 |
Martin Ibarra-Ozuna v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collective-knowledge-doctrine constitutional-limits law-enforcement officer-request pretext-stops probable-cause reasonable-suspicion united-states-v-hensley vehicle-stop whiteley-v-warden |
When-officers-request-limited-action,-does-collective-knowledge-doctrine-allow-any-justified-action |
| 21-7852 |
Fernando Salazar-Figueroa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating role adjustment under… |
| 21-7859 |
Brandis Nicole Fish v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release district-court-review first-time-offender medical-records non-violent-offender sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation ussg-guidelines |
Did the district court thoroughly review petitioner's request for compassionate release? |
| 21-7860 |
Erick Rahumid Hobbs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-site-location-information exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment fourth-circuit imminent-harm warrantless-search |
Whether law enforcement's warrantless collection of real-time cell-site location information (CSLI) is reasonable under the 'imminent harm' clause of … |
| 21-7864 |
Andrew James Johnston v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fifth-amendment land-use permit property-rights public-easement takings |
Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a public easement across their … |
| 21-7865 |
Kra Deangelo Brooks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court eighth-circuit evidence-law fourth-amendment independent-source judicial-procedure murray-v-united-states national-importance search-warrant |
Whether an appeals court may 'implicitly find' an 'independent source' absent evidence and findings at the district court level |
| 21-7866 |
Carlos Alberto Zamudio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 standard-of-review withdrawal withdrawal-of-guilty-plea |
Whether the courts of appeals have improperly narrowed the 'fair and just reason' standard for evaluating a defendant's request to withdraw a guilty p… |
| 21-7867 |
Jasper B. Mackey, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit government-discretion mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing substantial-assistance |
Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's judgment which did not depart below the mandatory mi… |
| 21-7870 |
Greg Cantoni v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split circuit-court-standards daubert discovery-violation expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jencks-act prosecutorial-discretion |
Which standard must be applied to determine whether a Jencks Act violation is prejudicial or harmless? |
| 21-7873 |
Charlie Branner, Jr. v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process georgia-appeals-court motion-for-reconsideration service-of-order service-of-process state-court writ-of-certiorari |
Was the Georgia Supreme Court's denial of the writ of certiorari error when the Georgia Appeals Court failed to serve all parties with the order dismi… |
| 21-7874 |
William Meyer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights consent due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry knock-and-talk search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether a homeowner's repeated denials of consent to search during a 'knock and talk' establishes exigent circumstances, specifically that the destruc… |
| 21-7875 |
Freya D. Pearson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-right direct-appeal due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance notice-of-deficiency notice-of-withdrawal notice-requirement prosecutorial-misconduct tax-deficiency |
Right To Counsel |
| 21-7878 |
Jermaine Alonzo Mitchell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the petitioner's due process rights by misapplying the categorical analysis and relying on a non-retroactive state … |
| 21-7880 |
Robert Andrew Riley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction |
Whether child pornography is a federal crime enumerated by the Constitution |
| 21-7881 |
In Re Justin Paul Sulzner |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights covert-operations due-process foreign-intelligence injunctive-relief national-intelligence national-security religious-freedom religious-organization standing surveillance surveillance-court |
Whether the FISC should have followed its own established rules concerning action taken on the Movant's two complaints and should have granted emergen… |
| 21-7891 |
William Ramirez-Frechel v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing |
Whether the sentence imposed is unreasonable |
| 21-7892 |
Abdul Samuels v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest court-of-appeals due-process ineffective-assistance remand representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Did the court of appeals err in denying Petitioner—whose trial counsel had a conflict of interest because his child was applying for a job at the U.S.… |
| 21-7895 |
Antoine Mayes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
Whether it was error for the Second Circuit to deny Mayes the right to file an appeal or collaterally attack his conviction in light of the Supreme Co… |
| 21-920 |
Kalab D. Willman v. United States |
Armed Forces |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure article-66-ucmj courts-martial due-process judicial-interpretation military-justice sentence-review sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-code-military-justice |
Does the CAAF's decision prevent the CCAs from fulfilling their Congressionally imposed mandate pursuant to Article 66, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 866, to dete… |
| 21-994 |
John Kapoor v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law due-process evidence-standard judgment-of-acquittal medical-prescription physician-liability professional-practice sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a non-physician may be convicted of conspiring with a physician to prescribe controlled substances outside the course of professional practice |
| 21M126 |
Carlos Montano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
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None |
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